cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Utilization of biomass as fuel source for direct carbon fuel cell
Creators: name: Lim, Shu Hong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this research, the feasibility of palm mesocarp and palm shell as DCFC fuels were examined. However, biomass in its raw state does not possess suitable chemical and physical properties for fueling DCFC. For that purpose, heat treatment such as pyrolysis is required for physicochemical properties modifications. In this study, palm mesocarp and palm shell biomasses were pyrolyzed at temperature range of 400-800oC and 400-1000oC, respectively, coupled with residence time of 2 hours and heating rate of 10oC/min in order to upgrade the physicochemical properties of biomass. Furthermore, characterization using proximate, ultimate, gas adsorption and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses are performed on samples along with carbon black – a common fuel applied in DCFC. Lastly, all the biochar samples were tested in SO-DCFC, with the operating temperature of 800oC, under the N2 and synthetic air atmosphere at anode and cathode compartments, respectively. Using linear sweep voltammetry, it was found that palm mesocarp pyrolyzed at 600oC yields the highest electrochemical performance in DCFC - 1830 uW/cm2, as compared to all other samples, including those of palm shell.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Genome-wide analysis of the potato Hsp20 gene family: identification, genomic organization and expression profiles in response to heat stress
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng
name: Wang, Dongdong
name: Wang, Ruoqiu
name: Kong, Nana
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Yang, Chenghui
name: Wu, Wentao
name: Ma, Haoli
name: Chen, Qin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The IDs of Hsp20 genes from Arabidopsis, soybean, rice and Populus. (DOCX 28Â kb)
Additional file 1 of Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Roberts, Tom
name: Taylor, Callum
name: Carlton, Edward
name: Booker, Mathew
name: Voss, Sarah
name: Trevett, Nicola
name: Wattley, Daniel
name: Benger, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Determinants of long-term outcome in ICU survivors: results from the FROG-ICU study
Creators: name: Gayat, Etienne
name: Cariou, Alain
name: Deye, Nicolas
name: Vieillard-Baron, Antoine
name: Jaber, Samir
name: Damoisel, Charles
name: Lu, Qin
name: Monnet, Xavier
name: Rennuit, Isabelle
name: Azoulay, Elie
name: Léone, Marc
name: Oueslati, Heikel
name: Guidet, Bertrand
name: Friedman, Diane
name: Tesnière, Antoine
name: Sonneville, Romain
name: Montravers, Philippe
name: Pili-Floury, Sébastien
name: Lefrant, Jean-Yves
name: Duranteau, Jacques
name: Laterre, Pierre-François
name: Brechot, Nicolas
name: Chevreul, Karine
name: Michel, Morgane
name: Cholley, Bernard
name: Legrand, Matthieu
name: Launay, Jean-Marie
name: Vicaut, Eric
name: Singer, Mervyn
name: Resche-Rigon, Matthieu
name: Mebazaa, Alexandre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: showing Kaplan–Meier curves for 1-year mortality after discharge from the ICU, Figure S2. showing plots of restricted cubic spline of continuous variables included in the multivariable model, Figure S3. showing plots of restricted cubic spline of continuous variables included in the multivariable model, Table S1. presenting details on comorbidities and chronic treatment, and Table S2. presenting ORs (with 95% CI) for variables significantly associated with 1-year mortality in univariate analysis and in multivariable analysis (DOCX 110 kb)
Additional file 2 of Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Roberts, Tom
name: Taylor, Callum
name: Carlton, Edward
name: Booker, Mathew
name: Voss, Sarah
name: Trevett, Nicola
name: Wattley, Daniel
name: Benger, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Old stories, new authors: orientalism, cosmopolitanism and India
Creators: name: Geraghty, David Neil
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explores the theory underpinning Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) and applies it to a selection of India-focused texts – including some by Indian authors – with a view towards establishing whether or not Said’s model would allow for Orientalism by “Orientals”. Orientalism, Said’s landmark postcolonial study, described an epistemological sequence in which the West had articulated, codified and – ultimately – politically determined the East through a hegemonic discourse that compared and contrasted Eastern “Otherness” with assumed Western normalcy. Racial and cultural essentialism was the animating dynamic for this process, and Said’s model was predicated upon an ontological binary between a colonizing white subject (the British, French and American imperial