cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genetic Analysis of Health-Related Secondary Metabolites in a Brassica rapa Recombinant Inbred Line Population
Creators: name: Bagheri, Hedayat
name: El-Soda, Mohamed
name: Kim, Hye Kyong
name: Fritsche, Steffi
name: Jung, Christian
name: Aarts, Mark G. M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The genetic basis of the wide variation for nutritional traits in Brassica rapa is largely unknown. A new Recombinant Inbred Line (RIL) population was profiled using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) analysis to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling seed tocopherol and seedling metabolite concentrations. RIL population parent L58 had a higher level of glucosinolates and phenylpropanoids, whereas levels of sucrose, glucose and glutamate were higher in the other RIL population parent, R-o-18. QTL related to seed tocopherol (α-, β-, γ-, δ-, α-⁄γ- and total tocopherol) concentrations were detected on chromosomes A3, A6, A9 and A10, explaining 11%–35% of the respective variation. The locus on A3 co-locates with the BrVTE1gene, encoding tocopherol cyclase. NMR spectroscopy identified the presence of organic/amino acid, sugar/glucosinolate and aromatic compounds in seedlings. QTL positions were obtained for most of the identified compounds. Compared to previous studies, novel loci were found for glucosinolate concentrations. This work can be used to design markers for marker-assisted selection of nutritional compounds in B. rapa.
The Crescent Rising over Nusantara. Discourses of Re-Islamization in Malaysia and Indonesia
Creators: name: Stark, Jan
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: This paper argues that the remote-controlled network theories about al-Qaedsa and Co. need to be questioned in order to understand the possible rist and dangers behind a resurgent Islam in the Muslim regions of Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia and Malaysia. While terrorism experts maintain there exists an international threat that originates in the highlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the present paper holds the local governments responsible. Arguably they have driven Islam more and more towards radicalized discourses by being too restrictive towards diverging political opinions. Instead, as is shown in the case of Malaysia, there is a long tradition of political suppression from the British colonial era to Mahathir and Badawi that has resulted in a gradual radicalization of Islam. 1957-2007 mark 50 years of transformation-of-the-state-processes in which liberal Islam has often clashed with imaginations of a conservative sharia state. The outcome threatens the fabric of a hitherto liberal multi-ethnic, multi-cultural approach in Southeast Asia, all the more since Indonesia also started to pursue a conservative re-Islamization at a breathtaking pace.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 3-4 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Bildung als Herausforderung für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Indiens
Creators: name: Brosch, Elena
name: Von Hauff, Michael
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The importance of human capital for economic growth is undisputed, as is the role of education for the creation of human capital. Thus, a country is only able to exploit its full potential of economic growth, if its educational syastem manages to create as much human capital as possible. Every able person mjust have the opportunity to develop his or her human capital through education. This article analyses the Indian system of school education. It aims to highlight positive developments as well as institutional shortcomings and policy reforms and programmes. The article shows that India's progress towards "education for all" has been impressive, but also emphasizes the fact that the Indian system of school education is still characterized by huge regional, social and gender inequalities. The quality of education is another challenging problem, which might be explained by institutional factors.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 3-4 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Output consensus in the presence of constant disturbances
Creators: name: Mogalapalli, Rahul
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400705
subject: Control engineering
classificationCode: 460202
subject: Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
classificationCode: 490105
subject: Dynamical systems in applications
classificationCode: 490104
subject: Complex systems
classificationCode: 400107
subject: Satellite, space vehicle and missile design and testing
classificationCode: 400703
subject: Autonomous vehicle systems

description: A distributed controller is designed to achieve output consensus in directed networks of homogeneous Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems in the presence of constant and unknown disturbances. A method to find the control gains is derived, which is based on the Algebraic Ricatti Equation (ARE) and tools from algebraic graph theory. Output consensus with a leader whose dynamics are independent of the other agents is also presented. The derived control algorithms are illustrated with simulations and applied to a spacecraft formation control problem.
Das Ende der nepalischen Monarchie: Demokratischer Aufbruch oder andauernde Krise?
