cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The geography of industrial restructuring in the meatpacking industry of the Pacific Rim : some insights on the role of the trade
Creators: name: Francis, Roderick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Charles McDowall Smyth's Account of the End of WWI and the Armistice: November 11, 1918
Creators: name: Smyth, Charles McDowall
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soldiers' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125350
subject: War
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170328
subject: World War (1914-1918)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746
subject: Civil-military relations
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/862889
subject: Battlefields
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/828910
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Field Artillery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1975352
subject: Soldiers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125233
subject: Military roads
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021461
subject: Artillery
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/817490
subject: Personal narratives
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423843
subject: Armistices
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/814836
subject: Military roads--Maintenance and repair
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021465
subject: Military training camps
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021543
subject: Soldiers--Conduct of life
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125249
subject: Soldiers--Billeting
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125242

description: The personal accounts of Smyth's experiences at the end of World War One. Smyth begins the account with: "The following is a general account of my doings from the time of my return to France in September up to our triumphant entry into Mons [Belgium] yesterday morning November 11th '18 [1918] - le jour de l'Armistice." Includes a list explaining the abbreviations used, list of named people and places, and a list of Smyth's honours and medals.
Heritage of Konkoly's Solar Observations: the Debrecen Photoheliograph Programme and the Debrecen Sunspot Databases
Creators: name: Baranyi, T.
name: Győri, L.
name: Ludmány, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary task of the Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory (DHO) was to produce the detailed and reliable photographic documentation of the solar photospheric activity since 1958. This long-term effort resulted in various solar catalogues based on ground-based and space-borne observations. The DHO hosts solar-image databases containing heritages of two former Hungarian observatories. One of the sets of drawings was observed between 1872 and 1891 at the Ógyalla Observatory (now Hurbanovo, Slovakia) founded by Miklós Konkoly-Thege (1842-1916). We briefly summarize the history of the events that resulted in the longest photographic sunspot database available at the DHO at present, and we show the basic role of Dr. Miklós Konkoly-Thege in this achievement.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, published in: Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of Dr. Nicolaus Thege-Konkoly, and 145th anniversary of the founding of the Hurbanovo Observatory, May 18-20, 2016, Hurbanovo, Slovakia, ed. E. Ko\v{c}i, ISBN: 978-80-85221-91-6, Slovensk\'a \'Ustredn\'a Hvezd\'are\v{n}, Hurbanovo, 2016, 29-36. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1606.00669
A multi‐hierarchical “Design for X” framework for accelerating circular economy
Creators: name: Franconi, Alessio
name: Badalucco, Laura
name: Peck, David
name: Nasr, Nabil
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: design for X
subject: collaborative design
subject: interdisciplinary approach
subject: circular framework
subject: design tool

description: In the past, many frameworks have been conceived in order to support companies and their designers to develop sustainable products. In the circular economy, however, these frameworks no longer appear to be sufficient, due to the difficulty in identifying multiple design strategies for the different product life cycles across time dimensions. By adopting a Design for X (DfX) approach, this paper develops a multi-hierarchical DfX framework that allows designers to incorporate different strategies to better address product life cycles. This framework could facilitate the further development of a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary DfX tool. A key part of the method deployed is an interview guide approach, where five experts from across academia and industry, were interviewed. This qualitative research draws on their diverse expertise and generates an intersectoral link between different fields. Moreover, the DfX tool can be used to highlight relationships between different circular economy strategies, by providing insights into how interdisciplinary design decisions influence each other. Such an approach could allow designers to effectively visualize a bigger picture and positively influence the application and acceleration of the circular economy.
