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The Effects of Mindfulness & Loving-Kindness Meditation on the Therapist and the Therapeutic Relationship
Creators: name: Newbegin, Geoffrey William
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Counselling Psychology to the School of Psychology and Public Health College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

It is increasingly recognised that positive therapeutic outcomes are dependent on the ability of psychotherapists to initially establish the “right conditions” such as an empathic alliance and “connectedness” for the therapeutic alliance to be formed. Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditations have been demonstrated to effectively enhance awareness, empathy and social connectedness in both general and clinical populations. This mixed method study examined the comparative effects of mindfulness and loving-kindness training on psychotherapists in relation to the constructs mindfulness, self-compassion, and relational connectedness in their personal and professional lives. Two groups were used for the study. The first group of eight participants was initially trained in mindfulness only over an eight week period then three months later were trained in the loving-kindness over a four week period. The second group of six participants was trained in both mindfulness and loving kindness over an eight week period. Quantitative data were analysed for any changes in mindfulness, self compassion, and the relationship with clients using the Reliable Change Index. Qualitative data were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and major themes were developed for each group as a result of their training in mindfulness and loving-kindness meditations and compared between each group. The quantitative results demonstrated increasing trends for both groups in the level of mindfulness, self-compassion, and empathic connections with clients after the training programs, though significant results were limited. The qualitative results indicated that both groups reported experiencing awareness, and connectedness, both personally and in working with clients after being trained in mindfulness and loving-kindness. Both groups reported experiencing warmer and more empathic connections to themselves and their clients after the introduction of the lovingkindness training compared to their experiences with the mindfulness training. Strengths and weakness of the study were examined and suggestions made for future research into the use of mindfulness and loving-kindness for psychotherapists.
title: Agents: a distributed client/server system for leaf cell generation
Creators: name: Moreira, Dilvan de Abreu
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The Agents system generates the mask level layout of full custom CMOS, BICMOS, bipolar and mixed digital/analogue leaf cells. Leaf cells are subcircuits of a complexity comparable with SSI (Small Scale Integration) components such as small adders, counters or multiplexers. The system is formed by four server programs: the Placer, Router, Database and Broker. The Placer places components in a cell, the Router wires the circuits sent to it, the Database keeps all the information that is dependent upon the fabrication process, such as the design rules, and the Broker makes the services of the other servers available. These servers communicate over a computer network using the TCP/IP Internet Proto­col. The Placer server receives from its client the description and netlist of the circuit to be generated using EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format). The output to its client is the layout of the circuit (no virtual grid is used), again codified in EDIF. The concept of agents as software components which have the ability to communicate and cooperate with each other is at the heart of the Agents system. This concept is not only used at the higher level, for the four servers Placer, Router, Broker and Database, but as well at a lower level, inside the Router and Placer servers, where small rela­tively simple agents work together to accomplish complex tasks. These small agents are responsible for all the reasoning carried out by the two servers as they hold the basic inference routines and the knowledge needed by the servers. The key concept is that competence emerges out of the collective behaviour of a large number of rela­tively simple agents. In addition and integrated with these small agents, the system uses a genetic algorithm to improve components’ placement before routing.
Fermion-induced quantum critical points in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Jian, Shao-Kai
name: Yao, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermion-induced quantum critical points (FIQCPs) were recently discovered at the putatively first-order transitions between two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetals and the Kekule valence bond solids on the honeycomb lattice by sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations [Nature Communications 8, 314, (2017)]. Here, we investigate possible FIQCP in 3D topological Weyl semimetals at a $Z_3$ symmetry-breaking transition that is putatively first-order according to the Landau criterion. We construct a lattice model featuring 3D double-Weyl fermions (monopole charges $\pm$2) and we show that $Z_3$ nodal-nematic transitions occur under finite Hubbard interaction. Furthermore, using renormalization-group analysis, we identify such a transition as a genuine FIQCP where the cubic terms are irrelevant and an enlarged U(1) symmetry emerges at low energy. We further discuss quantum critical behaviors and experimental signatures of such FIQCPs in 3D double-Weyl semimetals.
