cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hillslope and watershed scale hydrological processes and grazing management in a Dartmoor catchment, Southwest England
Creators: name: Meyles, Erik W.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Heather moorland
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Soil science
subject: Hydrology

description: Concerns have been raised on the deterioration of heather moorland due to management in the UK. A study was therefore conducted on the impacts of moorland management on the soils and hydrology of a catchment on Dartmoor. Soil moisture was measured gridwise using TDR on 19 occasions. At 23 sites within this grid, physical properties of the topsoil were obtained. At three locations, tensiometer nests were installed, recording soil suction at 10 cm depth intervals. At the catchment scale, stream discharge and rainfall were recorded. Grazing densities within the watershed were estimated and the observed patterns were related to vegetation types. Results from the TDR grid showed that in dry conditions, soil moisture patterns are heterogeneous in contrast to a more uniform pattern in wet periods. A threshold soil moisture content of about 0.60 cm3 cm-3 divides the two conditions. The exponential relationship between average hillslope soil moisture content and stream discharge also revealed the division between wet and dry states. A regression analysis showed that during dry conditions, the vegetation plays a significant role in determining the soil water status. During wet conditions, topography becomes more important. In these conditions, the soil water movement is mainly lateral, whereas in the dry state, this is vertical in the soil profile. Tensiometer data showed that most soil water movement is in the topsoil. Analyses suggested that soil moisture under vegetation classes associated with higher grazing pressures is higher in similar topographic conditions. Soil bulk density is higher and the total porosity is lower near the soil surface. This suggests that less rainfall is required to reach the soil moisture threshold and water will be transported laterally down the slope. A heather burning experiment revealed that the direct effect of temperature is shallow. Soil moisture levels do not change over the course of the burn. However, in dry situations during summer, soil moisture contents under burned plots are higher than under unburned vegetation probably due to reduced transpiration. If this effect is similar at the hillslope scale, when the soil is wetting up, the soil moisture threshold value could be reached at an earlier stage and accelerated lateral water movement could be the result. It can be concluded therefore, that moorland management could accelerate water movement on the hillslopes causing higher discharge peaks in wet periods and consequently low flows in summer. However, the effects are subtle and encouraging vegetation heterogeneity could play a role in buffering water to prevent loss to the stream.
title: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Open-Science-Repositorium der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK)
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 02

description: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München, vol. 2009, no. 2
Irish perspectives in colonial Melbourne, 1841-1846
Creators: name: Flood, William Daniel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis argues for a better understanding of the Irish community in Melbourne and a more nuanced understanding of the settler colonial experience. The thesis examines the colonial experience in Melbourne between the nonperformance of St Patrick’s Day in 1841 and the banning of all processions with the implementation of the Party Processions Act in 1846. St Patrick’s Day celebrations allow us to enter into a world of actions and reactions of the Irish people in Melbourne. The Irish Catholic community was perceived as a separate community with conditional membership that had to be constantly renegotiated. There was not a continuing state of conflict or division but rather difference that during particular episodes became amplified. Many of these fissures have been smoothed away in the current Australian histories which position the settler colonial experience as singular. While St Patrick’s Day provides an entry point to these differences, a reading of other important events, of everyday colonial life help to unravel their experience. There was a conversation, a dialogue, between the Irish community and the wider community that had to be continually negotiated at other community events, such as the Town Council elections held in 1842 and Legislative Council elections in 1843. These conversations occurred at hurling matches, and during celebrations for the twelfth of July, which in 1846 erupted into riots. These events help tell a story about the emergence of sectarianism in Melbourne amid the textures of everyday life. The settlers in Melbourne had existing expectations and a variety of responses to the events unfolding in the colony. They were informed not only by local events and circumstances but also by the current events occurring in England and Ireland. Episodes which have previously been positioned as exclusively Irish events, however they involved the wider community and had lasting affects.
