cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1640
title: Suvarnabhumi in ancient international trade

description: This thesis reassesses the mainstream historical approach towards the lands referred to as Suvarnabhumī and Suvarṇadvīpa by focusing on expanding the picture of early settlements in Southeast Asia that was triggered by maritime trade in the Bay of Bengal and the Southern Silk Road. The concept and existence of “Suvarnabhumī” as an entity has always been both disputed and uncertain. More conservative historians have treated it as a mythological entity that only exists in the minds of Ancient Indic travellers. Yet, both tales and factual accounts from Chinese, Ancient Greek and Indians literatures have emerged in reference to the lands known as “India beyond the Ganges”, and its highly priced resources. Traded goods reflect socio-economic factors of the destination or port the goods flow through, especially its variety and density. Moreover, it reflects exposure and variety of religious and cultural values that are transferred along with commodity demands. The traditional perspective on the sole influences of India towards the emergence of latter advance cultures within Southeast Asia is bought into question with the style inspiration from the Egyptian and Greek civilisation in ports within the Ganges, which accumulated immense wealth from maritime trade. The thesis re-evaluates the identity of Suvarnabhumī in ancient international trade by using ancient trade records and seafaring accounts by ancient Indian travellers, Pliny, and Ptolemy, as well as archaeological evidences such as international trade items production and movement found within Southeast Asia and the Southern Silk Road. Among these are economic regulations and technology that possibly stimulated the emergence of Early States in Southeast Asia and the Bay of Bengal. Economic operations from and to Suvarnabhumī and Early Southeast Asia define its identity and capital wealth, which laid grounds for large maritime cultures that operated as trading gateways such as Sri Vijaya and Dvaravati.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1641
title: Caging of rigid polytopes via dispersion control of point fingers

description: This dissertation addresses the problem of object caging. The author proposes approaches for designing “cages” by means of imposing simple constraints to control the manipulator. Each designed cage is represented in the form of a finger placement relative to the object and its error tolerance. The error tolerance determines how much the fingers may deform based on a measure. The proposed approaches are based on decomposing the workspace into convex subsets, then constructing a roadmap to identify possible cages for a given system. After a roadmap is constructed, it is possible to query if a finger placement forms a cage or enumerate all the cages efficiently. The approaches can be extended to handle constrained fingers and/or uncertainty in the system.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1642
title: Courtship and marriage as a form of women’s empowerment in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and George Eliot’s Middlemarch

description: The thesis will examine the portrayal of women and their roles in courtship and marriage in three nineteenth-century novels: Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871), showing how gender differences played a significant part in Victorian society and more significantly, in the private sphere of the family. The significance of gender roles and how men and women interact with each other in the private sphere will be analysed in the social and historical context of the early to the mid-nineteenth-century England, using the historical criticism provided in Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall’s Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (1987) which examines the significance of gender roles in the life of the provincial English middle class. According to Davidoff and Hall, gender roles are a basis for the construction of the provincial middle class’s values, outlook, family life, religious ideology and economic structure (29). They observe that in historical texts and studies of the age, women are almost always neglected and they argue that women played as much part in shaping history as men did, giving evidence of women’s subtle influence, which often goes unrecorded or overlooked by other historians, in shaping the political, economic and philanthropic actions of men. This thesis will seek to explain that within the restricted social expectations, female writers of the nineteenth century have portrayed some of the strictest institutions of all, courtship and marriage, as a form of female empowerment against the dominating patriarchal world.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1643
title: “Face” conflict and conflict resolution in Thai-Japanese MNCs in Thailand

description: To test the argument that “face” is a fundamental cause of interpersonal conflict and explore the similarities and differences of conflict resolution between Thai and Japanese MNCs participants. Additionally, the correlation between face concerns and conflict management styles of the two cultures was examined. The research explored the Face-Negotiation theory (FN) version 2 to test that “face” is an underlying assumption and/or an explanatory mechanism for conflicts in the organization. The adapted version of Rahim Organization Conflict Inventory-II (ROCI-II) was employed to test the differences and similarities of conflict management styles. There were a total of 155 returned questionnaires. Moreover, 6 out of 155 participants were purposively selected for in-depth interviews by using Personal Attitude Construct (PAC) analysis. The findings of this research illustrated that “face” is a fundamental cause of interpersonal conflict for Thai and Japanese participants. Thais rated themselves higher for all types of face concerns: self-face, other-face, and mutual-face, than Japanese. Regarding the similarities and differences of conflict resolution, Thai participants preferred using integrating, avoiding, obliging and compromising more than Japanese participants. The relationship between face concerns and conflict management style showed that the more self-face and other-face concerned the Thai participants were, the more they reported using obliging. Additionally, the more mutual-faced concerned they were, the more they reported using integrating. Whereas for Japanese participants, the more self-face concerned they were, the more they reported using dominating. Additionally, the more other-face concerned and the more mutual-face concerned they were, the more they reported using integrating. Most of the findings from the PAC analysis (interview) supported the results of the quantitative parts (questionnaire); however, the preferences in styles of conflict resolution for Thais found some differences.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1644
title: A study of Eve Ensler’s plays : feminist ideology and activism