Creators: name: Krämer, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: After10 years of a bloody Maoist insurgency and a gradual royal putsch, the people's movement of April 2006 has laid the foundations for a new political beginning. Nepal's numerous problems must be understood against the background of historical and social developments of the modern state. The multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious and multilingual modern state of Nepal came into existence in the second half of the 18th century when the Shah monarchy of the principality of Gorkha unified numerous small states by military force. The Shah kings organized the new unitary state on the principles of traditional law with all its aspects of a stratified hierarchical social system. A small coterie of male members of so-called higher Hindu castes became dominant in all public spheres while other groups and the women became excluded, a situation that is still prevalent today and that is the reason for growing unrest. Neither the abolition of Rana oligarchy in 1950/1 nor the democratization of the country in 1990 changed this fundamentally. Elections for a constituent assembly took place in April 2008. They were meant as foundation for a reconstruction of state and society, but the political leaders still have a hard time with its implementation.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 3-4 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Excuse Me I am Expanding : Butoh dance as an embodied method for experiencing and expressing ecological selfhoods
Creators: name: Henry, Paul Michael
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2025
Subjects: Butoh
Anthropocene
Ecosomatics
Phenomenology
Ecological performance
Embodiment
Practice as research
Neoliberalism
Individualism
Buddhism

description: This project explores how embodied practice can generate and express experiences of ecological selfhood – the felt sense of being a porous entity which extends indefinitely beyond the skin. Through practice as research, Butoh dance (a twentieth century form originating in Japan) is adapted to interrogate the possibilities for a dancer to intentionally expand their selfhood, and to express this experience directly to others through non-representational performance. The wider contexts are the Anthropocene and the dominant neoliberal capitalist view of selfhood as properly being individualist, skin-bound, and competitive. This research outlines how such individualism is implicated in driving ecological crisis through aggregate behavioural effects, underscoring the need for alternative understandings of selfhood. The project is situated within the fields of Butoh studies, ecological performance, ecological performance discourse, and ecosomatics. The psychosomatic techniques necessary to expand selfhood are researched through studio practice and documented through journalling. An accessible audio guide is also presented to introduce the newcomer to such work. The use of these techniques as the basis for performance works is explored through a documented stage performance from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two dance films shot in Japan, Italy, Ireland, and Scotland. The resulting contribution, Playing with the Cut, is a method of altering the boundary between self and not-self through dance; a radial selfhood which expands and contracts contextually. The method is shown to facilitate experiences of ecological selfhood on the part of the dancer, and the generation of performance material for general audiences in which Playing with the Cut is at the core of the creation process. This project presents a distinctive contribution to reconfiguring selfhood as an essential component of humanity’s response to ecological and climate crisis.
Use of actor-network theory to develop a holistic view of new technology-based small firm development
Creators: name: Steen, John
name: Yencken, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Case study data on new university derived spin-off medical technology companies have been analysed using analytical processes based on actor-network theory (ANT), which introduces two new constructs to entrepreneurship research: first, network actants can include not just people but also non-personal identities such as documents and events, and secondly, these actants, whether personal or non-personal, are defined ontologically by their relationships. The paper explores the possibility of using the extended network concepts involved in ANT to develop a holistic approach to the study of the early stage development of NTSFs. This is seen as a logical development from Latour's initial focus on community impacts of new science to study of the way in which new technologies can be exploited through the generation of entrepreneurial spinoff ventures. The output of this ANT analysis has been first, a holistic graphical depiction of the actants and their relationships and how they vary between spin-off company cases from the same parent research provider. Secondly, the more detailed analysis of the actant relationships, based on the case study qualitative research data, has added to the understanding of the development of the selected spin-off ventures.
title: 02_0980
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/
Low-relief shield volcano origin for the South Kaua‘i Swell
Creators: name: Ito, Garrett
name: Garcia, Michael O.
name: Smith, John R.
name: Taylor, Brian
name: Flinders, Ashton
name: Jicha, Brian
name: Yamasaki, Seiko
name: Weis, Dominique
name: Swinnard, Lisa
name: Blay, Chuck
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2014

description: The South Kaua‘i Swell (SKS) is a 110 km x 80 km ovoid bathymetric feature that stands >2 km high and abuts the southern flank of the island of Kaua‘i. The origin of the SKS was investigated using multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter, gravity data, radiometric ages, and geochemistry of rock samples. Most of the SKS rock samples are tholeiitic in composition with ages of 3.9–5.4 Ma indicating they were derived from shield volcanism. The ages and compositions of the SKS rocks partially overlap with those of the nearby Ni‘ihau, Kaua‘i and West Ka‘ena volcano complexes. The SKS was originally described as a landslide; however, this interpretation is problematic given the ovoid shape of SKS, its relatively smooth, flat-to-convex surface, and the lack of an obvious source region that could accommodate what would be one of Earth's most voluminous (6 x 103 km3) landslides. The morphology, size, and the surrounding gravity anomaly are more consistent with the SKS being a low-relief shield volcano, which was partially covered with a small volume of landside debris from south Kaua‘i and later with some secondary volcanic seamounts. A shield origin would imply that Hawaiian and possibly other hotspot shield volcanoes can take on a wider variety of forms than is commonly thought, ranging from tall island-building shields, to smaller edifices such as Ka‘ena Ridge and Mahukona, to even lower-relief volcanoes represented by the SKS and possibly the South West O‘ahu Volcanic Field. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2013 American Geophysical Union.
