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FOUR WORD DANTE PURGATORY
No full textA retelling of Dante's Purgatory with every Canto reduced to four words. </p
Public Transport Love Songs
No full textA pamphlet of four-word Public Transport Found Love Songs.</p
Stronger Together: Association Between Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR) and Biofilm Forming Ability of Salmonella spp. in Poultry Processing Environments
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This research investigates how temperature influences biofilm formation in Salmonella enterica and whether there's an association with multidrug resistance (MDR). A total of 54 isolates from two UK poultry processing plants were tested for biofilm formation at 4°C, 12°C, 25°C, and 37°C using the crystal violet assay.
Statistical analysis showed that biofilm formation increases with temperature, peaking at 37°C. Interestingly, non-MDR isolates formed stronger biofilms than MDR ones, suggesting a metabolic trade-off where MDR strains may prioritise resistance mechanisms over adhesion.
To explore genetic contributions, whole genome sequencing (WGS) was performed on five representative isolates, and multiple sequence alignment was done for three. A total of 27 adhesion-related genes and 41 antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) were identified, supporting the idea that regulatory networks and environmental cues, not just gene presence, shape biofilm behaviour.
These findings can help guide targeted hygiene strategies in poultry plants, including temperature-adapted cleaning and novel interventions like phage therapy, to improve food safety.</p
Echoes of Conques: The Monastery’s Networks
No full textThis chapter considers the intersections between monastic networks and artistic practices, taking -at its core- the case study of the Abbey of Conques.This chapter is published within the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No. 101007770 - CONQUES: “Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: From Material to Immaterial Heritage.”</p
Religious Refuges or Cultural Nodes?: Isolation and Inclusion at the ‘Untraditional’ Chinese Temples in the United Kingdom
No full textContribution to the 2024 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. The paper explores the religious place-making of Chinese temples in the UK through the dichotomy of isolation and inclusion. </p
Discovery of 1-phenyl-1,2,3-triazole ureas as dual VEGFR-2/JNK-1 type II kinase inhibitors targeting pancreatic cancer
No full text In oncology, pancreatic cancer (PC) continues to be a problem that requires creative approaches to therapy. This research aims to create dual kinase inhibitors that target VEGFR-2 and JNK-1, two important factors in the angiogenesis and progression of PC. We found compounds with promising anticancer action using phenyltriazolyl piperazine/(piperidine) carboxamides (PTPCs) and phenyltriazolyl phenylureas (PTPUs). Compound 12b was the most effective in inhibiting VEGFR-2 (IC50: 46 nM) and JNK-1 (IC50: 35 nM) and showed the highest activity against PANC-1 cancer cells (IC50: 1.05 μM). Furthermore, 12b altered the caspase-3, Bcl-2, and Bax apoptotic markers. The binding interactions of 12b with target kinases were discovered by in silico investigations. This study emphasizes how dual kinase inhibitors may be a viable way to improve the effectiveness of cancer treatments and deal with resistance mechanisms. </p
Teaching and Learning Through Film
No full textThis conference presentation explores how Psychology teachers can use film to teach ideas in psychologyand engage students.</p
The Role of Games in Hospitality Management Education
No full text Building upon game-based learning, this study compares hospitality students’ cognition, metacognition, engagement, satisfaction, and performance in a course across two academic terms at an Australian university. One term featured teaching content without any games while the second term incorporated gamification. A quasi-experimental design was used in which surveys, interviews and students’ evaluation reports were utilized. Students demonstrated more favorable cognitive thoughts, and higher levels of engagement and satisfaction in the gamified course. Students’ performance in assessments across the two courses as well as their metacognition were found to be similar. This study presents a game effectiveness matrix with Kahoot as the most effective game in students’ engagement and satisfaction and Virtual Reality valuable for learning and performance. This research note contributes to hospitality education as it is one of the first studies to assess students’ experiences from a cognitive and metacognitive perspective along with presenting a games effectiveness matrix.</p
Manifestation of Academic Rackets in Management Research through Early Career Sessions at Academic Conferences
No full textThis paper investigated elite maintenance in the field of Management and how early career researchers are taught to behave to become part of the elite. We develop insights into how the elite reproduces itself through socializing subsequent generations of scholars into the norms and hegemonic practices of the elite. Through analysis of sessions for early career researchers (ECRs) at a major academic management conference held online in 2021, we investigated how the elite functions as a racket (Horkheimer, 1985, 1988), instructing next generations of scholars how to enhance their chances to enter this racket. Relying on role modeling and specific behavioral advice, the elite reproduces itself by laying out the basic rules for next generations on how to behave as the elite. This includes overemphasizing how ECRs can join the academic elite, while neglecting the discussion of how we could improve the academic system itself. We discuss the implications of racket-like manifestation of academic disciplines, including the control of a rather small group of elite scholars over an entire field of scientific investigation through which alternative voices are suppressed.</p
Sensory pleasures and displeasures of the outdoors: somatic learning and the senses
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Globally, there are calls to increase physical activity levels in relatively sedentary populations, including via physical activity programmes, often targeted at those body-selves deemed at risk of ‘sedentariness’. Despite the salience of sensory pleasures and displeasures in engagement with (and abandonment of) these programmes, the sensory, embodied experiences of participation remain under-researched. Here, we draw on findings from a two-year ethnographic study of a national programme in Wales, which used the aesthetic attractions of ‘natural’ outdoor environments to encourage and sustain physical activity. Employing insights from phenomenological sociology, we explore the programme participants’ (n=146) lived experiences, analysed via a phenomenological lens, cohering around a panoply of sensory pleasures and displeasures, and somatic learning that is shaped and reshaped by weather encounters. </p