cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discovery potential for directional Dark Matter detection with nuclear emulsions
Creators: name: Agafonova, N.
name: Aleksandrov, A.
name: Anokhina, A.
name: Asada, T.
name: Ashikhmin, V. V.
name: Bodnarchuk, I.
name: Buonaura, A.
name: Chernyavskii, M.
name: Chukanov, A.
name: D'Ambrosio, N.
name: De Lellis, G.
name: Di Crescenzo, A.
name: Di Marco, N.
name: Dmitrievski, S.
name: Enikeev, R. I.
name: Fini, R. A.
name: Galati, G.
name: Gentile, V.
name: Gorbunov, S.
name: Gornushkin, Y.
name: Guler, A. M.
name: Ichiki, H.
name: Katsuragawa, T.
name: Konovalova, N.
name: Kuge, K.
name: Lauria, A.
name: Lee, K. Y.
name: Lista, L.
name: Malgin, A. S.
name: Managadze, A.
name: Monacelli, P.
name: Montesi, M. C.
name: Naka, T.
name: Okateva, N.
name: Park, B. D.
name: Podgrudkov, D.
name: Polukhina, N.
name: Pupilli, F.
name: Roganova, T.
name: Rogozhnikov, A.
name: Rosa, G.
name: Ryazhskaya, O. G.
name: Sato, O.
name: Shakiryanova, I. R.
name: Shchedrina, T.
name: Sirignano, C.
name: Sohn, J. Y.
name: Sotnikov, A.
name: Starkov, N.
name: Strolin, P.
name: Tioukov, V.
name: Umemoto, A.
name: Ustyuzhanin, A.
name: Yoon, C. S.
name: Yoshimoto, M.
name: Vasina, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nuclear recoils induced by the scattering of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs). Detectors able to reconstruct the direction of the nucleus recoiling against the scattering WIMP are opening a new frontier to possibly extend Dark Matter searches beyond the neutrino background. Exploiting directionality would also prove the galactic origin of Dark Matter with an unambiguous signal-to-background separation. Indeed, the angular distribution of recoiled nuclei is centered around the direction of the Cygnus constellation, while the background distribution is expected to be isotropic. Current directional experiments are based on gas TPC whose sensitivity is limited by the small achievable detector mass. In this paper we present the discovery potential of a directional experiment based on the use of a solid target made of newly developed nuclear emulsions and of optical read-out systems reaching unprecedented nanometric resolution.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures
(501621) Henry Melville Thomas
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.
Some finiteness results for groups of automorphisms of manifolds
Creators: name: Kupers, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57S05

description: We prove that in dimensions not equal to 4, 5, or 7, the homology and homotopy groups of the classifying space of the topological group of diffeomorphisms of a disk fixing the boundary are finitely generated in each degree. The proof uses homological stability, embedding calculus and the arithmeticity of mapping class groups. From this we deduce similar results for the homeomorphisms of $R^n$ and various types of automorphisms of 2-connected manifolds.
description: 44 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Geometry & Topology. Corrected grant information
Investigation of behavioural and neurochemical effects of drugs of abuse in the rat
Creators: name: Skupek, Henry Donald
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
title: Listening to the mentor teacher’s voice
Creators: name: Radford, MR
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Globally researchers acknowledge that the mentor teacher role is a vital component of initial teacher education. Yet when it comes to the actual lived experience of mentor teachers, and what they believe is important to being effective in their role, the available literature is largely silent. This thesis has two main goals: first, to address this silence by listening to the mentor teacher voice, and second, to provide practical knowledge for all those involved in initial teacher education. A five-year partnership program between a department of education and a regional university in Tasmania, Australia provided an important opportunity to learn from mentor teachers. A case study approach was adopted using the method of interviews and 30 mentor teachers accepted an invitation to participate. The site of the case study saw the placement of selected pre-service teachers in a small number of socially and economically disadvantaged schools for a year. This was very different to the much shorter block practice sessions the mentor teachers were accustomed to and this extended period provided a fertile context for exploring what these mentor teachers had been learning about the art of teaching about teaching. Hence, the research question asked: How did the mentor teachers in this study understand teaching pre-service teachers to teach? Analysis of the interview data interpreted three dynamic and interwoven themes as the key findings: being relational, being intentional and being reflective. Central to the interweaving of the themes is the organising concept of relational responsibility. That is, conscious and intentional care for the relationship was core to becoming teachers of teaching. The data revealed nuanced variations in the ways participants understood the relevance of each of these core themes and the extent to which they assumed relational responsibility. These subtle variations provide valuable insights into what is crucial to a mentor teacher becoming a teacher of teaching. This research asserts that the voices of mentor teachers are critical for improving the mentoring role. Schools and classrooms are demanding, complex and often ambiguous and uncertain places. It is only from the situated lived experience of mentor teachers that a deeper understanding of their role can be gained. As this study demonstrates, the rich and deep insights of mentor teachers fills an important gap in the literature on teacher education and can consequently inform the policy and practice of the school-based component of initial teacher education. The study also points to the potential for research that in partnership with mentor teachers seeks to understand further the granular aspects that make a difference to being a teacher of teaching. The findings of this study will be of interest to mentor teachers, school leaders, major school employers, education researchers, and university initial teacher educator course coordinators.
