cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Global seaport competitiveness: a resource management perspective
Creators: name: Madani Mousavi, Shiva
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350709
subject: Organisation and management theory
classificationCode: 350711
subject: Organisational planning and management
classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics

description: Seaport investment is lumpy, entails a long gestation period and has been referred to as a sunk cost. While seaport infrastructures have long been recognized to be a contributor of seaport performance, research on seaport competitiveness, a popular theme among mainstream maritime studies, has not directed sufficient efforts to understand the role of resource management in building seaport competitiveness. Instead, the dominant focus has been on seaport location, productivity and efficiency, price, connectivity, and organization. The manner in which global seaports manage their capital-intensive resources to develop contingent dynamic capacities and capabilities to confront the changing dynamics in the maritime market has not been systematically examined. Using a qualitative multiple case study approach, this study traces the developmental paths of three geo-politically distinctive global seaports - Dubai, Kaohsiung, and Rotterdam - to examine how they achieved competitive advantages since the advent of containerization. Drawing on the tenets of resource-based view, organization learning, dynamic capability and contingency theories, this research reviewed and interpreted the planned actions of the three seaports from the perspective of resource structuring, bundling and leveraging to develop constructs of strategic resource management. From the strategic actions taken by the three case seaports, the study identifies eight resource management constructs couched within four basic capability building blocks that were instrumental in helping them to achieve, and maintain, their global competitiveness: a capital-intensive regime of developing logistics support infrastructure, a parallel program of utilizing resources in a complementary manner, a dynamically agile capability of coupling, de-coupling, and recoupling to renew resource utilization efficiency in response to external changes (regional market dynamics, industry trends), and a capability of re-orienting the use of tangible assets as an exit strategy to develop intangible resources to adapt to unfolding events. The judicious blend of the eight resource management constructs underpins the developmental paths of the three case seaports as they navigated the environmental contingencies posed by the dynamics of the regional competition they faced against the backdrop of the size of their hinterland and foreland. Offering a fresh perspective on understanding how global seaports compete by developing contingent dynamic capabilities, this study presents six working propositions, opening an avenue for building a theory of global seaport competitiveness based on seaport resource management.
Energy and Age Pareto Optimal Trajectories in UAV-assisted Wireless Data Collection
Creators: name: Liao, Yuan
name: Friderikos, Vasilis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to gather information from ground sensor nodes (SN) and transfer the collected data to the depot. The information freshness is captured by the age of information (AoI) metric, whilst the energy consumption of the UAV is seen as another performance criterion. Most importantly, the AoI and energy efficiency are inherently competing metrics, since decreasing the AoI requires the UAV returning to the depot more frequently, leading to a higher energy consumption. To this end, we design UAV paths that optimize these two competing metrics and reveal the Pareto frontier. To formulate this problem, a multi-objective mixed integer linear programming (MILP) is proposed with a flow-based constraint set and we apply Bender's decomposition on the proposed formulation. The overall outcome shows that the proposed method allows deriving non-dominated solutions for decision making for UAV based wireless data collection. Numerical results are provided to corroborate our study by presenting the Pareto front of the two objectives and the effect on the UAV trajectory.
Influence of different seating and crank positions on kinematics and muscular activity in elite handcycling - a case study
Creators: name: LITZENBERGER, Stefan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420701
subject: Biomechanics