Strong coupling of magnons in a YIG sphere to photons in a planar superconducting resonator in the quantum limit
Creators: name: Morris, R. G. E.
name: van Loo, A. F.
name: Kosen, S.
name: Karenowska, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator (CPWR) coupled to a sphere of yttrium-iron garnet. The non-uniform CPWR field allows us to excite various magnon modes in the sphere. Mode frequencies and relative coupling strengths are consistent with theory. Strong coupling is observed to several modes even with, on average, less than one excitation present in the CPWR. The time response to square pulses shows oscillations at the mode splitting frequency. These results indicate the feasibility of combining magnonic and planar superconducting quantum devices.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Open-Science-Repositorium der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK)
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 02

description: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München, vol. 2009, no. 1
(201019) Elizabeth Louisa Lamb
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.
(201020) Zuleika Maude Lamb
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: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Open-Science-Repositorium der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 02

description: BIBLIOTHEKSMAGAZIN: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und München, vol. 2023, no. 2
An ultraviolet excess in the superluminous supernova Gaia16apd reveals a powerful central engine
Creators: name: Nicholl, M.
name: Berger, E.
name: Margutti, R.
name: Blanchard, P. K.
name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: Challis, P.
name: Metzger, B. D.
name: Chornock, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the discovery of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) in the last decade, it has been known that these events exhibit bluer spectral energy distributions than other supernova subtypes, with significant output in the ultraviolet. However, the event Gaia16apd seems to outshine even the other SLSNe at rest-frame wavelengths below $\sim 3000$ Å. Yan et al (2016) have recently presented HST UV spectra and attributed the UV flux to low metallicity and hence reduced line blanketing. Here we present UV and optical light curves over a longer baseline in time, revealing a rapid decline at UV wavelengths despite a typical optical evolution. Combining the published UV spectra with our own optical data, we demonstrate that Gaia16apd has a much hotter continuum than virtually any SLSN at maximum light, but it cools rapidly thereafter and is indistinguishable from the others by $\sim 10$-15 days after peak. Comparing the equivalent widths of UV absorption lines with those of other events, we show that the excess UV continuum is a result of a more powerful central power source, rather than a lack of UV absorption relative to other SLSNe or an additional component from interaction with the surrounding medium. These findings strongly support the central-engine hypothesis for hydrogen-poor SLSNe. An explosion ejecting $M_{\rm ej} = 4 (0.2/κ)$ M$_\odot$, where $κ$ is the opacity in cm$^2$g$^{-1}$, and forming a magnetar with spin period $P=2$ ms, and $B=2\times10^{14}$ G (lower than other SLSNe with comparable rise-times) can consistently explain the light curve evolution and high temperature at peak. The host metallicity, $Z=0.18$ Z$_\odot$, is comparable to other SLSNe.
description: Updated to match accepted version (ApJL)
EVALUATION OF THE SUCCESS RATE OF TRI MATRIX IMPLANT ZIRCONIA RESTORATIONS PRODUCED BY MAY DENTAL ARTS: A RETROSPECTIVE PMCF STUDY
Creators: name: Venanzoni, Sandro
name: May, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320302
subject: Dental materials and equipment
classificationCode: 320306
subject: Oral implantology

description: This study evaluates the success rate of TRI Matrix Implant-supported zirconia restorations produced by May Dental Arts from January 2022 to August 2024. A total of 1,557 units, including single implant restorations, small span bridges, and full arch restorations, were analyzed. The TRI Matrix Implant system, which has been specifically designed to support zirconia restorations on titanium implants, demonstrated a 100% success rate, with no complaints or failures reported. Notably, there was a 0% complication rate concerning breakage or screw loosening. This post-market clinical follow-up study was conducted in the U.S. market and encompassed a broad variety of customers, including general practitioners, periodontists, and maxillofacial surgeons. The materials used included the TRI Matrix Implant with the TRI bolt screw, and zirconia as the restorative material.
