cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding the effects of human epiglottis structure on airflow dynamics using CFD
Creators: name: Li, Lingmeng
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is written for the Master of Research Program at Macquarie University, the objective of this project is to understand the real-time respiratory flow in a human upper airway. Airflow in the human upper airway is of paramount importance given its role in the delivery of particles to the human lungs. The structure of the human upper airway plays a critical role in understanding airflow dynamics along the respiratory tracts. Currently, even basic information on how differences in the upper airway geometry effect regional airflow dynamics along the human upper airway is limited. This project aims to study how the epiglottis structure affects the respiratory flow by performing computational fluid dynamics analysis on 3D human upper airway models reconstructed from MRI, and the changes in airflow pattern as a function of epiglottis position and structure will be investigated. This thesis concludes with a discussion of how the position and structure of the epiglottis contributed to the airflow behaviours in the human upper airway, decrease in airway diameter at the level of epiglottis increase velocity significantly which also appears to influence the spatial pressure distribution extensively such that it covers a large region of the upper airway. Emphasis was also given to address the simulation conditions that should be used when performing transient flow simulations in the human upper airway.These results imply a potential change in particles fluidization dynamics in the upper airway given a small change in anatomical structure although further studies need to be performed to understand this is detail.
Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Vermont Bird Records Committee
Creators: name: McFarland, Kent
name: Sutton, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Vermont Bird Records Committee (hereafter VBRC or the Committee) held its annual meeting on 11 November 2017 at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich, Vermont. The 37th annual report of the VBRC covers the evaluation of 46 records involving 28 species and 3 subspecies or ‘identifiable subspecific forms’. Forty records were accepted (87%) with the majority decided unanimously. There were no first state records for any species during this period. The first fully documented subspecies record for Northern Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis abieticola) observed in Springfield, Vermont and two Eastern Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus) at the mouth of Charcoal Creek in Swanton, Vermont were accepted. The first breeding record of Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) was accepted with a male well documented carrying food and then feeding a fledgling in Hinesburg, Vermont by several observers (see below for more details).
The Kingdom of Elymais (ca. 301 BC-224 AD): a comprehensive analysis (archaeological, artistic, and textual) of one of the most important minor reigns in southern Iran
Creators: name: Salaris, Davide
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Seleucid and Arsacid periods (ca. 301 BC – 224 AD)‚ spanning the centuries from the end of the Achaemenid dynasty to the rise of the Sasanid empire with the arrival of Ardashir ‚ long persisted as one of the most obscure hiatus in the history of southwestern Iran. Although less renowned than its neighbours in the lowlands of Susiana and Mesopotamia, the Zagros-Bakhtiari highland (now the mountainous part of the Khuzestan‚ and the Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad provinces) represents nonetheless a distinctive cultural lens through which the heterogeneous socio-political dynamics about one of the most vital regions of western Asia may find an explanation. In this context‚ the last survival of the Elamite civilization clearly emerges in that small kingdom which was widely know during the antiquity by the name of Elymais. In reality, while Classical sources speak of Elymais, Mesopotamian authors reproposed the long-established designation of Elam, suggesting that this kingdom – so often overlooked in the academic world – was probably heir to the millennial Elamite kingship and culture. During the last few decades‚ scholars have moderately progressed to disclose a clearer picture of the Elymaean culture and its material evidence‚ even though a comprehensive study has remained surprisingly absent. This work investigates the origin and development of Elymais through both epigraphic and archaeological data‚ and reassessed its relevance placing it in the perspective of the latest archaeological and historical scholarship. A thorough analysis with the aim to confront th etopic of Elymais from all sides (textual, archaeological, cultural) is suggested then to provide for the first time in academic studies a complete vision of all the fragmentary material records so as to collate them as a corpus. I assume that my own efforts may adequately indicate the signiПicance‚ and indeed the necessity‚ to enhance these artistic assets in order to remodel the Elymaean history and socio-cultural identity. Narrowing the gap in scholarship through the elaboration of a critical review‚ which is also refined by supplementary data from written sources and other prospects of the material attestation‚ a new general overview has been elaborated for this intriguing society.
