cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electronic structure and hot carrier relaxation in ⟨001⟩ anatase TiO2 nanowire
Creators: name: Shuping Huang
name: Kilin, Dmitri S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: We present an electronic structure and non-adiabatic excited state dynamics study of ⟨001⟩ anatase TiO2 nanowire (NW) by combining density matrix formalism and ab initio electronic structure calculations. Our results show that quantum confinement increases the energy gap as the dimension of TiO2 is reduced from the bulk to a NW with a diameter of several nanometres and that the probability of electronic transitions induced by lattice vibrations for the NW follows band gap law. The electron non-radiative relaxation to the bottom of the conduction band is involving Ti 3d orbitals, while the hole non-radiative relaxation of holes to the top of the valence band occurs by subsequent occupation of O 2p orbitals.
title: Warum Vertrauen in die Neutralität der Justiz ein schützenswertes Verfassungsgut ist
Creators: name: Hörnle, Tatjana
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Bundling as a branding tool for events in the performing arts: a case study in opera attendance
Creators: name: Hall, Emma
name: Binney, Wayne
name: Hall, John
name: Vieceli, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Operatic events are an important sector of the performing arts industry, which is currently facing the challenges of decreasing demand as the traditional opera going segment becomes aged and other sectors of the performing arts industry compete more effectively in terms of price. By adding value and ensuring satisfaction, it is expected that the subsequent enhanced brand loyalty would increase the likelihood of repeat membership. This paper examines the antecedents of brand loyalty and hypothesizes that offering attractive 'package deals' which bundle various benefits with the seat ticket may increase brand loyalty. To test this hypothesis a discrete choice experiment was conducted. It is concluded offering bundles can create a greater likelihood of customer satisfaction and favourable behavioural intentions including increased brand loyalty.
Ruthenium complexes of hexakis(cyanophenyl)[3]radialenes and their di(cyanophenyl)methane precursors: synthesis, photophysical, and electrochemical properties
Creators: name: C.A. Hollis
name: X. He
name: C.J. Sumby
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The coordination chemistry of cross-conjugated ligands and the effect of cross-conjugation on the nature of metal–metal and metal–ligand interactions have received limited attention. To explore the effects of cross-conjugation eight ruthenium complexes were synthesized, mononuclear complexes of two isomeric cross-conjugated [3]radialenes [RuCp(PPh3)2(L)]PF6 and [{RuCp*(dppe)}(L)]PF6 (L = hexakis(4-cyanophenyl)[3]radialene, 2; hexakis(3-cyanophenyl)[3]radialene, 3), and dinuclear complexes [{RuCp(PPh3)2}2(L)](PF6)2 and [{RuCp*(dppe)}2(L)](PF6)2 of the diarylmethane precursors (L = 4,4′-dicyanodiphenylmethane, 4; 3,3′-dicyanodiphenylmethane, 5) to the [3]radialenes. Considerable synthetic challenges allowed only clean isolation of mononuclear complexes of the multidentate radialenes 2 and 3. As expected, coordinating a positively charged metal induces a red shift for the π–π* transition in complexes of ligand 2, but unexpectedly a blue shift for the same transition in complexes of 3 was observed. This points to conformational differences for the [3]radialene in the ruthenium complexes of the para- (2) versus meta- (3) substituted hexaaryl[3]radialenes. Cyclic voltammetry indicates that the methylene spacer in 4 and 5 does not enable any interaction between metal centers and the absorption behavior is essentially as observed for [Ru(NCPh)(PPh3)2Cp]PF6 and [Ru(NCPh)(dppe)Cp*]PF6 but generally with a slight red shift in absorbance maxima.
An efficient and regioselective thiocyanation of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds using cross-linked poly (4-vinylpyridine)-supported thiocyanate as a versatile reagent and potassium peroxydisulfate as a strong oxidizing agent
Creators: name: M. A. Karimi Zarchi
name: R. Banihashemi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A green and regioselective thiocyanation of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds has been achieved via a simple protocol using cross-linked poly (4-vinylpyridine)-supported thiocyanate ion, [P4-VP]SCN, as a versatile polymeric reagent and potassium persulfate as a strong oxidizing agent, under heterogeneous conditions.Various indoles, phenol and aniline derivatives, and pyrroles were transformed into their corresponding aryl thiocyanates in high to excellent yields. This procedure offers advantages such as short reaction time, simple reaction work-up, and the polymeric reagents can be regenerated and reused for several times without significant loss of their activity.