powers) and a colonized brown object (the Orient). Said’s particular focus in Orientalism was the Arab “Near East”; India was mostly absent from his account (as indeed were South Asia in general, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia). Beyond Said’s work, moreover, there has been limited scholarly engagement with Orientalism as it pertains to India. Discussion of Orientalism has been dominated by the Near East. Despite the relative absence of India from debate around Orientalism, a number of India-focused texts (travel narratives and such) seem to present features that Said described as typical of Orientalism. Some of the more recent of these texts, moreover, have been written by expatriate Indians or people of Indic descent. These latter texts pose a conundrum: given the racial binary Said determined for Orientalism, how can Indian authors produce Orientalism? This study applies Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism to a selection of key India-focused texts, including two examples of “classic” Orientalism by white authors – James Mill’s The History of British India (1817) and Katharine Mayo’s polemic Mother India (1927) – and two examples of cosmopolitan Orientalism by Indic authors – V. S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness (1964) and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City (2004). Through these case studies, and others, this thesis seeks to: a) address the relative absence of India from critical writing about Orientalism; and b) test the effectiveness and relevance of Said’s theory for contemporary postcolonial and cosmopolitan contexts, where the racial binaries of the colonial era are no longer so dominant. What would it mean for Said’s model if Indian writers cannot be Orientalists? What would it mean if they can?
Characterising amber from the Arctic and Antarctic circles: factors affecting the production and preservation of resin at high latitudes during the mid-Cretaceous
Creators: name: Quinney, Ann Edgerton
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis documents four discoveries of mid-Cretaceous amber from the high southern and northern latitudes of Australia and Canada, respectively. These deposits occur primarily in Turonian marginal marine/deltaic sediments and are important for their representation of a) high latitude forests, and b) terrestrial environments during a greenhouse period characterised by globally elevated sea levels, for which terrestrial outcrops are lacking. Whereas the Australian localities are particularly important for their representation of the oldest in situ deposits from Australia and the southern-most deposits from Gondwana, the fortuitous discovery of coeval deposits from northern Canada provides a unique opportunity to compare and contrast resin production and preservation from the high latitude forests during the mid-Cretaceous greenhouse. Like many amber deposits world-wide, the high latitude ambers are generally devoid of bioinclusions, but Otway amber contains abundant pseudoinclusion. All of the amber is cupressaceous-araucarian, permitting comparisons of stable C and H isotopic data. The results indicate that, like other ambers globally, values of δ13Cmean for the high latitude ambers are enriched in ¹³C by 3–4‰ relative to their modern equivalents due to a global decrease in pO2 during the mid-Cretaceous greenhouse. Notably, high latitude ambers are depleted in ¹³C by approximately 1.9‰ relative to coeval amber from the middle latitudes due to latitudinal changes in light regime. Further, because of the inverse relationship documented between light exposure and ²H fractionation in plant lipids, exposure to continuous (24 h) low intensity light during the Arctic and Antarctic summers is thought to reduce the amount of ²H fractionation during resin biosynthesis relative to the middle and low latitudes. Seasonal changes in light availability may also account for some of the variation in δD among high latitude amber samples. Additionally, the southern high latitude forest may have experienced seasonal aridity, forcing the trees to periodically utilise fog and/or evaporatively-enriched surface water as a water source. By contrast, the narrow range of δDamber values from Canada indicates that the trees likely relied on precipitation that was distributed evenly throughout the year. Differences in δDmean between the Canadian and Australian ambers are likely related to differences in the δD of coastal precipitation sourced from slightly depleted inland seas versus open oceans. The strong similarity in the stable carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions reveal that the controls on resin production and preservation were consistent between the high latitude forests, with differences attributed to local environmental conditions and geographic position.