Understanding the role of education in pulmonary rehabilitation for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Blackstock, Felicity Clair
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
INVESTIGATION OF CHEMOMETRICS METHODS FOR CHARACTERISING DRIFT PHENOMENA IN iCK-AES
Creators: name: MARCOS-DOMINGUEZ, ANA MARIA
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: The objective of this study was to fully characterise drift phenomena in inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) in order to develop novel correction procedures to aid routine analysis. Long-term drift of the analytical signal continues to be a potential disadvantage when using ICP-AES and often necessitates regular recalibration. The long-term stability of three commercially available Instruments was studied using In each case a range of analyte and intrinsic plasma emission lines. Long-term fluctuations were observed which generated drift bias of up to 20% on the initial values. The drift pafterns were characterised and found to be qualitatively reproducible. In most cases, similar long-term fluctuations were observed independent of the analyte or nature of the emission line. In addition, high inter-element correlation was observed on the long-term fluctuations even when sequential acquisition was employed. In order to study the fundamental causes of drift, the effect of two key instrumental parameters, i.e. the RF power and the nebutiser gas flow rate were studied with respect to the stability of the signal. Different drift patterns were found depending on the working conditions. Classical statistical methods and a multi-way approach. PARAFAC. were then employed to describe the system. The use of intemal standards to correct for drift has also been investigated, but found to be of benefit only under certain defined conditions (i.e. robust conditions, high RF power and low nebuliserflow rate). At soft conditions, low RF power and medium to high nebuliser flow rate, the system Is very unstable and intemal standardisation is not fully effective as a correction method. For such conditions, a novel correction procedure has been developed, which employs the drift pattem of one intrinsic plasma line (i.e. an argon line) and a correction factor which is specific for each emission line. The drift values were reduced from around 20% before correction to better than ±2% following the described protocol. Finally, the effects of chemical matrices on the long-term stability of the emission signals have been evaluated. Three synthetic matrices were prepared simulating nitric, soil and water matrices. The stability of the instrument when working wrth these matrices at both robust and soft conditions was found to be poor, especially when the solution was matched with the soil matrix. The use of more robust conditions did not improve the long-temi stability of the emission signals. The outcome of this study proved to be a better understanding of drift phenomena and a novel method for drift correction.
Revisiting Studies of the Statistical Property of a Strong Gravitational Lens System and Model-independent Constraint on the Curvature of the Universe
Creators: name: Xia, Jun-Qing
name: Yu, Hai
name: Wang, Guo-Jian
name: Tian, Shu-Xun
name: Li, Zheng-Xiang
name: Cao, Shuo
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we use a recently compiled data set, which comprises 118 galactic-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) systems to constrain the statistic property of SGL system, as well as the curvature of universe without assuming any fiducial cosmological model. Based on the singular isothermal ellipsoid (SIE) model of SGL system, we obtain that the constrained curvature parameter $Ω_{\rm k}$ is close to zero from the SGL data, which is consistent with the latest result of planck measurement. More interestingly, we find that the parameter $f$ in the SIE model is strongly correlated with the curvature $Ω_{\rm k}$. Neglecting this correlation in the analysis will significantly overestimate the constraining power of SGL data on the curvature. Furthermore, the obtained constraint on $f$ is different from previous results: $f=1.105\pm0.030$ ($68\%$ C.L.), which means that the standard singular isothermal sphere (SIS) model ($f=1$) is disfavored by the current SGL data at more than $3σ$ confidence level. We also divide the whole SGL data into two parts according to the centric stellar velocity dispersion $σ_{\rm c}$ and find that the larger value of $σ_{\rm c}$ the subsample has, the more favored the standard SIS model is. Finally, we extend the SIE model by assuming the power-law density profiles for the total mass density, $ρ=ρ_0(r/r_0)^{-α}$, and luminosity density, $ν=ν_0(r/r_0)^{-δ}$, and obtain the constraints on the power-law indexes: $α=1.95\pm0.04$ and $δ=2.40\pm0.13$ at 68\% confidence level. When assuming the power-law index $α=δ=γ$, this scenario is totally disfavored by the current SGL data, $χ^2_{\rm min,γ} - χ^2_{\rm min,SIE} \simeq 53$.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Profit-aware Online Vehicle-to-Grid Decentralized Scheduling under Multiple Charging Stations
Creators: name: Mehrabi, Abbas
name: Dadlani, Aresh
name: Moon, Seungpil
name: Kim, Kiseon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Fluctuations in electricity tariffs induced by the sporadic nature of demand loads on power grids has initiated immense efforts to find optimal scheduling solutions for charging and discharging plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) subject to different objective sets. In this paper, we consider vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scheduling at a geographically large scale in which PEVs have the flexibility of charging/discharging at multiple smart stations coordinated by individual aggregators. We first formulate the objective of maximizing the overall profit of both, demand and supply entities, by defining a weighting parameter. We then propose an online decentralized greedy algorithm for the formulated mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem, which incorporates efficient heuristics to practically guide each incoming vehicle to the most appropriate charging station (CS). The better performance of the presented algorithm compared to an alternative allocation strategy is demonstrated through simulations in terms of the overall achievable profit and flatness of the final electricity load. Moreover, the results of simulations reveal the existence of optimal number of deployed stations at which the overall profit can be maximized.
