cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Strategic alignment, customer relationship management and firm performance
Creators: name: Li, Chuan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Customer relationship management, performance, strategic alignment.

description: Despite significant investment in customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, empirical research continues to question the returns from such investments, and the relationship between CRM and firm performance in substantial literature remains puzzling and inconclusive. Little effort has been made to understand the overall mechanisms operating in the CRM-firm performance relationship. The thesis aims to address this gap by building and testing a theoretical model explaining the relationship between CRM and organisational performance. Against the background of the exclusion of the strategic alignment perspective in marketing practices, this study argues that strategic alignment offers a new analytical lens that is crucial for understanding the variation of performance implications of CRM. It then identifies conceptualisations, models, and outcomes of CRM and builds a contingency-based CRM model incorporating the notion of strategic alignment. More specifically, using the theoretical guidance of CRM across Information Systems (IS), Marketing, and General Management, a range of research hypotheses are developed and tested using primary evidence from a survey of 202 UK financial services firms. Structural equation modelling techniques yield results that largely support the research hypotheses, challenge the considerable emphasis on CRM technology as the only driver of CRM capabilities, and demonstrate the important enabling role of strategic alignment. More important, this study highlights that strategic alignment moderates the relationship between CRM technology and business performance. Overall, the thesis offers several theoretical and empirical implications for the burgeoning literature on CRM and improves our understanding of its relationship with firm performance. There is a persistent call for the integration of CRM knowledge across different study areas and for updated insights into new technologies. This study models the impact of CRM on firm performance by widening understanding of CRM conceptualisation and introducing the novel concept of strategic alignment from IS literature. The importance of strategic alignment for CRM technology strategy and business strategy is revealed. In addition, the question of the empirical operationalisation of such constructs in this study as CRM technology, CRM capabilities, customer performance, and business performance deserves much scholarly attention. These findings also have strategic implications for CRM practitioners.
Specialised training on Chemsex for sexual health and alcohol and other drugs workers : a pilot
Creators: name: Stone, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: A pilot study investigating the feasibility and effectiveness of a four-week course in equipping sexual health/HIV (SHHIV) and alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers’ to provide care to men who have sex with men (MSM) engaging in chemsex (a subculture of sexualised drug use involving methamphetamine among MSM). The course was in an asynchronous, online format, hosted on a platform called Moodle Cloud.
Changes in workers’ confidence were measured using a pre- and post-course survey, and feasibility of the course format was measured using participant log-in data and post-course feedback survey. A base level of knowledge was assessed via a quiz, discussion forums and a final assignment. 13 AOD and 22 SHHIV workers initially enrolled in the course (total n= 35), of which 20 finished the course. Of the 20 who finished the course, 10 AOD and 7 SHHIV workers (total n = 17) completed both pre- and post-course surveys.
Paired t-tests were used to measure changes in confidence on surveys, 2x2 ANOVA used to explore relationship between differences in confidence scores according to worker type (AOD vs SHHIV). Scores on the quiz, assignments and qualitative data from forums used to measure participant knowledge, and log-in data and post-course feedback survey used to measure feasibility of online learning platform. Significant differences in confidence were found as well as large effect sizes post course (p= .004 - <.001, Cohen’s d= 0.823 - 1.953). Good levels of participant satisfaction with course format and changes in knowledge were seen. An in-depth, asynchronous online course is an effective way to ensure adequate knowledge of chemsex and increase the confidence of SHHIV and AOD workers in providing care to MSM engaging in chemsex. Suggestions for future research are offered.
title: Multilayer waveguide modes based analysis of 2-D photonic crystals-pertinent to modelling PCSELs
Creators: name: Li, Guangrui
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Photonic crystal, laser, waveguide modes.

description: Semiconductor lasers with the combination of characteristics such as large output power, single mode operation and good beam quality are very often desired. The photonic crystal surface emitting laser (PCSEL) has shown significant promise and has received much attention with the purpose of achieving devices with the desired characteristics. The evaluation of the resonant modes of the structure is a primary requirement in modelling PCSELs. However, conventional techniques such as PWE, CMT and FDTD are either computationally very time consuming or mathematically rather intensive. The aim of this thesis is to develop a new model for evaluating resonance of 2-D photonic crystal, pertinent to the lasing mode of PCSEL. Such aim is achieved by first studying wave characteristics of 1-D periodic structure and understanding the eigenmode and eigenfunction of both infinite and finite periodic structure. It is shown that the eigenmode of the infinite periodic structure is the Bloch mode while the eigenmode of the finite periodic structure is represented by optical tunnelling type of solution. The solutions correspond to the characteristic impedance of the periodic structure. The concept of eigenmode of finite periodic structure is then used to establish the 2-D model of photonic crystal. The essential underlying concept of the analysis procedure presented in this work is based on viewing the 2-D photonic crystal as a laterally periodic multilayer waveguide which is longitudinally segmented. Such model matches with conventional model favourably and proved to be versatile, efficient, fast (for 500×500 periods takes ~7min using laptop: 2 core at 1.70 GHz, negligible memory usage. (Compare to FDTD for 20×20 periods takes 5h using supercomputer system: 12 core, 24GB RAM). Thus, the model has the potential of generating more comprehensive models of photonic crystal based devices. Experimental work including fabrication, characterisation further proved the validity of the model. PCSEL with external reflection is experimental studied. It is shown that the lasing characteristics can be modified through introduced external reflection.
Development of a fine-scale salinity model for the Avon Heathcote Estuary Ihutai
Creators: name: Orchard, Shane
name: Measures, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50211 Wildlife and Habitat Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: 40402 Geodynamics
subject: Hydrology
subject: Environmental Science

description: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12776.26889
The focus of this study is on understanding salinity changes in the vicinity of the freshwater-saltwater interface in estuarine ecosystems. In these areas, species, habitats and ecosystems that are adapted to brackish conditions are expected to migrate in response to salinity changes under sea level rise. For the Avon Heathcote Estuary in Christchurch, an existing fine scale hydrodynamic model was available but not calibrated for salinity. A collaborative project was designed between the University of Canterbury and NIWA to calibrate the model and develop a scenario modelling approach for sea level rise at a level of resolution sufficient for understanding potential effects on important habitats. The purpose of this report is to provide a description of the model development process and an illustration of model outputs from an initial set of modelled scenarios for sea level rise.
title: In vitro studies on the recognition of NF-κB p65 subunit by the deubiquitinase enzyme USP7
Creators: name: Mitxitorena, Izaskun
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: NF-κB, p65, USP7, ubiquitination, interaction, structure.

description: Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) transcription factor family plays a key role in the regulation of the immune response and the transcriptional response to infection through transcriptional activation of genes involved in those processes. The NF-κB response is regulated in the nucleus by the balance between ubiquitination and deubiquitination processes. Ubiquitination of the p65 subunit of NF-κB terminates the NF-κB response by targeting p65 for proteasomal degradation. Nevertheless, the ubiquitin molecules can be removed from targeted proteins by the action of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) is a deubiquitinase enzyme from the ubiquitin-specific protease (USP) family which deubiquitinates p65. Besides p65 deubiquitination, USP7 is involved in a huge variety of biological processes due to stabilisation or localisation of proteins involved in those processes. USP7 is a multidomain protein formed by an N-terminal Meprin and tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated factor homology (MATH) / tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated factor (TRAF) domain, a catalytic domain (CD) and five ubiquitin-like domains (UBLs) in the C-terminal region. p65 recognition by USP7 takes place through the C-terminal region, but the molecular determinants involved in the interaction are still unknown. New therapeutic compound design strategies are based on interrupting the interaction interface between both proteins involved in the interaction. Therefore, in order to design a specific inhibitor of the deubiquitinase activity of USP7 on p65 we performed a peptide array and subsequent alanine scan followed by site directed mutagenesis experiments. We concluded that UBL2 of USP7 is necessary for the interaction with p65. UBL2 deletion completely abolishes the interaction and the deubiquitinase activity of USP7 on p65. Specificity of this mutant was tested by immunoprecipitation assays with different USP7 substrates. In silico modelling revealed a putative binding pocket in USP7 UBL2 that may be targeted to inhibit the interaction with p65. Together our data suggest that a binding pocket present on UBL2 composed by amino-acids 627-ARSNGTK-633, 736-EEVKPNLTER-745 and 757-LDELMDGD-764 directs the interaction with p65, besides UBL2 when deleted inhibits the interaction with p65 and subsequently its deubiquitination in a substrate specific manner.
Additional file 10: 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: MP phylogenetic tree of the bHLH members in cotton and other species. (PDF 103Â kb)
Additional file 11: 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: 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: ML phylogenetic tree of the bHLH members in cotton and other species. (PDF 102Â kb)
title: A qualitative study about first year students’ experiences of transitioning to higher education and available academic support resources
Creators: name: Dane, Dawn Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: Successfully transitioning students to higher education is a complex problem that challenges institutions internationally. Unsuccessful transitions have wide ranging implications that include both social and financial impacts for students and the universities. There appears to be a paucity in the literature that represents student perspectives on their transition experiences. This research study aimed to do two things: first to better understand the transition experience and use of academic support services from the student perspective and second to provide strategies for facilitating a more effective transition experience based on student discussions. This research explores the experiences of primarily non-traditional students at one institution in Australia. Data collection involved two phases using a yarning circle approach. The first involved participants in small unstructured yarning circles where they were given the opportunity to speak freely about their transition experience and their use of academic support services. This was then followed by a larger yarning circle that was semi-structured to explore some of the themes from the small yarning circles more fully. The yarning circle data was analysed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-steps of thematic analysis. The analysis indicated that participants felt that the available academic support services did not meet their needs. It also provided insight into how the students approach higher education and what they are seeking from their institution by means of support. One major finding that has the potential to impact transition programs around the world is that older non-traditional students appear to approach higher education as they would a new job. This shifts the lens away from the traditional transition program of social integration to one that uses workplace induction strategies as a form of integration. The recommendations from this study also include recognising and accepting the emotions associated with transitioning to higher education, reworking the transition strategies for non-traditional students and facilitating opportunities for engagement as opposed to providing them directly.
title: Suspension upgrades for future gravitational wave detectors
Creators: name: Lee, Kyung Ha
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Gravitational waves, LIGO, suspension, fused silica.

description: To further increase the sensitivity of the aLIGO detectors, upgrading the monolithic fused silica suspension is considered for an upgrade option: a higher stress in the fibre and a longer final stage. One of the challenges for this upgrade will be producing thinner and longer fibres that can hold the test mass safely. Since laser power fluctuations during the fibre fabrication process can produce potentially weak fibres, we present a laser intensity stabilisation technology for fused silica fibre fabrication that was investigated to allow further improvements on fibre production consistency which could be applied to aLIGO upgrades. Fibres fabricated with this new technique showed 30% decreased standard deviation of breaking stress, which indicates that the application of intensity stabilisation technology can improve the statistical strength of fused silica fibres. Combined with a longer polishing duration, the average breaking stress also improved by 9%. As higher stress in the fibre and the longer final stage can improve the detector’s sensitivity, these enhanced technologies will enable us to fabricate thin and robust fibres that can achieve future suspension upgrade requirements.
Supplementary Text from Global patterns of synchronization in human communications
Creators: name: Morales, Alfredo J.
name: Vaibhav Vavilala
name: Benito, Rosa M.
name: Yaneer Bar-Yam
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Text
title: Language in Malawian universities: an investigation into language use and language attitudes amongst students and staff
Creators: name: Reilly, Colin
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Language policy, language-in-education, translanguaging, Malawi, higher education.

description: It has been suggested that poor and ill-fitting language policies within Africa have led to a majority of its population being unable to effectively engage with education systems within their countries (Djite 2008). Language-in-education policies in Malawi are a prime example of this as Malawi’s language planning has repeatedly been criticised and epitomises the tension between the competing positions of English and the twelve Malawian languages in the country (Kayambazinthu 1998, Moyo 2001, Breton 2003). In 2014 a new language-in-education policy was announced in Malawi, which positioned English as the sole language to be used within education. This has led to increased debate around the appropriateness of English versus Malawian languages for educational purposes (Chiwanda 2014, Gwengwe 2014, see also Miti 2015a). A key criticism of Malawi’s language-in-education policies is that they are not developed based on sociolinguistic evidence (Moyo 2001), despite claims that sociolinguistic studies can play a crucial role in the creation and implementation of successful and beneficial language policies (Kishindo 2008, Mtenje 2013). Through investigating the ways in which the languages in Malawi co-exist within higher education, this study therefore seeks to provide sociolinguistic evidence which can be used to inform the policy debate in Malawi. The sociolinguistic situation in Malawian universities is ascertained through investigating the language attitudes and patterns of language use of individuals within them. Individuals in Malawian higher education have a variety of linguistic repertoires and this study explores: how students and staff make use of their multilingual linguistic repertoires to facilitate teaching, learning, and socialising in their institutions; the attitudes of students and staff towards the suitability of particular languages within higher education; and the impact this could have on educational language policy. The study adopts a linguistic ethnographic approach with methods including: participant observation; participant recording; interviews; and focus groups. Results show that Malawian universities are multilingual environments in which translanguaging occurs in both social and academic contexts. Students and staff show strongly positive attitudes towards the use of English within higher education and generally negative attitudes towards the use of Malawian languages. However, participants also exhibit favourable attitudes towards the use of a flexible language policy which embraces the multilingual reality of students and staff within the universities and allows translanguaging practices to take place.
Carnet nº 23, commencé à Vinh (p. 13)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 29-8-1931
Chilean rut encryption using FPE: a POC in Databricks
Creators: name: Gabriel, Aillapán
name: Julio, Fenner
name: Juan, Lagos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The expansion of large-scale databases and repositories, such as Data Lakes, has amplified the need for robust data security measures, especially concerning the privacy of sensitive information. This poster introduces an innovative proof of concept (PoC) for encrypting Chilean RUTs using format-preserving encryption (FPE) in the Databricks distributed computing environment. Our prototype demonstrates a practical approach to data encryption that maintains the original data format, thus ensuring integration in Big Data ecosystems. Our findings reveal that the encryption and decryption processes, along with data download times, scale predictably with the volume of data. These performance outcomes are encouraging, showcasing the effectiveness of FPE in maintaining both security and functionality. The successful application of FPE in this context underscores its potential as a valuable tool for secure data management in large-scale environments.
Supplementary Information from Grasping with a soft glove: intrinsic impedance control in pneumatic actuators
Creators: name: P. Paoletti
name: G. W. Jones
name: L. Mahadevan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interaction of a robotic manipulator with unknown soft objects represents a significant challenge for traditional robotic platforms because of the difficulty in controlling the grasping force between a soft object and a stiff manipulator. Soft robotic actuators inspired by elephant trunks, octopus limbs and muscular hydrostats are suggestive of ways to overcome this fundamental difficulty. In particular, the large intrinsic compliance of soft manipulators such as ‘pneu-nets’—pneumatically actuated elastomeric structures—makes them ideal for applications that require interactions with an uncertain mechanical and geometrical environment. Using a simple theoretical model, we show how the geometric and material nonlinearities inherent in the passive mechanical response of such devices can be used to grasp soft objects using force control, and stiff objects using position control, without any need for active sensing or feedback control. Our study is suggestive of a general principle for designing actuators with autonomous intrinsic impedance control.
model_comparison from Grasping with a soft glove: intrinsic impedance control in pneumatic actuators
Creators: name: P. Paoletti
name: G. W. Jones
name: L. Mahadevan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interaction of a robotic manipulator with unknown soft objects represents a significant challenge for traditional robotic platforms because of the difficulty in controlling the grasping force between a soft object and a stiff manipulator. Soft robotic actuators inspired by elephant trunks, octopus limbs and muscular hydrostats are suggestive of ways to overcome this fundamental difficulty. In particular, the large intrinsic compliance of soft manipulators such as ‘pneu-nets’—pneumatically actuated elastomeric structures—makes them ideal for applications that require interactions with an uncertain mechanical and geometrical environment. Using a simple theoretical model, we show how the geometric and material nonlinearities inherent in the passive mechanical response of such devices can be used to grasp soft objects using force control, and stiff objects using position control, without any need for active sensing or feedback control. Our study is suggestive of a general principle for designing actuators with autonomous intrinsic impedance control.
title: A piazza for Pedavena in the Belluno Dolomites:  Towards recognition of an urban identity
Creators: name: Pietrogrande, Enrico
name: Dalla Caneva, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Memory, Identity, Urban form, Urban morphology.

description: The town of Pedavena is situated in the Province of Belluno not far from Venice and its redevelopment of the urban space of the piazza has been a particular subject of reflection by the local authority. The town of Pedavena was studied by a research group from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Padua. Today the urban form of this small provincial Commune is the result of the fragmentary growth of the residential urban fabric that is arranged around a more or less compact central nucleus. The meeting space of the community is presented as a place unresolved in its form, lacking precise and definable limits and crossed by the main transit routes. The streets assume the centrality and significance that has to be given to a piazza as a place to be, stay and live. The planning experience of the research group is a valid example of designing liveable civil place by interpreting the city as a unitary fact where the piazza is a place with a clear and distinct form according to an idea of the city made of interconnected spaces, each one formally different but related in rich meaningful spatial sequences possessing the civil character of the urbs.
title: Examining the donation attitude-behaviour gap in the context of celebrity-endorsed charities
Creators: name: Riahi Pour, Parichehr
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Charities, donations.

description: Current thesis advances the understanding of donation attitude-behaviour gap in the context of celebrity-endorsed charities. By integrating three research streams, including, celebrity endorsement, donating to charities, and the attitude-behaviour gap, this thesis develops and tests two models of behaviour prediction in the context of donation to celebrity-endorsed charities. It moves beyond the formation of intentions (Study 2) and empirically examines actual donation behaviours (Study 3). Present thesis adopts a sequential mixed-methods design, wherein the data was first gathered via 17 semi- structured interviews in exploratory qualitative Study 1, followed by quantitative Studies 2 and 3 which were undertaken online, utilising Facebook groups/pages and a crowdsourcing online panel. The sample size in Study 2 was 860, and 200 participants took part in Study 3. This thesis is consisting of three studies in accordance with the proposed research questions. In line with RQ1, Study 1 employed semi-structured interviews to identify the influential intervening donation, charity and celebrity-based variables. Next, Studies 2 and 3 utilised quantitative data, acquired from online questionnaires, to test the developed models with the aim of responding to RQ2. Therefore, the positive role of “Charity Trustworthiness”, “Positive Anticipated Emotions”, “Congruence”, “Celebrity’s Authenticity” and “Celebrity’s Positive Motivations” on “Donation Attitude” were supported. “Celebrity’s Negative Motivations” exposed a negative relationship with “Donation Attitude”. The positive impacts of both Celebrity “Expectancy” and “Relevancy” on “Congruence” were confirmed. The positive impacts of “Negative Anticipated Emotions”, “Social Norms” and “Self-Efficacy” and “Donation Attitude” in inducing “Donation Desire” were confirmed. “Donation Attitude” had a positive effect on “Donation Intention”. The strong positive relationship between “Donation Desire” and “Donation Intention” was also evidenced. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the positive relation between “Charity Self-Identity” and “Donation Intention” in Study 2. With respect to Study 3, it has been confirmed that “Action Controlling” positively influences both “Planning” and “Donation Behaviour”, which is in turn positively affected by “Commitment”. This thesis offers a number of theoretical and empirical contributions. It includes 15 different charity and 9 distinct celebrity categories of data, which exceeds further than most prior studies that usually investigated one or a few charity and celebrity types at most. This thesis also outlines several managerial and marketing implications for charity brands relying more than ever on a shrinking pool of individual donors, yet depending significantly on celebrities in the UK.
title: Between panegyric and history: literary representations of the Emperor Valentinian I (364-375)
Creators: name: Leslie, Joel
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Valentinian, Late Antiquity, Symmachus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, Orosius.

description: This thesis examines the literary representation of the Pannonian emperor Valentinian I (364–375) in two different types of source dated to the fourth and fifth centuries AD. More specifically, it analyses how literary sources which were contemporaneous with Valentinian’s reign (Symmachus’ imperial panegyrics; and imperial legislation) and which promoted the ‘official’ view of Valentinian’s regime, were received and interpreted in the later historical sources for the emperor’s reign (namely, Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae; and the histories of the Christian historians Tyrannius Rufinus, Paulus Orosius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret). By analysing three themes (dynastic, military and religious) which were prominent in both forms of representation, this thesis explores how and why these ‘contemporary’ and ‘historical’ representations of the emperor differed, and asks what the interaction of these sources can tell us about the literary representation of Valentinian more generally.
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to serum anti-MĂźllerian 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: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Associations between urinary phthalate metabolites and serum AMH1 in multivariable linear models stratified by age. (DOCX 17 kb)
title: Encyclopedic architectures: mathematical structures in the works of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, & David Foster Wallace
Creators: name: Taylor, Stuart J.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematics, literature, postmodern, postmodernism, DeLillo, Pynchon, Wallace, literature and science, Bourbaki, Carroll, Oulipo.

description: This study examines intersections of mathematics and literature within encyclopedic narratives by Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace. My interdisciplinary approach draws upon the case of Nicolas Bourbaki, whose ‘encyclopedic’ treatise, Éléments de mathématique, provides an important cultural touchstone for contemporary visions of mathematics as a totalised system. The pseudonym for a group of world-leading French mathematicians working in the middle of the twentieth century, Bourbaki attempted to create a definitive mathematical textbook from three foundational structures. Bourbaki’s article ‘The Architecture of Mathematics’, often considered a manifesto for the group, details three ‘great’ or ‘mother-structures’ – topological, algebraic, and ordered structures – which together encompass the entirety of mathematical activity and theory. While playing an important part in Bourbaki’s project to unify, encircle, and totalise mathematics, these structures also reveal how encyclopedic narratives utilise the figurative efficacy of mathematics to challenge such epistemological exhaustion. Though Don DeLillo’s Ratner’s Star has long been recognised as structured upon the history of mathematics, considering how this encyclopedic novel alludes to its intertexts through the figure of the Möbius strip reveals its fundamentally topological structure. The difficult equations in Gravity’s Rainbow can be seen, through the concept of algebraic structures, to model Pynchon’s metaphorical processes. Finally, Wallace’s use of enumerated endnotes in Infinite Jest complements his interest in Georg Cantor’s mathematical set theory, explicated in Everything & More: understood through ordered structures, Wallace’s hierarchical manipulation of narrative containers are revealed to be mathematically informed representations of consciousness. By regarding the topological, algebraic, and ordered structures of mathematics as modelling DeLillo, Pynchon, and Wallace’s figurative strategies – respectively, of allusion, metaphor, and representations of consciousness – the interplay between mathematics and encyclopedic narrative can be better appreciated.
EFFECTS OF QUALITY MEDICAL LABORATORY SERVICES ON WORKERS PRODUCTIVITY IN STATE HOUSE CLINIC ASO ROCK, ABUJA
Creators: name: Titus-Okpanachi, Akuchinyere Onyinyechukwu
name: Prof. Ngozi, Ejionueme
Publisher: name: AMERICA SERIEL JOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Laboratory, Medical, Productivity, Services, Workers

description: The study explored the effect of quality medical laboratory services on workers’ productivity in the State House Clinic, Abuja. The study defined some research objectives, questions, and hypotheses. Data was collected through primary and secondary sources. The study used stratified random sampling as the study population was not homogeneous, as it consisted of 29 Doctors, 17 Nurses, 18 Clinical Officers, 14 Laboratory Scientists/Technicians, and 12 Pharmacists, making it the most appropriate sample to come up with the target sample. Data collected were analyzed using the normal frequencies, percentage, and chi-square test. Results showed that Employees’ capacity influences the provision of quality medical laboratory services in State House Clinic, Abuja (X2=60.6>x2 =9.488). The adoption of technology has a significant effect on quality medical laboratory service delivery in the State House Clinic Abuja (X2=57.3>x2 =9.488). The study concluded that quality medical laboratory services have a great effect on workers’ productivity. The study recommended government comprehensively address all the issues of concern in the public health sector.  Quality indicators in laboratory medicine that can evaluate and improve the health care system should be initiated.
pkcurves_d from Grasping with a soft glove: intrinsic impedance control in pneumatic actuators
Creators: name: P. Paoletti
name: G. W. Jones
name: L. Mahadevan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interaction of a robotic manipulator with unknown soft objects represents a significant challenge for traditional robotic platforms because of the difficulty in controlling the grasping force between a soft object and a stiff manipulator. Soft robotic actuators inspired by elephant trunks, octopus limbs and muscular hydrostats are suggestive of ways to overcome this fundamental difficulty. In particular, the large intrinsic compliance of soft manipulators such as ‘pneu-nets’—pneumatically actuated elastomeric structures—makes them ideal for applications that require interactions with an uncertain mechanical and geometrical environment. Using a simple theoretical model, we show how the geometric and material nonlinearities inherent in the passive mechanical response of such devices can be used to grasp soft objects using force control, and stiff objects using position control, without any need for active sensing or feedback control. Our study is suggestive of a general principle for designing actuators with autonomous intrinsic impedance control.
title: Rights and virtues: the groundwork of a virtue-based theory of rights
Creators: name: Micka, Ondřej
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rights, virtues, social roles, normative ethics, legal philosophy, political philosophy.

description: The dissertation investigates whether virtue ethics can provide the normative ground for the justification of rights. Most justificatory accounts of rights consist in different explanations of the function(s) of rights. On the view I will defend, rights have a plurality of functions and one of the main functions of rights is to make the right-holder more virtuous. The idea that the possession of rights leads to the development of virtues, called the function of virtue acquisition, is the core of a virtue-based justification of rights elaborated in this dissertation. Based on Leif Wenar’s Kind-Desire Theory of rights and Nancy E. Snow’s Minimal Virtue of the Folk, I argue that there are two general types of rights, enabling rights and protective rights, and that both types are essential to the development of virtues. Enabling rights have the function of virtue acquisition because they allow the right-holder to strive for approximation of ideal role models while performing duties and other tasks. Such models are called heuristic models of virtues for they define what virtues are and how these virtues should be expressed in action. Some protective rights, namely promissory rights and the power-right to promise, behave like enabling rights when it comes to their ability to develop virtues. Other protective rights, especially children’s rights, make right-holders more virtues via protecting their essential needs. The dissertation succeeds in elaborating the virtue-based justification of many rights, hence it suggests that people hold and should have rights because rights make them better people.
title: Accounting conceptual frameworks and metaphors of vision
Creators: name: Taylor, Ryan Campbell
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Vision, metaphor, accounting conceptual frameworks.

description: The aim of the research was to analyze the evolving particularly subconscious conceptual metaphor in Western society: Vision as Knowledge amidst the post-modern turn. This is done in a selection of accounting conceptual frameworks from 1978 to 2015. The motivation for analysis was first to discover what visual knowledge was like in accounting conceptual frameworks. Vision is a metaphor that functions largely unrecognizably in accounting, as well as other, discourse (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, 1999, Sweetser, 1990, Gibbs, 2017). By isolating these sunk vision metaphors, the thesis attempted to see if the metaphor, vision as objective knowledge, had altered amidst the postmodern turn. Since the research approach here is a corpus analysis of submerged vision metaphors in conceptual frameworks, the methodology employed sought to isolate, select, and categorize vision metaphors in a longitudinal study of conceptual frameworks over the periods of 1978 to 2015. The thesis’s contribution concerns the submerged character of vision metaphor that pervades everyday language. Vision is largely unrecognizable as a metaphor for conceptualizing objective knowledge in Western society. And so, in order to understand vision metaphor’s transition from modernity to postmodernity and what this may mean in relation to accounting knowledge, a method is used to extract vision metaphors. A method is developed to study vision periodically in order to study how accounting regulation has evolved metaphorically over the last few decades. The results from the thesis demonstrates that vision as knowledge is conceptualized differently over time in accounting conceptual frameworks. From an absolute viewing perspective concerning the mind (Vision as Mind) where primacy is attributed to the intellect, to a much more embodied, human, situated perspective, the thesis informs the construction of vision as knowledge in terms of the body (Vision as Body). What the implications of this shift may mean for accounting is discussed later in the thesis. The thesis follows a conventional structure. It begins with a review of the accounting literature, followed by a theoretical overview, and an exploration of the empirical site that is chosen for such an analysis. A methodology and methods chapter follows, and then finally a key findings and related discussion chapter is provided. To recapitulate, the main aim of the thesis is to understand the transformation of the Vision as Knowledge metaphor over the period of conceptual frameworks chosen in this study. The main findings from the thesis is that the Vision as Knowledge metaphor has typological frames in accounting conceptual frameworks, which shows the gradual deconstruction of a strong representational mode of thinking in accounting regulation overall.
Additional file 3: Table S2. of Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to serum anti-MĂźllerian 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: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Associations between urinary phthalate metabolites and serum INHB1 in multivariable linear models stratified by age. (DOCX 18 kb)
title: Molecular tools for the study of protein levels in the central nervous system: focus on PAR2 and MeCP2
Creators: name: Minchella, Daniela
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular cloning, viral gene delivery, fusion proteins, central nervous system, PAR2, MeCP2.

description: Molecular cloning and viral gene delivery of fusion proteins are powerful tools to elucidate the role and regulation of proteins within the central nervous system. The present study focused on two such proteins, the transmembrane receptor PAR2 and the nuclear epigenetic regulator MeCP2.
title: Development of AlGaInSb multi quantum-well light emitting diodes in the 3-5 μm spectral range
Creators: name: Reza, Manuel
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: antimonide, infrared, mid-wave infrared, multiple quantum well, light emitting diode, LED, dry-etching, gas sensing, carbon dioxide, CO2.

description: Antimonide alloys are promising semiconductors for the realisation of optoelectronic devices in the mid-infrared range from 3 to 5 μm. The interest in this wavelength range stems from the presence of strong and unique absorption fingerprints of various gas species, making it ideal for remote sensing. Compared to the traditional thermal components used in Non-Dispersive Infrared (NDIR) carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors, antimonide semiconductor technology offers a very interesting alternative for the development of CO2 gas sensors with lower power consumption, faster response time, and higher selectivity to the gas species. The main goal of this Ph.D. project, supported by an EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship with Gas Sensing Solutions (GSS) Ltd. was to decrease the power consumption and increase the sensitivity of the carbon dioxide gas sensors currently produced by GSS, limited by the low output power and wall-plug efficiency of the Light Emitting Diode (LED) device. After identifying the intrinsic limitations that cause poor device internal quantum efficiency, a novel LED Multi-Quantum Wells (MQWs) active region design comprising aluminium gallium indium antimonide (AlGaInSb) alloys was investigated. This epilayer design demonstrated a peak emission wavelength of 4.3 μm, corresponding to the CO2 peak absorption fingerprint, with more than six times brightness and four times electrical power efficiency compared to the AlInSb LED design used by GSS. Alongside the MQW design, a thorough optimisation of the whole fabrication process was also carried out with a focus on the development of a robust dry etching process for antimonide alloys, which resulted in smooth surfaces, uniform etch rates for a large range of different alloy compositions and controllable angles of the etched sidewall slope profiles. The latter feature is of great interest for the future development of LED and photodiode devices because 40°-sloped sidewalls offer a two-fold improvement in light extraction or collection efficiency and a far better directivity when mounted on a flip-chip configuration.
annularsector from Grasping with a soft glove: intrinsic impedance control in pneumatic actuators
Creators: name: P. Paoletti
name: G. W. Jones
name: L. Mahadevan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interaction of a robotic manipulator with unknown soft objects represents a significant challenge for traditional robotic platforms because of the difficulty in controlling the grasping force between a soft object and a stiff manipulator. Soft robotic actuators inspired by elephant trunks, octopus limbs and muscular hydrostats are suggestive of ways to overcome this fundamental difficulty. In particular, the large intrinsic compliance of soft manipulators such as ‘pneu-nets’—pneumatically actuated elastomeric structures—makes them ideal for applications that require interactions with an uncertain mechanical and geometrical environment. Using a simple theoretical model, we show how the geometric and material nonlinearities inherent in the passive mechanical response of such devices can be used to grasp soft objects using force control, and stiff objects using position control, without any need for active sensing or feedback control. Our study is suggestive of a general principle for designing actuators with autonomous intrinsic impedance control.
The Nexus between Semantics and Pragmatics
Creators: name: Samira A. G.
name: Acheoah J. E.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Language (vocal symbols) is a major instrument of communication. Both in theory and practice, fields of language study evolve to capture areas of focus. In this regard, the basic concerns of research in semantics, and the approaches to such concerns, diverge. Semantics and pragmatics commune in the elucidation of the concept of meaning. This study investigates the nexus between semantics and pragmatics, exploring insights from the “literatures” of both fields. Early scholars of language studies investigate the communicative potentials of language, and establish that the use of language in human communication does not only reveal the nature of meaning, but also accounts for speaker-based underpinnings in the negotiation of meaning. Studies in language and linguistics acknowledge the series of connections that abound among fields of knowledge. As a field of language study, semantics is concerned with the study of meaning. On the other hand, pragmatics explains the context-based use and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal elements of communication. Hinging on Ogden and Richards Theory of Meaning, this study concludes that the nexus between semantics and pragmatics is established in discrete aspects which include: reference-making, felicity and truth condition, cross-cultural dimensions of meaning, plurality of meaning, uptake, perlocution, sentential and extra-sentential features of meaning.