cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Wie bearbeiten Grundschüler Problemaufgaben?
title: Präsentation verschiedener Bearbeitungsweisen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hahn, Heike
name: Janott, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Im Beitrag werden ein Unterrichtskonzept zur Förderung heuristischen Arbeitens in der Grundschule und ein Format für entsprechend problemhafte Aufgaben vorgestellt. Die Sammlung von Herangehensweisen von Grundschülern zu einem ausgewählten Aufgabenbereich zeigt die aufgetretene Vielfalt kindlicher Bearbeitungen auf.
Viral modulators of intrinsic apoptosis
Creators: name: Marshall, Bevan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Apoptosis is a crucial process required by multicellular organisms to remove damaged, unwanted or diseased cells. The main mediators of intrinsic apoptosis are the BCL-2 family. Upon viral infection cells undergo apoptosis to inhibit productive viral replication, and to prevent this, viruses express homologues of the BCL-2 family. These include KsBCL-2 from Human Herpes virus 8 (HHV8), and the F1L proteins from Vaccinia Virus (VV) and Variola virus (VAR), the causative agent of small pox. To date the interactions between these viral BCL-2 homologues and their cellular counterparts have not been well studied. This thesis characterises structural and biochemical aspects of the three aforementioned viral BCL-2s (KsBCL-2, VV F1L and VAR F1L). KsBCL-2 binding interactions have been disputed in the literature and are explored further here utilising surface plasmon resonance techniques. Crystallisation attempts of KsBCL-2 resulted in the structure of a contaminant Escherichia coli protein, YodA, which is also described. Although VV F1L interactions with the BCL-2 family have been studied, it has been reported that the N-terminal region may be capable of inhibiting active caspase 9. Analysing the 3D solution structure of VV F1L via SAXS and probing interactions with both intrinsic and extrinsic apoptogenic molecules does not provide evidence that VV F1Ls N-terminal region, nor its entirety, is able to inhibit caspase 9. Lastly F1L from small pox was shown to act in a novel un-predictable fashion when compared to the VV homologue through in vitro and in vivo studies. This is further explored using structural information, but no distinct differences were observed.
title: The annotation of continuous media
Creators: name: Ferraz, Carlos Andre Guimaraes
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: In principle, the presentation of continuous media is time-dependent. Examples of con­tinuous media are audio, video and graphics animation. This work is on the support for the annotation of continuous media, or the integration of voice comments with continuous- media documents like music and video clips. This application has strict synchronisation requirements, both with respect to the media involved and to user interaction. The applica­tion involves functions such as storage, management, control of GUIs, and of continuous- medium devices. These are realised by components which can be distributed across a network. New models and architectures have been defined to enable open distributed processing of applications, that is, distributed processing independent of operating systems. Abstractions are provided, which facilitate the development of applications, and these execute supported by platforms that implement such open architectures. These architectures have been based on an object-based client/server model. Our work aims at exploring object-orientation, open distributed processing and some characteristics of continuous media, through the development and use of the proposed application. The application is designed as a set of objects with well-defined functions and which interact between themselves. A distinguishing feature of the application is that it involves reusable components and mechanisms. For example, a mechanism, which enables components to control logical clocks and synchronise them, is incorporated in the application in response to its synchronisation requirements. The implementation is based on ANSAware, a platform that supports open distributed processing and allows distributed objects to bind to each other, to interact with one another, and to exhibit concurrent activities. The performance of the implementation is examined with respect to the application’s response to user requests. Response times of operations such as play, pause, etc., are measured, and the final results are better than a defined maximum tolerance. An analysis of the development approach is made with respect to support for real-time activities in the application, and to software reuse in the model proposed. This thesis concludes by reviewing the suitability of the object-oriented approach for the development of distributed continuous media applications.