KAMAL SIDDIQUI / JAMSHED AHMED / KANIZ SIDDIQUE / SAYEEDUL HUQ / ABDUL HOSSAIN / SHAH NAZIMU-DOULA / NAHID REZWANA: Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005. A Longitudinal Study in a Third World Megacity
Creators: name: Zingel, Wolfgang-Peter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
The Burnaby treatment center for mental health and addiction, a novel integrated treatment program for patients with addiction and concurrent disorders: results from a program evaluation
Creators: name: Schütz, Christian
name: Linden, Isabelle A.
name: Torchalla, Iris
name: Li, Kathy
name: Al-Desouki, Majid
name: Krausz, Michael
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Patients with addictions and concurrent disorders constitute the most underserved population in the system of care. There are numerous reasons why this population has so much difficulty accessing services, including behavioural issues, criminal engagement, and non-compliance with outpatient services. To improve services to this population which is marked by multiple morbidities, high mortality and insufficient access to health care, the government of British Columbia, Canada developed a program for people with both substance use disorder and one or more mental disorders who have not benefited from previous therapies. Method In July 2008, the Burnaby Treatment Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (BCMHA), a specialized and integrated tertiary care facility, was opened. The current article provides a description of the treatment program and a clinical profile of the population. Results The target population is being served, at intake clients present with high rates of psychopathology, childhood and adult trauma, and substance use. Conclusion While preliminary, these results indicate, that the novel approach of the Burnaby Centre may constitute a new path towards providing effective recovery for this population.
STEPHANIE HEMELRYK DONALD / THERESA DIRNDORFER ANDERSON / DAMIEN SPRY (eds.): Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia
Creators: name: Rost, Maria
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Influence of the absorber doping for p-type polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass prepared by electron beam evaporation and solid-phase crystallization
Creators: name: Ouyang, Zi
name: Kunz, Oliver
name: Sproul, Alistair B.
name: Varlamov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A systematic investigation of the influence of the absorber doping on the performance of planar, p-type, evaporated, solid-phase crystallized polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass is presented. It is found that the optimum Suns-Voc parameters (open-circuit voltage and pseudo fill factor) are achieved at intermediate absorber doping of Nabs∼1–2 × 1017 cm−3, while high short-circuit currents are achieved at the lowest absorber doping of Nabs ≤ 6 × 1015 cm−3. Since the short-circuit current is the dominating factor to achieve high conversion efficiencies for evaporated polycrystalline silicon cells, the maximum pseudo efficiencies are achieved at very low absorber doping. The Suns-Voc characteristics of lightly doped cells can be adequately described by a modified two-diode model with n1=1 and n2≈1.5, which is in contrast to the value of 2 for n2 commonly quoted in the literature. PC1D modeling demonstrates that such a low ideality factor for space charge region recombination can be modeled by a single trap energy level located at ∼0.18 eV away from midgap. Although the achievable short-circuit current densities and the conversion efficiencies can be higher for textured cells, planar cells are chosen intentionally to allow accurate modeling and extraction of relevant material parameters, such as minority carrier diffusion length.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.9/2020
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Richtlinien für die Vergabe von Dissertationspreisen vom 20. Mai 2020
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2020, 9
ALFRED STEPAN / JUAN J. LINZ / YOGENDRA YADAV: Crafting State-Nations. India and other Multinational Democracies
Creators: name: Spiess, Clemens
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Risk Factors for Progression to Regular Injection Drug Use among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting
Creators: name: DeBeck, Kora
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Marshall, Brandon David Lewis
name: Simo, Annick
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background Street-involved youth are at high risk for experimenting with injection drug use; however, little attention has been given to identifying the factors that predict progression to on-going injecting. Methods Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with progression to injecting weekly on a regular basis among a Canadian cohort of street-involved youth. Results Among our sample of 405 youth who had initiated injecting at baseline or during study observation, the median age was 22 years (interquartile range [IQR] = 21 – 24), and 72% (293) reported becoming a regular injector at some point after their first injection experience. Of these, the majority (n=186, 63%) reported doing so within a month of initiating injection drug use. In multivariate analysis, the drug used at the first injection initiation event (opiates vs. cocaine vs. methamphetamine vs. other; all p > 0.05) was not associated with progression; however, younger age at first injection (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] =1.13), a history of childhood physical abuse (AOR =1.81), prior regular use of the drug first injected (AOR =1.77), and having a sexual partner present at the first injection event (AOR =2.65) independently predicted progression to regular injecting. Conclusion These data highlight how quickly youth progress to become regular injectors after experimentation. Findings indicate that addressing childhood trauma and interventions such as evidence-based youth focused addiction treatment that could prevent or delay regular non-injection drug use, may reduce progression to regular injection drug use among this population.