description: In this thesis the effects of changes in the seating position of an elite handbiking athlete on his upper body kinematics and muscular activity were examined to evaluate whether a change of his present seating position might be biomechanically beneficial. For a total of 22 different settings (different crank heights, backrest positions, crank lengths and power outputs) joint angles of the elbow and wrist, movement of shoulders and sternum and surface electromyography data of seven muscles (bilaterally) were collected and analysed. It was found out that the relative distance between shoulder and crank lead to minor changes in kinematics, and that different power-outputs change the kinematics of the wrist-joint. The amplitude of muscular activity increased with increased workloads and activity timing changes with different positions. However, integrated electromyography shows that metabolic power generally is lowest for the settings the athlete is used to. Based on these findings a change of the athlete's seating position is not expected to lead to an improvement for the athlete.
Significantly Enhanced Performance of Nanofluidic Osmotic Power Generation by Slipping Surfaces of Nanopores
Creators: name: Ma, Long
name: Lin, Kabin
name: Qiu, Yinghua
name: Zhuang, Jiakun
name: An, Xuan
name: Yuan, Zhishan
name: Huang, Chuanzhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-performance osmotic energy conversion (OEC) with perm-selective porous membrane requires both high ionic selectivity and permeability simultaneously. Here, hydrodynamic slip is considered on surfaces of nanopores to break the tradeoff between ionic selectivity and permeability, because it decreases the viscous friction at solid-liquid interfaces which can promote ionic diffusion during OEC. Taking advantage of simulations, influences from individual slipping surfaces on the OEC performance have been investigated, i.e. the slipping inner surface (surfaceinner) and exterior surfaces on the low- and high-concentration sides (surfaceL and surfaceH). Results show that the slipping surfaceL is crucial for high-performance OEC. For nanopores with various lengths, the slipping surfaceL simultaneously increases both ionic permeability and selectivity of nanopores, which results in both significantly enhanced electric power and energy conversion efficiency. While for nanopores longer than 30 nm, the slipping surfaceinner plays a dominant role in the increase of electric power, which induces a considerable decrease in energy conversion efficiency due to enhanced transport of both cations and anions. Considering the difficulty in hydrodynamic slip modification to the surfaceinner of nanopores, the surface modification to the surfaceL may be a better choice to achieve high-performance OEC. Our results provide feasible guidance to the design of porous membranes for high-performance osmotic energy harvesting.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures
Elite British Women's Albums: Functions and Significance in Women’s Daily Lives
Creators: name: ORDYNAT, IRYNA VALERIEVNA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 430399
subject: Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines a collection of elite British women's albums dating between 1750 and 1830, with the aim of gaining new insight into the albums' function and into elite women's daily lives in this period. Through close contextual analysis, combined with a multi-disciplinary and thematic interpretive approach, this thesis demonstrates how albums can be used as legitimate historical sources to further our understanding of elite women’s role as mothers, their perspective of lineage and heritage, their participation in land ownership and their view of family landscape, and their close networks and relationships.
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605231182556 - Supplemental material for Changes in peripheral blood TBNK lymphocyte subsets and their association with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Hong, Xiufang
name: Xiao, Zhen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 111708
subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
classificationCode: 110599
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 110305
subject: Emergency Medicine
classificationCode: 110306
subject: Endocrinology
classificationCode: 110308
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
classificationCode: 110904
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 111099
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 111199
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 111299
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 110314
subject: Orthopaedics
classificationCode: 110604
subject: Sports Medicine
classificationCode: 110315
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
classificationCode: 111702
subject: Aged Health Care
classificationCode: 111403
subject: Paediatrics
classificationCode: 111599
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 170199
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 110319
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
classificationCode: 111799
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 110203
subject: Respiratory Diseases
classificationCode: 160807
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
classificationCode: 110323
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605231182556 for Changes in peripheral blood TBNK lymphocyte subsets and their association with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Xiufang Hong and Zhen Xiao in Journal of International Medical Research
Cooperative Magneto-Inductive Localization
Creators: name: Schulten, Henry
name: Dumphart, Gregor
name: Koskinas, Antonios
name: Wittneben, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Wireless localization is a key requirement for many applications. It concerns position estimation of mobile nodes (agents) relative to fixed nodes (anchors) from wireless channel measurements. Cooperative localization is an advanced concept that considers the joint estimation of multiple agent positions based on channel measurements of all agent-anchor links together with all agent-agent links. In this paper we present the first study of cooperative localization for magneto-inductive wireless sensor networks, which are of technological interest due to good material penetration and channel predictability. We demonstrate significant accuracy improvements (a factor of 3 for 10 cooperating agents) over the non-cooperative scheme. The evaluation uses the Cramér-Rao lower bound on the cooperative position estimation error, which is derived herein. To realize this accuracy, the maximum-likelihood estimate (MLE) must be computed by solving a high-dimensional least-squares problem, whereby convergence to local minima proves to be problematic. A proposed cooperative localization algorithm addresses this issue: first, preliminary estimates of the agent positions and orientations are computed, which then serve as initial values for a gradient search. In all our test cases, this method yields the MLE and the associated high accuracy (comprising the cooperation gain) from a single solver run. The preliminary estimates use novel closed-form MLE formulas of the distance, direction and orientation for single links between three-axis coils, which are given in detail.
description: To appear at the IEEE PIMRC 2021 conference. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice
sj-docx-1-hea-10.1177_13634593231185266 – Supplemental material for Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity
Creators: name: Green, Richard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 111799
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hea-10.1177_13634593231185266 for Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity by Richard Green in Health
Family identity in the face of chronic illness
Creators: name: PEILE, Rachel
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350608
subject: Marketing theory