description: 4.5 pages + appendixes, 3 figures, added a lattice model and the mean field theory, added new figures, updated references, corrected typos, the published version
Chemosensitizing effects and Molecular Dynamic study of Substituted Benzo1,3-oxazines as Novel DNA-PK, PI3K Inhibitors
Creators: name: Suraj, Rejitha
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 Pharmacy and Applied Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

A theoretically agreed concept to fight against tumour resistance is to use chemosensitizers that selectively sensitize tumour cells to chemotherapeutic drugs without affecting normal tissue. In this study, the chemosensitizing potential of novel benzoxazine derivatives in combination with Doxorubicin, a DNA damaging chemotherapeutic drug was evaluated. The primary aims were to elucidate the molecular pathways by which these compounds impart chemosensitization and to set down the particular protein and ligand determinants that explain the enzyme specificity of these compounds. The results of this study confirmed that LTUSi116 and LTUR6 were potent chemosensitizers of Doxorubicin in colon cancer cell lines, HCT116 and HT29; the possible mechanism being inhibition of DNA double strand breaks (DSB) repair. Results also showed that both LTUSi116 and LTUR6 delayed the resolution of Doxorubicin-induced γH2AX, a specific marker of unrepaired DNA DSB, and prolonged cell cycle arrest in both cell lines. This eventually led to DNA fragmentation, caspase activation and ultimately apoptosis in LTUSi116 and LTUR6 co-treated cell lines. Results of western blot analysis revealed that LTUSi116 and LTUR6 significantly inhibited the phosphorylation of DSB repair enzymes DNA-PK and AKT, in response to Doxorubicin-induced DSB. Further to this, protein array analyses uncovered changes to a subset of DNA-PK/AKT substrates affecting cell cycle arrest and apoptosis which help to explain the mechanism of action of these inhibitors. Molecular dynamics studies unravelled the ligand determinants of PI3K subtype specificity of these inhibitors enabling an explanation of the PI3Kδ specificity exhibited by LTUR6. Overall, the identification of molecular pathways through which these inhibitors cause chemosensitization combined with computational analysis of their interactions with target enzymes will aid in the development of new, potent and specific PI3K/AKT inhibitor as lead candidates for drug discovery.
title: John Skelton's Garland of Laurel and the production and reception of late medieval texts
Creators: name: Morgan, Rachel Emma
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis focuses upon John Skelton’s poem The Garland o f Laurel. It considers the poem in its late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century context, providing an insight into its intellectual and economic conditions of production and reception. It relies upon an examination of its extant material forms as well as of its subject matter. The thesis considers both the relevance of the poem’s subject matter to its period of production and identifies particular contexts for considering its genesis. It examines the manuscript and early printed text versions of the poem, their production, circulation and reception. It looks at the context provided by the popularity and circulation of the form of miscellany and considers Skelton’s deliberate use of the form as a model for The Garland o f Laurel. Dream poetry and French dits amoreux are discussed as alternative influences on the composition of the poem. Attention is given to Skelton’s use and adaptation of these genres, particularly to the technique of lyric insertion. In addition, the thesis focuses upon what is known about Howard patronage and sets this in the context of other examples of late medieval female patronage. I provide a new interpretation of Skelton’s poem as a work which explores processes of patronage and the changing dynamics of the relationship between writers and patrons in the late fifteenth century. Skelton’s self-representation is also considered in the context of his contemporaries, the early Humanists and French Rhetoriqueurs, whose attitudes and authorial activities provide interesting points of comparison. The final chapter examines the making of poetic identity in the context of English literary tradition and in the wider context of foreign relations in the early sixteenth century.
Phenomenological Implications of Very Special Relativity
Creators: name: Nayak, Alekha C.