Additional file 3: Table S3. of Genome-wide analysis of the potato Hsp20 gene family: identification, genomic organization and expression profiles in response to heat stress
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng
name: Wang, Dongdong
name: Wang, Ruoqiu
name: Kong, Nana
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Yang, Chenghui
name: Wu, Wentao
name: Ma, Haoli
name: Chen, Qin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The primer sequences of 48 StHsp20 genes used for qRT-PCR. (DOCX 15Â kb)
Additional file 3 of Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Roberts, Tom
name: Taylor, Callum
name: Carlton, Edward
name: Booker, Mathew
name: Voss, Sarah
name: Trevett, Nicola
name: Wattley, Daniel
name: Benger, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
Understanding the role of entropy in high entropy oxides
Creators: name: Aamlid, Solveig S.
name: Oudah, Mohamed
name: Rottler, Jörg
name: Hallas, Alannah M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field of high entropy oxides (HEOs) flips traditional materials science paradigms on their head by seeking to understand what properties arise in the presence of profound configurational disorder. This disorder, which originates from multiple elements sharing a single lattice site, can take on a kaleidoscopic character due to the vast numbers of possible elemental combinations. High configurational disorder appears to imbue some HEOs with functional properties that far surpass their non-disordered analogs. While experimental discoveries abound, efforts to characterize the true magnitude of the configurational entropy and understand its role in stabilizing new phases and generating superior functional properties have lagged behind. Understanding the role of configurational disorder in existing HEOs is the crucial link to unlocking the rational design of new HEOs with targeted properties. In this Perspective, we attempt to establish a framework for articulating and beginning to address these questions in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the true role of entropy in HEOs.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
The role of entrepreneurship in community - based tourism
Creators: name: Mayaka, Melphon Angwenyi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis draws on findings from four case studies conducted in Kenya, East Africa, to investigate the entrepreneuring process associated with community-based tourism. This is accomplished by examining the influences of the historical, social, and political context, community needs, and the actors involved on the creation and development of community-based tourism (CBT) enterprises. The thesis is informed by a recognition that little has been written on CBT enterprise creation and development processes. Instead, the majority of CBT analyses have focused on outcomes; yet understanding how CBT enterprises are created and developed is crucial to determining not only their success, but also their importance as social institutions. Practice theory represents a suitable framework for interpreting the complex web of interactions that underlies the process of CBT enterprise establishment and functioning. Using a multiple case study approach, this thesis investigates four Kenyan CBT enterprises by drawing on in-depth interviews, supplemented by document data and participant observations. A total of 48 interview participants were drawn from across several key role-groups, including CBT founders, community members, and members of government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The combined data indicate that CBT enterprise creation in each of these four cases was driven by the need to address serious problems faced by the community, such as poverty, drought, human-wildlife conflict, and loss of access to traditional land. These findings strongly suggest that the creation and development of CBT enterprises is underpinned by a purposive process of creation. Viewed through an entrepreneuring lens, such creation can be interpreted as a form of coping and surviving within actors’ and communities’ lived environments. The process unearthed in these case studies is one of complex interaction between various actors from within and outside the communities, and the situational demands of these settings. Furthermore, it is characterised by drawing on learnable concepts such as practical wisdom, analogising and improvisation, being community-focused, built on trust, and addressing unequal power relations. This thesis contributes to CBT theory by articulating possible means by which CBT could address poverty, and enhance community agency and solidarity. It also highlights the significance of practice theorisation in understanding the processes of building local community institutions in marginal rural settings. The research reveals new possibilities of approaching CBT as a complex field involving innovative partnerships and collaborations that are able to address local issues in an agentic manner; it also shows CBT to be a means of community development by which historically and culturally embedded structural limitations to socio-economic change can be overcome in diverse peripheral localities. The findings may prove applicable beyond the field of CBT.
Do Payment Channel Networks Need a Blockchain? - Rethinking Blockchain Layers
Creators: name: Grundmann, Matthias
name: Hartenstein, Hannes
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020

description: One of the fundamental problems in designing digital currencies is the prevention of double-spends. The breakthrough of Bitcoin lies in its seminal idea to use a global blockchain to verify whether a coin has already been spent. Bitcoin’s approach to prevent double-spends, however, has the drawback that it does not scale in the number of transactions issued per second. To address this problem, current research explores building second layer architectures on top of the blockchain, such as payment channel networks. Although these architectures use a blockchain as their underlying layer, they need to solve the problem of preventing double-spends again. As it seems inefficient to solve the same problem multiple times, we explore whether payment channel networks with their way of preventing double-spends can be used to create an architecture for digital payments that is to some extent decentralized but does not require a blockchain as its underlying layer. A payment channel requires from its underlying layer a way to lock a channel’s funds during the lifetime of the channel. Instead of locking funds on a blockchain, this can be implemented by depositing funds at a trusted third party who is trusted to make the funds available again upon channel closure. In our current financial system, users deposit money into their bank accounts and trust their bank to make these funds available upon request. Making use of this trust, we build on the ideas of Tremback et al. and propose an architecture for a payment channel network where banks, or similar entities, perform the role of the underlying blockchain. In this architecture, a bank provides each channel with a unique identifier and locks a channel’s funds. When one party closes the channel, the bank informs the other party. In case of dispute about the channel’s closing state, the bank has to decide which state is most current and close the channel accordingly. By connecting multiple payment channels, a payment channel network can be created, which allows for decentralized payments using traditional currencies. Similar to cash, single payments cannot be tracked by banks in this architecture. To prevent the architecture from attracting illegal activities, the capacity of payment channels could be limited to a maximum value. Compared to exchanging traditional currencies for cryptocurrencies to use a payment channel network, this architecture removes the cost of currency exchanges and the risk introduced by exchange rate fluctuations.
