cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Political prisoners in India, 1920-1977.
Creators: name: Singh, Ujjwal K.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: This is a study of the politics of 'political prisonerhood' in colonial and independent India. Prison going and the struggles inside the prison had, with the nationalist culture of jail going in the early part of the twentieth century become an integral part of the protest against the colonial state. Imprisonment in its multifarious forms also became the major bulwark of the colonial state's strategy for harnessing recalcitrant subjects. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the process by which the notion of 'political' became a festering issue in the contest between the colonial state and the subject population and later between the state in independent India and the various 'rebel' groups, and also the manner in which the ruling classes assumed the sole responsibility of defining the 'political'. We have confined our study to the peaks of nationalist resistance against the colonial state and popular struggles against the dominant classes in independent India. Through this exploration of the notion of political prisonerhood we also attempt to understand the permanence and ruptures in the forms of repression and the nature of penal sanctions which the state deployed against its political opponents in colonial and independent India. In order to understand what constitutes 'political crime', and who were or were not recognized as 'political prisoners' at a particular historical moment, we have examined the role of the ideological discourses which informed penal regimes in colonial and independent India. The theoretical premises and conceptual tools in this study bear the influence of the Marxist studies on Indian politics and the Subaltern school's understanding of Indian history. The material for research has been drawn from various official and unofficial sources viz., archival records of the colonial government and the government of independent India, reports on prisons by various governmental committees, jail manuals, rules, regulations, laws, autobiographies, biographies, prison memoirs, prison diaries and interviews with erstwhile political prisoners.
Experimental and computational investigation of heteroatom substitution in nucleolytic Cu(ii) cyclen complexes for balancing stability and redox activity
Creators: name: Hormann, Jan
name: Verbitsky, Olga
name: Zhou, Xiaoyu
name: Battistella, Beatrice
name: Meer, Margarete Van Der
name: Sarkar, Biprajit
name: Zhao, Cunyuan
name: Kulak, Nora
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: nucleolytic Cu(ii) cyclen complexes
subject: heteroatom substitution
subject: experimental and computational investigation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Cu(II) complexes of cyclen-based ligands CuL1–CuL6 were synthesized and characterized. The corresponding ligands L1–L6 comprise different donor sets including S and O atoms. Whereas cyclen (L1) is commercially available, L2–L6 were synthesized according to protocols available in the literature. Cleavage activity of the complexes towards plasmid DNA was tested in the presence and absence of ascorbate as a reducing agent (oxidative vs. hydrolytic cleavage). As previously shown, the substitution of N donor atoms with hard donor O atoms leads to efficient oxidative nucleases, but dissociation of the complex upon reduction. We thus opted for S substitution (soft donors) to stabilize the reduced Cu(I) species. Increasing the S content, however, leads to species that are difficult to reoxidize in order to ensure efficient oxidative DNA cleavage. We are showing by experimental (cyclic voltammetry) and computational means (DFT) that the rational combination of O and S atoms next to two nitrogen donors within the macrocycle (oxathiacyclen complex CuL6) leads to the stabilization of both redox states. The complex thus exhibits the highest oxidative DNA cleavage activity within this family of cyclen-based Cu(II) complexes – without leaching of the metal ion during reduction.
Appendix_A – Supplemental material for Issue stance and perceived journalistic motives explain divergent audience perceptions of fake news
Creators: name: Tsang, Stephanie Jean
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_A for Issue stance and perceived journalistic motives explain divergent audience perceptions of fake news by Stephanie Jean Tsang in Journalism
title: Aspekte diagnostischer Kompetenz von Grundschullehrkräften im Rechtschreibunterricht – Eine empirische Analyse der Urteilsakkuratheit hinsichtlich der Rechtschreibfehler im (nicht-)integrierten Schreiben
Creators: name: Schreyer, Patrick
name: Reichardt, Anke
name: Ingenerf, Johanna
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Rechtschreibung
subject: Diagnostische Kompetenz
subject: Urteilsakkuratheit
subject: Grundschule
subject: Schreibkompetenz
subject: Spelling and orthography
subject: Diagnostic competence
subject: Judgement accuracy
subject: Primary school
subject: Writing competence
classificationCode: 370
subject: 370
classificationCode: Pädagogische Diagnostik
subject: Pädagogische Diagnostik
classificationCode: Grundschule
subject: Grundschule
classificationCode: Rechtschreibung
subject: Rechtschreibung
classificationCode: Lehrer
subject: Lehrer

description: An Erratum to this article was published on 01 March 2025.
