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{"title":"Cultural constraints in digital adaptation: state ownership, agents, and newspaper organisations in China","authors":"Zhao, Wei","doi":"10.5525/gla.thesis.85070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.85070","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the digital adaptation of China’s state-owned newspaper firms, with a particular focus on the cultural constraints shaping their organisational capabilities for digital growth. Drawing on theories from organisational studies, media management, and media innovation, it investigates ownership as a key structural factor influencing cultural dynamics, which in turn affects the innovation capabilities of Chinese newspaper firms. Through a multi-case study of three Beijing-based national industry newspapers, this research identifies three common cultural phenomena: self-identification as state media, symbolic compliance in policy engagement, and the accepted norm of “co-creation” between journalists and advertisers. Despite their shared state ownership, each newspaper firm exhibits distinct organisational cultures shaped by agent owners—supervisory entities responsible for exercising ownership rights on behalf of the state. By embedding their own institutional priorities and interests into organisational practices, these agent owners refract the influence of state ownership, generating varied cultural dynamics across Chinese newspaper firms. Building on this, the study further explores the motivations behind Chinese newspaper firms’ innovative behaviours, identifying three primary drivers—self-drive, state compliance, and change aversion—that either facilitate or hinder digital adaptation. The interplay of these motives, with state ownership playing a significant role, reveals a misalignment of values, goals, and expectations among policymakers, agent owners, press management, and practitioners. These cultural constraints have been limiting the innovation capabilities of Chinese newspaper firms in their pursuit of digital transformation and genuine engagement with the state-led media convergence strategy. This study challenges the conventional view of China’s state-owned media system by critically uncovering the underexplored yet pivotal role of agent owners. It further advances media innovation research by proposing a novel motivation-based framework to decode organisational cultures and behaviours within Chinese newspaper firms, drawing on valuable empirical data. The findings call for further academic and regulatory inquiry into the power boundaries of agent owners and their conflicts of interest with Chinese newspaper firms, offering insights to mitigate agency loss in China’s media governance and address the institutional constraints on media innovation.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147904088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Sometimes it protects you, sometimes it hurts you”: An exploration of dissociation, psychosis and trauma","authors":"Anthony, Rebecca","doi":"10.5525/gla.thesis.85611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.85611","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract available at each chapter.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85611/4/2025AnthonyDClinPsy.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147910405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Poor Love Principle: Queerly Mythic Narratives in Transreal Futures Fiction—a maximal, sociohistorical and cultural exploration of performative Australian character types","authors":"Douglas, William","doi":"10.25907/00925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25907/00925","url":null,"abstract":"This Doctor of Philosophy thesis comprises two independent but related components: a creative artefact novel titled The Poor Love Principle, and a critical essay that explores the concepts involved in the research and writing process. Many terms are used, and sometimes coined, to articulate the ideas drawn from cultural and social theory and phenomena, and they are applied in specific ways to suit authorial purpose and designs. Accordingly, a glossary of terms, abbreviations and neologisms used in the essay is included to assist with meaning clarification for the reader. The essay and artefact respond to the question: How can transilient performative character types be crafted and employed in transreal narratives using queerly mythic identity constructs to create agential flows within the transmodern cultural continuum?","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147882962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Severe infection in ANCA-associated vasculitis: Incidence, prognostic factors and prediction","authors":"Rutherford, Matthew Alexander","doi":"10.5525/gla.thesis.85034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.85034","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Individuals with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) are at high risk of severe infections. Using prognosis research methodology, this thesis will explore the incidence of severe infection, examine glucocorticoid exposure as a prognostic marker for severe infection and will develop prognostic models to predict severe infection events: the occurrence of first severe infection after diagnosis and early mortality following a severe infection event. Subsequent chapters will examine Covid-19 in AAV patients including prognostic factors for severe disease and the impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in AAV patients treated with rituximab. Methods Diverse datasets were utilised to address the thesis aims. Novel semantic web technology was deployed to federate multiple European AAV registries to determine severe infection incidence. Data linkage was used to develop a large AAV dataset using national Scottish routinely-collected health data for the severe infection prognostic marker and prognostic modelling studies. A binational cohort of AAV patients with Covid-19 was developed through the contribution of vasculitis clinicians throughout the UK and Ireland. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination data was derived from the AAV sub-group of the UK-wide multicentre multi-disease OCTAVE study of immunosuppressed individuals. For the prognostic modelling studies, modern prediction methodologies were applied. Results Severe infection incidence was high, especially in the first year after diagnosis. Glucocorticoid exposure thresholds above 10 mg daily all had a substantial positive association with severe infection. Multivariable models were developed with good predictive ability for both severe infection events and early mortality following severe infection. Prognostic factors for severe Covid-19 included immunosuppressive agents. The humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was severely attenuated in AAV patients compared to controls. Discussion Through applying prognosis research methodology, this thesis quantified the incidence of severe infection, identified prognostic factors and developed prognostic models for severe infection in individuals with AAV. Prognostic factors relating to Covid-19 were determined.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85034/2/2024RutherfordPhD.