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Clayton Crockett. Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 [Book review]
Creators: name: McQueen, Sean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Clayton Crockett’s Deleuze Beyond Badiou is the most recent critical intervention into the debate sparked by and surrounding Alain Badiou’s critique of Gilles Deleuze in The Clamour of Being (2000), which was given book-length treatment in Jon Roffe’s Badiou’s Deleuze (2012). Crockett’s is therefore a timely book, all the more so given the recent English translation of a number of Badiou’s essays from 1967 through to 2007 in The Adventure of French Philosophy (2012). The premise of Crockett’s defence is a familiar one: contra Badiou, Slavoj Žižek and Peter Hallward—to cite the most widely read—Deleuze, by himself, is neither an aristocratic aesthete nor, with Félix Guattari, an apologist for capitalism. Crockett’s book, then, will be a “counterreading of Deleuze over against and beyond Badiou’s powerful critique” which, for Crockett, is selective, distortive, and wilfully ignores the philosophical nuances and political dimensions of Deleuze’s work (6).
A ‘marca’ da ressurreição de Jesus na História da Humanidade
Creators: name: Ambrosio, Juan
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O autor realiza um percurso dividido em três momentos. No primeiro, e a partir duma reflexão mais antropológica, procura mostrar como a abertura à Transcendência (para os cristão abertura ao Mistério Pessoal de Deus) faz parte integrante da condição humana, de tal modo que a concretização dessa abertura permite viver a existência assumindo todas as suas possibilidades. No segundo momento, procura reflectir como a abertura ao humano faz parte do próprio projecto de Deus. Neste contexto, olha para Jesus Cristo para mostrar como nele se concretizam simultaneamente os dois movimentos anteriormente referidos. No terceiro e último momento, e a partir da resposta a quatro perguntas (O que posso saber? O que me é permitido esperar? O que tenho que fazer? O que posso celebrar?) procura tirar consequência para o viver crente, procurando nele testemunhos da ‘marca’ da ressurreição de Jesus na história da humanidade.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
A presença de Deus no tempo do homem
Creators: name: Martins, Nuno Brás
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O artigo apresenta o modo como alguns dos principais teólogos contemporâneos pensaram a possibilidade e as consequências de uma presença de Deus no seio da história humana (história da salvação) e, em particular, as consequências da proclamação do fim dos tempos em Cristo para a história. Começando por R. Bultmann (a decisão humana na fé como decisão escatológica), o artigo refere-se depois às teologias da história de O. Cullmann (a verdade da história contemporânea vivida à luz da vitória definitiva de Cristo mas à espera da vitória final), W. Pannenberg (em Cristo o fim da história é-nos dado antecipadamente), K. Rahner (Cristo é o portador absoluto da salvação que, apesar da fragilidade do acontecimento histórico, pede o compromisso absoluto) e H. U. von Balthasar (Jesus abre um caminho de redenção acessível a todos, transformando o tempo do pecado em tempo dos redimidos e dando sentido definitivo à existência humana).
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Robyn Wiegman. Object Lessons. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012 [Book review]
Creators: name: Durham, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: What are the consequences for the practices of contemporary academic identity knowledges in the US (race, gender, sexuality and nationality critiques) when these fields come to equate their academic work with political labour? What does it mean to "do justice" with and to the objects of these fields? These are the central questions of Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons. Wiegman is a Professor of Women‘s Studies and Literature at Duke University, and one of the most prominent contemporary US feminist and queer theory scholars. Object Lessons brings together six journal articles originally published between 1999 and 2008, re-published and in some cases extensively revised in the current work. Each chapter takes as its object a text or case study within an academic identity knowledge field and uses that example to identify and explore the field‘s characteristic animating tensions—often its thorniest foundational paradoxes. The six chapters examine women‘s studies, feminism and queer theory, whiteness studies, American studies, and intersectionality.
Editorial and front matter: Colloquy, Issue 24, November 2012
Creators: name: Colloquy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: COLLOQUY text theory critiqueissue 24, November 2012Includes special section:Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures--Issue 24 of Colloquy: text, theory, critique consists principally of a special section entitled Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures, which arose from the conference of the same name that took place at Monash University in 2011. This section, which contains eight articles, is guest edited by Evie Kendal and Deb Waterhouse-Watson, whom the editors thank for their efforts in assembling such an interesting collection of articles. The collection presents a diverse and important engagement with the issues surrounding the representation of powerful female figures in various media.