Axion Wormholes in AdS Compactifications
Creators: name: Hertog, Thomas
name: Trigiante, Mario
name: Van Riet, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find regular axionic Euclidean wormhole solutions in Type IIB string theory compactified on $\text{AdS}_5\times \text{S}^5/\mathbb{Z}_k$. AdS/CFT enables a precise derivation of the axion content of the Euclidean theory, placing the string theory embedding of the wormholes on firm footing. This further sharpens the paradox posed by these solutions.
description: 11 pages
title: Fostering Collaboration of Academia and Industry by Open Source Software
Creators: name: Baum, David
name: Kovacs, Pascal
name: Müller, Richard
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Open Source
subject: Industry Collaboration
subject: Technology Transfer

description: In 2017 and 2018 we released two of our research prototypes as open source. We explain our motivation and concerns at that time and compare them with our actual experience. We also describe how open source releases enabled collaboration with industrial partners. Finally, we show how research projects can extend their funding through grants for open source software. We share our experiences with the initiative Google Summer of Code and show how we overcame bureaucratical hurdles and how our research has benefited from participating in this program.
Une mesure d'expertise pour le crowdsourcing
Creators: name: Ouni, Hosna
name: Martin, Arnaud
name: Gros, Laetitia
name: Kharoune, Mouloud
name: Miklos, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crowdsourcing, a major economic issue, is the fact that the firm outsources internal task to the crowd. It is a form of digital subcontracting for the general public. The evaluation of the participants work quality is a major issue in crowdsourcing. Indeed, contributions must be controlled to ensure the effectiveness and relevance of the campaign. We are particularly interested in small, fast and not automatable tasks. Several methods have been proposed to solve this problem, but they are applicable when the "golden truth" is not always known. This work has the particularity to propose a method for calculating the degree of expertise in the presence of gold data in crowdsourcing. This method is based on the belief function theory and proposes a structuring of data using graphs. The proposed approach will be assessed and applied to the data.
description: in French
How to find a scientific revolution: intellectual field formation and the analysis of terms
Creators: name: Alicea, Bradly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Progress in scientific fields is usually thought to consist of formulating testable hypotheses and initiating paradigm shifts. Both of these views exclude the content of scientific fields that lead to milieu in which hypotheses and paradigms are formed. Therefore, it is proposed that a new view of scientific fields called coherence-based relevance be used to take into account the intellectual content of theories and how that can affect our view of both the history of science and the empirical world. The argument can be summarized by the argument that as scientific fields emerge, they are shaped by three forces: the historical contingency of the new field, the pattern of co-authorship and intellectual affinities within the field, and the salience of key references and citations within this social network. In this paper, the first two points will be tested with data (words from titles and abstracts) from selected journals and conference proceedings for four specific cases. When the same terms are used over time, it is indicative of stasis in terms of what is viewed as relevant in the field. A lack of similarity over time suggests a field in flux, at least in terms of relevant topics, theories, and methods. These results will be discussed, as well as the relationship between relevance, conceptual coherence, and changes in scientific practice over time.
Modular Gelfand pairs and multiplicity-free representations
Creators: name: Zhang, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C20 (Primary) 11F70, 16D40, 16D50, 20C08, 20G05, 20G40 (Secondary)

description: We give a generalization of Gelfand's criterion on the commutativity of Hecke algebras for Gelfand pairs and multiplicity-free triples over algebraically closed fields of arbitrary characteristic. Using more lenient versions of projectivity and injectivity for modules, we prove a general multiplicity-freeness theorem for finitely-generated modules with commutative endomorphism rings. For representations of finite and profinite groups, Gelfand pairs over the complex numbers are therefore also Gelfand pairs over the algebraic closure of any finite field. Applications include the uniqueness of Whittaker models of modular Gelfand-Graev representations and the uniqueness of modular trilinear forms on irreducible representations of quaternion division algebras over local fields.
description: 25 pages, to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN
Indigenous eco-cultural knowledge of freshwater turtles in South-East Arnhem Land, Australia
Creators: name: Sultana, Rukshana
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Freshwater turtles play a significant role in Indigenous culture as food and totems. Following requests by Indigenous communities of the South East Arnhem Land Indigenous Protected Area (SEAL IPA), this project documented freshwater turtle knowledge of Traditional Knowledge Custodians (TKCs) to gain a better understanding of freshwater turtle species distribution, habitat preferences, potential threats and cultural values. Through participatory mapping workshops and semi-structured interviews, three turtle species were recorded in the IPA: Northern Long-neck Turtle (Chelodina oblonga), Short-neck Turtle (Emydura worrelli) and Stinky Turtle (Chelodina canni). Freshwater turtles are embedded in local Aboriginal culture which is expressed in this region mainly through stories and songlines. TKCs mentioned four main threats to freshwater turtles: climate change, natural predators, feral animals and habitat change. Climate change impact was primarily attributed to lower rainfall. Natural predators were dingo and birds of prey, while feral animal threats were mentioned as buffalo, pig and cattle. The eco-cultural and participatory approaches used in this project greatly improved knowledge of freshwater turtle distribution, cultural association and threats for which there was previously very little documented data in this remote part of northern Australia.
