cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Araecerus fasciculatus DeGeer 1775
Creators: name: Fornazier, M. J.
name: Martins, D. S.
name: Fanton, C. J.
name: Benassi, V. L. R. M.
Publisher: name: Incaper - Capixaba Institute for Research, Technical Assistance and Rural Extension
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Araecerus
Araecerus fasciculatus

description: Araecerus fasciculatus DeGeer, 1775 (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
It is a cosmopolitan pest, distributed in tropical regions and causing damage to many stored products. It is an important pest of stored coffee and attacks both coffee beans and processed coffee. Its initial attack can occur in the crop, in fruits in phase of drying and persist in the storage.
The adult is a beetle that is light brown to gray or brown in color, shiny and silky hairy. It has three elongated yellowish spots on the elytra, as well as light and dark punctiform spots in poorly defined alignment. This beetle measures about 5 mm long and 3 mm wide and is different from the coffee berry borer for being much larger (Figure 17). Each female can place 130 to 140 eggs, which are placed in the mellow or already dried coffee pulp, in the field or in the barn, from where the larva that feeds on the mucilage hatches and then penetrates the seed. The larvae are white in color, apodas and cylindrical in shape. When fully developed, are approximately 5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide. The pupal stage occurs within the seed, from where the adult emerges through an orifice of about 2 to 3 mm in diameter. Their cycle varies from 46 to 62 days, with about five to eight days until the larvae hatch, 35 to 45 days of larvae to pupae and six to nine days for the emergence of adults. The insect continues its reproduction, when the coffee is left stored for a long time and causes serious damages. It can present from six to seven annual generations (GALLO et al., 2002).
It damages a part of the dry coffee beans in all its forms: coconut, pulped and processed, being able to cause loss of up to 30% in weight.
description: Published as part of Fornazier, M. J., Martins, D. S., Fanton, C. J. & Benassi, V. L. R. M., 2019, INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT IN CONILON COFFEE, pp. 493-533 in Conilon coffee - The Coffea canephora produced in Brazil, Vitória, ES, Brasil :Incaper - Capixaba Institute for Research, Technical Assistance and Rural Extension on pages 2036-2037, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10072573
The Event-Camera Dataset and Simulator: Event-based Data for Pose Estimation, Visual Odometry, and SLAM
Creators: name: Mueggler, Elias
name: Rebecq, Henri
name: Gallego, Guillermo
name: Delbruck, Tobi
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New vision sensors, such as the Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision sensor (DAVIS), incorporate a conventional global-shutter camera and an event-based sensor in the same pixel array. These sensors have great potential for high-speed robotics and computer vision because they allow us to combine the benefits of conventional cameras with those of event-based sensors: low latency, high temporal resolution, and very high dynamic range. However, new algorithms are required to exploit the sensor characteristics and cope with its unconventional output, which consists of a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called "events") and synchronous grayscale frames. For this purpose, we present and release a collection of datasets captured with a DAVIS in a variety of synthetic and real environments, which we hope will motivate research on new algorithms for high-speed and high-dynamic-range robotics and computer-vision applications. In addition to global-shutter intensity images and asynchronous events, we provide inertial measurements and ground-truth camera poses from a motion-capture system. The latter allows comparing the pose accuracy of ego-motion estimation algorithms quantitatively. All the data are released both as standard text files and binary files (i.e., rosbag). This paper provides an overview of the available data and describes a simulator that we release open-source to create synthetic event-camera data.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
(200722) George Gilbertson
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.
Critical yield numbers of rigid particles settling in Bingham fluids and Cheeger sets
Creators: name: Frigaard, Ian A.
name: Iglesias, José A.