name: Jain, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss several phenomenological implications of Very Special Relativity (VSR). It is assumed that there is a small violation of Lorentz invariance and the true symmetry group of nature is a subgroup called SIM(2). This symmetry group postulates the existence of a fundamental or preferred direction in space-time. We study its implications by using an effective action which violates Lorentz invariance but respects VSR. We find that the problem of finding the masses of fundamental fermions is in general intractable in the presence of VSR term. The problem can be solved only in special cases which we pursue in this paper. We next determine the signal of VSR in torsion pendulum experiment as well as clock comparison experiment. We find that VSR predicts a signal which is different from other Lorentz violating theories and hence a dedicated data analysis is needed in order to impose reliable limits. Assuming that signal is absent in data we determine the limits that can be imposed on the VSR parameters. We also study the implications of VSR in particle decay experiments taking the charged pion and kaon decay as an example. The effective interaction between the charged pion and the final state leptons is related to the fundamental VSR mass terms through a loop calculation. We also predict a shift in the angular dependence of the decay products due to VSR. In particular we find that these no longer display azimuthal symmetry with respect to the momentum of the pion. Furthermore the azimuthal and polar angle distributions show time dependence with a period of a sidereal day. This time dependence provides us with a novel method to test VSR in future experiments.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, substantial revision, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Bibliography on Aviation and Economic Entomology
Creators: name: Hawes, Ina L.
name: Eisenberg, Rose
name: Hawes, Ina L.
name: Eisenberg, Rose
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1947
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the Preface: This bibliography, which is a revision and enlargement of the Bibliography on the Use of Airplanes in Insect Control, 1922-1933, compiled by W. E. McBath in 1934, covers the years 1919 through 1944. For Russian material, the bibliography prepared by Korotkikh was a valuable source. The references selected for inclusion are those on the relation of aircraft to the control of crop pests, forest insects, and mosquitoes, to the transportation of disease vectors, together with the attendant problems of quarantine and disinfestation, and to insecticidal injury to bees, livestock, etc.; aircraft studies of aerial fauna; and aerial scouting and mapping of infested areas. The annotations show insects affected, localities, materials, equipment, technique, and other information pertinent to the operations described. The arrangement is chronological and alphabetical by author for each year, and an author and subject index is provided.
Concrete dreaming : national subjects and narrative disruption in contemporary Israeli autobiography
Creators: name: Rubinstein, Keren Tova
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This Creative Writing PhD comes in two parts. The first part is the Thesis, my autobiography about migration from Israel to Australia as a teenage girl whose adult experiences helped to shape an ambivalent national identity. It is also a story about the difficulty in articulating one's life with the conflicting narratives that make up a shared past. This ongoing challenge is apparent on the level of family, society and nation in this life narrative. This memoir is also an attempt to distill and comprehend my Israeli and Jewish identities. The verbal text is structured as nonlinear passages and is accompanied by graphic illustrations and photographs that conjure private and collective memory and representation. The second part or Exegesis is intended to situate and contextualize the Thesis. In this accompanying study I examine five contemporary Israeli autobiographies and the way in which they contest the dominant national narrative. I divide these works into those coming from the center and peripheries of Israeli society; the latter are unlikely to offer representative national subjects as defined by the country's founding ideology. The frrst chapter's focus is two minority autobiographies: Anton Shammas' s Arabesques (1986) and Lea Aini' s Rose of Lebanon (2009). The second chapter will examine three works from central, hegemonic or potentially privileged narrators: Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002), Avraham Balaban's Mourning a Father Lost: a Kibbutz Childhood Remembered (2004) and Yitzhak Ben-Ner's Nobody's Ever Died Walking (2007). I argue that contemporary Israeli autobiography is a genre in which contestations of national ideology are common. I further maintain that the autobiographical boom is symptomatic of the country's diminished collective identification. Both central and marginal autobiographies will be shown to disrupt the dominant ideology of the Jewish state and to offer alternative narratives of Israeli subjectivity.
Painting, recognition and the unstable image
Creators: name: Wheeler, Linda E.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts (Research) to the School of Humanities, College of the Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The research investigates how recognition and the intended or apprehended meaning of images can be limited or disrupted by placing paintings in states of instability. When talking of instability and the unstable image I refer to the state of oscillation where images are uncertain and vibrate at a point where meaning and immutability are challenged. I examine my work in relation to Henri Bergson’s concept of pure memory and memory‐image, Gilles Deleuze concepts of a commonsense approach to recognition or affective response to the image, in painting, and Dario Gamboni’s ideas of potential images. This research is grounded in the more general question of how painting is situated in the wider field of art practice. The scope of the investigation includes referencing artists who engage with ambiguity, contingency and memory in ways that challenge the interpretation of paintings. During the course of the project the following three aspects have arisen as a way of researching whether the image can be destabilised by: using the method of display to encourage a different reading to what a painting may initially suggest; working between the practices of painting and photography with the aim of confusing both the recognition of the image and the form of its appearance, and, using painterly marks to obscure the recognised, objective painted image, to test how this process affects meaning. Many of my works are based on photographic material woven with recalled incidents, and embellished with non‐related references or figments of imagination. My intent with this aspect of the investigation is to test the boundaries of comprehension, recognition and affect associated with the work. I am exploring how I can interfere with this engagement with a work by using any of the above strategies.