title: Profil: Software Engineering Research am AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Creators: name: Schlick, Rupert
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Profil Transfer-Institut
subject: Infrastrukturbezogene Forschung

description: Dieser Artikel stellt das Forschungsinstitut AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH vor und beleuchtet seine Rolle als Transfer-Institut für Forschung zum Software Engineering. Dazu werden einerseits die zum Thema passenden, bestehenden Aktivitätsschwerpunkte kurz vorgestellt, andererseits aktuelle Verwertungspfade berichtet und bewertet.
Additional file 9: of Behavioral heterogeneity in quorum sensing can stabilize social cooperation in microbial populations
Creators: name: Zhao, Kelei
name: Liu, Linjie
name: Chen, Xiaojie
name: Huang, Ting
name: Du, Lianming
name: Lin, Jiafu
name: Yuan, Yang
name: Zhou, Yingshun
name: Yue, Bisong
name: Wei, Kun
name: Chu, Yiwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S7. Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation, conditional defection, and defection in the simplex for different exclusion probabilities (p = 0.2 for top row, p = 0.8 for middle row, and p = 1 for bottom row). Panels (A), (C), and (E) depict the time series of frequencies of cooperator (black lines), defector (red lines), and conditional defector (blue lines). Panels (B), (D), and (F) depict the evolutionary trajectories in the simplex, where filled circle represents stable fixed point and open circles represent unstable fixed points. When the exclusion probability is relatively small, the system converges to the full defection state finally (A and B), indicating that defectors dominate the whole population. Whereas when the exclusion probability is relatively high, the periodic oscillations among the three strategists appear (C–F), leading to the stabilization of cooperators in the pool. Other parameters: N = 5, r = 3, c = 0.3, δ = 0.3, ∆ = 0.35, and q = 0.1. C, cooperator. CD, conditional defector. D, defector. (PDF 423 kb)
SN 2015bp: adding to the growing population of transitional type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Srivastav, Shubham
name: Anupama, G. C.
name: Sahu, D. K.
name: Ravikumar, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photometric and spectroscopic observations of type Ia supernova 2015bp are presented, spanning $\sim -6$ to $\sim +141$ days since $B$-band maximum. Also presented are unpublished HCT spectra of type Ia iPTF13ebh between $-11$ to +34 days since $B$-band maximum. SN 2015bp shows rapidly declining light curves with $Δm_{15}(B)=1.72 \pm 0.04$. The $I$-band light curve shows a clear secondary maximum and peaks before the $B$-band maximum, placing SN 2015bp in the transitional category of SNe Ia. The spectral evolution of SN 2015bp resembles other transitional SNe Ia rather than 1991bg-like events. The C~{\sc ii} $λ6580$ feature is detected in both SN 2015bp and iPTF13ebh, though it is present till the epoch of $B$-band maximum in the case of SN 2015bp. The velocity gradients of Si~{\sc ii} $λ6355$ place SN 2015bp and iPTF13ebh in the FAINT subclass, whereas pseudo-equivalent widths of Si~{\sc ii} features place them in the Cool (CL) subclass of SNe Ia. The bolometric light curve of SN 2015bp indicates that $\sim 0.2$ M$_{\odot}$ of $^{56}$Ni was synthesized in the explosion, with a total ejected mass of $\sim 0.9$ M$_{\odot}$, suggesting a sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf progenitor.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures, MNRAS accepted
Parametrized protocol achieving the Heisenberg limit in the optical domain via dispersive atom-light interactions
Creators: name: Su, Yuguo
name: Wang, Xiaoguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong and collective atom-light interactions in cavity-QED systems perform manifold benefits in quantum-enhanced measurements. Here, we study the time-reversal protocol that has been proposed to sense small displacements of the light field, and report the sensitivity of the scheme that could be speeded up to attain the Heisenberg limit (HL).We show the holonomic unitary parametrization process of the scheme and one only need to choose appropriate initial states to pursue the ultimate sensitivity. The scheme may pave an experimentally feasible way to achieve Heisenberg-limited metrology with nonclassical states.