The Finiteness Threshold Width of Lattice Polytopes
Creators: name: Blanco, Mónica
name: Haase, Christian
name: Hofmann, Jan
name: Santos, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.2.1
subject: 52B20, 52B10

description: We prove that in each dimension $d$ there is a constant $w^\infty(d)\in \mathbb{N}$ such that for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$ all but finitely many $d$-polytopes with $n$ lattice points have width at most $w^\infty(d)$. We call $w^\infty(d)$ the finiteness threshold width and show that $d-2 \le w^\infty(d)\le O^*\left( d^{4/3}\right)$. Blanco and Santos determined the value $w^\infty(3)=1$. Here, we establish $w^\infty(4)=2$. This implies, in particular, that there are only finitely many empty $4$-simplices of width larger than two. The main tool in our proofs is the study of $d$-dimensional lifts of hollow $(d-1)$-polytopes.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures; changes from previous version: several edits suggested by anonymous referees; this version has been accepted in Trans. of the Amer. Math. Soc
(200902) Oliver Stanhope Leslie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Equity's intervention in the enforceability of third party security transactions
Creators: name: Wong, Simone
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which equitable principles come into play so as to affect the enforceability of the security provided to a bank by a woman who has agreed to stand surety for her husband’s or partner’s debts. In particular, the focus is on situations involving mortgages over the family home. In such cases, the female surety wishing to set aside the transaction will have to establish either an interest in the property which ranks in priority to the bank’s interest or the existence of an equity to set aside the transaction which is binding on the bank. In doing so, the thesis sets out to argue that the present formulation as well as judicial interpretation of the equitable principles governing the equitable ownership of the family home and the acquisition of an equity to set aside the transaction are gender biased and continue to discriminate against women. Despite the appearance of neutrality of these principles, the thesis sets out to establish the gender bias of the principles by their maintaining a clear dichotomy between the private and public spheres and ignoring the effect of sexual division of labour in domestic relationships and the continued economic disparity of men and women. The gender bias of the law results in the equitable principles being ineffective in terms of offering the desired level of protection to vulnerable sureties as envisaged by the O’Brien test. The further aim of the thesis is to consider possible measures, particularly extra-judicial measures, which may be taken in improving the protection of women sureties against advantage-taking in the process of providing security.
Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
Creators: name: BULLEID, JOSHUA LENNON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the extent to which vegetarianism has been a marker of utopianism throughout science fiction’s literary history, how the vegetarian theme has been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental thought and the extent to which the vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy. It does so by examining the representation of vegetarianism in the works of the major science fiction authors Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts, tracing the development of vegetarianism’s social and literary trends from the Romantic period of the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Evidence for a Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture
Creators: name: Heidenreich, Ben
name: Reece, Matthew
name: Rudelius, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Weak Gravity Conjecture postulates the existence of superextremal charged particles, i.e. those with mass smaller than or equal to their charge in Planck units. We present further evidence for our recent observation that in known examples a much stronger statement is true: an infinite tower of superextremal particles of different charges exists. We show that effective Kaluza-Klein field theories and perturbative string vacua respect the Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture, namely that a finite index sublattice of the full charge lattice exists with a superextremal particle at each site. In perturbative string theory we show that this follows from modular invariance. However, we present counterexamples to the stronger possibility that a superextremal particle exists at every lattice site, including an example in which the lightest charged particle is subextremal. The Sublattice Weak Gravity Conjecture has many implications both for abstract theories of quantum gravity and for real-world physics. For instance, it implies that if a gauge group with very small coupling $e$ exists, then the fundamental gravitational cutoff energy of the theory is no higher than $\sim e^{1/3} M_{\rm Pl}$.
description: v2: 41 pages, typos fixed, references added, substantial revisions and clarifications (conclusions unchanged)
title: (a+b)² = a²+b² ?!
title: Ein Schauderfehler als Ausgangspunkt für strukturmathematische Entdeckungen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heitzer, Johanna
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Die genannte Umformung kommt in den besten Kursen vor und verursacht gewöhnlich Schaudern. Interessant kann allerdings die Frage werden, unter welchen Umständen (a+b)² = a²+b² mit mathematischen Objekten a und b doch einmal richtig sein kann. Abgesehen vom Fall "a oder b gleich Null" ist dies zum Beispiel für Vektoren, Matrizen und (i.g.S.) stochastische Ereignisse durchaus möglich und führt dort auf den weiten Begriff der Orthogonalität einschließlich aller mit ihm verbundenen Besonderheiten.
