cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developing leaders to perform in uncertainty: the mindfulness solution
Creators: name: King, Elizabeth Lorraine
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis provides insight into the challenges facing leaders, navigating increasing levels of systemic pervasive change and resultant uncertainty. It explores the role that mindfulness might play in developing leaders and their organisations to succeed in such conditions by addressing two research questions. First, how might we develop leaders to perform in uncertainty? Second, what might the role of mindfulness be in supporting leaders to do so? These questions have been investigated using the following five approaches: 1. A qualitative field study of a development program for senior leaders working within uncertainty ; 2. A quantitative field study of mindfulness and its links to the performance of senior leaders ; 3. A cross - disciplinary review of the literature of mindfulness in organisation s ; 4. An integration of empirical and theoretical findings to current approaches to development ; 5. Methodological reflections on the mindfulness field study using an auto - ethnographical approach . Key contributions of these studies are presented as thesis by publication with five papers that outline eight methodological, four empirical and three theoretical advances including: identifying the key significance of reflective skills in leadership development and the lack of rigor in evaluation of interventions; demonstrating positive relationships between mindfulness and leadership performance; providing a conceptual framework of mindfulness and its contributions along with an integrated view of both first and second generation mindful leadership interventions; and outlining key themes in mindful field research. With the intent of fostering generative dialogue, research and the practice of mindfulness in organisations, this thesis provides a path to conducting theoretically - guided research and development interventions of mindfulness in organisations. The role mindfulness might play in organisations depends on what we understand it to be and want it to do. This thesis suggests that our understanding and contribution may be increased through: the development of individual leaders ; the enhancement of collective leadership to wards increased productivity and the pursuit of substantive goals ; and the co - creation of knowledge through collaborative mindful research. Leadership development is a vast, arguably under performing industry requiring a multifaceted approach to improvement . The thesis explores and seeks to support mindfulness being a crucial part of that approach, offering support to researchers, leaders and organisations wishing to use mindfulness to improve performance, well being and the urgent and significant social and ecological issues facing our world.
Single-Transverse-Spin-Asymmetry studies with a fixed-target experiment using the LHC beams (AFTER@LHC)
Creators: name: Lansberg, J. P.
name: Anselmino, M.
name: Arnaldi, R.
name: Brodsky, S. J.
name: Chambert, V.
name: Da Silva, C.
name: Didelez, J. P.
name: Echevarria, M. G
name: Ferreiro, E. G.
name: Fleuret, F.
name: Gao, Y.
name: Genolini, B.
name: Hadjidakis, C.
name: Hřivnáčová, I.
name: Kikola, D.
name: Klein, A.
name: Kurepin, A.
name: Kusina, A.
name: Lorcé, C.
name: Lyonnet, F.
name: Massacrier, L.
name: Nass, A.
name: Pisano, C.
name: Robbe, P.
name: Schienbein, I.
name: Schlegel, M.
name: Scomparin, E.
name: Seixas, J.
name: Shao, H. S.
name: Signori, A.
name: Steffens, E.
name: Topilskaya, N.
name: Trzeciak, B.
name: Uggerhøj, U. I.
name: Uras, A.
name: Ulrich, R.
