cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Reconstruct sedimentation rate and time from downhole logging data at Lake Chalco, Central México
Creators: name:  Abadi ,  Mehrdad Sardar
name:  Zeeden ,  Christian
name:  Wonik ,  Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Leibniz Institute for applied Geophysics, Germany(1);Understanding the evolution of lower latitude climate from the most recent glacial periods to post-glacial warmth in the continental tropical regions has been obstructed by a lack of continuous geological records. Here we present results from a lacustrine record from tropical North America. Specifically, we examine sediments from Lake Chalco, located in the Valley of Mexico, central Mexico (19°30’N, 99°W). The basin represents a hydrological closed system surrounded by the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt aging from the Oligocene to the present. We used borehole logging data to conduct a cyclostratigraphic analysis of the Lake Chalco sediments. More than 400 m were logged for several geophysical properties including magnetic susceptibility and spectral gamma radiation (SGR). SGR is a particularly useful tool as it is non-destructive, fast, affordable, and applicable even in cased boreholes. Among the lake deposit of the Chalco sub-basin, 388 total tephra layers (≥1 mm in thickness) were reported from the core description. Tephra layers with specific gamma-ray signatures present a challenge for extracting the primary signals caused by climatic agents. We propose a protocol to identify tephra layers embedded in other sediments using high-resolution SGR. After extracting the non-volcanic primary signal, we applied a suite of evolutive cyclostratigraphic methods to the Lake Chalco downhole logging data, with a focus on gamma-ray. The high-resolution gamma-ray results suggest that the Lake Chalco sediments contain several rhythmic cycles with a quasi-cyclic pattern comparable with Pleistocene climate evolution, allowing to calculate of a ~500-kyr time span for the Lake Chalco sediment deposition.
Intermix and Australia's indigenous population
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This note examines the extent of intermix amongst married and de facto couples in which at least one member is an Indigenous person. The inquiry concludes that most Indigenous couples in Australia are intermixed in the sense that they involve a non-Indigenous party and that the proportion of such couples is increasing. Also most of the children currently identified as Indigenous are the product of parents only one of whom is Indigenous Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
An Integrated Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Stochastic and Variability Orders in ROC Curve Estimation: An Application to Endometriosis Diagnosis
Creators: name: Seuk Hwang, Beom
name: Chen, Zhen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: In estimating ROC curves of multiple tests, some a priori constraints may exist, either between the healthy and diseased populations within a test or between tests within a population. In this paper, we proposed an integrated modeling approach for ROC curves that jointly accounts for stochastic and variability orders. The stochastic order constrains the distributional centers of the diseased and healthy populations within a test, while the variability order constrains the distributional spreads of the tests within each of the populations. Under a Bayesian nonparametric framework, we used features of the Dirichlet process mixture to incorporate these order constraints in a natural way. We applied the proposed approach to data from the Physician Reliability Study that investigated the accuracy of diagnosing endometriosis using different clinical information. To address the issue of no gold standard in the real data, we used a sensitivity analysis approach that exploited diagnosis from a panel of experts. To demonstrate the performance of the methodology, we conducted simulation studies with varying sample sizes, distributional assumptions and order constraints. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
The diasporic challenge to identity: insights from the Australian-Croat experience
Creators: name: Brown, Greg
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ethnically diverse immigration can present difficulties to policy makers trying to frame and implement a foreign policy that is in the host nation’s interests. Such immigration can also present challenges to the host nation’s internal cohesion. This paper outlines a framework for understanding these problems and then applies it to Australia and immigrant Australians of Croatian origin. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Disillusionment and disenchantment at the fringe: explaining the geography of the One Nation Party vote at the Queensland election
Creators: name: Davis, Rex
name: Stimson, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The 1998 Queensland State Election resulted in Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party capturing 22.7 per cent of the State’s primary vote and winning 11 of the 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The impressive performance of this political party in its first official electoral opportunity has changed the short-term political landscape and left the major political parties pondering why nearly one in four Queenslanders did not vote for them. This paper represents the most detailed analysis so far on the characteristics of One Nation voters in Queensland. Using booth level data, and collector district level information from the 1996 Census, a highly accurate description of One Nation voters is provided. In particular, the paper places an emphasis on the strong showing of One Nation on the fringes of urban areas, which saw the election of One Nation members in the seats of Ipswich West and Caboolture (outskirts of Greater Brisbane), Thuringowa (outskirts of Townsville) and Mulgrave (outskirts of Cairns). Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Efficient Synthesis of 3-R-Boc-amino-4-(2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)butyric Acid
Creators: name: Pan, Xianhua
name: Bai, Shupei
name: Yu, Wansheng
name: Ding, Ding
name: Zhao, Dongxian
name: Liu, Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: 3-R-Boc-amino-4-(2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)butyric acid (9) was obtained from L-methionine in six steps with a total yield of 32%. The α-amino acid segment of L-methionine was transferred to chiral aziridine by amino protection, reduction, hydroxyl derivation, and cyclization. After ring opening of 2,4,5-trifluoro-phenyl magnesium bromide, the methylthiomethyl group was then hydrolyzed to β-amino alcohol and oxidized to the target β-amino acid.