(201286) Fanny Jane Knibb Webb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Limits to coherent scattering and photon coalescence from solid-state quantum emitters
Creators: name: Iles-Smith, Jake
name: McCutcheon, Dara P. S.
name: Mørk, Jesper
name: Nazir, Ahsan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The desire to produce high-quality single photons for applications in quantum information science has lead to renewed interest in exploring solid-state emitters in the weak excitation regime. Under these conditions it is expected that photons are coherently scattered, and so benefit from a substantial suppression of detrimental interactions between the source and its surrounding environment. Nevertheless, we demonstrate here that this reasoning is incomplete, as phonon interactions continue to play a crucial role in determining solid-state emission characteristics even for very weak excitation. We find that the sideband resulting from non-Markovian relaxation of the phonon environment is excitation strength independent. It thus leads to an intrinsic limit to the fraction of coherently scattered light and to the visibility of two-photon coalescence at weak driving, both of which are absent for atomic systems or within simpler Markovian treatments.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. v2 - title changed, revised discussion of experimental context and generality of results. v3 - Accepted version
How Traditional Industries Use Capabilities and Routines to Tap Users for Product Innovation?
Creators: name: Ooi, Yat Ming
name: Husted, Kenneth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Innovation management
Organisational planning and management

description: While customer-centered innovation has thus far focused on best practices for user-producer collaboration and organizing users to obtain relevant inputs, the internal organization that enables firms to integrate user knowledge into product innovation outputs is less well understood. We analyzed five case studies to derive the innovation routines from firms in traditional industries that employ user knowledge to improve existing products or develop new products. The routines are linked to organizational capabilities relevant for incorporating user knowledge into innovative outcomes.
Achilles' heel : the failure of the Falklands myth
Creators: name: Foster, Kevin D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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An ecohydrological and biogeochemical investigation into the impacts of changing land-use on groundwater and surface water resources in south-western Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Dean, Joshua F.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201287) Emma Webb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Promoting Legitimacy in Technical Standardization
Creators: name: Werle, Raymund
name: Iversen, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: In this article we examine the legitimacy of committee standardization as an alternative to pure market processes of technical standardization of information and communication technology (ICT). We argue that not only mandatory (regulative) but also voluntary (coordinative) standards require some kind of democratic legitimacy. While the question of how to achieve this legitimacy has become central to today's changing world of standards, this situation is not adequately reflected in how the mounting legitimacy-deficit is treated. We note here that there remains a tendency to think of the legitimacy-deficit primarily in terms of "input legitimacy" criteria. At the same time we observe a tendency for standardization organizations (SDO) to orient efforts towards achieving "output legitimacy" by developing standards that are regarded by diverse groups of (legitimizing) stakeholders as constituting "good standards". This article therefore applies the distinction between input and output legitimacy to the rapidly evolving standardization landscape, arguing that it is necessary to expand the analysis of the legitimacy-deficit in the formal bodies responsible for ICT standards. We address what democratic legitimacy means in terms of standards and standardization, discuss why it is particularly important here, and explore how it has been addressed. Current examples indicate that in order to arrive at "good" standards SDO extend and redefine the cognitive and normative frame of standardization. This frame change helps to include nontechnical and non-commercial interests and values without directly involving the growing variety of stakeholders and civil society advocates in the process.
