cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Retrieving novel C5aR antagonists using a hybrid ligand-based virtual screening protocol based on SVM classification and pharmacophore models
Creators: name: Zhang, Chun-Hui
name: Li, Lin-Li
name: Ji, Pan
name: Ma, Shuang
name: Wang, Ze-Rong
name: Zou, Jun
name: Yang, Sheng-Yong
name: Qing, Xiao-Yu
name: Wan, Hua-Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: C5aR antagonists have been thought as potential immune mediators in various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, and discovery of C5aR antagonists has attracted much attention in recent years. The discovery of C5aR antagonists was usually achieved through high-throughput screening, which usually suffered a high cost and a low success rate. Currently, the fast developing computer-aided virtual screening (VS) methods provide economic and rapid approaches to the lead discovery. In this account, we proposed a hybrid ligand-based VS protocol that is based on support vector machine (SVM) classification and pharmacophore models for retrieving novel C5aR antagonists. Performance evaluation of this hybrid VS protocol in virtual screening against a large independent test set, T-CHEM, showed that the hybrid VS approach significantly increased the hit rate and enrichment factor compared with the individual SVM classification model-based VS and pharmacophore model-based VS, as well as molecular docking-based VS in that the receptor structure was created by homology modeling. The hybrid VS approach was then used to screen several large chemical libraries including PubChem, Specs, and Enamine. Finally, a total of 20 compounds were selected from the top ranking hits, and shifted to the subsequent in vitro and in vivo studies, which results will be reported in the near future.
The effect of willow control using a glyphosate formulation on aquatic invertebrates within a New Zealand wetland
Creators: name: Wech, Janine
name: Suren, Alastair
name: Brady, Matthew
name: Kilroy, Cathy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Exotic trees, such as willow (Salix spp.), have become invasive around New Zealand waterways. Lowland wetlands in particular are vulnerable, with invasions changing hydrology and causing biodiversity loss. Applying herbicide to the willow canopy is a cost-effective control method, however uncertainty remains around effects on wetland aquatic invertebrates. Within a North Island, New Zealand, wetland, we conducted a paired before-after, control-impact study to determine if aerially applied glyphosate (with adjuvants) affected invertebrate assemblages. No effect on communities was detected during the first year after glyphosate treatment, however significant differences between control and spray-exposed communities were found during the second year, coinciding with a significant drought event in March 2013. By the third year, no statistically significant differences were found between communities from control and spray-exposed sites. This study suggests that glyphosate use, in comparable environments, is unlikely to affect aquatic invertebrates. Furthermore, the study illustrates invertebrate communities’ resilience to drought events.
Conditional Diffusion-Based Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 from Earth Observing Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Keely, William R.
name: Lamminpää, Otto
name: Mauceri, Steffen
name: Crowell, Sean M. R.
name: O'Dell, Christopher W.
name: McGarragh, Gregory R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Satellite-based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) properties from observations of reflected solar spectra are integral for understanding and monitoring complex terrestrial systems and their impact on the carbon cycle due to their near global coverage. Known as retrieval, making GHG concentration estimations from these observations is a non-linear Bayesian inverse problem, which is operationally solved using a computationally expensive algorithm called Optimal Estimation (OE), providing a Gaussian approximation to a non-Gaussian posterior. This leads to issues in solver algorithm convergence, and to unrealistically confident uncertainty estimates for the retrieved quantities. Upcoming satellite missions will provide orders of magnitude more data than the current constellation of GHG observers. Development of fast and accurate retrieval algorithms with robust uncertainty quantification is critical. Doing so stands to provide substantial climate impact of moving towards the goal of near continuous real-time global monitoring of carbon sources and sinks which is essential for policy making. To achieve this goal, we propose a diffusion-based approach to flexibly retrieve a Gaussian or non-Gaussian posterior, for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 spectrometer, while providing a substantial computational speed-up over the current operational state-of-the-art.
description: Published as a workshop paper in "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning", ICLR 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/iclr2025/12
Additional file 1 of Carbon monoxide poisoning: a prediction model using meteorological factors and air pollutant
Creators: name: Ruan, Hai-Lin
name: Deng, Wang-Shen
name: Wang, Yao
name: Chen, Jian-Bing
name: Hong, Wei-Liang
name: Ye, Shan-Shan
name: Hu, Zhuo-Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of daily incidence counts and overall daily pollutant and meteorological measures. Table S2. Pearson correlation between CO poisoning admission and pollutant parameters. Figure S1. Logistic regression of CO poisoning by monthly mean meteorological and pollutant factors. Table S3. A comparison of actual CO poisoning level in 2017 and predictive CO poisoning grade based on the combination of meteorological and pollutant factors.
Mechanism of flexibility control for ATP access of hepatitis C virus NS3 helicase
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuan
name: Li, Jingyuan
name: Ju, Jingyue
name: Palla, Mirkó
name: Chen, Chien-Pin
name: Liao, Jung-Chi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 helicase couples adenosine triphosphate (ATP) binding and hydrolysis to polynucleotide unwinding. Understanding the regulation mechanism of ATP binding will facilitate targeting of the ATP-binding site for potential therapeutic development for hepatitis C. T324, an amino acid residue connecting domains 1 and 2 of NS3 helicase, has been suggested as part of a flexible hinge for opening of the ATP-binding cleft, although the detailed mechanism remains largely unclear. We used computational simulation to examine the mutational effect of T324 on the dynamics of the ATP-binding site. A mutant model, T324A, of the NS3 helicase apo structure was created and energy was minimized. Molecular dynamics simulation was conducted for both wild type and the T324A mutant apo structures to compare their differences. For the mutant structure, histogram analysis of pairwise distances between residues in domains 1 and 2 (E291-Q460, K210-R464 and R467-T212) showed that separation between the two domains was reduced by ∼10% and the standard deviation by ∼33%. Root mean square fluctuation (RMSF) analysis demonstrated that residues in close proximity to residue 324 have at least 30% RMSF value reductions in the mutant structure. Solvent RMSF analysis showed that more water molecules were trapped near D290 and H293 in domain 1 to form an extensive interaction network constraining cleft opening. We also demonstrated that the T324A mutation established a new atomic interaction with V331, revealing that an atomic interaction cascade from T324 to residues in domains 1 and 2 controls the flexibility of the ATP-binding cleft.
Measuring the associations between smartphone use and subjective well-being during normal use and a deprivation condition: A hybrid feedback and elicitation diary combined with a qualitative interview guideline
Creators: name: Kohout, Susann
name: Schumann, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: smartphone, functions of smartphone use, situations of smartphone use, subjective well-being, emotions, deprivation study

description: The document contains three instruments to study on the associations between smartphone use (in particular functions and situations) and subjective well-being (in particular emotions, day satisfaction and satisfaction with social contacts). The instruments were applied in a qualitative prolonged, quasi-experimental deprivation study using a mixed-methods design. The study was partitioned into three phases: During the first phase (5 days), the participants’ smartphone use was monitored under normal conditions. During the second phase (5 days), the participants were not allowed to use their smartphones (the deprivation phase). In phase 3, a qualitative interview was conducted. Phase 3 followed the deprivation phase immediately. In detail, the instruments contain the following measures: Instrument 1: Situational questionnaire (phase 1 and phase 2): Measures associations between specific situations (where?) and functions (what did you do?) of smartphone use and the emotions (=affective component of subjective well-being). Phase 1 refers to normal usage phase/ phase 2 refers to the deprivation condition. Needs to be filled out 4 times a day. Instrument 2: Daily questionnaire (phase 1 and phase 2): Measures the cognitive component of subjective well-being, namely general satisfaction with the current day and domain satisfaction with the social relations. Phase 1 refers to normal usage phase/ phase 2 refers to the deprivation condition. Needs to be filled out once a day (in the evening). Instrument 3: Qualitative interview guideline (phase 3): Measures subjective interpretations of the findings obtained with instrument 1 and 2 as well as general experiences during deprivation.
description: {"references": ["Crawford, J. R., & Henry, J. D. (2004). The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Construct validity, measurement properties and normative data in a large non-clinical sample. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, (43), 245\u2013265.", "International Wellbeing Group (2013). Personal Wellbeing Index (5th ed.). Melbourne: Australia: The Australian Centre on Quali-ty of Life, Deakin University. Retrieved from: http://www.deakin.edu.au/research/acqol/instruments/wellbeing-index/pwi-a-english.pdf"]}
Proteomic and metabolomic profiles of marine Vibrio sp. 010 in response to an antifoulant challenge
Creators: name: H. Chandramouli, Kondethimmanahalli
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Ravasi, Timothy
name: Qian, Pei-Yuan
name: Dash, Swagatika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Vibrio spp. have the ability to form biofilms, which may contribute to the subsequent successful colonization by microfouling and macrofouling organisms. The effects of an antifouling compound, poly-ether B, on Vibrio sp. 010 were investigated using flow cytometry, proteomics, and metabolomics. A 2-D gel-based proteomic analysis was used to identify proteins responsive to poly-ether B treatment. The profiles of biofilm metabolites were analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Poly-ether B caused a significant reduction in viability. The proteins affected by the treatment were related to nucleotide metabolism, the glyoxylate cycle, and stress responses. Metabolites such as tripeptides, fatty acids, and quorum-sensing molecules were regulated differentially. Down-regulation of proteins and metabolites potentially led to a loss in colonisation ability, thereby affecting the structure of the biofilm. These results suggest that the proteins and metabolites identified may serve as target molecules for potent antifouling compounds.
Application of microwave-irradiated manganese dioxide in the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from soil contaminated by capacitor oil
Creators: name: Zhao, Ling
name: Lin, Zhi-Rong
name: Dong, Yuan-Hua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from soil contaminated with capacitor oil, using microwave (MW)-irradiated manganese dioxide (MnO2), was examined under different conditions. The effects of different types of MnO2 added as oxidant, as well as the initial amount of water, MnO2, and sulphuric acid solution, were also investigated. The removal efficiencies for dichlorobiphenyls, trichlorobiphenyls, tetrachlorobiphenyls, pentachlorobiphenyls, hexachlorobiphenyls, heptachlorobiphenyls, and octachlorobiphenyls were approximately 95.9%, 82.5%, 52.0%, 71.6%, 62.5%, 28.6%, and 16.1%, respectively, by 800 W MW irradiation for 45 min with the assistance of 0.1 g δ-MnO2 and 0.2 mL water in 1.0 g severely PCB-contaminated soil (∑PCB=1560.82 mg/kg); meanwhile, the concentrations of Mn2+ ions detected were from 10.6±1.9 mg/kg at 0 min to 108.2±7.8 mg/kg after 45 min MW irradiation, indicating that MnO2 acted as not only a MW absorber but also an oxidizer. Removal efficiencies of PCBs from contaminated soil increased with increasing the amounts of water and MnO2 added. The type of MnO2 also affected the removal of PCBs, following an order of . The addition of low concentration of sulphuric acid (such as 1.0 mol/L) solution was favourable for the removal of low chloro-substituted PCBs, but the addition of more than 1.0 mol/L sulphuric acid reduced the removal of all PCBs. The pronounced removal of PCBs from contaminated soil in a short treatment time indicates that MW irradiation with the assistance of MnO2 is an efficient and promising technology for the remediation of PCB-contaminated soil.
Front matter and contents: Colloquy, Issue 33, May 2017
Creators: name: Colloquy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: COLLOQUYtext | theory | critiqueIssue 33
May 2017
Time Flies: Remnants of Auschwitz in Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Creators: name: Austin, Hailey J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This article examines Art Spiegleman’s Maus (1997) in the context of Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory and Giorgio Agamben’s definitions of the terms wargus, colossus, and Muselmann, in order to understand how the graphic novel illuminates the ways in which relationships contribute to intergenerational trauma. The relationships between survivors and the second generation, as well as their individual relationships with the Holocaust itself, continue to traumatise all involved. Though some writers have argued against the validity of the second generation as a true witness to the Holocaust or as sufferers of intergenerational trauma, Maus renders such arguments powerless and reveals them to be unhelpful. Instead, Maus demonstrates that relationships and a lack of real, tangible connection to the events of the Holocaust can create a trauma that extends through the past and perpetuates itself in those who come after.
Heritage of Hunger: Famine, Self-Starvation, and Narrative-Building in Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic”
Creators: name: O'Leary, Maggie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In Ireland, the Famine remains a trauma that poses difficulties of history and representation for writers attempting to address its presence in national and cultural memory. Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” while not typically read as engaging with the Famine, presents a unique possibility for such representations as an invented narrative rooted in a fundamentally Irish context. Boland’s work often features voices that were historically precluded from literary and national traditions, leading her to construct “imaginative” narratives that feature women’s voices as they engage with memory and trauma. Boland has written several poems more explicitly addressing the Famine, but “Anorexic” is not typically counted among them. I argue, however, that “Anorexic” can be read as such a narrative when interrogated as a response to the prevailing masculine, nationalistic narratives that characterise how women have been historically represented in Famine writing.
Additional file 2 of CPSF6 links alternative polyadenylation to metabolism adaption in hepatocellular carcinoma progression
Creators: name: Tan, Sheng
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Shi, Xinglong
name: Ding, Keshuo
name: Zhao, Qiang
name: Guo, Qianying
name: Wang, Hao
name: Wu, Zhengsheng
name: Kang, Yani
name: Zhu, Tao
name: Sun, Jielin
name: Zhao, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary Table S1. Clinicopathologic correlation of CPSF6 expression in HCCs. The expression level of CPSF6 protein was detected by immunohistochemistry.
Editorial: Colloquy, Issue 33, May 2017
Creators: name: Smith, Aisling
name: Kendal, Zachary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Welcome to the 33rd issue of Colloquy. There have been many changes afoot in recent months, including several new additions to the editorial team. After our 32nd issue, Zachary Kendal came on board as co-editor-in-chief. Zachary is a PhD candidate at Monash University, researching ethics and literary representation in science fiction, and works part-time as a librarian at the Monash University Library. We would also like to acknowledge our two new associate editors, Mia Goodwin and Matilda Grogan.
This issue begins with two very different articles on trauma, witnessing and testimony. In “Heritage of Hunger: Famine, Self-Starvation, and Narrative-Building in Eavan Boland’s ‘Anorexic’,” Maggie O’Leary considers the lasting cultural impact of the Famine on Irish poetry, reading Boland’s “Anorexic” as a response to the masculine and nationalistic themes that tend to dominate Famine writing. Then Hailey J. Austin’s “Time Flies: Remnants of Auschwitz in Art Spiegelman’s Maus” draws on the scholarship of Giorgio Agamben and Marianne Hirsch in an insightful reflection on the trauma of the Holocaust on survivors and the second generation in Spiegelman’s graphic memoir Maus.
In our third article, Alexandra Cain investigates Hannah Arendt’s political theory through a Kantian framework in “Actors, Spectators, and Power in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Judgement,” exploring the clash between the judgement of the actor and that of the spectator. Our final article is Rory Dufficy’s “SCUM Without a Subject: Valerie Solanas at the End of the Avant-Garde,” which uses Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto as a lens through which to view and discuss the dissolution of the avant-garde. In the creative writing section, we have Ben Smith’s short story “Night Swimming,” a coming-of-age story which engages with issues of sexuality, friendship and self-realisation. This issue also contains book reviews by Zachary Kendal, Marcos Norris and Vincent Le.
Actors, Spectators, and Power in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Judgement
Creators: name: Cain, Alexandra Pearl
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Readers of Hannah Arendt's political theory have always found it difficult to integrate her writings on political judgment into her political theory as a whole. This is primarily because Arendt's judging subject seems to be at odds with the way that she frames the acting subject. In response to this problem, this article identifies an implicit Kantianism within Arendt's political theory, which can be employed in understanding the role of political judgement and its relation to action in Arendt. I suggest that, in order to ground the judgement of the actor, Arendt appeals to a version of Kantian reflective judgement, as it appears in Immanuel Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgement. I then argue that although Arendt attempts to distance herself from the Kantian transcendental, she also seems to lean on theoretical formulations that correlate to the sublime feeling in the spectator, also found in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. Finally, I relate these two ways of judging to the notion of power as Arendt discusses it in The Human Condition. I suggest that it is through power that political judgment appears in the world, as the clash between the reflective judgment of the actor and the philosophical judgment of the spectator.
Insights into the drug resistance induced by the BaDHPS mutations: molecular dynamic simulations and MM/GBSA studies
Creators: name: Chu, Wen-Ting
name: Zhang, Ji-Long
name: Zheng, Qing-Chuan
name: Chen, Lin
name: Xue, Qiao
name: Zhang, Hong-Xing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) is essential for the folic acid biosynthetic pathway in prokaryotes; the mutation forms for DHPS are found to be relative to the urgent drug resistance problems. In our study, the Bacillus anthracis DHPS (BaDHPS) was selected for molecular dynamics and binding free energy studies to investigate the biochemistry behaviors of the wild-type and mutation form BaDHPS proteins (D184N and K220Q). It is found that the conformational change of the ligand dihydropteroate sulfathiazole binding site in mutation D184N and K220Q systems is mainly attributed from the Loop 1, Loop 2, and Loop 7 regions, and the binding free energy of these mutation systems is lower than that of the wild-type system. Additionally, some important hydrogen bonds of the mutation systems are disrupted during the simulations. But the shortening of the distance between residue Thr67 and the ligand would cause significant change of the binding pose in the K220Q system. These studies of DHPS family will be helpful for further drug resistance investigations.
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SCUM Without a Subject: Valerie Solanas at the End of the Avant-Garde
Creators: name: Dufficy, Rory
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The avant-garde, conceptualised as a particular articulation of politics and aesthetics, gains descriptive purchase only when seen as an epochal process that emerges in relationship to a distinct regime of capital accumulation and thus a distinction configuration of social production and reproduction. In this paper, I want to explore what a statement like this might mean, or how it might be true, by reading Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto (1968) as a peculiar limit-point of that avant-garde, which, arriving at the moment of the latter’s dissolution, allows us to witness the end of the conjunction of politics and aesthetics that carried that name, and thus perhaps better limn its features.
Molecular dynamics simulations of the thermal stability of tteRBP and ecRBP
Creators: name: Zhao, Xi
name: Yu, Hui
name: Feng, Xian-li
name: Sun, Tie-dong
name: Huang, Xu-ri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Molecular dynamics simulations were performed for investigating the thermal stability of the extremely thermophilic Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis ribose binding protein (tteRBP) and the mesophilic homologous Escherichia coli ribose binding protein (ecRBP). The simulations for the two proteins were carried out under the room temperature (300 K) and the optimal activity temperature (tteRBP 375 K and ecRBP 329 K), respectively. The comparative analyses of the trajectories show that the two proteins have stable overall structures at the two temperatures; further analyses indicate that they both have strong side-chain interactions and different backbone flexibilities at the different temperatures. The tteRBP 375 K and ecRBP 329 K have stronger internal motion and higher flexibility than tteRBP 300 K and ecRBP 300 K, respectively, it is noted that the flexibility of tteRBP is much higher than that of ecRBP at the two temperatures. Therefore, tteRBP 375 K can adapt to high temperature due to its higher flexibility of backbone. Combining with the researches by Cuneo et al., it is concluded that the side-chain interactions and flexibility of backbone are both the key factors to maintain thermal stability of the two proteins.
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Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons, eds., Walter Benjamin and Theology [Book review]
Creators: name: Norris, Marcos
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Religious Studies

description: Scholarly interest in Marxist literary critic and political philosopher Walter Benjamin has steadily increased over the last forty years. Today, Benjamin’s theoretical insights pervade the landscape of continental philosophy. His ideas have deeply influenced writers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Sajov Zizek, and Judith Butler, but the nature of his contributions to contemporary philosophical debates is, like the author’s own body of work, diverse and often enigmatic. Perhaps complicating matters, the past decade of continental philosophy has seen a resurgence in Pauline thought which, in its various manifestations, purports to uncover the Judeo-Christian foundations of antinomianism, or the undoing of Jewish law and other representational boundaries. As Howard Eiland writes, Benjamin’s philosophical messianism unites with the political theology of the apostle Paul in “its overcoming (‘dying to’) both natural law and state law, both Greek rationalism and Jewish legalism, in its decisive setting-apart of truth from all possession (of knowledge, of property)” (124). In this manner, the so-called “religious turn” in continental philosophy has brought underrepresented strains of Benjamin’s oeuvre to the fore.
Comparing Group Processes Between an Intensive Verbal Personal Development Group and an Intensive Dance Movement Personal Development Group
Creators: name: Eshet-Vago, Anat
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: personal development groups
dance movement psychotherapy
group psychotherapy
group processes
movement observation
Laban movement analysis

description: The study aimed to identify and understand the phenomenon of group processes comparing two Personal Development (PD) group modalities. One group mainly used verbalisation and the other mainly used movement for interaction and self-expression. Group processes were expressed through the analysis of the participant’s non-verbal movements and the verbal expressions of their experience in the group. The thesis of this study was that group processes can be expressed and identified through movement and verbal expressions. This study built on previous studies that have explored group processes in both Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) and in Verbal Group Psychotherapy fields in relation to PD groups. Two theoretical frameworks that underpinned this study were: DMP as group work and Group Psychotherapy with the primary focus on group processes in PD groups. These theories were selected for their pertinence to the understanding of group processes and PD groups. The comparison between the groups intended to answer the study’s question: which group processes as expressed verbally and non-verbally in movement can be identified in a dance movement PD group compared with a verbal PD group? Qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology methodology was employed in this study in order to answer the above question using two collection and analysis methods: movement observation using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and a thematic analysis of participants’ verbal reflections in semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study have shown which group process developed in each of the PD groups identified through the two collections methods. For instance, they were conflict, rivalry, trust, intimacy and cohesion. The analysis of the DM PD group has shown differences in findings between that which the movement observation identified and that which participants described in the interviews. The study aimed to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding group processes in DMP and group psychotherapy theory and research. Exploring group processes through the use of movement and verbalisation adds to the professional development and training in both fields. The study outcome offers an original contribution to practice, through the development of a group work guide for facilitators, derived from the group processes conceptual model. It represents a new way of understanding group processes and dynamics through the observation of a group’s movements and verbal reflections by participants. This guide is aimed at supporting facilitators of PD groups when considering interventions both when leading groups and when reflecting on the groups’ processes.
Remarkable disparity in mechanical response among the extracellular domains of type I and II cadherins
Creators: name: Wu, Fei
name: Paul Thiery, Jean
name: Liu, Ruchuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Cadherins, a large family of calcium-dependent adhesion molecules, are critical for intercellular adhesion. While crystallographic structures for several cadherins show clear structural similarities, their relevant adhesive strengths vary and their mechanisms of adhesion between types I and II cadherin subfamilies are still unclear. Here, stretching of cadherins was explored experimentally by atomic force microscopy and computationally by steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations, where partial unfolding of the E-cadherin ectodomains was observed. The SMD simulations on strand-swapping cadherin dimers displayed similarity in binding strength, suggesting contributions of other mechanisms to explain the strength differences of cell adhesion in vivo. Systematic simulations on the unfolding of the extracellular domains of type I and II cadherins revealed diverse pathways. However, at the earliest stage, a remarkable similarity in unfolding was observed for the various type I cadherins that was distinct from that for type II cadherins. This likely correlates positively with their distinct adhesive properties, suggesting that the initial forced deformation in type I cadherins may be involved in cadherin-mediated adhesion.
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Davide Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics [Book review]
Creators: name: Kendal, Zachary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A short volume, Davide Panagia’s Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (2016) sketches a thought-provoking framework for the reconceptualisation of the aesthetic experience. Panagia’s sense of frustration with contemporary approaches to aesthetics is evident from the outset, as he indicates his wariness of the assumption that “appearances are deceitful” and that the aesthetic demands “epistemic critique” (xii). In a particularly poignant moment in the preface, Panagia describes his project as being spurred by dominant responses to images of people seeking asylum. He observes that we have become so accustomed to distrusting appearances that when faced with images of desolate refugees and asylum seekers, we respond first with suspicion: “How do I know that she really is the way she appears to be?” (xiii). This acute observation, which would no doubt resonate throughout much of the world today, recalls popular discourses around asylum seekers in Australia. As we are confronted by images of people in off-shore detention, subject to imprisonment at the behest of the Australian government after having fled war and persecution, we question the images’ validity and rationalise them to minimise their impact. With this context in mind, one can recognise the urgency of Panagia’s attempts to explore “the possibility of a pre-judgemental moment of experience where our most heartfelt critical intuitions about how the world ought to be ordered become undone” (xiv). To examine how Panagia attempts to achieve this, I will briefly move through his ten theses, one by one, to see how they articulate his vision of a new aesthetics of politics.
Additional file 1: of Efficacy and safety of antagonists for chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 cells in adult patients with asthma: a meta-analysis and systematic review
Creators: name: Yang, Jing
name: Luo, Jian
name: Yang, Ling
name: Yang, Dan
name: Wang, Dan
name: Liu, Bicui
name: Huang, Tingxuan
name: Wang, Xiaohu
name: Liang, Binmiao
name: Liu, Chuntao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Beggâ s test for publication bias on pre-bronchodilator FEV1 (L). Figure S2. Meta-regression plot of mean difference for pre-bronchodilator FEV1 (L) predicted by treatment duration. Figure S3. Meta-regression plot of mean difference for pre-bronchodilator FEV1 (L) predicted by asthma severity. Figure S4. Meta-regression plot of mean difference for pre-bronchodilator FEV1 (L) predicted by concomitant treatment. Figure S5. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on pre-bronchodilator FEV1% predicted. Figure S6. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on post-bronchodilator FEV1 (L). Figure S7. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on FVC. Figure S8. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on severe adverse events. Figure S9. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on treatment related adverse events. Figure S10. The effect of CRTH2 antagonists used as monotherapy or add-on therapy versus placebo on adverse events leading to treatment withdrawal. Figure S11. Beggâ s test for publication bias on adverse event. Figure S12. Meta-regression plot of risk ratio for adverse events predicted by treatment duration. Figure S13. Meta-regression plot of risk ratio for adverse events predicted by concomitant treatment. Figure S14. Meta-regression plot of risk ratio for adverse events predicted by asthma severity. (DOCX 10650 kb)
title: 02_0368
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Optimisation and Characterisation of a Curved Bimetallic Blade and its Performance Within a Thermal Motor
Creators: name: Angel, Geoffrey Dennis
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Bimetallic
Force
pre-curved
chord

description: In most flat bimetallic strip applications, the bending is employed in the transverse direction, that is, upon the application of uniform heating to the entire strip, the initially straight strip bends transversely up from the flat plane. This study is concerned with a pre-curved bimetallic strip that upon heating up from the ambient, straightens up along the chord line tending to become flatter. The initial ambient radius of curvature of the strip is smaller, and upon heating, the radius of curvature becomes larger. By mounting the curved bimetallic strip with a rotational degree of freedom at each end, and fixing one end against displacement, a chord line displacement of the free end of the strip occurs when the strip is uniformly heated. It is this chord line case that this work investigates and characterises. This work provides a way of evaluating the net combined axial loading case whereby an external load is applied to the free end of the strip as it uniformly heated. The main application of this work is for the characterisation of a curved bimetallic blade within a thermal motor. This is a novel device for converting renewable heat energy into mechanical energy and power as part of a larger energy harvesting network. The curved bimetallic strip with minor modifications, functions as a curved bimetallic blade within the thermal motor. The application of this work has a wider impact, in that it can be used in any other temperature induced force and displacement applications. Thus as a result of this investigation, a new form of linear actuator has been created that can utilise an input heat differential, and produce an output axial force and displacement. The displacements and forces generated by the axial case can be quite large, and as a result of this work, relatively easy to calculate, when designing a thermally driven linear actuator. The thermal motor, which possesses the curved bimetallic strip at the heart of its mechanism, can also be powered by other secondary heating sources such exhaust, or waste heat, that would otherwise be lost to the surroundings.
Impact of an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) precoating on the initial adhesion of Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Hwang, Geelsu
name: Kang, Seoktae
name: El-Din, Mohamed Gamal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2012
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) significantly influence bacterial adhesion to solid surfaces, but it is difficult to elucidate the role of EPS on bacterial adhesion due to their complexity and variability. In the present study, the effect of EPS on the initial adhesion of B. cepaciaepacia PC184 and P. aeruginosa PAO1 on glass slides with and without an EPS precoating was investigated under three ionic strength conditions. The surface roughness of EPS coated slides was evaluated by atomic force microscopy (AFM), and its effect on initial bacterial adhesion was found to be trivial. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies were performed to determine the elemental surface compositions of bacterial cells and substrata. The results showed that an EPS precoating hindered bacterial adhesion on solid surfaces, which was largely attributed to the presence of proteins in the EPS. This observation can be attributed to the increased steric repulsion at high ionic strength conditions. A steric model for polymer brushes that considers the combined influence of steric effects and DLVO interaction forces is shown to adequately describe bacterial adhesion behaviors.
Market Imperfections and Price Rigidities - a Case Study of the Greek Manufacturing Industry
Creators: name: Amountzias, Chrysovalantis
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: Greece
manufacturing industry
industrial organization
market power
price rigidity
speed of price adjustment
conjectural variation
imperfect competition
panel data

description: This study investigates the market conditions under which the Greek manufacturing sectors operate, and provides a formal measurement and determination of the observed degree of rigidity in nominal prices using panel modelling techniques. Two parameters in particular are found to capture the essence of market imperfections and price rigidity arising from various sources: the first parameter is conjectural variation elasticity which defines the degree of market divergence from perfect competition; and the last parameter refers to the speed of price adjustment towards the equilibrium level, which is estimated along with a set of important factors that affect this parameter. The data sample of this research consists of 56 3-digit manufacturing sectors, as defined by Eurostat (NACErev2) over the period 1980-2012, while the econometrical approach mainly incorporates the Fixed and Random Effects Model for panel data. The estimation process is divided into four steps: in the first step, the degree of market power and the speed of price adjustment are estimated for the whole manufacturing industry; in the second step, the same process is reiterated for the 3-digit sectors individually; in the third step the estimations are conducted for each year over 1980-2012; in the last step, the effects of a set of variables on the speed of price adjustment are estimated in order to provide an adequate interpretation of how market imperfections and price rigidities can be formed and how they relate to each other. By using the Greek economy as a case study, the empirical results provide significant evidence of a degree of market power similar to the one of a duopoly accompanied by relatively slow price adjustment in the 56 manufacturing sectors and the 33 years over 1980-2012.
Night Swimming
Creators: name: Smith, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: In a suburban block, the fences that appear to separate lives actually connect them. Not in any metaphorical sense—in the metaphorical sense they very much separate lives. But practically, a small and agile creature, like a cat, or a child, can find their way onto one and use it to traverse the guts of the neighbourhood. In that sense, fences form a kind of network. They even form hubs, where they meet at the corners of four yards, breezeblock garages and tin tool sheds clustered together. It was across one of these cinderblock networks that Tyson led me one night, stoned, to stop at an intersection and look out over the yards.
At first I saw nothing, but sensed that the air had grown cooler. Tyson’s expression urged silence, eyes wide; I heard the faint slosh of water. I stared at a patch of dark yard until finally, instantaneously, it transformed into something recognisable. And it was the same in every other yard.
Swimming pools, glistening in the light.
Additional file 4: of Age at menarche and prevention of hypertension through lifestyle in young Chinese adult women: result from project ELEFANT
Creators: name: Guo, Liqiong
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Xu, Hui
name: Wilson, Ander
name: Li, Peng-hui
name: Wang, Hao
name: Liu, Hongbin
name: Shen, Lilin
name: Chen, Xi
name: Qi, Xiuying
name: Tang, Nai-jun
name: Barrow, Timothy
name: Byun, Hyang-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Odds ratios (95% CIs) for hypertension related to age at menarche by passive smoking. (DOCX 26 kb)
Adam Kotsko, The Prince of This World [Book review]
Creators: name: Le, Vincent
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Religious Studies
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In the style of a Foucauldian genealogy, Kotsko draws upon a diverse array of philosophical, political, theological and literary Christian texts, from the scriptures and classic apologetics, to demonological treatises on witchcraft and Dante’s Inferno, so as to trace the historical significations of a single concept of the devil. What Kotsko’s narrative reveals is that the devil has transformed its meaning over time from originally symbolising the oppressor for the persecuted in the classical period, to ideologically representing the rebel in the eyes of the oppressor from the middle ages until today.
Photocatalytic degradation of commercial methyl parathion in aqueous suspension containing La‐doped TiO2 nanoparticles
Creators: name: Chen, Hao
name: Shen, Min
name: Chen, Ruiwen
name: Dai, Ke
name: Peng, Tianyou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The photocatalytic degradation of a commercial methyl parathion (MP) under UV irradiation was investigated in aqueous suspension containing lanthanum‐doped mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles (La/m‐TiO2) as photocatalyst. The rate of photodecomposition of MP was measured using UV‐Vis spectrophotometry, and its mineralization was followed using ion chromatography (IC). The identification of possible intermediate products was carried out using several powerful analytical techniques such as gas chromatography–pulsed flame photometric detector (GC–PFPD) and high performance liquid chromatography–mass spectroscopy (HPLC–MS). Under our conditions, complete disappearance of 20 mg/L of MP occurred within 2 h of illumination, whereas complete mineralization of MP was not achieved through IC analysis. There was a single intermediate product found in the research, which was identified to be methyl paraoxon, owing to the substitution of S by the O atom in the MP molecule. Based on the experimental facts, it is concluded that MP was mainly attacked not by OH radicals but photo‐generated holes (h+), resulting from the good adsorption of MP on the catalyst surfaces due to the enhanced adsorption by La doping.