title: Experiences of public space built environment connectedness and the autism spectrum
Creators: name: Kerr, CJ
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Recent research has highlighted the importance of the built environment for supporting the needs of individuals with autism and their caregivers, yet little of that work has considered the significance of built environment connectedness as a factor in the relationship between access to public space and social inclusion. This study aims to uncover the operative environmental characteristics that influence feelings of connectedness in public space and to contribute to ongoing research and discourse that interrogates notions of equal, normal, and universal as applied to the built environment. This work investigates the theories, policies, and practices that constitute urban design and its socio-political responsibility to provision the rights of all people with access to, and occupation of, public space. The research includes a review of literature and discourses about urban design and autism, and about the neurological and physiological factors that facilitate connection to environment. It is also ethnographic and participatory and includes stories shared by five people with autism who engaged in novel fieldwork and semi-structured interviews to provide empirical evidence about their experiences in public spaces. Participant contributions are enlisted—first to expand understandings of the meaning of connectedness by working with and through a lens that privileges neurodiversity and, second, to question the epistemological foundations and practices that inform and shape urban design. The study introduces two novel ideas: the Golden Record for Autism—a powerful metaphor signifying the need for epistemological shifts; and the score of experience, which helps people to describe feelings of connection to environment. Deploying these ideas, the research challenges dominant perceptions about, and thresholds related to, what is “normal”, and foregrounds the prevalence of ableism. It exposes the pervasive epistemological impact those two ontologies have on the provision of equitable public space. Ultimately, then, this investigation evidences the need to accommodate neurological diversity in public spaces. It advances several novel suggestions about how those who shape the built environment can work to more effectively recognise difference as part of the spectrum of normal. It suggests that there are opportunities to make adjuvant spaces in which more people can hear the voices of neurodiverse individuals, can make space for change by creating and adopting new neuro-spatial languages, and can make space for difference by provisioning new and better city forms.
Novel bicyclic analogues of Clozapine as a potential treatment for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Shin, James Ki-Sup
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
title: Waves, thoughts and a player piano
Creators: name: Robinson, CM
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Waves, thoughts and a player piano is both a speculative and practical investigation of strategies to invoke notions of reverie through a uniquely re-constructed player piano and musical improvisation. Based on the experience of listening to the sound of waves, the research considers sonic reverie and its value as a locus for creative thought and stimulus to sound and installation practice. Generative frameworks for translating and transcribing place-based reveries and embracing sound’s intrinsic ambiguity are informed by experimentation and improvisation, and extended through iterative processes - recognising that art based on imaginative translations of real world experiences may contribute to depths of experience as intensive as they are expressive.