description: Dr Peile researched how families can live better in the face of childhood chronic conditions through the lens of social marketing. Type 1 diabetes was used as the case study with interviews with both expert practitioners and families. The thesis¿ contributions reinforce the importance of family identity to build resilience.
Generic identifiability of pairs of ternary forms
Creators: name: Beorchia, Valentina
name: Galuppi, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 14E05, 14N05, 14N07, 14Q15, 15A69

description: We prove that two general ternary forms are simultaneously identifiable only in the classical cases of two quadratic and a cubic and a quadratic form. We translate the problem into the study of a certain linear system on a projective bundle on the plane, and we apply techniques from projective and birational geometry to prove that the associated map is not birational.
sj-docx-1-msx-10.1177_10298649231182039 – Supplemental material for Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance
Creators: name: Haugen, Mari Romarheim
name: Câmara, Guilherme Schmidt
name: Nymoen, Kristian
name: Danielsen, Anne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Education
classificationCode: 170199
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-msx-10.1177_10298649231182039 for Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance by Mari Romarheim Haugen, Guilherme Schmidt Câmara, Kristian Nymoen and Anne Danielsen in Musicae Scientiae
High-speed imaging of spatiotemporal correlations in Hong-Ou-Mandel interference
Creators: name: Gao, Xiaoqin
name: Zhang, Yingwen
name: D'Errico, Alessio
name: Heshami, Khabat
name: Karimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect lies at the heart of many emerging quantum technologies whose performance can be significantly enhanced with increasing numbers of entangled modes one could measure and thus utilize. Photon pairs generated through the process of spontaneous parametric down conversion are known to be entangled in a vast number of modes in the various degrees of freedom (DOF) the photons possess such as time, energy, and momentum, etc. Due to limitations in detection technology and techniques, often only one such DOFs can be effectively measured at a time, resulting in much lost potential. Here, we experimentally demonstrate, with the aid of a time tagging camera, high speed measurement and characterization of two-photon interference. {With a data acquisition time of only a few seconds, we observe a bi-photon interference and coalescence visibility of $\sim64\%$ with potentially up to $\sim2\times10^3$ spatial modes}. These results open up a route for practical applications of using the high dimensionality of spatiotemporal DOF in two-photon interference, and in particular, for quantum sensing and communication.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Optics Express (accepted version)
Making connections: the sculptural encounter as an embodied cognitive experience
Creators: name: SUMMERS, Fleur
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: This practice-led research project investigates the sculptural encounter as an embodied experience in which perception is active and involves sensory motor activity and cognition. The research is mediated through the moving body and employs strategies that use composite objects and altered situations related to play and physical activity, as well as environments with reduced illumination and restrictive architecture. It draws upon research in embodied and enactive perception and cognition, alongside an exploration of phenomenologically active sculptural and spatial practice since the 1960s.

The artworks created as part of this project are experiential and involve a range of sculptural practices, from traditional bronze casting to architectural interventions and performative participatory practices. The focus is on creating sculptural works developed from objects and concepts related to perception and cognition, which are informed by their connections to contemporary art practice. The research begins with an exploration of the neurocognitive effects of mirrors and kinaesthetic play, and ends with a more intimate, embodied focus on touch and proprioception related to empathy and affect. The sculptural encounter is located in both the intersubjective and social space of the gallery, and the more intimate space of the studio. The encounters include both the experience of the participants and the creation by the artist.