“All about healthy country”: Aboriginal perspectives of weed management in the Kimberley, Western Australia
Creators: name: Bach, Thomas Michael Malcolm
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Aboriginal Australians are being employed through federally funded programs to undertake natural and cultural management (NCRM) of their ancestral country. These Aboriginal Ranger programs aim to provide economic and cultural opportunities for Indigenous communities to achieve positive environmental and conservation outcomes by drawing on Aboriginal knowledge and cultural connections to country. A major component of Ranger work is the eradication of plants categorised as environmental weeds by land managers of various government and non-government agencies. Despite Aboriginal Ranger programs intending to foreground local Aboriginal perspectives to direct their work, Rangers predominantly manage environmental weeds according to the mainstream ecological paradigm. This thesis argues that the wholesale imposition of mainstream environmental weed discourse on Aboriginal NCRM programs disables Aboriginal Rangers from basing their weed management on culturally-embedded perspectives. Based on my field research in the western and central Kimberley region of Western Australia, I show that Rangers and elders belonging to Bardi-Jawi, Bunuba, Ngurrara, Nyikina Mangala, Nyulnyul and Wilinggin country have nuanced, yet clear, understandings of ‘healthy country’ and the landscape change caused by plants. Through participant observation and field interviews, Rangers and elders from these groups challenged the current species-based approaches to weed classification and control and demonstrated that their views on weeds do not align with dominant environmental weed discourse and management. Instead, they highlighted the contextual and relational nature of weeds by linking them and their effects to the Aboriginal concept of ‘healthy country’. Significantly, these views are similar to the arguments made by ecologists and social scientists that are critical of mainstream invasion ecology and management of environmental weeds. Common to both groups are that weed problems are culturally and contextually specific and that weed management needs to maintain cultural and environmental values within changing landscapes by working alongside these changes, rather than constantly working against them. These points of overlap provide vindication for Aboriginal Rangers to control weeds through a greater emphasis on site-based, rather than species-based management. Site-based management allows Rangers to connect their weed work to local and culturally specific visions for healthy country; integrate weed management into other aspects of Ranger work and in doing so frame weed management as promoting healthy country rather than destroying plants; and meet the practical constraints of Ranger work by focusing on a manageable scale.