Knowledge sharing issues in Vietnamese higher education institutions
Creators: name: Ta, Canh Van
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 Business, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This research investigates the Vietnamese higher education environment to examine knowledge sharing issues in developing countries, especially in transition economies. It reports on barriers to sharing knowledge among Vietnamese academics and managerial colleagues, focusing on five critical factors: people, culture, organization structure, economics, and technology. These are situated within three contextual factors: management capacity, infrastructure, and training issues. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods including focus groups and individual interviews for rich data collection and then tested the found constructs using survey methods with 258 participants. Key findings from this research are work overload and economic stress that result in a lack of absorptive capacity for knowledge improvement and knowledge sharing. These factors, together with limited English language skills, poor infrastructure, inability to use technology, lack of access to library databases, and bureaucratic management styles contribute to measurable levels of cheating, and corruption in education that in turn lead to low quality and quantity of international academic publications and of patents. The findings demonstrate strong evidence for the inclusion of Theory of Planned Behaviour together with Existence, Relatedness, and Growth Theory to explain the barriers that prevented knowledge sharing in Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions which is reflected in the quality and quantity of international publications produced by Vietnamese academics.
Creating and probing the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with ultracold gases: Towards experimental studies of quantum gravity
Creators: name: Danshita, Ippei
name: Hanada, Masanori
name: Tezuka, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest that the holographic principle, combined with recent technological advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, can lead to experimental studies of quantum gravity. As a specific example, we consider the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which consists of spin-polarized fermions with an all-to-all complex random two-body hopping and has been conjectured to be dual to a certain quantum gravitational system. Achieving low-temperature states of the SYK model is interpreted as a realization of a stringy black hole, provided that the holographic duality is true. We introduce a variant of the SYK model, in which the random two-body hopping is real. This model is equivalent to the origincal SYK model in the large-$N$ limit. We show that this model can be created in principle by confining ultracold fermionic atoms into optical lattices and coupling two atoms with molecular states via photo-association lasers. This development serves as an important first step towards an experimental realization of such systems dual to quantum black holes. We also show how to measure out-of-time-order correlation functions of the SYK model, which allow for identifying the maximally chaotic property of the black hole.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures, accepted version
deRSE2023: SURESOFT: Towards Sustainable Research Software
Creators: name: Marcus, Sven
name: Peters, Sören
name: Linxweiler, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This talk was given at the deRSE2023 Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany toke place from 20-22 Feb 2023 in Paderborn (Germany).
Deformation-induced splitting of isoscalar E0 giant resonance: Skyrme random-phase-approximation analysis
Creators: name: Kvasil, J.
name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Repko, A.
name: Kleinig, W.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The deformation-induced splitting of isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) is systematically analyzed in a wide range of masses covering medium, rare-earth, actinide, and superheavy axial deformed nuclei. The study is performed within the fully self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase-approximation (QRPA) method based on the Skyrme functional. Two Skyrme forces, one with a large (SV-bas) and one with a small (SkP) nuclear incompressibility, are considered. The calculations confirm earlier results that, due to the deformation-induced E0-E2 coupling, the isoscalar E0 resonance attains a double-peak structure and significant energy upshift. Our results are compared with available analytic estimations. Unlike earlier studies, we get a smaller energy difference between the lower and upper peaks and thus a stronger E0-E2 coupling. This in turn results in more pumping of E0 strength into the lower peak and more pronounced splitting of ISGMR. We also discuss widths of the peaks and their negligible correlation with deformation.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
SCALABLE - D3.3 Implementation and final report about scheduling and load-balancing
Creators: name: Kuate, Raphael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The main objective of SCALABLE for CSGROUP is the improvement of LaBS deployment in bigger clusters of thousands of cores, achieved by a transfer of performance technology from WaLBerla. Therefore, in the earlier work packages 3.1 [1], 3.2 [2] and 3.5 [3] many improvements were made to LABS scalability. In the previous reports on work package 3.5 and 3.2 we introduced works on LaBS targeting GPU clusters. In this report, we present the development of a prototyping GPU version of LABS
Orthogonal product bases of four qubits
Creators: name: Chen, Lin
name: Djokovic, Dragomir Z
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An orthogonal product basis (OPB) of a finite-dimensional Hilbert space $H=H_1\otimes H_2\otimes\cdots\otimes H_n$ is an orthonormal basis of $H$ consisting of product vectors $x_1\otimes x_2\otimes\cdots\otimes x_n$. We show that the problem of classifying the OPBs of an $n$-qubit system can be reduced to a purely combinatorial problem. We solve this combinatorial problem in the case of four qubits and obtain 33 multiparameter families of OPBs. Each OPB of four qubits is equivalent, under local unitary operations and qubit permutations, to an OPB belonging to at least one of these families.