L’emergenza orfani nella grande guerra e la magistratura
Creators: name: Danusso, Cristina
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Legal History
Year: 2017

description: Il complesso e imponente problema degli orfani della prima guerra mondiale presenta molteplici sfaccettature: morali, familiari, sociali, giuridiche, economiche, politiche e finanziarie. In questo breve saggio si è potuto accennare solo ad alcune di esse e, tra le misure adottate dalle autorità italiane – dapprima, con urgenza, dal governo e più tardi dalle Camere -, si è scelto di soffermare maggiormente l’attenzione sul ruolo affidato alla magistratura e segnatamente alla nuova e interessante figura del giudice delle tutele. Esso esercita delicati compiti di volontaria giurisdizione e vigila sull’operato dei pretori, ma partecipa anche a varie attività di tipo amministrativo, essendo membro del Comitato provinciale per l’assistenza agli orfani di guerra. La sua funzione di coordinamento si svolge su più fronti e, in particolare, a lui spetta di trovare il giusto equilibrio tra la sfera di azione dello Stato e quella della famiglia, in modo che – secondo l’intenzione dei legislatori – la prima non invada e si sostituisca alla seconda, ma si limiti ad integrarla dove lo reputi necessario.
description: Italian Review of Legal History, N. 2 (2017)
Who cares about defence?: attitudes of Australian voters and of candidates in federal elections
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Terrorism and global insecurity present Australia with a number of defence challenges: are Australian voters and election candidates concerned? Survey data, drawn mainly from the 2004 Australian Election Study, show that around half the electorate want to boost defence, ten per cent believe we are secure and any increase is unnecessary, while around one third take a nonchalant attitude. They are unsure whether Australia can be defended (or are certain that it cannot be) but are not inclined to take further action. Candidates standing for election to the federal parliament are even less likely to want to boost defence, and more likely to display a nonchalant attitude. A surprisingly high proportion of Australians, and their potential leaders, take this attitude. In 2004, 36 per cent of voters and 48 per cent of candidates were not sure that Australia could defend itself but, despite this, did not want to spend more on defence. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Efficient Synthesis of 3-R-Boc-amino-4- (2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)butyric Acid
Creators: name: Pan, Xianhua
name: Bai, Shupei
name: Yu, Wansheng
name: Ding, Ding
name: Zhao, Dongxian
name: Liu, Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: 3-R-Boc-amino-4-(2,4,5-trifluorophenyl)butyric acid (9) was obtained from L-methionine in six steps with a total yield of 32%. The α-amino acid segment of L-methionine was transferred to chiral aziridine by amino protection, reduction, hydroxyl derivation, and cyclization. After ring opening of 2,4,5-trifluoro-phenyl magnesium bromide, the methylthiomethyl group was then hydrolyzed to β-amino alcohol and oxidized to the target β-amino acid.