Climate change risks/opportunities and regulatory intervention as possible determinants of sustainability reputation: an exploratory study
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Climate change has continued to dominate both the political and business agenda for many years now. Utilising the institutional governance framework, this research aims to explore whether regulatory intervention and the firm's anticipation of climate change risks and opportunities are related to sustainability reputation as evidenced by the firm's inclusion in the 'Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World' (G100) list from 2005 to 2010. Recognising the wide visibility and strong economic impact of large corporations, the world's largest 500 companies (Top500) is the focus in this study. To facilitate an exploratory analysis, seventy-six G100 companies that are included in the Top500 are identified and matched one-to-one with other Top500 companies offering similar products/services, bringing the total sample to 152 firms. Climate change data are taken from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The logistic regression analyses confirm that the firm's anticipation of climate change opportunities is positively and significantly related with proactive firm's (G100) sustainability reputation, while the firm's recognition of climate change regulatory risks show significant and negative association implying that higher state intervention discourage reactive firms (non-G100) from neglecting climate change issues. The result also shows that the G100 companies have significantly better medium-term profitability compared to their non-G100 counterparts.
The Impact of Financial Literacy on Investment Decisions: A Comparative Study Across Different Age Groups
Creators: name: Chris Binny Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Financial literacy plays a vital role in shaping investment decisions, which affect people's financial wellbeing and economic stability. This study investigates the implications of financial literacy on investmentdecisions across age groups to determine how different degrees of financial knowledge influenceinvestment preferences, risk tolerance, and financial planning techniques. The study takes a comparativeapproach, examining differences in investment behaviour across young adults, middle-aged people, andretirees.A standardized questionnaire was created to measure financial literacy, investing awareness, and decisionmaking behaviours. The poll gathered responses from people from various demographic backgrounds,concentrating on crucial topics such as financial education, investing confidence, preferred financialinstruments, and problems encountered while making investment decisions. Statistical methods such asANOVA and t-tests were used to investigate significant differences across age groups.Preliminary data indicate that greater knowledge of finances is associated with more diverse investmentportfolios, improved decision-making confidence, and increased involvement in stock markets. Youngerpeople use digital financial platforms and are more interested in alternative assets like cryptocurrencies,while older generations prefer traditional options like fixed deposits and real estate. The study also findsthat a lack of financial awareness remains a significant barrier to investment involvement, particularlyamong low-income individuals.The study emphasizes the importance of tailored financial literacy programs for bridging knowledge gapsand promoting informed investing decisions across all ages. Improving financial education can lead toincreased financial stability and economic growth by ensuring that people make informed decisions thatare in line with their financial goals. Future research may look at the role of technical improvements andbehavioural finance in altering investing decisions further.
On the production of glycogen by Pseudomonas fluorescens during biofilm development: an in situ study by attenuated total reflection-infrared with chemometrics
Creators: name: Quilès, Fabienne
name: Humbert, François
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy was used to monitor Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms in situ, non-destructively, in real time, and under fully hydrated conditions. Changes accompanying the metabolic evolution of the sessile bacterial cells from the nascent biofilm monolayer to the beginning of the multi-layered structure in the presence of nutrients were identified via the ATR-FTIR fingerprints of the young biofilm on the ATR crystal. The ATR-FTIR spectra were analysed by classical methods (time evolution of integrated intensities and profile evolution of specific bands), and also by a multivariate curve resolution, Bayesian positive source separation, to extract the pure component spectra and their change of concentration over time occurring during biofilm settlement. This work showed clearly the overproduction of glycogen by sessile P. fluorescens, which had not previously been described by other research groups.
Ruthenium complexes of hexakis(cyanophenyl)[3]radialenes and their di(cyanophenyl)methane precursors: synthesis, photophysical, and electrochemical properties
Creators: name: C.A. Hollis
name: X. He
name: C.J. Sumby
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The coordination chemistry of cross-conjugated ligands and the effect of cross-conjugation on the nature of metal–metal and metal–ligand interactions have received limited attention. To explore the effects of cross-conjugation eight ruthenium complexes were synthesized, mononuclear complexes of two isomeric cross-conjugated [3]radialenes [RuCp(PPh3)2(L)]PF6 and [{RuCp*(dppe)}(L)]PF6 (L = hexakis(4-cyanophenyl)[3]radialene, 2; hexakis(3-cyanophenyl)[3]radialene, 3), and dinuclear complexes [{RuCp(PPh3)2}2(L)](PF6)2 and [{RuCp*(dppe)}2(L)](PF6)2 of the diarylmethane precursors (L = 4,4′-dicyanodiphenylmethane, 4; 3,3′-dicyanodiphenylmethane, 5) to the [3]radialenes. Considerable synthetic challenges allowed only clean isolation of mononuclear complexes of the multidentate radialenes 2 and 3. As expected, coordinating a positively charged metal induces a red shift for the π–π* transition in complexes of ligand 2, but unexpectedly a blue shift for the same transition in complexes of 3 was observed. This points to conformational differences for the [3]radialene in the ruthenium complexes of the para- (2) versus meta- (3) substituted hexaaryl[3]radialenes. Cyclic voltammetry indicates that the methylene spacer in 4 and 5 does not enable any interaction between metal centers and the absorption behavior is essentially as observed for [Ru(NCPh)(PPh3)2Cp]PF6 and [Ru(NCPh)(dppe)Cp*]PF6 but generally with a slight red shift in absorbance maxima.
title: ERP Positive Displacement Pumps - Experimental Validation of a Type-Independent Efficiency Model
Creators: name: Schänzle, Christian
name: Jost, Kris
name: Metzger, Manuel
name: Ludwig, Gerhard
name: Pelz, Peter F.
Publisher: name: VDMA
Year: 2022

description: The European Union pursues ambitious objectives reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, energy related products (ERP) are regulated by the European Union's Ecodesign Directive in terms of energy efficiency. Until now positive displacement pumps are not involved. However, considering the EU strategy in similar domains, the probability is high that the Ecodesign Directive will focus on positive displacement pumps in the future due to the large quantity of sold pumps and the collective energy consumption. Positive displacement pumps are characterized by their wide range of applications, e.g. mobile hydraulics, chemical, or food industry, with very different application-relevant requirements (low pulsation, high precision etc.). For this reason, a variety of pump designs exist, e.g. piston pumps, gear pump or screw pumps. From a scientific and technical point of view, legal requirements are considered adequate if they take into account the physical behavior of the machines as well as the application-relevant requirements. Against this background, the authors presented a physically based approach towards an application-related efficiency guideline at IREC 2016 considering a methodology to identify the energetically relevant applications of positive displacement pumps and introducing a physically based, type independent and easy to apply efficiency model. Since 2017, within the framework of an AiF project, the authors collaborate with the VDMA to validate the above mentioned efficiency model by means of precise experimental measurements. Until the submission of this paper, efficiency measurements are conducted on gear pumps, screw pumps and rotary piston pumps. The full paper presents the validation results and discusses the conclusions in the context of a future energy efficiency guideline of positive displacement pumps.
Possible rendezvous: art as accident in urban spaces
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Baudelaire situated this figure at the 'centre of the world'. For Poe he bathed in the fluidity and flow of the crowd, possessing a 'calm but inquisitive interest in everything'. For Benjamin he lived in a perpetual state of 'anamnestic intoxication'. Poet of the ephemeral, the accidental and the unexpected, the flaneur's obsession with becoming lost in the midst of the infinite and complex distraction of the crowd is synonymous with the development of the modern city and the cosmopolitan imagination. While a figure, and usually a male one at that, the indulged and indulgent wandering known as flanerie is in fact a sensibility that strolls in various guises and genders from the nineteenth into the twentieth century, a chimera whose shadow can be found in the Surrealists' pursuit of la mervellieux in the arcades and boulevards of Paris. Still further into the century it can be traced in the derive of the Situationist International, and further still into the next century in the hypermediated experiments of unsitely aesthetics. This passage traces and reveals the evolution of how the local pedestrian wandered into the networked era as an always---connected, wireless global nomad.
The GLARE survey - II. Faint z ≈ 6 Lya line emitters in the HUDF
Creators: name: Stanway, Elizabeth R.
name: Bunker, Andrew J.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Abraham, Roberto G.
name: Rhoads, James
name: Malhotra, Sangeeta
name: Crampton, David
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Chiu, Kuenley
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The galaxy population at z approximate to 6 has been the subject of intense study in recent years, culminating in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) - the deepest imaging survey yet. A large number of high-redshift galaxy candidates have been identified within the HUDF, but until now analysis of their properties has been hampered by the difficulty of obtaining spectroscopic redshifts for these faint galaxies. Our 'Gemini Lyman-Alpha at Reionization Era' (GLARE) project has been designed to undertake spectroscopic follow-up of faint (z' < 28.5) i'-drop galaxies at z approximate to 6 in the HUDF. In a previous paper we presented preliminary results from the first 7.5 h of data from GLARE. In this paper we detail the complete survey. We have now obtained 36 It of spectroscopy on a single GMOS slitmask from Gemini-South, with a spectral resolution of lambda/Delta lambda(FWHM) approximate to 1000. We identify five strong Ly alpha emitters at z > 5.5, and a further nine possible line emitters with detections at lower significance. We also place tight constraints on the equivalent width of Ly alpha emission for a further ten i'-drop galaxies and examine the equivalent width distribution of this faint spectroscopic sample of z approximate to 6 galaxies. We find that the fraction of galaxies with little or no emission is similar to that at z approximate to 3, but that the z approximate to 6 population has a tail of sources with high rest-frame equivalent widths. Possible explanations for this effect include a tendency towards stronger line emission in faint sources, which may arise from extreme youth or low metallicity in the Lyman-break population at high redshift, or possibly a top-heavy initial mass function.