description: 50 pages
title: Πρόβλεψη της ζήτησης του χαρουπιού μέσω Google Trends
title: Carob’s demand forecasting with Google Trends
Creators: name: Ψαθας Αντωνιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Προτάθηκε μία νέα συνάρτηση ζήτησης μέσω των αναζητήσεων στο Google έναντι της συμβατικής συνάρτησης ζήτησης, που προτείνει η μικροοικονομική. Η νέα συνάρτηση χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την πρόβλεψη της ζήτησης του χαρουπιού στην Κροατία. Τα τελευταία χρόνια αναβίωσε το ενδιαφέρον για το χαρούπι και επιλέχτηκε ως αντικείμενο μελέτης της παρούσας εργασίας. Η Κροατία επιλέχτηκε, καθώς βρίσκεται 4η σε αναζητήσεις για χαρούπι παγκοσμίως. Μέσω της σύγκρισης της προβλεπτικής ικανότητας της νέας με την συμβατική συνάρτηση ζήτησης φαίνεται ότι η νέα συνάρτηση ζήτησης έχει υψηλότερη προβλεπτική ικανότητα. Για την ανάλυση χρησιμοποιήθηκαν δεδομένα σε μηνιαία βάση από την Eurostat, την AMECO και τα Google Trends από τον Ιανουάριο του 2015 ως και τον Δεκέμβριο του 2021. Η εξαρτημένη μεταβλητή ήταν οι εισαγωγές χαρουπιού της Κροατίας από όλο τον κόσμο και ως ανεξάρτητες μεταβλητές χρησιμοποιήθηκαν οι αναζητήσεις για το χαρούπι ως τροφή και ως καλλιέργεια, οι αναζητήσεις για υποκατάστατα, συμπληρωματικά και παράγωγα του χαρουπιού και οι αναζητήσεις για θέματα διατροφής και υγείας. Για την επιλογή μεταβλητών έγινε έλεγχος στασιμότητας, συνολοκλήρωσης και αιτιότητας. Για την πρόβλεψη της ζήτησης έγινε χρήση των μεθόδων GBT, SVM, Random Forest και XGBoost. Μετά την διαμόρφωση των νέων συναρτήσεων έγινε σύγκριση των μεθόδων πρόβλεψης ως προς την προβλεπτική τους ικανότητα και φαίνεται ότι από την καλύτερη ως την χειρότερη κατατάσσονται ως εξής: GBT, SVM, Random Forest και XGBoost. Επιπρόσθετα, εξετάστηκε η πιθανή αλλαγή συμπεριφοράς ως προς το ενδιαφέρον για το χαρούπι στην περίοδο της πανδημίας και φαίνεται ότι οι αναζητήσεις για τον Covid δεν προκαλούν τις εισαγωγές χαρουπιού. Μέσω της νέας συνάρτησης προτάθηκαν στρατηγικές μάρκετινγκ για την αύξηση της ζήτησης στην Κροατία και μελετήθηκε η πιθανή εφαρμογή των στρατηγικών και στην Ελλάδα. Συμπερασματικά, προτάθηκε μία νέα συνάρτηση ζήτησης με την χρήση των Google Trends βάσει μεθόδων μηχανικής μάθησης και τα αποτελέσματα χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την διαμόρφωση στρατηγικών αγροτικού μάρκετινγκ.
Modelling resource contention in multi-robot task allocation problems with uncertain timing
Creators: name: Palmer, Andrew W.
name: Hill, Andrew J.
name: Scheding, Steven J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes an analytical framework for modelling resource contention in multi-robot systems, where the travel times and task durations are uncertain. It uses several approximation methods to quickly and accurately calculate the probability distributions describing the times at which the tasks start and finish. Specific contributions include exact and fast approximation methods for calculating the probability of a set of independent normally distributed random events occurring in a given order, a method for calculating the most likely and n-th most likely orders of occurrence for a set of independent normally distributed random events that have equal standard deviations, and a method for approximating the conditional probability distributions of the events given a specific order of the events. The complete framework is shown to be faster than a Monte Carlo approach for the same accuracy in two multi-robot task allocation problems. In addition, the importance of incorporating uncertainty is demonstrated through a comparison with a deterministic method. This is a general framework that is agnostic to the optimisation method and objective function used, and is applicable to a wide range of problems.
description: Version accepted to ICRA 2018
(201013) Elizabeth Bean
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.