New Synthetic Route to (1S)-4,5-Dimethoxy-1-[(methylamino)methyl] Benzocyclobutane, a Key Intermediate of Ivabradine
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Liu, Yu
name: He, Huili
name: Cai, Zhan
name: Yang, Yushe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: An efficient process for the preparation of (1S)-4,5-dimethoxy-1-[(methylamino)methyl] benzocyclobutane (S)-3 as ivabradine intermediate, which was obtained in 56% yield, is described. The salient feature of this process is the racemization of the undesired (1R)-4,5–dimethoxy-1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzene-1-carboxylic acid (R)-12, and the overall yield of (S)-12 was improved to 70% by three resolutions of the racemized acid with R-(α)-phenylethanamine. The reduction of amide (S)-13 was achieved with NaBH4-I2 in refluxing tetrahydrofuran, giving the corresponding amine (S)-3 in 90% yield. The improved synthetic route described herein is cost-efficient, environmentally friendly and feasibile for scale-up production.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
Joseph Conrad’s Racial Idea
Creators: name: Christensen, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature

description: Following its publication in book form in 1902 as the second tale in Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness made a considerable impact on the literary world. Conrad biographer John Batchelor has claimed that for the last decade of his life, Conrad’s reputation was that of “the greatest living English novelist,” and that beginning with the criticism of F. R. Leavis and M. C. Bradbrook in the 1940s, Heart of Darkness took its place as a milestone of literary modernism (Leavis’s famous criticism of the novel for its “adjectival insistence” notwithstanding). And while the cultural and literary value of the novel has been sharply and consistently called into question for the past thirty years, this process of questioning has not affected the text’s “hyper-canonized” status.
Additional file 1 of CircWAC induces chemotherapeutic resistance in triple-negative breast cancer by targeting miR-142, upregulating WWP1 and activating the PI3K/AKT pathway
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Zhou, Yehui
name: Jiang, Liang
name: Lu, Linlin
name: Dai, Tiantian
name: Li, Aoshuang
name: Chen, Yan
name: Zhang, Lifeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Primers for qRT-PCR. Supplementary Table 2. RNA probes for FISH.
Writing for Two: A Critique of Literature, Love, and the Event in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou
Creators: name: Langlois, Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: I would like to begin with a poem by Samuel Beckett entitled “Something There,” which was translated from the French into English by the author in 1974. ... Taking Beckett’s poem as a point of departure, this article intends to look at how the concept of inexistence functions in both the philosophy of Alain Badiou and the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, arguing that it is in the distance Badiou takes from both Beckett and Lacan vis-à-vis the concept of inexistence that not only are we privy to the more technical aspects of his philosophy of the event, but that this distance provides a glimpse of where Badiou's philosophy is in need of restraint from the very theoretical and artistic positions he claims to have exceeded (though not without a profound debt of gratitude).
Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and Adaptation
Creators: name: McQueen, Sean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Foucault will be used in this essay to explain and evaluate key claims relating to the adapting of literary authors' works, the self-fashioning of the auteur movement in film criticism, and the status of authors in adaptation. It will be the contention of this essay that the question of authorship in adaptation should be understood in terms of what Foucault calls "founders of discursivity"—a problematic, but ultimately useful conception of the author and authorship. This will be done by placing Foucault‘s discourse-based theses in dialogue with the textual approaches of poststructuralists such as Roland Barthes, and with the history of film‘s own theories of authorship that arose during the French auteur movement.
The decline in mastery goal orientation and person-environment fit and the preventive effect of classroom community: Examining transitions using latent growth curve modelling
Creators: name: Ramseier, Lukas
name: Neuenschwander, Markus
Publisher: name: Eurasian Society of Educational Research
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Students’ mastery goal orientation tends to decline over the course of compulsory school, especially after the transition to lower secondary school. According to stage-environment fit theory, secondary school is less accommodating to students' needs, interests, and abilities than primary school. In consequence, the perceived person-environment fit declines as well. It is assumed that a strong sense of classroom community in primary school can counteract a potential decline in both of these important individual aspects. Using data from the Swiss longitudinal research project WiSel (“Wirkungen der Selektion”; “Effects of Tracking”), we conducted a latent growth curve model (LGCM) to examine the correlation between the development of students' mastery goal orientation and the development of their person-environment fit during the transition from primary school to lower secondary school. Perceived classroom community was assumed to benefit from these developments. The results show that both mastery goal orientation and person-environment fit decrease during the transition to lower secondary school. A strong sense of classroom community in fifth grade leads to a smaller decline in both constructs. Implications for educational practice are discussed.