(200922) William James Collins
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.
title: Epilepsy, Self and Society: A Study of Three Groups of Adolescent Epileptics
Creators: name: Oliver, Michael James
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The major aim of this substantive study in sociology is to examine some of the societal, social and individual meanings associated with epilepsy and to look at some of the implications of these meanings both for society and for individuals. Like all other disciplines sociology has its own way of dividing up the world and this study draws upon three areas of this division, the sociologies of deviance, medicine and knowledge. The experiences of three groups of adolescents with epilepsy are studied in depth; one group living in the community, one group serving sentences of borstal training and a third group who are associated with a hospital specializing in treating those with psychiatric problems. Chapter One raises the fundamental question posed in this study, which is ’why do epileptics have trouble?' and suggests that the basis of such trouble is the way society treats the individual epileptic rather than any difficulties inherent in the illness itself. Chapter Two then examines some of the methodological issues relevant to doing interpretive sociology and describes the techniques used and developed during the research. Chapter Three studies some of the social meanings associated with epilepsy from a historical perspective and discusses how these meanings change over time. Chapter Four looks at some of the special (professional) views about epilepsy and attempts to relate these views to historical and personal experiences of the professionals concerned. Chapters Five and Six are squarely within the interactionist tradition and discuss the experiences of the three groups of adolescent epileptics utilizing the concepts of role and self. The final Chapter develops the concept of non-visible social deviance in relationship to social control in past and present society and suggests a number of reasons why epileptics do indeed have trouble.
Evolution of the magnetorotational instability on initially tangled magnetic fields
Creators: name: Bhat, Pallavi
name: Ebrahimi, Fatima
name: Blackman, Eric G.
name: Subramanian, Kandaswamy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The initial magnetic field of previous magnetorotational instability (MRI) simulations has always included a significant system-scale component, even if stochastic. However, it is of conceptual and practical interest to assess whether the MRI can grow when the initial field is turbulent. The ubiquitous presence of turbulent or random flows in astrophysical plasmas generically leads to a small-scale dynamo (SSD), which would provide initial seed turbulent velocity and magnetic fields in the plasma that becomes an accretion disc. Can the MRI grow from these more realistic initial conditions? To address this we supply a standard shearing box with isotropically forced SSD generated magnetic and velocity fields as initial conditions, and remove the forcing. We find that if the initially supplied fields are too weak or too incoherent, they decay from the initial turbulent cascade faster than they can grow via the MRI. When the initially supplied fields are sufficient to allow MRI growth and sustenance, the saturated stresses, large-scale fields, and power spectra match those of the standard zero net flux MRI simulation with an initial large scale vertical field.