Invisibility on demand based on a generalized Hilbert transform
Creators: name: Hayran, Zeki
name: Herrero, Ramon
name: Botey, Muriel
name: Kurt, Hamza
name: Staliunas, Kestutis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing invisible objects without the usage of extreme materials is a long-sought goal for photonic applications. Invisibility techniques demonstrated so far typically require high anisotropy, gain and losses, while also not being flexible. Here we propose an invisibility approach to suppress the scattering of waves from/to given directions and for particular frequency ranges, i.e. invisibility on demand. We derive a Born approximation-based generalized Hilbert transform for a specific invisibility arrangement relating the two quadratures of the complex permittivity of an object. The theoretical proposal is confirmed by numerical calculations, indicating that near-perfect invisibility can be attained for arbitrary objects with low-index contrast. We further demonstrate the cases where the idea can be extended to high-index objects or restricted to within practical limits by avoiding gain areas. The proposed concept opens a new route for the practical implementation of complex-shaped objects with arbitrarily suppressed scatterings determined on demand.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
(501622) Francis John Hadden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Halal certification in Malaysia and Singapore : culinary infrastructure at the intersection of religion and politics
Creators: name: Abdul Aziz, MS
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Scholars use the term 'religious economy' to describe situations where religion is treated as a marketplace, analogous to a typical business or economic realm. The term suggests that religious or moral-related markets are compatible with and embedded in with political interests that suit the ruling political parties, ostensibly for maintaining their hegemony and thereby sustaining power. In Southeast Asia, religion and ethnic culture remain among the key determinants in ensuring political and social stability. Moreover, the dynamic multi-ethnic and multicultural societies of Malaysia and Singapore serve as exemplars of Halal systems to understand and entice wider conclusions on the subject. My central argument is that the state authorities have been at the forefront in exploiting Islamic values and ideas for the purpose of attaining hegemony and sustaining dominance. The management of Halal production, certification and regulation are, in Jeffrey Pilcher’s terms, a form of ‘culinary infrastructure’1 that unites cultural and social practices, and in the case of Malaysia and Singapore, are entangled with ‘… intense political negotiation’.2 This thesis envisages studies on the multidisciplinary expressions of Halal systems comprising political, social and economic discourses. Muslims in both states are becoming increasingly cognisant of their religious obligations (particularly in diet and dress); this, coupled with evolving lifestyle and increasing purchasing power, has created demand for Halal products. Halal certification expression is reflective of an outcome of modernisation of Malay people's consumerism, bureaucratisation and industrialisation of Islam as culinary infrastructure where Halal is viewed beyond mere religious lenses.
Bergman kernel asymptotics for singular metrics on punctured Riemann surfaces
Creators: name: Coman, Dan
name: Klevtsov, Semyon
name: Marinescu, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 32L10 (32A60, 32C20, 32U40, 81Q50, 81V70)

description: We consider singular metrics on a punctured Riemann surface and on a line bundle and study the behavior of the Bergman kernel in the neighbourhood of the punctures. The results have an interpretation in terms of the asymptotic profile of the density of states function of the lowest Landau level in quantum Hall effect.
description: 29 pages; v.2 is a final update to agree with the published paper
Superfluid density and carrier concentration across a superconducting dome: the case of SrTi$_{1-x}$Nb$_{x}$O$_{3}$
Creators: name: Collignon, Clément
name: Fauqué, Benoit
name: Cavanna, Antonella
name: Gennser, Ulf
name: Mailly, Dominique
name: Behnia, Kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the lower critical field, \hc1, of \STO as a function of carrier concentration with the aim of quantifying the superfluid density. At low carrier concentration (i.e. the underdoped side), superfluid density and the carrier concentration in the normal state are equal within experimental margin. A significant deviation between the two numbers starts at optimal doping and gradually increases with doping. The inverse of the penetration depth and the critical temperature follow parallel evolutions as in the case of cuprate superconductors. In the overdoped regime, the zero-temperature superfluid density becomes much lower than the normal-state carrier density before vanishing all together. We show that the density mismatch and the clean-to-dirty crossover are concomitant. Our results imply that the discrepancy between normal and superconducting densities is expected whenever the superconducting gap becomes small enough to put the system in the dirty limit. A quantitative test of the dirty BCS theory is not straightforward, due to he multiplicity of the bands in superconducting strontium titanate.
