cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Physis
Creators: name: Dunshirn, Alfred
Publisher: name: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature
Year: 2019

description: Physis bezeichnet, als griechisches Pendant zum lateinischen natura, die Verfasstheit und Herkunft von in verschiedenen Unabhängigkeitsgraden aus sich selbst entstehenden Komplexen. In großer Bedeutungsbreite kann physis den „Wuchs“ von Pflanzen und Tieren sowie die Beschaffenheit einer Gattung oder den Ursprung bzw. die Beschaffenheit des gesamten Kosmos (physis ton panton) benennen. In der Frage nach der Herkunft und dem Aufbau der Phänomene, die mit dem Überbegriff physis erfasst wurden, wurzeln die Betrachtungen der frühen griechischen Weisheitslehrer ebenso wie diejenigen der alle Weltbereiche erschließenden Philosophen in der Tradition des Platon, des Aristoteles, der Atomisten oder der Stoa. Ein vielfach angesprochener Gegensatzbegriff zur physis ist die techne, die das (meist vom Menschen ausgehende) Verfertigen von Objekten meint, die den Ursprung ihres Werdens nicht in sich selbst haben. Im Bereich der Handlungen kann die physis als der Orientierungspunkt gelten, an dem ein gelingen sollendes Leben auszurichten ist – man soll „in Übereinstimmung mit der physis leben“. Hinsichtlich einer die vordergründige Betrachtung von Gegenständen überschreitenden Erfassung der Erscheinungen in der Welt steht physis bis in die Spätantike sowohl für die konkrete und komplexe Bestimmtheit von Dingen und Lebewesen als auch für das „Wesen“ Gottes.
description: Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature, 2019
Not my circus, not my monkeys: Using Bakhtin's carnival to explore teacher identity and experience
Creators: name: Mead, Nadia
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: This PhD artefact consists of an anthology of short stories collectively titled ‘Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys’, and an accompanying exegesis titled ‘Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: exploring the creative process and product’. The short stories document the experiences of teachers from the early days of their careers to a time before retirement. Each story uses Bakhtin’s carnival to explore the experiences of teachers in their everyday workplaces and beyond. The carnivalised stories convey the emotional aspect of the job and how this dimension of the workplace is marginalised when talking about the teacher profession. The stories highlight how within English and Australian educational systems, the individual teacher’s voice is also marginalised or silenced. The narratives examine the impact on teachers as people and the exegesis enters into a scholarly debate regarding a profession that is struggling to keep its newer recruits. An enduring theme of teacher identity underpins the stories and this theme is also debated in the exegesis using an autoethnographic methodology. The writer’s choice of creative writing as a vehicle for examining teacher identity and experience is discussed in the exegesis, and the elements of short story writing are also investigated.
Participant perceptions on the meaning of supervisor and organisational support in creating a positive learning environment
Creators: name: Lancaster, Susan
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350710
subject: Organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management

description: The literature discusses the importance of providing support for learning, however there is not a clear understanding of the types of support that are beneficial. This thesis comprises a series of three studies that address weaknesses in the literature regarding how organisations can support employee learning and transfer. These studies provide rich data that extend the literature through employing a qualitative methodology in an area dominated by quantitative studies. They give voice to employees’ perceptions of what is important to support their learning.
Boundary crossing identities for Brownian motion and some nonlinear ode's
Creators: name: Alili, Larbi
name: Patie, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D05, 37D25, 37C25

description: We start by introducing a nonlinear involution operator which maps the space of solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations into the space of solutions of the associated equations which turn out to be nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We study some algebraic and analytical properties of this involution operator as well as some properties of a two-parameter family of operators describing the set of solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations. Next, we show how a specific composition of these mappings allows to connect, by means of a simple analytical expression, the law of the first passage time of a Brownian motion over a curve to a two-parameter family of curves. We offer three different proofs of this fact which may be of independent interests. In particular, one is based on the construction of parametric time-space harmonic transforms of the law of some Gauss-Markov processes. Another one, which is of algebraic nature, relies on the Lie group symmetry methods applied to the heat equation and reveals that our two-parameter transformation is the unique non-trivial one.
description: 13 pages
A maximum entropy thermodynamics of small systems
Creators: name: Dixit, Purushottam D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a maximum entropy approach to analyze the internal dynamics of a small system in contact with a large bath e.g. a solute-solvent system. For the small solute, the fluctuations around the mean values of observables are not negligible and the probability distribution P(r) of the state space depends on the intricate details of the interaction of the solute with the solvent. Here, we employ a superstatistical approach: P(r) is expressed as a marginal distribution summed over the variation in β, the inverse temperature of the solute. The joint distribution P(β,r) is estimated by maximizing its entropy. We also calculate the first order system-size corrections to the canonical ensemble description of the state space. We test the development on a simple harmonic oscillator interacting with two baths with very different chemical identities viz. a) Lennard-Jones particles and b) water molecules. In both cases, our method captures the state space of the oscillator sufficiently well. Future directions and connections with traditional statistical mechanics are discussed.
title: Introduction
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wiese, Frank
name: Reich, Mike
name: Arp, Gernot
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Palaeontology
subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Frank Wiese, Mike Reich and Gernot Arp (Eds.) “Spongy, slimy, cosy & more ; 9-12
Corpus Development for Affective Video Indexing
Creators: name: Soleymani, Mohammad
name: Larson, Martha
name: Pun, Thierry
name: Hanjalic, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Affective video indexing is the area of research that develops techniques to automatically generate descriptions of video content that encode the emotional reactions which the video content evokes in viewers. This paper provides a set of corpus development guidelines based on state-of-the-art practice intended to support researchers in this field. Affective descriptions can be used for video search and browsing systems offering users affective perspectives. The paper is motivated by the observation that affective video indexing has yet to fully profit from the standard corpora (data sets) that have benefited conventional forms of video indexing. Affective video indexing faces unique challenges, since viewer-reported affective reactions are difficult to assess. Moreover affect assessment efforts must be carefully designed in order to both cover the types of affective responses that video content evokes in viewers and also capture the stable and consistent aspects of these responses. We first present background information on affect and multimedia and related work on affective multimedia indexing, including existing corpora. Three dimensions emerge as critical for affective video corpora, and form the basis for our proposed guidelines: the context of viewer response, personal variation among viewers, and the effectiveness and efficiency of corpus creation. Finally, we present examples of three recent corpora and discuss how these corpora make progressive steps towards fulfilling the guidelines.
description: Manuscript published
Weapons of mass consumption: The psychological mechanisms driving over indulgence
Creators: name: Goodwin, Belinda
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 520503
subject: Personality and individual differences

description: Excess-consumption in the general population, whether economic, dietary, or substance-oriented, presents numerous health and social challenges. Psychoactive substances, energy dense food, and certain media and retail products tend to provide immediate and exaggerated reinforcement, in turn promoting excessive consumption that contributes to individual and societal harms. These stimuli may be understood to be ‘supernormal’ in that they activate reward pathways and approach behaviour more so than naturally occurring stimuli for which these pathways were intended. This thesis investigated the issue of unhealthy excess consumption in the Australian general population, with a key focus to define, measure, and predict individual differences and preferences contributing to excessive consumption. These objectives were addressed through six studies involving a face to face interview study, a series of cross-sectional online surveys, and a reaction time task. Key findings were: 1) Shared variance amongst several types of rewarding stimuli; including fast food, salt, caffeine, television, gambling products, and illicit drugs; can be explained by an underlying individual difference factor; 2) People tend to systematically vary in their preference toward reward from artificial modern day consumer products (i.e., supernormal stimuli) over natural forms of reward, which I have termed “supernormal preference”; 3) Reward drive (RD) and rash impulsivity (RI) uniquely and differentially predict the above-average consumption of a variety of consumer products and activities as well as a preference towards supernormal over natural reward; and lastly, 4) supernormal preference, RD, and RI are positively related to the latent factor reflecting the consumption of several types of hedonic, modern day consumer products. These finding are discussed in terms of the neurological and evolutionary underpinnings of reinforcement processes and the impact that a preference for super normal reward, and/or a rash impulsive disposition, might have on individuals, health interventions, and future research.
An equation linking $\mathscr{W}$-entropy with reduced volume
Creators: name: Xu, Guoyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K15, 53C44

description: $\mathscr{W}$-entropy and reduced volume for the Ricci flow were introduced by Perelman, which had proved their importance in the study of the Ricci flow. L. Ni studied the analogous concepts for the linear heat equation on the static manifolds, and established an equation which links the large time behavior of these two. Due to the surprising similarity between those concepts in the Ricci flow and the linear heat equation, a natural question whether such equation holds for the Ricci flow ancient solution was asked by L. Ni. In this paper, we gave an alternative proof to L. Ni's original equation based on a new method. And following the same philosophy of this method, we answer L. Ni's question positively for Type I $κ$-solutions of the Ricci flow.
description: 18pp, final version, to appear on Crelles Journal
The population dynamics of the thrips species assemblage in French bean, lettuce, tomato and zucchini agro-ecosystems
Creators: name: Healey, Madaline
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300804
subject: Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Management of insect pests is one of the most important aspects of crop agronomy in the agricultural industry. This has become increasingly sophisticated as new approaches based on a greater understanding of individual pests and their biology are developed and used in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs to target pest populations at critical development periods to reduce potential injury to the crop. Our understanding of Thysanoptera biology and ecology in vegetables is restricted to a few key pest species, and very little attention has been given to other thrips species that dwell within these systems. This has produced a large gap in our understanding of the population dynamics of pest and non-pest species in vegetable agro-ecosystems. This deficit restricts the capacity to develop IPM strategies for the important pest thrips species. To contribute to our understanding of the Thysanoptera and the relationship of this insect order with the vegetable agro-ecosystem, this study determined the thrips species assemblage in French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, var. ‘Labrador’), lettuce (Lactucta sativa, var. ‘Rador’), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, indeterminate trial variety courtesy of Syngenta©) and zucchini (Cucurbita pepo, var. ‘Amanda’) agro-ecosystems, and further investigated: the temporal distribution of thrips populations on a crop phenological scale; the variability of the spatial distribution of thrips clusters; the effect of weather on thrips relative abundance; and the reproductive host association between thrips and the four crops. Investigations undertaken in this three-year study (27th December 2011 to 3rd June 2012; 24th December 2012 to 4th June 2013; 27th December 2013 to 17th June 2014) determined that four thrips species assemblages exist in each of the four agro-ecosystems. These comprised of key thrips species including Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) and Megalurothrips usitatus (Bagnall) in French bean, Desmothrips tenuicornis (Bagnall), F. occidentalis and F. schultzei (Trybom) in lettuce, F. occidentalis, F. schultzei and Pseudanaphothrips achaetus (Bagnall) in tomato and F. occidentalis, F. schultzei and Tenothrips frici (Uzel) in zucchini. French bean and zucchini supported the greatest diversity and abundance of thrips, whilst tomato supported the least within the assemblage. This study represents the first published description of thrips species assemblages in these important vegetable crops.
The Social Higgs
Creators: name: Bertolini, Daniele
name: McCullough, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using published Higgs search data we investigate whether any evidence supports the possibility that the Higgs may be mixed with other neutral scalars. We combine the positive evidence for the Higgs at 125.5 GeV with search constraints at other masses to explore the viability of two simple models. The first Higgs 'friend' model is simply a neutral scalar mixed with the Higgs. In the second Higgs 'accomplice' model the new scalar has an enhanced coupling to photons due to couplings to additional charged fields. We find that the latter scenario allows improvement in fitting the data by accommodating enhanced diphoton rates and suppression in other channels for a Higgs mass of 125.5 GeV. Small excesses at other masses allow the additional scalar to further improve the fit to the data, particularly if it has mass in the vicinity of 210 GeV. Due to observed event rates at 125.5 GeV and strong limits in high mass Higgs searches, mixing angles greater than pi/4 are typically disfavored at the 95% confidence level, depending on the mass of the scalar.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. v2 references added, Higgs data updated
Voices in unison: The role of music education in Victorian independent secondary schools
Creators: name: Bohun, Phillip
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy

description: The role of music education is an issue of concern in many Victorian independent Secondary Schools and the scope of this issue is not limited to teaching or the greater context of the teaching profession. The concern centers around the lack of recognition music education is afforded within school timetables, and the number of studies stating that many school principals do not value the positive outcomes of music education. This situation has a substantial impact the advancement of a holistic education for students enrolled in this scholastic system. This research focuses on the perceptions and implementation of music education programs in Victorian independent secondary schools by teachers, principals, tertiary academics and members of music societies. There is a dearth of knowledge in understanding the role of music education for those connected to these educational institutions and how they develop music programs to teach students. Therefore, this study aims to uncover the concerns associated with this issue and employ the resulting data to develop a practical grounded theory that explains the role of music education and the experiences of music educators in these institutions. Data was collected from a sample of professional music educators via semi-structured interviews. These interviews were completed during the months of July and August in 2013. The resulting structure of the interviews identified the key themes derived from the review of literature and created a framework for an in-depth exploration of the key issues of this study. The findings of this research study indicated that participants hold a strong belief that music education is crucial to the overall performance of their students across many aspects of their education and adolescent lives; that music educators experience a feeling of frustration as a result of the interrelationship and interaction of recognition, tradition and competition within the scholastic system; that these categories intersect to form a performance discourse; that music education is optional or elective by term, semester or year; that the leadership in these schools relies on an co-curricular approach. The findings have implications for music educators, school principals and leadership groups, the teaching profession, parents, the performing arts community, and Victorian education authorities and policy makers.
Parity projection of QCD sum rules for the nucleon
Creators: name: Ohtani, Keisuke
name: Gubler, Philipp
name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nucleon and its negative-parity excited states are examined in a maximum entropy method analysis of QCD sum rules. First, we rederive the parity projected sum rules for baryons using forward correlation functions. Doing this, the method is generalized so that higher order operator product expansion (OPE) terms can be calculated unambiguously. We then apply this approach to the nucleon channel taking into account all known first order alpha_s corrections to the Wilson coefficients of the OPE. As these corrections have turned out to be large, we suppress them by using a phase-rotated Gaussian kernel. Simultaneously, this phase rotation strongly suppresses the continuum contribution and improves the convergence of the OPE. The resulting sum rule has the interesting feature that it is dominated by the term containing the chiral condensate of dimension 3. Analyzing this sum rule by the maximum entropy method, we are able to extract information of both the positive and negative parity states.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; minor modifications, published version
Connect and win: The role of social networks in political elections
Creators: name: Halu, Arda
name: Zhao, Kun
name: Baronchelli, Andrea
name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many networks do not live in isolation but are strongly interacting, with profound consequences on their dynamics. Here, we consider the case of two interacting social networks and, in the context of a simple model, we address the case of political elections. Each network represents a competing party and every agent on the election day can choose to be either active in one of the two networks (vote for the corresponding party) or to be inactive in both (not vote). The opinion dynamics during the election campaign is described through a simulated annealing algorithm. We find that for a large region of the parameter space the result of the competition between the two parties allows for the existence of pluralism in the society, where both parties have a finite share of the votes. The central result is that a densely connected social network is key for the final victory of a party. However, small committed minorities can play a crucial role, and even reverse the election outcome.
description: (5 pages, 5 figures)
title: WildCam TV
Creators: name: Spindler, Cedric
Publisher: name: Critical Media Lab, IXDM, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biodiversität
subject: Posthumanismus
subject: Anthropodenzentralisierung
subject: Medienökologie
subject: Monitoring
subject: Naturschutz
subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: People are often unaware of the parallel worlds that coexist alongside their own. This is mainly due to the daily routine, lack of attention and understanding of the behaviors of non-human cohabitants, as well as humans' day activity and limited night vision. Biological processes such as plant growth cannot be perceived either, as they are too slow for our senses. The goal of WildCam TV was to develop a media format with unusual perspectives and time intervals that allows people to experience these hidden animal worlds and nature phenomena in a local context.
title: การพัฒนาการเรียนรู้ของผู้เรียนตามแนวพุทธ
Creators: name: บุญสืบ ยังเจริญ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย วิทยาเขตนครสวรรค์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: การพัฒนา
การเรียนรู้
การเรียนรู้ตามแนวพุทธ

description: Journal of Interdisciplinary Buddhism, 3, 2, A1131
Wolfram Hoepfner, Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner und Mitarbeiter, Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland
Creators: name: Knell, Heiner
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Wolfram Hoepfner, Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner und Mitarbeiter, Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland. Wohnen in der klassischen Polis 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1986, 293 Seiten, 268 Abbildungen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 188.1988: Bonner Jahrbücher
Optimising the introduction of new technology into safety-critical environments: A human factors study
Creators: name: Crawford, Elise
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401003
subject: Engineering practice

description: User resistance toward new technology can be a symptom of poorly interacting system elements and is, therefore, a human factors concern. New technology can offer many benefits to organisations. However, before returns on investment can be realised end users must come to adopt the new technology. For organisations with safety-critical systems, this final adoption step is extremely important for the organisation’s investment and for public safety where poor technology adoption can lead to events that result in loss of life at catastrophic levels. However, few studies have focused on how employees adopt technology in mandatory circumstances. In order to develop effective implementation strategies, scholars have suggested that it may be fruitful to investigate the underlying factors that influence user resistance and technology adoption.
Properties of z~3-6 Lyman break galaxies. II. Testing star formation histories and the SFR-mass relation with ALMA and near-IR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Schaerer, Daniel
name: de Barros, Stephane
name: Sklias, Panos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the dependence of derived physical parameters of distant Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) on the assumed star formation histories (SFHs), their implications on the SFR-mass relation, and we propose observational tests to better constrain these quantities. We use our SED-fitting tool including nebular emission to analyze a large sample of LBGs, assuming five different star formation histories, extending our first analysis of this sample (de Barros et al. 2012, paper I). In addition we predict the IR luminosities consistently with the SED fits. Compared to "standard" SED fits assuming constant SFR and neglecting nebular lines, assuming variable SFHs yield systematically lower stellar masses, higher extinction, higher SFR, higher IR luminosities, and a wider range of equivalent widths for optical emission lines. Exponentially declining and delayed SFHs yield basically identical results and generally fit best. Exponentially rising SFHs yield similar masses, but somewhat higher extinction. We find significant deviations between the derived SFR and IR luminosity from the commonly used SFR(IR) or SFR(IR+UV) calibration, due to differences in the SFHs and ages. Models with variable SFHs, favored statistically, yield generally a large scatter in the SFR-mass relation. We show that the true scatter in the SFR-mass relation can be significantly larger than inferred using SFR(UV) and/or SFR(IR). Different SFHs, and hence differences in the derived SFR-mass relation and in the specific star formation rates, can be tested/constrained observationally with future IR observations with ALMA. Measurement of emission lines, such as Halpha and [OII]3727, can also provide useful constraints on the SED models. We conclude that our findings of a large scatter in SFR-mass at high-z and an increase of the specific star formation rate above z>~3 (paper I) can be tested observationally. (abriged)
description: 20 pages, 27 figures included, revised version, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Matrix converter based voltage regulator for managing smart microgrid with high renewable energy penetrations
Creators: name: Ali, MD Sawkat
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400803
subject: Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)

description: This thesis examines the use of matrix converter (MC) in voltage regulators intended for use in the low voltage (LV) distribution network. Voltage balance and voltage regulation can be controlled by adding a series compensation voltage with a transformer. The MC supplies the injection transformer with an appropriate voltage which may be significantly unbalanced. Prior-art MCs have been predominantly applied in motor drives which have relatively balanced voltages and currents. This thesis shows the existing methods are not ideal for very unbalanced situations. It is shown that a traditional MC supplying an unbalanced load develops current harmonics at its input terminal. This thesis provides an improved MC modulation method that can eliminate input harmonics. This result is confirmed by simulation and experimental work. The thesis extends the traditional 3× 3 matrix into four wire compatible MC topologies including 3×4, 4×3 and 4×4 converters. For these cases, and generalised cases, solutions are presented for switch commutation. These are implemented with a field programmable gate array (FPGA). An experimental study is made of switch commutation for silicon and silicon carbide metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).
Rainer Wiegeis, Die Tribusinschriften des römischen Hispanien
Creators: name: Galsterer, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Rainer Wiegeis, Die Tribusinschriften des römischen Hispanien. Ein Katalog. Madrider Forschungen 13. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1985. XII, 199 Seiten, 3 Abbildungen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 188.1988: Bonner Jahrbücher
Avraham Negev, Nabatean Archaeology Today
Creators: name: Wenning, Robert
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Avraham Negev, Nabatean Archaeology Today. New York University Press, New York und London 1986. XIV, 155 Seiten, 66 Abbildungen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 188.1988: Bonner Jahrbücher
Are National Parks Reserved for Certain Visitors? Effects of Timed-Entry Reservation Systems on the Demographic Composition of Arches National Park Visitors
Creators: name: Nairn, Isobel
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: National parks and reserves
subject: Public lands
subject: Land use--Management
subject: Race
subject: Diversity, equity, and inclusion
subject: Socioeconomic status
subject: Accessibility
subject: Environmental justice
subject: Stanford University
subject: Humanities and Sciences
subject: Public Policy Program

description: Timed-entry reservation systems are an increasingly popular visitation management strategy at National Parks. Acquiring a reservation through these systems requires computer literacy, advance notice of work and family scheduling, and familiarity with national park policies. These characteristics are concentrated within particular demographic groups, and as such timed-entry systems create an inequitable barrier to national park visitation. Using a difference-in-differences regression model on survey data collected in 2015 and 2016 and data from the Recreation Information Database, I find preliminary evidence that the timed-entry system at Arches National Park resulted in an increase in median household income and educational attainment based on park visitors’ zip codes. Building on existing research which suggests that requiring reservations for campsites can have negative impacts on racial and socioeconomic diversity, I show that the pattern holds in national parks that implement reservation systems park-wide. This finding exists within the context of underrepresentation of marginalized groups in national park visitation and outdoor recreation more broadly. While timed-entry systems may protect the environmental assets of national parks, they make outdoor spaces less accessible and are contradictory to the mission of public lands.
Das Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn. Rheinisches Landesamt für Bodendenkmalpflege. Ausgrabungen, Funde und Befunde 1986
Creators: name: Beyer, Brigitte
name: Joachim, Hans-Eckart
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 188.1988: Bonner Jahrbücher
Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann, Die römischen Bronzen der Schweiz V. Neufunde und Nachträge
Creators: name: Rolley, Claude
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann, Die römischen Bronzen der Schweiz V. Neufunde und Nachträge. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994. XIV, 225 Seiten, 137 Tafeln.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 196.1996(1997): Bonner Jahrbücher
Kinetic Gravity Braiding and axion inflation
Creators: name: Maity, Debaprasad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We constructed a new class of inflationary model with the higher derivative axion field which obeys constant shift symmetry. In the usual axion (natural) inflation, the axion decay constant is predicted to be in the super-Planckian regime which is believed to be incompatible with an effective field theory framework. With a novel mechanism originating from a higher derivative kinetic gravity braiding (KGB) of an axion field we found that there exist a huge parameter regime in our model where axion decay constant could be naturally sub-Planckian. Thanks to the KGB which effectively reduces the Planck constant. This effectively reduced Planck scale provides us the mechanism of further lowering down the speed of an axion field rolling down its potential without introducing super-Planckian axion decay constant. We also find that with that wide range of parameter values, our model induces almost scale invariant power spectrum as observed in CMB experiments.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Matched with published version
Roger J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire. The Archaeology of a Roman Province 36 B.C. - A. D. 535
Creators: name: Hesberg, Henner Von
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Roger J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire. The Archaeology of a Roman Province 36 B.C. - A. D. 535. Aris and Phillips Ltd., Teddington House, Warminster/Wiltshire 1990. 452 Seiten.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 196.1996(1997): Bonner Jahrbücher
Comparative Analysis of the Gateway Belief Model for Policy Opinion Change in Sweden and the United States
Creators: name: Meyn, Isabella
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gateway Belief Model
subject: Attitudinal Change
subject: Global Warming
subject: Climate Policy
subject: Sweden
subject: Comparative Analysis
subject: Public Opinion
subject: Consensus Messaging
subject: Trust in Scientists
subject: Stanford University
subject: Humanities and Sciences
subject: Public Policy Program

description: The Gateway Belief Model (GBM) asserts that perceptions of consensus among experts about climate change are a gateway belief that directly impact public opinion about global warming and public support for climate policy. My research refines the model by proposing that the relationship between perceived scientific consensus (PSC) and climate attitudes might not be positive and significant throughout as the GBM implies. I introduce trust in scientists as a moderator of the relationship between PSC and climate opinion. I test the GBM and my extension utilizing data gathered from surveys of nationally representative, random samples in Sweden and the U.S. OLS regressions gauged associations between PSC and respondents' views on climate-related issues and tested whether PSC has greater impact among people with higher trust in scientists. Imposing a linearity assumption onto PSC led to positive and significant relationships between PSC and climate beliefs, supporting the GBM. However, relaxing the linearity assumption by assessing PSC categorically revealed a decreasing return to PSC. Trust in scientists failed to moderate the relationships between PSC, climate beliefs, and policy support, disputing the underlying mechanism of the GBM. Findings provide insights about the universality of scientific consensus message as a strategy to increase support for global warming action.
Optimisations of draft gear designs for heavy haul trains
Creators: name: Wu, Qing
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401702
subject: Dynamics, vibration and vibration control
classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation

description: This thesis developed a parallel multiobjective optimisation methodology to enable fast optimisations of draft gear designs for heavy haul trains. Improvements were achieved in the development of deterministic white-box draft gear models to enable direct use of the results in product design. Draft gear model parameters such as spring stiffness, wedge angles, and preloads were used as optimisation variables. Two optimisation algorithms were used: Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimisation. All draft gear designs in the optimisations were constrained by impact tests to ensure the optimised designs also comply with current draft gear acceptance standards. Draft gear performance was assessed using whole-trip Longitudinal Train Dynamics (LTD) simulations and coupler fatigue damage calculations. Each simulation covered about 640 km of track and had about 10 hours of operational time. Three optimisation objectives were considered: minimal fatigue damage for wagon connection systems of loaded trains, minimal in-train (coupler) forces for loaded trains, and minimal longitudinal wagon accelerations for empty trains.
Finite type minimal annuli in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$
Creators: name: Hauswirth, L.
name: Kilian, M.
name: Schmidt, M. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10

description: We study minimal annuli in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ of finite type by relating them to harmonic maps $\mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{S}^2$ of finite type. We rephrase an iteration by Pinkall-Sterling in terms of polynomial Killing fields. We discuss spectral curves, spectral data and the geometry of the isospectral set. We consider polynomial Killing fields with zeroes and the corresponding singular spectral curves, bubbletons and simple factors. We investigate the differentiable structure on the isospectral set of any finite type minimal annulus. We apply the theory to a 2-parameter family of embedded minimal annuli foliated by horizontal circles.
description: 30 pages. v2: Normalizations and minor typos fixed. Accepted for publication in Illinois J. Math
Invention to institution: A comparative historical analysis of television across three national sites
Creators: name: C-Scott, Marc
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470107
subject: Media studies
classificationCode: 360501
subject: Cinema studies
classificationCode: 360505
subject: Screen media

description: This Thesis explores the protracted emergence and early development of television as a viable commercial medium. It assesses the role played by key individuals in television’s prehistory, across three national sites: Britain, the United States and Australia. After comparing and contrasting seminal developments in Britain and the United States, the Thesis addresses the issues of globalisation and localisation of television in an Australian context. The Thesis argues that current research associated with Australian television history focuses on developments subsequent to the introduction of television in 1956. Consequently there is a lack of conversation about Australian television’s pre-history. This includes the narrative associated with Australian inventors whose achievements were influential not only in Australia, but also impacted the development of television internationally. The Thesis concludes by providing an assessment of the international influence on the local Australian industry during the introduction of television. The later chapters show that while the technology of television introduced to Australia was comparable to that of Britain and the United States, its adoption was shaped by the local, social and political factors of the time.
Fit4Two: Investigating physical activity promotion among pregnant women in an Australian regional setting
Creators: name: Hayman, Melanie
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420605
subject: Preventative health care
classificationCode: 420319
subject: Primary health care
classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion

description: Participation in regular physical activity (PA) during pregnancy is associated with a variety of health benefits for both the mother, and her unborn child. Despite these benefits, limited research suggests that very few pregnant women in Australia are meeting current exercise during pregnancy guidelines. Additionally, the majority of the research that has been undertaken examining exercise behaviours of Australian pregnant women has been conducted in metropolitan and urban areas. Thus, very little is known about the exercise behaviours of Australian pregnant women residing in rural, regional and remote regions.
Efficient Remuneration of Power-5 College Football Players
Creators: name: Anderson, Liam
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: College Football
subject: College Athletics
subject: NCAA
subject: Student-Athletes
subject: College Athletes
subject: College sports--Economic aspects
subject: Sports Economics
subject: Marginal Revenue Product
subject: Stanford University
subject: Humanities and Sciences
subject: Public Policy Program

description: A growing body of literature attempts to estimate the economic impacts of the NCAA’s monopsony power in the labor market for college athletes in the revenue-generating sports of football and, to a lesser extent, men’s basketball. This literature is becoming increasingly pertinent as pending legislative and judicial action threatens to disrupt the NCAA’s ability to suppress wages to zero. This paper expands on past empirical research using the most comprehensive set of Power-5 college football recruiting, performance, and finance data ever compiled to first replicate two prior models estimating the marginal revenue products of players. That dataset is then used to execute a two-stage revenue-above-replacement model utilizing marginal revenue product estimations derived from a direct performance measure and position categorizations. We find significant variation in revenue-above-replacement figures between performance level and position, with a top percentile quarterback generating nearly $600k above a walk-on replacement player. We produce a matrix reporting revenue-above-replacement figures by position and percentile of performance, and make recommendations for AB 252, a bill currently moving through the California State Legislature which seeks to mandate remuneration of college athletes in revenue-generating sports.
Stochastic Loss Reserving with Emphasis on the Bornhuetter-Ferguson Method
Creators: name: Saluz, Annina
Publisher: name: Zürich, ETH-Zürich
Year: 2014
Subjects: CREDIBILITY-THEORIE (VERSICHERUNGSMATHEMATIK)
ZUSAMMENHANG ZWISCHEN DECKUNGSMITTELN UND PRÄMIE (VERSICHERUNGSMATHEMATIK)
SACHVERSICHERUNG + SACHSCHADENVERSICHERUNG (VERSICHERUNGSWESEN)
STOCHASTISCHE MODELLE + STOCHASTISCHE SIMULATION (WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITSRECHNUNG)

description: Diss., Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich, Nr. 22267
On the energy momentum dispersion in the lattice regularization
Creators: name: Berg, Bernd A.
name: McDargh, Zach
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a free scalar boson field and for U(1) gauge theory finite volume (infrared) and other corrections to the energy-momentum dispersion in the lattice regularization are investigated calculating energy eigenstates from the fall off behavior of two-point correlation functions. For small lattices the squared dispersion energy defined by $E_{\rm dis}^2=E_{\vec{k}}^2-E_0^2-4\sum_{i=1}^{d-1}\sin(k_i/2)^2$ is in both cases negative ($d$ is the Euclidean space-time dimension and $E_{\vec{k}}$ the energy of momentum $\vec{k}$ eigenstates). Observation of $E_{\rm dis}^2=0$ has been an accepted method to demonstrate the existence of a massless photon ($E_0=0$) in 4D lattice gauge theory, which we supplement here by a study of its finite size corrections. A surprise from the lattice regularization of the free field is that infrared corrections do {\it not} eliminate a difference between the groundstate energy $E_0$ and the mass parameter $M$ of the free scalar lattice action. Instead, the relation $E_0=\cosh^{-1} (1+M^2/2)$ is derived independently of the spatial lattice size.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures. Parts of the paper have been rewritten and expanded to clarify the results
Normal Criteria for Families of Meromorphic Functions
Creators: name: Dethloff, Gerd
name: Van Tan, Tran
name: Van Thin, Nguyen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D35

description: By using Nevanlinna theory, we prove some normality criteria for a family of meromorphic functions under a condition on differential polynomials generated by the members of the family.
description: Final version. Title and abstract have been slightly modified
Das Tor G des Oppidums Heidengraben bei Grabenstetten: Die Grabungen 1976 und 1981
Creators: name: Balzer, Ines
Publisher: name: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Year: 2019

description: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 22 Nr. 1 (1998): Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Low-energy collective excitations in the neutron star inner crust
Creators: name: Chamel, N.
name: Page, D.
name: Reddy, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low-energy collective excitations of the neutron star inner crust, where a neutron superfluid coexists with a Coulomb lattice of nuclei. The dispersion relation of the modes is calculated systematically from a microscopic theory including neutron band structure effects. These effects are shown to lead to a strong mixing between the Bogoliubov-Anderson bosons of the neutron superfluid and the longitudinal crystal lattice phonons. In addition, the speed of the transverse shear mode is greatly reduced as a large fraction of superfluid neutrons are entrained by nuclei. Not only does the much smaller velocity of the transverse mode increase the specific heat of the inner crust, but it also decreases its electron thermal conductivity. These results may impact our interpretation of the thermal relaxation in accreting neutron stars. Due to strong mixing, the mean free path of the superfluid mode is found to be greatly reduced. Our results for the collective mode dispersion relations and their damping may also have implications for neutron star seismology.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, revised version
The masters triathlete: Protein intake, muscle protein synthesis response and recovery from muscle-damaging exercise
Creators: name: Doering, Thomas
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320203
subject: Clinical microbiology

description: Masters athletes are one of the most rapidly growing cohorts of athletes worldwide, particularly in endurance sport such as triathlon. Given the multidisciplinary nature of their sport, triathletes often train more than once a day; adequate recovery between training sessions is therefore important for maintaining training quality. Limited research evidence suggests that masters athletes recover at similar rates to younger athletes following fatiguing exercise such as cycling. However, following exercise that results in a degree of muscle damage, such as running, masters athletes appear to experience slower rates of muscle recovery compared to younger, similarly-trained athletes. This mode-dependant difference in recovery suggests an impairment to the repair and remodelling mechanisms within skeletal muscle of masters athletes.