name: Yang, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the potential of AFTER@LHC to measure single-transverse-spin asymmetries in open-charm and bottomonium production. With a HERMES-like hydrogen polarised target, such measurements over a year can reach precisions close to the per cent level. This is particularly remarkable since these analyses can probably not be carried out anywhere else
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. LaTeX, uses PoS.cls (included). Contribution to the proceedings of the XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subject - DIS 2016, 11-15 April 2016, DESY Hamburg, Germany
The complexities of children's antisocial lie telling: a cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation
Creators: name: Carl, Talia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Despite being discouraged, children frequently tell lies to conceal their transgressions. Consequently, researchers have argued for the need to understand the complexities of children's lying. To advance this understanding, this thesis presents four laboratory-based studies, derived from one large-scale longitudinal study. The studies examine the cross-sectional (N = 443) and longitudinal (N = 298) influence of personal and environmental factors on lie telling across a broad age range of children (4- to 15-years) in both of the frequently used temptation resistance paradigm (TRP) tasks (guessing game, school-achievement task). Study one unconfounded age and task-type, finding support for the robust age-related decrease in lie telling after 8 years reported in previous research and demonstrating that the decrement in lie telling cannot be attributed to task-type. It also provided support for the situation-specificity viewpoint, showing that antisocial lie telling varies across tempting contexts. The results from studies two, three and four, further show that children's antisocial lying is differentially motivated depending on the tempting context. Study two showed that weaker internal moral standards led to more lie telling in the school achievement task concurrently and one year later. Study three showed that, depending on the time interval, harsh punishment was associated with more lie telling in the short-term, while lower levels of parental warmth led to more lie telling in the long-term. Finally, study 4 concurrently tested whether lie telling was the cause or effect of conduct problems using a cross-lagged panel design. Results indicated that lie telling is a problem behavior at the outset, rather than developmentally normative, as it follows engagement in conduct problems. Collectively, these studies show that personal and environmental factors play a complementary role in children's lying. They also provide the first causal longitudinal evidence of the relationships among personal and environmental factors related to children's lie telling.
The Sard conjecture on Martinet surfaces
Creators: name: da Silva, André Belotto
name: Rifford, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A99, 34H05, 32S45

description: Given a totally nonholonomic distribution of rank two on a three-dimensional manifold we investigate the size of the set of points that can be reached by singular horizontal paths starting from a same point. In this setting, the Sard conjecture states that that set should be a subset of the so-called Martinet surface of 2-dimensional Hausdorff measure zero. We prove that the conjecture holds in the case where the Martinet surface is smooth. Moreover, we address the case of singular real-analytic Martinet surfaces and show that the result holds true under an assumption of non-transversality of the distribution on the singular set of the Martinet surface. Our methods rely on the control of the divergence of vector fields generating the trace of the distribution on the Martinet surface and some techniques of resolution of singularities.
description: 4 figures
Autobiographical memory and learning : three case studies
Creators: name: Peterson, Suzanne Holly.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Diagnosing shock temperature with NH$_3$ and H$_2$O profiles
Creators: name: Gómez-Ruiz, A. I.
name: Codella, C.
name: Viti, S.
name: Jiménez-Serra, I.
name: Navarra, G.
name: Bachiller, R.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Fuente, A.
name: Gusdorf, A.
name: Lefloch, B.
name: Lorenzani, A.
name: Nisini, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous study of the L1157 B1 shocked cavity, a comparison between NH$_3$(1$_0$-$0_0$) and H$_2$O(1$_{\rm 10}$--1$_{\rm 01}$) transitions showed a striking difference in the profiles, with H$_2$O emitting at definitely higher velocities. This behaviour was explained as a result of the high-temperature gas-phase chemistry occurring in the postshock gas in the B1 cavity of this outflow. If the differences in behaviour between ammonia and water are indeed a consequence of the high gas temperatures reached during the passage of a shock, then one should find such differences to be ubiquitous among chemically rich outflows. In order to determine whether the difference in profiles observed between NH$_3$ and H$_2$O is unique to L1157 or a common characteristic of chemically rich outflows, we have performed Herschel-HIFI observations of the NH$_3$(1$_0$-0$_0$) line at 572.5 GHz in a sample of 8 bright low-mass outflow spots already observed in the H$_2$O(1$_{\rm 10}$--1$_{\rm 01}$) line within the WISH KP. We detected the ammonia emission at high-velocities at most of the outflows positions. In all cases, the water emission reaches higher velocities than NH$_3$, proving that this behaviour is not exclusive of the L1157-B1 position. Comparisons with a gas-grain chemical and shock model confirms, for this larger sample, that the behaviour of ammonia is determined principally by the temperature of the gas.