description: 9 pages including 6 figures
Gravitational Higgs mechanism in inspiraling scalarized NS-WD binary
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the gravitational Higgs mechanism in the inspiraling scalarized neutron star - white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries, whose dynamics are described by the scalar-tensor theory. Because of the difference in binding energy of NS and WD, the orbital decay of scalarized NS-WD system actually sources an emission of dipolar gravitational scalar radiation, in addition to the tensor gravitational waves, which breaks the Lorentz invariance constructed in the framework of general relativity. The resulted gravitational scalar radiation field obtains a scalar-energy-density-dependent effective mass, arising from a gravitational scalar potential that consists of a monotonically decreasing self-interactions of gravitational scalar field and an increasing exponential coupling between the scalar field and the NS/WD matter. Owing to a thin-ring-orbit effect, the gravitational interactions encoded by the massive scalar field is screened in the region of binary orbit, with high density of stars' scalar energy, which gives us the estimation for scalar masses of about $10^{-21} eV/c^2$ and leads to a Yulkawa-like correction to the Newtonian potential of the binary system. We demonstrate that the radiated gravitational tensor waves, propagating in the Yukawa type of potential, gain a scalar-background-dependent mass term of the order of $\sim 10^{-23} eV/c^2$.
description: 7 pages, no figures
title: An Australian smart grid pilot : governance, implementation and the utility ‐ prosumer interaction
Creators: name: Hann, V
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: The Australian electricity sector risks increasing disruption due to a transition toward decentralisation. Smart batteries are expected to enhance decentralisation by providing privately‐owned storage. However, decentralised storage is problematic if implementation is ad‐hoc. The management of the two‐way flow of electricity and payments between households and utilities is a new, pivotal relationship and the focus of this thesis. During system disruption, how might a transition be encouraged to be accelerated yet be governed in an orderly manner? Further, what pre‐conditions enhance the breakthrough of smart batteries into the mainstream? This thesis explores these questions theoretically and through an Australian case study. Two areas of theory are drawn on, specifically; policy implementation and strategic niche management (SNM), from Public Policy Studies, and Science and Technology Studies respectively. The theoretical framework proposes four favourable pre‐conditions for the innovative breakthrough of technologies into the mainstream, namely: systems‐thinking and an SNM approach; policy implementation at the small‐scale; households driving change; and, new entrants or business models adapting to system challenges. The case study is a 34‐household smart‐grid pilot which tested the coordination of internet‐enabled batteries supporting the local grid on Bruny Island, Australia. The research centres on interviews (86) with householders, installers, policy experts, economic and engineering researchers, within and external to the case study. Thesis findings include: the central importance of the installers for the successful implementation of smart batteries, suggesting that these actors deserve more policy attention; for the prosumer‐utility relationship, technology acceptance is argued to be a product of engagement, agency and trust; household decision‐making includes significant non‐economic values; and, the observation of SNM‐like practices.
Non-Archimedean and tropical theta functions
Creators: name: Foster, Tyler
name: Rabinoff, Joseph
name: Shokrieh, Farbod
name: Soto, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define a tropicalization procedure for theta functions on abelian varieties over a non-Archimedean field. We show that the tropicalization of a non-Archimedean theta function is a tropical theta function, and that the tropicalization of a non-Archimedean Riemann theta function is a tropical Riemann theta function, up to scaling and an additive constant. We apply these results to the construction of rational functions with prescribed behavior on the skeleton of a principally polarized abelian variety. We work with the Raynaud--Bosch--Lütkebohmert theory of non-Archimedean theta functions for abelian varieties with semi-abelian reduction.
description: Final version to appear in Mathematische Annalen. Full-text view-only journal version is available at http://rdcu.be/E5tM . Note the journal version has a slightly different numbering system
Muscarinic receptors in smooth muscle
Creators: name: Shen, Albert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field. Winner of the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Excellence
(501623) Elizabeth Dorcas Litton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Auditory misattribution and schizotypy
Creators: name: Ranson, VA
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: In schizophrenia, verbal auditory hallucinations (VAH) form one of the most distressing and hard-to-treat symptoms. The causes and neural basis of VAH are not well known and recruitment to schizophrenia research in this area is difficult. As an alternative, the personality construct of schizotypy in healthy individuals is a potential surrogate for schizophrenia. In one model of schizophrenia, schizotypy is considered a trait shared across the population, with high levels representing a risk factor for schizophrenia-related illness. Attenuated psychosis-like symptoms (including VAH) occur in some nonclinical individuals, without causing distress or impairment. Another theory proposes schizotypy as a liability to schizophrenia found in 10% of individuals, conferred by a heritable neural defect arising in embryo; schizophrenia may later develop under the influence of an environmental event. Within this context, my thesis marries two interests: (1) in the genesis of VAH through misattribution of internal auditory stimuli (a person’s own thought) due to deficits in sensory processing and attention; (2) in schizotypy as a schizophrenia surrogate in research, due to its theoretical affinity with schizophrenia. Specifically, I sought evidence from electroencephalography (EEG) studies to support the use of schizotypy to examine problems in auditory processing and attention in schizophrenia, and enquired whether nonclinical schizotypy is a genuine surrogate for schizophrenia. A meta-analysis of EEG microstates associated with schizophrenia showed that microstate deficiency may contribute to VAH. Meta-regression of the same data revealed that microstate deficits associated with schizophrenia did not vary with level of schizotypy. Then, an event-related potential study investigated an index of early auditory change detection that arises with or without conscious attention to a stimulus: the mismatch negativity (MMN). I tested whether MMN amplitude or latency varied with level of schizotypy in a nonclinical sample. Results weakly supported variation in some MMN metrics consistent with deficits in schizophrenia but not in others. Overall, nonclinical schizotypy is unlikely to represent a valid surrogate for schizophrenia in MMN research, at least on present evidence.