description: To present an analytical study of plays written by Eve Ensler between 1995 and 2010; The Vagina Monologues (1996), The Good Body (2004), I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (2010) which reflect the writer’s feminist ideology and activism. Eve Ensler declares in The Vagina Monologues that women have been oppressed and exploited primarily because they are made to think of their sexuality as taboo. Having provoked widespread concern about womanhood in her play The Vagina Monologues, Ensler continues questioning to what extent women are free from sexual domination in The Good Body that highlights the role of women in American consumerist culture of today who have been influenced by the ideal image of women represented through the media which later on conditions women to pay much attention to their physical appearance to the point of becoming an obsession. I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World demonstrates the merging of feminist drama and activism to inspire the younger generation, to participate in activities aimed at combating violence against women. In terms of feminist activism, Ensler has been actively involved in V-Day and V-Girls activities that aim to promote feminist ideologies and the awareness that leads women to protect themselves. Moreover, the three plays are created by gathering women’s experiences similar to the consciousness-raising activities practiced in the early period of women’s liberation movement. To learn from these experiences boosts up the strength of female bonding and self-worth in women around the world, who want to share their sense of feminist ideology as well as to express themselves individually, to join forces with each other so as to stimulate the growth of feminist activism.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1645
title: Neural prediction of protein-protein interactions based on physicochemical correlation coefficients and bootstrapping for artificial data generation

description: Although using only protein sequences might be sufficient for predicting, there are major problems in the prediction of protein-protein interactions by classifying technique such as supervised neural network. The first one is extracting the feature of protein pair sequences to form a feature sequence. The second problem is conserving the information when equalizing the lengths of feature sequences before classifying into interacting and non-interacting classes. This dissertation proposed a method to predict protein-protein interactions from amino acid sequences using only artificial boundary data generation and boosting procedures to improve the prediction accuracies. The feature extraction is based on the correlation coefficients of physicochemical properties, the statistical means and standard deviations of secondary structures and protein properties. The important data which lie into the boundary of each subcluster were only used to generate the artificial boundary data by bootstrap resampling technique. Finally, the only artificial boundary data of both positive and negative protein pairs were predicted by boosting method based on neural network classifier. The empirical study has shown that our proposed method yielded better prediction accuracy than the sequence-based methods when performed on Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae data set. Moreover, the number of feature and the number of training data were less than others. The prediction models were also evaluated by cross-species test data sets. The result showed that the proposed method also capable to predict with the good performance on cross-species data.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1646
title: Effects of moisture content, shape and particle size of composite particles of rice starch and microcrystalline cellulose on tabletting

description: To investigate the effects of moisture content, shape and particle size of composite particles between rice starch (RS) and microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) on tabletting properties. The composite particles (RS:MCC) which composed of RS and MCC in the ratio of 7:3 were prepared by spray drying technique. MCC from two sources were used, CEOLUS® PH 101 and COMPRECEL®. Two groups of MCC were used, that passing through a sieve number 45 having an opening aperture of 355 µm (CS) and that its size was reduced by jet mill (CJM). It was found that using CS produced composite particles in “rugby ball” shape while using CJM gave composite particles of spherical shape. Powder characterizations of RS:MCC prepared by using MCC from two sources gave similar flowability index. However, the hardness of the 500 mg and 350 mg RS:MCC tablets composed of CEOLUS® PH 101 was higher than composite particles using COMPRECEL®. The composite particles using CEOLUS® PH 101 which having 7.01, 10.79 and 15.73 percent moisture content exhibited different tabletting properties in particular the hardness of tablet. Capping of tablet was found at 15.73 percent of moisture content level. Moreover, comparing with commercial spray dried rice starch without MCC (Eratab®), the Eratab® tablets were likely to be friable than RS:MCC tablets at the moisture content of approximately 10.79%. The relationship of particle sizes of RS:MCC composite particles with their tabletting properties was unclear. Perhaps, the particle size range of RS:MCC composite particles chosen for the study was inappropriate. Particle shape of RS:MCC composite particles especially affected on the hardness of 350 mg tablet when compressed with lower force as 1 and 1.5 metric tons. Tablets made from spherical shape RS:MCC (using CJM as starting materials) was harder than those of made from “rugby ball” shape RS:MCC (using CS as starting materials).
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1647
title: Development and validation of Thai version of body image scale (BIS) for breast cancer patient