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
PALMA, an improved algorithm for DOSY signal processing
Creators: name: Cherni, Afef
name: Chouzenoux, Emilie
name: Delsuc, Marc-André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NMR is a tool of choice for the measure of diffusion coefficients of species in solution. The DOSY experiment, a 2D implementation of this measure, has proven to be particularly useful for the study of complex mixtures, molecular interactions, polymers, etc. However, DOSY data analysis requires to resort to inverse Laplace transform, in particular for polydisperse samples. This is a known difficult numerical task, for which we present here a novel approach. A new algorithm based on a splitting scheme and on the use of proximity operators is introduced. Used in conjunction with a Maximum Entropy and $\ell_1$ hybrid regularisation, this algorithm converges rapidly and produces results robust against experimental noise. This method has been called PALMA. It is able to reproduce faithfully monodisperse as well as polydisperse systems, and numerous simulated and experimental examples are presented. It has been implemented on the server http://palma.labo.igbmc.fr where users can have their datasets processed automatically.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures revised version, with new examples
Identification and quantification of N-linked glycoproteins in ovarian cancer cells
Creators: name: Kumble, Sumukh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: This report was submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the School of Molecular Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Insidious of all gynaecological malignancies, ovarian cancer persists to have a high mortality rate despite the low number of cases diagnosed per year. Currently, the only biomarker approved in the clinic for monitoring ovarian cancer is CA-125; however this marker is ineffective for early diagnosis and is expressed at high levels during pregnancy, endometriosis and menopause. This project aims to assess the glyco-proteomic profile of plasma membrane proteins in ovarian cancer cells, quantify antigen expression levels relative to the human ovarian surface epithelial cells (HOSE), and identify potential glycoproteins that may serve as diagnostic markers or therapeutic targets. Pilot proteomic studies on the A2780, OVCAR4 and HOSE cells led to the identification of 43 potential N-linked glycoproteins for HOSE, 60 for OVCAR4 and 24 for A2780. Antigen expression levels were then assessed in the ovarian cancer cell lines in comparison to the HOSE which led to the identification of 11 proteins in the OVCAR4 cell line with significant fold change values, notable were IMPAD1 and SYPL1. Known proteins associated with ovarian cancer, such as Prominin-1 and CD276 were also identified in this study. Further comprehensive analysis with the addition of OV90, SKOV3 and MCF7 cell lines led to the identification of 60 potential N-linked proteins for HOSE, 63 for A2780, 92 for OV90, 88 for OVCAR4 and 81 for MCF7. In addition, several proteins were identified that had either high or low fold change values relative to the HOSE and MCF7 cell lines. Of the list of proteins identified, three candidates were selected for further verification, namely, IMPAD1, SYPL1 and ASCT2, which although unknown for their roles in ovarian cancer, were consistently identified at high levels in the ovarian cancer cell lines. Verification through western blot and flow cytometry analysis confirmed the proteomics data. In conclusion, proteomics analysis led to the identification of many markers over expressed in ovarian cancer cells that could serve as potential markers warranting further clinical assessment.
DEVELOPING A HOMELESSNESS PREDICTION MODEL
Creators: name: Forty, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/1307 on 13.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The purpose of this research was to produce a model to predict levels of homelessness within a local authority area. The research considered data on a wide range of issues embedded in theory and supported by the literature as being common precedents to homelessness. Areas of investigation included housing, migration, poverty, deinstitutionalisation. ethnicity, poor health, drug abuse, sex and age, relationship breakdown as well as general variables profiling the area. Data was compared both to the numbers of homeless decisions made within a local authority area as well as the numbers of those decisions that resulted in the full homeless duty being accepted. Multiple regression techniques and factor analysis were used to determine the issues most strongly correlated with levels of homeless decisions and therefore useful for the production of a prediction model. Models were produced for different types of council (e.g. borough councils, district councils, city councils etc) using different variables. A number of independent variables were identified as being reliable predictors for numbers of homeless decisions for two to three years into the future. These variables were the number of people experiencing limiting long-term illness; the number of people separated but not divorced; the number of under 18 conceptions; the number of people in receipt of income based job seekers allowance and the number of people of mixed race. In addition to these individual issues, a 'social disadvantage factor' combining all of these issues generally proved to be the most accurate and reliable variable for use in a regression model for predicting numbers of homeless decisions. Previous research in this area has been predominantly qualitative in nature. This study provides a new step towards a useable quantitative tool for prediction purposes. The models provide a level of objectivity to prediction and therefore have important implications for local government policy.