description: 20 pages,3 figures
Pion Distribution Amplitude from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Hui
name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Jin, Luchang
name: Lin, Huey-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the pion distribution amplitude using the large- momentum effective field theory (LaMET) approach, which allows us to extract lightcone parton observables from a Euclidean lattice. The mass corrections needed to extract the pion distribution amplitude from this approach are calculated to all orders in $m^2_π /P_z^2$. We also implement the Wilson- line renormalization which is crucial to remove the power divergences in this approach, and find that it reduces the oscillation at the end points of the distribution amplitude. Our exploratory result at 310-MeV pion mass favors a single-hump form broader than the asymptotic form of the pion distribution amplitude.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Stressing the importance of stress beliefs
Creators: name: Kilby, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Most individuals experience acute stress. This can lead to both positive and negative health consequences often in the same domain. For example, stress can be a risk factor or a protective factor against cardiovascular disease. These differences may arise from different evaluations, or appraisals, of stressful situations. These appraisals lead to different behavioural, emotional, and physiological responses to stress. One factor that could influence appraisals may be stress beliefs. However, little research has explored this link. This thesis addressed this gap via systematic reviews, qualitative studies, experimental research, and by developing a new stress belief scale. A systematic review of predictors of appraisals highlighted a need for research on stress beliefs and appraisals. A stress induction study (N = 117) found no association between stress beliefs and appraisals. A systematic review and a qualitative study (N = 35) of stress beliefs were then conducted. Results suggested that current stress belief measures do not assess all stress beliefs. As such, this thesis focuses on the development of a new stress belief measure; the Subjective Thoughts REgarding Stress Scale (STRESS). A Delphi study with experts in stress research (N = 14) confirmed the completeness of the qualitative study results. A pilot study of the original 78 items of the STRESS in an international lay sample (N = 107) confirmed all items were commonly held beliefs. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 419) and confirmatory factor analysis (N = 300) resulted in a final 19-item scale. The scale contains three subscales: beliefs about the i) Consequences of stress, ii) Coping Efficacy, and iii) Interpersonal Relations in stress. A final stress induction study (N = 137) demonstrated the predictive validity of the STRESS, with the STRESS successfully predicting the stressor appraisals made of the stress induction. This thesis has reconceptualised the notion of stress beliefs, resulting in a new multi-dimensional measure of stress beliefs. The new measure successfully predicts the appraisals9made of a standardised stress induction. This will allow future research to use this scale to further explore the role of stress beliefs in the subjective stress response. In turn, it is now possible for future research to explore the link between stress beliefs and differences in stress-related health outcomes.
title: ADCO, Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00004
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00004, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00004, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Numerical simulation of TEM images for In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots with various shapes
Creators: name: Maltsi, Anieza
name: Niermann, Tore
name: Streckenbach, Timo
name: Tabelow, Karsten
name: Koprucki, Thomas
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Semiconductors
subject: quantum dots
subject: TEM images
subject: electron wave propagation
subject: strain
subject: 34B60
subject: 74B10
subject: 78A45
subject: 81V65

description: We present a mathematical model and a tool chain for the numerical simulation of TEM images of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). This includes elasticity theory to obtain the strain profile coupled with the Darwin-Howie-Whelan equations, describing the propagation of the electron wave through the sample. We perform a simulation study on indium gallium arsenide QDs with different shapes and compare the resulting TEM images to experimental ones. This tool chain can be applied to generate a database of simulated TEM images, which is a key element of a novel concept for model-based geometry reconstruction of semiconductor QDs, involving machine learning techniques.
Experimental study of second sound quench detection for superconducting cavities
Creators: name: Plouin, Juliette
name: Baudouy, Bertrand
name: Four, Aurélien
name: Charrier, Jean-Pierre
name: Maurice, Luc
name: Novo, Jorge
name: Peters, Benedikt
name: Liao, Kitty
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconducting RF cavities are used in particle accelerators to provide energy to the particle beam. Such cavities are mostly fabricated in niobium and often operated in superfluid helium. One of their limits of operation is the appearance of a local quench, initiated by a local field enhancement due to a defect, which leads to a normal conducting transition of the cavity. Localizing the quench area can be achieved with temperature mapping systems. Another method is the use of second sound wave propagation in superfluid helium. Measuring the time of propagation of these waves from quench location to special sensors, called Oscillating Superleak Transducers (OSTs), and using their well-known velocity should allow trilateration. However, most of experimental measurements on cavities show "premature signals", i.e. the second sound signals arrive earlier on the OSTs than expected. This paper presents several quench experiments on cavities equipped with OSTs and temperature mapping quench detection systems. Two hypotheses can explain the observed premature signals. The first one assesses faster propagation in helium. An experimental setup has been developed for testing this hypothesis, where second sound is created by a localized heater in a controlled environment up to 4.3 kW/cm2 and 2.8 J. Premature signals could not be verified in this setup. A second hypothesis based on a simple model including several processes in niobium and second sound propagation in helium is discussed. The model improves significantly the prediction of the times of arrival of the second sound waves. The overall study shows that the processes in niobium play a prominent role in the second sound detection for superconducting cavities.
description: 12 pages, 22 images
OLIYGOHLARDA PEDAGIGIK INNOVATSIYALARDAN FOYDALANISHNING METODOLOGIK JIHATLARI
Creators: name: Boltayeva, Sitora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada o'qituvchilarning ta'lim jarayonida innovatsion texnologiyalardan foydalanishga tayyorgarligini rivojlantirish jarayoni ko'rib chiqiladi. O'qituvchilarning innovatsion pedagogik faoliyatga tayyorligi deganda, pedagogik faoliyatga motivatsion va qadriyatga asoslangan munosabatning mavjudligi, pedagogik maqsadlarni amalga oshirishning samarali usullari va vositalariga ega bo'lish bilan tavsiflanadigan shaxsning alohida holati tushunilishi kerak. o'qituvchilarning ijodiy faoliyat va mulohaza yuritish qobiliyati sifatida. Bu faol professional pozitsiyaning asosi bo'lib, samaradorlikni oshirishga yordam beradi.
After Nine Eleven 2001: politics, law and Australian democracy
Creators: name: Crowley, Michael Gerard
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research combines aspects of politics and law. The focus is on the political and legislative responses by the Australian Parliament to the terrorist attacks in the United States of America on 11 September 2001. These responses were driven, among other things, by power, politics, fear and Australia’s close association with the United States of America. The research was informed by interview responses from a number of parliamentarians sitting in Federal Parliament in the years 2001–4. A focus on the political and legislative responses recognises the significance that politics, including party politics, plays in Parliament when enacting important and contentious legislation. Interview responses highlight the dominant role the office of prime minister played in Australia’s legislative responses. Other outcomes from interviews include the narrowing of community representation in Parliament, the role of fear in political decision-making and a belief that the Parliament was expected to act decisively to protect Australians. The political and legislative responses to terrorism in Australia are underpinned by history and philosophy, with the research being guided by the distinct but equally useful perspectives of Camus’ analysis of rebellion and Luhmann’s social systems theory, combined with interviews of parliamentarians. These interviews had a foundation in Emy’s earlier interviews and analysis of members of Parliament. This approach provided a strong base on which to analyse and discuss Australia’s response to the events of 9/11. Trends and future risks to Australia’s democracy are identified and discussed. A series of papers provide an in-depth discussion and analysis of selected issues, including the Australian–American alliance, the use of secret evidence and closed courts, how and why cogent punishments were handed out to persons convicted in Australia under the new terrorism offences, the impact of terrorism on corporate governance and collateral uses of terrorism legislation by the Government. A common theme emerging from the research is the influence a charged national security environment has in a democracy when conflicts arise over individual versus state rights.
How to find a scientific revolution: intellectual field formation and the analysis of terms
Creators: name: Alicea, Bradly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Progress in scientific fields is usually thought to consist of formulating testable hypotheses and initiating paradigm shifts. Both of these views exclude the content of scientific fields that lead to milieu in which hypotheses and paradigms are formed. Therefore, it is proposed that a new view of scientific fields called coherence-based relevance be used to take into account the intellectual content of theories and how that can affect our view of both the history of science and the empirical world. The argument can be summarized by the argument that as scientific fields emerge, they are shaped by three forces: the historical contingency of the new field, the pattern of co-authorship and intellectual affinities within the field, and the salience of key references and citations within this social network. In this paper, the first two points will be tested with data (title words) from selected journals and conference proceedings for three specific examples. When the same terms are used over time, it is indicative of stasis in terms of what is viewed as relevant in the field. A lack of similarity over time suggests a field in flux, at least in terms of relevant topics, theories, and methods. These results will be discussed, as well as the relationship between relevance, conceptual coherence, and changes in scientific practice over time.
Stationary $D=4$ Black Holes in Supergravity: The Issue of Real Nilpotent Orbits
Creators: name: Ruggeri, Daniele
name: Trigiante, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete classification of the nilpotent orbits of ${\rm SO}(2,2)^2$ in the representation ${\bf (2,2,2,2)}$, achieved in \cite{Dietrich:2016ojx}, is applied to the study of multi-center, asymptotically flat, extremal black hole solutions to the STU model. These real orbits provide an intrinsic characterization of regular single-center solutions, which is invariant with respect to the action of the global symmetry group ${\rm SO}(4,4)$, underlying the stationary solutions of the model, and provide stringent regularity constraints on multi-centered solutions. The known \emph{almost-BPS} and \emph{composite non-BPS} solutions are revisited in this setting. We systematically provide, for the relevant ${\rm SO}(2,2)^2$-nilpotent orbits of the global Noether charge matrix, regular representatives thereof. This analysis unveils a composition law of the orbits according to which those containing regular multi-centered solutions can be obtained as combinations of specific single-center orbits defining the constituent black holes. Some of the ${\rm SO}(2,2)^2$-orbits of the total Noether charge matrix are characterized as "intrinsically singular" in that they cannot contain any regular solution.
description: 104 pages, LaTeX source and 29 figures
A Survey of XML Tree Patterns
Creators: name: Hachicha, Marouane
name: Darmont, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With XML becoming an ubiquitous language for data interoperability purposes in various domains, efficiently querying XML data is a critical issue. This has lead to the design of algebraic frameworks based on tree-shaped patterns akin to the tree-structured data model of XML. Tree patterns are graphic representations of queries over data trees. They are actually matched against an input data tree to answer a query. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, an astounding research effort has been focusing on tree pattern models and matching optimization (a primordial issue). This paper is a comprehensive survey of these topics, in which we outline and compare the various features of tree patterns. We also review and discuss the two main families of approaches for optimizing tree pattern matching, namely pattern tree minimization and holistic matching. We finally present actual tree pattern-based developments, to provide a global overview of this significant research topic.
Sydney's flats: a social and political history
Creators: name: Thompson, Ruth
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Before the Great War Sydney was a city of cottages, modest villas and terrace houses. Most private dwellings were one or two storeys high. Almost all these dwellings had separate titles; about 40 per cent were owner occupied with the remainder rented. Australians were brought up to think that the ideal home was a detached house in the suburbs owned by its inhabitants. -- After the war a new form of housing developed in Sydney, as it had already done in other European and American cities, the flat or apartment block. These new structures, usually three or four storeys high, spread rapidly around much of the harbour foreshore, some of the ocean suburbs and in parts of the inner city. Almost all were rented. -- Flats became the subject of intense political debate. Local councils attempted to ban them or restrict them to certain areas and the major political parties regularly denounced them. Flats have remained at the forefront of local politics ever since. Despite intense opposition flats now constitute almost a third of Sydney's dwelling stock and one quarter of the population live in flats. About one third of all flats are now owner occupied. -- This thesis traces the social and political history of this change, including the impact of flats on the urban landscape and on property investment and tenure patterns in Sydney. It focuses on the role of local government authorities and the state government in regulating flats and on the political activities of both house and flat ratepayers and property developers in these debates. An attempt is made to identify the major developers and owners of flats. Relations between owner occupiers and tenants are examined, as is the landlord-tenant relationship and periodic rental crises. The public's changing perception of flats and their occupants, especially the controversy over 'high rise', is charted from a variety of sources. -- The changing image of flats in Sydney is related to public attitudes, the vagaries of the property market and the debate about the size and shape of Sydney. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the impact of flats on the life and landscape of the city.
Usual normalization strategies for gene expression studies impair the detection and analysis of circadian patterns
Creators: name: Figueredo, Diego De Siqueira
name: Mayara Rodrigues Barbosa
name: Coimbra, Daniel Gomes
name: Santos, José Luiz Araújo Dos
name: Ellyda Fernanda Lopes Costa
name: Koike, Bruna Del Vechio
name: Moreira, Magna Suzana Alexandre
name: Andrade, Tiago Gomes De
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Recent studies have shown that transcriptomes from different tissues present circadian oscillations. Therefore, the endogenous variation of total RNA should be considered as a potential bias in circadian studies of gene expression. However, normalization strategies generally include the equalization of total RNA concentration between samples prior to cDNA synthesis. Moreover, endogenous housekeeping genes (HKGs) frequently used for data normalization may exhibit circadian variation and distort experimental results if not detected or considered. In this study, we controlled experimental conditions from the amount of initial brain tissue samples through extraction steps, cDNA synthesis, and quantitative real time PCR (qPCR) to demonstrate a circadian oscillation of total RNA concentration. We also identified that the normalization of the RNA’s yield affected the rhythmic profiles of different genes, including Per1-2 and Bmal1. Five widely used HKGs (Actb, Eif2a, Gapdh, Hprt1, and B2m) also presented rhythmic variations not detected by geNorm algorithm. In addition, the analysis of exogenous microRNAs (Cel-miR-54 and Cel-miR-39) spiked during RNA extraction suggests that the yield was affected by total RNA concentration, which may impact circadian studies of small RNAs. The results indicate that the approach of tissue normalization without total RNA equalization prior to cDNA synthesis can avoid bias from endogenous broad variations in transcript levels. Also, the circadian analysis of 2−Cycle threshold (Ct) data, without HKGs, may be an alternative for chronobiological studies under controlled experimental conditions.
Beyond Boundaries: Strategies for Integrating LGBTQI+ Perspectives in Health Psychology Research and Related Domains - A Mixed Method Study Among Scholars in the Field of Health Psychology
Creators: name: Davidovich, Udi
name: Noone, Chris
name: Gültzow, Thomas
name: Coulson, Professor Neil
name: Daas, Chantal Den
name: Thomas, Siobhan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Public Health Education and Promotion
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Other Mental and Social Health
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Gender minorities
subject: Health Psychology
subject: LGBTQI+
subject: Pride
subject: Sexual minorities

description: Individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and those who hold other marginalized sexual or gender identities (LGBTQI+) often face significant health disparities, stemming from intricate interactions among social, cultural, structural, and political factors. Despite these challenges, health psychology and related domains have given limited attention to these groups, particularly beyond the context of gay men and men who have sex with men. To address this gap, we organized a roundtable during the 2023 conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS). The objectives were threefold: (1) to briefly present various projects as examples of how health psychology has and can make a positive contribution to LGBTQI+ health, (2) to map out why LGBTQI+ issues receive relatively less attention within health psychology and what other areas can learn from decades of work focusing on LGBTQI+ health, and (3) to generate new broad research goals to give new impetus to LGBTQI+ focused research within health psychology. The roundtable discussion underscored a notable focus on measurement and assessment practices within health psychology, which were observed to primarily center around individuals who are heterosexual, cisgender, and endosex. However, the discussion lacked sufficient time to thoroughly delve into the current assessment and measurement landscape. With the present study, we aim to delve deeper into this theme, offering both a comprehensive reflection on current assessment and measurement practices and proposing viable, scalable strategies for better integrating LGBTQI+ perspectives into health psychology assessment and measurement practices.
Stationary Expansion Shocks for a Regularized Boussinesq System
Creators: name: El, G. A.
name: Hoefer, M. A.
name: Shearer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stationary expansion shocks have been recently identified as a new type of solution to hyperbolic conservation laws regularized by non-local dispersive terms that naturally arise in shallow-water theory. These expansion shocks were studied in (El, Hoefer, Shearer 2016) for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation using matched asymptotic expansions. In this paper, we extend the analysis of (El, Hoefer, Shearer 2016) to the regularized Boussinesq system by using Riemann invariants of the underlying dispersionless shallow water equations. The extension for a system is non-trivial, requiring a combination of small amplitude, long-wave expansions with high order matched asymptotics. The constructed asymptotic solution is shown to be in excellent agreement with accurate numerical simulations of the Boussinesq system for a range of appropriately smoothed Riemann data.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures
Exposing strangeness: projections for kaon electromagnetic form factors
Creators: name: Gao, Fei
name: Chang, Lei
name: Liu, Yu-Xin
name: Roberts, Craig D.
name: Tandy, Peter C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A continuum approach to the kaon and pion bound-state problems is used to reveal their electromagnetic structure. For both systems, when used with parton distribution amplitudes appropriate to the scale of the experiment, Standard Model hard-scattering formulae are accurate to within 25% at momentum transfers $Q^2 \approx 8\,$GeV$^2$. There are measurable differences between the distribution of strange and normal matter within the kaons, e.g. the ratio of their separate contributions reaches a peak value of $1.5$ at $Q^2 \approx 6\,$GeV$^2$. Its subsequent $Q^2$-evolution is accurately described by the hard scattering formulae. Projections for kaon and pion form factors at timelike momenta beyond the resonance region are also presented. These results and projections should prove useful in planning next-generation experiments.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Modelos de Respuesta e Intervención Pública a la Violencia hacia las Mujeres: una Revisión Sistemática
Creators: name: Trindade, Florencia
name: Morales, Mariela Solari
name: Menezes, Mariela
name: Von Hagen, Alexa
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Other Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Esta revisión sistemática tiene por objetivo sintetizar la evidencia disponible sobre intervenciones realizadas por parte del Estado para dar respuesta a las mujeres mayores de 18 años víctimas de violencia basada en género y su evaluación.
Interference Effect Between Neutron Direct and Resonance Capture Reactions For Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Creators: name: Minato, Futoshi
name: Fukui, Tokuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interference effect of neutron capture cross section between the compound and direct processes is investigated. The compound process is calculated by resonance parameters and the direct process by the potential mode. The interference effect is tested for neutron-rich $^{82}$Ge and $^{134}$Sn nuclei relevant to $r$-process and light nucleus $^{13}$C which is neutron poison in the $s$-process and produces long-lived radioactive nucleus $^{14}$C ($T_{1/2}=5700$ y). The interference effects in those nuclei are significant around resonances, and low energy region if $s$-wave neutron direct capture is possible. Maxwellian averaged cross sections at $kT=30$ and $300$ keV are also calculated, and the interference effect changes the Maxwellian averaged capture cross section largely depending on resonance position.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, poster presentation given at FUSION17 conference, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Feb. 20-24, 2017
title: What are Hybrid Development Methods Made Of?
Creators: name: Tell, Paolo
name: Klünder, Jil
name: Küpper, Steffen
name: Raffo, David
name: MacDonell, Stephen G.
name: Münch, Jürgen
name: Pfahl, Dietmar
name: Linssen, Oliver
name: Kuhrmann, Marco
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Development
subject: Software Process
subject: Hybrid Methods
subject: Survey Research

description: Regardless of company size or industry sector, a majority of project teams and companies use customized processes that combine different development methods-so-called hybrid development methods. Even though such hybrid development methods are highly individualized, a common understanding of how to systematically construct synergetic practices is missing. Based on 1,467 data points from a large-scale online survey among practitioners, we study the current state of practice in process use to answer the question: What are hybrid development methods made of? Our findings reveal that only eight methods and few practices build the core of modern software development. This small set allows for statistically constructing hybrid development methods.
Life cycle economic and environmental impact assessment of alternative transport fuels and power-train technologies
Creators: name: Sharma, Ashish
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this study, we assessed the economic and environmental life cycle impacts of alternative transport fuels via a life cycle approach. The selected fuels include diesel, petrol, LPG, biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen and electricity. The life cycle analysis is confined to the fuel cycle analysis and it has been divided into 2 major components – (1) Well-to-Tank (WTT) and Tank-to-Wheel (TTW). The system boundary consists of the following three phases: (i) material extraction, (ii) processing and production phase, and (iii) the use phase. The functional unit is defined as “One MJ of fuel input” and “One kilometre distance driven”. The modelling is performed using SimaPro 8.05 life cycle assessment software using Recipe mid-point hierarchist methodology for calculating characterisation results and Recipe end-point hierarchist methodology for calculating single score results. The fuel life cycle emissions reported in this study are: air emissions (including greenhouse gas emissions and criteria air contaminants); emissions to water and emissions to soil in μg/MJ. The techno-economic analysis include capital and operating costs. Finally, we combined the environmental life cycle assessment results with economic impact assessment results after normalizing the results with respect to diesel as a reference fuel. Overall, the combined results of environmental and economic impact assessment suggest that the impacts are the highest for CNG followed by LPG, biodiesel and minimum for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
ALCHIMIA Project D3.1 Federated Learning infrastructure implementation
Creators: name: ALCHIMIA
name: Mira Prats, Jorge
name: Ruiz Cardon, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This report provides an analysis of the state of the art in Federated Learning and the privacy-preserving techniques that can be applied to this Machine Learning approach. It also presents the framework to be used in the Alchimia project.