description: Purpose. To examine the psychometric property of the Thai version of the Body Image Scale (BIS). Methods. We conducted a cross-culture translation of the BIS into the Thai language and administered it to 242 breast cancer patients who had surgery and had completed chemo-radiation for more than one year. Results. Participants mean age was 50 years and 80 % of participants underwent mastectomy while 16.9% had breast conserving therapy. The others characteristics from participants were similar to breast cancer patients in Thailand. The study confirmed a good reliability and validity of Thai version of BIS. The questionnaire has high internal and external consistency; Cronbach’s α was above 0.8 and test-retest reliability was more than 0.7.Content validity was confirmed by expert opinion and cognitive interview with breast cancer patients. Construct validity was examined though factor analysis showed a single-factor solution which excludes one item from the original 10-item scale. Discriminant validity which confirmed by different score between mastectomy and breast conserving surgery group and good response prevalence also supported the clinical validity of the test. Conclusions. Thai version of the BIS showed a good psychometric property and can be used as a patient-physician communication and quality of life evaluation tool after breast cancer treatment in Thai women
DOI: 10.21227/p5qy-br50
title: Audio Steganalysis Dataset

description: The steganography and steganalysis of audio, especially compressed audio, have drawn increasing attention in recent years, and various algorithms are proposed. However, there is no standard public dataset for us to verify the efficiency of each proposed algorithm. Therefore, to promote the study field, we construct a dataset including 33038 stereo WAV audio clips with a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and duration of 10s. And, all audio files are from the Internet through data crawling, which is for a better simulation of a real detection environment. The dataset is used for MP3 steganalysis at this stage. We provide corresponding MP3 encoder, LAME, and steganographic encoder, HCM, EECS and so on, which is developed based on LAME. What's more, some useful python scripts are supplied for samples make in batch. The dataset is still expanding, and we will include AAC, AMR and other audio formats in the future.Keywords: Audio, MP3, Steganalysis, Steganography
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1648
title: Effects of exercise training on microvascular changes in aging rat brain : roles of VEGF and eNOS

description: Aging has been reported to increase risk of cerebrovascular diseases. Reduction of basal regional blood flow and capillary loss in the brain contribute tissue perfusion insufficiency with advancing age. Microvascular deterioration in aged brain appears to be related to downregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), which both are key modulators related age-induced microvascular changes. Regular physical exercise is well known to have beneficial effect to brain health, including promoted blood flow, augmented angiogenesis and enhanced vascularization, in aging individuals. However, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study was set to investigate effect of exercise training on age-induced cerebral microvascular alterations with modulation of VEGF and eNOS expressions. Male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: sedentary-young (4-6 months), sedentary-aged (21-22 months), immersed-aged (21-22 months) and trained-aged (21-22 months). Exercise program included swimming training 5 days/week for 8 weeks. Physiological characteristics including body weight, mean arterial blood pressure, plasma lipid profile and plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) level were determined. To investigation of microvascular networks of the brain, in situ study was performed for determining regional cerebral blood flow perfusion (rCBF) using a laser Doppler flowmeter and for visualizing the vasculature via cranial window, using a laser scanning confocal fluorescent microscope. Fluorescent images of the vasculature were recorded and off-line analyzed for capillary vascularity (CV) by using image analysis software. To examine possible underlying mechanism of exercise training on ameliorating cerebral vascular deterioration, VEGF and eNOS protein level in isolated brain microvessels were determined using immunoassay technique. We found that age induced significant alteration of these physiological characteristics in old rats when compared to those in young group. However, those parameters were significantly improved in trained-aged rats. In addition, CV and rCBF significantly reduced in non-exercise old rats when compared to those in young rats, however, in trained-aged rats, CV amd rCBF significantly elevated when compared to those in old rats without training. Further, age induced significant downregulation of VEGF and eNOS expression in aged rats when compared to those in young rats. In addition, exercise significantly upregulated VEGF and eNOS level in trained-aged rats when compared to those in non-exercise old rats. Moreover, the linear correlations between CV and either VEGF or eNOS levels were observed as well as a linear relationship between CV and plasma MDA level. Therefore, it implied that antioxidant effects of exercise training could protect brain microvascular and blood perfusion against aging, particularly associated with its actions on VEGF and eNOS expressions.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3518148
title: USP5 Ubiquitin-Rhodamine110 Catalytic Activity Assay

description: A ubiquitin-rhodamine110 assay was used to determine if ZnF-UBD ligands antagonize USP5 deubiquitinase (DUB) activity
description: Funding acknowledgement: The SGC is a registered charity (number 1097737) that receives funds from AbbVie, Bayer Pharma AG, Boehringer Ingelheim, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Eshelman Institute for Innovation, Genome Canada through Ontario Genomics Institute [OGI-055], Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU/EFPIA) [ULTRA-DD grant no. 115766], Janssen, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, MSD, Novartis Pharma AG, Innovation and Science (MRIS), Pfizer, São Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP, Takeda, and Wellcome.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3518149
title: USP5 Ubiquitin-Rhodamine110 Catalytic Activity Assay