Resonator reset in circuit QED by optimal control for large open quantum systems
Creators: name: Boutin, Samuel
name: Andersen, Christian Kraglund
name: Venkatraman, Jayameenakshi
name: Ferris, Andrew J.
name: Blais, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an implementation of the open GRAPE (Gradient Ascent Pulse Engineering) algorithm well suited for large open quantum systems. While typical implementations of optimal control algorithms for open quantum systems rely on explicit matrix exponential calculations, our implementation avoids these operations leading to a polynomial speed-up of the open GRAPE algorithm in cases of interest. This speed-up, as well as the reduced memory requirements of our implementation, are illustrated by comparison to a standard implementation of open GRAPE. As a practical example, we apply this open-system optimization method to active reset of a readout resonator in circuit QED. In this problem, the shape of a microwave pulse is optimized such as to empty the cavity from measurement photons as fast as possible. Using our open GRAPE implementation, we obtain pulse shapes leading to a reset time over four times faster than passive reset.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Invader–invader mutualism facilitates secondary invasions in rainforest on Christmas Island
Creators: name: O’Loughlin, Luke S.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Mutualistic interactions between successful ‘primary’ invaders can produce reciprocal, positive population-level effects that amplify their impacts. These impacts may alter key properties of the recipient community to facilitate ‘secondary’ invaders. On Christmas Island, mutualism between the exotic yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes and a variety of introduced honeydew-producing scale insects results in the formation of high-density crazy ant super colonies that cause local extinctions of the dominant omnivore-detritivore, the red land crab Gecarcoidea natalis. Occurring at naturally high densities, these crabs could provide the rainforest community with considerable biotic resistance against invaders through their activities both as predators, and by limiting key resources such as leaf litter and seedlings. In this project I asked whether the ant-scale mutualism indirectly facilitated the success of secondary invaders – exotic land snails – by altering these key attributes of the recipient community. Land snails are common invaders on islands, and on Christmas Island 22 of the 38 species are introduced, including the notorious Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica. Where red crabs were absent, exotic land snails were an order of magnitude more abundant and the community differed compositionally from the uninvaded state. Field experiments that manipulated red crab density and leaf litter biomass, either singly or in combination, showed that increased land snail abundance was due to the augmentation of habitat and resources, rather than the creation of enemy-free space. This represents a ‘population-release’ model of secondary invasion, defined as the facilitation of invasive species from very low to very high densities. However, high density does not necessarily mean high impact. An exclusion experiment demonstrated that high densities of A. fulica had no detectable impact on seedling recruitment or leaf litter decomposition. This research demonstrates the importance of properties of the recipient community in determining invasion success and highlights the role of invasive species themselves in altering those properties.
Some subjects made clear by the study of modelling, on the school mathematics in Japan
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Tetsushi
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: I conducted "Scatter of Data" investigation for mathematics teachers in Japan. All almost teachers resulted in not understanding statistical modelling. The present condition on the mathematics education in Japan is imbalanced between "mathematical academic ability" and "the ability utilizing mathematics". Then I conducted two kind skill tests for university students. Many students have resulted in not achieving standard line. Mathematics education have head scratcher in Japan.
