cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extraction and Evaluation of Fixed Oil from Black Cumin (Nigella Sativa) using Hexane and Ethanol Solvents
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Shimeles
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Black cumin seed (Nigella sativa) oil was used traditionally in different countries for many medical complains. The seeds are used for culinary purposes, medicinal treatment and also used as food additives. The oil can produce by different extraction methods. Among of those methods, solvent extraction is the most promising and effective process with minimum cost. When we are using solvent extraction process, the major problem is the uses of toxic chemical that is hexane as a solvent. These solvent produces photochemical oxidants in the ozone by reacting with other pollutants during extraction and recovery process and also a trace of hexane that is found in the oil affects the human health. This study mainly investigates and compares the effect of solvents, ethanol and hexane in the extraction process and optimization was done in the two factors named as, extraction time and seed to solvent ratio. The extraction process was carried out by using 3 level factor of the seed to solvent ratio (1:4, 1:6 and 1:8) and 4 level of extraction time (2hr, 4hr, 6hr and 8hr) using for each solvents using soxhlet extractor. The maximum yield of extraction for hexane solvent was found to be 35.725% with seed solvent ratio 1:8 and 4 hour and the minimum yield were 20.575% with the seed solvent ratio 1:4 and 2 hour of extraction time. Whereas using ethanol solvent the higher extraction yield was 35.51% with the factor of the 1:6 of seed solvent ratio and with extraction time 6 hour and the minimum result were 22.81%withthe seed solvent ratio 1:4 and 2 hours. The significance of each parameter was checked by using design expert software with the p-value<0.05 and identify the components and functional group of the samples by using GC-MS and FTIR and identified 23 components and 10 functional groups. The physical properties, density, specific gravity, viscosity and pH; the chemical properties such as Acid value, saponification value and Iodine value of the fixed oil was done before refining and after refined. Both of the experiment results has almost the same components and functional groups and there is no any significance effect in the environment and for the human health in ethanol solvent extraction. Therefore it is better to use ethanol as a solvent for extraction process rather than hexane. Key Words: Black cumin seed, HSO, ESO, solvent extraction, GC-MS, FT-IR.
The Goldbach Problem for Primes That Are Sums of Two Squares Plus One
Creators: name: Teräväinen, Joni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the Goldbach problem for primes represented by the polynomial $x^2+y^2+1$. The set of such primes is sparse in the set of all primes, but the infinitude of such primes was established by Linnik. We prove that almost all even integers $n$ satisfying certain necessary local conditions are representable as the sum of two primes of the form $x^2+y^2+1$. This improves a result of Matomäki, which tells that almost all even $n$ satisfying a local condition are the sum of one prime of the form $x^2+y^2+1$ and one generic prime. We also solve the analogous ternary Goldbach problem, stating that every large odd $n$ is the sum of three primes represented by our polynomial. As a byproduct of the proof, we show that the primes of the form $x^2+y^2+1$ contain infinitely many three term arithmetic progressions, and that the numbers $αp \pmod 1$ with $α$ irrational and $p$ running through primes of the form $x^2+y^2+1$, are distributed rather uniformly.
description: 49 pages; Referee comments incorporated; To appear in Mathematika
Capacitación y desarrollo profesional del recurso humano de las empresas prestadoras de servicios de mensajeria y mercancias en la ciudad de Cartagena
Creators: name: Araujo García, Aurismel
name: Monterrosa Díaz, Ana Teresa
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2006
Subjects: Recurso humanos
Administración de personal
Capacitación de empleados

description: Tesis (Administrador de Empresas).--Universidad de Cartagena.Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Administración de Empresas, 2006
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto diagnosticar la capacitación y desarrollo profesional del recurso humano de las empresas prestadoras de servicio de mensajería y mercancía en la ciudad de Cartagena para determinar su grado de aporte estratégico y la cualificación de su personal.
