186,643 research outputs found
Analysis of anthocyanins in red fruits by use of HPLC/spectral array detection
No full textThe anthocyanin pigment profiles of the main red fruits (red grape, red currant, black currant, red raspberry, sweet cherry, sour cherry, blueberry, strawberry and blackberry) were characterized by reverse-phase (RP) high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/spectral array detection (SAD). Derivatives of delphinidin (delphinidin, petunidin and malvidin) can be distinguished from derivatives of cyanidin (cyanidin and peonidin), which in turn can be distinguished from pelargonidin derivatives on the basis of their visible spectrum. Elution order, retention times (Rt) and relative retention times (RRt), depend on glycosidation status and working conditions. The HPLC profile of the anthocyanins is distinctive for each red fruit and therefore helpful in identification of juice adulteration. Optimization of elution conditions is required when mixtures are analysed
HERG Seminar: The Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: a review of emerging evidence
No full textThis Higher Education Research Group webinar presented the results of the analytical report ‘The impact of COVID-19 on higher education: a review of emerging evidence’, published by the European Commission’s Network of Experts of the Social Dimension of Education and Training. The authors of the report are Thomas Farnell, Ana Skledar Matijević, Ninoslav Šćukanec Schmidt from the Institute for the Development of Education (Croatia).The analytical report provides a synthesis of the emerging evidence on what impact COVID-19 has on three aspects of higher education in Europe:teaching and learning;the social dimension (i.e. the effect on underrepresented, vulnerable and disadvantaged learners);and student mobility.Drawing upon 14 surveys carried out by university networks, student organisations and researchers, as well as over 50 journal articles, reports and publications, the report synthesises the emerging evidence and presents recommendations on actions to be taken at the policy level and by higher education institutions themselves.Thomas Farnell works as a higher education policy expert at the Institute for the Development of Education (IDE). He is a member of the Network of Experts on the Social Dimension of Education and Training (NESET) and is the lead author of the NESET report. He is currently participating in the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education expert team on the impact of COVID-19 on higher education.</p
The Cult of Marvel’s Loki(s), and their (Queer) Redemption
No full textItem is restricted in this repository.Karl Johnson - ORCID: 0009-0007-6064-9150
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6064-9150Marvel’s Loki is a hero, a villain, a Young Avenger and a Dark Cabal member; a child, an adult, and an alligator; Prince (and Agent) of Asgard and King of Jotunheim; bi/pansexual and genderfluid; an architect of Ragnarök and sacrificial saviour of New Asgard; a Sorcerer Supreme and a Presidential candidate known variously as the God of Evil, Lies, Mischief, Outcasts, and Stories. Each iteration of the 60+ year-old character is a legitimate and concurrent variant of Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirbys’ original creation, occupying canonical positions within the wider transmedial, multiversal and more-or-less linear Marvel narrative (McMillan 2021; Wolk 2021).https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Superhero-Studies/Piatti-Farnell-Wilson/p/book/9781032433547?srsltid=AfmBOopQbxgbN2SNLapEsBd5ep2ys29jtwm6XOysQ1YxSN3lOXVLGh09inpressinpres
L.-R. Farnell. The works of Pindar, translated, with literary and critical commentaries, tome II, The Text
No full textPuech Aimé. L.-R. Farnell. The works of Pindar, translated, with literary and critical commentaries, tome II, The Text. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 46, fascicule 217, Juillet-septembre 1933. p. 360
Effects of pectolytic enzymes on selected phenolic compounds in strawberry and raspberry juices
No full textL.-R. Farnell. The works of Pindar, translated, with literary and critical commentaries, tome II, The Text
No full textPuech Aimé. L.-R. Farnell. The works of Pindar, translated, with literary and critical commentaries, tome II, The Text. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 46, fascicule 217, Juillet-septembre 1933. p. 360
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Swamp Thing EcoGothic Monster or Environmental Champion?
No full textIn 1971, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson co-created a male plant-human hybrid monster for DC Comics that emphasised the ambiguity of the fictional superhero figure and captured the popular imagination. From its birth as a comic book marsh monster, Swamp Thing was reconceptualised by Alan Moore in 1982 as a superhero figure that engaged with environmental, political, and social issues, many of which resonate with today’s readers. This hybrid monster has featured as the protagonist in Wes Craven’s film, Swamp Thing (1982), a sequel directed by Jim Wynorski, The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), a short-lived animated series (Fox Kids, 1991), and two TV series (USA Network, 1990-1993 and DC Universe, 2019), clearly speaking to public fascination with the uncanny and grotesque. Yet is this character a superhero or a monster?
Exploring Swamp Thing through a material ecoGothic approach reveals the character’s trans-corporeal monstrosity which, through a disturbing becoming-plant, not only embodies our (somewhat) irrational fear of nature, but also advocates for an ecological change in attitude as we move towards better understanding our place in the world. Swamp Thing, as an eco-monster emerging from the murky, polluted marshland, disrupts our pre-conceived ideas of a pleasant (controlled) nature, forcing us to recognise the impact of the Anthropocene. Through Stacy Alaimo’s concept of trans-corporeality, Swamp Thing’s plant-human hybridity exemplifies ‘the flows, interchanges, and interrelations between human corporeality and the more-than-human world’ (Bodily Natures: 142) within a monstrous posthuman character that ‘reconfigure[s] the very boundaries of the human’ (Bodily Natures: 154). Through an ecoGothic approach, despite the appearance of being an horrific villain, Swamp Thing’s monstrosity situates this character as an environmental superhero
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