Strange bedfellows: theory and the muse
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Creative Writing and theory have long had a problematic relationship, one that is arguably based on mutual neglect and one that is complicated by the alleged death of one of the partners. This chapter therefore seeks to reconsider the significance of theory for Creative Writing research. It aims to remedy the misperception of theory instated by Creative Writing scholars and practitioners, and hence to counter theory’s marginalisation from within Creative Writing circles in the academy. It rekindles the debate about the supposed antagonism between these two fields of study and attempts to re-invigorate the conversation by provoking writers to reconsider their understanding of theory’s usefulness to their practice. It argues for a plurality of theories while pointing out that theories grounded in postructuralist conceptions of language may be more conducive to Creative Writing research as these facilitate a deeper understanding of both product and process. This chapter singles out psychoanalysis as a case-study, for psychoanalysis is only at best a work in progress, and therefore not a ‘theory.’ Thus it makes a case for a theory that does not consolidate our certainties, but rather disrupts these, thereby opening up creative possibilities that can in turn be theorised. A psychoanalytic understanding of subjectivity does indeed enable writers to gain insights in their own creative processes. This in turns permits them to scrutinise the very concept of knowledge production in ways that are not envisaged by other models of subjectivity. Psychoanalysis may only be useful in that it suggests that both writing and the subject are constructions in the making, yet by grappling with the theory itself, new teaching methods and methodologies arise.
TLC densitometric method for the preliminary evaluation of fucoxanthin-based products
Creators: name: Piovan, Anna
name: Filippini, Raffaella
name: Paoli, Mauro De
name: Bresin, Bruno
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Studies have evidenced the biological properties of fucoxanthin and the commercialisation of various nutritional supplements based on seaweed extracts that claim high fucoxanthin content is constantly growing. However, it was demonstrated that fucoxanthin is highly susceptible to degradation, and in this context the need for simple and reliable analytical methods for fucoxanthin analysis is evident. This article presents a simple thin-layer chromatography (TLC) densitometric method for the determination of fucoxanthin from Undaria pinnatifida extracts and commercial formulations. Fucoxanthin was separated on TLC silica gel 60 F254 plates with acetone:n-hexane 6:4 v/v as mobile phase. Densitometric analysis was performed using the Image J image-processing program available online. Calibration data revealed good linear relationship (R2 = 0.9955) between peak area and concentration of fucoxanthin. The repeatability was 2.0 (% CV), and intra-day and inter-day precisions were 1.5 and 2.0 (% RSD), respectively. The proposed method provides an inexpensive tool in preliminary evaluation of fucoxanthin-based products.
title: Nach der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungs­gerichts im NPD-Verbotsverfahren: Kein Geld mehr für Verfassungsfeinde!?
Creators: name: Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Sabine
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
To respect or protect? Whose values shape the ethics of refugee research?
Creators: name: Gifford, Sandra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In early 2000, a colleague and I submitted an application to our university HREC for a pilot project to modify a series of standardised wellbeing instruments for a longitudinal study of refugee youth settlement. The pilot study was collaborative in that we worked with a small group of young adults with refugee backgrounds to design sampling and data collection strategies and a set of research tools or instruments that could be used to gather qualitative and quantitative information about settlement experiences (Gifford, Bakopanos, Kaplan, and Correa-Velez, 2007; Gifford, Correa-Velez, and Sampson, 2009). Although the ethics application was straightforward, it was returned by the HREC as not approved. We were not surprised when our application was returned because in our experience, human ethics applications with/on refugees almost never get approved outright. However, we were surprised about the reason it had been returned. The HREC took objection to one of the questions we were using to explore how scaled items could be best presented - a question chosen by the group of young adults collaborating with us on the pilot: 'How much do you like ice cream?' and 'Given a choice between ice cream and pizza, which would you choose first?'. The HREC judged these questions as having the potential to cause harm to resettled refugee youth because they were refugees. The logic was that being refugees, these youth would have experienced starvation and like other forms of trauma, questions about food were seen as a risk to re-traumatise. We were asked to attend the next meeting of the HREC to explain our choice of foods such as 'ice cream and pizza' for this population and why we believed that these questions were unlikely to cause harm - to re-traumatise this group.
Aflatoxin M1 Occurrence in Dairy Products Worldwide: Summary of Literature Review and Policy Implications
Creators: name: Wu, Felicia
name: Turna, Nikita Saha
name: Wu, Felicia
name: Turna, Nikita Saha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Food Security Policy
subject: Michigan State University
subject: Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy

description: Research has suggested that mammals that consume aflatoxin B1 (AFB1, the most common and toxic of the aflatoxins) secrete a metabolite of AFB1 in their milk referred as aflatoxin M1 (AFM1). In lieu of fully understanding the human health risks and thus designing food safety standards appropriately, regulatory agencies have set standards for AFM1 in milk and dairy products simply based upon taking the existing AFB1 standard (in a given nation), and dividing by a factor that roughly estimates how much AFM1 is produced in milk when “parent” aflatoxin is present in dairy animals’ diets. But as more and more nations are suffering economic losses due to AFM1 in dairy products exceeding allowable limits – particularly the European Union limit of 0.05 μg/kg (which is extremely difficult to meet) – there is need to better characterize the true human health risk of this chemical in our daily diets, to inform policy decision-making and public health officials on the true nature of the risk. This information is urgently needed because of recent discoveries of putative associations between aflatoxin and stunting, as well as the lack of general (public and policy-making as well as non- specialized scientists) knowledge of the difference between the toxicity of AFB1 and AFM1. There is a critical need to compare both the toxicity of and the exposure to AFM1 with AFB1 to be able to judge relative risks. It is also important to understand whether AFM1, like AFB1, has a toxicological interaction with HBV infection to increase liver cancer risk and to compare exposure patterns to these two chemicals. In several Feed the Future countries, high AFM1 contamination levels have been detected in milk. Unfortunately, people have assumed AFM1 is just as toxic as AFB1. Consequently, newspaper headlines have warned people to avoid drinking locally produced milk and this has set back early childhood milk-based nutrition interventions and paralyzed the dairy industry in Ethiopia, for example. Similar headlines have been published in other countries like Kenya. Research is urgently needed to inform policy makers about the true and relative risk of AFM1 in milk. Towards this goal, this study represents the first (of two) stages of work in a global risk assessment of aflatoxin M1 (AFM1). Authors of this study conducted a literature review on the health effects of AFM1 through toxicological and limited human studies. In addition to this, they also found substantial occurrence data for AFM1 in milk and dairy products worldwide. This paper presents the findings of this desk review and makes policy recommendations for reducing AFM1 exposure in human populations worldwide.
α-Fluoro Phosphonocarboxylates: the NMR Analysis of the Heteronuclear ABMX Spin System
Creators: name: Gmach, Joanna
name: Huben, Krzysztof
name: Błażewska, Katarzyna M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The α-fluorophosphonocarboxylate analogs of bisphosphonates have recently received attention due to their activity against Rab geranylgeranyl transferase, an enzyme implicated in a number of disease conditions. Most of the NMR data reported in the literature describing dialkyl α-fluorophosphonates are defined as first-order spectra. Here, we report a second-order pattern observed in 19F NMR spectrum, being a part of heteronuclear ABMX spin system. Such a spin system, CH2C(F)P, was subjected to NMR analysis supported by iteration.
What’s in It for Me? The Role of Exchange Equity in Tax Compliance
Creators: name: Plantinga, Arnoud
name: Wolferen, Job Van
name: Inbar, Yoel
name: Zeelenberg, Marcel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
Economics

description: This research studies whether feelings of exchange inequity (i.e., feeling that you don’t get enough in return for what you pay) can motivate people to evade taxes. In 2009, the IRS missed out on $390-540 billion tax revenue due to tax fraud. Economic models of the tax compliance decision provide some insight, but provide an incomplete picture. Research on insurance fraud suggests that people might be motivated to commit fraud by a feeling that their money is wasted. Two surveys, in the US and in the Netherlands, show that exchange equity is related to tax compliance attitudes and behavior, but there is no relation after controlling for horizontal and vertical equity, personal norm, and demographics. Personal norm was clearly the strongest predictor of tax compliance. In the third study no effect on tax compliance was found of priming exchange equity by having participants write about the government either positively or negatively. Finally, a framing study shows that tax compliance attitude can be influenced by framing government efficiency positively, thereby increasing feelings of exchange equity. However, there is no effect of framing government efficiency negatively. Together, these results show some support for a role of exchange equity in tax compliance and suggest that tax evasion could be decreased by presenting information on the government differently.