A second soul: exploring the teaching beliefs of migrant Chinese language teachers in Chinese community languages schools in Victoria
Creators: name: Lu, Fei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explores the teaching beliefs of Chinese language teachers who migrated from China to Australia and who have been teaching in Chinese Community Languages Schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. The thesis argues that the teaching beliefs of these migrant language teachers are strongly influenced by their previous learning and teaching experiences and that their choices of teaching content and practice in their current Australian classrooms reflect these beliefs. Because language is constructed within specific historical, cultural and social contexts among a specific social community in order to share, transmit, mediate and communicate thoughts, socio-cultural theory was chosen as the most appropriate framework for this research. The study was conducted with 18 teachers from 10 Chinese Community Languages Schools across Victoria, Australia. Twelve teachers agreed to participate in both interviews and in-class observations and six teachers agreed to participate only in the interviews. Data collection included 18 written questionnaires, followed by 18 initial interviews, 36 classroom observation recordings (three lessons for each of 12 teachers), 12 post-observation interviews and selected teaching materials. These data helped to consolidate the trustworthiness of this research. It was found that teaching beliefs about student engagement, students’ learning needs, their cultural competence and the language environment were given great importance by the Chinese migrant teachers. Participants' own learning experience, professional experience and the school context played a significant role in the formation of their teaching beliefs. Their Chinese educational backgrounds provided them with genuine teaching content, enriched their professional knowledge and also brought challenges in their current teaching practice in Australian classrooms. With the help of a socio-cultural framework, it was further analysed that the teaching beliefs were dynamic, contextual, and impacted by multiple factors in their social and cultural transformation process. At the same time, these migrant teachers’ identities as Chinese teachers in China, migrants in Australia and language teachers in Chinese Community Languages Schools have experienced a series of conflicts, adjustments, shifts and relocations. The results of this study are expected to contribute to Chinese community language teachers’ understanding of and reflections on their pedagogy and personal skills in Australian language classrooms, their professional development needs, closer communication and sharing with their colleagues and lastly, curriculum development in Chinese Community Language education programs. The research may also provide benefits for the wider teaching of Chinese in Australia. In addition, it is hoped that the results may point to future research in this and related fields.
Fluctuation-dominated quantum oscillations in excitonic insulators
Creators: name: Allocca, Andrew A.
name: Cooper, Nigel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of excitonic insulators in transition metal dichalcogenide systems has opened the door to explorations of the exotic properties such a state exhibits. We study theoretically the potential for excitonic insulators to show an anomalous form of quantum oscillations: the de Haas-van Alphen effect in an insulating system. We focus on the role of the interactions that generate the energy gap and show that it is crucial to consider quantum fluctuations that go beyond the mean field treatment. Remarkably, quantum fluctuations can be dominant, and lead to quantum oscillations than are significantly larger than those predicted using mean field theory. Indeed, in experimentally accessible parameter regimes these fluctuation-generated quantum oscillations can even be larger than what would be found for the corresponding gapless system.
description: 4+3 pages, 2+1 figures
Additional file 4 of Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Roberts, Tom
name: Taylor, Callum
name: Carlton, Edward
name: Booker, Mathew
name: Voss, Sarah
name: Trevett, Nicola
name: Wattley, Daniel
name: Benger, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
Magnetic switching of spin-scattering centers in Dresselhaus [110] circuits
Creators: name: Rodríguez, E. J.
name: Reynoso, A. A.
name: Baltanás, J. P.
name: Nitta, J.
name: Frustaglia, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin carriers subject to Dresselhaus [110] (D110) spin-orbit coupling (SOC) gather null spin phases in closed circuits, contrary to usual Rashba and Dresselhaus [001] SOC. We show that D110 spin phases can be activated in square circuits by introducing an in-plane Zeeman field, where localized field inhomogeneities act as effective spin-scattering centers. Our simulations show rich interference patterns in the quantum conductance, which work as maps for a geometric classification of the propagating spin states. We also find that disorder facilitates low-field implementations.
description: revised version, 10 pages, 6 figures
Behavioural ecology and advertising practice : an evolutionary approach to consumer engagement within complex networks
Creators: name: Amner, Maxwell Scott
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study takes an evolutionary perspective on consumer behaviour in an online context. Specifically, it aims to show how such an analysis can not only enhance our understanding of the contemporary online era but also suggest new avenues for advertising practice. The theoretical approach will draw on insights from a range of disciplines including memetics, semiology and anthropology, as well as cross-disciplinary fields of study such as behavioural ecology. This is necessary given the underlying premise that human behaviour is a response to a complex mix of environmental pressures, both biological and sociocultural. (Advertising’s power to engage consumers rests on its ability to harness these pressures; but for the purpose of this study it can also be seen as simply another such pressure.) The focus on the online world is a recognition of the internet’s increasing importance – in general sociocultural terms, and as reflected in advertising practice. It has also rapidly developed the hallmarks of an environment, evolving along with the entities that inhabit this virtual space, through various selection and survival mechanisms. The study will identify these mechanisms and investigate the ways in which they operate. Finally it will propose an evolutionary strategy to maximise the chance of survival for brands within this environment, based on the model of symbiotic, co-adaptive behaviour.