Persistence of periodic solutions for higher order perturbed differential systems via Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction
Creators: name: Cândido, Murilo R.
name: Llibre, Jaume
name: Novaes, Douglas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C29, 34C25, 37G15

description: In this work we first provide sufficient conditions to assure the persistence of some zeros of functions having the form $$g(z,\varepsilon)=g_0(z)+\sum_{i=1}^k \varepsilon^i g_i(z)+\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{k+1}),$$ for $|\varepsilon|\neq0$ sufficiently small. Here $g_i:\mathcal{D}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^n$, for $i=0,1,\ldots,k$, are smooth functions being $\mathcal{D}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ an open bounded set. Then we use this result to compute the bifurcation functions which controls the periodic solutions of the following $T$-periodic smooth differential system $$ x'=F_0(t,x)+\sum_{i=1}^k \varepsilon^i F_i(t,x)+\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{k+1}), \quad (t,z)\in\mathbb{S}^1\times\mathcal{D}. $$ It is assumed that the unperturbed differential system has a sub-manifold of periodic solutions $\mathcal{Z}$, $\textrm{dim}(\mathcal{Z})\leq n$. We also study the case when the bifurcation functions have a continuum of zeros. Finally we provide the explicit expressions of the bifurcation functions up to order 5.
A Parallel Divide-and-Conquer based Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-scale Optimization
Creators: name: Yang, Peng
name: Tang, Ke
name: Yao, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale optimization problems that involve thousands of decision variables have extensively arisen from various industrial areas. As a powerful optimization tool for many real-world applications, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) fail to solve the emerging large-scale problems both effectively and efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel Divide-and-Conquer (DC) based EA that can not only produce high-quality solution by solving sub-problems separately, but also highly utilizes the power of parallel computing by solving the sub-problems simultaneously. Existing DC-based EAs that were deemed to enjoy the same advantages of the proposed algorithm, are shown to be practically incompatible with the parallel computing scheme, unless some trade-offs are made by compromising the solution quality.
description: 12 pages, 0 figures
Sunday Oct 11
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Energy Audit in Mugher Cement Enterprise (Mce)
Creators: name: Bayu, Feleke
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Cement factory is energy intensive industry that needs a great attention to optimize its energy usage. Mugher Cement Enterprise utilizes imported Heavy Fuel Oil and domestic electric energy. Therefore, reducing energy dissipation enables the enterprise as well as the country saving of foreign currency and keeps the environment from damage. The aim of this thesis work is to identify the major energy loss areas in Mugher Cement Enterprise for the third cement line and to present suitable modification to enhance energy utilization performance of the factory. This thesis first systematically identifies the energy losses areas. This is achieved by conducting Chemical analysis and determining energy consumption (thermal and electrical) of corresponding units. In the second stage, performance assessment of these units is undertaken. Finally, the result is compared with standards and original design. The result of assessment shows that the Enterprise has an enormous opportunity for improvement without jeopardizing its product quality and reputation. Thermal energy losses take the lion share for poor energy performance of the enterprise. The Eta cooler, fans, compressors and pumice dryer are among extremely inefficient devices that needs immediate modification. A thorough investigation of MCE's energy audit reveals that there is an opportunity of saving of around 41 millions birr per annum by reducing amount of fuel burnt (excess air), adapting heat recovery mechanism and improving inadequately operating electrical units.
Black-boxing and cause-effect power
Creators: name: Marshall, William
name: Albantakis, Larissa
name: Tononi, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reductionism assumes that causation in the physical world occurs at the micro level, excluding the emergence of macro-level causation. We challenge this reductionist assumption by employing a principled, well-defined measure of intrinsic cause-effect power - integrated information (Φ), and showing that, according to this measure, it is possible for a macro level to "beat" the micro level. Simple systems were evaluated for Φ across different spatial and temporal scales by systematically considering all possible black boxes. These are macro elements that consist of one or more micro elements over one or more micro updates. Cause-effect power was evaluated based on the inputs and outputs of the black boxes, ignoring the internal micro elements that support their input-output function. We show how black-box elements can have more common inputs and outputs than the corresponding micro elements, revealing the emergence of high-order mechanisms and joint constraints that are not apparent at the micro level. As a consequence, a macro, black-box system can have higher Φ than its micro constituents by having more mechanisms (higher composition) that are more interconnected (higher integration). We also show that, for a given micro system, one can identify local maxima of Φ across several spatiotemporal scales. The framework is demonstrated on a simple biological system, the Boolean network model of the fission-yeast cell-cycle, for which we identify stable local maxima during the course of its simulated biological function. These local maxima correspond to macro levels of organization at which emergent cause-effect properties of physical systems come into focus, and provide a natural vantage point for scientific inquiries.