Redistributing risk management responsibilities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for safely-managed drinking water in rural Bangladesh (REACH Policy paper)
Creators: name: Fischer, A.
name: Hoque, S.
name: Hope, R.
name: Alam, M.M.
name: Hakim, A.
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2020

description: The drinking water sector is off track to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1 with over a quarter of the world’s population lacking safe and reliable services. Policy approaches are shifting away from provision of access towards managing the multiple risks of water supply and quality. A recent article published in Global Environmental Change considered how infrastructure, information, and institutional systems evolved in Bangladesh. It identified the unintentional consequences of reallocating management responsibility for rural water services away from government agencies towards individuals and households.
This policy paper provides a summary of the policy context and recommendations to recognize the increased risks facing an unregulated and unmonitored self-supply rural water service model.
(201016) Leila Elkins Gertrude Lamb
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.
Aqueous & Non-Aqueous Phase Tracer Migration Through Differing Soil Textures
Creators: name: Johnson, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2004

description: The National Grid Transco Company sponsored this project in order to promote the understanding of NAPL migration through b-horizon soils and retarding effects upon non aqueous species migration. Soil structure and texture was also studied using conservative (Bromide) and non-conservative (Phosphate) tracers. Experimental data was produced using a laboratory ½ metre scale automated lysimeter designed and constn1cted at Plymouth. The tracers were compared before oil injection, to calibrate differences in soil texture, and after oil injection to detect any changes in the flow patterns caused by the oil injection. It was found that the Crediton, Sollom and Conway soils respectively offered least resistance to the tracers with the non-conservative tracer behaving much more unpredictably than the conservative tracer. After oil injection it could be seen that the oil had heavily retarded the ability of the tracers to migrate from the injection site. This retardation was identified as analogous to perturbations of the soil structure. Statistical analysis of the data showed that the experiments were all internally self consistent and visible patterns could be seen in the corrected data caused by inclusion of oil in the injection site. Methods of dispersal for the oil and tracer are suggested in the concluding chapter with references to the work of previous authors. Development of a hazard assessment framework was facilitated by the simulation of soil structures using a pedo transfer function developed at the National Soils Resource Institute. To allow the modelling of soils the Pore-Cor software had an annealed simplex algorithm integrated into the data inversion engine to allow the simulation of 3-D soil structures using 2-D data from pedo transfer functions or experimentally derived water retention curves. An extensive sensitivity analysis upon the model highlighted limitations, due to the data set the current pedo transfer function is based upon. It was suggested that inclusion of choices of different pedo transfer functions could be used to overcome this problem. A suitable framework was derived for the identification of priority soils using a validated computer model. Experimental data was compared to the simulated data in order to try and develop an understanding of practical upscaling of the data. The use of the "Scaleway" method is discussed in the concluding Chapter.