(200904) Arthur Henry George Hooper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Accounting for the Complex Hierarchical Topology of EEG Phase-Based Functional Connectivity in Network Binarisation
Creators: name: Smith, Keith
name: Abasalo, Daniel
name: Escudero, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Research into binary network analysis of brain function faces a methodological challenge in selecting an appropriate threshold to binarise edge weights. For EEG phase-based functional connectivity, we test the hypothesis that such binarisation should take into account the complex hierarchical structure found in functional connectivity. We explore the density range suitable for such structure and provide a comparison of state-of-the-art binarisation techniques, the recently proposed Cluster-Span Threshold (CST), minimum spanning trees, efficiency-cost optimisation and union of shortest path graphs, with arbitrary proportional thresholds and weighted networks. We test these techniques on weighted complex hierarchy models by contrasting model realisations with small parametric differences. We also test the robustness of these techniques to random and targeted topological attacks.We find that the CST performs consistenty well in state-of-the-art modelling of EEG network topology, robustness to topological network attacks, and in three real datasets, agreeing with our hypothesis of hierarchical complexity. This provides interesting new evidence into the relevance of considering a large number of edges in EEG functional connectivity research to provide informational density in the topology.
description: Accepted for publication in PLOS One, 27th September 2017
(200899) Violet Gwendolyn Hooper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Post-stroke changes in bone mineral density and structure, body composition and glucose metabolism, and relationships with activity: prospective studies in humans and animals
Creators: name: Borschmann, Karen Nancy
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Kaiser-Bessel Basis for the Particle-Mesh Interpolation
Creators: name: Gao, Xingyu
name: Fang, Jun
name: Wang, Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we introduce the Kaiser-Bessel interpolation basis for the particle-mesh interpolation in the fast Ewald method. A reliable a priori error estimate is developed to measure the accuracy of the force computation in correlated charge systems, and is shown to be effective in optimizing the shape parameter of the Kaiser-Bessel basis in terms of accuracy. By comparing the optimized Kaiser-Bessel basis with the traditional B-spline basis, we demonstrate that the former is more accurate than the latter in part of the working parameter space, saying a relatively small real space cutoff, a relatively small reciprocal space mesh and a relatively large truncation of basis. In some cases, the Kaiser-Bessel basis is found to be more than one order of magnitude more accurate.
On Lipschitz continuity of solutions of hyperbolic Poisson's equation
Creators: name: Chen, Jiaolong
name: Huang, Manzi
name: Rasila, Antti
name: Wang, Xiantao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 31B05, Secondary: 31C05

description: In this paper, we investigate solutions of the hyperbolic Poisson equation $Δ_{h}u(x)=ψ(x)$, where $ψ\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{B}^{n}, \mathbb{R}^n)$ and \[ Δ_{h}u(x)= (1-|x|^2)^2Δu(x)+2(n-2)(1-|x|^2)\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_{i}}(x) \] is the hyperbolic Laplace operator in the $n$-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\ge 2$. We show that if $n\geq 3$ and $u\in C^{2}(\mathbb{B}^{n},\mathbb{R}^n) \cap C(\overline{\mathbb{B}^{n}},\mathbb{R}^n )$ is a solution to the hyperbolic Poisson equation, then it has the representation $u=P_{h}[ϕ]-G_{ h}[ψ]$ provided that $u\mid_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}=ϕ$ and $\int_{\mathbb{B}^{n}}(1-|x|^{2})^{n-1} |ψ(x)|\,dτ(x)
description: 32 pages
Transformative Agreements and funding of APCs at the EUI
Creators: name: Svantesson, Lotta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
Transformative Agreements
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Social Sciences

description: This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Transformative Agreements and funding of APCs at the EUI. The hybrid session explored the possibilities of publishing Open Access via the EUI's publishing agreements and a limited institutional fund that can cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) required by publishers.
How to select and evaluate collective agroindustrial projects: Proposal for an analysis methodology
Creators: name: Perressim, William Sbrama
name: Batalha, Mário Otávio
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2024
Subjects: Collective actions; performance; agroindustrial; investment project; feasibility

description: Agroindustrial projects developed by agroindustrial collective actions play a relevant social and economic role. However, cases of failure are frequent. This work proposes a model for the evaluation and selection of projects developed by cooperatives and rural associations, considering their particularities. The method is based on a conceptual framework developed after a literature review, later validated by a panel of experts. The model was applied to six real projects located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The results confirmed the technical feasibility of applying the method, allowing an ex ante and accurate prediction of which projects would have the greatest chance of success.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 15, No 4 (2024)
(200900) Henry Michael Leslie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Making sense of moral intuitions: our obligations to domesticated nonhuman animals
Creators: name: STEFFEN, SONJA KIARA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: Dominant frameworks in animal ethics are impartialist in that they deal with the general obligations that humans have towards all animals possessing a particular intrinsic capacity. Yet, there is an intuition that humans have greater obligations towards some animals than towards others. This thesis argues for the moral relevance of certain relational states in determining the obligations humans have towards domesticated animals. It argues that these concepts provide complexity and can be used to supplement impartialist frameworks, resulting in a modified framework that supports additional obligations towards domesticated animals without undermining the basic moral duties owed to all animals.
Don Mula (Original Dance) and the "Sacred Sound"of Buddhism: Performing Collective Identity Among the Pwo Karen in Thung Yai, Thailand
Creators: name: Kanchanapradit, Jarun
name: Tan, Sooi Beng
Publisher: name: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Don Mula Dance
Pwo Karen Identity
Cultural Transmission
Sacred Sound of Buddhism
Collective Consciousness
Thailand

description: Journal of Urban Culture Research, 26, -, 57-73
A Preliminary Survey for Improving Flood Emergency Management for Rural Communities in Southern Illinois
Creators: name: Li, Ruopu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Flood Smart
Resilience
Rural Communities

description: A team of Southern Illinois University (SIU) researchers conducted a survey to emergency management communities in Southern Illinois. The survey identified several areas that may be further improved by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the existing baseline conditions (e.g., broadband adaption, social media use). A total of 18 responses were received. The survey outcome is being used to support the design of rural flood smart communities in Southern Illinois.
Detectability thresholds of general modular graphs
Creators: name: Kawamoto, Tatsuro
name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the detectability thresholds of various modular structures in the stochastic block model. Our analysis reveals how the detectability threshold is related to the details of the modular pattern, including the hierarchy of the clusters. We show that certain planted structures are impossible to infer regardless of their fuzziness.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
(200897) Samuel Pearce Yates
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
I costrutti riflessivi nelle lingue slave. Propensioni e disposizioni
Creators: name: FICI, FRANCESCA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: This article concerns the properties of the reflexive Russian, Polish and Czech constructions, which comprehend an Experiencer in the Dative case and a evalutative Adverb. The aim of the analysis is to demonstrate that these components, together with the activity verb and the reflexive particle, form a whole, determining the grammatical and semantic properties of these specific sentences.
Structural Dynamics Modelization of One-Dimensional Elements on Elastic Foundations under Fast Moving Load
Creators: name: FROIO, Diego
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Bergamo
Year: 2020

description: The present doctoral thesis deals with the dynamic response of one-dimensional structural elements, of both finite and infinite extension, lying on a continuous elastic foundation, under a high-velocity moving load. Pertaining finite systems, the transient response of a simply-supported Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on spatially uniform Winkler nonlinear elastic foundations under a concentrated harmonic moving load is studied by an autonomous FEM implementation. In addition, two analytical solutions for the static deflection of the same beam on a spatially varying Winkler elastic support are derived. Regarding infinite systems, the steady-state responses of a taut string and a Euler-Bernoulli beam, resting on a Winkler and a Pasternak support, respectively, under a concentrated moving load are analysed by an effective Discontinuous Least-Squares Finite Element Method (DLSFEM) coupled with an original Perfectly- Matched Layer (PML).
Contemporaneity Decolonizing Knowledge & Independency
Creators: name: Koh, Jay
Publisher: name: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Contemporaneity
Decolonializing Knowledge
Artistic Research
Urban Culture
Urban Culture Research
Journal of Urban Culture Research

description: Journal of Urban Culture Research, 26, -, 95-124
title: Assessing the Performance and Effectiveness of the Solas Verified Gross Mass Regulation
Creators: name: Ugedi, P
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2023

description: The issue of container weight misdeclaration is a major concern in the entire supply chain. In fact, a huge problem that seemed inevitable to the industry and a situation that had affected shipping lines, ports and other stakeholders, is that of overweight containers and the improper stowage plans due to the misdeclared weight. This has led to major accidents, loss of lives and cargoes, damage to ships, environmental disasters and in general, posed a major safety threat in the maritime industry. Discussions on the issue, led to the introduction of the IMO SOLAS Verified Gross Mass (VGM) Regulation in July 2016, which provides the mandatory weighing of every container before loading them into vessel. The purpose of this research is to analyse the effectiveness of the SOLAS VGM regulation and measure the implementation performance of the affected maritime stakeholders to assess if it has reached its goal of eliminating the problem of misdeclared container weights. To achieve this, this research addresses all the key issues of the regulation, and it is divided into three parts. It begins, firstly, by investigating the selection of the most suitable Container Weighing System (CWS) for port operators using a combination of multi-criteria decision-making tools, namely the Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and the Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Secondly, in order to monitor the performance of the regulation’s effectiveness, this research conducts a measurement of the implementation performance using a framework based on Balanced Scorecards and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP), with an application on the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA) as a case study. It also presents the extended framework, which can be used to evaluate the total performance of the regulation taking into account a number of relevant stakeholders. Finally, an economic appraisal is conducted using Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to analyse ports’ decisions on investing in CWS, and the decisions of shippers related to the VGM document provider. To our knowledge the above are novel and have a significant contribution into better understanding the performance of the VGM regulation. The presented work could help achieve better decisions, and also focus on areas where governmental agencies could increase their performance. We hope that this research activity will make a significant contribution to the field by providing an accurate description of the implementation and enforcement of the regulation through empirical research.
Charting the circuit QED design landscape using optimal control theory
Creators: name: Goerz, Michael H.
name: Motzoi, Felix
name: Whaley, K. Birgitta
name: Koch, Christiane P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With recent improvements in coherence times, superconducting transmon qubits have become a promising platform for quantum computing. They can be flexibly engineered over a wide range of parameters, but also require us to identify an efficient operating regime. Using state-of-the-art quantum optimal control techniques, we exhaustively explore the landscape for creation and removal of entanglement over a wide range of design parameters. We identify an optimal operating region outside of the usually considered strongly dispersive regime, where multiple sources of entanglement interfere simultaneously, which we name the quasi-dispersive straddling qutrits (QuaDiSQ) regime. At a chosen point in this region, a universal gate set is realized by applying microwave fields for gate durations of 50 ns, with errors approaching the limit of intrinsic transmon coherence. Our systematic quantum optimal control approach is easily adapted to explore the parameter landscape of other quantum technology platforms.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 2 pages supplementary, 1 supplementary figure
Looking for Self-Organized Critical Behavior in Avalanches of Slightly Cohesive Powders
Creators: name: Castellanos, A.
name: Quintanilla, M. A. S.
name: Valverde, J. M.
name: Viturro, R. E.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units for Robotic Applications
Creators: name: B?Dkowski, Janusz
name: Majek, Karol
name: Nuchter, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: This paper deals with research related with the improvements of state of the art algorithms used in robotic applications based on parallel computation. The main goal is to decrease the computational complexity of 3D cloud of points processing in such applications as: data filtering, normal vector estimation, data registration and calculation of point feature histogram. The presented results efficiently improve the existing implementations with minimal lost of accuracy. The main contribution is a regular grid decomposition originally implemented for nearest neighborhood search. This data structure is used almost for all presented methods, it provides an efficient method for decreasing the time of computation. The results are compared with well-known robotic frameworks such as PCL and 3DTK.