description: 45 pages (32 main text, 13 supplementary), 14 figures (9 main text, 5 supplementary)
La paz y la guerra en 140 caracteres : análisis crítico de los tweets de Alvaro Uribe Vélez en el marco del plebiscito para la refrendación de los acuerdo entre gobierno y Farc llevado a cabo en el año 2016
Creators: name: Ayazo Pérez, Bryan
name: Montiel Ramos, María José
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2018
Subjects: Análisis del discurso

description: Tesis (Profesional en Lingüística y Literatura) – Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Lingüística y literatura, 2018Ciencias Humana, 2018
description: El eje central de esta investigación subyace en la construcción de una retórica del miedo que se instaura al interior de un discurso que pretende ser polarizarte. De esta forma, el locutor construye la imagen que quiere evidenciar de los sujetos sociales involucrados en su discurso, logrando así, representarlos de forma negativa a través del uso de un léxico deliberante escogido, de la escogencia de determinados tópicos, de la nominalizaciones y formas axiológicas que permiten emitir juicios de valor, y en este caso, casi siempre negativos. Esta construcción del miedo como mecanismo discursivo genera un lógica polarizarte que reduce el discurso a una confrontación dicotómica que plantea la existencia de un bien y un mal.
Shifted Convolution $L$-Series Values for Elliptic Curves
Creators: name: Ali, Asra
name: Mani, Nitya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using explicit constructions of the Weierstrass mock modular form, we offer a closed formula for generating the values of shifted convolution $L$-values for certain elliptic curves that can be computed to arbitrary precision. These identities provide a surprising relation between weight $2$ newforms and shifted convolution $L$-values.
description: Journal version
VOICE CONTROLLED ROBOTIC ARM WITH OBJECT DETECTION AS A FEEDBACK SYSTEM, FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS
Creators: name: Minera, Sergio R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: assistive technology
Google Speech-to-Text
YOLOv7
Raspberry Pi
ArbotiX MCU
HX711

description: The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a robot arm as an assistive technology oriented to the aid of individuals with visual impairment. The robot arm will sit at the center of a custom printed container to allow it storage of several items that will be retrieved when commanded to do so. The microcontroller (MCU) for the robot arm is an Arduino based MCU, ArbotiX, and is paired with a Raspberry Pi 4b for command translation, given that the commands for the device are voice commands, and will also serve as a processing unit for feedback systems. The voice command translation is based on Google Speech-to-Text API, and the two feedback systems to be explored are based on a weight sensor and object recognition under the YOLOv7 model. Experimentation has been conducted to visualize the efficacy of the robot arm in fulfilling its intended purpose and to measure the effectiveness of the implemented system for command delivery to the robot arm, and both feedback systems. The purpose of this robot arm is to aid individuals with visual impairment by retrieving, under voice command, spice bottles from its container and delivering it to the user of this device; thus, facilitating what would be a challenging task to a blind person, such as retrieving spices for cooking purposes.
Manifestation of the topological index formula in quantum waves and geophysical waves
Creators: name: Faure, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using semi-classical analysis in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ we present a quite general model for which the topological index formula of Atiyah-Singer predicts a spectral flow with the transition of a finite number of eigenvalues between clusters (energy bands). This model corresponds to physical phenomena that are well observed for quantum energy levels of small molecules [faure_zhilinskii_2000,2001], also in geophysics for the oceanic or atmospheric equatorial waves [Matsuno_1966, Delplace_Marston_Venaille_2017] and expected to be observed in plasma physics [Qin, Fu 2022].
description: 59 pages
A Novel Surrogate Nomogram Capable of Predicting OncotypeDX Recurrence Score©
Creators: name: Davey, Matthew G.
name: Jalali, Amirhossein
name: J.Ryan, Éanna
name: P.McLaughlin, Ray
name: Sweeney, Karl J
name: K. Barry, Michael
name: Malone, Carmel M.
name: Lowery, Aoife J.