The other as deviant: literary representations of the trujillato and apartheid
Creators: name: Begovich, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The instrumentalisation of physical differences in human beings has been a characteristic of diverse national discourses. Dominant groups in Latin America and Southern Africa made up of white or quasi-white national minorities used race to determine power relations in multi-racial milieus. The dominant groups during the trujillato (1930–1961) and apartheid (1948–1994) periods in the Dominican Republic and South Africa gained and maintained power by deploying racist politics and discourse towards their nations’ black inhabitants. The discourse of these dominant groups included discriminatory and stereotypical representations that portrayed the other as deviant and rationalised the existing socio-economic disadvantage of the other, a legacy of earlier colonial conquest. This thesis examines constructions of the other as deviant as manifested in literary representations of the trujillato in the Dominican Republic and apartheid in South Africa. The representations of these two timeframes by a range of authors allow for an understanding of how deviance is constructed and how it cannot be reduced to a single location and timeframe. Rather, we see that deviance is an overarching theme of othering in which different and interrelated modes of deviance (the other as uncivilised, amoral, violent and lawless) constitute a historical narrative of othering of black and dark-skinned people that traverses historical and cultural contexts.
title: Know Your Bugs: A Collaborative Evaluation of a Community Health Education Module That Aims to be Accessible to Adults with Learning Disabilities
Creators: name: Owens, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: The right to health should be a fundamental right of everyone. However, despite initiatives to improve the health of adults with learning disabilities, concerns about poorer health and health inequalities remain, and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Accessible health promotion can help to overcome barriers to healthy behaviour but the effectiveness of health education in infection prevention and self-care is unknown. This research aimed to understand the health education experiences of adults with learning disabilities regarding a module designed to improve knowledge about self-care, infection prevention and antibiotic use. Beginning with a scoping review of ‘what works’, this research involved observation of the learning context in two locations and semi-structured interviews with 18 course participants to explore health knowledge and behaviour change in the short, medium and longer term. Data were analysed iteratively, addressing the realist concept of context/mechanism/outcome configurations. Participants had a positive learning experience and gained knowledge about microbes, hand hygiene, self-care, and antibiotic use. Some participants reported behaviour change regarding handwashing and self-care. The contexts that influenced learning were personal, social, physical, active, and external. Mechanisms that interacted with these contexts to trigger learning included: accessible teaching methods, interactive resources, relaxed and effective participant interactions, facilitation of independent thinking and planning, appropriate involvement of supporters, and an inclusive and engaging educator style. Knowledge gain and changed behaviour intentions were achieved through an engaging, interactive, and focused learning environment, underpinned by a complex and changing combination of interactions. However, further research is needed to understand effective ways of communicating health information in an education context, to understand the impact of education on behaviour change, and to identify ways in which the longer-term retention of learning can be achieved. The research proposes a draft model that can guide effective community health education provision.
Decoding quantum color codes with MaxSAT
Creators: name: Berent, Lucas
name: Burgholzer, Lukas
name: Derks, Peter-Jan H. S.
name: Eisert, Jens
name: Wille, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In classical computing, error-correcting codes are well established and are ubiquitous both in theory and practical applications. For quantum computing, error-correction is essential as well, but harder to realize, coming along with substantial resource overheads and being concomitant with needs for substantial classical computing. Quantum error-correcting codes play a central role on the avenue towards fault-tolerant quantum computation beyond presumed near-term applications. Among those, color codes constitute a particularly important class of quantum codes that have gained interest in recent years due to favourable properties over other codes. As in classical computing, decoding is the problem of inferring an operation to restore an uncorrupted state from a corrupted one and is central in the development of fault-tolerant quantum devices. In this work, we show how the decoding problem for color codes can be reduced to a slight variation of the well-known LightsOut puzzle. We propose a novel decoder for quantum color codes using a formulation as a MaxSAT problem based on this analogy. Furthermore, we optimize the MaxSAT construction and show numerically that the decoding performance of the proposed decoder achieves state-of-the-art decoding performance on color codes. The implementation of the decoder as well as tools to automatically conduct numerical experiments are publicly available as part of the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT) on GitHub.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays)
Creators: name: Wang, Baobao
name: Liu, Han
name: Liu, Zhipeng
name: Dong, Xiaomei
name: Guo, Jinjie
name: Li, Wei
name: Chen, Jing
name: Gao, Chi
name: Zhu, Yanbin
name: Zheng, Xinmei
name: Chen, Zongliang
name: Chen, Jian
name: Song, Weibin
name: Hauck, Andrew
name: Lai, Jinsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Distribution of SNPs polymorphic between Zheng58 and Chang7–2 in different genomic regions. Figure S2. Sequencing depth profile of Zhengdan958 RILs. Figure S3. Distribution of false GBS SNPs in 1 Mb windows by parent. Figure S4. Pair-wise recombinational fractions (upper left) and LOD scores (lower right) of the bins. Figure S5. The distribution of segregation distortions across ten chromosomes.Segregation distortions were tested by Chi-test, and –log10 (PChi-test) were plotted against their physical positions. Threshold of no distortion (p < 0.01, after Bonferroni-correction) were showed as red dashed lines. Figure S6. The 5 classes of silk color. Figure S7. Phenotypic distributions of PH, EH, EH/PH, TNB, TL and ULN. Table S1. The 240 barcodes used in GBS. Table S2. GBS error rate for parental lines. Table S3. Pair-wise Pearson’s correlation coefficients (lower left) and p-values (upper right) among recombination, gene density, and SNP density in 1 Mb intervals by genomic region. Table S5. Pearson correlation coefficients among different traits in two environments.Lower left, the correlation coefficients; Upper right, p-values of correlation test. Table S6. Heritability of different traits. Table S7. Summary of mapped QTLs. Table S8. Markers used for verifying qPH1a. (PDF 934 kb)
Global index of real polynomials
Creators: name: Monsalve, Gabriel E.
name: Tibăr, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop two methods for expressing the global index of the gradient of a 2 variable polynomial function $f$: in terms of the atypical fibres of $f$, and in terms of the clusters of Milnor arcs at infinity. These allow us to derive upper bounds for the global index, in particular refining the one found by Durfee in terms of the degree of $f$.
description: 26p, 3 figures. References updated before publication
Additional file 5 of Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Roberts, Tom
name: Taylor, Callum
name: Carlton, Edward
name: Booker, Mathew
name: Voss, Sarah
name: Trevett, Nicola
name: Wattley, Daniel
name: Benger, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5.
$B\to X_{c(u)}\ell\barν_{\ell}γ$ and determination of non-perturbative parameters
Creators: name: Mahajan, Namit
name: Mishra, Dayanand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article explores the calculation of non-perturbative parameters present in the matrix element of semileptonic inclusive $B$ decays. These are important for the inclusive determination of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) parameters in the standard model. We focus on calculating the rate for radiative inclusive decay, $B\to X_c\ell \barν_{\ell}γ$, where $γ$ is hard. Both the radiative and non-radiative ($B\to X_c \ell \barν_{\ell}$) modes are found to require the same non-perturbative parameters. We propose forming ratios from $B\to X_c \ell \barν_{\ell}γ$ and $B\to X_c \ell \barν_{\ell}$ widths in different lepton energy ranges. Our results provide an efficient way to unambiguously calculate the non-perturbative parameters, especially when combined with total width calculations of $B\to X_c \ell \barν_{\ell}$. This is shown explicitly by working to $\mathcal{O}(1/m_b)$ and determining $λ_1$ and $λ_2$.
description: 37 pages, 6 Figures
I am no inconsiderable shop-keeper in this town : Swift and his Dublin printers of the 1720's: Edward Waters, John Harding and Sarah Harding
Creators: name: Pett, Craig Francis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Swift's political writing was at its most subversive and presented the greatest risk to his printers when as Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin in the 1720's he embarked upon a campaign of defending Irish liberties. His pamphlets during this period were intended to rally the people of Ireland against English oppressions. In writing them Swift also sought to reassert himself over his Whig enemies who were then in government in Westminster. It was a period of violent prosecutions, imprisonments and courtroom warring between judges and juries, and it was a period that exacted a human cost. This thesis is a study of Swift's working relationships with the Dublin printing industry during this time. Always writing either anonymously or under a pseudonym, Swift worked with printers who were from the lowest ranks of the industry. These were printers who were more prepared to run the risk of publication and bear the brunt of any prosecution. The first of these printers was Edward Waters. In May 1720, Waters printed Swift's "A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture" and was subsequently prosecuted in a case that was protracted over fifteen months. The second was John Harding, who printed the five pamphlets Swift wrote in 1724 under the pseudonym M. B. Drapier. Harding was prosecuted for the fourth of those pamphlets and died a few months afterwards from the effects of his imprisonment. The third was Harding's widow, Sarah Harding, who as a mother of two continued to print occasionally for Swift without ever receiving the support from him that can be said to have been owing to her. This thesis is written from the perspective of the printers. It offers new evidence with regard to the lives and careers of the printers and Swift's conduct in relation to them.
Process optimization & kinetic modeling study for fresh microgreen (Alternanthera sessilis) juice treated under thermosonication
Creators: name: Senthilnathan, Karthikeyan
name: Muthusamy, Sukumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Several experimental studies suggest the regular consumption of vegetables can marginally reduce the risk of chronic disease and nutrient deficiency. However, the average consumption rate of vegetables is still limited. Microgreens are emerging fresh produce, rich in nutrients, intense flavor, delicate texture, and culinary application. Microgreens juices are the potential alternative for nutrient deficiency and chronic disease due to their bioavailability of bioactive compounds. However, no scientific data are available on the process optimization of microgreens juices under thermosonication (TS). The present study focused on the process optimization of thermosonication (30–50 °C, and 20–35 min at constant 44 kHz) and its effect against the physical, chemical, and microbial nature of microgreen juice. Thermosonicated juice sample showed no significant difference in pH, TSS & TA throughout the process. But, a significant range was observed in the antioxidant (41.63 ± 1.05 to 53.86 ± 1.20), phenolic (0.54 ± 0.02 to 0.74 ± 0.02), and flavonoid (1.42 ± 0.01 to 1.63 ± 0.01) level in the treated juice sample. Likewise, the treated juice exhibits complete inactivation of the bacterial load. Our finding discloses, the quality enrichment of TS juice increased with the rise in temperature & time.
Additional file 7: Figure S1. of The signature of liver cancer in immune cells DNA methylation
Creators: name: Zhang, Yonghong
name: Petropoulos, Sophie
name: Liu, Jinhua
name: Cheishvili, David
name: Zhou, Rudy
name: Dymov, Sergiy
name: Li, Kang
name: Li, Ning
name: Szyf, Moshe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Differentially Methylated CG Sites at different stages of HCC and “cross-validation”. a. Heat map presentation of hierarchical clustering of 69 people by 14 differentially methylated CGs between HCC stage 2 and control. b. Heat map of hierarchical clustering of 69 people by 58 differentially methylated CGs between HCC stage 3 and control. Figure S2. Differentially Methylated CG Sites at different stages of HCC in a “training set” and “cross-validation” in a “validation set”. a. Heat map presentation of hierarchical clustering of 35 people by a 369 CG signature that correlate with progression in a “training set” (right panel) classify HCC and controls in a “validation set” (left panel as well). b. Heat map of a randomized list of 350 CGs on all patients and controls. Figure S3. Prediction of late stage HCC using a penalized model using the 369 CG list which was trained on a randomized half of the HCC patients and controls ("training set") and tested on the other half ("validation set"). The plot shows the “validated” samples (The y axis indicates the predicted probability of late stage HCC for each person (from 0 to 1) (True if prediction >0.5 and False if prediction is <0.5). All late HCC stages in the “validation set” are TRUE and all other stages and controls are FALSE. (PDF 717 kb)
Universality in the 2d quasi-periodic Ising model and Harris-Luck irrelevance
Creators: name: Gallone, Matteo
name: Mastropietro, Vieri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that in the 2d Ising Model with a weak bidimensional quasi-periodic disorder in the interaction, the critical behavior is the same as in the non-disordered case, that is the critical exponents for the specific heat and energy-energy correlations are identical and no logarithmic corrections are present. The disorder produces a quasi-periodic modulation of the amplitude of the correlations and a renormalization of the velocities, that is the coefficients of the rescaling of positions, and of the critical temperature. The result establishes the validity of the prediction based on the Harris-Luck criterion and it provides the first rigorous proof of universality in the Ising model in presence of quasi-periodic disorder in both directions and for any angle. Small divisors are controlled assuming a Diophantine condition on the frequencies and convergence of the series is proved by Renormalization Group analysis.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures. Version accepted for publication in Comm. Math. Phys