description:
Die diagnostische Kompetenz von Lehrkräften ist ein entscheidender Faktor für die Förderung der Grundbildung. Im Beitrag wird die Urteilsakkuratheit als Teilbereich der diagnostischen Kompetenz untersucht und im Kontext der Rechtschreibleistungen von Drittklässlerinnen mittels quantitativer Fehleranalysen analysiert. Diese wird in zwei unterschiedlichen Schreibdimensionen erfasst: im integrierten Schreiben (Texte) und im nicht-integrierten Schreiben (Tests). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Lehrkräfte die Rechtschreibleistungen ihrer Schülerinnen, gemessen an der Fehleranzahl auf 100 Wörter, weitgehend akkurat einschätzen können. Gleichzeitig orientieren sich die Einschätzungen stärker an den Ergebnissen des nicht-integrierten Schreibens, einer primär schulisch relevanten Schreibdimension, und weniger an einer didaktisch perspektivierten und auf Grundbildung bezogenen Fähigkeit.

description:
The diagnostic competence of teachers is a crucial factor in promoting basic education. This paper examines judgment accuracy as a subdomain of diagnostic competence, focusing on the spelling performance of third-grade students through quantitative mistake analyses. The study captures this competence in two different writing dimensions: integrated writing (texts) and non-integrated writing (tests). The results show that teachers can largely assess their students’ spelling performance accurately, measured by the number of mistakes per 100 words. At the same time, the assessments are more strongly aligned with the results of non-integrated writing, a primarily school-relevant writing dimension, rather than a didactically oriented and basic education-related skill.
title: Love and mysticism in the Punjabi qissas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Creators: name: Deol, Jeevan S.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis examines the tension between mystical (haqiqi) and romantic (majazi) conceptions of love in the Punjabi qissa tradition before the end of the eighteenth century. All the texts under consideration date from before the third quarter of the eighteenth century and, therefore, both predate and inform the classical qissa tradition of the nineteenth century. The texts narrate three of the most commonly represented love stories in pre-twentieth century Punjab, two of them versions of local folk legends and one an episode from the Quran. A total of six texts are considered in the thesis: Hafiz Barkhurdar's Mirza Sahiba, Siddiq Lali's Yusuf Zulaikha, and the versions of Hir by Ahmad, Muqbil and Varis Shah. The thesis begins with a chapter on the qissa tradition which seeks to situate the qissa in the Punjabi literary tradition and to define the classical qissa based on its formal generic features. The body of the thesis argues that most of the early texts under consideration attempt to subvert the transgressive potential of the love stories they narrate: where Ahmad contains the love story of Hir and Ranjha through narrative compression, for example, Muqbil subtly recasts the story as a mystical allegory. The thesis argues that the image of the slaughter of the Imam Husain underlies the structure of the Mirza Sahiban of Hafiz (as well as the versions of his successors) and that the entire poetic of Siddiq Lali's Yusuf Zulaikha figures the narrative universe as an intersection of the mystical with the worldly. Finally, the thesis argues that Varis Shah's Hir recasts the narrative by introducing a certain sexual component at the same time as it downplays the social and religious transgressiveness present in earlier poems.
Moving to the Middle Ground: Redefining Genomic Utility to Expand Understanding of Familial Benefit
Creators: name: Cadigan, R Jean
name: McNamara, Katelyn C
name: Brothers, Kyle B
name: Ponsaran, Roselle S
name: Rich, Carla A
name: Timmons, Josie
name: Goldenberg, Aaron J
name: Cooper, Greg M
name: Lemke, Amy A
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description:
Translational research has tended to ignore the question of whether receiving a genomic diagnosis provides utility in community care contexts outside of doctors' offices and hospitals. However, empirical research with parents has highlighted numerous ways that a genomic diagnosis might be of practical value in the care provided by teachers, physical or occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, behavior analysts, and nonphysician mental health providers. In this essay, we propose a new conceptual model of genomic utility that offers the opportunity to better capture a broad range of potential implications of genomic technologies for families in various social and organizational systems. We explore crucial research directions to better understand how redefined utility might affect families and nonphysician professionals.
title: The nation's valiant fighters against illiteracy: Locating the cultural politics of 'development' in 1990s Uganda.