Appendix to THInC: A Theory-Driven Framework for Computational Humor Detection
Creators: name: De Marez, Victor
name: Winters, Thomas
name: Rigouts Terryn, Ayla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the appendix to the paper THInC: A Theory-Driven Framework for Computational Humor Detection, accepted at CREAI 2024.
(200898) Edith Mary Leslie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Capable and Different: A Grounded Theory of Studying at University for Students Experiencing Mental Ill-health
Creators: name: Ennals, Priscilla
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, College of Science Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Mental ill-health is an important issue for many university students and for universities. While universities attempt to meet the needs of students with mental ill-health, detailed understanding of their experience is not available to inform students or to direct policies or interventions. This constructivist grounded theory study used a participatory framework to explore the experiences of university students experiencing mental ill-health. A reference group, constituted by six people with lived experience of mental ill-health and the investigators, oversaw the study. Data were gathered through 21 in-depth interviews with 15 current students, and 12 recorded reference group meetings. Coding, memo-writing, rigorous comparative data analysis and theoretical sampling generated a substantive theory of the process of studying for students with mental ill-health. The findings indicate that students with mental ill-health who participated in this study feel both capable and different, as they strive to be ‘regular’ university students. Their central issue was feeling different and needing to manage that difference in order to persist with study. Participants managed feeling different by hanging in with difference, wrestling with difference and reconciling difference. When the demands of being a student outweighed their resources, participants dropped out of studying. Participants that had dropped out, all found ways to return to study after tolerating despair they experienced as a consequence of dropping out. A grounded theory is proposed to explain the forces that confirm difference – categorising, isolation, relationships and silencing – as well as the processes that create space for difference – positive connections, allowing difference, speaking out and successful doing. The generated theory promotes awareness of students’ shared experiences, may decrease students’ sense of isolation and shame, and guide alternative actions for students and universities. Examining the impact of dissemination of findings to students will test the resonance and value of the theoretical ideas for students themselves.
Revolution in Peter Watkins' La Commune
Creators: name: ALAM, MOHAMMED MOYNUL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Media studies

description: British filmmaker Peter Watkins’ La Commune (2000) deals with one of the most marginalized yet vital historical events, the Paris Commune, a worker’s government that briefly ruled Paris in 1871. This thesis argues that while the content of the film is the revolution itself, Watkins uses revolutionary forms, such as the Brechtian Epic method, to represent the content. However, the dynamics between the form and the content was facilitated by Watkins’ unique democratic artistic process, the outcome of which is the film’s capacity to become a source of historical political reference as well as a contemporary means of revolutionary cinema.
Infinite dimensional moment problem: open questions and applications
Creators: name: Infusino, Maria
name: Kuhlmann, Salma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 44A60

description: Infinite dimensional moment problems have a long history in diverse applied areas dealing with the analysis of complex systems but progress is hindered by the lack of a general understanding of the mathematical structure behind them. Therefore, such problems have recently got great attention in real algebraic geometry also because of their deep connection to the finite dimensional case. In particular, our most recent collaboration with Murray Marshall and Mehdi Ghasemi about the infinite dimensional moment problem on symmetric algebras of locally convex spaces revealed intriguing questions and relations between real algebraic geometry, functional and harmonic analysis. Motivated by this promising interaction, the principal goal of this paper is to identify the main current challenges in the theory of the infinite dimensional moment problem and to highlight their impact in applied areas. The last advances achieved in this emerging field and briefly reviewed throughout this paper led us to several open questions which we outline here.
description: 14 pages, minor revisions according to referee's comments, updated references
Burkhardt quartic, Barth sextic, and the icosahedron
Creators: name: Cheltsov, Ivan
name: Przyjalkowski, Victor
name: Shramov, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study two rational Fano threefolds with an action of the icosahedral group $\mathfrak{A}_5$. The first one is the famous Burkhardt quartic threefold, and the second one is the double cover of the projective space branched in the Barth sextic surface. We prove that both of them are $\mathfrak{A}_5$-Fano varieties that are $\mathfrak{A}_5$-birationally superrigid. This gives two new embeddings of the group $\mathfrak{A}_5$ into the space Cremona group.