name: Mercier, Gwenael
name: Pöschl, Christiane
name: Scherzer, Otmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49Q10, 76A05, 76T20, 49Q20

description: We consider the fluid mechanical problem of identifying the critical yield number $Y_c$ of a dense solid inclusion (particle) settling under gravity within a bounded domain of Bingham fluid, i.e. the critical ratio of yield stress to buoyancy stress that is sufficient to prevent motion. We restrict ourselves to a two-dimensional planar configuration with a single anti-plane component of velocity. Thus, both particle and fluid domains are infinite cylinders of fixed cross-section. We show that such yield numbers arise from an eigenvalue problem for a constrained total variation. We construct particular solutions to this problem by consecutively solving two Cheeger-type set optimization problems. We present a number of example geometries in which these geometric solutions can be found explicitly and discuss general features of the solutions. Finally, we consider a computational method for the eigenvalue problem, which is seen in numerical experiments to produce these geometric solutions.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Cosmic phylogeny: reconstructing the chemical history of the solar neighbourhood with an evolutionary tree
Creators: name: Jofre, Paula
name: Das, Payel
name: Bertranpetit, Jaume
name: Foley, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using 17 chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, we present a full phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood. This entails applying a clustering technique that is widely used in molecular biology to construct an evolutionary tree from which three branches emerge. These are interpreted as stellar populations which separate in age and kinematics and can be thus attributed to the thin disk, the thick disk, and an intermediate population of probable distinct origin. We further find six lone stars of intermediate age that could not be assigned to any population with enough statistical significance. Combining the ages of the stars with their position on the tree, we are able to quantify the mean rate of chemical enrichment of each of the populations, and thus show in a purely empirical way that the star formation rate in the thick disk is much higher than in the thin disk. We are also able to estimate the relative contribution of dynamical processes such as radial migration and disk heating to the distribution of chemical elements in the solar neighbourhood. Our method offers an alternative approach to chemical tagging methods with the advantage of visualising the behaviour of chemical elements in evolutionary trees. This offers a new way to search for `common ancestors' that can reveal the origin of solar neighbourhood stars.
description: MNRAS in press
Unequal Error Protection Querying Policies for the Noisy 20 Questions Problem
Creators: name: Chung, Hye Won
name: Sadler, Brian M.
name: Zheng, Lizhong
name: Hero, Alfred O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose an open-loop unequal-error-protection querying policy based on superposition coding for the noisy 20 questions problem. In this problem, a player wishes to successively refine an estimate of the value of a continuous random variable by posing binary queries and receiving noisy responses. When the queries are designed non-adaptively as a single block and the noisy responses are modeled as the output of a binary symmetric channel the 20 questions problem can be mapped to an equivalent problem of channel coding with unequal error protection (UEP). A new non-adaptive querying strategy based on UEP superposition coding is introduced whose estimation error decreases with an exponential rate of convergence that is significantly better than that of the UEP repetition coding introduced by Variani et al. (2015). With the proposed querying strategy, the rate of exponential decrease in the number of queries matches the rate of a closed-loop adaptive scheme where queries are sequentially designed with the benefit of feedback. Furthermore, the achievable error exponent is significantly better than that of random block codes employing equal error protection.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Positive harmonic functions of transformed random walks
Creators: name: Forghani, Behrang
name: Mallahi-Karai, Keivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we will study the behavior of the space of positive harmonic functions associated with the random walk on a discrete group under the change of probability measure by a randomized stopping time. We show that this space remains unchanged after applying a bounded randomized stopping time.
description: Major revision
title: Gemeinsam, aber nicht im Gleichschritt
title: eine Konzeption für das Mathematiklernen in der jahrgangsgemischten Eingangsstufe
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rathgeb-Schnierer, Elisabeth
name: Rechsteiner-Merz, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das Lernen in heterogenen Gruppen kann aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven betrachtet werden: Im Beitrag richten wir den Fokus nicht auf grundlegend konzeptionelle oder organisatorische Aspekte, sondern auf die Gestaltung von Lernsituationen. Ausgehend von Praxisbeobachtungen fasst Faust-Siehl (2001, 202f) vier verschiedene Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten solcher Lernsituationen zusammen: selbst geleitetes, individuelles Arbeiten, themenbezogene "Kurse", Abteilungsunterricht innerhalb des Klassenverbands und gemeinsame Unterrichtssituationen. Über die Ausprägung der einzelnen Gestaltungsvarianten in der Praxis gibt es in der Literatur kaum Daten. Bei Roßbach (2007³, 80) lassen sich Angaben finden, aus denen mit aller Vorsicht geschlossen werden kann, dass das gemeinsame Lernen in heterogenen Lerngruppen (33%) seltener praktiziert wird als der Unterricht in jahrgangsbezogenen Abteilungen (44%). Nach Aussage von Faust-Siehl (2001) bereitet bei der Gestaltung gemeinsamer, differenzierter Lernsituationen "der üblicherweise lehrgangsmäßig aufgebaute Mathematikunterricht" (a. a. O., 206) die größten Schwierigkeiten.