description: A ubiquitin-rhodamine110 assay was used to determine if ZnF-UBD ligands antagonize USP5 deubiquitinase (DUB) activity
description: Funding acknowledgement: The SGC is a registered charity (number 1097737) that receives funds from AbbVie, Bayer Pharma AG, Boehringer Ingelheim, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Eshelman Institute for Innovation, Genome Canada through Ontario Genomics Institute [OGI-055], Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU/EFPIA) [ULTRA-DD grant no. 115766], Janssen, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, MSD, Novartis Pharma AG, Innovation and Science (MRIS), Pfizer, São Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP, Takeda, and Wellcome.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1649
title: Banteay Srey : a study of the temple and its builder

description: The Banteay Srey Temple was constructed in the tenth century by a royal guru (preceptor) of King Jayavarman V (968-1001 A.D.), known as Yajñavarāha. Although it is not a royal building, the quality of the art and design of this temple places it on par with many of the other great Angkorean architectural works; a position that is not matched by any other non-royal construction. This thesis argues that Banteay Srey was constructed as a showcase for the profound talents of its builder, the royal guru Yajñavarāha. The research focuses on two objectives. First, it establishes that Banteay Srey does indeed occupy a special place in Cambodian art history, showing that its design elements draw on the best existing techniques from near and far within Cambodia, harmoniously combined with innovative results of literary and religious inspiration. Second, it explores the extraordinary role and stature of Yajñavarāha, whose combination of intelligence, education, position within the court, and ultimate power were unprecedented in Angkor. He had the vision required to conceive of Banteay Srey, the means and authority needed to order its construction, and the artistic and literary knowledge necessary to design a work whose place and influence we are still coming to fully understand.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1650
title: Effects of combined endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on angiogenesis and wound healing in diabetic mice

description: The effects of combined endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on angiogenesis and wound healing in diabetic mice were studied by using Balb/c nude mice. The animals were divided into five groups. Group 1 is control group with implanted fibrin gel (Control; (n=6)). Group 2 is diabetic group with implanted fibrin gel (DM; (n=6)). Group 3 is diabetic group with implanted fibrin gel and 1X10[superscript 6] cells MSCs (DM+MSCs; (n=6)). Group 4 is diabetic wounded group with implanted fibrin gel and 1X10[superscript 6] cells EPCs (DM+EPCs; (n=6)). Group 5 is diabetic wounded group with implanted fibrin gel and combined 0.5X10[superscript 6] cells MSCs and 0.5X10[superscript 6] cells EPCs (DM+MSCs+EPCs; (n=6)). Diabetic groups were induced by injection of streptozotocin ((STZ) 45 mg/kg BW ip. daily for 5 days). After 6-7 weeks, all mice were anesthetized and created bilateral full-thickness excisional skin wounds on the dorso-rostral back (0.6x0.6 sq.cm). Each mouse received fibrin gel or stem cells injection into wound bed. On days 7 and 14 post- wound, the percentage of wound closure (%WC) was accessed by using digital image analysis(Image Pro-Plus). The percentage of capillary density (%CV) was determined by using intravital fluorescence microscopy. The re-epithelialization and the number of neutrophil infiltration were analyzed from wound tissue samples using H&E staining. Tissue vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) level was detected by ELISA. The results showed that: 1) Blood sugar level in all diabetic group was increased significantly as compared to Control on day 7 and 14 post-wound. However, body weights of all groups were not significant difference as compared to DM. 2). On day 7 and 14, %WC of all groups increased significantly as compared to DM. 3) On day 7, the %CV of all group increased significantly as compared to DM. The %CV of DM+EPCs+MSCs group was significantly higher than DM+MSCs and DM+EPCs groups (P&lt;0.000). On day 14, the %CV of DM+EPCs+MSCs group was increased significantly as compared to Control. 4) %Re-epithelialization in all groups was not significant difference as compared to DM. 5) On day 7, number of neutrophil infiltration in DM was increased significantly as compared to Control. DM+MSCs, DM+EPCs and DM+EPCs+MSCswere no significant difference when compared to DM group. On day 14, the number of neutrophil infiltration of all groups increased significantly as compared to DM. 6) On day 7, VEGF levels of all groups increased significantly as compared to DM. In conclusion, the present study has demonstrated that the combined EPCs and MSCs can increase VEGF level and increased angiogenesis which lead to reduce number of neutrophil infiltration and enhanced wound healing in diabetic mice model.