Cognitive aspects of emotion regulation
Creators: name: Lozo, Ljubica
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Emotionsregulation
subject: Aufmerksamkeit
subject: Reappraisal
subject: Ekel
subject: 150
subject: Emotionspsychologie

description: Forschungsergebnisse der Emotionspsychologie zeigen, dass wir in der Lage sind, Einfluss auf die Intensität unserer emotionalen Reaktion auszuüben. Aus dem Alltag ist es uns bekannt: Erfordert es die Situation, so dämpfen wir unseren Ärger, vermindern unsere Angst und bewältigen unsere Trauer. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersuchte kognitive Prozesse, die dazu beitragen, dass die Intensität negativer Emotionen reduziert werden kann. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit lag auf der Regulation der Basisemotion Ekel. Die bestehende Forschungsliteratur zielt primär auf die Unterdrückung bereits entstandener Emotionen ab. Im Unterschied dazu rückte die vorliegende Arbeit relativ frühe Prozesse der Emotionsentstehung in den Vordergrund, die an die Wahrnehmung und Interpretation der potenziell emotionsauslösenden Reize gekoppelt sind. In vier Experimenten wurde untersucht, welche Aufmerksamkeits- und Evaluationsprozesse wirksam werden, wenn die Absicht besteht, Emotionen in einer potenziell ekelauslösenden Situation zu regulieren. Die ersten zwei Experimente demonstrieren, dass die Ausrichtung der Aufmerksamkeit auf die globale Beschaffenheit einer ekelauslösenden Situation relativ zur Aufmerksamkeitsausrichtung auf lokale Details zu einer Verringerung der Ekelintensität führt. Die letzten zwei Experimente legen das Augenmerk auf die Evaluationsprozesse, die visuellen Enkodierungsprozessen als zeitlich nachgeordnet konzeptualisiert werden können. Experiment 3 zeigt, dass durch die Absicht Ekel zu regulieren, ekelassoziierte Begriffe spontan als weniger negativ bewertet werden, während Begriffe, die unmittelbare Kontamination suggerieren, als negativer im Vergleich zu einer Kontrollgruppe ohne Regulationsabsicht evaluiert werden. Darüber hinaus demonstriert Experiment 4, dass die Intention Ekel zu reduzieren, auch die momentane Struktur der Verhaltensabsichten einer Person verändert. Das Bedürfnis nach sauberkeitsbezogenem Verhalten wird offenbar temporär in den Hintergrund gedrängt. Insgesamt dokumentiert die vorliegende Arbeit, dass die negative Emotion Ekel durch instruktionsvermittelte Absichten reguliert werden kann. Dabei scheint eine breite Palette von kognitiven Kontrolloperationen zum Einsatz zu kommen, wie zum Beispiel die veränderte Enkodierung und Bewertung ekelauslösender Reize sowie die Umstrukturierung von ekelspezifischer motivationaler Orientierung. Diese Befunde können prospektiv von Interesse für anwendungsbezogene Versuche der Emotionsregulation sein.
(201280) George Alfred Turner
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(201283) Richard Webb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Report from the Open Problems Session at OPSFA13
Creators: name: Cohl, Howard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These are the open problems presented at the 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA13), Gaithersburg, Maryland, on June 4, 2015.
description: Section 3 corrected
[presentation] The GUTTA-VISIR system for operational CO2 emission savings from ferries
Creators: name: Mannarini, Gianandrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: decarbonisation
shipping
routing
VISIR
efficiency
operations
metocean
waves
Adriatic
ferry
GUTTA

description: GUTTA-VISIR is a service for operationally providing least-CO2 ferry routes. It combines numerical meteo-oceanographic forecasts with both the ship route optimisation model VISIR and a dedicated environment for operational production. The regions of interest are the Adriatic and Northern Ionian Seas. The optimal routes are computed at the CMCC high-performance computing facility by means of the VISIR model and then made available through a dedicated web application (www.gutta-visir.eu). Both the CO2 and the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) savings resulting from route optimisation are provided to the end users. GUTTA-VISIR has been in continuous operation since November 2021 and 39,600 among the routes published since were statistically assessed. It was found that the maximum CO2 savings for a given route are related to the average sea state, that the CO2 savings on any given route are nearly exponentially distributed, and that the largest mean savings are obtained for routes in the southern part of the basin. While the average savings for these short-sea routes in a relatively calm basin were around one percent, two-digit savings relative CO2 emissions may result on specific dates and routes. Furthermore, it was seen that the route optimisation process can account for about one tenth of the CII reductions required in 2023 by the International Maritime Organization. These results provide a first objective assessment of the potential of ship routing for decarbonisation of short-sea shipping.
description: A conference paper corresponding to this presentation can be found at https://zenodo.org/record/7442310 .
Infrared Computations of Defect Schur Indices
Creators: name: Cordova, Clay
name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Shao, Shu-Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We conjecture a formula for the Schur index of N=2 four-dimensional theories in the presence of boundary conditions and/or line defects, in terms of the low-energy effective Seiberg-Witten description of the system together with massive BPS excitations. We test our proposal in a variety of examples for SU(2) gauge theories, either conformal or asymptotically free. We use the conjecture to compute these defect-enriched Schur indices for theories which lack a Lagrangian description, such as Argyres-Douglas theories. We demonstrate in various examples that line defect indices can be expressed as sums of characters of the associated two-dimensional chiral algebra and that for Argyres-Douglas theories the line defect OPE reduces in the index to the Verlinde algebra.
description: 63 pages + appendices, 15 figures. v2 published version, references added, representations of SO(8) Kac-Moody discussed
(201284) Mary Jane Rowcliffe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Structured illumination microscopy with unknown patterns and a statistical prior
Creators: name: Yeh, Li-Hao
name: Tian, Lei
name: Waller, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) improves resolution by down-modulating high-frequency information of an object to fit within the passband of the optical system. Generally, the reconstruction process requires prior knowledge of the illumination patterns, which implies a well-calibrated and aberration-free system. Here, we propose a new \textit{algorithmic self-calibration} strategy for SIM that does not need to know the exact patterns {\it a priori}, but only their covariance. The algorithm, termed PE-SIMS, includes a Pattern-Estimation (PE) step requiring the uniformity of the sum of the illumination patterns and a SIM reconstruction procedure using a Statistical prior (SIMS). Additionally, we perform a pixel reassignment process (SIMS-PR) to enhance the reconstruction quality. We achieve 2$\times$ better resolution than a conventional widefield microscope, while remaining insensitive to aberration-induced pattern distortion and robust against parameter tuning.
Hill-Station libraries in North India : a historical study of selected libraries in Landour/Mussoorie, Simla, Naini Tal and Mukteswar as reflections of British culture, 1830-1947 ; with special reference to their background and the institutions to which they were connected
Creators: name: Flora, Nirmolini Velma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Published and unpublished works on twentieth-century Australian drama
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Coherent hole propagation in an exactly solvable gapless spin liquid
Creators: name: Halász, Gábor B.
name: Chalker, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the dynamics of a single hole in the gapless phase of the Kitaev honeycomb model, focusing on the slow-hole regime where the bare hopping amplitude $t$ is much less than the Kitaev exchange energy $J$. In this regime, the hole does not generate gapped flux excitations and is dressed only by the gapless fermion excitations. Investigating the single-hole spectral function, we find that the hole propagates coherently with a quasiparticle weight that is finite but approaches zero as $t/J \to 0$. This conclusion follows from two approximate treatments, which capture the same physics in complementary ways. Both treatments use the stationary limit as an exactly solvable starting point to study the spectral function approximately (i) by employing a variational approach in terms of a trial state that interpolates between the limits of a stationary hole and an infinitely fast hole and (ii) by considering a special point in the gapless phase that corresponds to a simplified one-dimensional problem.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, published version with one additional figure and infinitesimal changes in text
Coherent Manipulation of Thermal Transport by Tunable Electron-Photon and Electron-Phonon Interaction
Creators: name: Paolucci, Federico
name: Timossi, Giuliano
name: Solinas, Paolo
name: Giazotto, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a system where coherent thermal transport between two reservoirs in non-galvanic contact is modulated by independently tuning the electron-photon and the electron-phonon coupling. The scheme is based on two gate-controlled electrodes capacitively coupled through a dc-SQUID as intermediate phase-tunable resonator. Thereby the electron-photon interaction is modulated by controlling the flux threading the dc-SQUID and the impedance of the two reservoirs, while the electron-phonon coupling is tuned by controlling the charge carrier concentration in the electrodes. To quantitatively evaluate the behavior of the system we propose to exploit graphene reservoirs. In this case, the scheme can work at temperatures reaching 1 K, with unprecedented temperature modulations as large as 245 mK, transmittance up to 99% and energy conversion efficiency up to 50%. Finally, the accuracy of heat transport control allows to use this system as an experimental tool to determine the electron-phonon coupling in two dimensional electronic systems (2DES).
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Language policy formulation and implementation : an historical perspective of Australian languages
Creators: name: Fesl, Eve
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 450108
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander linguistics and languages

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.  Made Open Access, 2 May 2022 at the request of the author.
Retinal prostheses: optimizing electrical stimulation for suprachoroidal retinal prostheses
Creators: name: John, Sam Emmanuel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Retinal prostheses are a promising treatment for people suffering from severe retinal degenerations. These prostheses work by electrically stimulating residual retinal cells in order to generate a visual percept. Currently there are few guidelines and recommendations that can aid in selecting efficacious stimulus parameters. In addition, the mechanisms through which these prostheses work are unclear and fundamental knowledge of the interactions between electrical stimulation and the retinal cells is lacking. Understanding these mechanisms and the interaction for electrical stimulation with retinal cells and higher centres will improve clinical patient outcomes. Efficacy in general refers to the ability to stimulate neural population with lowest charge, controlled spatial activation profiles and minimal power. Optimizing stimulation parameters may allow the clinical outcome to be less sensitive to the position of the electrode, reduce threshold for neural stimulation, improve spatial selectivity and use less power. In this thesis we look at addressing large count electrode arrays and impedance monitoring. Impedance monitoring and fault detection is necessary as it has implications for ensuring safe and effective stimulation as well as the power required to stimulate neural tissue. Electrical targeting can be achieved by choosing optimal pulse shape, polarity, duration, inter-phase gap and frequency. Understanding the fundamentals will aid in the rational selection of stimulation parameters and development of retinal prostheses.
title: Zur Erinnerung an Willy Gresly-Keller
title: Willy Gresly-Keller, 1894-1971
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 19. Januar 1894 - 29. Juli 1971
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brenk, Erich
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Gresly, Willy

description: Enthält: Abdankung von Herrn Pfarrer Erich Brenk an der Trauerfeier vom 3. August 1971 in der Kirche Rosenberg Winterthur.
(201281) Jane [Turner]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Making sense of self in Alzheimer’s disease: reflective function and cognitive status
Creators: name: Simm, Louise A.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The purpose of the current investigation is to examine the relationship between cognitive impairment and self‐evaluation in AD. Research is divided regarding the maintenance of self in AD, which may reflect the diversity in the conceptualisation and measurement of self (Caddell and Clare, 2010). William James’ (1890/1950) me‐self (the empirical, material being that is the object of experience) and I‐self (subject or agent of experience – the thinker and the feeler that is aware of the me‐self) provide the structure of self in the current study, while a biopsychosocial framework (Clare, 2003; Kitwood, 1988) ensures that both personal and social aspects of self are acknowledged, along with the neurocognitive. Me‐self (measured via self‐concept) was found to remain unaffected in mild AD, although the reliability of the approach to self‐evaluation was questionable. I‐self (measured via reflective function - a theory of mind scale) deteriorated in mild AD (Study One). A high correlation was also found between I‐self and general cognitive impairment in AD. In Study Two, the reduction in I‐self in mild AD was demonstrated in both personal and social domains of I‐self; and with a focus on specific cognitive impairment relationships, episodic‐related new learning was found to predict personal I‐self, and speed of information processing to predict social I‐self. Study Three supported the overall downward trend in self over time for the AD group, particularly for personal I‐self. Surprisingly, despite the reduction in I‐self and cognitive status, subjective quality of life appeared to remain unaffected in participants with AD. The final study also highlighted that despite group differences identified throughout the three studies, the AD journey - inclusive of the relationship between I‐self and cognitive impairment - is individually variable.
Whitham modulation theory for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation
Creators: name: Ablowitz, Mark J.
name: Biondini, Gino
name: Wang, Qiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The genus-1 KP-Whitham system is derived for both variants of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation (namely, the KPI and KPII equations). The basic properties of the KP-Whitham system, including symmetries, exact reductions, and its possible complete integrability, together with the appropriate generalization of the one-dimensional Riemann problem for the Korteweg-deVries equation are discussed. Finally, the KP-Whitham system is used to study the linear stability properties of the genus-1 solutions of the KPI and KPII equations; it is shown that all genus-1 solutions of KPI are linearly unstable while all genus-1 solutions of KPII {are linearly stable within the context of Whitham theory.
description: Significantly revised version
Statistical Industry Classification
Creators: name: Kakushadze, Zura
name: Yu, Willie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We give complete algorithms and source code for constructing (multilevel) statistical industry classifications, including methods for fixing the number of clusters at each level (and the number of levels). Under the hood there are clustering algorithms (e.g., k-means). However, what should we cluster? Correlations? Returns? The answer turns out to be neither and our backtests suggest that these details make a sizable difference. We also give an algorithm and source code for building "hybrid" industry classifications by improving off-the-shelf "fundamental" industry classifications by applying our statistical industry classification methods to them. The presentation is intended to be pedagogical and geared toward practical applications in quantitative trading.
description: 44 pages; trivial misprints corrected