Magnetoresistance Anisotropy in Si/SiGe in Tilted Magnetic Fields: Experimental Evidence for a Stripe-Phase Formation
Creators: name: Haug, R. J.
name: Jansen, A. G. M.
name: Schumacher, H. W.
name: Zeitler, U.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Abell 2744: Too much substructure for Lambda CDM?
Creators: name: Schwinn, J.
name: Jauzac, M.
name: Baugh, C. M.
name: Bartelmann, M.
name: Eckert, D.
name: Harvey, D.
name: Natarajan, P.
name: Massey, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The massive substructures found in Abell 2744 by Jauzac et al. (2016) present a challenge to the cold dark matter paradigm due to their number and proximity to the cluster centre. We use one of the biggest N-body simulations, the Millennium XXL, to investigate the substructure in a large sample of massive dark matter haloes. A range of effects which influence the comparison with the observations is considered, extending the preliminary evaluation carried out by Jauzac et al. (2016). There are many tens of haloes in the simulation with a total mass comparable with or larger than that of Abell 2744. However, we find no haloes with a number and distribution of massive substructures (> 5 10^13 Msun) that is close to that inferred from the observations of Abell 2744. The application of extreme value statistics suggests that we would need a simulation of at least ten times the volume of the Millennium XXL to find a single dark matter halo with a similar internal structure to Abell 2744. Explaining the distribution of massive substructures in clusters is a new hurdle for hierarchical models to negotiate, which is not weakened by appeals to baryonic physics or uncertainty over the nature of the dark matter particle.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, V2: minor changes in the manuscript
(200716) Arthur Thomas Rusbridge
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.
Black hole thermodynamics, stringy dualities and double field theory
Creators: name: Arvanitakis, Alex S.
name: Blair, Chris D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss black hole thermodynamics in the manifestly duality invariant formalism of double field theory (DFT). We reformulate and prove the first law of black hole thermodynamics in DFT, using the covariant phase space approach. After splitting the full O(D, D) invariant DFT into a Kaluza-Klein-inspired form where only n coordinates are doubled, our results provide explicit duality invariant mass and entropy formulas. We illustrate how this works by discussing the black fundamental string solution and its T-duals.
description: 39 pages, including 2 appendices. v3: Published version. Some references added, minor edits
Strategic planning in the Saudi telecommunications industry
Creators: name: Alharbi, Mohammed Atiah
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Strategic planning is viewed as an essential tool to gain competitive advantage and profitability for businesses. However, research on its application in the telecommunications industry (TI), particularly outside the Western world, is limited. A linear trend model using secondary data indicates that the Saudi TI will grow at a higher rate than other global markets in the coming years. As both a timely exercise and a contribution toward filling an existing knowledge gap, this study seeks to answer the following three research questions (RQs): RQ1. What are the Saudi TI current strategic planning practices?; RQ2. What are the external environmental factors that influence Saudi TI strategic planning?; RQ3. What are the internal environmental factors that influence Saudi TI strategic planning? A mixed methods analysis was employed for both types of data (questionnaires and interviews), supplemented with data from secondary sources. Results reveal that the managerial personnel of Saudi telecommunication firms understand strategic planning and generally appreciate its value. They use strategic planning of some type in their respective firms, although only 40% of firms had a documented plan. They were also conversant with the various tools and techniques available for strategic analysis. Saudi managers are aware of their competition, various elements of their market and the numerous environmental forces that can influence Saudi TI firm strategic planning have been identified. Moreover, the larger and older firms were more likely to have formal, documented plans. Finally, this study lays the foundation for future research and emphasizes the need to focus on key management practices such as strategic planning, xv particularly for the Middle East region by industry analysts, policy makers and business academics interested in international business.