Effects of warming on nutrient dynamics in the Australian Alps
Creators: name: Ng Kam Chuen, Marie Alexa Gaelle
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 Agricultural Science, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In the Australian Alps, the predicted rise in temperatures, decrease in precipitation and shifts in plant communities could have important consequences on carbon and nutrient dynamics. In order to determine the future impacts of a warmer climate on the nutrient dynamics in alpine soils, this thesis aims to (1) investigate the effects of warming on the decomposition and nutrient dynamics of litters of a range of common alpine species, (2) determine how the warming-associated changes in nutrient dynamics from litter decomposition affect the nutrient dynamics in the soil, and (3) investigate the effects of long-term warming on the soil microbial potential to mineralize C and N with litter addition and also under dry-rewet conditions. In the first field experiment, warming effects on the decomposition and nutrient releases from litters of eight alpine species were investigated over 633 days. Warming, using open-top chambers, induced soil drying which reduced decomposition and nutrient releases. The second field experiment then aimed to determine how these nutrient releases affect soil nutrients under different climatic conditions. To that effect, litters of two dominant alpine species were submitted to three elevations over 321 days. Total mass and carbon losses and nutrient releases of both litters were lowest at the warmest elevation. Soil nutrients were unaffected by elevation and were immobilized under decomposing litters. Thus, short-term (0-2 years) warming and drying decreased litter decomposition and nutrient releases, with little direct impact on soil nutrients. The next experiment investigated the effects of 10-years warming on soil microbial activity and biomass, and its ability to decompose and mineralize carbon and nitrogen from two contrasting litter types. Previously warmed soils had reduced N mineralization, microbial biomass and activity, but greater relative increases in C and N mineralization when amended with litters. Lastly, the effects of long-term warming and dry-rewet frequency, on the decomposition of soil organic matter and nitrogen mineralization were investigated. Dry-rewet and increasing the number of dry days reduced microbial biomass and activity, while increasing inorganic nitrogen. However, after 16 days at optimum moisture, dry-rewetted soils had similar total carbon losses through respiration to constantly moist soils. In conclusion, warming-induced drying limited decomposition in the short-term. A consistent reduction in available substrate from litter decomposition under warming could explain the decline in microbial biomass and activity in the long-term and could potentially lead to decreased carbon and nutrient cycling in this ecosystem.
Introduction to Open Access, Open Data and Research Impact
Creators: name: Boroudjou, Hannah
name: Porter, Helen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
Open Access
Research Impact

description: This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Introduction to Open Access, Open Data and Research Impact. This workshop covered the basics of open access and open data. Participants learnt how open research can have a positive effect on the impact their research makes on the world.
From data to decisions: Water quality monitoring programs in Kenya (Aquaya Research brief)
Creators: name: Aquaya
Publisher: name: Aquaya
Year: 2020

description: Most countries maintain regulatory requirements for testing of drinking water supplies to guide treatment procedures and ensure safe water delivery to consumers. It is unclear, however, whether the water quality test results reliably reach senior institutional managers, the regulators that required such testing, or other stakeholders who could act to improve water systems. Because testing water quality is expensive and timeconsuming, it is important to maximize the cost-effectiveness of testing programs. This study describes and assesses the formal and informal systems used by institutions with regulatory requirements for testing drinking water quality in six sub-Saharan African countries to organize, analyze, and transmit information about drinking water quality. This brief focuses on the seven Kenyan institutions that participated in the Aquaya Institute's Monitoring for Safe Water research program (2012-2016): four piped water suppliers and three public health surveillance agencies.
Tangled up in black - a study of the activist strategies of the Black Power movement through the life of Gary Foley
Creators: name: Howell, Edwina Maurey
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Tangled Up in Black is a work of anthropology that both critiques and celebrates the discipline as much as it does the subject of the thesis, ‘A study of the activist strategies of the Black Power movement (in Australia) through the life of Gary Foley’. It is most influenced by the life work of the subject, Gary Foley as well as that of anthropologist Michael Taussig and philosopher and literary critic, Walter Benjamin, in particular his ‘Thesis on the Philosophy of History’. I have engaged the crafts of fictocriticism, storytelling and the dialectical image to actively approach the underlying paradox of the thesis which is the representation of ‘the other’ in light of the Black Power movement’s challenge to the discipline of anthropology in Australia in the early 1970s. I tell both the personal history of the development of Gary Foley from his birth as a Gumbaynggirr child in Grafton (NSW) in 1950 to the context of his transformation into a radical Aboriginal Black Power activist and member of the Black Caucus in Redfern, Sydney in the late 1960s, whilst concurrently providing a challenge to the mainstream narrative of the history of the Land Rights era in Australian politics. The thesis is propelled by the creative currents of Taussig’s What Color is the sacred? and Defacement. From the former I borrow the dialectical image of Bengali tribesmen who with and in their bodies and through movement, in their collective labour as indigo workers, shout out in obscene song to transform the nature of colour. I use this image as if it is a layering of reflections to both hold the memory of colonial violence within the text and to illuminate the energies of the subject’s activist practice as well as the experience and history of Black Power activism. I also engage the key concepts of Defacement (the public secret, obscenity, transgression and defacement) providing a critique of the strategies of the Black Power movement that goes beyond identification into other act of defacement (as mimesis followed by sudden theatrical anti-mimetic ploy). The thesis not only considers Black Power activism at its height (in the 1960s and early 1970s) but carries the story of the movement through to the end of the decade of the 80s through Foley’s involvement in the film and television industry, in the area of Aboriginal community controlled health services and in the organisation of nationwide Aboriginal Land Rights protests, with a focus on the Black Power movement’s understanding of Benjamin’s belief ‘that it is in the image realm’ that it is most important to act. In both humour and sincerity this work aims to demonstrate that ‘we can be other than we are’.