description: 14 pages
The 5C-based architectural Composition Pattern: lessons learned from re-developing the iTaSC framework for constraint-based robot programming
Creators: name: Vanthienen, Dominick
name: Klotzbuecher, Markus
name: Bruyninckx, Herman
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2014

description: The authors are part of a research group that had the opportunity (i) to develop a large software framework (5 person year effort), (ii) to use that framework (?iTaSC?) on several dozen research applications in the context of the specification and execution of a wide spectrum of mobile manipulator tasks, (iii) to analyse not only the functionality and the performance of the software but also its readiness for reuse, composition and model-driven code generation, and, finally, (iv) to spend another 5 person years on re-design and refactoring. This paper presents our major lessons learned, in the form of two best practices that we identified, and are since then bringing into practice in any new software development: (i) the 5C meta model to realise separation of concerns (the concerns being Communication, Computation, Coordination, Configuration, and Composition), and (ii) the Composition Pattern as an architectural meta model supporting the methodological coupling of components developed along the lines of the 5Cs. These generic results are illustrated, grounded and motivated by what we learned from the huge efforts to refactor the iTaSC software, and are now behind all our other software development efforts, without any exception. In the concrete iTaSC case, the Composition Pattern is applied at three levels of (modelling) hierarchy: application, iTaSC, and task level, each of which consist itself of several components structured in conformance with the pattern.
Low-energy magnetoelectric control of domain states in exchange-coupled heterostructures
Creators: name: Al-Mahdawi, Muftah
name: Pati, Satya Prakash
name: Shiokawa, Yohei
name: Ye, Shujun
name: Nozaki, Tomohiro
name: Sahashi, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric manipulation of antiferromagnets has become an area of great interest recently for zero-stray-field spintronic devices, and for their rich spin dynamics. Generally, the application of antiferromagnetic media for information memories and storage requires a heterostructure with a ferromagnetic layer for readout through the exchange-bias field. In magnetoelectric and multiferroic antiferromagnets, the exchange coupling exerts an additional impediment (energy barrier) to magnetization reversal by the applied magnetoelectric energy. We proposed and verified a method to overcome this barrier. We controlled the energy required for switching the magnetic domains in magnetoelectric \cro films by compensating the exchange-coupling energy from the ferromagnetic layer with the Zeeman energy of a small volumetric spontaneous magnetization found for the sputtered \cro films. Based on a simplified phenomenological model of the field-cooling process, the magnetic and electric fields required for switching could be tuned. As an example, the switching of antiferromagnetic domains around a zero-threshold electric field was demonstrated at a magnetic field of 2.6 kOe.
Structure-function relationship mining of RNA
Creators: name: Chiu, Ka Ho
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis presents a new pairwise RNA secondary structure alignment heuristics, and a method to discover the frequent stem patterns in a set of RNA secondary structures. The proposed heuristics are able to efficiently compare a pair of structures containing arbitrary pseudoknots, including the topologically complex ones found from the pseudoknot complexity investigation. Such complex pseudoknots cause the intractability problem for secondary structure alignment, as well as many other structural analyses. Benchmarks results suggest that this heuristics produced better alignments than some existing alignment tools, and good alignments between these complex pseudoknots were also observed. Meanwhile, the intermediate stem matching results generated by the heuristics are utilized to derive the frequent stem patterns in a set of evolutionary similar secondary structures. The patterns discovered represent potential conserved structures which are likely to be related to the noncoding functions in ncRNAs. They also provide biological insights to the relationships between structure conservation and evolution in specific RNA families. Finally, for other RNA secondary structure analyses accepting only pseudoknot-free structures as inputs, a new pre-processing approach is also developed to remove any pseudoknots in the input structures according to specific criteria. It has been shown to be more efficient and flexible than the state-of-the-art method.