Multicritical behavior in dissipative Ising models
Creators: name: Overbeck, Vincent R.
name: Maghrebi, Mohammad F.
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
name: Weimer, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze theoretically the many-body dynamics of a dissipative Ising model in a transverse field using a variational approach. We find that the steady state phase diagram is substantially modified compared to its equilibrium counterpart, including the appearance of a multicritical point belonging to a different universality class. Building on our variational analysis, we establish a field-theoretical treatment corresponding to a dissipative variant of a Ginzburg-Landau theory, which allows us to compute the upper critical dimension of the system. Finally, we present a possible experimental realization of the dissipative Ising model using ultracold Rydberg gases.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
An Exploration of the Psychosocial Impacts of Sexual Violence on Somali Women
Creators: name: Dubad, Muna
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2022
Subjects: sexual violence
Somali women
disclosure
psychological help-seeking

description: Aims: Sexual violence against girls and women is a global human rights issue. It may encompass a range of acts and is associated with detrimental impacts on women’s physical and psychosocial wellbeing. The aim of this study was to explore the psychosocial impacts of sexual violence on Somali women from the United Kingdom. This study also explored their perceptions of disclosure and psychological help-seeking. Method: Five semi-structured interviews were conducted with Somali women who had experienced varying forms of sexual violence. Interview data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: Three superordinate themes and seven subordinate themes were identified from the data. Together, the themes described the adverse physical and psychosocial impacts of sexual violence. Moreover, the themes highlighted the negative impact of perceived betrayal, silencing, and institutional harm. Finally, the themes described women’s different recovery journeys, focusing on their relationships to religion and their experiences with (psychological) support services. Discussion: Findings of this study were discussed in relation to the wider literature and relevant frameworks taking into consideration Somali women’s intersectional identities. Clinical implications for Trauma Informed Practice were also considered.
The “better data, better planning” census: a cross-sectional, multi-centre study investigating the factors influencing patient attendance at the emergency department in Ireland
Creators: name: Cummins, Niamh
name: Barry, Louise A
name: Garavan, Carrie
name: Devlin, Collette
name: Corey, Gillian
name: Cummins, Fergal
name: RYAN, DAMIEN
name: Cronin, Sinead
name: Wallace, Emma
name: McCarthy, Gerard
name: Galvin, Rose
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Internationally Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a signifcant health services delivery issue posing a major risk to population health. ED crowding affects both the quality and access of health services and is associated with poorer patient outcomes and increased mortality rates. In Ireland the practising of “Corridor Medicine” and “Trolley Crises” have become prevalent. The objectives of this study are to describe the demographic and clinical profle of patients attending regional EDs and to investigate the factors infuencing ED utilisation in Ireland. Methods: This was a multi-centre, cross-sectional study and recruitment occurred at a selection of urban and rural EDs (n=5) in Ireland throughout 2020. At each site all adults presenting over a 24 h census period were eligible for inclusion. Clinical data were collected via electronic records and a questionnaire provided information on demographics, healthcare utilisation, service awareness and factors infuencing the decision to attend the ED. Results: Demographics difered signifcantly between ED sites in terms of age (p≤0.05), socioeconomic status (p≤0.001), and proximity of health services (p≤0.001). Prior to ED attendance 64% of participants accessed community health services. Most participants (70%) believed the ED was the “best place” for emergency care or attended due to lack of awareness of other services (30%). Musculoskeletal injuries were the most common reason for presentation to the ED in this study (24%) and almost a third of patients (31%) reported presenting to the ED for an x-ray or scan. Conclusions: This study has identifed regional and socioeconomic diferences in the drivers of ED presentations and factors infuencing ED attendance in Ireland from the patient perspective. Improved awareness of, and provision of alternative care pathways could potentially decrease ED attendances, which would be important in the context of reducing ED crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic. New strategies for integration of acute care in the community must acknowledge and plan for these issues as a universal approach is unlikely to be implemented successfully due to regional factors
Holographic P-wave Superconductors in 1+1 Dimensions
Creators: name: Alkac, Gokhan
name: Chakrabortty, Shankhadeep
name: Chaturvedi, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study $(1+1)$-dimensional p-wave holographic superconductors described by three dimensional Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a massive complex vector field in the context of $AdS_3/CFT_2$ correspondence. In the probe limit where the backreation of matter fields is neglected, we show that there occurs a formation of a vector hair around the black hole below a certain critical temperature. In the dual strongly coupled $(1+1)$-dimensional boundary theory, this holographically corresponds to the formation of a charged vector condensate spontaneously breaking both the $U(1)$ and $SO(1,1)$ symmetries. We numerically compute the ac conductivity for the superconducting phase of the boundary field theory and find that the presence of a magnetic moment term in the dual bulk theory effects the conductivity in the boundary field theory.