This research makes connections between art practice and theories of cognition and perception. It identifies how embodiment, kinaesthetic thinking, perceptual isolation and sensorimotor empathy underpin encounter. The artworks demonstrate how cognition is embodied and enacted by the audience and artist, and how cognition can be embedded into and potentially extend into sculptural work. By bringing together brain, body and environment through art practice, the research highlights how both the artist and audience can encounter sculpture with an expanded sensory awareness.
Active Learning Approaches To Managing Your Professional Identity Online
Creators: name: Green, Jen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In the digital age where everyone has an online identity by default, it is critical that we teach authors, researchers, scholars and professionals to take control of their professional identity, which reflects their unique and important career contributions. This session will model an active learning instruction approach to educating students, faculty, and staff about how to effectively manage their professional identity online. This mock instruction session will demonstrate a highly interactive, hands-on structure for teaching best practices and tools that prepare participants to present themselves unambiguously, accurately, clearly, and legally in various online environments. Force2018 participants will learn to teach these concepts through active participation in the session and should come prepared with their laptops, devices, and questions.
Revisiting Non-Convexity in Topology Optimization of Compliance Minimization Problems
Creators: name: Abdelhamid, Mohamed
name: Czekanski, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Purpose: This is an attempt to better bridge the gap between the mathematical and the engineering/physical aspects of the topic. We trace the different sources of non-convexification in the context of topology optimization problems starting from domain discretization, passing through penalization for discreteness and effects of filtering methods, and end with a note on continuation methods. Design/Methodology/Approach: Starting from the global optimum of the compliance minimization problem, we employ analytical tools to investigate how intermediate density penalization affects the convexity of the problem, the potential penalization-like effects of various filtering techniques, how continuation methods can be used to approach the global optimum, and how the initial guess has some weight in determining the final optimum. Findings: The non-convexification effects of the penalization of intermediate density elements simply overshadows any other type of non-convexification introduced into the problem, mainly due to its severity and locality. Continuation methods are strongly recommended to overcome the problem of local minima, albeit its step and convergence criteria are left to the user depending on the type of application. Originality/Value: In this article, we present a comprehensive treatment of the sources of non-convexity in density-based topology optimization problems, with a focus on linear elastic compliance minimization. We put special emphasis on the potential penalization-like effects of various filtering techniques through a detailed mathematical treatment.
An Embedding of ReLU Networks and an Analysis of their Identifiability
Creators: name: Stock, Pierre
name: Gribonval, Rémi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural networks with the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) nonlinearity are described by a vector of parameters $θ$, and realized as a piecewise linear continuous function $R_θ: x \in \mathbb R^{d} \mapsto R_θ(x) \in \mathbb R^{k}$. Natural scalings and permutations operations on the parameters $θ$ leave the realization unchanged, leading to equivalence classes of parameters that yield the same realization. These considerations in turn lead to the notion of identifiability -- the ability to recover (the equivalence class of) $θ$ from the sole knowledge of its realization $R_θ$. The overall objective of this paper is to introduce an embedding for ReLU neural networks of any depth, $Φ(θ)$, that is invariant to scalings and that provides a locally linear parameterization of the realization of the network. Leveraging these two key properties, we derive some conditions under which a deep ReLU network is indeed locally identifiable from the knowledge of the realization on a finite set of samples $x_{i} \in \mathbb R^{d}$. We study the shallow case in more depth, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for the network to be identifiable from a bounded subset $\mathcal X \subseteq \mathbb R^{d}$.
description: Constructive Approximation camera-ready
Smooth lattice orbits of nilpotent groups and strict comparison of projections
Creators: name: Bédos, Erik
name: Enstad, Ulrik
name: van Velthoven, Jordy Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D25, 22E27, 42C30, 42C40, 46L08, 46L35

description: This paper provides sufficient density conditions for the existence of smooth vectors generating a frame or Riesz sequence in the lattice orbit of a square-integrable projective representation of a nilpotent Lie group. The conditions involve the product of lattice co-volume and formal dimension, and complement Balian-Low type theorems for the non-existence of smooth frames and Riesz sequences at the critical density. The proof hinges on a connection between smooth lattice orbits and generators for an explicitly constructed finitely generated Hilbert $C^*$-module. An important ingredient in the approach is that twisted group $C^*$-algebras associated to finitely generated nilpotent groups have finite decomposition rank, hence finite nuclear dimension, which allows us to deduce that any matrix algebra over such a simple $C^*$-algebra has strict comparison of projections.
description: 36 pages
Spin Seebeck coefficient and spin-thermal diffusion in the two-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Mravlje, Jernej
name: Ulaga, Martin
name: Kokalj, Jure
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spin Seebeck coefficient $S_s$ in the square lattice Hubbard model at high temperatures of relevance to cold-atom measurements. We solve the model with the finite-temperature Lanczos and with the dynamical mean-field theory methods and find they give similar results in the considered regime. $S_s$ exceeds the atomic 'Heikes' estimates and the Kelvin entropic estimates drastically. We analyze the behavior in terms of a mapping onto the problem of a doped attractive model and derive an approximate expression that allows relating the enhancement of $S_s$ to distinct scattering of the spin-majority and the spin-minority excitations. Our analysis reveals the limitations of entropic interpretations of Seebeck coefficient even in the high-temperature regime. Large values of $S_s$ could be observed on optical lattices. We also calculate the full diffusion matrix. We quantify the spin-thermal diffusion, that is, the extent of the mixing between the spin and the thermal diffusion and discuss the results in the context of recent measurements of the spin-diffusion constant in cold atoms.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
KulTür Regensburg : Gemeinnützige Kulturvermittlung zwischen Kultur für alle und Diversifizierung aus der Perspektive kultureller Akteure
Creators: name: Deutscher, Julia
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kulturtafel; Kulturvermittlung; kulturelle Teilhabe; Kultur für alle; Diversifizierung
subject: 000 Allgemeines, Wissenschaft
subject: 060 Organisationen, Museumswissenschaft