description: Published in MNRAS, 6 pages, 5 figures
title: Sovereignty and jurisdiction in the airspace and outer space : legal criteria for spatial delimitation
Creators: name: Oduntan, Olugbenga Toluwaleke
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Sovereignty and jurisdiction are legal doctrines of a complex nature, which have been subject to differing interpretations by scholars in legal literature. The relationship between the two with respect to all the manifestations of territory has also not been fully worked out by lawyers. The tridimensionality of state territory recognised under customary international law subsists till the present. The idea of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the airspace has developed over the centuries and is even older then the history of human flight. Under prevailing treaties on air law particularly the Chicago Convention (1944) the principle of complete and exclusive sovereignty over the superincumbent airspace is unassailable. Airspace sovereignty is delimited ratione loci in respect of the space above national territories and not ratione materiae in respect of the air, which may at any given time, be filling this space. Quasi-territorial jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction may, however, be exercised by other states with respect to aircraft, spacecraft and their citizens which they have granted legal personality even when found in foreign airspace. However, unsettled jurisdictional problems persist in relation to control over aircraft, criminal jurisdiction, and airspace trespass While national sovereignty and exclusive jurisdiction can be exercised over the airspace relating to all parts of national territory, sovereignty is completely inapplicable to outer space and its celestial bodies. Certain comparable jurisdictional competencies found in air law are also exercisable in outer space in relation to spacecraft, scientific stations, instrumentalities and personnel. Central to the discussion of the application of jurisdiction and control in outer space is the concept of ‘common heritage of mankind’ -a political and legal doctrine, which reinforces outer space as the province of mankind. This creates ideological problems among lawyers and statesmen particularly across the developing and developed states divide regarding the operation of familiar notions of ownership and possession. The legal distinction between airspace and outer space and the two bodies of law governing them is not only factual but also ultimately very necessary. In spite of the acknowledged commercial, strategic, political and environmental importance of air and space activities, the province of the applicable laws have not been determined. What remains to be done is to determine where in spatial terms exclusive sovereignty ends and where the province of all mankind begins. Indeed the determination of a demarcation line is primarily of legal significance. Views and literature on the subject abound; however, no satisfactory consensus has been reached. It is from this medley of ideas that the thesis attempts to distil and formulate legal criteria for the resolution of the spatial delimitation dispute.
Mechanistic analysis of mitochondrial fission mediators
Creators: name: Singh, Abeer Prakash
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 (PhD) to the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Mitochondria are dynamic organelles continuously undergoing fission and fusion. Fission is important for mitochondrial function and is executed by dynamin related protein 1, Drp1. Drp1 is a cytosolic GTPase and requires adaptors at the mitochondrial surface for its mitochondrial recruitment. MiD51, MiD49, Mff and Fis1 have been implicated as Drp1 adaptors. This project investigates the individual role of each adaptor in recruiting Drp1 using a novel approach based on gene editing and proteomics and validates the importance of Mff and MiD proteins in recruitment but not Fis1. The proteomic analysis also reveals that MiD51 and Mff can exist in the same complex with Drp1 and possibly regulate the fission process. To understand the regulation process, MiD51 and Mff were in vitro reconstituted onto liposomes along with Drp1 and various biochemical methods were employed to measure Drp1 activity. The analysis revealed a novel mechanism by which both the adaptors modulate Drp1 activity distinct from each other. MiD51 is involved in inhibiting Drp1 GTPase activity, whereas Mff stimulates it. The results obtained have been integrated to develop a working model analyzing the role of each adaptor in recruitment and assembly of Drp1 at sites of fission. The model describes the role of MiD51 in stimulating assembly of Drp1 dimers to form a functional polymer around the mitochondrial surface and the role of Mff in enhancing constriction of the polymer to ultimately cause fission. The results presented in the thesis indeed provide novel insights into the role of adaptors in Drp1-dependent mitochondrial fission.
On De Giorgi's lemma for variational interpolants in metric and Banach spaces
Creators: name: Mielke, Alexander
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Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Generalized gradient systems
subject: minimizing movement scheme
subject: variational interpolants
subject: discrete energy-dissipation inequality
subject: radial differentiabilit
subject: 34G20
subject: 47J20
subject: 49J40
subject: 49J53
subject: 49S05
subject: 58E30

description: Variational interpolants are an indispensable tool for the construction of gradient-flow solutions via the Minimizing Movement Scheme. De Giorgi's lemma provides the associated discrete energy-dissipation inequality. It was originally developed for metric gradient systems. Drawing from this theory we study the case of generalized gradient systems in Banach spaces, where a refined theory allows us to extend the validity of the discrete energy-dissipation inequality and to establish it as an equality. For the latter we have to impose the condition of radial differentiability of the dissipation potential. Several examples are discussed to show how sharp the results are.
A corpus of ephebic inscriptions from Roman Athens : 31 B.C. - 267 A.D.
Creators: name: Wilson, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The following corpus is a collection of inscriptions from Athens, dated between 31 B.C. and 267 A.D. The texts were inscribed to commemorate activities of youths and their instructors in the Athenian Ephebia The Introduction outlines the editorial conventions observed, the method of presentation, which is somewhat unusual, and the difficulties encountered in completing such a massive task. The remainder of the work comprises the corpus of inscriptions. Each inscription is preceded by an introduction which should contain the descriptions, dimensions and editorial history of each fragment. For lost inscriptions or those outside Greece, some or all of these details may be missing (see p.3). The introduction is followed by the Greek text. A graphic follows, which usually depicts readings that I made from the stone: sometimes they are from a squeeze, once or twice from a photograph, and sometimes from an earlier copy of a lost inscription. Below the graphic are the notes which discuss where applicable the more significant new readings and any problems in the text. The entry concludes with a note on the date. The various types of ephebic inscriptions are grouped together; and within the groups are arranged in chronological order. The agonistic inscriptions, which commemorate the athletic activities of the ephebes, are presented in the first chapter. The second contains the small number of dedications and commemorative inscriptions preserved. In the third chapter are the numerous honorary inscriptions. These are personal monuments, set up in honour of a small number of the ephebes or their teachers and often honouring a single individual. The chapters which follow contain the ephebic catalogues. These do not differ essentially in purpose from the honorary inscriptions: thcy were inscribed to honour ephebes and their teachers. Yet they may list any number from a dozen to several hundred ephebes at one time. In the larger catalogues, the honours are rather thinly spread, but the names of the more important ephebic office holders and teachers may be inscribed prominently. Sometimes the figures of the most notable individuals may be carved in relief on the stele. The corpus is essentially source material collected for the use of other epigraphers and historians. It is hoped it will prove useful in studying the prosopography and history of Athens during this much-neglected period of its history.
Two-body physics in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
Creators: name: Di Liberto, M.
name: Recati, A.
name: Carusotto, I.
name: Menotti, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two interacting bosons in a dimerized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattice. We identify a rich variety of two-body states. In particular, for open boundary conditions and moderate interactions, edge bound states (EBS) are present even for the dimerization that does not sustain single-particle edge states. Moreover, for large values of the interactions, we find a breaking of the standard bulk-boundary correspondence. Based on the mapping of two interacting particles in one dimension onto a single particle in two dimensions, we propose an experimentally realistic coupled optical fibers setup as quantum simulator of the two-body SSH model. This setup is able to highlight the localization properties of the states as well as the presence of a resonant scattering mechanism provided by a bound state that crosses the scattering continuum, revealing the closed-channel population in real time and real space.
description: 14 pages; 14 figures
title: An ecobehavioural perspective on the performance of direct care staff in facilities for people with learning difficulties
Creators: name: Orlowska, Danuta Marta Irena
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Direct care staff in residential services have most potential contact with clients. Therefore their behaviour is a key determinant of the quality of care. At a time of changing service structures, it is important to examine what staff actually do; both to address the impact of change on service quality, but also to explore whether the rhetoric concerning service reform is matched by the reality. The behavioural approach provides a research methodology for addressing staff behaviour and its impact on service quality. It is grounded in the observable and has a demonstrated utility in services for people with learning difficulties ranging from individual client programmes to service design. There has been concern that the application of the behavioural approach has been restricted to the examination of a narrow range of variables and that it has often involved instituting artificial conditions on natural environments which do not maintain beyond intervention periods. Contemporary behaviourism is moving towards greater ecological sensitivity, investigating relationships between behaviour and naturally occurring environmental conditions. This research took an ecobehavioural perspective of the work of direct care staff in community-based houses for people with learning difficulties. Five descriptive studies were carried out of staff behaviour in terms of their activity and the conditions in which their interactions with clients and with each other occurred. Following these, the use of staff interaction as a staff management variable was investigated. The intervention, in which staff discussed their work and client participation, was associated with a modest increase in client involvement in domestic activity. Qualitative data gathered contemporaneously enabled a more detailed evaluation to be made of the applicability of the intervention to the service setting. It is argued that qualitative data can contribute to the understanding of environment-intervention relationships, an important area for the continuing development of the ecobehavioural approach.
title: Optical methods of acoustic detection
Creators: name: O'Neill, Sean Francis
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis details the experimental investigation of a fibre Bragg gratings (FBG) as to its suitability as a point ultrasonic sensor for medical applications, the FBG being interrogated by a low-coherence psuedo-heterodyne technique. The noise-limited pressure resolution of the FBG sensor was found to be 4.5kPa/√Hz at a frequency of 1.911 MHz. The ability of the FBG sensor to accurately determine the spatial field profile from a focussed ultrasonic transducer was also investigated and compared with results obtained from a commercially available piezoelectric hydrophone. Ultrasonic shielding materials on the bare optical fibre were also experimentally investigated in an attempt to provide a more localised grating response to the ultrasonic field. The ultrasonic response of low-finesse Fabry-Perot cavities based around 50pm thick polymer films was also investigated as a potential alternative to the use of fibre Bragg gratings, the cavity being interrogated by a low-coherence interferometric heterodyne technique. The noise-limited pressure resolution for a low-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity based on a 50pm thick polyethylene teraphthalate film was found to be 72 Pa/√Hz at an ultrasonic frequency of 1.911 MHz and 11 Pa/√Hz at 612 kHz. The ability of this cavity sensor to spatially resolve the ultrasonic field profile was also examined experimentally. Finally, the use of in-fibre Er3+ FBG based lasers as acoustic sensors in the frequency range 200Hz- 20 kHz was examined experimentally using a heterodyne interferometric interrogation method to assess the potential of these devices as highly sensitive acoustic sensors for military applications. The noise limited pressure resolution of the most sensitive fibre laser was found to be 4 x 1O\(^{-3}\) Pa/√Hz over a frequency range of 4-6 kHz. An array of 4 distributed feedback fibre lasers was constructed and two separate methods of demultiplexing the laser array were compared and contrasted. The limiting system noise sources were also measured where possible.
BRITISH SEAMEN'S MISSIONS AND SAILORS HOMES 1815 TO 1970 VOLUNTARY WELFARE PROVISION FOR SERVING SEAFARERS
Creators: name: KENNERLEY, ALSTON
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1989

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/788 on 27.02.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: From the 1820s an ever present feature of most British ports has been the voluntary societies, little studied before, offering spiritual and social welfare support to serving seafarers. The perspective taken in this study is that although there were numerous individual societies, voluntary effort for seafarers constitutes a single movement. The continued existence of many societies well into the twentieth century suggests that the movement should be examined longitudinally in order to assess its contribution in relation to the changing context in which such welfare operated.
Say it with a Story. CreativeHE 2022
Creators: name: Burns, Tom
name: Sinfield, Sandra
name: Gordon, Janet
name: Desire, John
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Higher education

description: Annual #creativeHE collection 2022
 The annual was an opportunity to dive into forty two short storyworlds. In our capacity as the Editorial team, it was a real privilege to read these stories and use the annual as a platform to bring the contributions to life.
 Editing an annual tells a story in itself. What did we discover over the past year? What changed for us? What inspired us? We hope that you enjoy it.
 Say it with a story. Say it with #creativeHE.
 Reference Burns, T., Desire, J., Gordon, J., McDonald, P. and Sinfield, S. (eds.) (2022) Say it with a story. The #creativeHE Annual 2022. Creativity for Learning in Higher Education Community, #creativeHE, DOI: 10.25416/NTR.21806085
The Balletto suites in the choreographic manuals of Fabritio Caroso and Cesare Negri: a study of danced suites in Italy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Creators: name: Monahin, Nona
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study focuses on the danced suites described in the manuals of two prominent sixteenth-century Italian dancing masters, Fabritio Caroso and Cesare Negri. Caroso produced two manuals: Il Ballarino (Venice, 1581) and La Nobiltà di Dame (Venice, 1600, 1605). Negri wrote one, Le Gratie d’Amore (Milan, 1602; reissued as Nuove Inventioni di balli in 1604). Together, these three dance manuals contain choreographic instructions and music for a total of one hundred and seventy-two compositions, some of which are discrete dances, while others are composite works consisting of two or more different dance types presented in the manner of a suite. It is the suites—the majority of which are subtitled “balletto,” hence the moniker “balletto suites”—that are the focus of this dissertation. The present study has the following goals: the first is to reconstruct the choreographies of the suites. This task, in addition to serving as a contribution to the field of performance practice of historical dance and dance music, is a prerequisite for the subsequent goals. The second is to determine the musical and choreographic characteristics of the individual movements (mostly dance types) that make up such suites. It is hoped that an understanding of the steps, step combinations, and spatial arrangements—that is, the choreographic syntax—of Caroso’s and Negri’s dances will lead to a better understanding of some of the most popular dance types of the period, as well as assist choreographers and theatre directors today in choreographing dances in period style. The third goal (which draws on the results of the first two) is to explore the possible tempo relationships between the movements, since the choice of tempo is one of the most important considerations when performing music that accompanies dancing. While these three goals all serve a practical purpose, namely the performance of the choreographies and music of the dance suites, throughout this study I have tried as far as possible to bring in evidence from contemporaneous music theorists and practitioners, so that a fourth goal was to situate the information provided by the dancing masters regarding dance-music relationships in a broader context.
Wing pattern morphometrics: genetic adaptation of an Australian butterfly to global warming
Creators: name: Yazgin, Vedia
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, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Global surface temperature has increased over the past 30 years and both rainfall and humidity have spatially and temporally altered. The models often used to predict species distributional responses to climate change, do not consider that organisms can genetically adapt to change. Methods of predicting species’ responses must take this into account. In the 1970s Pearse and Murray investigated geographic variation in genetically determined wing-characters of both female and male Common Brown butterflies (Heteronympha merope). In females, geographic variation in wing phenotypes was found to have climatic associations. Given the magnitude of recent climatic changes I hypothesise that H. merope will have correspondingly responded via genetic adaptation, which will be evident in wing morphological characters. In this study I have analysed geographic variation in contemporary H. merope populations using the previously studied characters. Associations of female wing phenotypic characters with the moisture-related climatic variables rainfall and humidity have been found. Some male wing characters are associated with minimum temperature. It is argued that these associations reflect sex-specific consequences of thermoregulatory biology. Consistent patterns of association exist in both the Australian south-eastern mainland subspecies H. m. merope and in Tasmanian populations (H. m. salazar). Comparisons of contemporary populations with Pearse’s data and with Museum specimens reveal temporal changes in wing characters some of which are associated with population-specific changes in climatic variables over the thirty year period. The results of this study, taken together with recent genetical and ecophysiological studies of H. merope, indicate that this species has been able to adapt genetically to shifts in climate that have occurred in south-eastern Australia since the 1970s. This is an important outcome for understanding implications of climate change, and the extent to which this may apply to other species is also considered.
(200917) Charles Sandy
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.
Klientjournalsystemet
Creators: Kriminalforsorgen
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2024

description: Registrering af oplysninger om personer, som enten skal afsone eller afsoner en straf. Systemet er anvendt af både Direktoratet for Kriminalforsorgen og alle afdelinger under direktoratet f.eks. fængsler
Universality at weak and strong non-Hermiticity beyond the elliptic Ginibre ensemble
Creators: name: Akemann, Gernot
name: Cikovic, Milan
name: Venker, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider non-Gaussian extensions of the elliptic Ginibre ensemble of complex non-Hermitian random matrices by fixing the trace $\operatorname{Tr}(XX^*)$ of the matrix $X$ with a hard or soft constraint. These ensembles have correlated matrix entries and non-determinantal joint densities of the complex eigenvalues. We study global and local bulk statistics in these ensembles, in particular in the limit of weak non-Hermiticity introduced by Fyodorov, Khoruzhenko and Sommers. Here, the support of the limiting measure collapses to the real line. This limit was motivated by physics applications and interpolates between the celebrated sine and Ginibre kernel. Our results constitute a first proof of universality of the interpolating kernel. Furthermore, in the limit of strong non-Hermiticity, where the support of the limiting measure remains an ellipse, we obtain local Ginibre statistics in the bulk of the spectrum.
description: v1: 22 pages; v2: 30 pages, substantially extended to include fixed trace ensembles
(200919) Sarah Huckerby
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.
ESDH-system (2018 - 2023)
Creators: Naviair
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2024

description: Public 360 er et sags- og dokumenthåndteringssystem (ESDH-system), der har til formål at understøtte og kontrollere journaliseringspligten og imødekommelse af retten til aktindsigt efter offentlighedsloven, dokumentationskravet i forvaltningsloven, beskyttelse af personoplysninger efter databeskyttelsesloven, behandlingen af sager og behovet for effektiktivt at kunne finde relevante informationer, som der er et forretningsmæssigt behov for at bevare.