title: GEWEX Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2
title: Quarter 2 2023
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Van Oevelen, Peter
name: Attig Bahar, Faten
name: Ali, Javed
name: Koren, Gerbrand
name: Rao, Yuhan
name: YESS Executive Committee
name: Biancamaria, Sylvain
name: Andral, Alice
name: Barbetta, Silvia
name: Boussaroque, Malik
name: Brocca, Luca
name: Calmettes, Beatriz
name: Camici, Stefania
name: Filippucci, Paolo
name: Gal, Laetitia
name: Larnicol, Gilles
name: Lefebve, Julien
name: Munier, Simon
name: Papa, Fabrice
name: Paris, Adrien
name: Pedinotti, Vanessa
name: Taburet, Nicolas
name: Tarpanelli, Angelica
name: Zakharova, Elena
name: Albergel, Clément
name: Benveniste, Jérôme
name: Parazoo, Nicholas
name: Norton, Alexander
name: Johnson, Jennifer
name: Chaney, Nathaniel W.
name: Dirmeyer, Paul
name: Findell, Kirsten
name: Hoffman, Forrest
name: Lawrence, David
name: Ma, Po-Lun
name: Santanello, Joseph
name: Hay-Chapman, Finley
name: Waterman, Tyler
name: CLASP Climate Process Team
name: Terao, Toru
name: Fujinami, Hatsuki
name: Kanae, Shinjiro
name: Matsumoto, Jun
name: Kummerow, Chris
name: Tapiador, Francisco
name: Trigo, Isabel
name: Mather, Jim
name: Nazemi, Ali
name: Zhang, Yunyan
name: L’Ecuyer, Tristan
Publisher: name: International GEWEX Project Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: GEWEX Science Plan 2023–2032
subject: objectives and key results (OKRs)
subject: 2023 GEWEX Ambassadors
subject: Christa Peters-Lidard and Andy Pitman
subject: YESS 2023–2024 Executive Committee (ExeCom) members and Regional Representatives
subject: River discharge
subject: Solar induced fluorescence
subject: SIF
subject: Solar Induced Fluorescence Model Intercomparison Project (SIF-MIP)
subject: Coupling Land and Atmosphere Sub-grid Parameterizations (CLASP)
subject: CLASP
subject: AsiaPEX
subject: AMY-II field campaign
subject: AMY II
subject: HiPRECS
subject: SOHMON
subject: GEWEX Integrated Product Workshop
subject: regional water and energy budget closure

description: This issue of GEWEX Quarterly contains the articles on the following: a commentary on GEWEX’s function and metrics for success; the new 2023 GEWEX Ambassadors; updates from YESS and the 2023–2024 Executive Committee (ExeCom) members and Regional Representatives; a new ESA Precursor Project on river discharge; summarizing the site-level state-of-the-art in TBM-SIF modeling, and ultimately advancing underlying equations and parameters to better match variations in fluorescence and photosynthesis across a range of environments, setting the stage for regional- to global-scale analysis and model-data integration with SIF-MIP; parameterizing sub-grid heterogeneous exchanges between the land and atmosphere and characterizing its implications for surface climate, variability, and extremes with CLASP; recent developments in the Asian Precipitation Experiment (AsiaPEX) and a proposal for the international field campaign Asian Monsoon Year II (AMY-II); and a report on regional water and energy budget closures and much more from the GEWEX Integrated Product Workshop.
CARMEN MEINERT / HANS-BERND ZÖLLNER (eds.): Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights. Dissonances and Resonances
Creators: name: Linck, Gudula
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Development of microwave cool plasma for microbial inactivation in food applications
Creators: name: Amidi, Mehrnaz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Plasma is a growing field of non-thermal processing research for microbial inactivation and disinfection of food and food contact surfaces. An extensive review of the literature revealed that plasma can be generated from many forms of electromagnetic waves ranging from DC to microwaves under vacuum or atmospheric conditions. Part of this review catalogued a wide variety of techniques for plasma generation to serve as a reference source on this new processing technology. The thesis set out to investigate microwave cool plasma equipment design to establish a simulation model, using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio software, to assist in fabrication and further modification of laboratory and larger scale prototype low pressure microwave plasma devices. Also the effects of operational conditions with these equipment designs were determined by measuring plasma density using a Langmuir probe and surface temperatures by fibre optic methods, at defined coordinates within treatment chambers of the devices. These results were used to confirm the simulation data. Using defined conditions, investigations were conducted on the inactivation of vegetative cells of bacterial food pathogens, Salmonella and Listeria and spores of food spoilage bacteria Geobacillus and Bacillus using low temperature plasma. The temperature ranges of the surface to be sterilised were determined to be less than 45 degrees C. The thesis attempted to determine the mechanism of plasma inactivation by excluding the exposure of charged particles (using charged surfaces to attract or repel plasma particles) and UV radiation (using a quartz filter) and measuring inactivation of bacterial spores, in the presence and absence of these modifying treatments. Given the design configuration of equipment and operational conditions the investigations determined that UVC was the factor responsible for microbial inactivation effects. Other species such as electrons, ions, radicals and also the other ranges of UV (UVA and UVB) appeared to play no part in the process of microbial inactivation in the relatively short time periods investigated, where UVC acted to inactivate microorganisms. Microbial inactivation effects of up to ~ 4 log reduction (as determined by viable count) were achieved for bacterial spores using both the laboratory scale and one metre plasma units. The presence of added organic load of dried milk solids to spore preparations moderated the inactivating effects of plasma. Nonetheless an approximately 2 log inactivation of Salmonella and Listeria adsorbed to the surfaces of almonds could still be achieved in a period of 60 s exposure. The work conducted in the thesis provides the first steps towards scaling up the design configuration of the one metre plasma unit to provide an array that can expose a larger area to plasma treatment.
Envisioning the Future. Negotiating Public Space in Hanoi and Singapore
Creators: name: Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
name: Kurfürst, Sandra
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Southeast Asia, former battleground of opposing ideologies, is increasingly turning to market liberalisation; in Vietnam the vision of a ‘socialist-oriented market economy’, in Singapore that of a ‘knowledge society’ is pursued. This paper assesses the influence of these visions on the local conceptualisations of public space. On Ba Dinh Square/Hanoi, official space is transformed into concrete public space through citizens’ negotiation. In Singapore’s libraries, the aim to foster knowledge production and creativity results in the construction of spaces for collaborative learning and discussions. This paper studies the political balancing act between tolerating the voicing of public opinion and upholding authoritarian governance practices, the focus being on the conceptualisations of public space and their role in redefining social order.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Living with the Risk of Fire in Indonesia's Peatlands
Creators: name: Bizard, Viola
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen kann dieser Beitrag nicht online veröffentlicht werden.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Echoes of Injustice: Exploring Crime Patterns against Scheduled Tribes in North-Eastern India
Creators: name: Suman K.C
name: Sukanta S.
name: Chandra S.P
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: It has been observed that crime against the scheduled tribes is a major issue in Assam and Mizoram. There are no registered criminal cases against the scheduled tribes in Meghalaya and Nagaland. Mizoram is the only state that records the incidences and victims of simple hurt, grievous hurt and assault on children. The state has also records the highest incidences and victims of assault on women. There are no cases of stalking and insult to the modesty of women in any of these states. Mizoram has the highest incidences of crime/atrocities against scheduled tribes followed by Assam, Sikkim, Tripura and Manipur. There are no incidences of crime/atrocities against scheduled tribes in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, crimes against women deterring empowerment and progress of the women of scheduled tribe’s category. Therefore, the Governments of the concerned states should introduce proper policies for reducing such crimes against the scheduled tribes. This study is the first of its kind to acknowledge and analyse the crime statistics of the aforementioned areas. The novelty of this paper is that it is the first to identify and highlight the atrocities committed against the tribal population in the northeastern states of India. This paper discusses the crimes committed against the scheduled tribes in the north-eastern states of India and aims to provide key insights to scholars, researchers and policymakers who contribute towards the upliftment of tribal communities in India.
"Opfer" und "Aktivistin". Zwei Muslima aus Gujarat ringen mit der Ambivalenz des Sakralen
Creators: name: Susewind, Raphael
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Recourse to religion can escalate as well as de-escalate intergroup conflict – so the emerging academic consensus. But the “ambivalence of the sacred Appleby 2000) concerns not only violent or non-violent movements or ideologies, it is also experienced on the micro-level of religious identities and individual agency. This article takes two female Muslim peace activists’ biographical narratives and psychometric profiles to illustrate how the ambivalence and ambiguity of religion towards violent conflict unfolds its dynamics on the individual level. Both women struggle with and fight for religion in Gujarat, India – and both experience their own Muslimness as ambivalent and/or ambiguous. Their stories highlight the relevance of explorative empirical methods on the individual microlevel for an adequate understanding of religio-political conflict.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Consumerism and consumer complexity : implications for university teaching and teaching evaluation.
Creators: name: Hall, Wendy A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2013

description: A contemporary issue is the effects of a corporate production metaphor and consumerism on university education. Efforts by universities to attract students and teaching strategies aimed at 'adult learners' tend to treat student consumers as a homogeneous group with similar expectations. In this paper, I argue that consumer groups are not uniform. I use Dagevos' theoretical approach to categorize consumers as calculating, traditional, unique, and responsible. Based on the characteristics of consumers occupying these categories, I describe the implications of the varying consumer expectations for teaching. I also consider the implications for evaluation of teaching and call for research taking consumer types into account when evaluating teaching.
Apu, Neela, and Amita. Stereotypes of Indian Americans in Mainstream TV Shows in the United States
Creators: name: Gottschlich, Pierre
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Indians and Indian Americans in the United States have often been stereotyped. Many of these clichés are reflected in the portrayal of Non-Resident Indians (NRI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) in American TV shows. This paper analyzes the stereotypes in the characters of three of the most well-known Indian Americans on TV. It is divided into two different sections: In the first part, the foundations for the case studies are laid, including a short discussion of the theoretical approaches used, a general assessment of stereotypes of Indians and Indian Americans with special emphasis on the “model minority” myth, and the presentation of the hypothesis and the case study selection. In the second main section, the case studies of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (“The Simpsons”), Neela Rasgotra (“ER – Emergency Room”), and Amita Ramanujan (“Numb3rs”) are described and analyzed. A conclusion summarizes the argument.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 3-4 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Translocal Art Worlds in Times of Medialization. Some Observations of India's Contemporary Art World in Transition
Creators: name: Adeli, Jamila
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: India and its booming art world is one of the most prominent examples of recent developments in the global art scene and its shifting financial and cultural hubs. This article first addresses the notion of decentralization of the contemporary art world by providing a brief insight into the recent shift of the art market from “West” to “East” and by introducing the term “art world” as an art-sociological concept that seems particularly appropriate for tackling both the globalization and the medialization of contemporary art worlds. This is followed by a brief description of the rise and fall of the Bodhi Art galleries as an exemplary introduction to one of India’s prime art-world players. The contemporary Indian art world is then portrayed as a new subsystem of Indian society, the focus being on the structural changes that have occurred during the last twenty years. The role of the media is singled out as one of the most prominent influences on the changes within the Indian art world, concluding that the relevance of the examination of contemporary art and medialization as exemplified by the Indian art world cannot be overemphasized.
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Matchmaking 2.0. The Representation of Women and Female Agency in the Indian Online Matrimonial Market
Creators: name: Titzmann, Fritzi-Marie
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The first India-based websites dedicated to matrimonial matchmaking appeared on the World Wide Web in the late 1990s and the number of users has increased ever since. These websites provide a complex picture of young Indians searching for life partners. A detailed analysis of the matrimonial profiles offers a remarkable insight into the changing concepts of marriage, love, and gender roles. This article focuses on the construction and mediation processes of femininity. It is based on research conducted over the past three years both online and through fieldwork in India, mainly in Mumbai. The article analyzes how women are portrayed in the advertisements that appear on these websites. Another part of this media content analysis consists of profile analyses of female users and their self-representation online. The field research included personal interviews with users and media producers or operators. An analysis of these aspects shows not only how the medium is used, but also how female roles and ideals are negotiated in contemporary India. The article concludes with observations on the transnational dynamics of the Indian online matrimonial market, taking the Gujarati marriage market and its global medial and political network as an example.
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Media Research Beyond Bollywood. Some Thoughts on a Systematic Media Perspective in India-related Research
Creators: name: Schneider, Nadja-Christina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Recently, academia has discovered Bollywood and made it into a favourite new topic. Generally speaking, this is a very welcome development. Yet how do things stand with regard to research on all the other ‘old’ and ‘new’ media? These have experienced such an extraordinary boom in India in recent years that media development itself can be viewed as a crucial driving force of the new Indian “economic miracle”. An enormous rift reveals itself, when one considers how little has been published hitherto about the country’s press, for example, which continues to flourish in all languages spoken in India, or about the radio, over which the state recently relaxed its control. Also, how sensible is it for media-related research to continue to focus largely on individual media, given today’s increasing media convergence and cross-media communication? And finally, what is the social science stance as regards processes of social change that are closely linked with the accelerated increase of mediated communication, a new field of research which has rapidly gained acceptance within the framework of media and communication studies? These are the three questions addressed in this article.
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Media and Social Identities in India and Beyond
Creators: name: Gottschlich, Pierre
name: Schneider, Nadja-Christina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Guest edtior's foreword to the special issue on "Media and Social Identites in India and Beyond".
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Konflikt, Kooperation und Demokratisierung in Asien. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Creators: name: Hülser, Sarah
name: Mokry, Sabine
name: Schlücker, Annika
name: Weber, Isabella
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Crossroads Asia. Eröffnungsveranstaltung eines neuen Kompetenznetzwerks
Creators: name: Schetter, Conrad
name: Kreutzmann, Hermann
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Towards a theory without credentials
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reassesses the significance of theory for Creative Writing research. In this vein, it aims to redress the misperception of theory installed by Creative Writing practitioners, and by the same token to redress theory's marginalisation within Creative Writing circles. It positions itself within the debate about the alleged antagonism, continuity; or complementarity, between these two fields and attempts to reorient the critical conversation and provoke writers to rethink their understanding of theory's usefulness to their practice. It argues against favouritism towards anyone theory, for there are special affinities between Creative Writing and certain theories, particularly those grounded in poststructnralist theories of language. This may be due to the fact that creative writers read and research differently from theorists and critics. One key difference between them is the status of affect and the body, and therefore of the nnconscious, inrelation to thought. By focusing ·on psychoanalysis, I argue here for a privileging of a 'theory without credentials', one that would disrupt our certainties and thus open up creative possibilities that can in turn be theorised. A psychoanalytic understanding of subjectivity sheds light on the creative process and on the very concept of knowledge production in ways that are not envisaged by other models of subjectivity. Conversely, an examination of writing and research processes can help. illuminate and expand on psychoanalytic understandings of subjectivity.Psychoanalysis is useful in that it suggests that both writing and the subject are constructions in the making. This has direct pedagogical implications: by grappling with the theory itself, new teaching methods and methodologies arise.
Premature menopause: the experiences of women and their partners
Creators: name: Lockley, Geraldine S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Premature menopause is menopause occurring before the age of 40 and occurs in roughly two percent of women. This research involved in depth interviews with women and their partners to understand the psychological aspects of the condition, which has significant emotional and health consequences. It is the first time the men's experience has been examined. The work will be beneficial to health professionals in developing sensitive guidance for those facing this often distressing condition.