description: Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die aktuelle Situation der Kulturarbeit insbesondere der gemeinnützigen Kulturvermittlung durch Kulturtafeln. Diese schaffen speziell für Menschen mit geringem Einkommen einen niedrigschwelligen Zugang zu und ein Bewusstsein für den Mehrwert von kultureller Teilhabe. Hierfür wird der gemeinnützige Verein KulTür Regensburg exemplarisch betrachtet. Im Fokus der Analyse stehen dabei die Perspektiven der kulturellen Akteure. Es wird untersucht, welche Bedeutung kultureller Teilhabe und Kulturtafeln innerhalb der heutigen Gesellschaft zukommt und welche Diversifizierungsaspekte hinsichtlich der Individualisierung und Pluralisierung zum Tragen kommen. Eingebettet ist die Analyse dieses bisher kaum erforschten Phänomens in das kulturelle Verständnis der Teilnehmer und Kulturvermittler.
Tikhonov Regularization of Circle-Valued Signals
Creators: name: Condat, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: It is common to have to process signals or images whose values are cyclic and can be represented as points on the complex circle, like wrapped phases, angles, orientations, or color hues. We consider a Tikhonov-type regularization model to smoothen or interpolate circle-valued signals defined on arbitrary graphs. We propose a convex relaxation of this nonconvex problem as a semidefinite program, and an efficient algorithm to solve it.
Minimum roll control of an autonomous vehicle
Creators: name: TO, Ching Nok
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400303
subject: Biomechanical engineering
classificationCode: 400703
subject: Autonomous vehicle systems

description: The study of dynamic vehicle roll study requires incorporating ideas from both the physics and mathematics. Applying artificial intelligence (AI) driver algorithms in autonomously controlled vehicles enables them to determine and negotiate corners effectively. The relational concepts vary when comparing the value of vehicle turn angles and their combined active contribution in turning the vehicle automatically.

The autodriver algorithm intelligently eliminates the need for driver steering on well-defined roads. The algorithm, which is based on the input of steering angle and velocity measurements, optimises the roll behaviour and comfort the passengers include driver.

The planar model mathematical theory for autonomous vehicles was initially developed by Reza Jazar (2008) [31]. This theory was developed for use with 4-wheel-steering vehicles, but also works for 2-wheel-steering vehicles. This theory extends the roll model by using the parameters of the angular velocity of a vehicle; that is, roll φ, pitch θ, yaw ψ, roll rate 𝑝, pitch rate q and yaw rate Υ. However, a roll model that uses forward, lateral, yaw and roll velocities is more exact and effective compared to this planar model.

An autonomous vehicle can follow a given road if it turns about its centre of curvature at a correct moving position equal to the radius of the curvature of the path. A lemniscate is used as the transition curve to generate the sample road, which in turn is used to find the kinematic steering angles required by the autonomous vehicle to stay on the road.