(201015) Harriet Dalglish Violet Lamb
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.
Succession of microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract of calves during the monogastric phase
Creators: name: Guzman Rodriguez, Cesar Eduardo
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 Agriculture, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of an adult bovine ruminant contains millions of bacteria, archaea, protozoa, and fungi known as gut microbiota which are first acquired during birth. These microbial communities breakdown fibre, create energy, regulate immunity, promote cellular development, and generate methane. However, little is known about the presence of specific microorganisms and the change in their abundance in the GIT during the monogastric phase, particularly in response to diet. In the first three weeks of life, the monogastric phase, the GIT of a calf undergoes major changes that permit a dietary transition from milk to solid feed. The present study quantified the distribution and diversity of selected microorganisms in GIT compartments and faeces of calves during the monogastric phase from one hour after birth to 21 days of age. I report the earliest detection, one hour after birth, of fibrolytic bacteria, Geobacter spp., and methanogenic archaea in the GIT. Fibrolytic bacteria were detected in the rumen before the calves consumed solid fibre, suggesting that either fibrolytic bacteria used milk as a source of nutrients, or they used products from other species of microorganisms that consumed the milk. For the first time, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, and Geobacter spp. were detected in calves. Geobacter spp. might use direct extracellular electron transfer to supply electrons to methanogenic archaea. Protozoa and general anaerobic fungi were not detected in the first four days of life. Differences in diet altered the concentrations of all detected microorganisms in the abomasum, caecum fluid, and caecum tissues. The concentrations of microorganisms in the faeces did not reflect the microbial concentrations in any other GIT compartment. The concentrations of the microbes was similar when sampled using either the post-mortem or stomach tube collection techniques, suggesting that either technique can be used when collecting ruminal fluid for microbiological examination. These pioneering microorganisms respond to change, hence they could be manipulated to enhance fibre digestion, reduce the weaning period, and decrease methanogenic archaea.
Anchoring of Organic Molecules to a Metal Surface: HtBDC on Cu(110)
Creators: name: Besenbacher, F.
name: Johannsen, I.
name: Kühnle, A.
name: Lægsgaard, E.
name: Petersen, L.
name: Schunack, M.
name: Stensgaard, I.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Generalized Electromagnetism of Subdimensional Particles: A Spin Liquid Story
Creators: name: Pretko, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been shown that there exists a class of stable gapless spin liquids in 3+1 dimensions described by higher rank tensor U(1) gauge fields, giving rise to an emergent tensor electromagnetism. The tensor gauge field of these theories couples naturally to subdimensional particles (such as fractons), which are restricted by gauge invariance to move only along lower-dimensional subspaces of the system. We here work out some of the basic generalized electromagnetic properties of subdimensional particles coupled to tensor electromagnetism, such as generalized electrostatic fields, potential formulations, Lorentz forces, Maxwell equations, and Biot-Savart laws. Some concepts from conventional electromagnetism will carry over directly, while others require significant modification.
description: 14+4 pages
COVID-19 Impacts on Water Burden among Households in Turkana
Creators: name: Ong'ech, D.
name: Opondo, M.
name: Olago, D.
name: Dulo, S.
name: Ouma, G.
name: Charles, K.
name: Mumma, A.
name: Hope, R.