Migraliteratura en la obra de Eduardo Gonzalez Viaña
Creators: name: Oliver, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: El objeto de esta presentación, basada en mi trabajo de investigación Migraliteratura en la obra de Eduardo González Viaña, es plantear  la necesidad de crear un nuevo concepto donde situar toda creación relacionada con la migración. Enfocarlo como literatura de defensa de los derechos del migrante y denuncia de su situación en el transcurso de un peligroso viaje del sur  al norte, cruzando una frontera que siempre le tratará como un ilegal. Un viaje, dos áreas, origen emigración, destino o inmigración, y esa frontera que no es solo física, también cultural, ideológica, idiomática, religiosa y étnica. 

Tras un análisis previo, creando un contexto geográfico, histórico y cronológico sobre la migración a nivel global, paso a definir el concepto de  migraliteratura que agruparía toda la literatura de migración en español, escrita por latinoamericanos y sobre latinoamericanos que emigran  de sus países de origen para intentar entrar en Estados Unidos de forma ilegal.

Términos como literatura migrante, de inmigración o migracional se pueden encontrar para referirse al fenómeno migratorio en general, pero no hay un concepto que los auna y los agrupe a todos.

El escritor peruano Eduardo González Viaña es uno de los maximos exponentes literarios de este nuevo estilo narrativo y su obra, un claro ejemplo de la defensa de los derechos del migrante y de denuncia sobre los atropellos que sufre el migrante en su viaje a Estados Unidos para cruzar de forma ilegal, que será el centro de estudio y columna vertebral de este trabajo.

Sobre González Viaña hay muchos artículos y escritos que analizan alguna obra en particular o una novela en concreto pero no hay mucha información ni un análisis detallado de  toda su obra relacionada con la migración.
Religious identification and marriage
Creators: name: Gariano, A. C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The question of marriage across religious boundaries has long been vexed in Australian society. This study uses unpublished 1991 Census data to analyse the extent to which contemporary Australians are influenced by religion in their choice of partner. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Migrants in the Australian labour market: some trends and developments
Creators: name: Bridge, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A clear trend of declining labour force participation rates for the overseas born in Australia seems to reflect the impact of ageing on the overseas born population as well as the impact of industrial restructuring among the overseas born. On the former, the overseas born are more highly represented in older age groups that are associated with lower labour force participation rates. On the latter, the overseas born have been more concentrated in industries and occupations whose share of total employment has been declining. Still, migrants arriving in the past few years have had a more positive experience in the Australian labour market with relatively high participation rates and low unemployment rates. The improvement seems to reflect several factors including migration program and policy changes as well as improved labour market conditions. Pagination on item is incorrect Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Denial, ignorance, and guilt: a reply to MacGregor's discussion of 'Socio-economic deprivation of Australia's stolen generation'
Creators: name: Hamilton, Neil T. M.
name: Majchrzak-Hamilton, Grazyna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Neil Hamilton and Grazyna Majchrzak-Hamilton's response to MacGregor, Ross; A response to 'socio-economic deprivation of Australia's stolen generation'. 1998; 6(1): 74-78
 Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Bayesian Conditional Tensor Factorizations for High-Dimensional Classification
Creators: name: Yang, Yun
name: B. Dunson, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In many application areas, data are collected on a categorical response and high-dimensional categorical predictors, with the goals being to build a parsimonious model for classification while doing inferences on the important predictors. In settings such as genomics, there can be complex interactions among the predictors. By using a carefully structured Tucker factorization, we define a model that can characterize any conditional probability, while facilitating variable selection and modeling of higher-order interactions. Following a Bayesian approach, we propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for posterior computation accommodating uncertainty in the predictors to be included. Under near low-rank assumptions, the posterior distribution for the conditional probability is shown to achieve close to the parametric rate of contraction even in ultra high-dimensional settings. The methods are illustrated using simulation examples and biomedical applications. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Labour's education and training strategy: building on false assumptions?