This research studies the dynamics of an autonomous vehicle using a case study of a vehicle following a PID controller that tracks its direction. Using a mathematical roll theory of autonomous vehicles, a new roll model is integrated into the analysis of the vehicle dynamics equation, to take control of a car to travel a sample road autonomously optimise the roll behaviour of a vehicle as well as its manoeuvre.
Chronicling community: ethics, embodiment and connectedness in photography
Creators: name: ROBERTSON, Katherine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360604
subject: Photography, video and lens-based practice

description: This practice-led doctoral project focuses on a micro-community setting at Kainake Village, located in the Siwai region of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea. Through cameraless photographic techniques, the project chronicles traditional medicinal plants as a core value of the Siwai people for cultural preservation. The project acknowledges that misaligned visual representations of community and their relationships to the environment can lead to an erasure of localised contexts, intergenerational fracturing and a sense of disempowerment within the community. Theory reveals that colonial characteristics of extraction, exploitation or an exacerbation of the 'other' is evident in photographic history, particularly by Western photographers who work in Indigenous contexts. The aim of this research is to critique these problematic approaches so that points of departure may be found for the empowered and harmonious photographic chronicling of community. The objective of this project is to investigate how photographic processes can embody a community's social and cultural values. The research seeks to find methods of aligning to the photographic chronicling of community with a more ethical strategy and of conveying a sense of embodiment and connectedness. It reveals that if a photographic practitioner aligns and adheres to the community and land contexts within which they are working-during, within and after a project-a decolonised approach to image making and dissemination will unfold and be nurtured.
Learning to live with Parkinson’s disease: quality of life and ability to cope with disability
Creators: name: WEBSTER, Ric
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520304
subject: Health psychology

description: Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that commonly relates to the motor symptoms of tremor, muscle rigidity and slow movement. By increasing our understanding of factors related to resilience and quality of life (QOL) of people with PD, the present study may provide insight and relief to current and future people with PD, their medical practitioners and caregivers.

Theory: Resilience is the ability to face adversity and return to positive functioning. Resilience models provide a theoretical framework for modelling protective and risk factors which either assist or impair positive functioning and QOL. In this study, returning to positive functioning represents outcomes of improved mental health and QOL for people with PD.

Methodology: Participants completed a 113-item questionnaire derived from seven scales to measure: QOL, hopelessness, resilience, depression, anxiety, stress, self-efficacy, perceived severity of PD symptoms and perceived speed of progression. One hundred and sixteen participants (57 nonPD, 59 PD) replied to a questionnaire.

Findings: Strong positive correlations were found in the PD group between social resilience and its relationship with psychological and social QOL. Estimated speed of disease progression correlated significantly with the hopelessness variables of motivation, affect and cognition and moderately correlated with anxiety and stress. Physical QOL was reported significantly lower and anxiety significantly higher in the PD group than in the non-PD group. Hopelessness was also reported significantly higher in the PD group compared to the non-PD group. PD diagnosis significantly predicted physical QOL and anxiety.

Conclusions: People with PD reported more hopelessness, lower QOL and poorer mental health than people without PD. However, people with PD also reported a stronger relationship with resilience, with social resilience positively correlated with psychological and social QOL. These results suggest that people with PD may benefit significantly from social support through health care providers and caregivers. Further research should be conducted and additional training should be delivered on the impact of mood disorders on motor symptoms in people with PD to facilitate social interactions and enhance social supports.
Additional file 1 of Longitudinal analysis of epigenome-wide DNA methylation reveals novel loci associated with BMI change in East Asians
Creators: name: Li, Wenran
name: Xia, Mingfeng
name: Zeng, Hailuan
name: Lin, Huandong
name: Teschendorff, Andrew E.
name: Gao, Xin
name: Wang, Sijia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: Using the Psychological Contract to Explore the Experiences of Migrant Domiciliary Care Workers within London
Creators: name: D'Silva, Cathlynn
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2018

description: This qualitative research makes use of the psychological contract construct and literature to explore the lived work perceptions and experiences of migrants undertaking domiciliary care work within London, in their multi- agency type of employment. The researcher examines these using the stories of forty four migrants employed in various types of contingent work arrangements. The participants are drawn from diverse employer types. Data interpretation and analysis was conducted using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Hermeneutic Phenomenology. Initially, rich and thick descriptions are availed through an inductive analysis of the verbatim audio recorded interviews in presenting the migrant domiciliary carers‘ work experiences. In the next phase of analysis, the data is interrogated using the psychological contract thereby applying a more deductive approach.
This research sample is drawn from migrants of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, both male and female and uses the psychological contract to explore their work experiences, a novel approach from earlier research conducted on migrants performing domiciliary care work. The inveterate nature of idiosyncrasy, subjectivity, dynamism and the importance of the psychological contract in employment relations have been confirmed. Though migrant workers are usually seen as a homogeneous population, evidence from this research shows that these workers‘ are heterogeneous, each with a variety of views about their work experiences. Each of the participant interviewees held at least one type of psychological contract with the party or parties they deem to be in an employment relationship with and the experiences at work shape this contract
Evaluation with complexity in mind
Creators: name: ELLIOTT, Julie Christine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440708
subject: Public administration

description:
Complexity in the human social world is ubiquitous.

Complexity refers to an interdisciplinary understanding of reality as continuously forming deeply unpredictable patterns of behaviour and structure that inevitably emerge from interaction between diverse and interdependent components and cannot be reduced to or derived from the sum of these components. It is inherently dynamic. In the human social world, social complexity emerges from the self-organisation process of everyday communicative interaction between diverse and interdependent people, and their interplay with social structures, and the physical and man-made environments. Complexity alters how we perceive stability and change, the actions we can take to modify the trajectory of a system through time and the methods we use (Kuhn, Woog & Salner, 2011, Byrne, 2013, Boulton, Allen & Bowman, 2015, Mitleton-Kelly, Paraskevas & Day, 2018, Beautement, 2018, Massa, Viscusi & Tucci, 2018).

Evaluators encounter complexity in all aspects of their work. Yet, the profound epistemological and methodological implication of a complexity ontology remain largely obscured in evaluation theory with the utility of complexity science remaining underdeveloped. The complexity discussion is fragmented, progress appears to have stalled and the evaluator¿s toolkit remains ill-equipped to deal with increasing real-world complexity.

This thesis argues that better theorisation of complexity-congruent evaluation is needed and explores what the perspective and language of the complexity sciences allows me to infer for evaluation theory and practice. Any reckoning of complexity-congruent evaluation must shift perspectives away from Industrial Age mindsets. It should assert a strong social sensibility and offer evaluation practitioners a language that fosters explanation that is vivid and compelling as to describe human experience and sensemaking amidst new levels of complexity in the history of the Earth that is reflected in the contemporary evaluation work. It should support and inspire those with the courage to commit to open-hearted and empathetic ways of showing up and projecting expansive visions that serve the work of contemporary social problem solving. To remain relevant and useful, we are obligated to review our worldviews and how our theories of practice and ways of working flow from them. In doing so, we may enhance our contribution to complex problem solving where and when it is most needed.
title: Proceedings of SWBSS 2017
title: Fourth International Conference on Salt Weathering of Buildings and Stone Sculptures. University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany, 20-22 September 2017
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Laue, Steffen (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Potsdam
Year: 2017
Subjects: Conservation science