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147915777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rapid prototyping of injection moulded microfluidics with in-built sensing","authors":"Convery, Neil","doi":"10.5525/gla.thesis.84189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.84189","url":null,"abstract":"Microfluidics have been utilised over the past few decades to realise a wide range of academic research. These fluidic devices carry several advantages over classical analytical techniques such as lower reagent consumption, more rapid reactions, and increased sensitivity. However, while many of the currently used fabrication techniques allow for the rapid prototyping of microfluidic structures, these methods, and the design rules associated with them, do not translate well into mass-producible devices. For example, devices can be manufactured rapidly using soft lithography methods however, this requires access to specialist clean-room facilities and the through-put is limited to only a handful of devices per day. To address this, the work in this thesis focuses on developing a manufacturing platform that allows for the rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices using injection moulding. This process not only allows for the fabrication of hundreds of devices per day, but also allows for the use of materials such as polystyrene which have material properties that are better suited for applications such as cell culture. To achieve this, 3D printed inlays were evaluated for use in an industrial injection moulding machine and it was found that channels as small as 100 x 200 μm could be reliably manufactured. To complement this manufacturing platform, an oxygen sensor was also demonstrated that could be rapidly incorporated into the microfluidic devices without the requirement of clean-room facilities. This sensor could detect oxygen with high enough spatial and temporal resolution for most cell culture applications. Alongside this, steps towards making a device for measuring cell barrier integrity were also made. This work showed how functional elements such as electrodes and membranes could be rapidly incorporated into the injection moulded devices. However, a full demonstration of working trans-epithelial/endothelial-resistance measurements was not achieved. Overall this work demonstrates a novel manufacturing platform that should enable a more seamless transition from prototype, to mass-produced microfluidic devices in the future.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84189/2/2023ConveryPhD.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147910107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of influenza on the behaviour of lung basal cells","authors":"Shearer, Patrick Douglas Albert","doi":"10.5525/gla.thesis.84417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.84417","url":null,"abstract":"Influenza is the cause of 5 million infections globally, resulting in around 500,000 deaths each year. Despite targeted anti-viral drugs and vaccines, influenza viruses are poorly controlled and pose a particular threat to those who suffer chronic diseases. During infection, virus and immune-mediated damage destroys the airway structure needed for gas exchange and repairing this damage is essential for survival. Lung repair is driven by activation of progenitor cells, but how they carry out this repair is not well understood. Lung progenitors are difficult to study as they are a rare cell type in the lung, and the protocols for lung digest are not optimised for recovery of progenitors. We developed a new protocol for increasing the yield of progenitors from mouse lung tissue and used published transcriptomics data sets to identify progenitor cells in silico. We aimed to understand how the composition of the lung was changed during damage, so we infected mice with influenza A virus and studied how the behaviour of the epithelial progenitors changed. We found the composition of the lung changes during the peak and recovery phases of influenza. This change in composition correlates with increased activation and proliferation of progenitors and we show that this is accompanied by a change in cell metabolism, particularly an increase in glycolysis. We found that upper airway basal cells rely on IL-10 signalling to initiate this activation, and we suggest that the immunoregulatory response is necessary to initiate basal cell activation. We considered that lung basal cells might be changed by direct interaction with influenza viruses and using novel, fluorescent influenza A virus, we show that a subset of lung basal cells are directly infected by influenza virus but survive. Direct infection triggers an increase in stress, and further increases in glycolytic metabolism. We suggest this metabolic adaption of epithelial progenitors is a critical step in initiating lung repair after damage, and the stress seen in directly infected cells could result in improper dysplastic repair. Our data support the proposal that new treatments for respiratory diseases could consider targeting mechanisms of repair. Improving how the host repairs damage could not only be effective alongside drugs and vaccines in treating acute infections like influenza, but also in resolving chronic inflammatory such as COPD.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84417/1/2024ShearerPhD.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147919041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary Superficial Ewing Sarcoma with lymph node metastasis: unusual presentation (Case report and review of literatures)","authors":"Sura AlNamil","doi":"10.33762/mjbu.2023.137348.1121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33762/mjbu.2023.137348.1121","url":null,"abstract":"Primary superficial Ewing sarcoma (PSES) is an extremely uncommon tumor. Although Ewing sarcoma (ES) is primarily a bone tumor, it can sporadically affect the deep subcutaneous tissue or muscles, and it rarely occurs as a primary skin cancer. In contrast to bone or deep-seated Ewing sarcoma, superficial Ewing's sarcoma appears to have a better prognosis and rarely metastasizes. We report the case of a 21-year-old female who presented with a 1-year history of progressive enlarged right anterior thigh mass. The tumor was excised as a mass measuring 9×7×5 cm with a lymph node of 2×2 cm in size and sent for histopathology. Histopathological and immunohistochemical studies confirmed the diagnosis of PSES with lymph node metastasis, and the patient is now on treatment.","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85431598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postdate Pregnancy: Maternal & Neonatal Outcome","authors":"","doi":"10.33762/mjbu.2022.176735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33762/mjbu.2022.176735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82269526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thyroid function abnormalities in hepatitis C positive patients in a single center in Basrah","authors":"A. Hussein, Alaa Mousa","doi":"10.33762/mjbu.2022.132265.1092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33762/mjbu.2022.132265.1092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91154252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emerging Axonal Variants of Guillain Barré Syndrome “ AMAN and AMSAN “ as a Part of COVID-19 Sequalae","authors":"Hassan Farid, Nareen Bedoyan, Haithem J. Kadhum, A. Hashim, Zaineb Yaqoob","doi":"10.33762/mjbu.2023.139791.1125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33762/mjbu.2023.139791.1125","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an immune-mediated peripheral nerve disease. Its frequency was noticed to have increased during the COVID-19 period. Based on electrophysiological studies, the most common type of this disease is the demyelinating type. However, axonal types have also been seen. Methods: A large, analytical, cross-sectional study involving 2523 patients over a one-year period was conducted in Basrah, southern Iraq, to evaluate the neurophysiological changes for peripheral neuropathies following COVID-19 infection using nerve conduction studies and needle electromyography. The current study aims to evaluate the prevalence, clinical","PeriodicalId":33859,"journal":{"name":"The Medical Journal of Basrah University","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88799678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}