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Healy, Ernest
name: Smith, T. Fred
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Public policy on skills training under the former Coalition Government prioritised trade training. The Rudd Labor Government is following suit. This priority is based on the false assumption of widespread skills shortages in the trades. Such shortages as exist are largely confined to the construction industry. By contrast, demand for university-trained professionals, particularly in Australia’s service industries, has grown much more strongly. Yet, the output of Australia’s domestic graduates has been static over the last decade. Skill shortages currently and for the foreseeable future will mainly lie in occupations requiring university training. There is an urgent need for public policy to reflect this situation. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Power Estimation Using the Exemplary Dataset for Ordinal Data in the Presence of Nonproportional Odds
Creators: name: N. Tamura, Roy
name: Liu, Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics

description: Ordinal categorical data are extremely common in clinical trials where subjective outcomes are being measured. The most common analyses for ordinal categorical data are based on the proportional odds model. However, the assumption of proportional odds is an assumption of the model and not necessarily a property of the data. In many situations, clinical researchers may suspect that an effect on an ordinal scale will not satisfy the proportional odds assumption. In these situations, statisticians need to be able to investigate alternative models and estimate the power for these alternative models. We examine the trend odds model and the saturated model and compare these models to the proportional odds model under a wide class of alternative hypotheses. We also examine the exemplary dataset (ED) approach for power estimation for these models and determine how well this approach approximates the actual power. A recently developed ordinal scale for assessing nausea in the pediatric population illustrates the issues. The ED method was found to be accurate down to small sample sizes and the proportional odds test statistic was generally competitive even in the presence of nonproportional odds.
Power Estimation using the Exemplary Dataset for Ordinal Data in the Presence of Non-Proportional Odds
Creators: name: N. Tamura, Roy
name: Liu, Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics

description: Ordinal categorical data are extremely common in clinical trials where subjective outcomes are being measured. The most common analyses for ordinal categorical data are based on the proportional odds model. However, the assumption of proportional odds is an assumption of the model and not necessarily a property of the data. In many situations, clinical researchers may suspect that an effect on an ordinal scale will not satisfy the proportional odds assumption. In these situations, statisticians need to be able to investigate alternative models and estimate the power for these alternative models. We examine the trend odds model and the saturated model and compare these models to the proportional odds model under a wide class of alternative hypotheses. We also examine the exemplary dataset (ED) approach for power estimation for these models and determine how well this approach approximates the actual power. A recently developed ordinal scale for assessing nausea in the pediatric population illustrates the issues. The ED method was found to be accurate down to small sample sizes and the proportional odds test statistic was generally competitive even in the presence of non-proportional odds.
The outcome of the 1 November 1993 decisions
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Applications for the 1 November 1993 categories created by the government to resolve the status of the PRC students closed on 1 August 1994. Over 48,000 persons have applied; more than originally anticipated. But thousands of PRC students are likely to remain illegally in Australia after the applications have been processed. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
A Class of Functional Methods for Error-Contaminated Survival Data Under Additive Hazards Models with Replicate Measurements
Creators: name: Yan, Ying
name: Y. Yi, Grace
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Covariate measurement error has attracted extensive interest in survival analysis. Since Prentice, a large number of inference methods have been developed to handle error-prone data that are modulated with proportional hazards models. In contrast to proportional hazards models, additive hazards models offer a flexible tool to delineate survival processes. However, there is little research on measurement error effects under additive hazards models. In this article, we systematically investigate this important problem. New insights into measurement error effects are revealed, as opposed to well-documented results for proportional hazards models. In particular, we explore asymptotic bias of ignoring measurement error in the analysis. To correct for the induced bias, we develop a class of functional correction methods for measurement error effects. The validity of the proposed methods is carefully examined, and we investigate issues of model checking and model misspecification. Theoretical results are established, and are complemented with numerical assessments. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Pipe dreams and ideologies: values and planning
Creators: name: Newman, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Strategies in all Australian cities are trying to facilitate urban centres that are dense and mixed in their uses. The clash of values over these plans is discussed through an analysis of a recent critique by Recsei from Save Our Suburbs. The paper suggests there are seven fears that lie behind such views. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
A Class of Functional Methods for Error-Contaminated Survival Data under Additive Hazards Models with Replicate Measurements
Creators: name: Yan, Ying
name: Y. Yi, Grace
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Covariate measurement error has attracted extensive interest in survival analysis. Since Prentice (1982), a large number of inference methods have been developed to handle error-prone data that are modulated with proportional hazards models. In contrast to proportional hazards models, additive hazards models offer a flexible tool to delineate survival processes. However, there is little research on measurement error effects under additive hazards models. In this paper, we systematically investigate this important problem. New insights of measurement error effects are revealed, as opposed to well-documented results for proportional hazards models. In particular, we explore asymptotic bias of ignoring measurement error in the analysis. To correct for the induced bias, we develop a class of functional correction methods for error effects. The validity of the proposed methods is carefully examined, and we investigate issues of model checking and model misspecification. Theoretical results are rigorously established, and are complemented with numerical assessments.
Is financial reward overriding good pedagogical practices?
Creators: name: Walker, Elizabeth A.
name: Redmond, Janice
name: Morris, Robyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Enrolments by international students in Australian universities have boomed over recent years, especially in postgraduate courses. In many cases these students struggle to meet the standard that their teachers expect. This is often because of poor English combined with a limited understanding of the teachers’ cultural expectations. Rather than lamenting their students’ inadequacies, the present authors embedded an academic skills segment in one of the introductory units that they teach in a postgraduate MBA program. This resulted in a statistically significant reduction in plagiarism among the students who participated in the unit. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Australia, Hong Kong and 1997: the population connection
Creators: name: Skeldon, Ronald
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: What is the likely impact for migration to Australia of Hong Kong's incorporation into the People's Republic of China in 1997? Recent movements of people to and from Australia and Hong Kong suggest it may not be as great as some imagine. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
El archivo de Concha Lagos
Creators: name: Sandra García Rodríguez, Sandra G. Rodríguez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Comunicación pronunciada en el II Coloquio Internacional Archivar, desarchivar, anarchivar. Memoria y estrategia (11/08/2022), "El archivo personal de Concha Lagos", por Sandra García Rodríguez.
Australia's changing language demography
Creators: name: Clyne, Michael
name: Kipp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The first stage of an ongoing analysis of the language data from the 2001 Census shows both a consolidation of tendencies established from previous censuses as well as indicators of further change. This is demonstrated particularly in the language use of the school-age population. Each capital city is now displaying its own characteristic ethno linguistic profile, and most states have also increased their proportion of speakers of languages other than English. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Making space for social inclusion
Creators: name: Baum, Scott
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper considers the issue of the spatial patterns of socio-economic exclusion across Australia's metropolitan suburbs. Using an index of relative deprivation based on 2006 census data the paper argues that policies aimed at addressing issues of social exclusion must take more consideration of the links between people and place. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Sparse Regression Incorporating Graphical Structure Among Predictors
Creators: name: Yu, Guan
name: Liu, Yufeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: With the abundance of high-dimensional data in various disciplines, sparse regularized techniques are very popular these days. In this article, we make use of the structure information among predictors to improve sparse regression models. Typically, such structure information can be modeled by the connectivity of an undirected graph using all predictors as nodes of the graph. Most existing methods use this undirected graph edge-by-edge to encourage the regression coefficients of corresponding connected predictors to be similar. However, such methods do not directly use the neighborhood information of the graph. Furthermore, if there are more edges in the predictor graph, the corresponding regularization term will be more complicated. In this article, we incorporate the graph information node-by-node, instead of edge-by-edge as used in most existing methods. Our proposed method is very general and it includes adaptive Lasso, group Lasso, and ridge regression as special cases. Both theoretical and numerical studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for simultaneous estimation, prediction, and model selection. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Designing and delivering visas
Creators: name: Rizvi, Abdul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian Government, like governments of other developed nations, has been faced with greatly increased movements of international visitors, students and other movers. It has experienced less non-compliance with visa conditions than has been evident in most other comparable nations. This article spells out the administrative principles which have guided the officers in charge of managing population movement to and from Australia. For immigration agencies around the world the continual search for better ways to design and deliver visas is a necessity, not a choice. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Sparse Regression Incorporating Graphical Structure among Predictors
Creators: name: Yu, Guan
name: Liu, Yufeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: With the abundance of high dimensional data in various disciplines, sparse regularized techniques are very popular these days. In this paper, we make use of the structure information among predictors to improve sparse regression models. Typically, such structure information can be modeled by the connectivity of an undirected graph using all predictors as nodes of the graph. Most existing methods use this undirected graph edge-by-edge to encourage the regression coefficients of corresponding connected predictors to be similar. However, such methods do not directly utilize the neighborhood information of the graph. Furthermore, if there are more edges in the predictor graph, the corresponding regularization term will be more complicate. In this paper, we incorporate the graph information node-by-node, instead of edge-by-edge as used in most existing methods. Our proposed method is very general and it includes adaptive Lasso, group Lasso, and ridge regression as special cases. Both theoretical and numerical studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for simultaneous estimation, prediction and model selection.
Population growth and Australia's 2020 greenhouse gas emission commitments
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Healy, Ernest
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian Government has stated an unconditional commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by five per cent on year 2000 levels by 2020. However, in the absence of new abatement measures, Treasury-led modelling indicates that Australia’s emissions will grow from 553 million tonnes in 2000 to 774 million tonnes in 2020. This article disaggregates the Treasury modelling in order to estimate the contribution of population expansion to this growth. It shows that 83 per cent of the forecast increase in greenhouse emissions to 2020 will be attributable to population growth. The article concludes that it is very unlikely that Australia will achieve the five per cent reduction target by 2020 in the absence of attention to the population growth factor. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
title: Risk assessment of radioactivity in water intended for human consumption in mainland Portugal
Creators: name:  Domingos,   Filipa P.
name:  Pereira ,  Alcides J. S. C.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: University of Coimbra, LRN-Laboratory of Natural Radioactivity, Department of Earth Sciences, Portugal(1);IATV-Instituto do Ambiente, Tecnologia e Vida, Coimbra, Portugal.(2);University of Coimbra, CITEUC-Center for Earth and Space Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Portugal(3);The requirements for radiological protection regarding radioactive substances in water intended for human consumption are established in the Council Directive 2013/51/EURATOM of 22 October 2013. In Portugal, the Directive was transposed to the Decree-Law 152/2017, of December 7, which states that the entities managing water supply must establish a quality control program based on a risk assessment. The risk assessment must consider the results of previous monitoring programs of both groundwater and surface water sources and the results of radionuclides measured in raw water, among others. To aid the entities managing water supply, risk maps of radon (Rn-222), uranium (U-238 and U-234), radium (Ra-226) and polonium (Po-210) were developed for mainland Portugal by the Laboratory of Natural Radioactivity of University of Coimbra using: (i) results from measurements performed in water samples retrieved from the database of the national regulation authority responsible for water and waste services (ERSAR); (ii) the terrestrial gamma dose rate map at the scale of 1:1 000 000; (iii) uranium concentration (n = 2681) and (iv) radium activity concentration (n = 609) measured in bedrock samples. ERSAR’s database comprises radon (n = 9473), gross alpha and beta (n = 10500), Po-210 (n = 1188), Ra-226 (n = 1143), U-234 (n = 1127) and U-238 (n = 1129) results from 5874 distinct groundwater and surface water sources. In this work, data are presented, methods and challenges for risk mapping of radon and terrestrial radionuclides in water samples are discussed.
Social security recipiency among recently arrived immigrants
Creators: name: Murphy, Jill
name: Williams, Lynne S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper assesses the extent to which migrants in the family, humanitarian and skill categories depend on social welfare payments soon after their arrival. The data were derived from the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Clustering High-Dimensional Landmark-Based Two-Dimensional Shape Data
Creators: name: Huang, Chao
name: Styner, Martin
name: Zhu, Hongtu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: An important goal in image analysis is to cluster and recognize objects of interest according to the shapes of their boundaries. Clustering such objects faces at least four major challenges including a curved shape space, a high-dimensional feature space, a complex spatial correlation structure, and shape variation associated with some covariates (e.g., age or gender). The aim of this article is to develop a penalized model-based clustering framework to cluster landmark-based planar shape data, while explicitly addressing these challenges. Specifically, a mixture of offset-normal shape factor analyzers (MOSFA) is proposed with mixing proportions defined through a regression model (e.g., logistic) and an offset-normal shape distribution in each component for data in the curved shape space. A latent factor analysis model is introduced to explicitly model the complex spatial correlation. A penalized likelihood approach with both adaptive pairwise fused Lasso penalty function and L2 penalty function is used to automatically realize variable selection via thresholding and deliver a sparse solution. Our real data analysis has confirmed the excellent finite-sample performance of MOSFA in revealing meaningful clusters in the corpus callosum shape data obtained from the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-200 (ADHD-200) study. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Clustering High-Dimensional Landmark-based Two-dimensional Shape Data
Creators: name: Huang, Chao
name: Styner, Martin
name: Zhu, Hongtu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: An important goal in image analysis is to cluster and recognize objects of interest according to the shapes of their boundaries. Clustering such objects faces at least four major challenges including a curved shape space, a high-dimensional feature space, a complex spatial correlation structure, and shape variation associated with some covariates (e.g., age or gender). The aim of this paper is to develop a penalized model-based clustering framework to cluster landmark-based planar shape data, while explicitly addressing these challenges. Specifically, a mixture of offset-normal shape factor analyzers (MOSFA) is proposed with mixing proportions defined through a regression model (e.g., logistic) and an offset-normal shape distribution in each component for data in the curved shape space. A latent factor analysis model is introduced to explicitly model the complex spatial correlation. A penalized likelihood approach with both adaptive pairwise fusion Lasso penalty function and L2 penalty function is used to automatically realize variable selection via thresholding and deliver a sparse solution. Our real data analysis has confirmed the excellent finite-sample performance of MOSFA in revealing meaningful clusters in the corpus callosum shape data obtained from the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-200 (ADHD-200) study.
Generalized Quasi-Likelihood Ratio Tests for Semiparametric Analysis of Covariance Models in Longitudinal Data
Creators: name: Tang, Jin
name: Li, Yehua
name: Guan, Yongtao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We model generalized longitudinal data from multiple treatment groups by a class of semiparametric analysis of covariance models, which take into account the parametric effects of time dependent covariates and the nonparametric time effects. In these models, the treatment effects are represented by nonparametric functions of time and we propose a generalized quasi-likelihood ratio test procedure to test if these functions are identical. Our estimation procedure is based on profile estimating equations combined with local linear smoothers. We find that the much celebrated Wilks phenomenon which is well established for independent data still holds for longitudinal data if a working independence correlation structure is assumed in the test statistic. However, this property does not hold in general, especially when the working variance function is misspecified. Our empirical study also shows that incorporating correlation into the test statistic does not necessarily improve the power of the test. The proposed methods are illustrated with simulation studies and a real application from opioid dependence treatments. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
The aftermath of Dr. Death: has anything changed
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Schwartz, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry into the surgical performance of Dr Jayant Patel has put the issue of accreditation of Overseas Trained Doctors on the front page. This review of the issue indicates that notwithstanding the seriousness of the problem, Australian Commonwealth and State Governments have done little to ensure that there will be no repeat of the Patel experience. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
A reversible dual-channel chemosensor for fluoride anion
Creators: name: Yan, Guotao
name: Wu, Guiyuan
name: Qu, Wenjuan
name: Shi, Bingbing
name: Lin, Qi
name: Yao, Hong
name: Zhang, Youming
name: Wei, Taibao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A colorimetric and fluorescent fluoride probe bearing phenolic hydroxy and imine groups has been designed and synthesised. This receptor could visually and spectroscopically recognise F−  with high selectivity over other anions. After the addition of fluoride ions to the solution of ([1,1′-biphenyl]-4,4′-diylbis (azanylylidene)) bis (methanylylidene)) bis (naphthalen-2-ol) (TY), since the deprotonation reaction occurred between the sensor and fluoride, the fluorescence intensity of the solution changed significantly. Furthermore, the quenched fluorescence caused by fluoride ions could be recovered upon the addition of calcium ions to this complex solution. This resulted in an ‘OFF-ON-OFF’ type sensing. In particular, an IMP logic gate has been proposed using the output obtained from the fluorescence studies. The fluorescence, UV-vis titration and 1H NMR titration experiments indicated that the effects might occur via a combined process including hydrogen bond and deprotonation between the sensor and F− .
title: Gradient-extended brittle damage modeling
Creators: name: T.T. Nguyen
name: M. Fassin
name: R. Eggersmann
name: S. Reese
name: S. Wulfinghoff
Publisher: name: Otto von Guericke University Library, Magdeburg, Germany
Year: 2020

description: Technische Mechanik; 40; 1; 53-58; ISSN 2199-9244
description: An elastic-brittle anisotropic model is presented based on the work by Fassin et al. (2019a). After discussing the local model equations and the incorporation of crack-closure, the gradient extension using the micromorphic approach according to Forest (2009) is briefly summarized. In order to run unit cell simulations on the microlevel, relevant material parameters have to be identified. Therefore, the energy dissipation provides a differential equation with a linear and quadratic term for the damage variable. Finally, the isotropic damage model is used to show numerical examples with variation of fracture toughness and volume fraction of pores.
Family support policy in Australia: the need for a paradigm shift
Creators: name: McDonald, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian women show a strong attachment to employment. This article shows that this includes most mothers of pre-school children. However, Australia’s family tax rebate, family income support and children subsidy systems penalise rather than help mothers who work. There needs to be a paradigm shift in these arrangements if the family preferences of most mothers are to be addressed. Such a shift is an essential component of policies which address Australia’s declining birthrate. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The Character Bill and migration rights
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: For a decade and a half the executive and the judiciary in Australia have been engaged in a low-key struggle over who should have the final word on questions of immigration control. The Character Bill represents the latest move in this struggle. Its context and content illustrate the different values animating these two arms of government. The Bill aims to protect the community from non-citizens who may be of bad character, particularly people who may be criminals, when they apply for visas. It does this by placing the onus of proof on such people to establish that they are of good character, by limiting their capacity to seek review of character-based decisions to deny them visas (or to cancel visas already issued), and by restricting their access to information about them proved by law-enforcement agencies. In some cases non-citizens who are refused or deprived of visas on character grounds will not have access to natural justice. The Bill throws the conflict between the interests of the Australian community and the interests of some non-citizens into stark relief. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The extent of community language maintenance in Australia
Creators: name: Clyne, Michael
name: Kipp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There is considerable variation between different groups in maintenance of community languages in Australia, in both the first and second generations, although all languages are maintained less well in the second generation. Factors shown to influence language maintenance are cultural distance from English/Angle-Australians, relative population distribution and exogamy. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Immigration and public opinion: understanding the shift
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Opposition to immigration has declined since 1996. This paper examines reasons why this has occurred. It finds that most Australians do not want population growth but a number of factors which previously fed opposition to immigration have declined. Unemployment has fallen; migrants can no longer access social welfare on arrival; family reunion has shrunk while skilled migration has grown; and structural multiculturalism is no longer promoted. It is also probable that most Australians think that the cuts made to the program after 1996 were larger than they actually were and that they do not understand the implications of the recent increase. But opinion is not uniform. Residents of outer Sydney are more concerned about immigration than others and a majority of Australians want fewer migrants from the Middle East. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Packing people
Creators: name: Lewis, Miles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Victorian Government’s recent report, Challenge Melbourne, encapsulates the official ‘predict and provide’ planning philosophy. This philosophy makes no attempt either to influence the growth of the population or to locate it in the optimum way. The assumptions of a continued pyramid of population density from the centre to the periphery, and of unchecked road-based growth, are contrary to the wishes of citizens, and to the principles of sustainability which are espoused in the report. They also assume that population growth can be accommodated by increasing residential densities. This is a fallacy. For example, if the residential density of a given population is increased by 250 per cent, the urban area would only shrink by 30 per cent, and its diameter by only six per cent. The report’s approach demonstrates a wilful misunderstanding of the costs of infrastructure in different forms of residential development, and of the way in which these and other costs are being imposed upon existing residents. Especially it fails to recognise that increased densities in existing areas are achieved only at the cost of reduced amenity standards, and that such reductions are no longer acceptable to the electorate. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s