description: The conference aims to bring together conservators, restorers, engineers, architects, academics, students and experienced researchers and hence contributes to the promotion of research and development within the field of salt weathering of porous materials.
Main topics: Salts in monumental built heritage and stone sculptures are still today a major problem in preservation caused mainly by environmental influences. Therefore, the conference will focus on Environmental aspects related to salt sources, Transport phenomena and salt crystallisation, Measurement techniques, Desalination techniques Conservation issues, Case studies
Combinatorial Resources Auction in Decentralized Edge-Thing Systems Using Blockchain and Differential Privacy
Creators: name: Guo, Jianxiong
name: Ding, Xingjian
name: Jia, Weijia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the continuous expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, edge computing mode has emerged in recent years to overcome the shortcomings of traditional cloud computing mode, such as high delay, network congestion, and large resource consumption. Thus, edge-thing systems will replace the classic cloud-thing/cloud-edge-thing systems and become mainstream gradually, where IoT devices can offload their tasks to neighboring edge nodes. A common problem is how to utilize edge computing resources. For the sake of fairness, double auction can be used in the edge-thing system to achieve an effective resource allocation and pricing mechanism. Due to the lack of third-party management agencies and mutual distrust between nodes, in our edge-thing systems, we introduce blockchains to prevent malicious nodes from tampering with transaction records and smart contracts to act as an auctioneer to realize resources auction. Since the auction results stored in this blockchain-based system are transparent, they are threatened with inference attacks. Thus in this paper, we design a differentially private combinatorial double auction mechanism by exploring the exponential mechanism such that maximizing the revenue of edge computing platform, in which each IoT device requests a resource bundle and edge nodes compete with each other to provide resources. It can not only guarantee approximate truthfulness and high revenue, but also ensure privacy security. Through necessary theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, the effectiveness of our proposed mechanisms can be validated.
Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions
Creators: name: Tominski, Christian
name: Andrienko, Gennady
name: Andrienko, Natalia
name: Bleisch, Susanne
name: Fabrikant, Sara Irina
name: Mayr, Eva
name: Miksch, Silvia
name: Pohl, Margit
name: Skupin, André
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Visual analytics
subject: Animated transitions
subject: Multi-faceted data
subject: 600 - Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: Visualizing big and complex multivariate data is challenging. To address this challenge, we propose flexible visual analytics (FVA) with the aim to mitigate visual complexity and interaction complexity challenges in visual analytics, while maintaining the strengths of multiple perspectives on the studied data. At the heart of our proposed approach are transitions that fluidly transform data between user-relevant views to offer various perspectives and insights into the data. While smooth display transitions have been already proposed, there has not yet been an interdisciplinary discussion to systematically conceptualize and formalize these ideas. As a call to further action, we argue that future research is necessary to develop a conceptual framework for flexible visual analytics. We discuss preliminary ideas for prioritizing multi-aspect visual representations and multi-aspect transitions between them, and consider the display user for whom such depictions are produced and made available for visual analytics. With this contribution we aim to further facilitate visual analytics on complex data sets for varying data exploration tasks and purposes based on different user characteristics and data use contexts.
Supplemental Material - The angio-architectural features of brain arteriovenous malformations: is it possible to predict the probability of rupture?
Creators: name: Rustici, Arianna
name: Vari, Francesca
name: Sturiale, Carmelo
name: Conti, Alfredo
name: Scibilia, Antonino
name: Bortolotti, Carlo
name: Agati, Raffaele
name: Tonon, Caterina
name: Lodi, Raffaele
name: Mazzatenta, Diego
name: Zoli, Matteo
name: Princiotta, Ciro
name: Dall’Olio, Massimo
name: Cirillo, Luigi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Material for The angio-architectural features of brain arteriovenous malformations: is it possible to predict the probability of rupture? by Arianna Rustici, Francesca Vari, Carmelo Sturiale, Alfredo Conti, Antonino Scibilia, Carlo Bortolotti, Raffaele Agati, Caterina Tonon, Raffaele Lodi, Diego Mazzatenta, Matteo Zoli, Ciro Princiotta, Massimo Dall’Olio and Luigi Cirillo in The Neuroradiology Journal
Reconceiving a culture of experimentation in early childhood education: In-between listening ~ scribbling, data collaging, storytelling, and materiality
Creators: name: REDMOND, Kristopher
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
classificationCode: 390302
subject: Early childhood education

description:
This thesis explores experimentation within relations of early childhood teaching and learning while simultaneously enacting experimentation in how text is produced, through bringing ideas and data alongside one another. It uses the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to consider ways to inject vitality into the everyday life of early childhood settings and how these ways might help teachers engage with experimentation within their own teaching.

Merging lines of flight in personal thinking~writing~reading around selected philosophical understandings with data – journals, scribbled notes from teaching, photos of learning activities – the thesis maps possibilities for how a culture of experimentation might be (re)conceived in early years learning spaces. These possibilities include reconfiguring the practice of listening through writing – ‘realtime scribbling’ – in moments of teaching, thus becoming a way to engage with the complex intra-activity among human and nonhuman beings. As well, ‘data collages’ become a way of (re)assembling imagery and text towards a diffractive (rhizo)analysis of the data. Further, by engaging with the materiality of the setting how storytelling practices with children intersect with theory/philosophy and early education discourses is explored.

The project links the researcher’s experiences working in a suburban kindergarten and Bush Kinder in Melbourne, an Indigenous recreation centre in outback Australia and an early learning centre in Vietnam. Using journaling of his teaching practices generated within these settings, he works to unfold possibilities that the materiality of the various spaces has for teacher engagement and children’s learning. Realtime scribbling and data collages are used to map ways in which early years teachers might engage in experimentation by contextualising concepts from Deleuze and Guattari. The thesis concludes by employing stories that contextualise ideas from Deleuze and Guattari for use in the workplace to show how these ideas might be brought to life in everyday teaching conversation and practice.