description: 21 pages and 8 figures, one section on free energy computation is added
Psychosocial interventions affecting global perceptions of control in people with Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review
Creators: name: Zarotti, Nicolò
name: Deane, Katherine Helen O’Leary
name: Ford, Catherine Elaine Longworth
name: Simpson, Jane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Perceived control is an important construct for the psychological well-being of people affected by chronic conditions, and higher perceived control is associated with better outcomes. Psychosocial interventions have been trialled in these populations to improve both global and specific perceptions of control. However, most interventions involving people with Parkinson’s have focused on single-domain forms of control, while those addressing global perceived control are yet to be reviewed. This study aimed to identify and map the types of psychosocial interventions in individuals with Parkinson’s which have included forms of global perceived control as an outcome. Scoping review based on a search across MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Academic Search Ultimate. From an initial return of 4388 citations, 12 citations were eventually included. These consisted of 8 quantitative and 4 qualitative studies, and covered 4 overarching categories of psychosocial interventions. Mixed results were found for cognitive, educational, and physical interventions, while a randomised controlled trial on mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more preliminary positive evidence. Further rigorous research is required on the topic to build on these preliminary findings. In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes which proved effective with populations similar to people with Parkinson’s.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPerceived control is a psychological construct important for people with chronic illnesses, which can be targeted by psychosocial interventions.This article reviewed psychosocial interventions targeting global forms of perceived control in Parkinson’s.Mixed results were reported for the cognitive, educational, and physical interventions identified, while a randomised controlled trial on a mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more promising evidence.In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes found to be effective with people with similar conditions to Parkinson’s. Perceived control is a psychological construct important for people with chronic illnesses, which can be targeted by psychosocial interventions. This article reviewed psychosocial interventions targeting global forms of perceived control in Parkinson’s. Mixed results were reported for the cognitive, educational, and physical interventions identified, while a randomised controlled trial on a mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more promising evidence. In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes found to be effective with people with similar conditions to Parkinson’s.
(200717) Sydney Carley Ainsworth
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.
Stability in a scalar differential equation with multiple, distributed time delays
Creators: name: Campbell, Sue Ann
name: Ncube, Israel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K20

description: We consider a linear scalar delay differential equation (DDE), consisting of two arbitrary distributed time delays. We formulate necessary conditions for stability of the trivial solution which are independent of the distributions. For the case of one discrete and one gamma distributed delay, we give an explicit description of the region of stability of the trivial solution and discuss how this depends on the model parameters.
In memoriam: Markus Büttiker (1950 - 2013)
Creators: name: Beenakker, Carlo
name: Jacquod, Philippe
name: Jordan, Andrew
name: Samuelsson, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Introduction for a special issue of Physica E dedicated to the memory of Markus Büttiker.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure [V2: date of photograph corrected, thanks to Valentin Rychkov]
(200719) Eliza [Gilbertson]
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.