Highly Stereoselective Cyclopropanation of Olefins Catalyzed by a Novel C3-Symmetric Arsine
Creators: name: Wang, Changqing
name: Yi, Yanping
name: Xiao, Daoan
name: Zhou, Rong
name: Liang, Hui
name: Mei, Guangquan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A novel C3-symmetric arsine was employed in the one-pot cyclopropanation of olefins with carbonyl-stabilized arsonium ylides formed in situ from phenacyl bromide in the presence of NaHCO3. This new arsine demonstrates good stereoselectivity and activity in the one-pot cyclopropanation of arylidenemalononitrile.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
Construction of Pyrrolidinyl Spirooxindoles via a 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction of (E)-N-Boc-3-Alkylidene-Indolin-2(3H)ones with Azomethine Ylides
Creators: name: Yu, Zhang-Biao
name: Liu, Xiong-Li
name: Pan, Bo-Wen
name: Chen, Bin
name: Zhou, Ying
name: Wang, Hua-Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A mild and efficient method for the construction of pyrrolidinyl spirooxindoles via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of (E)-N-Boc-3-alkylidene-indolin-2(3H)ones with azomethine ylides has been established. The presence of an N-Boc group in the indolin-2(3H)ones obviously increased the activity and stereoselectivity of the reaction, affording the desired pyrrolidinyl spirooxindoles 4 with up to 85% yield and up to >99/1 dr value. Furthermore, the antibacterial activity of these compounds against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC-25825) has been tested at minimum concentration, and some of them exhibit moderate antibacterial activity.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
Are We There Yet? The Catastrophe of Polar Deceleration in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Creators: name: Smith, Josiane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200506 North American Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, a father and his son are trudging on foot, carting their belongings in an old supermarket trolley across what appears to be a post-nuclear America. Desperate to survive the next winter, they are heading south, imagining a warmer climate and perhaps new beginnings. ... McCarthy hurls the reader into a new post-IT era, in which all infrastructure has been annihilated by a major catastrophic event, an utter regress which echoes Albert Einstein’s statement that the fourth World War may well be fought with sticks and stones. In this paper, reading Paul Virilio’s theory on dromology—a term he has coined to denote “acceleration of reality”—and particularly on what he names “polar inertia,” I argue, firstly, that The Road exemplifies how the agency of speed in narrative can transcend the aporia of imagining a future. Secondly, I suggest that representations of deceleration in this text reflect on the perils of capitalist pseudo-utopia of consumerism and advanced technology, linking those to Virilio’s anti-futurist stand on the notion of “progress.”
Late Japanese New Wave Documentary and Cinematic Truth: Charting the Theory and Method of “Graphic Sensitivity” Towards Cultural Otherness
Creators: name: Hegarty, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Japanese New Wave cinema is characterised by an exploration of the marginalised and outsiders, including peasants, juvenile delinquents and factory workers. Through politically charged philosophical and artistic inquiry, it provides a fascinating insight into alternative possibilities of subjectivity and cinematic truth, and offers a theory for representing the subaltern through a “graphic sensitivity” towards otherness. Against the backdrop of political and social change in a Japan ravaged by war, and alongside a strong and exceptionally creative mainstream film industry, filmmakers including Hani Susumu, Imamura Shohei, Ogawa Shinsuke, and Oshima Nagisa challenged the boundaries of conventional filmmaking by undertaking an ontological and epistemological interrogation of representation from the 1950s through to the early 1980s.
Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures [Introduction]
Creators: name: Waterhouse-Watson, Deb
name: Kendal, Evie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Until Wonder Woman leapt into comic book stores around the world in 1941, all comic book superheroes were expected to sport bulging biceps and other no less protruding male appendages snug within their spandex unitards. In 2010, the 600th issue of Wonder Woman celebrated the Amazonian superhero’s longevity in print media. To mark the occasion, the issue reinvented the superhero’s iconic costume to make it less revealing, introducing dark trousers and a blue, starred jacket. This shift to more practical, less sexualised wear arguably reflects changing attitudes about gender and the growing female presence in the comics industry. Nevertheless, the change prompted some controversy online amongst fan communities, again highlighting the problematic history of the representation of women as powerful figures.
Thus Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures was born—an interdisciplinary, international conference dedicated to interrogating the representation of powerful female figures in media of all types, from comic books to online gaming and contemporary art, and from superhero staples like Wonder Woman, Buffy, and Xena to genetically modified kindergarteners and supercharged supermums.
Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism and the 1972 “Women’s Lib” Issue
Creators: name: Matsuuchi, Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified

description: Envisioning the comic book superhero Wonder Woman as a feminist activist defending a women’s clinic from pro-life villains at first seems to be the kind of story found only in fan art, not in the pages of the canonical series itself. Such a radical character reworking did not seem so outlandish in the American cultural landscape of the early 1970s. What the word “woman” meant in ordinary life was undergoing unprecedented change. It is no surprise that the iconic image of a female superhero, physically and intellectually superior to the men she rescues and punishes, would be claimed by real-life activists like Gloria Steinem. In the following essay I will discuss the historical development of the character and relate it to her presentation during this pivotal era in second wave feminism. A six issue story culminating in a reproductive rights battle waged by Wonder Woman-as-ordinary-woman-in-pants was unfortunately never realised and has remained largely forgotten due to conflicting accounts and the tangled politics of the publishing world. The following account of the only published issue of this story arc, the 1972 Women’s Lib issue of Wonder Woman, will demonstrate how looking at mainstream comic books directly has much to recommend it to readers interested in popular representations of gender and feminism.
Buffy, the Transmedia Hero
Creators: name: Beddows, Emma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: The following paper aims to advance a theory of trans-semiotic flow based on an analysis of Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992–present). Buffy is an example of what Henry Jenkins refers to as transmedia storytelling, which entails “stories that unfold across multiple media platforms, with each medium making distinctive contributions to our understanding of the world.” Critically, the literature on transmedia storytelling suggests that its methods rely on exploiting different media to perform storytelling roles based on strengths associated with form. Such a view champions creative multiplicity over mere reproduction. Whilst this model is theoretically sound, the present research suggests that such an approach weakens stories based on a continuity structure (a unified experience systematically developed across platforms). Discrete media invariably convey story elements differently, which means that the aesthetic quality established in one form cannot be reproduced with complete accuracy in another, thus compromising the continuity structure underpinning the narrative and distorting experience of the text.
The aim of this paper is to explore how extant media in Buffy are consumed, and to explore the nature of the relationship between platforms as they relate to story aesthetics. Critically, this paper discusses how Buffy fans conceive of trans-semiotic flow and how discrete semiotic contexts are reconciled in a transmedia structure.
Gender and Power: The Phoenix/Jean Grey across Time and Media
Creators: name: Lenise Prater
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Films based on comic books have been box-office successes in recent years, particularly the X-Men franchise, which is comprised of a trilogy and two prequels, and the X-Men trilogy. Through the characters of Jean Grey and Rogue these films represent women as largely unable to control their powers, and subsequently as significantly dangerous to men. Unfortunately, these problematic representations of women are often explained, or even justified, by audience members who tacitly assume, given these films are based on comics of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, that these films will feature more conservative representations of gender.
Re-/deconstructing the Yellow Brick Road: Gender, Power and Tin Man
Creators: name: Waterhouse-Watson, Deb
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Judy Garland’s Technicolor journey down the Yellow Brick Road is arguably one of the best loved and most watched films in cinema history. Its bright costumes and cheerful musical numbers still appeal to modern children, and many adults continue to watch and re-watch The Wizard of Oz (1939) with a sense of nostalgia. However, Sci Fi Channel mini-series Tin Man (2007) presents a darker, futuristic “Oz” story, which challenges the patriarchal assumptions of the perennially screened 1939 film. Relying on its audience’s knowledge of the earlier film, Tin Man illustrates how a text can subvert and parody the ideologies of its intertexts without deriding the texts themselves. Tin Man challenges patriarchal assumptions about gender, portraying a female hero who is strong, brave and assertive, but also embraces a more “feminine” style of leadership, rather than performing as a male hero “in drag.”
Comic Book Princesses for Grown-Ups: Cinderella Meets the Pages of the Superhero
Creators: name: Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Comic book superheroes and fairy tale princesses are stalwarts of contemporary children’s culture. Yet, they epitomise an intensifying gender segregation that is manifested and negotiated even up to the representation of female fairy tale protagonists in adult comics. This article examines the appearances of the iconic fairy tale princess, Cinderella, in twenty-first century adult comics including Bill Willingham’s Fables and Joe Tyler and Ralph Tedesco’s Grimm Fairy Tales. The tales of Perrault, the Grimms and Disney have shaped the contemporary iconography of Cinderella, emphasising the heroine’s journey from ashes and housework to tiaras and handsome princes. These popular tales, problematised by easy misogyny and patriarchal expectations, have overshadowed earlier versions of the Cinderella story, in which the heroine attacks her despised stepmother and beheads ogresses. Rediscovering the earlier, cunning and feisty incarnations of Cinderella, including Basile’s “The Cinderella Cat” and d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron,” it can be seen how fairy tales’ interests in costume, masquerade and cunning have been readily absorbed into the comic book medium.
Editorial
Creators: name: Snow, Samuel Cuff
name: Cash, Conall
name: McFarlane, Rosalind
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Issue twenty-seven of Colloquy: text, theory, critique is a general issue, consisting of three articles, prose poetry, a review article and five book reviews. The range of topics with which the issue engages reflects the thematic breadth of Colloquy’s focus.
Processes of culture change in organisations : the contribution of an external facilitator
Creators: name: Van Rhyn, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: This thesis explores processes of organisational and culture change as experienced by an external consultant/facilitator. Through a reflexive inquiry into my own experience of how change happens, I have come to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about organisations as 'systems' where change is 'driven' by leadership or project teams. I am suggesting that 'organisations' are people in conversation and that change happens because individuals participate actively in organisational conversations and act courageously into unknown and risky situations. The mainstream systemic perspective on 'organisational culture' is that it is a 'thing' with causal 'power'. I am arguing against this and present a process perspective of organisational culture, where culture is understood as the continuously changing configuration of interweaving themes organising the experience of people who participate in the social processes of being an organisation. Culture change is then changes in organising themes. Change occurs through the actions of individuals with each action having the potential to shift or maintain organising themes. I carefully explored the difference in the kinds of constraints experienced by internalpermanent and external-temporary members of organisations and came to the conclusion that the 'internal' Vexternal' distinction is a false dichotomy. Externals (like internals) are constrained through their interdependence - they are not free to do whatever they want. This leads to a re-consideration of the 'contribution' of an external. I am arguing that externals and internals make a contribution to processes of organisational and cultural change when they participate actively in political processes of inclusion/exclusion. I conclude by suggesting that it might be possible to facilitate cultural and organisational change through processes of persuasion and offer a process perspective on persuasion through sensemaking (as opposed to mainstream perspectives on persuasion that is based on a sender-receiver model of communication). This thesis is the 'result' of a personal journey of change in practice and identity which leads me to argue that change happens through planned, formal, legitimate 'events' as well as through informal everyday activities (doing, thinking and talking). I am arguing that it is important for practitioners to pay attention to their participation in the organisational processes of 'going on together'.
Prince Charming by Day, Superheroine by Night? Subversive Sexualities and Gender Fluidity in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Sailor Moon
Creators: name: Bailey, Catherine E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In the third major story arc of Naoko Takeuchi’s groundbreaking graphic narrative series, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn (or Sailor Moon, to English-speaking audiences), the protagonist finds herself questioning the sex of the person she has recently kissed. Judging from the cropped hair, male school uniform, and other characters’ repeated use of the masculine pronoun in reference to this individual, Usagi might safely assume it is a man. However, she has also seen Haruka on the battlefield—in a costume clearly revealing a female body. As her alluring acquaintance leans in for a second kiss, Usagi hesitantly asks, “Are you a guy or a girl?” Haruka simply responds, “Guy or girl is that so important?” The question echoes thematically throughout the rest of the series, prompting readers to examine their own preconceptions.
D.O.A. (Danto, Warhol, Derrida)
Creators: name: Rosen-Carole, Adam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The case is open and shut. Clearly, it was a frame up. Yet this tells us nothing, or next to nothing. As much as this will be a tale of the lucidity of modern art and of philosophy’s insightful illumination of the logic of artistic innovation, indeed of convergent if competing aspirations to ideality, it will be, in a certain fashion, a murder mystery: tracking the mutual implication of death-dealing clarifications and turning on the death of the subject, the end of art, and la nature morte. None of which remain reposed in their authoritatively pronounced passing. Thus this will be a ghost story of sorts: a tale of haunting, of survival and mutilation, of ruins and remnant forces, hence of undischargeable debts. Our main subject, if indeed there is one, and our frame, if we can speak of only one, will be complicity. “The guilt context of the living.” In this open and shut case, which is as much fiction as argument and example, complicity is all-embracing.
The Text in this Class: Stanley Fish and the Leibnizian Mind
Creators: name: Dickstein, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Interpretation seems to be the technique by which human beings evaluate a given object. The interpretation of a literary object, then, would seem to entail a given understanding of this object. Put differently, the interpretation of a text would seem to entail a pre-interpretative understanding of this text: its description. However, such reasoning, which certain literary critics—namely, the formalists—presuppose, faces a serious refutation. In what follows, I formulate this refutation with the help of Stanley Fish’s Is There a Text in This Class? (1980) and relate it to a trajectory of early-modern philosophical thought, evident in the works of René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz. This enables me to specify the shortcomings of the formalists’ reasoning, to complicate Fish’s refutation of it, and to attempt to provide a preliminary ground for a consistent method by which to interpret texts.
Mimesis, Critique, Redemption: Creaturely life in and beyond Dialectic of Enlightenment
Creators: name: Dorahy, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: “The text of Dialectic of Enlightenment,” writes Rüdiger Bittner, “is studded with words of religious origin. We find talk of guilt, of ban, of expiation and reconciliation and, especially prominently, of Unheil – a word that preserves a religious meaning thanks to its evident relation to ‘Heil’ (salvation).” To this list Bittner might have added the creature and its variants creatureliness and creaturely life. The German noun Kreatur is derived from the Lat-in creatura and is a synonym for Geschöpf, both of which signify “the totality of the world, insofar as it is related to the activity of a creator.” However Bittner is not alone in neglecting to bring the creature within Adorno’s theological lexicon. Christopher Craig Brittain, in his excellent study of Adorno and Theology, adds Bilderverbot—the prohibition on images of the divine—justice and the messianic to the terms identified by Bittner, yet, like Bittner, makes no reference to the creature—and this despite references in Dialectic of Enlightenment (DE) to the creaturely counting higher than the majority of these terms by some way. From one perspective, this relative neglect is surprising: the concept of creatureliness has emerged as an increasingly influential vehicle for the philosophical and literary analysis, and critique, of modernity.
Alves’ Appurtenances: Realism as Doctrine and as Imperative. Eça de Queirós, Alves & Co. and Other Stories. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa. Sawtry, Cambs: Dedalus Books, 2012 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Cash, Conall
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The critiques of realism in literature, and in the other arts, are familiar. Aesthetic claims to realism as a direct, true representation of reality seek to efface the ineluctable, specific material properties of the medium—this is the charge of aesthetic modernism. Realism is enunciated from a specifically bourgeois class perspective, which denies “reality” to those contradictions endemic to social life that are invisible to this perspective and which, in be-coming visible, would threaten to undermine it—this is the charge of certain Marxisms. Realism presumes a basic, centred rationality of the artist able to objectively and passively represent what is external to this individual, when in actuality the structure of subjectivity is deeply fractured, contradictory and decentred, and does not permit any such unmediated access to its outside—this is the charge of psychoanalysis.
Inventions of Potency (a counterfactual parablet)
Creators: name: S.D.  Chrostowska
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Inventions of Potency (a counterfactual parablet)
Additional file 2 of CircWAC induces chemotherapeutic resistance in triple-negative breast cancer by targeting miR-142, upregulating WWP1 and activating the PI3K/AKT pathway
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Zhou, Yehui
name: Jiang, Liang
name: Lu, Linlin
name: Dai, Tiantian
name: Li, Aoshuang
name: Chen, Yan
name: Zhang, Lifeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure 1. A. Cell invasion ability of MDA-MB-231 cells transfected with Si-NC or Si-circWAC was evaluated by transwell invasion assays. B. Wound healing assays of MDA-MB-231 cells transfected with Si-NC or Si-circWAC were performed to evaluate cell migration ability. Supplementary Figure 2. A-D. Cells were treated with cisplatin (concentrations of 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 and 12.5 μmol/L) for 24 h, and cell viability was evaluated by a CCK-8 assay. E-H. Cells were treated with cisplatin (0 and 10 μM) for 24 h, and cell viability was evaluated by a colony formation assay. I-J. Cells were treated with cisplatin (0 and 10 μM) for 24 h, and the apoptosis rate was analyzed via flow cytometry. The data are presented as the means±S.D. of at least three independent experiments. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.
Synthesis, properties, and X-ray crystal structures of two Ag(I) complexes with 2-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid
Creators: name: Zheng, Juan
name: Zhou, Dan
name: Shi, Tan-Hao
name: Guan, Qiao-Qiao
name: Xu, Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two 1-D and 3-D Ag(I) complexes involving 2-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid (H3PIDC) have been characterized by infrared spectrum, elemental analysis, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. [Ag2(HPIDC)]n (1), synthesized under hydrothermal conditions, gave a 3-D framework; [Ag2(HPIDC)(MBI)]n (2) (MBI = 2-methyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole), with MBI as the second ligand, gave a 1-D zigzag chain and further formed a 3-D supramolecular structure through π···π interactions. The most interesting structural features of these complexes are the presence of C–H···Ag hydrogen bonding interactions and Ag···C weak interactions between the Ag centers and H3PIDC. Luminescence indicates that 2 has significantly stronger fluorescent emissions than 1 in the solid state at room temperature.
John Gray. The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. London and New York: Allen Lane, 2013 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Kankahainen, Nick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The futility of human belief systems has long been a favoured topic for John Gray. In Straw Dogs (2003) he challenged the unexamined Socratic faith in the idea of human progress. In Black Mass (2007) he applied his thesis to the ideologies and events surrounding the “War on Terror,” arguing that whilst the campaign was driven by a neoconservative utopianism, its founding ideals were compromised by ensuing violence and a death toll that tarnished any claims for the liberation of a population.
Anonymity and trust in the electronic world
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Partha Das
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: Privacy has never been an explicit goal of authorization mechanisms. The traditional approach to authorisation relies on strong authentication of a stable identity using long term credentials. Audit is then linked to authorization via the same identity. Such an approach compels users to enter into a trust relationship with large parts of the system infrastructure, including entities in remote domains. In this dissertation we advance the view that this type of compulsive trust relationship is unnecessary and can have undesirable consequences. We examine in some detail the consequences which such undesirable trust relationships can have on individual privacy, and investigate the extent to which taking a unified approach to trust and anonymity can actually provide useful leverage to address threats to privacy without compromising the principal goals of authentication and audit. We conclude that many applications would benefit from mechanisms which enabled them to make authorization decisions without using long-term credentials. We next propose specific mechanisms to achieve this, introducing a novel notion of a short-lived electronic identity, which we call a surrogate. This approach allows a localisation of trust and entities are not compelled to transitively trust other entities in remote domains. In particular, resolution of stable identities needs only ever to be done locally to the entity named. Our surrogates allow delegation, enable role-based access control policies to be enforced across multiple domains, and permit the use of non-anonymous payment mechanisms, all without compromising the privacy of a user. The localisation of trust resulting from the approach proposed in this dissertation also has the potential to allow clients to control the risks to which they are exposed by bearing the cost of relevant countermeasures themselves, rather than forcing clients to trust the system infrastructure to protect them and to bear an equal share of the cost of all countermeasures whether or not effective for them. This consideration means that our surrogate-based approach and mechanisms are of interest even in Kerberos-like scenarios where anonymity is not a requirement, but the remote authentication mechanism is untrustworthy.
The Laplace transform boundary element method for diffusion-type problems
Creators: name: Crann, Diane
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: Diffusion-type problems are described by parabolic partial differential equations; they are defined on a domain involving both time and space. The usual method of solution is to use a finite difference time-stepping process which leads to an elliptic equation in the space variable. The major drawback with the finite difference method in time is the possibility of severe stability restrictions. An alternative process is to use the Laplace transform. The transformed problem can be solved using a suitable partial differential equation solver and the solution is transformed back into the time domain using a suitable inversion process. In all practical situations a numerical inversion is required. For problems with discontinuous or periodic boundary conditions, the numerical inversion is not straightforward and we show how to overcome these difficulties. The boundary element method is a well-established technique for solving elliptic problems. One of the procedures required is the evaluation of singular integrals which arise in the solution process and a new formulation is developed to handle these integrals. For the solution of non-homogeneous equations an additional technique is required and the dual reciprocity method used in conjunction with the boundary element method provides a way forward. The Laplace transform is a linear operator and as such cannot handle non-linear terms. We address this problem by a linearisation process together with a suitable iterative scheme. We apply such a procedure to a non-linear coupled electromagnetic heating problem with electrical and thermal properties exhibiting temperature dependencies.
Molly Clark Hillard. Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2014 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Calderone, Belinda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In her book Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians Molly Clark Hillard explores the relationship that the Victorians had with the fairy-tale genre, and successfully captures the complexity inherent in that relation-ship. On the one hand, fairy tales were often disregarded as childish and insignificant; the genre was, as J. R. R. Tolkien once suggested, “relegated to the playroom.” Paradoxically, at the same time as they were pushed aside, fairy tales were also integral to Victorian culture and influenced key literary works in significant ways. Indeed, as Hillard argues, “fairy tales contributed significantly to the language and images of material, industrial England”.
Mental Health Professionals' Experience of Organisational Change in the NHS
Creators: name: Fitzroy, Sarah
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Organizational change
Psychological contract
National Health Service
Well-being at work
Work stress
Framework for understanding organisational change
Extended Psychological Contract Model
Individual moderators of change
Organisational moderators of change

description: A study was conducted to investigate mental health professionals’ experience of change in three NHS Trusts in England. The aim was to understand the professionals’ experience of change, applying the psychological contract as a sense-making tool using an extended contract model (Guest, 1998; George, 2009). The concept of the psychological contract was first introduced within psychoanalysis (Menninger, 1958) to explain the relationship between client and therapist. The psychological contract has evolved over the years to be applied in occupational settings to explain social exchanges between employees and the organisation (George, 2009). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 mental health professionals from community NHS teams, with one participant from an inpatient ward. A hybrid thematic analysis using inductive and deductive coding was applied to capture both the theoretical framework of the psychological contract and the subjective experiences of the participants. Results revealed that the psychological contract could serve as both a cognitive and emotional sense-making tool of change for participants. Findings also revealed the influence of contextual political and social factors around change in the NHS. Novel findings included mediators in the change process such as participants feeling supported to negotiate psychological contracts and upholding personal and team values. The findings are discussed in terms of clinical implications for managing professionals’ experience of change in the NHS.
Chemical Labeling of 5-Iodo-2′-deoxyuridine with 4-Ethynyl-N-ethyl-1,8-naphthalimide Using Copper-Free Sonogashira Cross-Coupling in Aqueous Medium
Creators: name: Yuan, Libo
name: Zhang, Zhengan
name: Xu, Xiaowei
name: Zhou, Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The utility of Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions in organic synthesis is indisputable. However, the palladium catalytic Sonogashira reaction in mild condition is still in its infancy. Here, we reported the synthesis of a fluorescent nucleoside analog by using a copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction in a satisfactory yield. This reaction occurred at 37 °C in the open air and aqueous medium, and avoided the toxicity of Cu(I). The mild Sonogashira reaction provided the possibility of fluorescent labeling of nucleoside mimics in living cells.
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Zum existentiellen und sakramentalen Grund der Theologie bei Joseph Ratzinger : Papst Benedikt XVI
Creators: name: Horn, Stephan Otto
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Na obra de Joseph Ratzinger as dimensões existencial e sacramental da fé e teologia estão indissoluvelmente ligadas. A teologia dá precedência à fé e, por conseguinte, à conversão: caminhada catecumenal dos seguidores e auto-doação a Jesus Cristo. Ser baptizado significa ser acolhido no sujeito da transmissão da fé, isto é, o Corpo de Cristo, a Igreja. A eucaristia oferece um toque do amor de Deus, que transforma o homem, bem como uma possibilidade de união que pode ganhar uma profundidade mística. Numa vida marcada pela eucaristia, a fé torna-se «evidência interior» e dinâmica missionária, segundo a razão da fé. Aos santos é oferecida uma real experiência de Deus, eles participam na visão de Cristo. Assim, a exegese do evangelho, que eles elaboram com a sua vida, precede a teologia.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão