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Supplementary Text from Nonlinear amplitude dynamics in flagellar beating
Creators: name: Oriola, David
name: Gadêlha, Hermes
name: Casademunt, Jaume
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 91504 Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Derivation of the nonlinear elastohydrodynamic equations and discussion on the numerical methods.
title: Creative output in a market context
Creators: name: Miettinen, Jaakko Martti Johannes
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Creativity, motivation, copyright, incentives, satisfaction.

description: The main contributions of this thesis to existing literature is the introduction of a new methodology for researching the effect of copyright law on creative output using dynamic markets created in a lab experiment. The markets of interest are creative industries, examples of these markets are markets such as, book and music publishing, where copyright is an important part of how the markets operate. Motivating creative production in such industries is more complex compared to motivating production in industries with more mechanic or algorithmic tasks. The methodology presented in the thesis is a contribution to existing literature on copyright and motivation, as previous literature does not utilise a dynamic experimental environment. The results of this research indicate that both pay structure and the availability of information regarding the actions and performance of other competitors can influence creativity. There is some evidence that public information/attribution was important to market participants, as it in some cases provides an incentive for higher production and in other cases it cancels out an effect which are otherwise found when only tournament pay/economic rights were present. There is evidence of lower satisfaction in tournament pay/economic rights groups which suggest that individuals exert overconfidence before participating in the market causing lower satisfaction due to below expected performance. This might also result in over supply in winner-takes-all markets as participants overestimate the probability of their own success when entering the market. Besides this, the lower satisfaction could increase turnover in the creative industries and thus decrease overall human capital in the market as the unsuccessful experienced individuals leave the market due to low satisfaction.
title: Approaches towards molecular construction of a synthetic vaccine against Hepatitis C virus
Creators: name: Meuleman, Theodorus  J.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Peptide chemistry, Epitope mimicry, ELISA, Synthetic vaccine, Hepatitis C virus.

description: In this work, an alternative strategy involving a fully synthetic approach is being investigated toward structure-based vaccine design against HCV. The main focus is being put on the HCV envelope E2 glycoprotein, which is a viral protein that is present on the outside of the virus particle and essential in establishing infection. Extensive research on the E2 glycoprotein has yielded an enormous amount of information dictating highly conserved domains to which the immune system can efficiently respond in order to neutralize the virus and even naturally cure infection. These highly conserved and neutralizing domains, together with the availability of antibodies binding these regions, will be exploited to design synthetic peptide-based modulators (i.e. epitope mimics) towards a prophylactic vaccine against hepatitis C virus. This methodology is based on a modular approach that allows for fast and easily modifiable vaccines that can quickly respond to the rapidly mutating nature of HCV and predicted outbreaks of specific strains. The difficulty of identifying a generic consensus epitope that shows effective antigenicity and immunogenicity across the diverse range of HCV variants could be bypassed this way. The design of epitope mimics is highly influenced by the spatial configuration and structural conformation of the native epitope within the overall protein structure. Synthetic peptides on molecular scaffolds can take a desired epitope out of the context of the viral protein, while maintaining its correct structural and spatial conformation. Therefore, the major bulk of the protein can be omitted to circumvent unwanted incorporation of potential immune-evasive domains in the vaccine. This thesis starts by providing a general introduction of HCV in the context of its global burden, life cycle, impact on the immune system, and considerations with respect to vaccine design (Chapter 1). This is followed by investigation of the impact of introducing conformational constraints on synthetic epitope mimics, by peptide cyclization, on antibody binding (Chapter 2). Next, epitope mimics were synthesized using novel polar hinges to improve their aqueous solubility and re-validated their biological activity (Chapter 3). Then, the work presented culminates in the construction of a complex fully synthetic epitope mimic presenting three individual epitopes conjugated onto a molecular scaffold and its potential for vaccination was investigated (Chapter 4).
title: Quantum group actions on singular plane curves
Creators: name: Tabiri, Angela Ankomaah
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Hopf algebra, quantum homogeneous space.

description: In [28, 38], the coordinate ring of the cusp y2 = x3 is seen to be a quantum homogeneous space. Using this as a starting example, the coordinate ring of the nodal cubic y2 = x2 +x3 was shown to be a quantum homogeneous space in [40]. This thesis focuses on finding singular plane curves which are quantum homogeneous spaces. We begin by discussing the background theory of Hopf algebras, algebraic groups and the set up for Bergman’s Diamond Lemma [9]. Next, we recall the theory of quantum homogeneous spaces in the commutative (classical) and noncommutative (nonclassical) settings. Examples and theorems on these spaces are stated. Then main theorem in this thesis is that decomposable plane curves (curves of the form f(y) = g(x)) of degree less than or equal to five are quantum homogeneous spaces. In order to prove this, we construct two new families of Hopf algebras, A(x; a; g) and A(g; f). Then we use Bergman’s Diamond lemma to prove that A(g; f) is faithfully flat over the coordinate ring of f(y) = g(x). These new Hopf algebras that we have discovered have nice properties when deg(g); deg(f) B 3. The properties include being noetherian domains, finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimensions, AS-regular and finite modules over their centres. We derive these properties from the isomorphism between A(x; a; g) and well studied algebras, the localised quantum plane and down-up algebras [7] when deg(g) = 2; 3.
title: InP-based semiconductor lasers with novel sampled Bragg gratings and applications
Creators: name: Tang, Song
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Semiconductor lasers, sampled Bragg gratings, distributed feedback, terahertz waves.

description: Semiconductor diode lasers have a wide variety of applications in optical communications, spectroscopy and imaging. This thesis reports on work to produce novel semiconductor diode lasers, and expand their application areas. Semiconductor lasers designed and fabricated in this work are based on quantum well structures operating at 1550 nm. Three main findings are reported in this thesis. The first finding is about distributed feedback semiconductor lasers and laser arrays based on novel sampled Bragg grating structures. These semiconductor lasers have enhanced effective coupling coefficients compared to distributed feedback lasers based on the conventional sampled Bragg grating structure. The effective coupling coefficient of the conventional sampled Bragg grating is only about 0.32 times of a uniform Bragg grating. However, based on novel sampled Bragg grating structures, the effective coupling coefficients can be up to 0.9 times of a uniform Bragg grating. An eight-wavelength distributed feedback semiconductor laser array is reported, which has a precise wavelength separation of 100 GHz at 1550 nm. 10 mW of output optical power was achieved by a single diode laser. The second finding regards a novel dual-mode semiconductor diode laser based on a single cavity. The dual wavelengths of this laser are lasing stably with a wavelength separation of 4.45 nm. Based on this dual-mode diode laser, a THz frequency of 560 GHz is generated based on the photomixing technique. The third finding of this thesis is about THz repetition frequency mode-locked semiconductor lasers. The mode-locked semiconductor lasers are based on novel sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector structures. Compared to the mode-locked laser based on the conventional sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector structure, the effective coupling coefficient is increased by more than a factor of three in the new mode-locked laser. Optical pulses at repetition frequencies of 620 GHz and 1 THz are generated based on the mode-locked diode laser. Design, fabrication and characterisation of these semiconductor lasers are introduced in detail in this thesis.
title: Persisting disability after head injury in juvenile prisoners and Clinical research portfolio
Creators: name: McVean, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Juvenile prisoners, head injury, disability.

description: Background: The prevalence of head injury (HI) in juvenile offenders is estimated to be 30%, however no studies report disability after HI in prisoners. Furthermore, a recent Doctoral thesis found that adult offenders with a history of moderate-severe HI were more likely to experience disability, cognitive impairment, and anxiety than those with a mild HI history. Aims: To explore disability, health-related outcomes and offence characteristics associated with HI in juvenile prisoners in Scotland. Methods: HI, mental health, trauma, substance use, cognitive function and offending history were assessed in 78 male juvenile prisoners in HMYOI Polmont. Results: Compared with No/Mild HI, Multiple HI (as defined by the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method) was associated with greater substance use, poorer mental health, slower information processing, more violent convictions and prison incidents. Disability and self-report of dysexecutive functioning were associated with Multiple HI in univariate analysis. Regression indicated that a PTSD screening score and not HI group, ADHD, problematic alcohol/drug use, adverse childhood experiences, age or education predicted outcomes. Conclusions: Multiple HI was highly prevalent in juvenile prisoners and had associations with disability, dysexecutive difficulties and offence characteristics. A PTSD screening score was the only significant predictor of disability and dysexecutive difficulties. Those who score above the cut-off on the PTSD screening tool may not be referring to PTSD symptoms alone; clinical interview would be required for PTSD diagnosis. Staff working with juvenile prisoners should be aware of the impact of HI and trauma on their health and offending risk.
title: Jakob Bosshart
title: [1862-1924]
titleType: Subtitle
title: ein Nachruf
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zollinger, Max
Publisher: name: [Huber & Co.]
Year: 1924
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Bosshart, Jakob

description: Enth.: Jakob Bosshart von Robert Faesi ; Das Kornfeld von Jakob Bosshart ; Zu Jakob Bossharts 60. Geburtstag ; Die Werke Jakob Bossharts ; Bestellzettel
Scale dependence in habitat selection: the case of the endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the Cantabrian Range (NW Spain)
Creators: name: Sánchez, María C. Mateo
name: Cushman, Samuel A.
name: Saura, Santiago
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Animals select habitat resources at multiple spatial scales. Thus, explicit attention to scale dependency in species–habitat relationships is critical to understand the habitat suitability patterns as perceived by organisms in complex landscapes. Identification of the scales at which particular environmental variables influence habitat selection may be as important as the selection of variables themselves. In this study, we combined bivariate scaling and Maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling to investigate multiscale habitat selection of endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations in northwest Spain. Bivariate scaling showed that the strength of apparent habitat relationships was highly sensitive to the scale at which predictor variables are evaluated. Maxent models on the optimal scale for each variable suggested that landscape composition together with human disturbances was dominant drivers of bear habitat selection, while habitat configuration and edge effects were substantially less influential. We found that explicitly optimizing the scale of habitat suitability models considerably improved single-scale modeling in terms of model performance and spatial prediction. We found that patterns of brown bear habitat suitability represent the cumulative influence of habitat selection across a broad range of scales, from local resources within habitat patches to the landscape composition at broader spatial scales.
Additional file 4: Table S3. of Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to serum anti-Müllerian hormone and inhibin B levels among women from a fertility center: a retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Du, Yao-Yao
name: Guo, Na
name: Wang, Yi-Xin
name: Hua, Xiang
name: Deng, Tao-Ran
name: Teng, Xue-Mei
name: Yao, Yang-Cheng
name: Li, Yu-Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Adjusted odds ratios (95% CI) for polycystic ovarian morphology (PCOM) and diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) by urinary phthalate metabolites (n = 415). (DOCX 15 kb)
title: Is it ever about the money? Remedies, compensation and shared international responsibility before the ICJ and beyond
Creators: name: Methymaki, Eleni
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: international law, international responsibility, dispute settlement, shared responsibility, remedies, reparations, International Court of Justice.

description: The present thesis examines how the obligation to make reparation is allocated among multiple responsible actors before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and beyond. It starts from an analysis of the applicable rules and principles on the obligation to make reparation and the law of remedies in international law and before various judicial institutions. It then turns to the various typologies of cases involving multiple responsible actors as well as to an examination of the principle of joint and several responsibility. Finally, it inquires how the ICJ (primarily) and other international courts and tribunals have dealt with such cases in their broader jurisdictional context and taking into consideration their approach to remedies generally.
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Creators: name: Le Braz, Anatole
name: Le Braz, Anatole (1859-1926)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

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title: Meningoencephalomyelitis of unknown origin in dogs: investigation on potential cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and description of breed specific findings in retrievers
Creators: name: Lazzerini, Kali Tulle
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: meningoencephalitis of unknown origin, cytokines, dog, brain, inflammation, retriever, cerebrospinal fluid, magnetic resonance imaging.

description: Meningoencephalomyelitis of Unknown Origin (MUO) is a non-infectious inflammatory disease of the central nervous system which is probably partially caused by an immune system dysfunction. The complexity of this disease still challenges clinicians and researchers alike: a multidisciplinary approach combining clinical and molecular research may be the key not only to the elucidation of its pathogenesis, but also to improved diagnostic techniques and the development of new treatment strategies. The search for potential cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in MUO has shown that that the concentrations of some chemokines are higher in cerebrospinal fluid of dogs with this condition. In particular, one interesting candidate, the chemokine Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 was determined using multiplex array, but could not be confirmed using other methods because of methodological issues. This study highlighted several severe limitations we are faced within the study of MUO. One of the limiting factors of this approach is the marked variability in disease phenotypes. The description of this disease in Retriever dogs showed that they presented more commonly than other large and small breed dogs with vestibular signs and abnormal mentation, but rarely with seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed extensive diffuse, bilateral asymmetrical, hyperintense to grey matter intra-axial lesions on T2-weighted sequences with ill-defined margins and an overall heterogeneous “patchy” appearance, with lesions involving the diencephalon and extending to the brainstem. This characteristic lesion pattern was different from the pattern in other small and large-breed dogs. Molecular studies might determine whether a genuine breed-related variation is present, which could provide researchers with a more homogeneous study population.
Dynamic recrystallization of pure copper and copper-tin alloys
Creators: name: Cram, Darren Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A physically-based model for discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) in metals is developed using a mean field approach. It couples together polyphase plasticity, grain growth and nucleation models to predict the macroscopic stress and grain size evolution during thermomechanical processing. A new nucleation model is developed based on a recent description for static recrystallization which considers an evolving microstructure. Hot compression experiments are performed for pure Cu and a series of Cu-Sn alloys (Cu-0.2Sn, Cu-2Sn and Cu-5Sn (wt%)) to test the effect of solute in solution on DRX for a range of temperatures (725K - 975K) and strain-rates (0.001s^-1 - 0.2s^-1) to a strain of 1. The macroscopic stress response during straining was recorded by a hydraulic Instron and the resulting microstructures were examined by optical microscopy and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) maps. Solute additions are shown to significantly refine the DRX grain size. Sn additions exhibit a non-monotonic effect in composition on DRX which is suggested to be caused by the different antagonistic effects Sn has on the elementary processes of strain-hardening, nucleation and grain growth during DRX. The DRX model applied to pure Cu was able to predict the experimentally observed trends such as the critical strain for DRX initiation, single to multi-peak stress transition, convergence towards a steady-state stress and the DRX grain size as a function of temperature, strain-rate and initial grain size. The model reveals an evolving DRX nucleation rate as a function of strain, and agrees with experimental estimates that it generally increases with increasing strain-rate and decreasing temperature. The model was then systematically extended to include the effects of Sn additions in Cu over different hot-working conditions and Sn concentrations. It was found that Sn must play a significant role to suppress the micro-mechanisms that govern nucleation. With Sn, the model was able to capture the experimental trends such as the stress peak broadening, transition from multi to single-peak stress behaviour and grain refinement. It is envisaged that this model in the future may be used to identify new optimum solutions in alloy design and processing schedules to most effectively refine the grain structure via DRX.
Additional file 5: Table S4. of Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to serum anti-Müllerian hormone and inhibin B levels among women from a fertility center: a retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Du, Yao-Yao
name: Guo, Na
name: Wang, Yi-Xin
name: Hua, Xiang
name: Deng, Tao-Ran
name: Teng, Xue-Mei
name: Yao, Yang-Cheng
name: Li, Yu-Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Associations between urinary phthalate metabolites and AFC in multivariable generalized linear models (n = 415). (DOCX 14 kb)
Principal Doctrines of Epicurus
Creators: name: Ajvazi, Irfan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220210 History of Philosophy

description: Epicurean philosophy, as Epicurus's teachings became known, was used as the basis for how the community lived and worked. At the time, founding a school and teaching a community of students was the main way philosophical ideas were developed and transmitted. Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BCE), for instance, founded a school in Athens called the Lyceum. Epicurus and his disciples believed either there were no gods or, if there were, the gods were so remote from humans that they were not worth worrying about. Similarly, humans would not have to worry about the afterlife. Instead, humans should live by maximizing their pleasure. The highest pleasure was to be found in the absence of pain. Epicurus taught that humans could maximize their pleasure by living simply and enjoying those impulses that are natural to humans. These impulses include the need to eat and the desire for good friends and company. The Principal Doctrines are 40 statements outlining the basis for the beliefs of Epicurus and his followers about how to lead a good life. Epicurus's other philosophical beliefs (such as his belief that existence was composed of indivisible particles called atoms) are expressed in other writings. Almost none of Epicurus's original writings survive to the present day. His works, including the Principal Doctrines, are known to us because of the work of later writers. In the 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laërtius reproduced Epicurus's writings in Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers. Produced centuries after Epicurus's death, such collections may not be Epicurus's precise words or formulations. The Principal Doctrines should thus be regarded as the core principles not only of Epicurus but also of his followers, the Epicureans.
Additional file 7: of Evolutionary and expression analyses of soybean basic Leucine zipper transcription factor family
Creators: name: Zhang, Man
name: Liu, Yanhui
name: Shi, Hang
name: Guo, Mingliang
name: Chai, Mengnan
name: He, Qing
name: Yan, Maokai
name: Cao, Du
name: Zhao, Lihua
name: Cai, Hanyang
name: Qin, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. 20 conserved motifs and functions of some motifs. (DOCX 720 kb)
Progress towards helium beam microscopy: focusing using optical potentials
Creators: name: Schofield, Naomi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Neutral Helium atoms have significant potential for use as a probe in a matter-wave microscope. Their low energy scattering interactions with surfaces are well understood within the field of Helium Atom Scattering, where they have been shown to be sensitive to the presence of adsorbates, surface phonons and metalisation of surfaces. A focused probe of neutral Helium atoms could exploit this sensitivity and provide spatially resolved information for surfaces when scanned in two dimensions, thereby realising a Scanning Helium Microscope (SHeM). The ultimate resolution of a SHeM is set by the size of the Helium focus, and is ultimately limited by the sub-angstrom de Broglie wavelength of thermal Helium atoms. This thesis describes progress towards the demonstration of a SHeM using optical potential lenses to focus ground state neutral Helium atoms. The AC Stark effect is exploited to create an optical potential lens to focus a supersonic Helium beam. This is the first experimental demonstration of neutral Helium focusing using far off resonant fields. In addition, a high efficiency detection scheme for neutral Helium atoms (50%) using multiphoton ionisation is developed for use in SHeM. This represents a significant improvement on the very poor efficiency of electron bombardment detection schemes commonly used in Helium experiments. This detection scheme offers potentially sub-micron spatial resolution, and nanosecond temporal resolution.
Markov decision process based vertical handoff management in heterogeneous wireless networks
Creators: name: Sharna, Shusmita Anwar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Vertical handoff management is a very complex process in heterogeneous wireless environment. Maximization of user satisfaction often conflicts with the capitalization of network utilization as native users face increased competitions from the foreign users to access limited radio resources of a network and, more importantly, multiple networks compete to serve the same user pool. This thesis exploits these competitions to develop an efficient vertical handoff management system in heterogeneous wireless environment using a powerful modelling tool named, Markov decision process. A new vertical handoff decision algorithm is developed with novel competition-sensitive reward function formulation, which outperforms the existing algorithm in terms of improved expected values of QoS parameters such as bandwidth, delay, and jitter. A novel weight estimation technique is then defined, which can adaptively control the width of the spanning of estimated weights, to provide the ultimate flexibility for users to control the effective range of QoS parameters. Vertical handoff management should not be considered in isolation as the impact of call admission control policy’s priorities to new, vertical handoff, and horizontal handoff calls is significant in the long run for maximizing user satisfaction. A network-centric Markov decision process based call admission control scheme is developed for multi-class traffic to analytically model the expected call dropping rates of vertical and horizontal handoff calls of a network. According to the model, these rates are primarily influenced by the priorities assigned by a network to different types of calls. In order to provide an effective feedback mechanism to the competing networks so that their priorities can be adaptively adjusted accordingly, the reward function of mobile-centric vertical handoff decision algorithm is further refined by considering the effect of call dropping rates of vertical and horizontal handoff calls on long-term user satisfaction. This is the first successful step in designing an integrated vertical handoff management system capable of significantly improving user satisfaction and widening the span of QoS operability, while concomitantly allowing networks to adapt call admission control policies to optimize network utilization.
title: Modelling an in vitro haematopoietic stem cell niche using poly (ethyl acrylate) surfaces
Creators: name: Sweeten, Paula Emily
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesenchymal stem cells, stem cells, haematopoietic stem cells, HSC niche, bone marrow, niche.

description: Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are multipotent stem cells with the capacity to either self-renew or differentiate into oligolineage progenitor cells, and then mature blood cells. HSCs have a diverse range of medical applications, and HSC transplantation can be used to cure certain types of blood cancer including leukaemia and lymphoma. However, current cell culture techniques do not allow for the long-term culture of HSCs, and have restricted the extent to which HSCs numbers can be expanded in the laboratory. Thus, it is necessary to develop culturing techniques that allow for long-term culture and expansion of HSC numbers in the lab. HSCs reside in the bone marrow alongside a second type of multipotent stem cell termed mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Both cell types exist in a unique microenvironment called ‘the niche’, which is responsible for regulating differentiation, proliferation and maintenance of these stem cells. It is understood that MSCs associate with HSCs in the niche, and support maintenance of the HSC phenotype by expressing HSC maintenance factor transcripts. Consequently, developing niche models featuring MSCs has been the focus of recent research aimed at achieving the long-term culture of HSCs. Many recent studies have focused on incorporating the use of MSCs and soluble growth factors in the media of MSC/HSC co-cultures to promote the long-term culture of HSCs. However, the high concentrations of media growth factors required to elicit responses in HSC long-term repopulating abilities are costly and have been shown to cause off-target effects. Use of substrate-bound growth factors can induce sustained signalling, meaning reduced quantities of growth factors can elicit similar responses in a more-effective way. This study has focused on the development of a 3D in vitro bone marrow niche system, utilising a range of novel biomaterials including: a substrate composed of poly (ethyl acrylate) (PEA) substrate and fibronectin; a combination of substrate-bound growth factors; a monolayer of MSCs; a type I collagen gel capable of mimicking the elastic properties of the niche and a media capable of supporting an MSC/HSC co-culture. Results show the potential of this system to maintain a greater number of HSCs in their stem cell state, relative to controls.
Random Abstract Cell Complexes
Creators: name: Hoppe, Josef
name: Schaub, Michael Thomas
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)

description: 21 Seiten (2024). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.01999
Additional file 5: of Divergence and evolution of cotton bHLH proteins from diploid to allotetraploid
Creators: name: Liu, Bingliang
name: Guan, Xueying
name: Liang, Wenhua
name: Chen, Jiedan
name: Fang, Lei
name: Hu, Yan
name: Guo, Wangzhen
name: Rong, Junkang
name: Xu, Guohua
name: Zhang, Tianzhen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: NJ phylogenetic tree of the cotton bHLH members. This tree shows the subfamilies, the predicted DNA-binding activities and the intron distribution pattern. (PDF 73Â kb)
Additional file 10: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Annual precipitation in NHAR for the period 1 January 1980 to 31 December 2013 and number of cases of CE and AE for the period 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2013. (DOCX 119 kb)
MAIN ASPECTS OF THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN COERCIVE MEASURES BY INTERNAL AFFAIRS BODIES
Creators: name: Azizov, Elbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article provides insights on the application of certain administrative coercive measures by internal affairs bodies. It also concludes that coercive measures are an important tool for increasing the effectiveness of the state's law enforcement activities, and classifies and characterizes the applied coercive measures.
Additional file 6: of Divergence and evolution of cotton bHLH proteins from diploid to allotetraploid
Creators: name: Liu, Bingliang
name: Guan, Xueying
name: Liang, Wenhua
name: Chen, Jiedan
name: Fang, Lei
name: Hu, Yan
name: Guo, Wangzhen
name: Rong, Junkang
name: Xu, Guohua
name: Zhang, Tianzhen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: NJ phylogenetic tree of the bHLH members in cotton and other species. (PDF 623Â kb)
Low oxidation state group 13 element(I) heterocycles and amides: syntheses and reactivity studies
Creators: name: Dange, Deepak Sadashiv
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is mainly concerned with investigations into the synthesis and reactivity of the five membered group 13 element(I) N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) analogues, [:Ga(DAB*)]-, (DAB* = {N(Ar*)C(H)}2, Ar* = C6H2{C(H)Ph2}2Me-2,6,4) and [:B(DAB)]-, (DAB = {N(Dip)C(H)}2, Dip = C6H3Pri2-2,6). The preparation of series of monomeric group 13 metal(I) amide complexes, e.g. [ML'] (M = Ga, In or Tl; L' = N(Ar*)(SiMe3)), was also investigated. Work carried out in these areas is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to sub-valent group 13 chemistry, with an emphasis on syntheses and coordination chemistry of group 13 metal(I) N-heterocyclic carbene analogues. Chapter 2 summarizes the high yield synthesis of a new, extremely bulky anionic gallium(I) N-heterocyclic carbene analogue, [(DAB*)Ga:]-. The gallium(I) heterocycle has been utilised in the prepa-rations the heteroleptic zinc and cadmium gallyl complexes. Further investigations into the reactivity of [:Ga(DAB)]- towards groups 4 and 14 metal precursors is also discussed, and the first structurally characterized gallium-titanium bonded molecular complex is reported. Chapter 3 summarizes investigations into the reactivity of the anionic boron(I) N-heterocyclic carbene analogue, [:B(DAB)]-, towards d- and p-block element precursors. Reactions with d-block metal(II) halides have given rise to a number of novel boryl d-block metal complexes. The reactions of [:B(DAB)]- with monomeric group 13 metal(I) amides have resulted in the formation of the first examples of monomeric group 13 metal(II) radical species, [{(DAB)B}2M]• (M = Ga, In or Tl), all of which have been crystallographically characterised. Reactions of [:B(DAB)]- with amido-group 14 (II)/(IV) metal halide precursors have resulted in the first example of a two coordinate B-Ge bonded molecular compound. In addition, the first thermally stable acyclic silylene is been reported as part of a collaborative study. Chapter 4 details the preparation of a series of monomeric, one-coordinate group 13 metal(I) amides, e.g. [ML'] (M = Ga, In or Tl). The results of crystallographic studies, in combination with computational analyses, reveal that the metal centers in these compounds are one-coordinate, and do not exhibit any significant intra- or intermolecular interactions, other than their N-M linkages. One of the complexes, [InL'], represents the first example of a one-coordinate indium(I) amide. Chapter 5 describes several miscellaneous results, largely derived from attempts to prepare bulky amidinate complexes of group 13 elements, as well as the use of N-heterocyclic carbenes as ligands to synthesize d- and p-block metal complexes.
Intersubjective realities: women Dangdut performers and their lived experience in Indramayu and Jakarta, Indonesia
Creators: name: Bader, Sandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation analyses female dangdut and tarling dangdut performers’ intersubjectivities and their dispositions towards issues of Islam, sexuality and morality in contemporary West Java. I explore performers’ lived embodied experiences of being female dangdut and tarling dangdut singer-dancers and show what these experiences reveal about their dispositions on these very issues. Sexuality, morality and Islam have come to dominate public debate in Java and the sexualised performances of female dangdut performers have played an important role in these debates. Such debates and discourses are often very remote from the performers’ actual perspectives and experiences as singer-dancers. In such debates, female performers and their erotic performances have been mostly subject to conservative moralising discourses, and feminist discourses of exploitation or empowerment. These discourses, but also the existing academic literature on dangdut and its female performers, have neglected the diverse lived embodied experiences of performers and the meanings that they themselves ascribe to their participation in dangdut and tarling dangdut performances. I focus, though not exclusively, on an aspect of dangdut that brings people’s bodies together in particular performance situations that involve bodily movements and interactions in ways that appear highly transgressive to the normative gaze. I have called these situations and interactions nyawer encounters. Nyawer is a Javanese and Sundanese cultural practice usually related to wedding celebrations and circumcisions where money, rice, coins, slices of turmeric and tektek (a roll of betel vine leafs filled with the extracts of a betel nut such as lime and tannin) are thrown on the bridal couple or child. Nyawer reveals the approval and endorsement from the community toward the couple or child. In the context of dangdut performances, nyawer involves handing over or throwing money to the performing singer-dancer. Taking dangdut performances in Jakarta and the villages on Java’s north coast as locations for a situated inquiry, and using existential phenomenology as a guiding research approach, I show that it is necessary to consider the role of embodied cultural knowledge, the importance of the responsiveness of bodies to one another and dangdut’s aesthetics for an understanding of the performers’ participation and engagement in performances, and nyawer encounters in particular. I explore what role the embodied involvement of performers and dancing audience members play for the performers’ lived experiences and how bodily empathy, affect and dangdut’s aesthetics allows an understanding of dangdut’s erotic nature beyond merely moralist conservative and feminist judgments.
Additional file 11: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Township area covered by each land cover class in NHAR for the period 1 January 1980 to 31 December 2013 and number of cases of CE and AE for the period 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2013. (DOCX 208 kb)
Additional file 7: of Divergence and evolution of cotton bHLH proteins from diploid to allotetraploid
Creators: name: Liu, Bingliang
name: Guan, Xueying
name: Liang, Wenhua
name: Chen, Jiedan
name: Fang, Lei
name: Hu, Yan
name: Guo, Wangzhen
name: Rong, Junkang
name: Xu, Guohua
name: Zhang, Tianzhen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Multiple sequence alignment of the bHLH domains of the 871 members of the cotton bHLH protein family. (PDF 392Â kb)
title: The artist's intent in contemporary art: matter and process in transition
Creators: name: Quabeck, Nina
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: contemporary art, conservation, intent, authenticity

description: Few topics polarize in a way like ‘the artist intent’ appears to do. In the conservation field, where the term appears to be short-hand for a jumble of artists’ wishes, rights and responsibilities, it has percolated to the forefront of discussion time and again, with outbursts often triggered by conservation controversies, but so far, the profession has not quite come to grips with this unruly notion. Traditionally, the material object in its ‘original state’ served as the primary witness of ‘what the artist had intended’. Contemporary art-making practice, however, often makes enshrining the material object futile, so the primacy of artworks as fixed documents of the creative act can no longer be taken for granted. This thesis consequently sets out to map together changes in artistic practice and those in preservation strategies, as museum staff often actively participates in co-constructing artworks on the installation floor, performing tasks that closely fit the job description of studio assistants. Artworks created in this way are rarely totally developed ahead of time and likely require a certain period of openness and flux in which their identity forms. Thus, authenticity of artworks is no longer necessarily identified with a fixed material entity, completed at the moment they leave their creators’ hands, since artworks conceived with change or even ongoing engagement in mind are the norm rather than the exception. Consequently, artists are increasingly involved in their works’ post-accession life, but their place in the decision-making is often a topic of contention in the context of art institutions. This thesis investigates the blurry frontier of artist intent through studying how artworks’ lives unfold pre- and post-accession and how artists continue to engage with their works, which may act in ways even unexpected by the artist.
Additional file 12: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Scatterplots of number of CE cases by township against winter mean temperature at a 10-year lag. (DOCX 135 kb)