cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Management practices in Australian local government
Creators: name: Kloot, Louise
name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been considerable reform in the Australian public sector to bring it into line with 'New public management' (NPM) principles. Implementing such reform successfully requires the use of new management practices. This Australia-wide study identifies the incidence of contemporary management practices in local government which are consistent with NPM, and examines differences which may occur due to the different geographical locations of local government. The results suggest the tyranny of distance impacts on rural and remote councils. which have a lower take up rate of contemporary practices. Further. people management practices are more important to local governments than other more 'efficiency' oriented practices.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Distichophyllia Cuif 1975
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia

description: Distichophyllia? sp.
(Fig. 43)
Distichophyllia sp. 4? – Vasseur 2018: 182-183, fig. 3.32.
STUDIED SAMPLES. — Three specimens: CPUN AM16177-5, CPUN AM16177-9, CPUNAML8-1. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Amellagou and Dades Valley (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Solitary, probably conical corallum, subcircular. Radial elements are bicuneiform costosepta for the first orders, thin for the last ones, often in zigzag and organized in 3 size orders following a relatively strict hexameral symmetry. Septa are compact, free, ornamented with granules sometimes attenuated by stereome layer deposits on lateral faces. No columella but an axial fossa sometimes elongated that thus defines a bilateral symmetry. Endotheca probably made of peripheral dissepiments but not observed. Wall probably parathecal. An epicostal epitheca s.l. seems to cover the external parts of the corallum.
Calicular diameter: 15 to 17.8 mm – Number of septa: approximately 30 - 35 – Septal density: 3 per 2 mm.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Differs from previously reported species of Distichophyllia by a more circular shape in transverse section, smaller diameter and number of septa, a thick and better defined wall. This could be a young stage of any of them.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on pages 1249-1252, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Retiophyllia sensu Roniewicz 1989
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia

description: Genus Retiophyllia sensu Roniewicz (1989)
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E67 AD 5BE-A907-4333-BE06-D1163E160A16
TYPE SPECIES. — Thecosmilia fenestrata Reuss, 1854, designated by Frech (1890: 10, pl.2, fig. 12).
REMARK
The genus is attributed to the Reimaniphylliidae rather than the Coryphylliidae on the basis of the dimensions of the structural units associated with the mid-septal zigzag line according to the table of Roniewicz & Stanley (2009: 469).
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1252, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Demystifying Energy Demand using a Practice-centric Agent-based Model
Creators: name: GILBERT, GEOFFREY NIGEL
name: Hope, Aimie
name: Narasimhan, Kavin
name: ROBERTS, THOMAS MARK
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: social practice theory
agent-based modelling
demand side management
production rule system
policy tool
Energy Consumption

description: The rational choice framework is commonly used in many energy demand models and energy economic policy models. However, the notion of reasoned decision-making underpinning the rational actor models is less useful to explain the dynamics of routine household activities (e.g., cooking, showering, heating, etc.) which result in energy use. An alternative body of work collectively referred to as social practice theories offers a more practical explanation of routines. It is also argued that practices, i.e. the routine activities that people do in the service of normal everyday living, is at the centre of social change, and hence should be the focus of interventions concerned with demand reduction. One of the main criticisms of social practice theories, however, is that the concepts proposed are high-level and abstract and hence difficult to apply to real-world problems. Most existing practice-centric models are also abstract implementations. To address this gap, in this paper, we present a concrete, empirically-based practice-centric agent-based model to simulate the dynamics of household heating practices. We also use the model to explore consumer response to a simulated price-based demand response scheme. We show how a practice-centric approach leads to a more realistic understanding of the energy use patterns of households by revealing the underlying contexts of consumption. The overall motivation is that by gaining insight into the trajectories of unsustainable energy consuming practices, it might be possible to propose alternative pathways that allow more sustainable practices to take hold.
Der Fall Agent Orange — Erstmals klagen vietnamesische Opfer in den USA
Creators: name: Hansen, Sven
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Der Vietnam-Krieg hat im US-Wahlkampf Emotionen geschürt. Dabei ging es um die Rolle von John F. Kerry. Das Leid der Vietnamesen interessierte dagegen nicht. Dabei klagen jetzt erstmals vietnamesische Agent-Orange-Opfer in den USA.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
The use of local government corporate plans in Victoria
Creators: name: Kloot, Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores the information provided by local government corporate plans in Victoria. Enhanced concepts of accountability in the public sector have resulted in greater use of Research reports, and in Victoria the state government has required local governments to publish their corporate plans. These plans demonstrate diversity in the form and content, but several themes emerge. The lack of performance targets reduces the usefulness of these plans to increase accountability. The paper also explores objectives which are of major importance to the sector. These include financial and asset management together with an emphasis on accountability, issues which were the drivers of the state government's reform agenda. Also of major importance is local economic development, which is an issue difficult to control in the local area.
Ungerahmte Welten
Creators: name: Werning, Rainer
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Charlotte Wiedemann, Die Hütte der kleinen Worte. Politische Reportagen aus Südostasien. Berlin: Edition Freitag, 2004.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
Auch Singapur hat seinen Anti-Helden lieb gewonnen — Cartoons in Asien
Creators: name: Becker, Jörg
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Comics, Karikaturen und witzige Zeichnungen, also Cartoons, leisten weder einem Analphabetentum Vorschub, noch sind sie ausschließlich Medienprodukte für Kinder, noch sind sie im Medienbusiness ökonomisch uninteressant und noch erst recht sind sie amerikanischen Ursprungs. Und so gesehen könnte man mit guten Gründen auch nach den ersten Comic-Vorläufern in Asien suchen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 20 Nr. 4 (2004): Kunst-Stücke: Kunst in Südostasien
A Dictionary of the Languages of the Archi villages, south Daghestan [Available at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/archi/linguists/index.aspx ]
Creators: name: Chumakina, M
name: Brown, D
name: Corbett, Greville G.
name: Quilliam, H
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2007

Methods
Other
Other
Other
Asienhaus-Bibliothek: Neueingänge
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Leserbriefe
Creators: name: Platz, Roland
name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Supporting off-campus students using WebCT: an example in medical ultrasound
Creators: name: Wells, Peter
name: Weaver, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Off-campus distance learning (DL) students are required to study under far less favourable conditions than their on-campus colleagues. They miss the social and educational advantages of mixing with both their fellow students and their lecturers/tutors. In order to compensate for this lack of personal interaction, academic staff involved in the conduct of DL courses need to find ways to encourage other forms of effective and efficient communication. In this paper we will describe the manner in which communication with these DL students is maintained, specifically in one unit, SON4000: Physics of Ultrasound and Instrumentation. It was decided for 2003 to use WebCT to encourage lecturer-student and student-student communication and provide support generally. We briefly describe the available WebCT tools that we have specifically chosen to use to support SON4000. We discuss the initial cost to staff in setting WebCT up for a subject like SON4000, the perceived long term benefits to the teaching staff, and most importantly, the reactions and responses of the students in accessing the WebCT site and contributing to the various communication options. A summary of the WebCT student-tracking data and the use of the mid-semester evaluation survey is presented.
title: Catalogus Realis. IX. Band 4. Zoologie.
Creators: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Systematischer Katalog
Hassiaca
Library and information sciences
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Catalogus Realis. IX. Band 4. Zoologie. - Stand: Dezember 2019. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Sonderlesesaal. - Bemerkungen: Der Katalog verzeichnet in systematisch-sachlicher Ordnung den Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg von den Anfängen bis 1957. Später erworbene ältere Literatur ist hier nicht verzeichnet. Mit Hilfe dieses Katalogs ist die Suche nach Literatur zu bestimmten Inhalten und Themen möglich. – Zur Systematik: Die Signaturen der einzelnen Bücher und Zeitschriften geben die Ordnung des Bestands wieder. Alle Signaturen beginnen mit einer römischen Zahl von I (1) bis XX (20), die das jeweilige Fach (Theologie, Geschichte, Medizin usw.) bezeichnet. Die weitere Untergliederung ergibt sich aus den nachfolgenden Kleinbuchstaben und arabischen Zahlen. Beispiel: XVIa A 117. Die Großbuchstaben A, B und C sind nicht Teil der Systematik, sondern bezeichnen das Format der betreffenden Bände: A = Folio (großformatige Bände), B = Quart (mittelgroße Bände), C = Oktav (kleinformatige Bände). - Digitalisiert 2020
description: Inhalt 7 5 Allgemeines 19 - Bibliographie, Geschichte (1300 – 1304) 18 16 - Werke älterer Zoologen (1304h – 1339) 23 - Zeitschriften (1340 – 1346) 42 40 - Veröffentlichungen von Gesellschaften etc., Festschriften, Kongresse, Sammelwerke (1347 – 1348) 79 - Gesammelte Werke einzelner Verfasser (1349 -1360) 81 77 - Einleitende u. vermischte Schriften, Classifikation u. Nomenclatura (1361 – 1368) 89 - Wörterbücher, Enzyklopädien, allgem. zoolog. Sammlungen etc. (1368 – 1370) 90 - Lehrbücher und Systeme (1371 – 1385) 95 91 Wirbellose 119 - allgemein u. mehrere genera. (1385m – 1398) 119 - Protozoa (1398d – 1404) 129 123 - Coelenterata (1404r – 1414) 131 - Echinodermata (1415 – 1421) 135 - Würmer (1422 – 1444) 141 135 - Arthropoden, Crustaceen (1445 – 1464) 151 - Archanoiden (1465 – 1533) 161 - Myrapoden, Hexapoden (Schmetterlinge, Ameisen, Bienen) (1534 – 1555) 197 189 - Mollusken (1556 – 1609) 209 Wirbeltiere (allgemein 1610 – 1622) 233 225 - Fische (1623 – 1649) 235 - Amphibien, Reptilien (1650 – 1671) 246 238 - Vögel (1671i – 1706) 269 - Säugetiere (1707 – 1745) 290 280 Tiergeographie (1746 – 1759) 306 Faunen (geographisch: Europa, Afrika, Asien, Nordamerika, Süd- u. Mittelamerika) (1760 – 1793) 323 Anatomie und Physiologie der Tiere (1794 – 1816) 343 331 Medizinische Zoologie (1816d – 1819) 378 Landwirtschaftliche Zoologie (1820 – 1852) 379 Kapsel I. und II. 406
The Unsung Benefits of Material Things : Material Purchases Provide More Frequent Momentary Happiness than Experiential Purchases
Creators: name: Weidman, Aaron C.
name: Dunn, Elizabeth W.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Although research suggests that people derive more happiness from buying life experiences than material objects, almost no studies have examined how people actually feel while consuming real-world experiential and material purchases. In the present research, we provided the first examination of people’s momentary happiness while consuming these purchases. Participants were randomly assigned to spend $20 on a material vs. experiential purchase (Study 1) or to report a material vs. experiential gift they received at Christmas (Study 2); participants in both studies reported their momentary happiness regarding these purchases over two weeks, using daily-diary (Study 1) and experience-sampling (Study 2) methodologies. Results suggest that material and experiential purchases deliver happiness in two distinct flavors: material purchases provide more frequent momentary happiness over time, whereas experiential purchases provide more intense momentary happiness on individual occasions.
title: Catalogus Realis. Band X. Abteilung 1.: Physik
Creators: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Library and information sciences
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
Systematischer Katalog
Hassiaca

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Catalogus Realis. Band X. Abteilung 1.: Physik. - Stand: Dezember 2019. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Sonderlesesaal. - Bemerkungen: Der Katalog verzeichnet in systematisch-sachlicher Ordnung den Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg von den Anfängen bis 1957. Später erworbene ältere Literatur ist hier nicht verzeichnet. Mit Hilfe dieses Katalogs ist die Suche nach Literatur zu bestimmten Inhalten und Themen möglich. – Zur Systematik: Die Signaturen der einzelnen Bücher und Zeitschriften geben die Ordnung des Bestands wieder. Alle Signaturen beginnen mit einer römischen Zahl von I (1) bis XX (20), die das jeweilige Fach (Theologie, Geschichte, Medizin usw.) bezeichnet. Die weitere Untergliederung ergibt sich aus den nachfolgenden Kleinbuchstaben und arabischen Zahlen. Beispiel: XVIa A 117. Die Großbuchstaben A, B und C sind nicht Teil der Systematik, sondern bezeichnen das Format der betreffenden Bände: A = Folio (großformatige Bände), B = Quart (mittelgroße Bände), C = Oktav (kleinformatige Bände). - Digitalisiert 2020
description: Systematische Übersicht (Abt.1 Physik und Abt.2 Chemie) 9 Bibliographie und Geschichte der Physik (1 – 44) 13 7 Werke älterer Physiker (44 – 268) 35 29 - A. - E. 35 - F. - J. 57 - K. - N. 77 - O. - S. 107 - T. - Z. 141 Allgemeine Schriften (Einleitende Schriften etc.) (269 – 273) 162 156 - Zeitschriften (274 – 294d) 176 - Hand- und Lehrbücher (307 – 341) 221 - Sammelwerke und vermischte Schriften (342 – 380) 271 Mechanik (381 – 439) 296 290 Molekularphysik (440 – 465) 357 331 Akustik (466 – 473) 454 Optik (474 – 530) 464 456 Wärmelehre (531 – 551) 529 Elektrizität (552 – 590) 545 537 Magnetismus (594 – 607) 635
title: Catalogus Realis. Band X. Abteilung 1. [Fortsetzung]: Geophysik
Creators: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Systematischer Katalog
Hassiaca
Library and information sciences
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Catalogus Realis. X. Abteilung 1. [Fortsetzung]: Geophysik . - Stand: Dezember 2019. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Sonderlesesaal. - Bemerkungen: Der Katalog verzeichnet in systematisch-sachlicher Ordnung den Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg von den Anfängen bis 1957. Später erworbene ältere Literatur ist hier nicht verzeichnet. Mit Hilfe dieses Katalogs ist die Suche nach Literatur zu bestimmten Inhalten und Themen möglich. – Zur Systematik: Die Signaturen der einzelnen Bücher und Zeitschriften geben die Ordnung des Bestands wieder. Alle Signaturen beginnen mit einer römischen Zahl von I (1) bis XX (20), die das jeweilige Fach (Theologie, Geschichte, Medizin usw.) bezeichnet. Die weitere Untergliederung ergibt sich aus den nachfolgenden Kleinbuchstaben und arabischen Zahlen. Beispiel: XVIa A 117. Die Großbuchstaben A, B und C sind nicht Teil der Systematik, sondern bezeichnen das Format der betreffenden Bände: A = Folio (großformatige Bände), B = Quart (mittelgroße Bände), C = Oktav (kleinformatige Bände). - Digitalisiert 2020
description: Inhalt 5 Physik der Erde (Geschichte, Bibliographie, Zeitschriften etc.) 16 12 - Die Erde (621 – 636) 36 32 - Das Land (637 – 650) 52 - Das Wasser (651 – 665) 72 66 - Der Weltraum (665) 92 - Die Luft (666 – 668) 97 91 - Meteorologie allgemein (669 – 701) 99 - Spezielle Meteorolgie (702 – 730) 214
A cohort study assessing the feasibility of an RCT and acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a guided brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Sleep Disturbance in Dementia
Creators: name: Smith, Melody
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: Sleep disturbance (SDi) is common in people with dementia (PwD) and impairs cognitive, psychological and functional wellbeing. Pharmacological treatments have serious side-effects. There is a lack of non-pharmacological treatment guidance and provision. Guided brief Mindfulness-Based interventions (gbMBIs) are effective in alleviating SDi in adults and are pragmatic to deliver. This study primarily explored: 1) the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigating the efficacy of a gbMBI in alleviating SDi in dementia; and 2) the acceptability of a gbMBI among dyads comprising the person with dementia and their caregiver. Secondarily, it assessed the preliminary efficacy of a gbMBI. Design: Uncontrolled cohort study; all dyads received the gbMBI. Method: Dyads (N=9) received Good Sleep Hygiene guidance (GSH) and PwD undertook a 1-week, nightly, 14-minute audio gbMBI. Quantitative data were used to assess feasibility of an RCT and mixed-method data for the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of the gbMBI. This study was exploratory and therefore no inferential analyses were performed. A modified mixed-method triangulation protocol unified mixed-method data. Results: Although research registers identified large pools of potential dyads, the eligibility rate did not exceed that of successful RCTs, whereas retention and adherence rates did. Triangulated data suggested the gbMBI delivery and content was acceptable to most, although some suggestions for improvement were recommended. Greater emphasis on GSH may increase acceptability. The gbMBI conflicted with the values of 2 dyads. Triangulated data provided some results suggesting alleviation of SDi and some that did not. Conclusions: An RCT may be feasible based on retention and adherence rates, but not eligibility rates; the gbMBI was acceptable among many dyads, but not all; the preliminary efficacy of the gbMBI was inconclusive. Overall, this study justified further development research into the efficacy of a gbMBI in treating SDi in dementia.
Neues aus dem Asienhaus
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Nachhaltige Standardisierung von archivalischen Taxonomien und Thesauri durch SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System)
Creators: name: Gelati, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: SKOS
Semantic Web
Taxonomies
Standardisation

description: The presentation showcases how SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) Linked-Data taxonomies can be online generated and visualised by means of free and open-source software.
Structural barriers to antiretroviral therapy among sex workers living with HIV : Findings of a longitudinal study in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Goldenberg, Shira M.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Duff, Putu
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Dobrer, Sabina
name: Guillemi, Silvia
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2017

description: In light of limited data on structural determinants of access and retention in antiretroviral therapy (ART) among sex workers, we examined structural correlates of ART use among sex workers living with HIV over time. Longitudinal data were drawn from a cohort of 646 female sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2010–2012) and linked pharmacy records on ART dispensation. We used logistic regression with generalized estimating equations (GEE) to examine correlates of gaps in ART use (i.e., treatment interruptions or delayed ART initiation), among sex workers living with HIV (n=74). Over a 2.5-year period, 37.8% of participants experienced gaps in ART use (i.e., no ART dispensed in a six-month period). In a multivariable GEE model, younger age, migration/mobility, incarceration, and non-injection drug use independently correlated with gaps in ART use. In spite of successes scaling-up ART in British Columbia, younger, mobile, or incarcerated sex workers face persistent gaps in access and retention irrespective of drug use. Community-based, tailored interventions to scale-up entry and retention in ART for sex workers should be further explored in this setting.
1965 – Ein dunkles Kapitel der indonesischen Geschichte: Aufarbeitung als notwendige Voraussetzung für Demokratie
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Gemeinsame Erklärung zur Gedenkveranstaltung »40 Jahre Genozid 1965 in Indonesien«, Samstag, den 29. Oktober 2005 im Asienhaus Essen von Südostasien Informationsstelle e.V. und Watch Indonesia! e.V.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Invasion of pseudomonas aeruginosa populations through the altered expression of pyoverdine primary and secondary receptors
Creators: name: Gonzalez Gutierrez de la Concha, Jaime
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: ‘Evolutionary medicine’ has been proposed as an alternative treatment of infectious diseases in response to the emergence of multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens and to the limited availability of new antibiotics. Among potential treatments, microbial “Trojan horses” are a way of deploying weaknesses in microbial populations by invading them with tailor-made bacteria (e.g. sensitive to antibiotics). Here I exploit the fitness cost linked to the production of the siderophore pyoverdine in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa for population invasion. Individuals in a population that do not produce the siderophore do not pay the cost and can overtake a population. However, cooperative individuals are preserved by the presence of structure in the population (e.g. growth in biofilms) that limits the diffusion of pyoverdine, therefore preventing the invasion by non-cooperators. I overcame this limitation by altering the individual benefit acquisition through the deletion and/or overexpression of pyoverdine primary (FpvA) and secondary receptors (FpvB). I characterised growth and pyoverdine production strategies in iron limited conditions in a variety of scenarios in both monocultures and competition experiments against the wildtype MPAO1. My results show that the selective manipulation of pyoverdine receptors leads to different evolutionary dynamics in the population, which are dependent on the relationship between costs of pyoverdine production and benefits of reception during balanced growth, as well as in the kinetics of this process prior to exponential growth. These strategies change in response to environmental inputs such as the presence of a stressor and are maintained when cells grow in biofilms and during infections of Galleria mellonella, both of which are representative of structured environments. By interfering with the complex regulatory network of pyoverdine production and reception, I produced strains with optimised investments under certain conditions that successfully displace a wildtype population therefore paving the way for their use as ‘Trojan horses’ for population control.
Genus undetermined Stylosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime 1848
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Oppelismiliidae

description: Genus Stylosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
SPECIES ORIGINALLY INCLUDED. — Stylosmilia michelini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848.
TYPE SPECIES. — Stylosmilia michelini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1252, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Die Unsicherheit bleibt: Demokratie, Menschenrechte und soziale Sicherheit in Indonesien
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Gemeinsamer Workshop des Asienhauses und der Südostasien Informationsstelle am 21. Januar 2006 im Haus der Kirche, Bonn.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Data-adaptive Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation with Optimal Transport and Differentiable Particle Filters
Creators: name: Chen, Xiongjie
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Quantifying data uncertainties and expressing model uncertainties is a challenging yet crucial task in machine learning. While deep learning has become a dominant tool in modern machine learning applications, most deep learning models do not provide reliable confidence in their predictions. In this thesis, we aim to develop practical tools for deep learning-based uncertainty quantification methods.

description:

description: To begin with, we pay attention to a fundamental and important problem in uncertainty quantification, namely how to efficiently measure the distance between probability distributions in high-dimensional spaces. We propose a new family of optimal transport (OT) distance metrics that are data-adaptive and efficient in high-dimensional spaces. We then focus on measuring the uncertainties and propagating model uncertainties in sequential data with the recently emerging filtering technique called differentiable particle filters (DPFs). We provide a mechanism to construct and learn expressive components of differentiable particle filters in a flexible way. Moreover, we extend differentiable particle filters to continuous-discrete cases, allowing one to evaluate the model uncertainty at irregularly distributed time stamps. Lastly, we develop a novel uncertainty quantification method to address the out-of-distribution detection problem.
ClaimsKG: A Knowledge Graph of Controversial Claims and Its Applications
Creators: name: Todorov, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: fact-checking, knowledge graphs

description: Expressing opinions and interacting with others on the Web has led to the production of an abundance of online discourse data, such as claims and viewpoints on controversial topics, their sources, and contexts (e.g., events, entities). These data constitute a valuable source of insights for studies into misinformation spread, bias reinforcement, echo chambers or political agenda-setting. While knowledge graphs of today enable data reuse and federation thus improving information retrieval and facilitating research and knowledge discovery in various fields, they do not store information about claims and related online discourse data, making it difficult to access, query and reuse this wealth of information. In my talk, I will present recent work in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences GESIS (Germany), on the construction of ClaimsKG - a knowledge graph of fact-checked controversial claims, which facilitates structured queries about their truth values, authors, dates, journalistic reviews and other kinds of metadata and provides ground truth data for a number of tasks relevant to the analysis of societal debates on the web. I will discuss perspectives on modeling claims in a generalized and contextualized manner, as well as related challenges such as claim disambiguation and the assessment of claim relatedness. I will present preliminary results on learning claim vector representations (embeddings) from ClaimsKG and their application for the task of automatic fact-checking.
Selenium as a cancer preventative and therapeutic agent: defining mechanisms of action and optimal doses
Creators: name: Al Assaad, Osheen
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Background

description: Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient that may exert cancer-selective cytotoxicity at
description: supranutritional exposures. It has been proposed Se exerts these effects, in part, by affecting
description: DNA damage and repair. This project investigated the effects of Se on DNA repair enzyme
description: activities in cancer cell lines and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples from
description: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and metastatic solid tumour (MST) patients.

description:

description: Methods

description: Effects of different forms of Se on cell viability, intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS)
description: and DNA repair activities were examined in T-cell leukaemic (Jurkat E6-1) and prostate cancer
description: (LNCaP) cell lines. DNA repair activities were measured in PBMC samples from the first
description: round of the dose escalation study, in which patients took 400µg/day of sodium selenite (SS),
description: methylselenocysteine (MeSeCys) or selenomethionine (SeMet) for 8 weeks.

description:

description: Results

description: SS and methaneseleninic acid (MSA) induced cytotoxic effects in Jurkat and LNCaP cells. SS
description: treatment induced Jurkat cell death in a ROS-independent manner. SS (5µM) significantly
description: decreased Jurkat DNA ligase and polymerase β (POLβ) activities (p<0.05 and p<0.01,
description: respectively). MSA (1µM) and MeSeCys (10µM) significantly increased Jurkat POLβ activity
description: (p<0.05 and p<0.01, respectively). No significant Se-induced changes in LNCaP POLβ activity
description: or in DNA repair activities in patient PBMC samples.

description: Correlation analysis suggested coordinated expression of DNA repair enzymes in cell lines and
description: patient PBMCs. Substantial inter-individual variability in DNA repair activities was identified
description: in patient PBMCs and baseline APE-1 activity was significantly higher in the CLL than in MST
description: patients (p<0.01).

description:

description: Conclusions

description: This research provides the first direct evidence that Se regulates DNA repair in a form-,
description: concentration- and cell type-specific manner. Se had no detectable effect on DNA repair
description: enzyme activities in cancer patients, perhaps due to insufficient dosage. CLL patients exhibited
description: elevated APE-1 activity suggesting circulating leukaemic cells have abnormal DNA repair
description: enzyme profiles.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Seiffert, Sebastian
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
What factors affect the mental health and well-being of middle-aged male carers?
Creators: name: Warrell-Phillips, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Although males constitute a substantial proportion of carers until recently there has been little focus on the impact of caring on their mental well-being. This study aimed to examine the extent to which a variety of contextual, caring related and protective factors predicted the mental well-being of middle-aged male carers informed by Pearlin’s Stress Process Model. The study used secondary data from the Understanding Society study. Cross-sectional analysis of how factors relating to the role of caring, interferences of caring on employment and social participation and leisure predict mental well-being measured by the GHQ-12 was undertaken. Longitudinal analysis following those that became carers and potential changes in social participation, satisfaction with leisure and mental well-being was also undertaken. Data from 8,063 middle-aged men (1,612 carers and 6,451 non-carers) was used for the cross-sectional element and data from 4,665 (614 carers and 4,051 non-carers) was used for the longitudinal element. An estimated 20% of middle-aged men were carers. Carers had significantly poorer mental well-being (p = 0.014), measured by their scores on the GHQ-12, compared to non-carers but the difference was very small (η² = 0.001). At the cross-sectional level, three predictors were identified to most strongly impact mental well-being: subjective financial status; satisfaction with leisure time; and employment status (partial eta squared = 0.053; 0.046; 0.051 respectively). Longitudinal analysis suggested that carers’ mental well-being was poorest prior to undertaking caring. However, there was no evidence that mental well-being became worse for those that became carers relative to those who remained non-carers. Middle-aged male carers who were under financial stress, unable to pursue leisure activities and unemployed or long term sick were found to be particularly vulnerable to poorer mental well-being. Providing support to this group of middle-aged men both in practical and therapeutic terms would help meet their mental well-being needs.
Neuerscheinung
Creators: name: Catarata, Jack
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Niklas Reese und Rainer Werning (Hg.): Handbuch Philippinen. Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (2006): Der Letzte macht das Licht aus: Energie & Rohstoffe in Südostasien
Retiophyllia zizensis Vasseur & Lathuilière 2021, n. sp.
Creators: name: Vasseur, Raphaël
name: Lathuilière, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia
Retiophyllia zizensis

description: Retiophyllia zizensis n. sp.
(Fig. 44)
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3D62AE51-03F4-401D-9F68-BA85BF71F78B
Retiophyllia sp. 1 – Vasseur 2018: 320-321, fig. 3.86.
Retiophyllia sp. – Brame et al. 2019: fig. 7C-D.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: CPUN DA2705E1; paratypes: CPUN DA2705E2, CPUN DA2705E7, CPUN DA2805E7. TYPE HORIZON. — Upper Pliensbachian. TYPE LOCALITY. — Bin El Ouidane, 32°4’1”N, 4°22’57”W, Ziz valley of Morocco. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Four specimens: CPUN DA2705E1, CPUN DA2705E2, CPUN DA2705E7, CPUNDA2805 E7. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of Ziz valley – Bin El Ouidane (High Atlas of Morocco).
DESCRIPTION
Phaceloid coral with subcylindrical corallites growing by extracalicular parietal increase similar to those described for Placophyllia by Beauvais (1976). Costosepta compact, free or linked by their inner edge (first size-order of septa), straight or wavy, structured in three or four distinct sizeorders. S1 and most of the S2 are characterized by a bicuneiform transverse section and lateral faces showing rare small and irregular granules. Their inner edge is sometimes clearly rhopaloid. Mid-septal line in zigzag can be guessed. The fifth order septa are generally straight and thin with smooth lateral faces although some S3 show a thickening in their external part suggesting a transition between septal shape of lower and upper orders. Parathecal wall absent or sparse and incomplete. A true epitheca encloses the corallite. Endotheca is well developed, made of thin vesicular dissepiments in periphery backing onto the inner side of the epitheca, and thin and regular tabular dissepiments dipping into the center of the corallite. No columella, nor synapticulae.
Calicular diameter: 4 to 10 mm – Distance between calices centers: 6 to 10 mm – Number of septa: 32 to 48 – Septal density: 5 for 2 mm.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Differs from the Triassic species by its smaller number of septa, an extracalicular parietal growth mode, an irregular and sparse septal ornamentation, a distance between calices generally greater and the lack of continuous septothecal wall. This taxon also differs from R. ahraboutensis Beauvais, 1986 by the lack of continuous septothecal wall and also by longer S1 septa that fill more extensively the axial space.
description: Published as part of Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard, 2021, Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys, pp. 1187-1291 in Geodiversitas 43 (22) on page 1252, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22, http://zenodo.org/record/5764379
Engineering Microbial Strains for Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Degradation
Creators: name: Abdulmutalib, Umar
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most widely circulated single-use plastics, notably in the form of plastic containers for food and beverages. Poor recycling of this plastic contributes to global plastic pollution and there is a need for alternative solutions for dealing with PET waste. To biologically degrade and assimilate PET plastic, I isolated, identified and sequenced seven different bacteria able to grow on the PET monomer terephthalate (TA) as the sole carbon source. The isolates were ranked according to their growth on TA as follows: Rhodococcus pyridinivorans HM1, Pseudomonas vancouverensis HM2, Pseudomonas umsongensis GS, Pseudomonas reinekei SH, Ralstonia insidiosa TS, Ralstonia insidiosa GS1, and Acinetobacter schindleri LK1. Three isolates, R. insidiosa TS, R. insidiosa GS1, and A. schindleri LK1, showed impaired growth on TA consistent with the lack of tph genes in their genomes. Some of the strains were genetically modified to express the thermostable esterases TfCut2, TCur, and LCC active against PET. To this end, all enzymes were recombinantly expressed in their active conformations in E. coli and in P. umsongensis GS both from a replicative plasmid (pSEVA238) and from a transposon allowing for chromosomal integration. The activity of the secreted enzymes was confirmed on polycaprolactone (PCL) and further on amorphous PET films at different temperatures. When the tested enzymes were constitutively expressed in the P. umsongensis GS, TCur outperforms LCC and TfCut2. Moreover, constitutively expressed enzymes show better hydrolysis on PCL than the same enzymes expressed from the plasmid vector in this same isolate. PET degradation assays showed that TCur hydrolysed 10% of partially crystalline PET film when used in-vitro (Goodfellow) five times more than LCC and three-fold more than TfCut2. The weight-loss of the polymer in an in-vivo degradation correlated with an increase in the optical densities of the culture, likely due to the use of the released monomers as growth substrates by the engineered P. umsongensis GS expressing the enzymes constitutively. These results show that PET can be hydrolysed by environmental bacteria secreting esterases, although further research is needed to turn PET into a reliable feedstock for microbial transformations using whole-cell catalysts.
Silica-based Passive Dosimeters for sub-Gy Patient-focused Dose Evaluations
Creators: name: Alyahyawi, Amjad
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: In use of doped silica glass TL dosimeters, previous studies by others have focused on measurement of the radiation doses delivered during radiotherapy applications, with levels of dose typically in the fractions of a Gy to some several tens of Gy level. The present work is differentiated from such efforts, the thesis evaluating the utility of several types of enhanced-sensitivity doped silica glass TL dosimeter, novel forms that have been developed for measurement of low radiation doses. The range of interest is from several μGy to several tens of mGy level (ie doses some 0.1% and less of that of the therapy doses previously investigated), the focus being on medical applications within which such exposures arise. The stochastic effects of radiation are without threshold, the probability nevertheless increasing with dose. As such, the low radiation doses that can give rise to small but extant probability of inducing cancer need to be measured, allowing for dose mitigation measures that can be evaluated. Therefore, one of the main purposes of this research is to examine the development of new dosimeters that can measure such low radiation doses, either in diagnostic uses of x-rays or in regard to scattered radiation received to the lens of the eye during stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) applications. The diagnostic applications of choice are those which find widespread use, from single exposure dental doses, through to chest radiography and mammographic imaging. As no dosimeter exists that can come close to approximating the ideal characteristics of an omni-utility sensor, a number of glass TL dosimeter forms have been investigated, differing in dopant concentration, size and fabrication, examined for use in the different dose regimes. The characterisation of GeB-PFc, Ge-PFc, GeB-FF, Ge-doped disc, Ge-SMF and LiF (all defined in detail in the thesis) have been performed, including the study of linearity, fading, energy response, dose response, and sensitivity. The outcome is one demonstrating successful accommodation of all of the dose ranges of interest. Additional sensitivity of between 20% to 30% has been shown to be available through thin (several tens of microns) high Z coatings to flat fibres (FF), the coatings acting as photoelectron and Auger electron conversion media. Being small in size, non toxic and devoid of any electrical contact, it is the intention that these TL forms take on the important role of safe and accurate dose evaluations as an aid in dose optimization measures.
Forecast comparison of financial models.
Creators: name: Rahimi, Khashayar
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines the relative forecast ability of models used in financial econometrics, with a focus on two well-studied strands of the literature - ''yield curve prediction’’ and ''volatility forecast''. The first chapter, investigates the forecast ability of Random Forest, Functional Non-parametric and Dynamic Nelson-siegel models. Results of this study indicate the superiority of the Random Forest model in forecasting short end of the yield curve, and Dynamic Nelson-Siegel model in predicting yields of bonds with long term to maturity. In line with the literature, results recommend the employment of external source of information such as macroeconomic variables. The second chapter examines the relative ability of Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic (GARCH) models in volatility prediction. The existing literature produce conflicting results regarding this topic, which is mainly attributed to the choice of loss functions in forecast evaluation in this field. This chapter exploits the recent Robust Forecast Comparison (RFC) test of Jin et al. (2017) to evaluate the out-of-sample forecast performance of 11 GARCH type models. The advantage of using the test of Jin et al. (2017) is that no predetermined form of loss function is required. This study concludes that, on average, all competing models over-predict the volatility, and that the simple GARCH model is outperformed in predicting the volatility.
A Qualitative Exploration of how Young Men in the UK Perceive and Experience Informal Help-Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties
Creators: name: BURKE, LAUREN
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Background: Despite having a similar prevalence of mental health problems to adolescent females, adolescent males do not seek support for mental health difficulties at the same rate. Extensive research has highlighted the many barriers and facilitators for seeking support professionally. However, there is a paucity of qualitative research that explores how young males seek support from informal sources of support. This study aims to explore the proximity and intersubjectivity of informal relationships that young men possess and considers the impact on thoughts and experiences of help-seeking for mental health difficulties.
description: Method: Using a qualitative approach, fourteen young males aged 16 to 18 years were recruited to participate in one-to-one semi-guided interviews. Interview data was analysed using thematic analysis.
description: Results: Two key themes were identified: 1) Proximity and familiarity, 2) Navigating feared outcomes and remaining silent. These two themes explore in-depth how notions of perceived familiarity, masculinities, stigma, trust, and emotional burden are experienced in relation to the various proximal relationships that these young men hold. The themes explore the array of intricacies and dynamics perceived within proximal relationships, and the implications for seeking support from these sources, in relation to family, friends, and teachers.
description: Conclusion: The findings illustrate the complexities of informal relationships that young males possess as well as the socio-cognitive, systemic, individual, and structural factors that influence help-seeking behaviour from these sources. The considerations that young men undertake must be understood to address the disparities in help-seeking behaviours for mental health problems. Future research should consider how ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic background influences how young men seek help from informal sources of support.