Additional file 1 of Adaptations to scale-up an early childhood education and care physical activity intervention for real-world availability — Play Active
Creators: name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional File 1: Table 1 Play Active implementation support strategies from the efficacy trial and those proposed for a scale-up trial. Table 2 Play Active implementation support strategies proposed for scale-up trial statewide across Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia
“It doesn’t actually mean something bad”: Australian young people’s perspectives on homophobic language use in secondary schools
Creators: name: Fulcher, Karyn
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 Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
Perovskite-perovskite tandem photovoltaics with optimized bandgaps
Creators: name: Eperon, Giles E.
name: Leijtens, Tomas
name: Bush, Kevin A.
name: Prasanna, Rohit
name: Green, Thomas
name: Wang, Jacob Tse-Wei
name: McMeekin, David P.
name: Volonakis, George
name: Milot, Rebecca L.
name: May, Richard
name: Palmstrom, Axel
name: Slotcavage, Daniel J.
name: Belisle, Rebecca A.
name: Patel, Jay B.
name: Parrott, Elizabeth S.
name: Sutton, Rebecca J.
name: Ma, Wen
name: Moghadam, Farhad
name: Conings, Bert
name: Babayigit, Aslihan
name: Boyen, Hans-Gerd
name: Bent, Stacey
name: Giustino, Feliciano
name: Herz, Laura M.
name: Johnston, Michael B.
name: McGehee, Michael D.
name: Snaith, Henry J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate four and two-terminal perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells with ideally matched bandgaps. We develop an infrared absorbing 1.2eV bandgap perovskite, $FA_{0.75}Cs_{0.25}Sn_{0.5}Pb_{0.5}I_3$, that can deliver 14.8 % efficiency. By combining this material with a wider bandgap $FA_{0.83}Cs_{0.17}Pb(I_{0.5}Br_{0.5})_3$ material, we reach monolithic two terminal tandem efficiencies of 17.0 % with over 1.65 volts open-circuit voltage. We also make mechanically stacked four terminal tandem cells and obtain 20.3 % efficiency. Crucially, we find that our infrared absorbing perovskite cells exhibit excellent thermal and atmospheric stability, unprecedented for Sn based perovskites. This device architecture and materials set will enable 'all perovskite' thin film solar cells to reach the highest efficiencies in the long term at the lowest costs.
title: Digitale Grundbildung ohne Medienkompetenz?
Creators: name: Haslinger, Jasmin
Year: 2022

description: In dieser Arbeit werden vierzehn Schulbücher, die von Schulbuchverlagen im deutschsprachigen Raum für den Unterricht in Digitaler Grundbildung aktuell angeboten werden, analysiert, um aufzuzeigen, welches Verständnis von Medienkompetenz ihnen zugrunde liegt. Dabei liegt der Fokus wiederum darauf herauszufinden, ob die untersuchten Schulbücher dem Medienkompetenzbegriff von Baacke folgen. Diese Schulbuchanalyse wird mit einer strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring durchgeführt, wobei am Ende ebenfalls eine Häufigkeitsanalyse gemacht wird. Damit können die Werte der Analyse gewichtet werden und in einem Fazit ein Schulbuch sowie eine Schulbuchreihe für den Unterricht in Digitaler Grundbildung als geeignet beurteilt werden. Hervorzuheben ist allerdings, dass diese Schulbuchanalyse aufzeigen konnte, dass keines der Bücher die Dimension der kreativen Mediengestaltung nach Baackes Definition abdeckt und somit nie alle Medienkompetenzdimensionen in den analysierten Schulbüchern behandelt werden.
title: Der Einfluss von Raumstrukturen in einem inklusiven Lehrraum, auf das Wohlbefinden von Lernende mit einem zugeschriebenen sonderpädagogischen Förderbedarf
Creators: name: Zerfin, Charlotte Ernestine
Year: 2022

description: Schule stellt eine Kontaktstätte für Kinder und Jugendliche dar, in denen sie ihre Persönlichkeit entwickeln und all die gesellschaftlichen Dinge erfahren, die ihr Wohlbefinden beeinflussen und formen wird. So muss durch verschiedene Indikatoren der Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden aufgebaut, aber auch gefördert werden. Spricht man von einer inklusiven Beschulung, muss in der Unterrichtsentwicklung nicht nur ein Umdenken des traditionellen Bilds von Schule und Unterricht stattfinden, sondern auch die Beziehung zwischen den einzelnen Aktuer:innen neu arrangiert werden. Raumpraktiken, die diese neue Dynamik und damit das Wohlbefinden der lernenden Personen beeinflussen können, muss erfasst werden, um das positive Wohlbefinden in einem inklusiven Schulsetting gewährleisten zu können.
description: School represents a place of contact for children and young people, where they develop their personality and experience, all the social things that will influence and shape their well-being. In this way, through various indicators, the influence on well-being must be built, but also promoted. If we speak of inclusive schooling, in the development of teaching there must be not only a rethinking of the traditional image of school and teaching, there must also be a rearrangement of the relationship between the individual actors. Spatial practices that can influence this new dynamic and therefore the well-being of learners must be captured in order to ensure positive well-being in an inclusive school setting.