description: Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Beyond Flory theory: Distribution functions for interacting lattice trees
Creators: name: Rosa, Angelo
name: Everaers, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While Flory theories provide an extremely useful framework for understanding the behavior of interacting, randomly branching polymers, the approach is inherently limited. Here we use a combination of scaling arguments and computer simulations to go beyond a Gaussian description. We analyse distributions functions for a wide variety of quantities characterising the tree connectivities and conformations for the four different statistical ensembles, which we have studied numerically in [Rosa and Everaers, J. Phys. A (2016, published) and J. Chem. Phys. (2016, to appear)]: (a) ideal randomly branching polymers, (b) $2d$ and $3d$ melts of interacting randomly branching polymers, (c) $3d$ self-avoiding trees with annealed connectivity and (d) $3d$ self-avoiding trees with quenched ideal connectivity. In particular, we investigate the distributions (i) $p_N(n)$ of the weight, $n$, of branches cut from trees of mass $N$ by severing randomly chosen bonds; (ii) $p_N(l)$ of the contour distances, $l$, between monomers; (iii) $p_N(\vec r)$ of spatial distances, $\vec r$, between monomers, and (iv) $p_N(\vec r|l)$ of the end-to-end distance of paths of length $l$. Data for different tree sizes superimpose, when expressed as functions of suitably rescaled observables $\vec x = \vec r/\langle r^2(N) \rangle$ or $x =l/\langle l(N) \rangle$. In particular, we observe a generalised Kramers relation for the branch weight distributions (i) and find that all the other distributions (ii-iv) are of Redner-des Cloizeaux type, $q(\vec x) = C \, |x|^θ \exp \left( -(K |x|)^t \right)$. We propose a coherent framework, including generalised Fisher-Pincus relations, relating most of the RdC exponents to each other and to the contact and Flory exponents for interacting trees.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures (including supplemental material). Submitted for publication
Challenging parenting behaviour and childhood anxiety disorders: a role for fathers?
Creators: name: Lazarus, Rebecca Skye
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The relationship between certain parenting behaviours and offspring anxiety has been the subject of extensive research. Whilst often described as parenting behaviours, the majority of research has focussed on mothers, ignoring the role of fathers. This thesis addresses this gap, exploring the relationship between father’s behaviours and childhood anxiety disorders via a novel parenting construct, termed ‘Challenging Parenting Behaviour’ (CPB). Paper 1 examined the relationship between recalled CPB and current adult anxiety. An exploratory factor analysis identified three latent constructs underlying adults’ recall of CPB; Social and Novelty CPB were associated with lower reported adult anxiety, and fathers’ Teasing CPB was related to increased adult anxiety. Extending upon these findings, Papers 2 and 3 examined the concurrent associations between CPB and childhood anxiety, whilst also considering the role of parental anxiety. Paper 2 identified that fathers reported to engage in more CPB than mothers, yet only mothers CPB was able to predict child anxiety diagnosis. Importantly, CPB from both caregivers was associated with reduced anxiety symptoms. Paper 3 developed a novel measure for assessing CPB, testing this measure on a sample of fathers. This study also examined the effect of fathers’ CPB on child risk-taking, and the relationship between fathers’ CPB and child behavioural inhibition (BI). Children took more risks when playing with their father than when alone. No evidence was found for a relationship between fathers’ CPB and BI, nor between CPB and anxiety, except for a partial relationship between a subdomain of CPB; rough-and-tumble play, and child anxiety diagnosis. Neither paper displayed evidence for a relationship between parent anxiety and CPB. Finally, Paper 4 evaluated the measurement invariance of a measure of CPB across Dutch and Australian mothers and fathers of preschool-aged children. The Australian sample of this study was drawn from Papers 2 and 3. There was evidence of partial scalar invariance, indicating that the groups differed on some subscales of the questionnaire. Importantly, CPB from mothers and fathers predicted fewer anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders for all groups. Taken together, the results of this thesis present unique information about fathers’ (and mothers’) CPB and its relation to offspring anxiety, suggesting that CPB may be associated with lower report of child anxiety.
The self-reported fears of intellectually disabled children and adolescents
Creators: name: Josephs, Angela L. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Miniopterus minor Peters 1867
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus
Miniopterus minor

description: Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867. Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1866, p. 885. TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, coast opposite Zanzibar Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Kenya; Tanzania; Zaire; Congo Republic; Madagascar; Sao Tome Isl; Comoro Isis. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014026005001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
The Spectral Condition Number Plot for Regularization Parameter Determination
Creators: name: Peeters, Carel F. W.
name: van de Wiel, Mark A.
name: van Wieringen, Wessel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many modern statistical applications ask for the estimation of a covariance (or precision) matrix in settings where the number of variables is larger than the number of observations. There exists a broad class of ridge-type estimators that employs regularization to cope with the subsequent singularity of the sample covariance matrix. These estimators depend on a penalty parameter and choosing its value can be hard, in terms of being computationally unfeasible or tenable only for a restricted set of ridge-type estimators. Here we introduce a simple graphical tool, the spectral condition number plot, for informed heuristic penalty parameter selection. The proposed tool is computationally friendly and can be employed for the full class of ridge-type covariance (precision) estimators.
description: 41 pages, 7 figures, includes supplementary material
The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development- 3rd Edition: A Quantitative Analysis for Application in an Australian Population
Creators: name: Honan, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development- 3rd Edition (BSID-III) is widely used in Australia. Despite this, there are no Australian normative data and scant quantitative evidence regarding its clinical and predictive utility in an Australian context. This thesis used prospective, longitudinal data from a large cohort of general population 1- and 3-year-old Australian children and their mothers to investigate the clinical and predictive utility of the BSID-III in Australia. Specifically, this thesis consisted of four empirical studies that aimed to: (1) explore differences between 1-year-old Australian infant performance on the BSID-III and the US normative sample; (2) investigate the utility of the BSID-III to detect differences in infant performance based on indirect perinatal risk factors for neurodevelopmental delay; (3) explore differences in performance on the BSID-III between 3-year-old Australian children and the US normative sample; and, (4) examine the predictive utility of the BSID-III from 1-year to 3-years, as well as by sex. Information on maternal socio-demographics, birth and infant health was collected via structured maternal interview antenatally, and at 8-weeks, 1-year and 3-years (subsample) postnatally. The BSID-III was administered by trained assessors at 1- and 3-years. Study 1 found that at 1-year of age Australian children performed significantly higher than the US BSID-III normative sample on the cognitive domain and significantly lower on the gross motor domain. Study 2 showed that the BSID-III was able to detect some statistically significant, but not clinically relevant differences between infants at indirect risk of neurodevelopmental delay based on perinatal factors, and those at low risk/no risk. Study 3 demonstrated that Australian 3-year-old children performed significantly higher on the language (expressive and receptive) and motor domains (fine and gross) of the BSID-III compared to the US normative sample, but significantly lower on the cognitive domain. With regards to Study 4, results suggested that the BSID-III held greatest predictive utility from 1- to 3-years on the receptive language domain, and that predictive utility of the BSID-III improved once examined by sex. This thesis contributes to our knowledge of the clinical and predictive utility of the BSID-III for Australian infants and pre-schoolers. Taken together, results suggest that the current clinical practice in Australia of utilising US normative data to interpret infant performance is likely to result in sub-optimal identification of developmental delay. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.
Murina aenea Hill 1964
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina aenea

description: Murina aenea Hill, 1964. Fedn. Mus. J., Kuala Lumpur, N.S., 8: 57. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Pahang, Bentong Dist., near Janda Baik, Ulu Chemperoh. DISTRIBUTION: Malaya. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Evolving the Structure of Evolution Strategies
Creators: name: van Rijn, Sander
name: Wang, Hao
name: van Leeuwen, Matthijs
name: Bäck, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it is often unclear which variation is best suited to the specific optimization problem at hand. As one approach to tackle this issue, algorithmic mechanisms attached to CMA-ES variants are considered and extracted as functional \emph{modules}, allowing for combinations of them. This leads to a configuration space over ES structures, which enables the exploration of algorithm structures and paves the way toward novel algorithm generation. Specifically, eleven modules are incorporated in this framework with two or three alternative configurations for each module, resulting in $4\,608$ algorithms. A self-adaptive Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to efficiently evolve effective ES-structures for given classes of optimization problems, outperforming any classical CMA-ES variants from literature. The proposed approach is evaluated on noiseless functions from BBOB suite. Furthermore, such an observation is again confirmed on different function groups and dimensionality, indicating the feasibility of ES configuration on real-world problem classes.
description: 10 pages. Extended (pre-print) version of SSCI 2016 submission
Interview with J. Moffatt Clarke
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clarke, J. Moffatt
Activism & Advocacy
ASOs
Gay Community

description: An interview with J. Moffatt Clarke as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewer: Ben Klassen. Location: Vancouver (Momentum).
title: Erhalt und Nutzung der Zentral-Werkstatt ehemalige Papierfabrik Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach
Creators: name: Schöndeling, Norbert
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 720 Architektur

description: Erhalt und Nutzung der Zentral-Werkstatt der ehemaligen Papierfabrik Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach.
description: Kölner Beiträge zur Baugeschichte und Denkmalpflege; 5
Systematic effects in the measurement of the negatively charged pion mass using laser spectroscopy of pionic helium atoms
Creators: name: Obreshkov, Boyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collision-induced shift and broadening of selected dipole transition lines of pionic helium in gaseous helium at low temperatures up to $T=12$ K and pressure up to a few bar are calculated within variable phase function approach. We predict blue shift of the resonance frequencies of the $(n,l)=(16,15) \rightarrow (16,14) $ and $(16,15) \rightarrow (17,14)$ unfavored transitions and red shift for the favored transition $(17,16) \rightarrow (16,15)$. The result may be helpful in reducing the systematic error in proposed future experiments for determination of the negatively charged pion mass from laser spectroscopy of metastable pionic helium atoms.
description: 7 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Rila Mountains (Bulgaria), June 26 - July 2, 2016. To appear in "Nuclear Theory", vol.35, Eds. M.Gaidarov, N. Minkov, Heron Press, Sofia
Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton 1909
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus
Miniopterus medius

description: Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton, 1909. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1909:382. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java, Tji-Tandoei River, Kaliputjang. DISTRIBUTION: Thailand and Philippines to New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., Solomon and Loyalty Isis. COMMENT: Includes macrocneme; see Hill, 1971, J. Nat. Hist., 5:577, 578. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014026004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 181, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Lepton-flavour violation in a Pati-Salam model with gauged flavour symmetry
Creators: name: Feldmann, Thorsten
name: Luhn, Christoph
name: Moch, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining Pati-Salam (PS) and flavour symmetries in a renormalisable setup, we devise a scenario which produces realistic masses for the charged leptons. Flavour-symmetry breaking scalar fields in the adjoint representations of the PS gauge group are responsible for generating different flavour structures for up- and down-type quarks as well as for leptons. The model is characterised by new heavy fermions which mix with the Standard Model quarks and leptons. In particular, the partners for the third fermion generation induce sizeable sources of flavour violation. Focusing on the charged-lepton sector, we scrutinise the model with respect to its implications for lepton-flavour violating processes such as $μ\rightarrow eγ$, $μ\rightarrow 3e$ and muon conversion in nuclei.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures
Murina aurata Milne-Edwards 1872
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina aurata

description: Murina aurata Milne-Edwards, 1872. Rech. Hist. Nat. Mamm., p. 250. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin. DISTRIBUTION: Nepal to S. W. China; Manchuria; S.E. Siberia; Sakhalin; Burma; Korea; Japan. COMMENT: Formerly included ussuriensis; see Maeda, 1980, Mammalia, 44:547. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Maeda, K. 1980. Review on the classification of little tube-nosed bats, Murina aurata group. Mammalia, 44: 531 - 551."]}
Ecological effects and social correlates of group living in the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)
Creators: name: Sorato, Enrico
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Group-living represents a widespread feature of animal social organisation, which has implications for the evolution of cooperation and other complex behaviours. Yet, the factors selecting for animal aggregations, in particular stable groups forming through offspring philopatry, remain elusive. This thesis examines possible costs and benefits of group living in an Australian cooperatively-breeding bird species, the Chestnut-crowned Babbler {Pomatostomus ruficeps). The study was conducted at the UNSW Arid Zone Research Station at Fowlers Gap, in the far-west New South Wales, Australia, from October 2007 to March 2010.1 found that ecology, mainly habitat characteristics and local predation pressure, has profound implications for babbler social organisation, as indicated by its effects on group size, space use, and behaviour, as well as patterns of dispersal within the study population. Specifically, predation risk appeared to vary with habitat-type and was associated with group behaviours consistent with adaptive risk reduction. Variation in local ecology was also a strong predictor of group ranging behaviour, was consistent with hypothesised local resource depletion, and seemed to interact with group size in determining movements of foraging groups on a daily basis. The importance of habitat features was confirmed by its effects on group home range size, which in turn, was a relevant predictor of group response to playback vocalisations simulating conspecific intrusion.
Miniopterus tristis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus
Miniopterus tristis

description: Miniopterus tristis (Waterhouse, 1845). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1845:3. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippine Isis. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines; Sulawesi; New Guinea; possibly Bismarck Arch.; Solomon Isis.; New Hebrides. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014026007001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Returning to good health : the case of Rolet de Castella
Creators: name: Tuvik, Audrey U.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Murina cyclotis Dobson 1872
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina cyclotis

description: Murina cyclotis Dobson, 1872. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 210. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Darjeeling. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka and India to Kwangtung (SW) and Hainan (China); Vietnam, south to Malaya; perhaps Philippines. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Murina Gray 1842
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina

description: Murina Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10:258. COMMENT: Includes Harpiola; see Corbet and Hill, 1980:75. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Competing cosmologies in early Christianity: cosmology in the book of Revelation, Roman imperial ideology, and in the province of Asia
Creators: name: Yeates, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: As Christianity emerged in the first century, individuals and communities that identified with the movement were faced with the need to formulate a Christian identity in the context of their sociopolitical situations and to determine the nature of their engagement with their societies. The rhetoric of the book of Revelation is properly interpreted in this setting with the crucial components of the sociopolitical situation including the Roman Empire and the poleis of the province of Asia. In the present thesis, it is argued that a significant aspect of Revelation's rhetoric is its cosmology, which functioned to legitimate a Christian identity which featured opposition to the power and influence of Rome and which required abstention from social practices that might identify a person with the local polis. The function of cosmology in the narrative of Revelation is analysed primarily in relation to the cosmological dimension of Roman imperial ideology but also in relation to the manifestation of these conceptions in the province of Asia. The thesis demonstrates that in Revelation, cosmic powers are reconfigured and redefined to deny Rome heavenly legitimation of its imperium, which is instead portrayed as a doomed diabolic stratagem intended to prevent the foundation of the true universal kingdom of God and Christ. This cosmological narrative contrasts with the approach of local elites in the province of Asia who established prestige for both themselves and their cities by affirming aspects of Roman cosmology. It may have also contrasted with a rival Christian cosmology which also accommodated aspects of Rome's cosmology to justify a greater degree of identification with the local polis and participation in its society. The thesis demonstrates that the study of cosmology provides valuable insights into the way early Christian communities established identities in the context of diverse and sometimes competing ideologies.
Greek epic parody
Creators: name: Bertolini, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: Greek epic
epic parody
humorous content
comic techniques
Classical popular culture
metre
critical nature

description: In this work, I will investigate the historical origins and the most essential features of Greek epic parody, a literary genre that has its roots in the archaic stages of Greek literature but that was formally codified in the fifth century BC. The aim of this work is to provide an overview of this genre through a thematic study of its poems and its literary and historical contextualisation. This thesis is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, I will focus on the etymological and semantic analysis of the Greek name of the genre, παρῳδία (parōidia), in order to shed some light on its ambiguous meaning. This will lead to the identification of the surviving poems which constitute the corpus of the genre and the starting point for the analysis of its features in the subsequent chapters. In this chapter, I will also examine the sources on parōidia afforded by stone inscriptions. In the second chapter, I will study the peculiar nature and the principal techniques of parodic humour and I will identify them in earlier and contemporary poems. The third chapter explores the popular elements attested in the extant poems of the genre. In the fourth chapter, I will highlight the importance of the hexametric metre for the definition of parōidia and I will investigate the practice of mixing hexameters and iamboi for humorous purposes. The last chapter analyses the inherent criticism which characterises Greek epic parody
Low-Complexity Recursive Convolutional Precoding for OFDM-based Large-Scale Antenna System
Creators: name: Liu, Yinsheng
name: Li, Geoffrey Ye
name: Han, Wei
name: Zhong, Zhangdui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale antenna (LSA) has gained a lot of attention recently since it can significantly improve the performance of wireless systems. Similar to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) or MIMO-OFDM, LSA can be also combined with OFDM to deal with frequency selectivity in wireless channels. However, such combination suffers from substantially increased complexity proportional to the number of antennas in LSA systems. For the conventional implementation of LSA-OFDM, the number of inverse fast Fourier transforms (IFFTs) increases with the antenna number since each antenna requires an IFFT for OFDM modulation. Furthermore, zero-forcing (ZF) precoding is required in LSA systems to support more users, and the required matrix inversion leads to a huge computational burden. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity recursive convolutional precoding to address the issues above. The traditional ZF precoding can be implemented through the recursive convolutional precoding in the time domain so that only one IFFT is required for each user and the matrix inversion can be also avoided. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can achieve the same performance as that of ZF but with much lower complexity.
Modelling laser-atom interactions in the strong field regime
Creators: name: Galstyan, A.
name: Popov, Yu. V.
name: Mota-Furtado, F.
name: O'Mahony, P. F.
name: Janssens, N.
name: Jenkins, S. D.
name: Chuluunbaatar, O.
name: Piraux, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ionisation of atomic hydrogen by a strong infrared field. We extend and study in more depth an existing semi-analytical model. Starting from the time-dependent Schroedinger equation in momentum space and in the velocity gauge we substitute the kernel of the non-local Coulomb potential by a sum of N separable potentials, each of them supporting one hydrogen bound state. This leads to a set of N coupled one-dimensional linear Volterra integral equations to solve. We analyze the gauge problem for the model, the different ways of generating the separable potentials and establish a clear link with the strong field approximation which turns out to be a limiting case of the present model. We calculate electron energy spectra as well as the time evolution of electron wave packets in momentum space. We compare and discuss the results obtained with the model and with the strong field approximation and examine in this context, the role of excited states.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Chemical tools for isolation of endogenous claudins from carcinoma cells
Creators: name: Barua, Payal
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Claudins are a family of tetraspan transmembrane proteins that regulate the barrier function and ion selective paracellular permeability of the tight junction. Claudins have diverse roles in normal tissues as well as different cancers, and it is necessary to understand the regulation of endogenous claudins in different cellular environments. As low-abundance and hydrophobic proteins, detection and analysis of claudins has been a major challenge. Here a chemical method for tagging and enriching endogenous surface claudins is investigated for analysis by mass spectrometry. Model human colorectal carcinoma, HCT-116 cells, were surface labelled with sulfo-NHS-S-S-biotin, followed by NeutrAvidin affinity purification and then LC/MS/MS analysis. Various cell-lysis, labelling and elution conditions for optimized recovery of claudins were examined by western-blot analysis. Following the optimized labeling and affinity pull-down protocol, the biotinylated elute fraction was analysed in 1D liquid LC/MS/MS analysis. A total of 389 unique protein groups were identified including 58 proteins found in ≥2 samples. Although peptides of claudins still remain to be detected, 19 plasma membrane proteins were identified with the optimized protocol. This sets the stage for a future advanced workflow that combines membrane fractionation with surface biotinylation for MS based proteome-wide analysis of claudins.
An analysis of pilot training and aircraft accidents in Australian general aviation
Creators: name: Marshall, Ronald.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Murina canescens Thomas 1923
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina canescens

description: Murina canescens Thomas, 1923. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 11:254. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sumatra, Nias Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Nias Isl., (off west coast of Sumatra).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
ASSESSMENT OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN SPINACH (Spinacia oleracea L.) USING SOME MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS
Creators: name: N. Jahan, Q. M. Ahmed
name: N. Jahan, Q. M. Ahmed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Germplasm, Morphological variation, Diversity, Cluster analysis, Principal
subject: component analysis

description: Spinach is a leafy green vegetable cultivated in most part of the world due to its nutritive and medicinal value. Fifty-one germplasm of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) collected from diverse geographical region of Bangladesh were evaluated to assess their diversity using several qualitative and quantitative characters. Variation was found in all the characters except Inflorescence color and seed type. Leaf shape was exhibited as elliptic, broad elliptic, ovate and broad ovate where elliptic shape was found in maximum germplasm. The highest quantitative variation was observed in edible leaf weight per plant followed by petiole length and number of lateral branches. Germplasm TRMR-95, NT-34, TRMR-136, NRI-121 had longer leaf and NRI121, TRMR-136, RC-139, TRMR-12 and NT-33 had broader leaf. Germplasm RC-139 had highest number of lateral branches. The germplasm NQ-68 required maximum days for bolting which was followed by TRMR-136 and RNF-126 that was most important characters for spinach. The dendrogram shown that the maximum thirty-six germplasm were grouped into cluster I and Cluster IV was occupied by only one germplasm. The maximum cluster mean value was observed in Cluster II for the characters leaf length, leaf width and edible leaf weight per plant. The first PC explained 37.10% of the total variability and the second PC explained 22.90% of the variation among fifty-one spinach germplasm. Populations with high scores for the first eigenvectors are leaf length (0.4860), leaf width (0.4827) and petiole length (0.4792) these traits were the most important contributors towards diversity of the germplasm in PC1. Considering leaf characters and bolting time, germplasm TRMR-136, TRMR-144, R-342, RNF-26, NQ-68 and RC-139 were selected for future breeding program.
A few remarks on the relationship between elementary particle physics, gravitation and cosmology
Creators: name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some current problems in the relationship between elementary particle physics and gravitation, i.e., in the subject investigated by Prof.~K.~P.~Staniukovich half a century ago. Specifically, the inflationary stage of the Universe evolution, originating from the vacuum polarization and particle creation, corrections to Newton's gravitational law due to exchange of light elementary particles or spontaneous compactification of extra dimensions, and constraints on the parameters of axions as probable constituents of dark matter in our Universe are considered. It is pointed out that presently the relationship between elementary particles and gravitation has become an experimental science, and many experiments, directed towards resolution of all related problems, are performed in many countries.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Australian childhood through the looking glass: changing representations of childhood in Australian children's fictions 1953-2003
Creators: name: Pennell, Beverley Jean
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study analyses transformations in the conceptualisations of Australian childhood represented in a specific corpus of mainstream realist children's fictions produced and marketed between 1953 and 2003. A range of critical theoretical frames enable the articulation of the paradigmatic shifts in the ideologies represented in the corpus with regard to the socio-cultural factors determining interpellations of the Australian child. Examination of the paradigmatic shifts in the ontological status of 'childhood' implicates three other concepts: the first is gender because childhood in Australia means interpellation into either 'boyhood' or 'girlhood'; second is the concept of the 'family' which undergoes a substantive reconcepualisation both of its constitution and of its significance in Australian social life; and the last concept is that of 'nation' since the state's responsibility for the welfare of children is a naturalised position by the end of the twentieth century. -- The study offers a diachronic examination of changing discursive practices in the realist mode. The earliest realist texts in the corpus offer traditional understandings of childhood as a time of happiness and freedom, with children dependent on, yet separated and protected from, the adult world. I examine representations of shifting power differentials in adult-child relationships across the half century. From a new millennial perspective I argue that the fictions in the corpus represent a desire to dismantle the barriers between the worlds of the child and the adult. At the fin de siècle, fictions in the corpus are self-reflexive, drawing the child reader's attention to the narrative structures and discursive practices of fiction and thereby position child readers to interrogate the representations of fictive child subjectivities and the metanarratives of childhood.