name: Miller, Nicola
name: Kerin, Michael J.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: OncotypeDX Recurrence Score© (RS) is a commercially available 21-gene expression assay which estimates prognosis and guides chemoendocrine prescription in early-stage estrogen-receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2-negative (ER+/HER2−) breast cancer. Limitations of RS testing include the cost and turnaround time of several weeks. Aim: Our aim is to develop a user-friendly surrogate nomogram capable of predicting RS. Methods: Multivariable linear regression analyses were performed to determine predictors of RS and RS > 25. Receiver operating characteristic analysis produced an area under the curve (AUC) for each model, with training and test sets were composed of 70.3% (n = 315) and 29.7% (n = 133). A dynamic, user-friendly nomogram was built to predict RS using R (version 4.0.3). Results: 448 consecutive patients who underwent RS testing were included (median age: 58 years). Using multivariable regression analyses, postmenopausal status (β-Coefficient: 0.25, 95% confidence intervals (CIs): 0.03–0.48, p = 0.028), grade 3 disease (β-Coefficient: 0.28, 95% CIs: 0.03–0.52, p = 0.026), and estrogen receptor (ER) score (β-Coefficient: −0.14, 95% CIs: −0.22–−0.06, p = 0.001) all independently predicted RS, with AUC of 0.719. Using multivariable regression analyses, grade 3 disease (odds ratio (OR): 5.67, 95% CIs: 1.32–40.00, p = 0.037), decreased ER score (OR: 1.33, 95% CIs: 1.02–1.66, p = 0.050) and decreased progesterone receptor score (OR: 1.16, 95% CIs: 1.06–1.25, p = 0.002) all independently predicted RS > 25, with AUC of 0.740 for the static and dynamic online nomogram model. Conclusions: This study designed and validated an online user-friendly nomogram from routinely available clinicopathological parameters capable of predicting outcomes of the 21-gene RS expression assay
Enhanced energy transfer in a Dicke quantum battery
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiang
name: blaauboer, Miriam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the enhancement of the charging power in a Dicke quantum battery which consists of an array of $N$ two-level systems (TLS) coupled to a single mode of cavity photons. In the limit of small $N$, we analytically solve the time evolution for the full charging process. The eigenvectors of the driving Hamiltonian are found to be pseudo-Hermite polynomials and the evolution is thus interpreted as harmonic oscillator like behaviour. We find that there exists a universal flip duration in this process, regardless to the number of TLSs inside the cavity. Then we demonstrate that the average charging power when using a collective protocol is $\sqrt{N}$ times larger than the parallel charging protocol as for transferring the same amount of energy. Unlike previous studies, we point out that such quantum advantage does not originate from entanglement but dues to the coherent cooperative interactions among the TLSs. Our results provide intuitive quantitative insight into the dynamic charging process of a Dicke battery and can be observed under realistic experimental conditions.
description: 8 Pages, 3 figures
Friday Oct 16
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Limonium cazzae Bogdanovic & Brullo 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bogdanović, Sandro
name: Brullo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Plumbaginaceae
Limonium
Limonium cazzae

description: 4. Limonium cazzae Bogdanović & Brullo, sp. nov.
 Type: — CROATIA. Central Dalmatia: Isola di Sušac, Dalmazia, 29 July 2006, Bogdanović s.n. (holotype CAT!; isotypes CAT!, ZAGR!) (Figs. 5, 34).
 Diagnosis: — Planta pubescens, dense foliosa apice caudicularum, foliis spathulatis, 1–3-nerviis, scapis erectis vel adscendentibus, ramis sterilibus numerosis, inflorescentia reticulata, ramosa, spicis rectis ad curvatis, bractea inferiore ovato-triangulari, apiculata, bractea superiore oblongo-ovata, obtusa, calice tubo dense piloso, lobis triangulari-ovatis, acutis.
 Description: —Plant perennial, 14–35 cm tall, velvety with hairs 0.1–0.25 mm long, with robust tap-root. Caudices branched, 1–3 cm long, densely covered by leaves. Leaves rigid, rugose, velvety, green, 7–55 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, spathulate, retuse, revolute at the margin, 1–3-nerved, sometimes with 2 secondary nerves, gradually tapering into a long petiole. Stems numerous, robust, erect to ascending, rugose, with numerous sterile branches, flexuous, fragile at nodes, very branched, diverging at the angle of 90–180°, internodes 5–16 mm long, right to curved. Inflorescence reticulate, branched from the base; spikes 1–5(–8) cm long, straight to curved. Spikelets 5.5–6 mm long, 1–3 flowered, 3–4 per cm; outer bract 1.5–1.8 mm long, 1.3–1.6 mm wide, ovate-triangular, apiculate, totally hairy, with margin narrowly membranous, central part fleshy, acuminate; middle bract 1.6–1.9 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, oblong, bifid at the apex, membranous, hairy at the base and in the veins; inner bract 3.5–3.7 mm long, 1.8–2 mm wide, oblong-ovate, obtuse, margin membranous, glabrous, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, and central part fleshy, densely hairy, 1.4–1.6 mm wide, apiculate, forming a triangular tip, 0.6–0.8 mm long, reaching the upper margin. Calyx 4.5–4.7 mm long, exserted 2.6–3 mm from the inner bract, densely hairy, with 5 totally hairy ribs, reaching almost the middle part of the lobes; calyx lobes 0.8–0.9 × 0.8–0.9 mm, triangular-ovate, acute. Corolla lilac.
 Etymology: —From “Cazza” the old name of Sušac island.
 Distribution and ecology: —The species is exclusive of Sušac island (Fig. 29L) in the Lastovo archipelago (South Dalmatia). It grows on the calcareous rocky coasts and cliffs, where it is quite rare due to intensive goat grazing.
 Additional specimens examined (Paratype): — CROATIA. Central Dalmatia: Insel Cazza, Strand am Valle Dugo, 26 July 1914, Ginzberger s.n. (WU!).
description: Published as part of Bogdanović, Sandro & Brullo, Salvatore, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Limonium cancellatum group (Plumbaginaceae) in Croatia, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 215 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.215.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13634687
Study on The Preparation of Magnetic Sorbent from Bagasse for Chromium Ion Removal
Creators: name: Belachew, Habtamu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Heavy metals in the environment are hazardous to human health and require better methods for detection and remediation. Industrial effluent often contains the significant amount of hexavalent chromium. The discharge of wastewater without proper treatment into water streams consequently enters the soil and disturbs the aquatic and terrestrial life. A range of wastewater treatment technologies have been proposed which can efficiently reduce Cr(VI) to less toxic form such, as biodegradation, sorption, bioaccumulation, and nanotechnology. In this study, bagasse coated iron oxide magnetic sorbent were prepared using iron salts in presence of NH3 by co- precipitation process and then the magnetic sorbent is used as an adsorbent for chromium removal. All the adsorption experiments were carried out in batch mode to optimize process parameters using response surface methodology. Based on central composite design, quadratic model was developed to correlate the variables to the response. The effect of different parameters on optimum function of this process has been analysed. The results showed that maximum chromium adsorption of 91.95% occurs at pH levels of about 4. Optimum dosage of sorbent, chromium concentration and contact time are 1.1g, 20mg/l and 90min, respectively. Adsorption isotherms and kinetics were investigated. The experimental data were analyzed by the Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin models of adsorption. The adsorption isotherm data were fitted well to Langmuir isotherm. Results show that the kinetic model of pseudo-first order provided a good description of the experimental data. Thus, the chromium adsorption by magnetic sorbent can be considered as a potential treatment process for chromium removal in which the adsorbents and the adsorbed pollutant can be quickly recycled by the application of magnet.
Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining model
Creators: name: Kraft, Kornelius
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: codetermination
subject: bargaining
subject: wage-bill share
subject: productivity
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Codetermination can be regarded as an exogenously determined intervention which possibly affects efficiency of production and bargaining power of labor. Based on a model which covers efficient bargaining as well as employment bargaining a simple equation is derived which is suited to empirical testing. The empirical test is based on German data and includes years before and after the extension of German codetermination law in 1976. The estimates determine productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not reduce productivity, but leads to an increase in workers’ bargaining power by about 7.4-7.9 percent.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;38/2015
title: Anterior versus posterior debridement fusion for the treatment of single-level dorsal tuberculosis. A retrospective comparative study
Creators: name: Refae, Hesham
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: pott's disease
subject: antetior thoracotomy
subject: posterolateral rachotomy
subject: spinal infection
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives: Tuberculosis of the dorsal spine is a very serious situation which may cause paraplegia and disability. The choice of surgical approach, whether anterior, posterior or combined has been controversial. This study compares the clinical, radiological and functional outcome of anterior versus[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2015)
Out of sight, out of right?: the United States’ migrant interdiction program in international waters and in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Creators: name: Dastyari, Azadeh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The United States operates a Migrant Interdiction Program (MIP) outside its territorial sea and in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This thesis provides a legal analysis of the MIP as it relates to Haitian and Cuban nationals interdicted by the United States. This thesis examines the MIP from the perspective of the United States’ municipal law, as well as a range of applicable international laws including international maritime, human rights and refugee law. This thesis argues that the United States’ MIP is largely compliant with its own municipal law and international maritime law, with the important exception of the United States’ practice of turning rescue operations into interdiction operations. However, the MIP places the United States in breach of numerous obligations under international human rights and refugee law. This thesis argues that the most viable means of remedying these violations is for the United States to cease the practice of turning rescue operations into interdictions; refrain from the use of Guantánamo Bay as a refugee processing and detention facility; conduct all status determinations in the United States; and resettle individuals owed protection from refoulement in the United States. This thesis will also argue that interdictees and their advocates cannot turn to the international legal regime or to the courts of the United States to compel the United States’ executive to abide by its international obligations. This is because of the lack of effective enforcement mechanisms in the international legal regime. Furthermore, international human rights and refugee law obligations discussed in this thesis are not enforceable in the courts of the United States without additional implementing legislation. The United States has not implemented all of its international obligations in municipal law, and those obligations that have been implemented are unlikely to apply to the United States’ executive in international waters and in Guantánamo Bay.
Monday Oct 12
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Analysis of the forward and backward in time pair-separation PDFs for inertial particles in isotropic turbulence
Creators: name: Bragg, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate, using theory and Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), the Forward In Time (FIT) and Backward In Time (BIT) Probability Density Functions (PDFs) of the separation of inertial particle-pairs in isotropic turbulence. In agreement with our earlier study (Bragg et al., Phys. Fluids 28, 013305 (2016)), where we compared the FIT and BIT mean-square separations, we find that inertial particles separate much faster BIT than FIT, with the strength of the irreversibility depending upon the final/initial separation of the particle-pair and their Stokes number $St$. However, we also find that the irreversibility shows up in subtle ways in the behavior of the full PDF that it does not in the mean-square separation. In the theory, we derive new predictions, including a prediction for the BIT/FIT PDF for ${St\geq O(1)}$, and for final/initial separations in the dissipation regime. The prediction shows how caustics in the particle relative velocities in the dissipation range affect the scaling of the pair-separation PDF, leading to a PDF with an algebraically decaying tail. The predicted functional behavior of the PDFs is universal, in that it does not depend upon the level of intermittency in the underlying turbulence. We also analyze the pair-separation PDFs for fluid particles at short-times, and construct theoretical predictions using the multifractal formalism to describe the fluid relative velocity distributions. The theoretical and numerical results both suggest that the extreme events in the inertial particle-pair dispersion at the small-scales are dominated by their non-local interaction with the turbulent velocity field, rather than due to the strong dissipation range intermittency of the turbulence itself...
description: Accepted for publication in JFM
Wed.. Oct 14
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
title: Bio-based construction materials for climate change mitigation: scalability and sustainability
Creators: name: Hart, James Thomas Thornton
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Construction products made from timber and other organic materials are understood to contribute to climate change mitigation by causing relatively low greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain, whilst also storing biogenic carbon within the material itself. A logical progression would therefore be policy support for a steep increase in the penetration of the construction market by such materials. This raises questions that this work aims to resolve, primarily in the context of using more timber – ideally from domestic forests – in UK construction. These questions relate to the scale of any climate change mitigation and the validity and accuracy of methodologies and assumptions used to quantify the impacts, taking account of the uncertainties associated with modelling parameters. This work employs a novel model for exploring the flow of carbon from field and forest to buildings and – eventually – back to the atmosphere or to semi-permanent storage below ground. The model is driven by changes in demand for construction timber, and it incorporates dynamic features and a stochastic approach to the use of uncertain variables. Results suggest that when coupled with a domestic afforestation agenda strong enough to support future demand, an increase in timber use can lead to an increase in terrestrial carbon pools of 47 MtC after 100 years (albeit too late to contribute significantly to 2050 emissions targets). The benefits may be much reduced, however, if the link to afforestation and reforestation is weak, which is likely to be the case if the additional demand is met through imports. Products from faster-growing crops have advantages and should be further developed and deployed as a complementary strategy. In the medium term, more impressive results can be achieved by focussing on timber waste management rather than demand growth, with one reasonable scenario reducing emissions by 14 MtC by 2050.
Thursday. Oct 15
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Robust optical frequency dissemination with a dual-polarization coherent receiver
Creators: name: Calonico Davide
name: Clivati Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: optical frequency dissemination; dual-polarization coherent receiver

description: The purpose of this document is to describe some “open-hardware” aspects of the
 demonstrations related to a robust optical frequency dissemination with a dual-polarization
 coherent receiver.
Crossing borders: extraterritorial application of Australian directors’ duties
Creators: name: McKeown, Peter Julian Joseph
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian corporations operate in an increasingly international environment. It has intuitive appeal that Australian law should regulate the conduct of directors of Australian corporations even if it occurs outside Australia. This however can create tension with the competing rights of the foreign state in whose territory this conduct occurs to regulate such conduct. This thesis examines two questions. Firstly, does Australian law governing directors’ duties in fact apply to activities of a director of an Australian corporation which occur or have effect outside Australia? Secondly, as a matter of policy, should Australian law apply to such activities, and if so when? The thesis concludes that the current Australian law on this issue needs to be developed further. In examining the first question, this thesis analyses Australian law on directors’ duties in both its statutory and general form. The statutory analysis centres on the general extraterritoriality provision in subsection 5(4) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (‘CA’) and particularly its application to part 2D.1 on directors’ duties. Under this provision, each statutory director’s duty applies, ‘according to its tenor’, extraterritorially. With regard to Australian general law, comprising common law and equity, it is Australian private international law that determines the choice between Australian law and foreign law. The choice of law rules require, in a first step, a categorisation of the duty allegedly breached by the director. Three categories need to be distinguished: contract, tort and equity. For each category, choice of law rules can lead to the application of Australian law if the relevant conduct occurs overseas. However, the circumstances in which Australian general directors’ duties have extraterritorial application differs depending on whether the duty is of contractual, tortious or equitable origin. In considering the second question of whether and when Australian law should have extraterritorial application to directors’ duties, both a policy and comparative analysis is undertaken. This thesis concludes that Australian law should have extraterritorial application to directors’ duties providing there is a close connection with Australia in the particular circumstances. If there is no close connection with Australia but a closer connection with a foreign state that state’s laws should apply. The thesis concludes that subsection 5(4) of the CA on extraterritoriality operates appropriately in relation to directors’ duties in part 2D.1 CA. However, it is recommended that the provision be reworded to remove some ambiguity. In relation to the choice of law rules for general directors’ duties, the thesis recommends that a mandatory choice of law rule be prescribed for equity based causes of action for breaches of directors’ duties.
Preparation and Characterization of Activated Carbon from Flower Waste Biomass for Methylene blue Removal
Creators: name: Getu, Maru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Activated carbon (AC) can be used as an adsorbent to remove pollutants from waste water streams. 520 kg flower biomass waste is generated daily at a single floriculture industry in Ethiopia. Despite AC has been produced from different lignocellulosic biomass waste, utilizing Flower waste biomass (FWB) as a precursor to produce AC has an advantage of being new raw material, easily available, renewable precursor, and can be a way of reducing environmental pollution. This study presents synthesis of AC from FWB by chemical activation method using ZnCl2 and removal of methylene blue (MB) using the as-prepared AC. The parameters in the study were impregnation ratio, carbonization temperature, and carbonization time. Higher BET surface area of 750 m 2 -1 g , pore volume of 1.91 cm 3 -1 g and pore diameter of 1.89 nm was obtained at 1:1 impregnation ratio, ° 500 C carbonization temperature, and 1 hr of carbonization time. Effect of adsorption dosage, PH, initial dye concentration, and contact time on percentage removal of MB were studied. Maximum removal of MB was recorded at 0.05 g adsorbent dosage, 60 min contact time, PH of 10, and initial dye concentration of 10 mg L -1 . Kinetics and isotherm studies showed that the adsorption mechanism of MB using FWB based AC follows pseudo second order while both Langmuir and Freundlich model well fitted the adsorption data with maximum removal efficiency of 94.2% and adsorption capacity of 22.39 mg g -1 . FWB can be a good precursor for AC production and can be used to remove MB from wastewater.
Globalisation of competition law
Creators: name: Sweeney, Brendan Joseph
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The overall purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the discussion on the internationalisation of competition law. Within that context the thesis has three objectives: first, to determine the nature of the competition law problems created by commercial globalisation; secondly, to determine whether the existing mix of domestic and international rules is capable of solving those problems; and thirdly, having regard to the conclusions drawn in respect of the previous objectives, to determine the minimum rules required. Competition law is still predominantly domestic law. Business and commerce, however, is increasingly internationalised. This creates tensions that may require an international solution. International competition law issues - international anti-competitive conduct - may be divided into four categories; conduct designed to exclude imports, export cartels, international cartels and international single firm conduct. A fifth category, mergers, is not discussed in this thesis. The regulatory problems differ depending on the category of conduct concerned. This means that unless a broad-based solution is preferred, solutions will vary depending on the category of conduct. International rules, however, should only be sought if existing regulatory approaches are inadequate. If existing approaches are capable of evolving to solve the problems of international anti-competitive conduct, there is no justification for and little prospect of new international rules. To determine this it is necessary to investigate unilateral, bilateral and multilateral approaches. Unilateralism has advantages, but in a shrinking world it is deeply flawed as long as nations have different policies and legal preferences. Regulatory cooperation is evolving, but within a non-binding structure. Some of the problems associated with international anticompetitive conduct are likely to be resistant to non-binding approaches because they involve protectionism. A possibly relevant binding set of multilateral rules already exists in the shape of the agreements that make up the World Trade Organisation. These may be capable of solving some of the problems of international anti-competitive conduct. However, they will not solve all the problems. For these reasons new rules are required. There are theoretical, practical and institutional reasons why attempts to construct comprehensive rules should be avoided. Any new rules should be the minimum required. This thesis concludes with outline proposals for the minimum rules required to solve the four categories of international anti-competitive conduct.
Neural 3D Morphable Models: Spiral Convolutional Networks for 3D Shape Representation Learning and Generation
Creators: name: Bouritsas, Giorgos
name: Bokhnyak, Sergiy
name: Ploumpis, Stylianos
name: Bronstein, Michael
name: Zafeiriou, Stefanos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative models for 3D geometric data arise in many important applications in 3D computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we focus on 3D deformable shapes that share a common topological structure, such as human faces and bodies. Morphable Models and their variants, despite their linear formulation, have been widely used for shape representation, while most of the recently proposed nonlinear approaches resort to intermediate representations, such as 3D voxel grids or 2D views. In this work, we introduce a novel graph convolutional operator, acting directly on the 3D mesh, that explicitly models the inductive bias of the fixed underlying graph. This is achieved by enforcing consistent local orderings of the vertices of the graph, through the spiral operator, thus breaking the permutation invariance property that is adopted by all the prior work on Graph Neural Networks. Our operator comes by construction with desirable properties (anisotropic, topology-aware, lightweight, easy-to-optimise), and by using it as a building block for traditional deep generative architectures, we demonstrate state-of-the-art results on a variety of 3D shape datasets compared to the linear Morphable Model and other graph convolutional operators.
description: to appear at ICCV 2019
The prosecution of corporations in Australia
Creators: name: Clough, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is based on previously published and unpublished material. It seeks to comprehensively and critically analyse the law relating to the prosecution of corporations in Australia. It encompassed the key aspects of any prosecution: the rationale for criminal liability, the investigation of corporate crime, criminal procedure, models of liability (both statute and common law) and sentencing options. Although focussing on the law of Australia, this thesis draws upon comparative legal materials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.
Reply & Supply: Efficient crowdsourcing when workers do more than answer questions
Creators: name: McAndrew, Thomas C.
name: Guseva, Elizaveta A.
name: Bagrow, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crowdsourcing works by distributing many small tasks to large numbers of workers, yet the true potential of crowdsourcing lies in workers doing more than performing simple tasks---they can apply their experience and creativity to provide new and unexpected information to the crowdsourcer. One such case is when workers not only answer a crowdsourcer's questions but also contribute new questions for subsequent crowd analysis, leading to a growing set of questions. This growth creates an inherent bias for early questions since a question introduced earlier by a worker can be answered by more subsequent workers than a question introduced later. Here we study how to perform efficient crowdsourcing with such growing question sets. By modeling question sets as networks of interrelated questions, we introduce algorithms to help curtail the growth bias by efficiently distributing workers between exploring new questions and addressing current questions. Experiments and simulations demonstrate that these algorithms can efficiently explore an unbounded set of questions without losing confidence in crowd answers.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table