Publisher: name: Office of DVC Research, Innovation and Enterprise, University of Nairobi
Year: 2021

description: This policy brief highlights findings from a study assessing respondents’ views on the impact of the pandemic on water security and its burden on households in Turkana County, Kenya. It also established possible solutions to the risks faced by communities in Turkana. The REACH Programme implemented a household survey of 909 household heads in Turkana Central in October 2017.
Water Security for Climate Resilience: A synthesis of research from the Oxford University REACH programme (Summary report)
Creators: name: Murgatroyd, A.
name: Charles, K.
name: Yeo, D.
name: Nileshwar, A.
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2021

description: This Summary presents the main findings and recommendations of the Water Security for Climate Resilience Report. Through REACH research we demonstrate the unequal, and often hidden, impact of climate on people’s lives and livelihoods, which can be counter-intuitive to broad narratives around resilience and adaptation. We reveal the challenges to building anticipatory capacity to avoid the water security risks that result from shifting climate conditions, water use behaviours and policy decisions. We highlight the impact of seasonal fluctuations in weather on surface and groundwater quality. We present a deepened understanding of location- and contextspecific climate issues and dynamics, revealing a pressing need to consider and plan for different distributional impacts of climate and climate change.
Long-Lived Excited States at Surfaces: Cs/Cu(111) and Cs/Cu(100) Systems
Creators: name: Borisov, A. G.
name: Chulkov, E. V.
name: Echenique, P. M.
name: Gauyacq, J. P.
name: Kazansky, A. K.
name: Silkin, V. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Field-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in a Two-Dimensional Organic Superconductor
Creators: name: Balthes, E.
name: Brooks, J. S.
name: Gard, G. L.
name: Geiser, U.
name: Hagel, J.
name: Löhneysen, H. V.
name: Mohtasham, J.
name: Qualls, J. S.
name: Schlueter, J. A.
name: Wanka, S.
name: Winter, R. W.
name: Wosnitza, J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Wavelets and filter banks: novel design and applications
Creators: name: Murugesan, Selvaraaju
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 Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Drinking Water Quality in Bangladesh | 2021 Updates
Creators: name: Charles, K.J.
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2021

description: This report shares key findings from the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019: Water Quality Thematic Report, based on water quality testing and survey carried out in 2019 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in collaboration with UNICEF and icddr,b.
The Water Quality Thematic Report provides evidence of critical aspect of arsenic and faecal contamination (Escherichia coli or E.coli) of water supply and drinking water at the division and district levels. This publication presents information on arsenic and fecal contamination of drinking water at source and household level. It also provides relevant insights using the equity lens to examine the disparities between districts by key variables such as education, socioeconomic status as well as household water treatment and storage practices. The evidence presented facilitates planning, programming, advocacy and effective targeting of the most vulnerable and also serves as a bench mark for the SDG 6.1 “by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all”.
Who has the floor? Media discourse, Australia’s First Nations peoples and the Northern Territory Intervention
Creators: name: Mesikämmen, Emma Katariina
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 Social Sciences and Communications, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In June 2007, John Howard, then Prime Minister of Australia, declared a ‘national emergency’ in the remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory. The announcement followed a report from an official inquiry into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities in the Territory. The federal government subsequently launched a number of controversial measures across prescribed communities to combat what it called a ‘crisis’. This policy approach, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, soon became known as the Intervention. Exploring mainstream news media coverage of the Intervention through a mixed methodology, this thesis integrates textual analysis of newspaper and television stories about the policy with industry interviews. Media representation of Indigenous affairs and peoples in Australia has been widely researched in past decades; yet previous studies have tended to concentrate on textual analysis despite calls for further exploration of media practitioners’ accounts on the topic. This project contributes to bridging that gap. Sampling coverage across a three-year timeframe and drawing on established frameworks for discourse analysis, this thesis asks: what discourses are present in news media coverage about the Intervention and how have the discursive practices of different social actors, including journalists and non-media individuals and institutions, impacted on these discourses? Investigating the constraints of media practice and the idea(l)s of professional journalism the thesis reflects on the complex relationship between Indigenous communities and journalists, who are generally non-Indigenous, and how Indigenous perspectives might be better represented.