TLC densitometric method for the preliminary evaluation of fucoxanthin-based products
Creators: name: Piovan, Anna
name: Filippini, Raffaella
name: Paoli, Mauro De
name: Bresin, Bruno
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Studies have evidenced the biological properties of fucoxanthin and the commercialisation of various nutritional supplements based on seaweed extracts that claim high fucoxanthin content is constantly growing. However, it was demonstrated that fucoxanthin is highly susceptible to degradation, and in this context the need for simple and reliable analytical methods for fucoxanthin analysis is evident. This article presents a simple thin-layer chromatography (TLC) densitometric method for the determination of fucoxanthin from Undaria pinnatifida extracts and commercial formulations. Fucoxanthin was separated on TLC silica gel 60 F254 plates with acetone:n-hexane 6:4 v/v as mobile phase. Densitometric analysis was performed using the Image J image-processing program available online. Calibration data revealed good linear relationship (R2 = 0.9955) between peak area and concentration of fucoxanthin. The repeatability was 2.0 (% CV), and intra-day and inter-day precisions were 1.5 and 2.0 (% RSD), respectively. The proposed method provides an inexpensive tool in preliminary evaluation of fucoxanthin-based products.
Effect of aerobic training on cognitive function and arterial stiffness in sedentary young adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Asamoah, Samuel
name: Siegler, Jason
name: Chang, Dennis
name: Scholey, Andrew
name: Yeung, Alan
name: Cheema, Birinder S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520201
subject: Behavioural genetics
classificationCode: 520202
subject: Behavioural neuroscience
classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
classificationCode: 520205
subject: Psychopharmacology
classificationCode: 520206
subject: Psychophysiology
classificationCode: 520207
subject: Social and affective neuroscience
classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition
classificationCode: 520403
subject: Learning, motivation and emotion

description: This study measured cognitive and vascular responses to aerobic training in sedentary young adults. Ten adults (6 women, 4 men; 18–29 years) were randomly assigned to an experimental or no-treatment control group. The experimental group engaged in a 6-week intervention, performed on exercise cycle and treadmill, 3x/week, 50 min/session; intensity was increased over time. Outcome measures included arterial stiffness (augmentation index, AIx, and pulse pressure), cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max), and cognitive function (attention, processing speed, working memory, episodic memory, and executive function). Participants randomized to aerobic training improved processing speed versus control (P = 0.02, ES = 0.55). However, no group × time effects were noted in other domains of cognitive function. AIx was reduced by approximately 16% from before to after intervention in the experimental group; however, the improvement was not statistically significant versus control (P = 0.20, ES = 0.22). Pulse pressure did not change between groups over time (P = 0.97, ES = 0.0). VO2max increased by approximately 10% in the experimental group; however, the change was not significant between groups over time (P = 0.16, ES = 0.27). Vascular and cognitive adaptations to aerobic training may move in parallel. Robust trials simultaneously investigating a broad spectrum of aerobic training interventions and vascular and cognitive outcomes are warranted.
title: Kampf gegen Korruption in Rumänien: Das Verfassungsgericht verhindert eine Katastrophe
Creators: name: Hipper, Anitta
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
α-Fluoro Phosphonocarboxylates: The NMR Analysis of the Heteronuclear ABMX Spin System
Creators: name: Gmach, Joanna
name: Huben, Krzysztof
name: Błażewska, Katarzyna M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTThe α-fluorophosphonocarboxylate analogs of bisphosphonates have recently received attention due to their activity against Rab geranylgeranyl transferase, an enzyme implicated in a number of disease conditions. Most of the NMR data reported in the literature describing dialkyl α-fluorophosphonates are defined as first order spectra. Here we report a second order pattern observed in 19F NMR spectrum, being a part of heteronuclear ABMX spin system. Such a spin system, CH2C(F)P, was subjected to NMR analysis supported by iteration.
Users and non-users of next generation broadband
Creators: name: Nansen, Bjorn
name: Arnold, Michael
name: Wilken, Rowan
name: Gibbs, Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: IR14 panel discussion on conceptualizing non-users of the internet and mapping digital (dis)engagement, including this paper which explores the contexts and motivations that underpin the uptake of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). The findings are drawn from a mixed-methods research study of households using surveys and interviews conducted in 2011 and 2012 in an early release site of the NBN rollout. Whilst use and non-use have traditionally been treated as questions of digital access, inequality and exclusion, there is evidence for emerging forms of non-use characterized by more critical and discriminating approaches. We contribute to this evidence, but our findings suggest that use and non-use of high speed broadband do not occur in isolation or as an expression of individual choice, but as part of increasingly dense household media ecologies of digital infrastructures, devices, services and knowledge.
How to register a clinical trial روش ثبت مداخله بالینی
Creators: name: Jalalian, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Medicine
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Health Care

description: How to register a clinical trial روش ثبت مداخله بالینی
Negotiating diasporic Black African existence in Australia: a reflexive analysis
Creators: name: Mapedzahama, Virgina
name: Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The past twenty years has seen a somewhat steady flow of continental Africans into Australia. The arrival of such people, often constructed as 'blacks,' raises several questions with respect to identity and belonging. For example, what does it mean to be and 'live black' in a society that not only abandoned its White Australia policy only a little over thirty years ago, but must also now grapple with the transnational nature of its citizenry, which includes African blacks? We use reflexive narratives to present a snapshot of our everyday experiences as black Africans, negotiating the multiple complex layerings of not just our blackness, but also our diasporic African existence. We address the challenges and contradictions of negotiating reified and homogenised black/African migrant/outsider labels and identities. In particular, we reflect on our endeavours to confront stereotypical and distorted interpretations that seek to identify and categorise our existence in terms of the problematised 'other': as the unknowing, uneducated, oppressed and dispossessed persons of colour. The ensuing analysis is not intended as a theoretical discussion of race, racism or race relations in the wider Australian context. Rather, these are 'our tales of blackness,' of the dilemmas of negotiating subjectivity, of the multiple and paradoxical ways of being 'other' in a society that claims to be multicultural and is hailed as such worldwide.
title: The "component parts" amendments of the EC anti-dumping rules as implemented by the institutions of the EEC: an infringement of Gatt law? ; Vortrag vor dem Europainstitut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, den 17. April 1989
Creators: name: Adamantopoulos, Konstantinos A.
Publisher: name: Europa-Institut
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Dumpingverbot
subject: 19 17
subject: 343

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 159
description: 159, Europa-Institut 1981
title: Auf dem Wege zu einem europäischen Haftungsrecht: Beitrag der Niederlande: Vortrag vor dem Europainstitut der Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken, den 25. Januar 1989
Creators: name: Hondius, Ewoud H.
name: Braams, Wilhelm Th.
Publisher: name: Europa-Institut
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Haftung
subject: Europarecht
subject: 19
subject: 346

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 162
description: 162, Europa-Institut 1981
Living and labouring as a music writer
Creators: name: Fletcher, Lawson
name: Lobato, Ramon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Like many other creative endeavours, music writing is a proto-professional practice built on the back of amateur enthusiasm, unpaid labour and informal networks of referrals and recruiting. Drawing on interviews with Australian music critics and journalists at different stages of their careers, this article examines the highly specific configurations of cultural, social and economic capital at work within this field. The authors begin by exploring the diverse career pathways of writers, before considering how writers locate themselves within industrial and creative networks. As amateur intermediaries engaged in the mediation of the cultural productions of others, music writers maintain particular notions of value that do not always align easily with creative labour models premised on artistic fulfilment or economic exploitation.
title: Vertragssystematik und Harmonisierungsansätze: (mit Beispielen aus dem Bank-, Finanz- und Versicherungsbereich) ; Vortrag vor dem Europainstitut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, den 12. Januar 1990
Creators: name: Troberg, Peter
Publisher: name: Europa-Inst., Univ. des Saarlandes
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Vertrag
subject: 17 19
subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 198
description: 198, Europa-Institut 1981
title: Vom europäischen Währungssystem zur europäischen Währungsunion: Vortrag vor dem Europainstitut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, den 24. Januar 1990
Creators: name: Hahn, Hugo J.
Publisher: name: Europa-Inst.
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Europäisches Währungssystem
subject: Währungsunion
subject: 343

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 196
description: 196, Europa-Institut 1981
Productive provocations: vitriolic media, spaces of protest and agonistic outrage in the 2011 England riots
Creators: name: McCosker, Anthony
name: Johns, Amelia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The intense social upheaval that spread through a number of UK cities in the riots and protests of August, 2011 signalled the terrifying speed with which passionate disaffection can turn to uncontained violence. At stake in the dense and volatile debate that ensued, and in the acts of violence themselves, were contests over spaces as well as competing models of democracy, publics and citizenship, including the appropriate use of social media. Within these debates, almost universally, rational deliberative discourse and action is assumed to be the only route to legitimate “civil” society. So what is to be made of the violent physical contest over city squares, streets and property, as well as contests over acts of participation and demonstration played out online through the hundreds of eyewitness videos posted to sites like YouTube and the endless flow of often vitriolic words in blogs, comments spaces and social network sites? This paper uses a video posted to YouTube titled ‘Clapham Junction Speaker (London Riots 2011)’ to examine the passion and provocation that flowed beyond the city streets to enliven, intensify and sustain forms of protest and civic engagement. We argue that the aggressive and antagonistic tenor of the Speaker’s twenty minute monologue, the bitter vitriol that flowed through the comments space, and even the act of posting it constitute significant elements of a generative, ‘agonistic’ public, to use Chantal Mouffe’s term, that operates in multiple spaces and outside of the rationalising discourse demanded by mainstream media and government. This paper develops a richer understanding of these spaces of protest, and the concept of provocation central to these events.
Publication fee of open access journals نکاتی درمورد هزینه انتشار مجلات
Creators: name: Jalalian, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Medicine
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Health Care

description: Publication fee of open access journals نکاتی درمورد هزینه انتشار مجلات
Deficiencies of China's general aviation law and its improvement
Creators: name: Zhang, Chrystal
name: Diao, Weimin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480308
subject: International trade and investment law

description: General aviation is an integral part of civil aviation and involves the widest range of aviation segments except commercial aviation. Featured with different operational procedures and practices to satisfy the economic needs and safety requirements of a sovereign state, general aviation tends to be regulated by an individual state. The last three decades have seen exponential growth of commercial air transport in China, but its general aviation sector has remained disproportionally underdeveloped. With the deepening of the reform of low-altitude airspace, the sector is poised for a radical change and rapid growth. However, legislation governing general aviation activities in China is distorted causing inconsistency and confusions in their application and implementation. This paper aims to analyse China's prevailing legislation regulating general aviation activities. It first discusses the various definitions adopted by ICAO and its member states and reviews the development of general aviation in the US, EU, Australia and China. It then examines the sources of China's general aviation laws, e.g. Chicago Convention and its annexes, and Chinese domestic legislature which covers legislation, laws, directives, rules and procedures. The paper continues to analyse and establish the deficiencies of its prevailing legal framework by pointing out the following: variation of definitions in different regulations, inconsistency of principles in existing laws and regulations, legal vacuum concerning government subsidy, environment protection, safety and security, and other operational areas such as aerial club, sightseeing, and search and rescue. In this process, the paper argues that a coherent, consistent and systematic legal framework is required in order to ensure fair competition and safety for a healthy, progressive and sustainable general aviation growth. Suggestions for rectification and improvement are proposed.
How to publish in top-ranked academic journals ویژگیهای ضروری یک مقاله درسطح جورنالهای تاپ
Creators: name: Jalalian, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Medicine
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Health Care

description: How to publish in top-ranked academic journals ویژگیهای ضروری یک مقاله درسطح جورنالهای تاپ
How to write acknowledgments section of scientific article محتوی و روش نگارش بخش اکنالجمنت مقالات
Creators: name: Jalalian, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Medicine
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Health Care

description: How to write acknowledgments section of scientific article محتوی و روش نگارش بخش اکنالجمنت مقالات
AFL umpires: brand and reputation
Creators: name: Gill, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian Football League (AFL) acknowledges a potentially serious branding problem in relation to umpires. It is struggling to meet the operational demands of providing enough umpires to officiate in non-professional competitions administrated by the AFL. It is believed AFL umpires have a poor reputation among the general public. This may provide a barrier to take up and present a significant source of motivational conflict for aspiring umpires. In particular this situation presents a challenge for marketing campaigns trying to recruit new umpires. The long term impact is significant, since without umpires at the grass roots level the future sustainability of AFL is brought into question. This paper aims to determine the umpires' reputation and how this may impact on the AFL's ability to effectively market the need for and recruit umpires in non-professional leagues. This information can provide guidance for strategies used to improve umpire reputation, recruitment and retention.
title: Steuer- und Finanzpolitik der EG aus der Sicht der deutschen Industrie: Vortrag vor dem Europainstitut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, den 30. Januar 1990
Creators: name: Mann, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Europa-Inst.
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Industrie
subject: Steuerpolitik
subject: Finanzpolitik
subject: 17
subject: 343

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 197
description: 197, Europa-Institut 1981
Exploring the links between stakeholder type, and strategic response to stakeholder and institutional demands in the public sector context
Creators: name: Oates, Grainne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The management of increased numbers of stakeholder groups with increased and conflicting demands requires refined information on who and what really counts to management in terms of these demands from multiple stakeholders. These requirements challenge stakeholder and institutional theory to effectively support the decision making practice. The purpose of this paper is to examine links between stakeholder theory and institutional theory in a way not previously seen in the literature and present new propositions as a potential extension of these theories. The study makes use of the Mitchell et al. (1997) stakeholder typology model and combines it with the Oliver (1991) model which offers a typology of strategic responses to institutional pressures. This is a conceptual paper which employs a literature based analysis and from this generates six new propositions. These propositions can be tested in future research. The main implication is that the paper has the potential to assist managers in dealing with multiple stakeholders’ interests. Several insights are provided for further research and for improvement in current practice.
Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment
Creators: name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Balogh, M. L.
name: Bower, R. G.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Bamford, S. P.
name: Budavari, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
title: Erweitern und vertiefen: Recht im Kontext goes Verfassungsblog
Creators: name: Kemmerer, Alexandra
name: Möllers, Christoph
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional