cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Development of a formation control algorithm to coordinate multiple biomimetic AUVs in the presence of realistic environmental constraints
Creators: name: McColgan, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biomimetic, formation control algorithms, AUVs, robotics, mathematical modelling, underwater communication channel.

description: Biomimetic Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (BAUVs) are a class of Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) that mimic the propulsive and steering mechanisms of real fish. However, as with all UUVs, the range and endurance of these vehicles remains limited by the finite energy source housed on board the vehicle. Unsurprisingly, a consequence of this finite energy source is that BAUVs/UUVs are incapable of completing the large-scale oceanographic sampling missions required to drastically improve our understanding of the Earth’s oceans and its processes. To overcome this limitation, this thesis aims to investigate the feasibility of deploying a self-coordinating group of BAUVs capable of completing the aforementioned oceanic surveying missions despite the constraints of the local operating environment. To achieve this, the work presented in this thesis can be separated into four distinct parts. The first of which is the development of a suitable mathematical model that accurately models the dynamics of the RoboSalmon BAUV designed and built at the University of Glasgow. As well as ensuring the models validity, its ability to efficiently simulate multiple vehicles simultaneously is also demonstrated. The design and implementation of the formation control algorithm used to coordinate the vehicles is then presented. This process describes the alterations made to a biologically-inspired algorithm to ensure the required parallel line formation required for efficient oceanic sampling can be generated. Thereafter, the implementation of a realistic representation of the underwater communication channel and its debilitating effect on the algorithms ability to coordinate the vehicles as required is presented. The thesis then describes the incorporation of two methodologies designed specifically to overcome the limitations associated with the underwater communication channel. The first of which involves the implementation of tracking/predictive functionality while the second is a consensus based algorithm that aims to reduce the algorithms reliance on the communication channel. The robustness of these two methodologies to overcoming not only the problematic communication channel but also the inclusion of additional external disturbances is then presented. The results demonstrate that while the tracking/predictive functionality can overcome the problems associated with the communication channel, its efficiency significantly reduces when the external disturbances are taken into consideration. The consensus based methodology meanwhile generates the required formation regardless of the constraints imposed by both the communication channel and the additional external disturbances and therefore provides the more robust solution.
title: Morphogenesis of urban peripheries in the 20th century: Examples from the French Riviera
Creators: name: Prouin, Clément
name: Fusco, Giovanni
name: Caglioni, Matteo
name: Overal, Denis
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Morphological Process, 20th Century Urbanization, Urban Expansion, Peripheral Areas, French Riviera.

description: In this paper, we present the first urbanization and the subsequent transformations of the urban fabric in peripheral areas around the cities of the French Riviera, with a focus on the 20th century. More specifically, two urban sectors are analyzed in the cities of Nice and Cagnes-sur-Mer. Cadastral maps, aerial images and urban plans over a century and a half constitute the main inputs of the analysis. These coastal cities represent two paradigmatic contexts for the French Riviera. In Nice, the first urbanization was channeled by different plans of the street network, with different spatial logics in the 19th and in the 20th centuries. In Cagnes-sur-Mer, planning interventions were much more fragmented and sometimes completely absent. The second after-war period constitutes a paradigm shift in the urbanization process. A general scheme of the different phases of the morphogenetic process is proposed to summarize our main finding. It shows that the observed urban forms can result from different evolutionary paths. At the same time, strong path-dependencies characterize the sequence of the morphological processes. Compact city forms can be catalyzed by a planned urban grid, but can also evolve more spontaneously. Planned tree-like structures with built-up plots blocking the dead-ends produce less evolutive residential forms. Topographic constraints and urban pressure linked to accessibility patterns in a context of urban growth are also important factors in explaining the observed processes.
title: An empirical analysis of conviction patterns, change over the life-course and external influences in relation to sexual offending behaviour
Creators: name: Kyle, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sexual offences, Scottish Offenders' Index, causes of sexual offending, criminological theory, quantitative analysis.

description: This PhD uses statistical analysis and qualitative interviews to analyse behaviour patterns in the context of causal theories of sexual offending and desistance from it, with a particular emphasis on socio-cultural reasons why people offend, stop offending, or offend at different points in life. This research makes an original contribute to the literature in a number of ways. There are six main findings from this research that contribute to the literature in this area. One of the key findings is that there is substantial heterogeneity of offending behaviour amongst sexual offenders, suggesting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach for prevention, intervention or management. There was support in the research for a link between sexual offending and prolific non-sexual offending, but this only appeared to be one of several different sexual offending pathways. Other groups of offenders displayed considerable specialism in their offending (in terms of type of sexual offence and the fact that they had often only been convicted of sexual offences). This was magnified by the finding that offending rates were generally lower for sexual convictions than for other convictions: in fact, the vast majority of people in the dataset only had convictions for one sexual offence. There was evidence from the qualitative interviews that adverse life events were a contributory factor to sexual offending, and the thesis has found that there is support for both psychological and socio-cultural causes (including gender-based elements), as well as an interaction between the two. It also suggested that there is evidence that sexual offending is not stable over the life-course, and that situational factors appear to be important in terms of determining behavioural change. Implications for prevention, intervention and management of sexual offenders are discussed.
title: The other as the essence of existence: a journal of a philosophical passage to altruism
Creators: name: Ioannidis, Iraklis
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Critical philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, deconstruction, post-structuralism, altruism, promise, gift, logos, adoption, giving one's word, existence, death.

description: This research is about altruism. In our first chapter, our quest to find whether we are essentially altruistic starts with questioning particular ways of inquiry and proposes a philosophy of unbracketing. In our second chapter, we realise that our proposal starts with an imperative – a prescription. We begin by meditating on the phenomenon of prescription which seems to precede all ways of inquiry. Our analysis of prescription reveals that altruism is to prescribe oneself towards an Other. This type of prescription is to promise a future for an Other. To promise is to give one’s word and to undertake to realising it. In our third chapter, we explore the act of “giving one’s word.” To give one’s word is beyond a speech act. In fact, it is to give one’s logos. An altruistic attempt is carried out in this chapter to liberate ‘logos’ from particular conceptions and allow for its universal meaning to emerge. Logos is traced back to its inceptual conception as existence or will to power – a will to future. This philosophical excavation leads us to our fourth chapter where we re-encounter our original paradox. That is, while human reality starts with a promise of helping someone to make sense – to understand – we have been trying to understand understanding, or how we make sense, by removing the Other and by focusing only on subjective conditions. In this chapter, we reveal how to understand an Other is an altruistic act. In our final chapter, we carefully observe that human existence is a gift from the Other. We describe this gift as a metaphysical passage from being to existence – an altruistic act. A passage which is created by an Other who promises to give us the means to be able to create meaning, that is to say, to exist.
title: Climate and environmental change over the past 4000 years in a High Arctic polynya – a biomarker approach
Creators: name: Kumar, Natasha
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Palaeoclimate, biomarkers, geochemical analyses, IP25, PIP25, North Water Polynya, Arctic, sea ice, climate change, sterols, n-alkanes, highly branched isoprenoids, hopanoids, Holocene, Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, paleoclimate.

description: High-resolution, late Holocene marine sediments are rare due to low accumulation and preservation, thus are of great scientific interest for detailed reconstructions of paleoenvironments. There is high potential for this data to be used in climate modelling and to understand rates of environmental change in the recent geological past. In this study, a continuous (5.43m) sediment core spanning the last 4000 years was obtained from the continental shelf of the North Water Polynya and analysed for lipid biomarkers. Organic compounds such as lipids are obtained from several sources such as plant leaf waxes and microorganisms and are usually well preserved in marine sediments. While biomarker studies have been performed previously in the Arctic, this study is the first to focus on paleoclimate reconstructions using both marine biomarkers (e.g., sterols and HBIs) and terrestrial biomarkers (i.e., n-alkanes, sterols and hopanes). A multi-proxy approach was taken in this study to analyse data using well-established n-alkane proxies such as the Carbon Preference Index (CPI), Average Chain Length (ACL), and ‘portion aquatic’ index (Paq) and newer proxies such as the sea ice proxy, IP25, and the phytoplankton marker-IP25 index, PIP25 combining sterol and HBI data. These data are interpreted as indicators in changes of sea ice extent surrounding the polynya and provides insight into warm and cold periods, as well as, nutrient availability to microorganisms and thus primary productivity. The study identifies globally recognised climatic events such as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) that occur ca. 1200-650BP and ca. 600-100BP, respectively, which highlights the widespread effect of the events in the Northern Hemisphere. The complexity of the North Water Polynya is highlighted in this study, with regional changes occurring on multi-decadal, centennial and millennial scales in response to atmospheric temperature changes, freshwater influxes from the Greenland Ice Sheet, but also to some degree - natural forcings such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, Arctic Oscillation and solar radiation, and anthropogenic influences such as rapidly increasing global temperatures. The timing, magnitude and rate of environmental changes associated with these climatic events within the North Water Polynya are investigated in the context of previously published data on early settlements and migrations within high arctic West Greenland and Canada.
The generalisation effects of picture exchange communication system (pecs) training for children with autism and language delay
Creators: name: Yoon, Jung Ae (Annie)
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) has been widely used in intervention programs to develop functional communication for children who have no or little vocal communication. Studies have shown that PECS training is effective in developing communication and social interaction (Carr & Felce, 2006; Ganz, Simpson, & Corbin-Newsome, 2007) for children with autism. However, most research on the effectiveness of PECS has been limited in several ways. Firstly, few studies have evaluated the entire PECS program; secondly, little research has been carried out on generalisation of PECS skills across different settings and individuals. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the generalisation effects of the PECS program on communication and social play for two children with autism and one child with language delay. The study considered the entire PECS program across a variety of settings and individuals (e.g., home, inclusive kindergarten, siblings, parents, and teachers). The study used a single subject changing criterion design to evaluate the effect of PECS intervention on communication and social play behaviours for the participants. All three participants acquired functional communication and mastered PECS training over periods of between nine and 20 weeks. The two children with autism and the child with language delay increased significantly in spoken communication (e.g., intelligible vocalization and new spoken words). The study demonstrated that incorporating motivating operations is critical to the successful use of PECS by children with autism.
title: Entretien dans le cadre de l’ANR-COLOSTRUM auprès d’une femme âgée de 26 ans, mère d’une fille dans la ville de Fès au Maroc
Creators: name: Mahmi, Najah
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: T-5218
description: L’entretien a été enregistré auprès d’une femme âgée de 26 ans, trois semaines après son accouchement. L’informatrice est de nationalité marocaine et a obtenu son baccalauréat. Elle n’exerce aucune activité professionnelle. L’enquêtrice débute l’entretien avec des questions sur les expériences de l’allaitement et de l’accouchement. C’est trois jours après son accouchement que l’informatrice a pu allaiter sa fille. Elle considère que l’allaitement est très facile et de ce fait elle donne le sein à son enfant toutes les heures. Concernant le colostrum, elle le distingue du lait maternel par sa couleur jaunâtre et son absence d’odeur. Elle dit ne jamais l’avoir goûté. Elle a constaté la présence du colostrum durant les trois premiers jours après l’accouchement. Elle le considère comme très propre car c’est une liquide naturel, très appétissant, très important et ayant des conséquences positives sur l’organisme de l’enfant. De manière générale, l’informatrice assimile le colostrum au lait maternel et le différencie seulement par sa couleur jaunâtre et sa texture plus épaisse. S’agissant de son entourage ou de sa religion (l’islam), ils préconisent tous deux l’allaitement maternel, notamment pour les bienfaits pour le bébé. Concernant le co-allaitement et le don de colostrum elle y est totalement opposée et pense que cela pose trop de problèmes à cause de la parenté qui se crée. L’enquêtrice aborde ensuite les effets que peuvent avoir la grossesse et l’allaitement sur le corps d’une femme. L’informatrice affirme que les effets sont négatifs, elle constate une prise de poids mais qui n’est pas permanente et peut se corriger par la pratique sportive. Une dernière question lui est posée au sujet de la comparaison qui peut être faite entre l’allaitement chez l’être humain et chez l’animal. L’informatrice pense qu’en effet une comparaison peut être faite car il s’agit pour elle de la même expérience.
The generation of human lung progenitors from human embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Jenny, Robert Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Respiratory epithelial cells generated from pluripotent stem cells differentiated in vitro represent a resource for research into a variety of human conditions in which this cell type is implicated. With the aid of a suite of hESC reporter lines, we have developed a novel system for assessing the effect of different growth factor combinations on hESC differentiation towards a range of mesendodermal lineages. Using this system in conjunction with an NKX2.1-GFP reporter hESC line we have developed a serum free protocol for the generation of NKX2.1+ respiratory endoderm which, when transplanted into immunodeficient mice, has the capacity for further maturation into definitive end cell types identified by expression of CC10, MUC5AC, P63, TUBB-IV and surfactant proteins. Generation of this population was found to be dependent on specific concentrations of BMP4 and activin A during the first 4 days of differentiation and on FGF1 between differentiation day 4 and 7. Gene profiling experiments indicated that NKX2.1+ endoderm expressed markers indicative of early foregut but lacked genes associated with later stages of respiratory epithelial cell differentiation. Interestingly, when purified NKX2.1+ progenitors were cultured further in vitro they rapidly lost NKX2.1 expression and up-regulated SOX2 and CDX2, suggesting adoption of a dorsal (oesophagus) or posterior (stomach) fate in the absence of appropriate instructive signals. Collectively, these findings suggest that early hESC-derived NKX2.1+ cells can give rise to a number of endodermal cell types. Finally, to further our ability to investigate respiratory endoderm differentiation from hESCs we have generated an additional reporter line in which sequences encoding GFP were inserted into the SFTPC locus using homologous recombination. Collectively, the tools and protocols described in this thesis will contribute to efforts aimed at establishing hESCs as a reliable source of human respiratory epithelial cells.
title: Identification and characterisation of small-molecule inhibitors of Shiga toxin expression in Escherichia coli O157:H7
Creators: name: Huerta Uribe, Alejandro
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Escherichia coli, bacterial virulence, small-molecule inhibitors, drug discovery, shiga toxin.

description: Shiga toxin (Stx) producing E. coli (STEC) infections represent an important public health problem given the severity of the disease and sequelae associated to it. Since the use of antibiotics enhances the virulence of STEC, new therapeutic strategies are urgently required. Thus, the main aim of this project is the study of small molecules that are able to block expression of Shiga toxin in Escherichia coli O157:H7. The genes encoding Stx are located on temperate lysogenic phages integrated into the bacterial chromosome and expression of the toxin is generally coupled to phage induction through the SOS response. We aimed to find new compounds capable of blocking expression of Stx type 2 (Stx2) as this subtype of Stx is more strongly associated with human disease. High-throughput screening of a small-molecule library identified a lead compound that reduced Stx2 expression in a dose-dependent manner. We show that the optimized compound interferes with the SOS response by directly affecting the activity and oligomerization of RecA, thus limiting phage activation and Stx2 expression. Our work suggests that RecA is highly susceptible to inhibition and that targeting this protein is a viable approach to limiting production of Stx2 by EHEC. This type of approach has the potential to limit production and transfer of other phage induced and transduced determinants. As a result of the successful identification of a small molecule capable of inhibiting Stx2 expression in E. coli O157:H7, an additional high-throughput screening (HTS) of small molecules was performed. Two new compounds with activity against Stx2 production were successfully identified and characterised in biological assays. Finally, we describe the use of a small molecule with previously reported anti-quorum sensing activity. Our findings suggest that the compound furanone C-30 blocks stx expression in vitro.
Additional file 4: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Maps of the spatial distribution of a annual, b summer and c winter temperature trends, and d annual, e summer and f winter precipitation trends in NHAR for the period 1 January 1980 to 31 December 2013. Note, the values presented in the figure are relative to the provincial average per decade. (DOCX 244 kb)
Additional file 5: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: OpenBUGS code used to develop the Bayesian spatial model (Model II) for cystic echinococcosis in NHAR from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2013. (DOCX 13 kb)
title: Synthetic phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs) for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
Creators: name: Ibarra Chavez, Victor Rodrigo
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Phage-inducible chromosomal islands, bacteriophage, point-of-care diagnostics, CRISPR-Cas, phage therapy.

description: With the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases has become more difficult than ever. We need to consider new paradigms in therapy and innovative alternatives that can allow us to rapidly detect bacteria at the point-of-care and efficiently eliminate pathogens without promoting the dissemination of virulent factors. This thesis aims to develop a new alternative for the development of new applications for therapy and diagnostics of bacteria. Here we use synthetic phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs) to combine the two concepts of diagnostics and therapy to "seek & destroy" specific bacteria. These novel biosensors open a series of applications for the detection and elimination of the pathogen by using the pathogen itself to modify its genome specifically to produce a reporter (seek) and/or a killing switch (destroy). Here we demonstrate that PICIs can achieve high transfer and sensitivity compared to phages, while improving a methodology to study the effects on the viability and detection of pathogens. We engineered PICIs to carry a series of synthetic gene circuits in order to enable the detection of cells and potential sorting of pathogens, while avoiding the spread of antimicrobial genes onto the target cell. Further modifications prove that PICIs can be used as a Trojan-horse to deliver lethal payloads into target cells. Here, we exploited the PICI components by which they highjack the phage machinery to promote their spread. Taken together, this reinforces the recent interests for developing alternative ways to diagnose and treat bacterial infections. This thesis opens a range of applications in using other types of PICIs recently characterised as Synthetic Biology tools for portable diagnostics and prophylactic methods.
Additional file 6: of Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of human echinococcoses over a twenty-year period in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Creators: name: Cadavid Restrepo, Angela
name: Yang, Yu
name: McManus, Donald
name: Gray, Darren
name: Barnes, Tamsin
name: Williams, Gail
name: Soares MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Nicholas
name: Clements, Archie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: OpenBUGS code used to develop the Bayesian spatial model (Model II) for alveolar echinococcosis in NHAR from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2013. (DOCX 13 kb)
The classification of ADHD using machine learning and EEG data : a systematic review
Creators: name: Rasi, Ayshin
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that spans a diverse range of symptoms such as inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity. The current gold standard diagnostic process for ADHD can pose challenges due to the variations in symptoms between individuals and a shortage of trained clinicians. An alternative approach to improve the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosing individuals with ADHD could be the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) with the current best practice diagnostic guidelines. This study aimed to systematically review the efficacy and accuracy of using EEG data in conjunction with ML to objectively classify individuals with and without ADHD. We reviewed 57 studies in total that used EEG data and various ML classifiers to categorise ADHD diagnoses. We assessed the classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the results from each study to evaluate the current effectiveness of using ML approaches to classify ADHD versus non-ADHD presentations. Furthermore, each study underwent a thorough methodological quality assessment to inform the robustness and reliability of each included publication. Although numerous studies demonstrated high classification accuracy, a large number of the publications failed to meet the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) quality assessment standards. Therefore, caution should be exercised when generalising the findings to the broader efficacy of ML in ADHD classification. Future research should integrate psychological research methods to facilitate the translation of research findings into clinical applications.
Far-infrared ro-vibrational spectroscopy of coriolis coupled molecules of interstellar importance.
Creators: name: Bane, Michael Kenneth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One of the fundamental limiting factors in ro-vibrational spectroscopy has been the lack of high brilliance sources in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Synchrotron sources are somewhat able to fill this gap, and spectroscopy of the usually weak lowest energy vibrational modes is becoming more accessible. A detailed knowledge of the molecular parameters of low energy vibrational modes is important for interstellar detection, since it is these modes that are most likely to be thermally populated in these systems. The first chapter of this thesis outlines the fundamental theory associated with the high- resolution vibration-rotation spectroscopy of molecules. Firstly, a theory of the allowable energies of molecules is presented, with careful consideration of the quantum mechanical nature of the entity. Secondly, a theory of the interaction with light is discussed, which relates to the observable absorbance and selection rules. Finally, the theory of the Fourier transform is discussed in relation to the collection and attributes of the recorded spectra. The second chapter discusses the instrumentation and analytical basics of the project. Detailed aspects of the synchrotron source and spectrometer are first outlined and give insight into the experimental work done during this project. For context, a discussion of complementary high-resolution techniques is included regarding the recording of both pure rotational and ro-vibrational spectra. The majority of this project involved detailed spectral analysis, and thus an explanation of the most useful tools and techniques is included. Finally a section justifying the selection of ketenimine, 1-phosphapropyne, thiirane and chlorodifluoromethane as target molecules is included. This also serves as a summary of the work done on each molecule, and elaborates slightly on what is presented in the publications. Chapter 3 contains the work published during this project. This work mainly relates to the analysis of high-resolution far-infrared spectra of molecules which are either predicted to be, or have been detected as, a part of the interstellar medium. Chapter 4 discusses the implications of this research, and suggests possible future extension. A major theme of this project is the de-perturbation of modes which exhibit strong coupling mechanics, highlighted by the characterization of an intensity stealing mechanism which allows effectively infrared inactive modes to be enhanced and become observable. This effect was found, by chance, to be crucial in explaining the spectra of two of the three molecules studied in this thesis. This leads to the tantalizing prospect that perhaps this mechanism may be important in the study of the ro-vibrational spectra of other molecules.
title: Meeting spaces: everyday spaces of multicultural encounter in Glasgow
Creators: name: Peterson, Melike
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Encounter, multiculturalism, intersectionality, belonging, racism, Scotland.

description: This thesis is about spaces of multicultural encounter, and their potential to facilitate connections and relationships, of differing depth and duration, to emerge between individuals and groups who live in the North and West of Glasgow, nurturing precarious yet progressive forms of living together in the city. Tracing people’s experiences of encounters across ethnic, cultural, religious and other differences, and their intersections, this thesis foregrounds the micro politics of encounter, connection making and belonging. I argue that emergent connections and relations, many of them seemingly banal and small, often bleed out beyond the immediate moment and specific site of encounter, impacting/changing wider socio-political imaginaries and narratives of nationhood, community and belonging in Scottish society. Critically, I can demonstrate that mundane and ‘everyday’ spaces of proximity and association play a key role in the unfolding of these processes. In accounting for the unevenness of people’s lived realities, and approaching encounters as sites of different co-existing trajectories, this thesis makes important contributions to relevant scholarship on the politics and geographies of everyday encounter, the spatialities of intersectionality, and the significance of localizing narratives of belonging and nationhood in specific contexts and localities in Glasgow and Scotland. In three empirical chapters, this thesis draws upon feminist theories to dissect the various ways in which people’s complex and multi-layered identifications and positionalities intersect and become articulated in moments of multicultural encounter in mundane spaces, including local cafes, public libraries and community centers. Emphasizing the histories and geographies of place, it frames encounters with/across difference as moments of opportunity, holding the potential for both relations of connection and understanding and disconnection and tension to emerge between people differently situated in society, and towards each other. By making lucid the ‘practice’ of racialization, the thesis draws attention to embodied encounters and relational practices, always emotional and agentic, as small yet decidedly political acts that may unsettle, shift and disrupt wider discourses and dominant notions of place, identity and belonging in Glasgow, and wider society. In this respect, the thesis aims to explore contestations, articulations and entanglements of ‘being together in difference’ in and beyond local places, as people whose bodies and identities are constructed as other/visible/strange/different inhabit the city.
The evolution of public pension regulation in china: regulatory responsiveness and system reflexivity in a changing social environment, 1949-2009
Creators: name: Mao, Ling Feng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the evolution of the Chinese public pension system within the changing social environment of China. It identifies a number of institutional characteristics and limitations underlying the public pension regulatory system, and explains how these contribute to its deficiency in responding to the social changes in China.
Imidazoquinazolinone based inhibitors of Phosphodiesterase 3
Creators: name: Blackmore, Timothy Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Phosphodiesterases (PDE) catalyze the deactivation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Inhibiting a cell’s PDE increases the level of cAMP or cGMP in the cytosol, enhancing the cells response to stimuli. Selectively inhibiting a PDE subtype can cause a specific cell or tissue type to elicit a therapeutic response. In the past PDE3 inhibitors were designed as cardiac inotropic agents to replace cardiac glycosides and sympathomimetic drugs. Though they were effective, limitations due to serious side effects arose and PDE3 inhibitors were largely abandoned. Further research has found two isoforms of PDE3; PDE3A which is responsible for PDE3 inhibitors inotropic and antithrombotic effects, and PDE3B which is involved in the insulin signaling pathway. The majority of literature PDE3 inhibitors have not been examined for isoform selectivity between PDE3A and PDE3B. Inhibitors that select for either subtype will assist in delineating the physiological roles of these isoforms and may show improved therapeutic profiles. A variety of known and novel PDE3 inhibitors based on an imidazoquinazolinone scaffold were synthesized and screened against each isoform. A literature PDE3 inhibitor was found to be 13 fold selective for PDE3A over PDE3B and is the most selective PDE3A inhibitor identified to date. An improved synthetic route to analogous compounds was established. This approach was used to design and synthesize a focused library of compounds. From this library several potent novel PDE3 inhibitors were identified. Inspired by the structures known PDE inhibitors a series of novel compounds incorporating an imidazolidin-4-one ring were synthesized. The synthesis and derivatization of this structural motif was explored in an effort to use Fragment Based Drug Design to develop novel ligands for PDE inhibition or other therapeutic targets.
Chiefs, custom and the state in Samoa and Vanuatu: hybridity as a tool for assessing governance in complex polities
Creators: name: Kernot, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Pacific Island countries are complex polities in which multiple sources of authority operate in shared spaces. Under the dominant paradigm of governance, however, the state becomes the primary focus, rendering other sources of authority largely invisible to policy makers. Through a detailed examination of chiefly systems and state governance in Samoa and Vanuatu, this thesis seeks to broaden the governance discourse to demonstrate that complex polities can draw legitimacy and resilience from sources other than the state. By employing a hybridist approach, the thesis discards the assumed state/custom hierarchy to reveal that custom and the state can, and already do, function in mutually beneficial ways. The thesis demonstrates that in both countries, the state is utilising custom to further its own purposes and, simultaneously, chiefs are shoring up their own authority by creating structures that can negotiate with the state. The thesis highlights that the nature of the custom/state relationship is dynamic, complex and context-specific. In addition, it shows that policy makers should not be reticent to engage with custom on the assumption that it is inherently incompatible with or separate from the state system. Rather, they should draw on the strengths of each system, and foster interaction between the two.
Timing jitter in high speed OFDM systems
Creators: name: Yang, Lei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Today, many wired and wireless communication systems use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology. The use of OFDM in optical systems is attracting increasing interest. However, one of the major drawbacks of OFDM for very high data rate applications is its sensitivity to timing errors such as timing jitter. The original work presented in this thesis is a study of the timing jitter problem in high speed OFDM systems including wireless and optical systems.
An internet-mediated political public sphere in China and South Korea
Creators: name: Chase, Thomas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates the growing volume of online political commentary being produced by Internet users in Mainland China and South Korea, analysing the qualities and characteristics of these discourses through adaptation of the argument provided by German sociologist Jürgen Habermas about the workings of the public sphere. In evaluating the gap between the idealised qualities of the public sphere and real-life communication, the study uses the concept of the public sphere as a heuristic device. This study asks two questions: first, to what extent does the political communication hosted on the online discussion boards, blogs, webpages, Tweets, microblogs and other forms of online media in both countries resemble a public sphere and, second, what sort of political change do these forms of exchange encourage. To explore these questions, this study incorporates analysis of online discussion related to four case studies that span the cyberspheres of both nations: the coverage provided by online news services, online nationalism and the conflict over the history of the Goguryeo Kingdom, Internet-based environmental activism and opposition to hydrological development and, finally, debates surrounding the social and legal status of gays and lesbians in Korean and Chinese society. Based on qualitative analysis, subject interviews and background research related to these four areas, this study argues that while the public sphere concept is inadequate for assessing the characteristics of Internet-mediated political discourse, online media are nonetheless helping to pluralise public political communication in Korean and Chinese society. The thesis finds that while such pluralisation is promoting incremental political change, it is nonetheless doing so in largely unpredictable ways. The study concludes that online political communications may not produce the expected outcomes of institutionalised democracy in China, or the consolidation of democracy in South Korea.
إستخدام أعضاء هيئة التدريس بجامعة بنها لتكنولوجيا المعلومات
Creators: name: طلبة, نداء مصطفى.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011

description: اصبح للتكنولجيا دور هام ورئيسى فى تطور المجتمعات والمقصود بالتكنولوجيا استخدام الالات فى عمليات الانتاج والاستخدام والاستهلاك ومابينهما, ولقد ساهمت تطورات فى مختلف العلوم وخاصة فى مجال الالكترونيات فى تطور التكنولوجياو وهو ما ادى الى نقل العالم باثرة الى عصر المعلومات, لقد يسرت التكنولوجيا عملية التواصل بين الافراد والمجتمعات ولم يعد الاتصال المباشر ضرورى فى ظل توافر تكنولوجيا الاتصال عن بعد, لقد وفرت التكنولوجيا على الانسان الوقت والجهد وقربت المسافات ونشرت الثقافات.لايمكن للجامعه المصرية ان تعيش بمعزل عن التطورات التكنولوجية الحديثة فى ظل الانتشار الكبير للوسائط التى توفرها تلك التكنولوجيا فى شبكة الانترنت وقواعد البيانات على الخط المباشر او من خلال الاقراص الاقراص المليزرة وما دعم من اختيار هذا الموضوع للبحث بدأتنفيذ مشروع المجلس الاعلى للجامعات لتطوير التعليم العالى ICTP, وبدأاتاحة قواعد البيانات العالمى لاعضاء هيئة التدريس وللباحثين عموما باشتراك سنوى رمزى او اتاحة الوصول الى الشبكة العالمية من خلال نوادى الانترنت المتعددة بالجامعة اضافة الى بدأ تنفيذ مشروع المكتبات الرقمة بالجامعة ...,وكانت الهدف من هذة الدراسة الى التعرف على واقع استخدام اعضاء هيئة التدريس بجامعة بنها لتكنولوجيا المعلومات واقتراح تصور مقترح لتفعيل ذلك الاستخدام كلاتى : تحليل واقع المكتبات بكليات جامعة بنها، محل الدراسة.دراسة واقع الاستخدام اعضاء هيءة التدريس تكنولوجيا المعلومات ووسائطها المتاحة سواء على الخط المباشر او على الانترنت.
TEXNOLOGIYALARNI QO'LLASH VA XORIJIY TILLARNI МUКАММАL O'RGATISH, TA'LIMDA USTUVOR ISLOHOTLAR
Creators: name: Chorshanbayev, Umurzak
name: Suvanqulova, Zarinabonu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Tezisda oliy ta'lim sohalarida olib borilayotgan islohotlar haqida hamda Prezidentimiz oliy ta'limni isloh qilish bilan bir qatorda oliy ma'lumotli kadrlar ulushuni oshirish orqali yetakchi davlatlar safiga kirishimiz va bu sohada qo'shimcha islohotlar uchun takliflar va xorijiy tillarni oliy ta'lim uchun naqadar muhimligi. Iqtisodiyot sohalarida xususan, soliq sohasini o'qitishda xorij tili bilan bir vaqtda soliq fanlarini xorij tillarida olib borilishi haqida xususiy taklif berilgan.
title: Evaluating the impact of physical activity apps and wearables: an interdisciplinary investigation of research designs and methods
Creators: name: McCallum, Claire H.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital health, evaluation, mobile health, physical activity, smartphones, research design.

description: Many smartphone apps and wearables have been developed to promote physical activity, however there are challenges in assessing their impact. Apps and wearables are rapidly evolving technologies and thousands of physical activity apps that are publicly available on app stores remain unevaluated. There are concerns that traditional “gold standard” evaluation approaches, such as randomised control trials (RCTs), may be too slow to keep up with these, and produce effectiveness results that do not reflect real world settings. Rapid research designs (such as single case designs; SCDs) and innovative data collection methods (in-device sensors, device-generated user logs) have been proposed to improve research efficiency, yet preliminary evidence suggests they are not widely used in mHealth. This thesis reports three studies undertaken to investigate the use of rapid research designs and efficient methods for evaluating physical activity apps and wearables. First, a scoping review of the extent to which these approaches are employed by health and HCI researchers. Second, semi-structured interviews with researchers, data scientists and industry professionals to provide a deeper understanding of current evaluation practices. Third, the development and refinement of a methodological framework to support researchers in using SCDs in automated app store evaluations of physical activity apps. The findings suggest rapid research designs are not often employed in evaluations of physical activity and other health behaviour change apps. Researchers feel they face opportunity barriers (e.g. risking not being funded or published) and do not have the necessary skills (e.g. in using device generated user logs). Industry professionals appear to lack the motivation and time to evaluate effectiveness. Trade-offs were perceived between the measurement accuracy of in-device sensors and other factors such as user burden. Automated trials may speed up evaluations of physical activity apps and wearables, and the suggested data collection framework aims to support researchers in conducting rigorous effectiveness evaluations using app store- based SCDs. However, further work is needed to enable industry professionals to use the framework to evaluate their publicly-available apps.
Multilinguism: A tour of new SSH research enablers
Creators: name: Frontini, Francesca
name: Ceccon, Daniela
name: Pettinicchi, Yuri
name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Moderator: Francesca Frontini (CNR, CLARIN) Machine translation for multilingal terminologies - Francesca Frontini (CNR) Prototype for TDM and statistical analysis on legal texts - Daniela Ceccon (WageIndicator) Automatic verification - Yuri Pettinicchi (SHARE) Ethnic Minorities and Migration Question DataBank - Ami Saji (SciencesPo)
title: The application of international law to underwater cultural heritage: addressing the problems of commercial treasure hunting
Creators: name: Hsu, YinCheng
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: underwater cultural heritage, the law of the sea, public international law, private international law, treasure hunters, treasure hunting, the law of salvage, the law of finds, cultural rights, the public trust doctrine, shipwrecks, sovereign Immunity, restitution, repatriation.

description: This thesis argues that the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (CPUCH) does not adopt a pragmatic approach to fight against commercial treasure hunters, nor does it convincingly strive to ensure the jurisdictional balance established by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). UCH can be best preserved in situ (remain on the seabed), and commercial treasure hunters pose a direct threat to the achievement of this aim. Since commercial treasure hunters seek profits, there would be no better way to stop their profit-driven activities than reducing their economic incentives to perform such activities. While the CPUCH inclines towards the deployment of different jurisdictional tools, which may deter a few amateur drivers from disturbing UCH sites, the legal concept of restitution is an ideal tool to increase the costs incurred by commercial shipwreck recovery companies. If all seized UCH can be, or at least are considered to be, returned to the holder of a particular legal right, commercial shipwreck recovery companies will face the risk of losing UCH. In this new approach, jurisdictional tools are no longer the main 'weapon' to fight against commercial treasure hunters. Although jurisdictional tools are still important for managing discovered UCH sites, they ought to be adjusted to be more compatible with UNCLOS. This thesis proposes a new twofold strategy to combat the UCH crisis: reduce the incentive of the commercial shipwreck recovery companies, on the one hand, and construct a jurisdictional regime, based on UNCLOS, for the management of UCH on the seabed, on the other.