Drug dissolution in model interactive systems
Creators: name: Sangchantra, Roongtawan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Constraints, Reasoning and Vocabularies: A Knowledge Jigsaw Puzzle
Creators: name: Lieber, Sven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: RDF
Constraints
Data Shapes
SHACL
ShEx

description: A poster prepared for the international Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2018.
 The big white rectangle in the middle was filled with physical puzzle pieces, see https://sven-lieber.org/en/2018/07/02/isws-2018-poster/
Deformations of Noncompact Calabi-Yau threefolds
Creators: name: Gasparim, Elizabeth
name: Köppe, Thomas
name: Rubilar, Francisco
name: Suzuki, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe deformations of the noncompact Calabi-Yau threefolds $W_k = \mbox{Tot}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-k) \oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(k-2))$ for $k=1,2,3$, as well as their moduli of holomorphic vector bundles of rank $2$. Deformations are computed concretely by calculations of $H^1(W_k, TW_k)$. Information about the moduli of vector bundles is obtained by analysing bundles that are extensions of line bundles. We show that for each $k=1,2,3$ the associated structures are qualitatively different, and we also comment on their difference from the analogous structures for the simpler noncompact twofolds $\mbox{Tot}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-k))$ which had been studied previously by the authors. We describe deformations of the noncompact Calabi-Yau threefolds $W_k = \textrm{Tot}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-k) \oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(k-2))$ for $k=1,2,3$. We compute deformations concretely by calculations of $\textrm{H}^1(W_k, TW_k)$ via Čech cohomology. We show that for each $k=1,2,3$ the associated structures are qualitatively different, and we also comment on their difference from the analogous structures of simpler noncompact twofolds $\textrm{Tot}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-k))$.
title: Social media as a news source : how The Guardian uses social media texts to report on crisis events
Creators: name: Baker-Dowdell, J
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: This thesis investigates the significance of social media texts as news sources in traditional journalistic crisis reporting and how the practice of using such texts has evolved. It studies verification techniques and tools used by professional reporters and the impact newspaper journalists’ usage of social media texts has on the quality of resulting media coverage. During crisis events, journalists and media outlets frequently turn to social media in order to understand how and where the event is unfolding, who the main players are and who can help them tell the story. This thesis follows how crisis reporting produced by one print outlet – The Guardian – evolved through incorporating social media into that journalistic product. This thesis advances the understanding of how user-generated content is sourced via social media, verification methods used and the ways journalists incorporate the texts into crisis reporting. Media coverage of three crisis events over an eight-year period from the print edition of The Guardian was analysed, with data examined during research interviews with media professionals from that publication and social media users. It found crisis reporting has become a more transparent and iterative process through audience participation and collaboration. As such, this thesis contributes to scholarship around the changing nature of crisis reporting and the evolution of journalistic practice, building practical knowledge around how journalists can source, verify and use social media texts created during future crises as this collaborative journalistic practice continues to evolve.
(501624) Edward Falconer Litton
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.
Long-range spin-coherence in a strongly-coupled all electronic dot-cavity system
Creators: name: Ferguson, Michael Sven
name: Oehri, David
name: Rössler, Clemens
name: Ihn, Thomas
name: Ensslin, Klaus
name: Blatter, Gianni
name: Zilberberg, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical analysis of spin-coherent electronic transport across a mesoscopic dot-cavity system. Such spin-coherent transport has been recently demonstrated in an experiment with a dot-cavity hybrid implemented in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas [C. Rössler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166603 (2015)] and its spectroscopic signatures have been interpreted in terms of a competition between Kondo-type dot-lead and molecular-type dot-cavity singlet-formation. Our analysis brings forward all the transport features observed in the experiments and supports the claim that a spin-coherent molecular singlet forms across the full extent of the dot-cavity device. Our model analysis includes: (i) a single-particle numerical investigation of the two-dimensional geometry, its quantum-coral-type eigenstates and associated spectroscopic transport features, (ii) the derivation of an effective interacting model based on the observations of the numerical and experimental studies, and (iii) the prediction of transport characteristics through the device using a combination of a master-equation approach on top of exact eigenstates of the dot-cavity system, and an equation-of-motion analysis that includes Kondo physics. The latter provides additional temperature scaling predictions for the many-body phase transition between molecular- and Kondo-singlet formation and its associated transport signatures.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures, published version
title: The decision-making behaviour of trustees of self-managed superannuation funds
Creators: name: Colbeck, RW
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: The focus of this thesis is decision making by trustees of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF). SMSFs have grown exponentially since their inception in 1999. As of June 2019, they had over 1.1 million members and accounted for more than a quarter of Australia’s $2.9 trillion superannuation sector. Given the significance of these funds, it is important to study how SMSF trustees make their investment decisions. To the extent that many SMSF trustees may not have a financial background, their investment decisions are likely to be sub-optimal. As such, this thesis investigates the decision-making behaviour of SMSF trustees. Behavioural attributes are examined using the Four Quadrant Model (FQM) developed by Lovric, Kaymak, and Spronk (2010), comprising of the cognitive, affective, controlled and automatic quadrants. The FQM is a combination of two closely related Dual Process Theories (DPT) and both the theories and the model have their basis in the cognitive and behavioural sciences. This thesis uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative study presents results from 18 semi-structured interviews with SMSF trustees and SMSF advisers, as well as a survey of 201 SMSF trustees. The results of the qualitative study provide support for the quantitative study, which uses the FQM model to explain investment decision making. The model can also be used to predict those trustees who seek investment advice as well as those who, ignore it and act in an independent manner. The FQM model was also associated with different styles of investment decision making by the SMSF trustees and investors classifying them as either active or passive investors. Importantly, the mixed methods approach establishes that investment knowledge and expertise is not always the basis for investment decision making. In finding that FQM and behavioural attributes are driving factors of SMSF trustee investment decisions, this thesis makes an original contribution to the literature on investment decision making in the Australian superannuation context. A key finding of the research is that investment decision making will often include emotions and feelings as overriding influences and that nonrational behaviour can, and does determine investment decisions. The research findings may be informative to Australian policy makers in developing financial education programs and in future policy changes pertaining to SMSFs.
Mechanisms involved in the development of morphine dependence in rats
Creators: name: Salem, Abdallah M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Reflectionless discrete Schrödinger operators are spectrally atypical
Creators: name: VandenBoom, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34L40, 37K10, 47B36

description: We prove that, if an isospectral torus contains a discrete Schrödinger operator with nonconstant potential, the shift dynamics on that torus cannot be minimal. Consequently, we specify a generic sense in which finite unions of nondegenerate closed intervals having capacity one are not the spectrum of any reflectionless discrete Schrödinger operator. We also show that the only reflectionless discrete Schrödinger operators having zero, one, or two spectral gaps are periodic.
description: 14 pages; to appear in Commun. Math. Phys
An Atom Interferometer inside a Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fiber
Creators: name: Xin, Mingjie
name: Leong, Wui Seng
name: Chen, Zilong
name: Lan, Shau-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent interactions between electromagnetic and matter waves lie at the heart of quantum science and technology. However, the diffraction nature of light has limited the scalability of many atom-light based quantum systems. Here, we use the optical fields in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber to spatially split, reflect, and recombine a coherent superposition state of free-falling 85Rb atoms to realize an inertia-sensitive atom interferometer. The interferometer operates over a diffraction-free distance, and the contrasts and phase shifts at different distances agree within one standard error. The integration of phase coherent photonic and quantum systems here shows great promise to advance the capability of atom interferometers in the field of precision measurement and quantum sensing with miniature design of apparatus and high efficiency of laser power consumption.
On the instability and degeneracy of deep learning models
Creators: name: Kaplan, Andee
name: Nordman, Daniel
name: Vardeman, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A probability model exhibits instability if small changes in a data outcome result in large, and often unanticipated, changes in probability. This instability is a property of the probability model, given by a distributional form and a given configuration of parameters. For correlated data structures found in several application areas, there is increasing interest in identifying such sensitivity in model probability structure. We consider the problem of quantifying instability for general probability models defined on sequences of observations, where each sequence of length N has a finite number of possible values that can be taken at each point. A sequence of probability models results, indexed by N, and an associated parameter sequence, that accommodates data of expanding dimension. Model instability is formally shown to occur when a certain log-probability ratio under such models grows faster than N. In this case, a one component change in the data sequence can shift probability by orders of magnitude. Also, as instability becomes more extreme, the resulting probability models are shown to tend to degeneracy, placing all their probability on potentially small portions of the sample space. These results on instability apply to large classes of models commonly used in random graphs, network analysis, and machine learning contexts.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure
(501625) Bridget Elizabeth Tuthill
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.
Probabilistic learning of nonlinear dynamical systems using sequential Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Schön, Thomas B.
name: Svensson, Andreas
name: Murray, Lawrence
name: Lindsten, Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Probabilistic modeling provides the capability to represent and manipulate uncertainty in data, models, predictions and decisions. We are concerned with the problem of learning probabilistic models of dynamical systems from measured data. Specifically, we consider learning of probabilistic nonlinear state-space models. There is no closed-form solution available for this problem, implying that we are forced to use approximations. In this tutorial we will provide a self-contained introduction to one of the state-of-the-art methods---the particle Metropolis--Hastings algorithm---which has proven to offer a practical approximation. This is a Monte Carlo based method, where the particle filter is used to guide a Markov chain Monte Carlo method through the parameter space. One of the key merits of the particle Metropolis--Hastings algorithm is that it is guaranteed to converge to the "true solution" under mild assumptions, despite being based on a particle filter with only a finite number of particles. We will also provide a motivating numerical example illustrating the method using a modeling language tailored for sequential Monte Carlo methods. The intention of modeling languages of this kind is to open up the power of sophisticated Monte Carlo methods---including particle Metropolis--Hastings---to a large group of users without requiring them to know all the underlying mathematical details.
description: Thomas B. Sch\"on, Andreas Svensson, Lawrence Murray and Fredrik Lindsten, 2018. Probabilistic learning of nonlinear dynamical systems using sequential Monte Carlo. In Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Volume 104, pp. 866-883
Proceedings of the 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)
Creators: name: APSCE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 460804
subject: Computing education
classificationCode: 390307
subject: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)Date: 2024.5.28-30; Location: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Website: https://ctestem24.bnu.edu.cn/Publication of Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ISSN: 2664-5661)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26008282
Sequential Monte Carlo with transformations
Creators: name: Everitt, Richard G
name: Culliford, Richard
name: Medina-Aguayo, Felipe
name: Wilson, Daniel J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces methodology for performing Bayesian inference sequentially on a sequence of posteriors on spaces of different dimensions. We show how this may be achieved through the use of sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers (Del Moral et al., 2006, 2007), making use of the full flexibility of this framework in order that the method is computationally efficient. In particular, we introduce the innovation of using deterministic transformations to move particles effectively between target distributions with different dimensions. This approach, combined with adaptive methods, yields an extremely flexible and general algorithm for Bayesian model comparison that is suitable for use in applications where the acceptance rate in reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) is low. We demonstrate this approach on the well-studied problem of model comparison for mixture models, and for the novel application of inferring coalescent trees sequentially, as data arrives.
Proceedings of the 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)
Creators: name: N/A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 460804
subject: Computing education
classificationCode: 390307
subject: Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: 8th APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (CTE-STEM 2024)Date: 2024.5.28-30; Location: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Website: https://ctestem24.bnu.edu.cn/Publication of Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ISSN: 2664-5661)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26008282