cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Essays in bank capital structure
Creators: name: Wang, Senyu
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Capital structure, subsidiary failure, M&A, information asymmetry.

description: This thesis provides an in-depth discussion on banks’ capital structure which has drawn very little attention from the literature. It consists of three major empirical essays. The first essay (Chapter III) reviews the major conclusions drawn from the traditional corporate finance literature that has at length examined the capital structures of non-financial firms, while compares their findings with the limited work on the leverage decisions of banking firms. It aims to provide an insight into the factors that actually govern banks’ capital choices, cast doubt on whether capital requirements are binding and primarily decide the bank leverage, and introduce the core assumption of this thesis – information asymmetry as an important determinant of capital structure decisions. The second essay (Chapter IV) empirically investigates the effects of information asymmetry on capital structure adjustments of US bank holding companies (BHCs) during 1986 to 2015. By identifying BHCs with bankrupt subsidiaries and arguing that their managers possess better knowledge than market investors concerning the failure of their subsidiaries, this chapter disentangles the real effect of private information on the capital structures of holding banks. The results show that subsidiary failure significantly affects financial policies of the parent companies. Specifically, BHCs increase leverage as early as one year prior to the failure of their subsidiaries, and substantially lower leverage after subsidiary failure. Further tests document that the parent BHCs increase not only debt borrowing but also liquidity assets, and curtail lending in advance to avoid further liquidity and financial constraint problems after their subsidiary failure. Examinations on the dynamic patterns of these BHCs’ performance around the subsidiary failure time confirm a smoother performance transition. The third essay (Chapter V) adds to the evidence in Chapter IV and discusses the information asymmetry effect by identifying a different treatment group - BHCs with subsidiaries engaging in M&A activities. The findings lend further support to the core assumption in this thesis. The chapter also finds the indication that financial constraints of BHCs are on average mitigated following their subsidiaries receiving capital infusion following the M&A deals. Overall, this thesis has important implications for the public to understand various incentives that banks may have in making their capital structure decisions.
Additional file 5: of The VAAST Variant Prioritizer (VVP): ultrafast, easy to use whole genome variant prioritization tool
Creators: name: Flygare, Steven
name: Hernandez, Edgar
name: Phan, Lon
name: Moore, Barry
name: Li, Man
name: Fejes, Anthony
name: Hu, Hao
name: Eilbeck, Karen
name: Huff, Chad
name: Jorde, Lynn
name: G. Reese, Martin
name: Yandell, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S5. VVP box plots for all ClinVar and NA12878 variants broken down by CADD scoring class. Note that in contrast to CADDâ s scores for these same variants (see Additional file 4: Figure S4), VVP assigns high scores to FRAME_SHIFT and STOP_GAINED variants in ClinVar, but low scores for those same classes in NA12878. ClinVar scored as in Fig. 2a. NA12878 was scored using the observed zygosity of each variant. Scoreâ >â 56 is threshold for damaging. (PDF 177 kb)
AIRETH 2.0 – a revamped helicopter-borne GPR for glaciological applications
Creators: name: Farinotti, Daniel
name: Moser, Raphael
name: Anhorn, Barthelemy
name: Ogier, Christophe
name: Bauder, Andreas
name: Pohl, Benedikt
name: Soja, Benedikt
name: Maurer, Hansruedi
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: EGUsphere
title: Community regeneration performance assessment based  on social network analysis – Taking Jialingqiao Xicun Community, Chongqing Municipality for example
Creators: name: Pang, Simai
name: Yan, Bo
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social network, Community regeneration, Public space.

description: Restricted by the times and economic conditions, public spaces of old communities have problems, such as low utilization and uneven resource distribution. Because of these problems, resident activities and communication are limited and residents lack the sense of belonging to the community. This necessitates the establishment of activity spaces suitable for community communication through the regeneration of old communities. Activity spaces of this kind can help re-establish residents’ social connections. This paper aims at assessing the efficacy of residential area regeneration. Social network analysis is used to build the community public space network and the resident daily behavior and activity network, respectively. Meanwhile, the aforesaid two networks are comparatively analyzed from the perspective of the network structure and influence of node, and considering four parameters (density, small world density, node betweenness centrality, and structural hole) as well as its derivative indexes. Taking existing communities for a case analysis, this paper quantitatively assesses and compares the public spaces of these communities, finding that the inconsistency between the public space network and the resident activity network is attributable to elements, such as quality of space, space accessibility and node combination. On that basis, strategies for optimization of spatial design are proposed.
title: Investigating the perception of emotion portrayed through body movements in Motor Neuron Disease
Creators: name: Walker, Iona Catherine Margaret
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Motor neuron disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, theory of mind, social cognition, body movement.

description: Objectives: Motor Neuron Disease (MND) disrupts signals between the brain and the muscles causing physical disability and speech difficulties. Recent studies suggest that Theory of Mind (ToM), or the ability to interpret facial expressions and empathise with others’ emotions, can be impaired by MND. Research has, however, not yet investigated whether MND causes deficits in understanding emotion portrayed by body movements. The current study used a novel computerised assessment tool, E-Motion, which was developed with the aim of assessing the ability to interpret emotions through body movements. The primary hypothesis was that individuals with MND would be impaired compared to control participants on the E-Motion test. Methods: Fifteen individuals with MND and fifteen neurotypical participants were recruited via an MND patient register and opportunity sampling. Participants completed cognitive and psychological assessments and ToM assessments: a subtest of the Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT), the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen social cognition test (ECAS) and the E-Motion assessment. Results: A Mann-Whitney U Test indicated that the MND group performed significantly poorer on the E-Motion test with a large effect size (p<0.01, Eta squared=0.35, 90% CI [0.14, 0.59]) and on the ECAS social cognition subtest, with a medium effect size (p=0.02, Eta squared=0.19, 90% CI [0.02, 0.41]) compared to controls. An independent t-test indicated that the MND group attained lower scores on the TASIT subtest compared to controls with a medium effect size, although group differences were not significant (p=0.17, d=0.51, CI[-0.21,1.24]). Conclusions: Although the E-Motion results suggest possible MND-associated deficits in understanding body language, interpreting data from this task is significantly limited because the E-Motion task has not yet been formally validated. In particular, the E-Motion task requires formal development and validation studies. These studies would be required to quantify its performance across internal, external and content validity metrics to allow firmer conclusions to made. Findings from the E-Motion task should not be over-interpreted, and should be regarded as provisional and exploratory. Further research on tool development and replicating findings will be needed to advance the evidence-base in this area. The results of the validated ECAS social cognition test suggest that some individuals with MND may develop difficulties in understanding the emotions of others. This finding is in accordance with previous research in this area. Further research in larger sample sizes and subtypes of MND are required to ascertain whether ToM deficits are prevalent in the wider MND population.
BOSHLANG`ICH TALIMDA O`QUVCHILARNI BILIMINI OSHIRISHDA ZAMONAVIY PEDAGOGIGIK TEXNOLOGIYALAR
Creators: name: Xolmatova, Gulsanam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Bugungi kunda boshlang‘ich ta'lim jarayonida o‘quvchilar bilimini oshirishda zamonaviy pedagogik texnologiyalarni qo‘llash muhim ahamiyat kasb etmoqda. Chunki an'anaviy o‘qitish usullari ko‘pincha o‘quvchilarning faqat bilim olishini ta’minlasa, zamonaviy texnologiyalar orqali o‘quvchilar ko‘proq interaktiv tarzda, faol va qiziqarli darslarni o‘zlashtira boshlaydilar.
Advances in Management and Informatics Issue 6 (Working Papers Journal)
Creators: name: (CSM), Cardiff School of Management
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified

description: Aims and Scope Welcome to the sixth edition of the Advances Management and Informatics (AMI) Journal. This is the edition includes the award-winning student paper from our AMI Conference in 2021. Advances in Management and Informatics (AMI) is a journal that allows members of Cardiff School of Management to contribute topics of interest, ranging from embryonic ideas through to work that is nearing completion. Some of the ideas presented to the editor have since been published, and some are undergoing further research. We would like to stress that as this is a working paper journal, publication here does not preclude the authors from publishing their work elsewhere. Editorial This edition is pleased to present the 2021 AMI Conference Best Student Paper Prize Winner “Towards the Decarbonisation of Tourism: A Case Study of Ireland” by Anita Conefrey and James Hanrahan. This paper explores and discusses if the carbon footprint of tourism in Ireland has been assessed and therefore if there is a robust decarbonization strategy. The second paper explores the impact of the Covid19 situation on engagement and utilization of online learning tools. The paper discusses how this engagement with online learning approaches will impact learning and teaching in the future. Paper three focuses on the uncertainty visualisation, and it impact on decision making functions. The fourth paper in this edition researches the utilization of Machine Learning utilization within SME in order to offer cyber security. Paper five presents research undertaken regarding the development of online financial market trading tools.
title: Synthesis and characterization of functional dyes for optoelectronic applications
Creators: name: dos Santos, John Marques
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Synthesis, characterization, dye, optoelectronics, dye-sensitized, organic photovoltaics, bulk-heterojunction, solar cell, BODIPY, thiophene, phenothiazine, macrocycle, supramolecular, morphology, power conversion efficiency.

description: Fossil fuels have been in the center of the global energy consumption for many years, contributing to serious complications in the environment and becoming gradually exhausted. Hence, seeking low cost and efficient renewable energy sources represents an important aim for the next years. Devices based on organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have undergone high performances. However, the required cost-efficiency balance to make a significant contribution to the global energy production is a remaining goal. This thesis reports the synthesis and characterization of conjugated molecules that can be employed for photovoltaic applications. The work is focused on the design of functional dyes for both bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The first chapter introduces the fundamentals of organic electronics, with a particular focus on photovoltaics. The use of functional dyes in the so called third-generation solar cells and and details of the principles behind the production of such technologies is covered. The second chapter describes the synthesis and characterization of a collection of new BODIPY derivatives. The materials were successfully applied as donor materials in BHJ solar cells and DSSCs and their performance was studied. The third chapter describes the synthesis and characterization of a library of thiophene-based molecules and presents a detailed investigation into the effect of alkyne spacers on the optoelectronic and BHJ properties of the materials. In chapter four, three generations of thiophene-based dyes that incorporate di-anchoring groups are designed, synthetized and tested in DSSCs. The dyes were used to gain knowledge about the structural parameters contributing to the power conversion efficiency of the di-anchoring architecture. The fifth chapter is devoted to the synthesis and characterization of DTS-based small molecules and covalently-linked donor-acceptor unimolecuar systems with the aim of preparing high efficiency BHJ solar cells. Finally, the sixth chapter focuses on the synthesis and characterization of thiophene-based macrocycles, and their investigation in BHJ solar cells, with interest in the possible host-guest interactions for supramolecular control of the BHJ morphology.
title: "O Blessed and Thrice Glorious Lord Jesus": Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) and the threefold glory of the second person of the Trinity
Creators: name: van Eyk, John
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thomas Goodwin, christology, Anselm, Duns Scotus, supralapsarianism, Trinity, God-man, essential, mediatorial, personal glory, Puritan, John Calvin, John Owen, Christ.

description: This Thesis examines the Christology of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680). It notes that he identifies that the second Person of the Trinity has a threefold glory. He has (i) a glory as he is God, which Goodwin terms his essential glory. Christ also has a double glory as the God-man, (ii) the glory of his person, and, (iii) the glory that accrues to him because of his mediatorial work. After examining Goodwin’s explication of the threefold glory of Christ, the thesis demonstrates that the personal glory of the God-man, abstracted from his mediatorial work, is central in his Christology. The thesis concludes that there is a speculative element in Goodwin’s insistence that Christ was predestined as the God-man antecedent to any consideration of the creation and fall of man, leading him to bifurcate his Person and work. This, however, does not overthrow the whole of his Christology nor the pastoral usefulness of his teaching. In fact, Thomas Goodwin makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ‘thrice glorious Lord Jesus.’
title: A pilot feasibility study of a randomized controlled trial of goal setting using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths following brain injury: and, Clinical Research Portfolio
Creators: name: Wainman-Lefley, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Brain injury, goal-setting, goal planning, rehabilitation, positive psychology.

description: Background: There exists no gold standard procedure for goal-setting for rehabilitation after brain injury (BI). A person-centred approach is important to motivate and empower clients (Dalton et al., 2012). Assisting clients to identify personal values and drawing on these when setting goals may increase the personal relevance of rehabilitation goals. Objective: To determine feasibility and acceptability of using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) during the rehabilitation goal-setting process, and whether this was feasible in the context of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Method: In a single-blind feasibility pilot RCT design, BI participants were recruited from a community BI rehabilitation centre and randomised into goal-setting using the VIA-IS, and goal-setting as usual. Outcomes included the feasibility and acceptability of completing the VIA-IS, and its use in setting goals in a BI rehabilitation context, and whether it affected types of goals set, categorised using the International Classification of Functioning (ICF), Disability, and Health activities and participation categories (WHO, 2001). Memory for goals approximately two weeks after goal-setting was measured, and a sample size calculated for a future full-scale trial. Results: Twenty-two BI participants were recruited, and randomised to the VIA-IS (n = 11) and control group (n = 10). Two dropped out of the VIA-IS condition prior to completion, and the group allocation of one is unknown due to non-completion of the study, leaving a total n = 19. The majority (89%) of participants rated the VIA-IS as acceptable; both groups described the goal-setting process as ‘easy’. Feedback ranged from positive (enjoyment, rapport building), to negative (repetitive, too long). Two thirds of the VIA-IS group used their VIA-IS results to set goals and described it as helpful. There were no major differences in ICF categories between groups. Based on the data from this study, a sample size of 66 was calculated for a full-scale trial. Conclusions: A full-scale trial with multi-centre design appears warranted though may be more clinically beneficial if limited to BI clients who are more difficult to engage.
title: Investigation into the mechanisms determining spontaneous activity in human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: da Silva Costa, Ana Filipa
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: hiPSC-CMs, cardiomyocytes, Ik1 fibroblast, cardiac stem cell, maturation.

description: Background: Human induced-pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) provide an alternative to adult primary cells for scientific and commercial research, but they have an embryonic rather than adult electrophysiological phenotype. In particular: low expression of inward rectifying channel (Ik1) contributes towards the unstable resting membrane potential and results in spontaneous electrical activity. Purpose: This study examines contribution of Ik1 and other ionic currents to the spontaneous electrical activity of hiPSC-CMs and tests the concept that additional external Ik1 activity can be added via co-culture with Ik1-expressing HEK293 cells. Methods: hiPSC-CM’s ionic currents and channels were investigated using different ion channel blockers. Ik1 was externally added to hiPSC-CM culture via co-culture with I¬k1-overexpressing HEK at different densities and ratios. The effects on contractility and voltage (action potentials) were investigated using two in-house platforms: CellOPTIQ and MUSCLEMOTION. Results: Based on the sensitivity to the If blocker, the pacemaker current (If) is either absent or not a dominant contributor to pacemaking in hiPSC-CMs. Blockade of Ik1 with BaCl2 and PA-6 did not affect interval time, thus showing that there is low availability of Ik1. Co-culture with Ik1-HEK at 1:1 HEK:hiPSC led to a prolongation of mean interval (from 963.524.5ms to 1516.079.3ms, n=15, p<0.0001). The cause of this is unknown. Co-culture using fibroblasts and hiPSC-CMs was done to study the effects of a different cell type in co-culture. These indicated that the amplitude of the contraction signals might be affected by different cell types and their elasticity, rather than effects within the hiPSC-CMs. To improve cell-to-cell coupling, IK1-HEK were transfected with Cx43 and introduced into co-culture. Under these conditions, the electrophysiological behaviour was similar to co-culture with Ik1-HEK cells. The signal to noise ratio (SNR) of membrane dye (FluoVolt) was used to estimate the degree of coupling of iPSC-CMs to Ik1-HEK. Conclusions: hiPSC-CMs have low contribution from Ik1, but the spontaneous activity was not dominated by If. Co-culture with Ik1-HEK rather than wild-type HEK led to prolongation of interval between APs, suggesting that hiPSC-CMs were successfully coupled to Ik1-expressing HEK cells. Increased expression of Cx43 to potentially further develop this effect - by improving electrical linkage - has no overall further effects. In summary, enhancing Ik1 pharmacologically was not possible, but co-culture with specific ion channel cell lines appeared to successfully add to the channels contributing to the AP in hiPSC-CMs.
title: An investigation of student teacher development in pre-service English language teacher education in Malaysia
Creators: name: Sulaiman, Nor 'Ain binti
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: student teachers education, reflective practice, practicum, Malaysia.

description: Research suggests that many factors contribute to the formation of the student teachers’ reflective practice, including the nature of their teacher education, their experiences in a community of practice, and how they build their professional identity as adult learners. The purpose of this study is to investigate the significance and development of reflection and reflective skills for Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) student teachers from a major teacher education institute in Malaysia. The research addressed three questions: To what extent do student teachers use reflection in their lessons? In what ways do their capacities for reflective practice develop over the practicum? What facilitating factors and barriers exist in the development of their reflective practice? Adopting a purposive sampling approach, ten student teachers, three mentor teachers and a supervisor were selected. All of the student teachers were studying for a bachelor’s degree in TESL. They attended three phases of semi-structured interviews during the three months of their final practicum; the interviews took place after classroom observations every month. Mentor teachers and supervisors were also interviewed. Adopting an interpretivist approach, the weekly reflective diaries of the student teachers and the transcripts from the final phase of the post-observation interviews provided highly personal information from which vignettes of the participants were drawn. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed four significant issues affecting reflective practice: relational issues, such as how student teachers navigate issues arising within a community of practice; situational issues, for instance how they implement the curriculum; developmental issues, including how the quality of reflection may be judged; and experiential issues, which include how the student teachers construct their professional identities. The findings support most of the existing literature and provide valuable insights into the significance of reflection for these novice teachers, the extent to which they master reflective skills in their practice, and the factors that influence reflection. However, further analysis and discussion revealed that whilst the student teachers’ use of reflection during their practicums is evident, the role and quality of this reflection is ambiguous. Similarly, whilst supervisors and mentor teachers may insist that reflection be actively encouraged, the rationale behind how and why it is used goes unexplored. The findings also highlighted the role that andragogy, communities of practice and experiential learning may play in partnership with reflection, serving to reconstruct reflective practice in teacher education. The study concludes by reviewing the implications of the research and putting forth ideas for further study.
MUSTAQILLIK YILLARIDA YURIDIK TA'LIMNI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Mahmudov, Mirzohid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Soʻnggi yillarda mamlakatda oʻquv-pedagogik jarayonga innovatsion ilgʻor va xalqaro taʼlim standartlarini joriy etish, kadrlar salohiyatini oshirish va professor-oʻqituvchilar mehnatini ragʻbatlantirish, shuningdek, taʼlim muassasalarining moddiy-texnik bazasini mustahkamlashni nazarda tutadigan yuridik taʼlim tizimini takomillashtirish boʻyicha bir qator aniq chora-tadbirlar amalga oshirildi.
title: The role of UV-B in regulating flowering initiation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Zioutopoulou, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: UV-B, flowering, Arabidopsis thaliana, UVR8.

description: UV-B irradiation ranges from 280-315 nm and is an important component of sunlight that reaches the earth. Although UV-B can be harmful in most living organisms, it can also control various photomorphogenic responses in plants. Plants perceive UV-B light through the action of UVR8, the only photoreceptor that has been discovered so far to be capable of absorbing and mediating responses to UV-B light. Additionally, UV-B has a role in modulating plant adaptive reposes, such as the inhibition of the Shade Avoidance Response, which is a number of physiological and molecular features that plants develop in order to cope with vegetative shade. Very little is known about the role of UV-B or UVR8 in regulating the time of flowering in plants. This thesis investigates the role of UV-B and UVR8 in the initiation of photoperiodic and vegetative shade flowering in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. For that purpose, multiple flowering experiments were conducted, under WL and WL supplemented with UV-B, as well as under low R:FR (shade) or low R:FR that was supplemented with UV-B. For the aforementioned experiments the flowering time was monitored. Moreover, gene expression analysis of key flowering regulators (FT, CO, FLC, SOC1), was performed on various Arabidopsis accessions and uvr8 mutant alleles and over-expressing lines, as well as mutants involved in UV-B signalling and flowering. Our results indicate that UV-B controls photoperiodic flowering in an ecotype-specific manner, since the effect of UV-B on flowering initiation varied in Col-0, Ler and Cvi ecotypes. Overall, UV-B promoted flowering under Long Day photoperiodic conditions. UVR8 was shown to act as a negative regulator of UV-B induced early flowering, since uvr8 mutants exhibited early flowering phenotypes, while over-expression of UVR8 led to a delay in flowering under white light supplemented with UV-B. Additionally, UV-B was found to induce early flowering in most of the UV-B signalling, light signalling and flowering mutants tested. Overall, this thesis has uncovered that UV-B can modulate flowering initiation through the action of UVR8 at the transcriptional level. Further research would be essential for further examining the role of UVR8 in mediating UV-B cross-talk with other light and temperature signalling pathways.
Additional file 2 of Efficacy of a bivalent killed whole-cell cholera vaccine over five years: a re-analysis of a cluster-randomized trial
Creators: name: Fong, Youyi
name: Elizabeth Halloran, M.
name: Kyung Park, Jin
name: Marks, Florian
name: D. Clemens, John
name: L. Chao, Dennis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S1. (PDF 27.4 kb)
title: Rainfall-to-reach, modelling of braided morphodynamics
Creators: name: Stott, Eilidh
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluvial, geomorphology, braided river, river science, modelling, hydraulic modelling, river feshie, morphodynamics, 2D modelling, CLiDE, CAESAR Lisflood.