Creators: name: Mills, David Shane
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: This dissertation is a partial account of the cultural politics of 'development' in contemporary Uganda, focusing particularly on educational institutions as sites of negotiation of modernity's gendered meanings. Utilising media representations and ethnographic research carried out in both Makerere University and in a rural secondary school, I describe how senses of the 'modern' are produced within colonial and postcolonial discourses on gender, education and the nation. Drawing on theoretical dialogues between cultural geography, social history and anthropology, I argue that historical and spatial relationships are often invoked to locate or contest the moral hierarchies that these understandings of 'progress' or 'development' depend on. By shifting position, perspective and scale, I attempt to make visible the relational production of multiple and cross-cutting Ugandan localities. Recognising the legacies of war, nationalism and religion that shape understandings of 'development' in Uganda today, this thesis is also an attempt at a 'history of the present', describing the way these turbulent pasts are retold and relived. After a brief introduction to anthropology's own troubled history of ethical debate, I discuss the influence of European ethnographies and 'Ganda' oral and textual narratives on Ugandan politics. I describe how, in the bitter aftermath of rural neglect and isolation stemming from the 1980s liberation war, monarchical idioms from Buganda's past have been suddenly reinvigorated within new Buganda nationalisms. Subsequently I interweave transnational and national media imageries with everyday lived experiences - rural school life, a speech day, urban popular music, staffroom gossip and university student romances - to create a sense of the multiple localities within which people create a sense of themselves as being both 'Ugandan' and 'modern'. Exploring the contested and political negotiations of culture in this way reveals both the material and symbolic aspects of the discursive practices of 'development'.
Constraining industrial ammonia emissions using hyperspectral infrared imaging
Creators: name: Noppen, Lara
name: Clarisse, Lieven
name: Tack, Frederik
name: Ruhtz, Thomas
name: Merlaud, Alexis
name: Damme, Martin Van
name: Roozendael, Michel Van
name: Schuettemeyer, Dirk
name: Coheur, Pierre
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hyperspectral infrared
subject: Aircraft measurements
subject: Emission fluxes
subject: Ammonia
subject: Nitrogen dioxide
subject: Fertilizer production
subject: Soda ash
subject: Nitrosat
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Atmospheric emissions of reactive nitrogen in the form of nitrogen dioxide (NO) and ammonia (NH) worsen air quality and upon deposition, dramatically affect the environment. Recent infrared satellite measurements have revealed that NH emitted by industries are an important and underestimated emission source. Yet, to assess these emissions, current satellite sounders are severely limited by their spatial resolution. In this paper, we analyse measurement data recorded in a series of imaging surveys that were conducted over industries in the Greater Berlin area (Germany). On board the aircraft were the Telops Hyper-Cam LW, targeting NH measurements in the longwave infrared at a resolution of 4 m and the SWING+ spectrometer targeting NO measurements in the UV–Vis at a resolution of 180 m. Two flights were carried out over German’s largest production facility of synthetic NH , urea and other fertilizers. In both cases, a large NH plume was observed originating from the factory. Using a Gaussian plume model to take into account plume rise and dispersion, coupled with well-established radiative transfer and inverse methods, we retrieve vertical column densities. From these, we calculate NH emission fluxes using the integrated mass enhancement and cross-sectional flux methods, yielding consistent emissions of the order of 2200 t yr−1 for both flights, assuming constant fluxes across the year. These estimates are about five times larger than those reported in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) for this plant. In the second campaign, a co-emitted NO plume was measured, likely related to the production of nitric acid at the plant. A third flight was carried out over an area comprising the cities of Staßfurt and Bernburg. Several small NH plumes were seen, one over a production facility of mineral wool insulation, one over a sugar factory and two over the soda ash plants in Staßfurt and Bernburg. A fifth and much larger plume was seen to originate from the sedimentation basins associated with the soda ash plant in Staßfurt, indicating rapid volatilization of ammonium rich effluents. We use the different measurement campaigns to simulate measurements of Nitrosat, a potential future satellite sounder dedicated to the sounding of reactive nitrogen at a resolution of 500 m. We demonstrate that such measurements would allow accurately constraining emissions in a single overpass, overcoming a number of important drawbacks of current satellite sounders.
Characterization and Fate of a Septanosyl Ferrier Cation in the Gas and Solution Phases
Creators: name: Greis, Kim
name: Griesbach, Caleb E.
name: Kirschbaum, Carla
name: Meijer, Gerard
name: Helden, Gert Von
name: Pagel, Kevin
name: Peczuh, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cations
subject: Chemical reactions
subject: Chemical structure
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Ferrier reactions follow a mechanistic pathway whereby Lewis acid activation of a cyclic enol ether facilitates departure of an allylic leaving group to form a glycosyl Ferrier cation. Attack on the Ferrier cation provides a new acetal linkage concurrent with the transposition of the alkene moiety. The idiosyncratic outcomes of Ferrier reactions of seven-membered ring carbohydrate-based oxepines prompted an investigation of its corresponding septanosyl Ferrier cation. Experiments that characterized the ion, including gas-phase cryogenic IR spectroscopy matched with density functional theory-calculated spectra of candidate cation structures, as well as product analysis from solution-phase Ferrier reactions, are reported here. Results from both approaches revealed an inclination of the seven-membered ring cation to contract to five-membered ring structures. Gas-phase IR spectra matched best to calculated spectra of structures in which five-membered dioxolenium formation opened the oxepine ring. In the solution phase, an attack on the ion by water led to an acyclic enal that cyclized to a C-methylene-aldehydo arabinofuranoside species. Attack by allyl trimethylsilane, on the other hand, was diastereoselective and yielded a C-allyl septanoside.
Predicting Structural Motifs of Glycosaminoglycans using Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy and Random Forest
Creators: name: Riedel, Jerome
name: Meijer, Gerard
name: Helden, Gert Von
name: Lettow, Maike
name: Gotze, Michael
name: Miller, Rebecca L.
name: Boons, Geert-Jan
name: Szekeres, Gergo Peter
name: Pagel, Kevin
name: Grabarics, Marko
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Amides
subject: Helium
subject: Infrared light
subject: Ions
subject: Post-translational modification
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: In recent years, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) have emerged into the focus of biochemical and biomedical research due to their importance in a variety of physiological processes. These molecules show great diversity, which makes their analysis highly challenging. A promising tool for identifying the structural motifs and conformation of shorter GAG chains is cryogenic gas-phase infrared (IR) spectroscopy. In this work, the cryogenic gas-phase IR spectra of mass-selected heparan sulfate (HS) di-, tetra-, and hexasaccharide ions were recorded to extract vibrational features that are characteristic to structural motifs. The data were augmented with chondroitin sulfate (CS) disaccharide spectra to assemble a training library for random forest (RF) classifiers. These were used to discriminate between GAG classes (CS or HS) and different sulfate positions (2-O-, 4-O-, 6-O-, and N-sulfation). With optimized data preprocessing and RF modeling, a prediction accuracy of >97% was achieved for HS tetra- and hexasaccharides based on a training set of only 21 spectra. These results exemplify the importance of combining gas-phase cryogenic IR ion spectroscopy with machine learning to improve the future analytical workflow for GAG sequencing and that of other biomolecules, such as metabolites.
title: Local perceptions of environmental change in a tropical coastal wetland: The case of Koggala Lagoon, Galle, Sri Lanka.
Creators: name: Samarasekara, Vidhisha N.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: Tropical coastal wetlands are under ecological stress, most notably due to accelerated development activities associated with these areas. Consequently, natural resource depletion and environmental problems in the coastal sector are increasingly serious issues, particularly in South and South East Asia, and have significant implications for their traditional resource-user groups. This thesis is primarily based on a detailed investigation of the inter-relationships between environmental change and local perception of change at Koggala, Galle, southern Sri Lanka, where six sample Divisions bordering Koggala Lagoon were selected for in-depth study. Multi-disciplinary techniques from both the natural and the social sciences were employed, focusing on the environmental changes involved and on the perceptions of these changes by local fishing and farming communities. Particular attention was paid to changes in agriculture, to the reconfiguration of a coastal sand bar, and to the development of a Free Trade Zone. Participatory techniques involved the experimental use of group discussions. Visits were made to Malaysia and Thailand for comparative study purposes. Results show that the fringing mangrove complex is currently threatened by a number of factors and that sand mining close to the lagoon outlet has severely disrupted water levels in the lagoon and ultimately rice-farming systems. The fishing community further perceives significant declines in their fish catch, attributing this to the loss of fishery nursery sites and to the seepage of agro-chemicals, some belonging to highly toxic groups, into the lagoon. It is clear that local communities display a high degree of awareness of environmental change, as well as of the causes of this change. Such understanding can be used to develop local-level adaptive planning for wetland management. The use of discussion groups is seen as a novel approach to such wetland management programmes in the tropics.
Electrochemistry and Spin-Crossover Behavior of Fluorinated Terpyridine-Based Co(II) and Fe(II) Complexes
Creators: name: Nößler, Maite
name: Jäger, René
name: Hunger, David
name: Reimann, Marc
name: Bens, Tobias
name: Neuman, Nicolás I.
name: Singha Hazari, Arijit
name: Kaupp, Martin
name: Slageren, Joris Van
name: Sarkar, Biprajit
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: cobalt
subject: electrochemistry
subject: fluorinated terpyridine
subject: iron
subject: spin crossover
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Due to their ability to form stable molecular complexes that have tailor-made properties, terpyridine ligands are of great interest in chemistry and material science. In this regard, we prepared two terpyridine ligands with two different fluorinated phenyl rings on the backbone. The corresponding CoII and FeII complexes were synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray structural analysis, electrochemistry and temperature-dependent SQUID magnetometry. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses at 100 K of these complexes revealed Co−N and Fe−N bond lengths that are typical of low spin CoII and FeII centers. The metal centers are coordinated in an octahedral fashion and the fluorinated phenyl rings on the backbone are twisted out of the plane of the terpyridine unit. The complexes were investigated with cyclic voltammetry and UV/Vis-NIR spectroelectrochemistry. All complexes show a reversible oxidation and several reduction processes. Temperature dependent SQUID magnetometry revealed a gradual thermal SCO behavior in two of the complexes, while EPR spectroscopy provided further insights on the electronic structure of the metal complexes, as well as site of reduction.
Design and optimization of high strain composite tube flexures
Creators: name: Kunakron-Ong, Pathawee
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: Deployable tube flexures are components designed to fold and be compactly stowed during transport, later expanding into a configuration larger than existing launcher fairings upon deployment. By introducing a cut-out geometry, they can elastically fold and deploy without experiencing material failure. The inherent viscoelasticity can gradually reduce load-carrying capacity and possibly lead to anomalous deployment. This research proposes a design methodology for ultra-thin carbon fiber composite tube flexures, introducing a novel cut-out parameterization to enhance performance and incorporating viscoelasticity to assess stowage effects on deployment. The cut-out in tube flexures is parameterized using generalized spline-based geometries. Bayesian optimization technique is utilized to determine optimal cut-out geometries considering folding characteristics and Hashin failure criteria. The objective function aims to achieve a constant moment, maximize peak moment, and prevent material failure. Results show significant improvement in folding performance using spline-based cut-outs, allowing smooth-transition curves and reducing localized failure on edges compared to a rectangle slot with circular ends. Time-dependent behavior is incorporated into the cut-out design process with the goal of enhancing viscoelastic resilience after prolonged stowage. Viscoelasticity is experimentally characterized to establish a Prony series master curve. Bayesian optimization is then applied to determine cut-out shapes with the objective of minimizing both recovery time and material failure. The interpretation of Partial Dependent plots offers a design guideline for cut-out formations related to key operational performance including recovery time, Hashin failure, peak moment, and constant moment. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed design methodology for three operations is validated through a series of experiments, , including folding experiment to assess moment-rotation behavior and dynamic deployment to examine viscoelastic effect on long-term stowage. The Finite Element simulations show a good correlations with the observed experiment results.
title: A structural analysis of myths from the north-east frontier of India.
Creators: name: Wilson, James M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: The underlying theme of this analysis is the contradiction, which it is the function of the myths to emphasise, between two meanings of the concept of humanity. Humanity may mean the capacity of man to identify himself with the other, which is the condition of his passage from Nature to Culture. It may also refer to symbolic thinking, to all man's works and conscious elaborations. This involves the distinction of the self from the other, and may tend to identification with the self alone. The myths deal mainly with marriage-exchange. They are analysed in relation to the systems of marriage preferences of the tribes concerned. The sociological code of marriage is correlated with a zoological code of man's relations with animals, Relations in marriage governed by nature and those governed by culture are homologous, in the myths, to relations with different species of animals. Ambivalent animals represent the ambivalence of allies, for allies are friends who were enemies, Two schemes of mediation are analysed. In one, the mediation by the dog between man and animals is homologous to the mediation by allies between the kin-group and outsiders. In the other, the mediation by pigs and fowls is homologous to the mediation by children between the the kin-group and its allies. The integration by opposition in exchange is correlated, by the myths, with the integration of nature by periodicity, The myths of natural periodicity enable a tentative correlation to be made between a difference in the mythical systems of two neighbouring tribes and the difference in their marriage systems. Generalised exchange among the Hrusso is accompanied, in their myths, by an emphasis on unions between a lose marital and sexual partners. Among the Bugun, there is restricted exchange, and, in their myths, emphasis on unions between distant partners. The underlying theme is also elaborated through the analysis of the myths of periodicity in nature. The myths emphasise the danger of taking either aspect of humanity to excess.
title: The Korea-Japan Treaty crisis and the instability of the Korean political system.
Creators: name: Kim, Kwang B.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: This paper is a study of contemporary Korean politics with special reference to the issues and politics during the Korean-Japan treaty crisis of 1964-1965, against the background of the historical, social, political and other critical determinants that have influenced the political behavior of Koreans and shaped the Korean political culture, system and process. By utilizing a combination of various research methods and techniques of social science, this paper examines political parties, political elites, major groups, and their roles in the political process of Korea in an effort to shed new and systematic light upon some selective aspects of the Korean politics and to advance some generalizations about Korean politics. With the examination of these aspects, this paper purports to explain the problems and causes of the chronic crisis of political legitimacy, the instability of political system, and the incapacity of political institutions and organizations in resolving national issues through normal political and constitutional process which were dramatized by the prolonged and acute political crisis during the treaty struggle when the extreme confrontation between the opposing forces and the mass movement in the streets had brought about a virtual breakdown of the normal political process and the constitutional order.
title: French policy towards Japan, 1854-1894.
Creators: name: Sims, R. L.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1968

description: Foreign influence on the modern history of Japan has been enormous, but little serious work has been done on the policies towards Japan of countries other than the United States. This is especially true of the seminal Meiji period, and this thesis attempts to fill a gap in our knowledge of these years by investigating French policy from the opening of Japan up to the period immediately preceding the Sino-Japanese War. Particular attention has been paid to the career of Leon Roches, the French Minister whose whole-hearted support for the Tokugawa Government had an important effect on Japanese politics in the period leading up to the Meiji Restoration; to the hesitant and unsuccessful attempts of the Ferry Government to involve Japan in France's dispute with China between 1883 and 1885; and to the French attitude towards Japan's attempts to revise the 'unequal treaties' imposed on her in 1858. The other major topics dealt with here, either for the first time or in greater detail than before, are the motives and circumstances of the French entry into diplomatic relations with Japan; the efforts of the first French Minister in Japan to maintain relations; French policy during the Meiji Restoration and the crucial early years of the Meiji Government; French attitudes towards the Meiji Government's early foreign policy; the French concern with prestige and influence in Japan; and the influence of trade on French policy. The conclusion discusses the formulation and character of French policy towards Japan, and its significance in Japanese history.
title: The literary values of Chou Tso-jen and their place in the Chinese tradition.
Creators: name: Pollard, David E.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: The thesis seeks to identify and examine the various ideas and preferences that together made up the attitude towards literature on the part of Republican China's foremost essayist, Chou Tso-jen. It starts with his favourite theory that literature can be divided between the kind which is written to 'convey the Way' and the other kind which 'expresses the heart's wishes'. The connotations of both formulae in traditional Chinese literary criticism are studied and matched against Chou's interpretation of them. The reasons for Chou's revival of this old antithesis, and its various ramifications, are then discussed in the light of the current debate on the role of literature. His main positive literary values, such as 'sincerity', 'blandness', 'naturalness', are thereafter examined in turn, each with an eye to discovering how well, if at all, these values were established in the Chinese tradition. A separate chapter is devoted to the essay to discover how far Chou's own chosen form could accommodate the values he held dear. The concluding chapter attempts to relate these specifically literary values to the general trend of his thought. The two appendixes examine the philosophy of the two literary schools in Chinese history for which he showed most sympathy and antipathy respectively.
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell RNA-seq temporal snapshot data requires higher-order moments
Creators: name: Raharinirina, N. Alexia
name: Peppert, Felix
name: Kleist, Max Von
name: Schütte, Christof
name: Sunkara, Vikram
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: single cell
subject: RNA sequencing
subject: time-course snapshots
subject: Markov chains
subject: chemical master equation
subject: moment equations
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become ubiquitous in biology. Recently, there has been a push for using scRNA-seq snapshot data to infer the underlying gene regulatory networks (GRNs) steering cellular function. To date, this aspiration remains unrealized due to technical and computational challenges. In this work we focus on the latter, which is under-represented in the literature. We took a systemic approach by subdividing the GRN inference into three fundamental components: data pre-processing, feature extraction, and inference. We observed that the regulatory signature is captured in the statistical moments of scRNA-seq data and requires computationally intensive minimization solvers to extract it. Furthermore, current data pre-processing might not conserve these statistical moments. Although our moment-based approach is a didactic tool for understanding the different compartments of GRN inference, this line of thinking—finding computationally feasible multi-dimensional statistics of data—is imperative for designing GRN inference methods.
title: Ifo: A study of an Igbo vocal genre.
Creators: name: Ifionu, Azubike O.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: This study comprises a description and analysis of the textual and musical components of a homogeneous corpus of Ifo songs - songs which occur within the telling of traditional folktales - from the Orumba area of Anambra State of Nigeria. Because Ifo is a mirror of the mind and thought of the people, a reflection of the tensions and conflicts within the society, in Chapter One different but related facets of Igbo cultural life deemed essential for the understanding of the content of Ifo are delineated. The two subsequent chapters demonstrate that Igbo concepts of music differ from those of the west, and that although Igbo vocal and instrumental musical expressions may have some features in common, basically they differ in idiom and style. Hence in Chapter Two Igbo concepts of music, musical categories, and types, are explained. In this context Ifo is established as sui generis in the gamut of traditional vocal music. The social functions of music, and the forces, both indigenous and foreign, that influence Igbo musical practices, are also discussed. In Chapter Three traditional vocal music is treated in detail, and in subsequent chapters the focus is on Ifo. The special features of Ifo are described in Chapter Four; the textual components in Chapter Five; and the stylistic elements in terms of music-text relationships, vocal modes, and singing style in Chapter Six. Chapter Seven is devoted to musical analysis. Chapter Eight consists of a summary and conclusion. The potential value of Ifo in Igbo studies, especially in the field of Arts and Humanities, is unquestionable. The melodies are of importance for composition; the subject-matter is appropriate to folk opera, and to use by novelists, and dramatists; and the texts provide excellent material for the study of Folklore, poetry, linguistics and sociology.
Zinc Status of Horses and Ponies: Relevance of Health, Horse Type, Sex, Age, and Test Material
Creators: name: Bömmel-Wegmann, Sarah Van
name: Gehlen, Heidrun
name: Barton, Ann Kristin
name: Büttner, Kathrin
name: Zentek, Jürgen
name: Paßlack, Nadine
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: zinc
subject: diet
subject: equines
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Little is known about the animal- and diet-related factors that could interfere with the plasma zinc (Zn) concentrations of equines. Additionally, the adequacy of plasma to reflect changes in the Zn intake is unclear. In the first part of this study, the plasma Zn concentrations of hospitalized horses and ponies (n = 538) were measured and evaluated for the impact of the age, sex, horse type, and internal diseases of the animals. In the second part, the effects of increasing dietary Zn chloride hydroxide and Zn methionine supplementations were assessed on the plasma and mane hair Zn concentrations of healthy horses (n = 2) and ponies (n = 8). Part 1: The age, sex, and horse type did not influence the plasma Zn concentrations. No effect of internal diseases was observed, with the exception of higher plasma Zn concentrations in animals with metabolic disorders compared to the control group (p < 0.05). Part 2: Both Zn supplements dose-dependently increased the Zn concentrations in the mane hair (p = 0.003), but not in the plasma of the horses and ponies. In conclusion, the plasma Zn concentrations were widely unaffected by nutritional and non-nutritional factors in equines, while mane hair samples better reflected the dietary Zn supply.
Genome-wide association reveals host-specific genomic traits in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Tiwari, Sumeet K.
name: Putten, Boas C. L. Van Der
name: Fuchs, Thilo M.
name: Vinh, Trung N.
name: Bootsma, Martin
name: Oldenkamp, Rik
name: La Ragione, Roberto
name: Matamoros, Sebastien
name: Hoa, Ngo T.
name: Schwarz, Stefan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Escherichia coli
subject: GWAS
subject: Host-specificity
subject: Sialic acid
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Background Escherichia coli is an opportunistic pathogen which colonizes various host species. However, to what extent genetic lineages of E. coli are adapted or restricted to specific hosts and the genomic determinants of such adaptation or restriction is poorly understood. Results We randomly sampled E. coli isolates from four countries (Germany, UK, Spain, and Vietnam), obtained from five host species (human, pig, cattle, chicken, and wild boar) over 16 years, from both healthy and diseased hosts, to construct a collection of 1198 whole-genome sequenced E. coli isolates. We identified associations between specific E. coli lineages and the host from which they were isolated. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified several E. coli genes that were associated with human, cattle, or chicken hosts, whereas no genes associated with the pig host could be found. In silico characterization of nine contiguous genes (collectively designated as nan-9) associated with the human host indicated that these genes are involved in the metabolism of sialic acids (Sia). In contrast, the previously described sialic acid regulon known as sialoregulon (i.e. nanRATEK-yhcH, nanXY, and nanCMS) was not associated with any host species. In vitro growth experiments with a Δnan-9 E. coli mutant strain, using the sialic acids 5-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) as sole carbon source, showed impaired growth behaviour compared to the wild-type. Conclusions This study provides an extensive analysis of genetic determinants which may contribute to host specificity in E. coli. Our findings should inform risk analysis and epidemiological monitoring of (antimicrobial resistant) E. coli.
Supplemental Material, Portuguese_EOSq-24v - Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the 24-Item Early-Onset Scoliosis Questionnaire
Creators: name: Mendonça, Rodrigo G. M. De
name: Bergamascki, Lucas M.
name: Silva, Karla C. M. Da
name: Letaif, Olavo B.
name: Marcon, Raphael
name: Cristante, Alexandre F.
name: Matsumoto, Hiroko
name: Vitale, Michel G.
name: Meves, Robert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material, Portuguese_EOSq-24v for Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the 24-Item Early-Onset Scoliosis Questionnaire by Rodrigo G. M. De Mendonça, Lucas M. Bergamascki, Karla C. M. da Silva, Olavo B. Letaif, Raphael Marcon, Alexandre F. Cristante, Hiroko Matsumoto, Michel G. Vitale and Robert Meves in Global Spine Journal
Clifford_Supplemental_Material_rev – Supplemental material for Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood
Creators: name: Clifford, Sierra
name: Doane, Leah D.
name: Breitenstein, Reagan
name: Grimm, Kevin J.
name: Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Clifford_Supplemental_Material_rev for Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood by Sierra Clifford, Leah D. Doane, Reagan Breitenstein, Kevin J. Grimm and Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant in Psychological Science
sj-pdf-1-pij-10.1177_1350650120935005 - Supplemental material for Tribological activity of ionic liquid stabilized calcium-doped ceria nanoparticles
Creators: name: Kumar, Bharat
name: Verma, Dinesh K
name: Rastogi, Rashmi B
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pij-10.1177_1350650120935005 for Tribological activity of ionic liquid stabilized calcium-doped ceria nanoparticles by Bharat Kumar, Dinesh K Verma, Kavita and Rashmi B Rastogi in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology
title: City regions of the People's Republic of China 1949-1959.
Creators: name: Fung, Ka-iu
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: In contrast with the stagnation in city planning and development during the Nationalist regime, industrial urbanization began to accelerate soon after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. The central authorities promulgated the Suburban Agrarian Reform Law for acquiring and reserving land in designated suburban areas for future development. This law laid the foundation for China's long-term urban and suburban planning. However, throughout the First Five Year Plan period (1953-1957), many "key-point" industrial centres spread chaotically into the surrounding countryside. This was mainly attributed to legislative weaknesses in land allocation for capital construction and unplanned, or at best, improperly planned urban development, arising from indiscriminate emulation of Soviet model of city planning and development. One of the most serious consequences of urban sprawl was the extensive displacement of urban fringe agriculture, leading to acute shortage of vegetable supply in many large cities. To limit excessive expansion of cities in order to conserve valuable suburban farm land and to promote self-sufficiency in vegetable supply in the cities, a variety of remedial measures was introduced. The beginning of 1958 witnessed the institutionalisation of the urban-centred planning unit - the city region. Under this unified planning agency, the functions of the municipal authorities of the central city were centralized. The agricultural land use in the suburban districts was restructured. The urban population and economic activities were dispersed to the self-contained industrial satellites. Since 1959 all large urban centres in China have been encircled by an intensively cultivated horticultural zone, resembling the innermost circle of von Thunen's model. A case study of the suburban development in Shanghai is presented. The findings reveal that China's city region strategy has successfully accomplished socialist urban transformation of the city.
Understanding the protective effect of social support on depression symptomatology from a longitudinal network perspective
Creators: name: Li, Gen
name: Li, Yifan
name: Lam, Agnes Iok Fong
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Seedat, Soraya
name: Barbui, Corrado
name: Papola, Davide
name: Panter-Brick, Catherine
name: Waerden, Judith Van Der
name: Burchert, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: social support
subject: depression symptomatology
subject: longitudinal network perspective
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background: Higher social support protects people from developing mental disorders. Limited evidence is available on the mechanism through which social support plays this protective role. Objective: To investigate the stress-buffering process of social support on depressive symptoms using a novel longitudinal dynamic symptom network approach. Methods: A total of 4242 adult participants who completed the first two waves (from May to October 2020) of the International Covid Mental Health Survey were included in the study. Cross-lagged panel network modelling was used to estimate a longitudinal network of self-reported social support, loneliness and depressive symptoms. Standardised regression coefficients from regularised cross-lagged regressions were estimated as edge weights of the network. Findings: The results support a unidirectional protective effect of social support on key depressive symptoms, partly mediated through loneliness: A higher number of close confidants and accessible practical help was associated with decreased anhedonia (weight=−0.033) and negative self-appraisal symptoms (weight=−0.038). Support from others was also negatively associated with loneliness, which in turn associated with decreased depressed mood (weight=0.086) and negative self-appraisal (weight=0.077). We identified a greater number of direct relationships from social support to depressive symptoms among men compared with women. Also, the edge weights from social support to depression were generally stronger in the men’s network. Conclusions: Reductions in negative self-appraisal might function as a bridge between social support and other depressive symptoms, and, thus, it may have amplified the protective effect of social support. Men appear to benefit more from social support than women. Clinical implications: Building community-based support networks to deliver practical support, and loneliness reduction components are critical for depression prevention interventions after stressful experiences.