‘It’s more about the heroin’ : Injection drug users’ response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting
Creators: name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Small, Will
name: Hyshka, Elaine
name: Maher, Lisa
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Aims To assess heroin injectors’ perceptions of and responses to a warning issued by public health officials regarding high-potency heroin and increases in fatal overdoses. Design Semi-structured qualitative interviews Setting Vancouver, Canada. Participants Eighteen active heroin injectors Measurements Semi-structured interview guide focussing on heroin injectors’ perceptions of and responses to the overdose warning, including reasons for failing to adhere to risk reduction recommendations. Findings Although nearly all participants were aware of the warning, their recollections of the message and the timing of its release were obscured by on-going social interactions within the drug scene focussed on heroin quality. Many injection drug users reported seeking the high potency heroin and nearly all reported no change in overdose risk behaviours. Responses to the warning were shaped by various social, economic and structural forces that interacted with individual behaviour and undermined efforts to promote behavioural change, including sales tactics employed by dealers, poverty, the high cost and shifting quality of available heroin, and risks associated with income-generating activities. Individual-level factors, including emotional suffering, withdrawal, entrenched injecting routines, perceived invincibility and the desire for intense intoxication also undermined risk reduction messages. Conclusions Among heroin injectors in British Columbia, a 2011 overdose warning campaign appeared to be of limited effectiveness and also produced unintended negative consequences that exacerbated overdose risk.
Almost being there: video communication with young children
Creators: name: Tarasuik, Joanne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation explores the popularity and experience of video communication by pre-school-aged children. Two questionnaires verified that young children frequently engage in video communication with relatives; and that parents largely perceive this activity as beneficial. Three behavioural experiments, utilizing variations of a separation and reunion procedure, investigated how young children behave during a video-link to their parent. Findings demonstrated that children feel proximal a parent during a virtual parental presence, as if the parent was actually present, which attenuated typical separation behaviours, illustrating that young children can experience parental virtual presence as 'almost being there.'
DORIS WEIDEMANN / JINFU TAN: Fit für Studium und Praktikum in China. Ein interkulturelles Trainingsprogramm
Creators: name: Linck, Gudula
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

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The Helpfulness and Timing of Transition Program Education
Creators: name: Rush, Kathy L.
name: Adamack, Monica
name: Janke, Robert
name: Gordon, Jason
name: Ghement, Isabella
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between transition program education and new graduate nurse transition. Although new graduates preferred hands-on learning, the helpfulness of workshops was associated with better transition. New graduates, many of whom were from the Millennial Generation, liked a variety of educational modalities. Access to support was better for nurse graduates who received education delivered throughout the first year of transition.
Additional file 1 of The potential therapeutic role of itaconate and mesaconate on the detrimental effects of LPS-induced neuroinflammation in the brain
Creators: name: Ohm, Melanie
name: Hosseini, Shirin
name: Lonnemann, Niklas
name: He, Wei
name: More, Tushar
name: Goldmann, Oliver
name: Medina, Eva
name: Hiller, Karsten
name: Korte, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1.
The fate of lignin during hydrothermal pretreatment
Creators: name: Trajano, Heather L
name: Engle, Nancy L
name: Foston, Marcus
name: Ragauskas, Arthur J
name: Tschaplinski, Timothy J
name: Wyman, Charles E
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Effective enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass benefits from lignin removal, relocation, and/or modification during hydrothermal pretreatment. Phase transition, depolymerization/repolymerization, and solubility effects may all influence these lignin changes. To better understand how lignin is altered, Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides wood samples and cellulolytic enzyme lignin (CEL) isolated from P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides were subjected to batch and flowthrough pretreatments. The residual solids and liquid hydrolysate were characterized by gel permeation chromatography, heteronuclear single quantum coherence NMR, compositional analysis, and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. Results Changes in the structure of the solids recovered after the pretreatment of CEL and the production of aromatic monomers point strongly to depolymerization and condensation being primary mechanisms for lignin extraction and redeposition. The differences in lignin removal and phenolic compound production from native P. trichocarpa x P. deltoides and CEL suggested that lignin-carbohydrate interactions increased lignin extraction and the extractability of syringyl groups relative to guaiacyl groups. Conclusions These insights into delignification during hydrothermal pretreatment point to desirable pretreatment strategies and plant modifications. Because depolymerization followed by repolymerization appears to be the dominant mode of lignin modification, limiting the residence time of depolymerized lignin moieties in the bulk liquid phase should reduce lignin content in pretreated biomass. In addition, the increase in lignin removal in the presence of polysaccharides suggests that increasing lignin-carbohydrate cross-links in biomass would increase delignification during pretreatment.
M. ALEXOWITZ: Traumfabrik Bollywood; R. DWYER: 100 Bollywood Films; B. FRITZ: Bollywood in Deutschland; F. KRAUSS: Männerbilder im Bollywood-Film; B. PESTAL: Faszination Bollywood; C. TIEBER (Hg.): Fokus Bollywood; M. UHL/K.J. KUMAR: Indischer Film
Creators: name: Engster, Bettina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

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