description: Communities today are increasingly vulnerable to fluvial flood events due to increased development on floodplains and climate change impacts. This prompts a need to improve flood risk management strategies. In particular, the forecasting of high flow events via hydrological modelling. In piedmont regions, where sediment supply can be substantial and variable depending on seasonal hydrology and perturbations such as landslides, geomorphic change can influence channel conveyance and thus flood risk. However, the modelling of sediment transport and its impacts on geomorphic change and flood risk is rarely incorporated into flood risk management. This thesis therefore aims to assess an end-to-end modelling framework to predict discharge, sediment transport and morphological change on a braided piedmont river. First, Structure from Motion photogrammetry was used to monitor topographic change along a braided reach of the River Feshie, Scotland, to demonstrate how morphological data can be obtained to assess numerical model performance. The coupled numerical modelling framework used for this analysis included a catchment scale rainfall runoff model (CLiDE), and a reach scale geomorphic change model (CAESAR-LISFLOOD). Model results show that the parameterised rainfall runoff model could appropriately predict base and storm flow discharges. The geomorphic change model could predict the location and magnitudes of change for one to two years of model runtime. However, after multiple floods the morphodynamic model outputs substantially degraded. As lateral erosion rapidly carved out river banks and deposited sediment in the channel, resulting in a topographically smooth reach. Despite the limitations of the reach scale model to maintain braiding over multiple events, this work demonstrates how an end-to-end modelling framework could be implemented to predict geomorphic change and contribute to updating the topography in flood risk mapping and forecasting models. Results also illustrate how repeat topographic surveys can be used as input and verification data for flood risk modelling which incorporates geomorphic change.
title: Archives, digitisation and copyright: do archivists in the UK avoid risk through strict compliance with copyright law when they digitise their collections?
Creators: name: Stobo, Victoria
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: archives, digitisation, copyright, risk management.

description: The duration and complexity of copyright in relation to unpublished materials is contributing to a 20th century ‘black hole’ in the online historical record. Archives collect, preserve, and provide access to records of governments, businesses, communities and individuals: the raw evidence of transactions, activities and events that informs our understanding of the past. The transformative nature of online access to the archival record supports human rights, democracy, openness, transparency, accountability, culture, learning, research and innovation. Despite reform, the legal framework in the UK fails to provide a safe harbor for archives that could make comprehensive online access to the country’s rich and diverse archival holdings possible. This thesis presents the results of a survey of the UK archive sector that explores how copyright affects digitisation of collections, and analyses five digitisation projects at a variety of archive institutions, in order to better understand the decision-making processes and risk management strategies that make archive collections containing third party rights materials available online, despite the tendency towards risk aversion within the archive sector. The thesis found that a small proportion of UK archives have made third-party rights holder material available online, supporting the view that the sector, in general, is risk averse in relation to third-party copyrights. However, evidence gathered suggests that approaches taken by less risk-averse institutions can be adapted to suit the needs of a wide-range of cultural heritage institutions, and best-practice guidance could have a significant impact on online access to 20th century collections. The study contributes baseline data on the sectoral approach to copyright, rights clearance and risk management, and how these approaches affect digitisation, in order to provide a starting point for further research and best-practice guidance for the UK archive sector.
title: Lips That Touch, a novel & ‘Tiny Jubilations’, a critical essay exploring photography, narrative and inspiration as haunting
Creators: name: Strachan, Zoë
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fiction, practice as research, novel, photography, Barthes, McIlvanney, Scotland, Kilmarnock, memory, postmemory, haunting, inspiration, post-industrial.

description: This practice as research thesis comprises two elements: 1) Vol. 1 is a novel, Lips That Touch, set in small-town Scotland between 1935 and 1969. Centring on two main characters, Rena and Bobby, it is a story of family, thwarted ambition and complicated love. 2) Vol. 2 is a commentary that approaches the question of whether inspiration can be understood as a form of haunting through an exploration of photography, memory and narrative. Writing in a way that is personal and postcritical, I consider my use of family photographs and photographs of the built environment (specifically Kilmarnock) as research for the novel, including the role of place, postmemory and inherited narratives. Particular reference is made to the work of William McIlvanney, Janice Galloway, Roland Barthes, Eugène Atget and Hervé Guibert.
title: Public perceptions of trust in the police in Abuja, Nigeria
Creators: name: Usman, David Jacob
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Procedural justice, trust, police legitimacy, police effectiveness, police corruption and democratic policing.

description: What the public thinks, believes and feels about the police determines if people will obey or disobey them, if they will support the police in fighting crime, and contributes to how and whether the police will succeed in maintaining order. Notwithstanding these incontrovertible facts, scholars and researchers in Nigeria have paid only minor attention to this crucial subject by viewing the problem from the fact that the police have failed in performing its obligations. So far, no research has deeply explored the relationship between police and the public in Nigeria and ordinary people’s perceptions of police corruption and trust and the historical background that forms the context of this. This research addresses this gap in knowledge through original empirical research into public perceptions of the police, experiences of contact with the police and views about the relationship of police behaviour and legitimacy. Using procedural justice as the main theoretical model, this thesis provides a platform for the qualitative narratives of 66 men and women in Abuja, Nigeria who have had direct and indirect experiences of the police. It analyses how their interactions with the police shape their day-to-day lives and ideas about justice, law and order. This research found that participants employed an idea of police effectiveness to assess their legitimacy that in turn was connected to procedural fairness as well as honesty. Participants believed that they would be more likely to trust the police if they were provided with the needed services such as securing lives and properties, maintaining law and order as well as investigation and detection of crime. These outcome- oriented views of good policing were combined with process-oriented views in which the importance for trust of being treated with dignity and even sincerity regularly featured in the interviews and focus groups. Hence, this research shows how procedural and distributive form of justice were interlinked for participants. The issue of police corruption, discussed at length in the thesis, has an implication in the achievement of effective policing and provides a useful illustration of how concerns about police results combined with views about police good conduct were inseparable in making determinations of trust in and legitimacy of the police.
title: Trap or haven: Assessing the spray drift deposition of insecticides in flower strips
Creators: name: Jeker, Lukas
name: Camenzind, Domenic
name: Straub, Lars
name: Kast, Christina
name: Grossar, Daniela
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, vol. 481Hazards of pesticides to bees, 16th International Symposium of the ICP-PR Bee Protection Group, - Proceedings -; 15th - 17th October, 2024; Sevilla (Spain), p. 23
title: Creative, arts-inspired tasks for critical intercultural communication pedagogy at a German University
Creators: name: Start, Elizabeth Mary
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: critical intercultural communication pedagogy, critical cosmopolitanism, arts-inspired methods, creative learning, emancipatory education, higher education, Germany.

description: Although artistic practices have been shown to have value for intercultural education in contexts such as community projects, research into the use of these methods for Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy (CICP) in HE is scarce. This reflexive, interpretivist practitioner case study addresses this gap, investigating the value of creative, arts-inspired tasks for learning within my own undergraduate Intercultural Communication course at a large university in Germany. Three subquestions addressed (i) the participants' attitudes to the tasks, (ii) the role of creative process for learning, and (iii) the relative merits of the tasks set. Twenty-four participants carried out a collaborative poster-making task and created individual collages which were subseqently shared. Their experiences were discussed in individual and small group semi-structured interviews, carried out in two phases. Participants' reflective course portfolios and my own researcher diary supplemented this data in a 'bricolage' approach to research that was adapted to the study's context and aims. Analysis was characterised by processes of abduction (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2009) whereby theory and empirical data are successively reinterpreted in the light of each other in an intellectual rather than technical process. Ellingson's (2009) conceptualisation of 'crystallization' informed the inclusion of artistic work and 'interludes' alongside the main narrative in the thesis. The contribution of the study is two-fold, demonstrating the value of artistic practices for undergraduate learning and as an application and extension of CICP specifically, developing the theoretical work of Halualani (2017) and Sobré (2017). Six key findings emerged from the discussion of the data. Three key findings demonstrated the ability of artistic processes and products to (a) fulfil the need for relatedness, (b) allow the generation of insightful, personally meaningful knowledge, and (c) serve as prompts for reflective thinking. Two further findings identified productive dialectical tensions for the creative process and qualitative differences between the collaborative and individual tasks. The final finding showed how arts-inspired work could advance and extend notions of CICP in HE, encouraging open attitudes and authentic connections with others, a tolerance of ambiguity and risk, an appreciation of difference, and critical self-reflection. Because the tasks were also found to validate undergraduate students' unique voices and nurture agency, it is argued that they offered participants more emancipatory ways to approach their learning.
title: The Dragon in the Mirror, a novel, with Stepping Through the Mirror, a critical reflection on writing and revising a feminist portal-quest fantasy
Creators: name: Tytler, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: creative writing, fantasy literature, young adult, portal-quest fantasy, intersectional feminism, practice as research, multimodality.

description: Portal-quest fantasies are fantasy novels that involve a character from one world traveling through a portal to another, and subsequently going on a quest which often follows the pattern of the hero's journey as described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Such narratives are common in young-adult (YA) fiction as metaphors for the process of growing up and learning the responsibilities of adulthood. My own YA portal-quest fantasy, The Dragon in the Mirror, is both a response and a challenge to other writers in the genre, my own attempt to avoid that writerly inertia which can cause the unthinking reproduction of tropes and motifs (whether harmful or just cliché) presented in previously published works. Re-reading fantasy texts which I first experienced as a child, in addition to texts I only encountered as an adult, I use an intersectional feminist framework to analyze the broad ranges of similarities between many of the worlds--Eurocentric, White, male, heteronormative--as well as the occasional instances of innovative or radical concepts. I explore the process of writing my own YA fantasy novel as a method of practice as research into the undiscovered details of my own secondary world, and how the multiple drafts and revisions, and years of writing, has been a way for me to learn by doing--learning to resist the thoughtless repetition of the underrepresentation and misrepresentation I absorbed from fantasy texts and the broader American culture as a child. In the end, I discuss this combination of research and exploration and how it forms the foundation of the active, conscious choices I made in the crafting of my own secondary world, with a close attention to the process of world-building, so as to highlight the radical potential of the form.
title: Illicit markets in the global city: the cultural property trade in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Smith, Emiline Claudia Heleen
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: transnational crime, illegal trade, illicit market, cultural property, antiquities, cultural criminology, global city, Hong Kong, China.

description: This thesis explores how the global city functions as a space for illicit trade, taking the illicit cultural property trade in Hong Kong as example. Hong Kong acts as a transition portal for the illicit cultural property trade due to its unique legal status and cultural history, creating a socio-political space of liminality within which the informal economy can grow and be sustained. Through in-depth engagement with ‘insiders’ of the illicit marketplace, the meanings and motivations for participation are examined on a micro-level, situated within the broader transnational cultural property trade. A key concern of this research was to excavate the local cultural and historical context in which this illicit trade is embedded and the ways in which transnational processes are experienced at a local level, as illustrated by the perspectives and narratives of participants. In this way, this research sought to advance knowledge of the intersections of legality and illegality, of formality and informality, and how the people and processes operating within these intersections facilitate and fuel illicit trade. It does this through a grounded, critical analysis of Hong Kong as a transition portal in the illicit cultural property trade, situating this role in a local and global context. The thesis therefore contributes to the growing body of research on the practicalities of transnational illicit trade. In sum, the thesis calls for a contextual understanding of a global illicit trade that is sensitive to the local, socio-cultural context of liminality and informality.
Analysis of Quantal Response Equilibrium and Deceptive Defense for Security Resource Allocation in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems Modeled by Attack Graphs
Creators: name: Azim, Md Reya Shad
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400805
subject: Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
classificationCode: 400604
subject: Network engineering
classificationCode: 460499
subject: Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460603
subject: Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
classificationCode: 380102
subject: Behavioural economics

description: This thesis addresses the critical challenge of security resource allocation in modern systems, including cyber-physical systems (CPS), which face increasing threats from sophisticated cyberattacks. Traditional game-theoretic models often assume perfectly rational decision-making, neglecting the impact of human behavioral errors and the potential for deceptive strategies. This thesis develops a comprehensive framework to enhance the security of networked CPS systems modeled using attack graphs. The framework integrates game theory and behavioral economics, specifically employing quantal response equilibrium (QRE) to model probabilistic human choices. Furthermore, it incorporates the strategic use of deception by defenders to mislead attackers about security resource distribution. The thesis investigates security investment decisions in interdependent systems, simultaneous attacker-defender games, and sequential defense strategies, considering the influence of quantal response. Additionally, an analysis of deception in defense investment has been performed which provides an extra layer and dimension to the security enhancement. The findings contribute to a more realistic and predictive understanding of security dynamics, leading to improved defense strategies for complex cyber-physical environments.
Additional file 1: of A spatiotemporal mixed model to assess the influence of environmental and socioeconomic factors on the incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease
Creators: name: Li, Lianfa
name: Qiu, Wenyang
name: Xu, Chengdong
name: Wang, Jinfeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix 1. Non-linear modeling. (DOCX 14 kb)