Additional file 2 of Prevalence of udder pathogens in milk samples from Norwegian dairy cows recorded in a national database in 2019 and 2020
Creators: name: Smistad, Marit
name: Bakka, Haakon Christopher
name: Sølverød, Liv
name: Jørgensen, Hannah Joan
name: Wolff, Cecilia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) estimates from nine mixed multivariable logistic regression models, with the cow-level diagnosis as outcome (cows with the udder pathogen detected vs all others (1/0)). The results are based on results from 36,305 sampling events (each with up to four quarter milk samples per cow) from 30,154 cows in 4,132 Norwegian dairy farms, retrieved from the Norwegian Dairy Herd Recording System and including years 2019 and 2020. The explanatory variable of main interest was the barn- and milking system. Herd size (number of lactating cows), average annual herd milk yield and the proportion of cows sampled were included as confounders. Herd was included as random effect. *indicates a significant association with the outcome (P < 0.05). The area under the ROC-curve (AUC) for each model is calculated for the model with and without herd as random effect
(200714) Bournass Adams
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.
Partition and generating function zeros in adsorbing self-avoiding walks
Creators: name: van Rensburg, EJ Janse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B41, 82B23

description: The Lee-Yang theory of adsorbing self-avoiding walks is presented. It is shown that Lee-Yang zeros of the generating function of this model asymptotically accumulate uniformly on a circle in the complex plane, and that Fisher zeros of the partition function distribute in the complex plane such that a positive fraction are located in annular regions centered at the origin. These results are examined in a numerical study of adsorbing self-avoiding walks in the square and cubic lattices. The numerical data are consistent with the rigorous results; for example, Lee-Yang zeros are found to accumulate on a circle in the complex plane and a positive fraction of partition function zeros appear to accumulate on a critical circle. The radial and angular distribution of partition function zeros are also examined and it is found to be consistent with the rigorous results on the Fisher zeros of interacting lattice clusters.
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New diamond surface terminations for quantum devices
Creators: name: Schenk, Alex
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 Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
title: Die Auswirkung der SARS-Covid-19 Pandemie auf den Einsatz von digitalen Medien im Biologieunterricht
Creators: name: Grafeneder, Lukas Franz
Year: 2022

description: Der Einsatz von digitalen Medien gewinnt in unserer Zeit immer mehr an Bedeutung. Auch im Unterricht spielt Technologieeinsatz eine entscheidende Rolle. Lehrpersonen müssen sich mit vielen technischen Geräten beschäftigen und haben auch immer mit neuen Applikationen zu tun. Auch für Schülerinnen und Schüler werden digitale Medien und Technik immer bedeutender. Nicht nur im alltäglichen Leben, sondern auch in der Schule und für zukünftige Berufsaussichten. Die durch SARS-Covid-19 verursachte Pandemie und in weiterer Folge der von der Regierung beschlossene Lockdown, führte dazu, dass sich die Lehrpersonen mit den digitalen Medien auseinandersetzen mussten, um in dieser schwierigen Zeit einen sinnvollen Unterricht führen zu können. Es soll nun also untersucht werden, wie und in welchem Ausmaß Lehrpersonen im Fach Biologie mit der Unterstützung von digitalen Medien unterrichten, wie sie dazu stehen und wie die SARS-Covid-19 Situation ihren Unterricht in Bezug auf dieses Thema beeinflusst hat. Dies wurde durch persönliche Interviews mit den Lehrpersonen dieses Fachbereichs erreicht. Unterstützt wird diese Methode mithilfe eines Fragebogens. Außerdem wurden auch Schülerinnen und Schüler durch einen Fragebogen befragt. Mit Zuhilfenahme von MAXQDA sollen die Interviews codiert und analysiert werden. Ziel ist es zu zeigen, wie sich der Einsatz durch die bereits erwähnte Pandemie verändert hat und welche Möglichkeiten und Auswirkungen für die Zukunft bestehen.
Psychosocial interventions affecting global perceptions of control in people with parkinson’s disease: a scoping review
Creators: name: Zarotti, Nicolò
name: Deane, Katherine Helen O’Leary
name: Ford, Catherine Elaine Longworth
name: Simpson, Jane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Perceived control is an important construct for the psychological well-being of people affected by chronic conditions, and higher perceived control is associated with better outcomes. Psychosocial interventions have been trialled in these populations to improve both global and specific perceptions of control. However, most interventions involving people with Parkinson’s have focused on single-domain forms of control, while those addressing global perceived control are yet to be reviewed. This study aimed to identify and map the types of psychosocial interventions in individuals with Parkinson’s which have included forms of global perceived control as an outcome. Scoping review based on a search across MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Academic Search Ultimate. From an initial return of 4388 citations, 12 citations were eventually included. These consisted of 8 quantitative and 4 qualitative studies, and covered 4 overarching categories of psychosocial interventions. Mixed results were found for cognitive, educational, and physical interventions, while a randomised controlled trial on mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more preliminary positive evidence. Further rigorous research is required on the topic to build on these preliminary findings. In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes which proved effective with populations similar to people with Parkinson’s.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPerceived control is a psychological construct important for people with chronic illnesses, which can be targeted by psychosocial interventions.This article reviewed psychosocial interventions targeting global forms of perceived control in Parkinson’s.Mixed results were reported for the cognitive, educational, and physical interventions identified, while a randomised controlled trial on a mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more promising evidence.In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes found to be effective with people with similar conditions to Parkinson’s. Perceived control is a psychological construct important for people with chronic illnesses, which can be targeted by psychosocial interventions. This article reviewed psychosocial interventions targeting global forms of perceived control in Parkinson’s. Mixed results were reported for the cognitive, educational, and physical interventions identified, while a randomised controlled trial on a mindfulness-based lifestyle programme showed more promising evidence. In the meantime, clinicians may need to consider programmes found to be effective with people with similar conditions to Parkinson’s.
Optical Trirefringence in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Creators: name: Baumberg, J. J.
name: Charlton, M. B. D.
name: Harris, A.
name: Netti, M. C.
name: Parker, G. J.
name: Whittaker, D. M.
name: Zoorob, M. E.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Feature Sensitive Label Fusion with Random Walker for Atlas-based Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Bao, Siqi
name: Chung, Albert C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, a novel label fusion method is proposed for brain magnetic resonance image segmentation. This label fusion method is formulated on a graph, which embraces both label priors from atlases and anatomical priors from target image. To represent a pixel in a comprehensive way, three kinds of feature vectors are generated, including intensity, gradient and structural signature. To select candidate atlas nodes for fusion, rather than exact searching, randomized k-d tree with spatial constraint is introduced as an efficient approximation for high-dimensional feature matching. Feature Sensitive Label Prior (FSLP), which takes both the consistency and variety of different features into consideration, is proposed to gather atlas priors. As FSLP is a non-convex problem, one heuristic approach is further designed to solve it efficiently. Moreover, based on the anatomical knowledge, parts of the target pixels are also employed as graph seeds to assist the label fusion process and an iterative strategy is utilized to gradually update the label map. The comprehensive experiments carried out on two publicly available databases give results to demonstrate that the proposed method can obtain better segmentation quality.
description: This manuscript has been accepted for TIP2017
Communities of practice-oriented service innovation development through information communication technology in higher education: A case study of King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alhazmi, Lamia Saad
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 Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Long-Pulse Improved Central Electron Confinement in the TCV Tokamak with Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive
Creators: name: Angioni, C.
name: Behn, R.
name: Coda, S.
name: Goodman, T. P.
name: Henderson, M. A.
name: Hofmann, F.
name: Pietrzyk, Z. A.
name: Sauter, O.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters