cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Mythology and the African novel
Creators: name: Abdul Raheem, Sfruaibu Oba
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is essentially a 'second reading' of a selection of contemporary African novels of which mythology forms a significant but, in criticism, largely neglected feature. This negligence owes a great deal to the prevailing attitude that modern African fiction is more concerned with the depiction of and commentary on contemporary socio-political realities than with making aesthetic impacts; and that the presence of mythological materials is either ornamental (providing *atmosphere*) or symptomatic of atavistic indulgence. Conversely, the present study seeks to show how certain African novelists have approached the myths and mythopoeic traditions in (as well as outside) their societies in terms of a mythic imagination, thereby sustaining the social and aesthetic concerns of the novel in a particularly African sense and milieu. The study is in five "Parts", the first of which looks at the general problem of ’myth—criticism*, and of myths in African fictions; as well as defining its own objectives. Each of the remaining four parts looks at two novels that illustrate particular perspectives on the structural and aesthetic functions of myths, as well as the creative engagement of the mythic and historical consciousness within the context of the contemporary experience in Africa. Thus, "Part two” sees Awoonor's This Earth, 'Ay Brother and Soyinka*s The Interpreters from the perspective of the 'Search for a form', while "Part three" focuses on the 'search for community' in Soyinka’s Season of Anomy and Armah's Fragments. The fourth and fifth parts concentrate on relationships between myth, history and ideology in Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Ouloguem’s Bound to Violence on the one land, and Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood on the other. In conclusion therefore, we observe that these works, especially, have been largely misrepresented by the exclusivist tendencies of 'formalism' and 'socialist realism' as critical approaches to the contemporary African fictions.
MPEC 2025-C36 : 2025 CX
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 CX

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
It all comes down to stress: the long-term effects of stress on physiology, behaviour and reproductive fitness in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Gutatta)
Creators: name: Khan, Nicola Yasmin
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 Science, Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Relativistic Fine Structure and Resonance Effects in Electron-Ion Recombination and Excitation of (e + C IV)
Creators: name: Chen, Guo Xin
name: Nahar, Sultana N.
name: Pradhan, Anil K.
name: Zhang, Hong Lin
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Inflation Expels Runaways
Creators: name: Bachlechner, Thomas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that moduli stabilization generically restricts the evolution following transitions between weakly coupled de Sitter vacua and can induce a strong selection bias towards inflationary cosmologies. The energy density of domain walls between vacua typically destabilizes Kahler moduli and triggers a runaway towards large volume. This decompactification phase can collapse the new de Sitter region unless a minimum amount of inflation occurs after the transition. A stable vacuum transition is guaranteed only if the inflationary expansion generates overlapping past light cones for all observable modes originating from the reheating surface, which leads to an approximately flat and isotropic universe. High scale inflation is vastly favored. Our results point towards a framework for studying parameter fine-tuning and inflationary initial conditions in flux compactifications.
description: 56 pages, 17 figures; v2: fixed typos
Tunable Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt Multilayers
Creators: name: Soumyanarayanan, Anjan
name: Raju, M.
name: Oyarce, A. L. Gonzalez
name: Tan, Anthony K. C.
name: Im, Mi-Young
name: Petrovic, A. P.
name: Ho, Pin
name: Khoo, K. H.
name: Tran, M.
name: Gan, C. K.
name: Ernult, F.
name: Panagopoulos, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale topological spin structures offering great promise for next-generation information storage technologies. The recent discovery of sub-100 nm room temperature (RT) skyrmions in several multilayer films has triggered vigorous efforts to modulate their physical properties for their use in devices. Here we present a tunable RT skyrmion platform based on multilayer stacks of Ir/Fe/Co/Pt, which we study using X-ray microscopy, magnetic force microscopy and Hall transport techniques. By varying the ferromagnetic layer composition, we can tailor the magnetic interactions governing skyrmion properties, thereby tuning their thermodynamic stability parameter by an order of magnitude. The skyrmions exhibit a smooth crossover between isolated (metastable) and disordered lattice configurations across samples, while their size and density can be tuned by factors of 2 and 10 respectively. We thus establish a platform for investigating functional sub-50 nm RT skyrmions, pointing towards the development of skyrmion-based memory devices.
description: v2 with minor revisions
(200969) Charles P Millard
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.
REACH Story of Change: Protecting groundwater for climate resilience and water security in Turkana
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: In Turkana County, lack of research and data around Lodwar’s underlying aquifers, the Lodwar Alluvial Aquifer System (LAAS), has been a critical limitation to the sustainable development and management of groundwater resources. Research by the University of Nairobi is addressing these data and knowledge gaps, with groundwater quality mapping indicating areas with poor groundwater quality to inform water infrastructure investments. This work is contributing to new policy and practice to protect the Lodwar Alluvial Aquifer System and enhance resilience to climate risks.
Covariant Symanzik identities
Creators: name: Kassel, Adrien
name: Lévy, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J55, 60J57, 82B20, 81T25

description: Classical isomorphism theorems due to Dynkin, Eisenbaum, Le Jan, and Sznitman establish equalities between the correlation functions or distributions of occupation times of random paths or ensembles of paths and Markovian fields, such as the discrete Gaussian free field. We extend these results to the case of real, complex, or quaternionic vector bundles of arbitrary rank over graphs endowed with a connection, by providing distributional identities between functionals of the Gaussian free vector field and holonomies of random paths. As an application, we give a formula for computing moments of a large class of random, in general non-Gaussian, fields in terms of holonomies of random paths with respect to an annealed random gauge field, in the spirit of Symanzik's foundational work on the subject.
description: 51 pages, 10 figures. This version contains a new introduction, an additional Section (6.8) detailing an important example (the case of trace-positive holonomies), and a treatment of the quaternionic case. The introductory material on continuous time random walks on multigraphs in Section 1 was also simplified
Bibliography on Butter Oil
Creators: name: Sherfy, Carrie B.
name: Sherfy, Carrie B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the Preface: Milk fat has always been highly valued as a food, and much attention has been given to its conservation. The usual methods of conserving it have been by the production and storage of butter or of the fat from which the other milk constituents have been removed. The problems of its conservation for any great period of time are principally those related to bacterial growth and enzyme action and to spontaneous chemical reactions with the oxygen of the atmosphere. Butter oil and milk oil are the terms applied in the United States to the milk fat which remains after the curd and water have been removed from butter. Terms used in other countries are: Australia, dehydrated butter; Egypt, samna or samn; England, clarified butter; France, beurre fondu; Germany, Butteröl, Butterschmalz, Flössbutter, geschmolzene Butter, gesottene Butter, Kuhschmalz, Rindschmalz, Schmalz, Schmelzbutter; India, ghee or ghi; Iran, roghan; Switzerland, eingesottene Butter. This bibliography includes material on the preparation, properties, keeping quality, and uses of pure milk fat; the manufacture, preservation, and storage of butter oil; and the conservation of shipping space in shipping it to the Tropics and other places. In the preparation of the annotations, the same terms have been used in referring to butter oil as were used by the author in the work cited.
An adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for the simulation of hurricane storm surge
Creators: name: Beisiegel, Nicole
name: Vater, Stefan
name: Behrens, Jörn
name: Dias, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Storm surges
subject: Discontinuous Galerkin
subject: Wind stress
subject: Wind drag
subject: Adaptive mesh refinement
subject: Shallow water equations
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::500 Naturwissenschaften::500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: Numerical simulations based on solving the 2D shallow water equations using a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisation have evolved to be a viable tool for many geophysical applications. In the context of flood modelling, however, they have not yet been methodologically studied to a large extent. Systematic model testing is non-trivial as no comprehensive collection of numerical test cases exists to ensure the correctness of the implementation. Hence, the first part of this manuscript aims at collecting test cases from the literature that are generally useful for storm surge modellers and can be used to benchmark codes. On geographic scale, hurricane storm surge can be interpreted as a localised phenomenon making it ideally suited for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Past studies employing dynamic AMR have exclusively focused on nested meshes. For that reason, we have developed a DG storm surge model on a triangular and dynamically adaptive mesh. In order to increase computational efficiency, the refinement is driven by physics-based refinement indicators capturing major model sensitivities. Using idealised numerical test cases, we demonstrate the model’s ability to correctly represent all source terms and reproduce known variability of coastal flooding with respect to hurricane characteristics such as size and approach speed. Finally, the adaptive mesh significantly reduces computing time with no effect on storm waves measured at discrete wave gauges just off the coast which shows the model’s potential for use as a robust simulation tool for real-time predictions.
Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes
Creators: name: Stockwell, Jason D.
name: Doubek, Jonathan P.
name: Adrian, Rita
name: Anneville, Orlane
name: Carey, Cayelan C.
name: Carvalho, Laurence
name: Senerpont Domis, Lisette N.
name: Dur, Gaël
name: Frassl, Marieke A.
name: Grossart, Hans‐Peter
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: environmental disturbance
subject: extreme events
subject: functional traits
subject: mixing
subject: nutrients
subject: stability
subject: watershed
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that such extreme events should have large impacts on ecosystem structure and function. High winds and precipitation associated with storms can affect lakes via short‐term runoff events from watersheds and physical mixing of the water column. In addition, lakes connected to rivers and streams will also experience flushing due to high flow rates. Although we have a well‐developed understanding of how wind and precipitation events can alter lake physical processes and some aspects of biogeochemical cycling, our mechanistic understanding of the emergent responses of phytoplankton communities is poor. Here we provide a comprehensive synthesis that identifies how storms interact with lake and watershed attributes and their antecedent conditions to generate changes in lake physical and chemical environments. Such changes can restructure phytoplankton communities and their dynamics, as well as result in altered ecological function (e.g., carbon, nutrient and energy cycling) in the short‐ and long‐term. We summarize the current understanding of storm‐induced phytoplankton dynamics, identify knowledge gaps with a systematic review of the literature, and suggest future research directions across a gradient of lake types and environmental conditions.
Structure of equilibrium states on self-affine sets and strict monotonicity of affinity dimension
Creators: name: Käenmäki, Antti
name: Morris, Ian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A fundamental problem in the dimension theory of self-affine sets is the construction of high-dimensional measures which yield sharp lower bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of the set. A natural strategy for the construction of such high-dimensional measures is to investigate measures of maximal Lyapunov dimension; these measures can be alternatively interpreted as equilibrium states of the singular value function introduced by Falconer. Whilst the existence of these equilibrium states has been well-known for some years their structure has remained elusive, particularly in dimensions higher than two. In this article we give a complete description of the equilibrium states of the singular value function in the three-dimensional case, showing in particular that all such equilibrium states must be fully supported. In higher dimensions we also give a new sufficient condition for the uniqueness of these equilibrium states. As a corollary, giving a solution to a folklore open question in dimension three, we prove that for a typical self-affine set in $\mathbb{R}^3$, removing one of the affine maps which defines the set results in a strict reduction of the Hausdorff dimension.
Tales of transformation: enacting displaced identity
Creators: name: Sundet, Unn-Therese Dida
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts by creative work to the School of Communication & Critical Enquiry, Visual Arts & Design, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Tales of Transformation-enacting displaced identity is a creative Master of Visual Arts by research and explores notions of cultural displacement and the creation of a trans-identity through a photographic body of work and supporting exegesis. Tales of Transformation consists of 13 light paintings that have explored the concept of actively displacing a selection of Norwegian myths and folktales in an Australian landscape, as they explore and cultivate a space in-between these two diverse cultures. The selection has been transformed through the translation from one cultural context to another and allowed to grow to see what remains, what is lost, what translates, if anything, and what is created when past, present and future is merged to re-form an idea of home. The project is informed by the theories of writer and curator Nicholas Bourriaud, who hypothesizes about how postmodernism is over and has been replaced by what he calls Altermodernity. The Altermodern, according to Bourriaud, stems from ideas of otherness and difference, and proposes multiple paths as opposed to a single route. Bourriaud views the contemporary artist as nomad, and as radicant; a botanical term for plants that continue to grow roots as they progress, like strawberry plants or creepers. According to Bourriaud, translation is in itself an act of displacement. This exegesis looks at Bourriaud’s theories, specific to that of the radicant artist, and sets them in context with the works of 5 contemporary artists from various disciplines; Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Parastou Forouhar, Michael Cook, Greg Semu and Mitra Tabrizian. These artists and their work, in diverse ways, all fit the label of radicant. The exegesis lays out the conceptual and practical framework for this body of work from idea to finished piece. In addition, it also looks at the radicant growth of Norwegian folktales on their journey from oral to written and beyond.
(200971) Charles Anthony Millard
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.
Transient terahertz photoconductivity of insulating cuprates
Creators: name: Petersen, J. C.
name: Farahani, A.
name: Sahota, D. G.
name: Liang, Ruixing
name: Dodge, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a detailed phenomenology of photocarrier transport in the copper oxide plane by studying the transient terahertz photoconductivity of Sr$_2$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$ and YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_6$. The peak photoconductivity saturates with fluence, decays on multiple picosecond timescales, and evolves into a state characterized by activated transport. The time dependence shows little change with fluence, indicating that the decay is governed by first-order recombination kinetics. We find that most photocarriers make a negligible contribution to the dc photoconductivity, and we estimate the intrinsic photocarrier mobility to be 0.6-0.7 cm$^2$/V s at early times, comparable to the mobility in chemically doped materials.
High Precision Nonlinear Motion Control of a Hydraulic Orbital Motor-Driven Linear Rack
Creators: name: Helian, Bobo
name: Beiser, Sebastian
name: Geimer, Marcus
Publisher: name: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, a high precision motion control strategy of a hydraulic orbital motor-driven linear rack is proposed. The reference system is a forest walking machine, which is designed for moving on wet soils. The high-order nonlinear dynamics and uncertain parameters of the cabin movement that is driven by an electro-hydraulic motor system are the control difficulties. The control accuracy is limited by nonlinear friction, unknown disturbance, dead-band of the proportional valve, etc. To deal with these control difficulties, an adaptive robust backstepping controller is designed based on the nonlinear model of a hydraulic motor driving system. The controller consists of two steps: a position tracking step and a motor torque tracking step. In each step, the uncertain parameters are adapted in real-time to achieve effective model compensation and high tracking accuracy. Simulations with comparative control strategies demonstrate that the proposed controller can achieve high control response and robust tracking accuracy in the presence of nonlinear dynamics and uncertain parameters of the orbital motor driving system.
Syzygies of bounded rank symmetric tensors are generated in bounded degree
Creators: name: Sam, Steven V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D02, 13E05, 14M99

description: We study the syzygies of secant ideals of Veronese subrings of a fixed commutative graded algebra over a field of characteristic 0. One corollary is that the degrees of the minimal generators of the ith syzygy module of the coordinate ring of the rth secant variety of any Veronese embedding of a projective scheme X can be bounded by a constant that only depends on i, r, and X, and not on the choice of the Veronese embedding.
description: 11 pages; v2: expanded exposition
Les « nouveaux » procédés de désinfection (ultraviolets, ozone…) : quelle efficacité et quelles preuves ?
Creators: name: Ousmane Traoré
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Désinfection
Ultraviolet
Ozone
Eau électrolysée
Plasma froid
Environnement

description: Les « nouveaux » procédés de nettoyage et désinfection connaissent un développement certain lié à un regain d’intérêt amplifié par la crise de la Covid-19. Le but de cet article est de proposer une synthèse critique de l’analyse des données de la littérature scientifique et médicale concernant quelques procédés de désinfection « alternatifs » : les ultraviolets (UV), l’ozone sous forme gazeuse et en solution, l’eau électrolysée et le plasma froid. Quand elles existent, les études rapportant un impact sur les taux d’infection ont été recherchées en priorité. Les avantages allégués de ces dispositifs sont, d’une part, leur modernité avec, pour certains, une automatisation possible (procédés sans contact) et, d’autre part, une approche plus écologique en raison d’une moindre utilisation de produits chimiques. La plupart de ces procédés ont des preuves expérimentales tangibles d’une efficacité antimicrobienne de base. D’autres, comme l’eau ozonée et l’eau électrolysée, n’ont pas été évalués sur tous les types de micro-organismes ni en situation hospitalière et nécessitent des études complémentaires rigoureuses avant d’envisager une plus large utilisation en routine. Les dispositifs de désinfection sans contact (UV, désinfection des surfaces par voie aérienne) ne peuvent que compléter et non remplacer les méthodes manuelles. Pour qu’ils soient intéressants, il faut donc que leur ajout aux méthodes manuelles de nettoyage et désinfection diminue significativement le risque infectieux. Des études cliniques bien conduites, hors contexte épidémique et prenant en compte les aspects médico-économiques avec toutes les contraintes techniques et logistiques, sont donc nécessaires pour une adoption plus large de ces nouveaux procédés par les hygiénistes.
High resolution three-dimensional strain mapping: a new frontier in materials characterisation
Creators: name: Kirkwood, Henry John
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Knowledge of the residual elastic strain in engineering components and materials is of primary importance for understanding and predicting deformation behaviour and fatigue lifetimes. There are a number of approaches for determining bulk residual elastic strain; however, many of these involve destructive sectioning or time-consuming pointwise scanning of the sample to map the spatially resolved strain distribution. Bragg-edge neutron transmission measurement is a new technique that provides a non-destructive two-dimensional map of the average strain profile through the sample volume by measuring the energy resolved transmission spectrum of thermal neutrons. Recently work has begun to enable tomographic three-dimensional reconstructions of the spatially varying strain fields within bulk materials and components from a series of average two-dimensional strain measurements. Characterising the strain state at a particular point in a sample requires knowledge of the six independent quantities that make up the second order strain tensor. Determination of the complete strain distribution throughout the sample therefore presents significant theoretical and practical challenges. Methods for determining strain generally only measure one component at a time, making mapping the entire strain tensor a laborious process. Bragg-edge neutron strain tomography seeks to recover the full three-dimensional strain distribution from a set of two-dimensional projections of the average strain profile. The successful implementation of this technique will greatly increase the speed with which data can be collected and, as demonstrated here, offers the potential for significantly improving the resolution of the imaged strain fields over previous diffraction based methods. This thesis demonstrates two methods of inverting Bragg-edge measurements. The first uses a numerical fitting technique to recover the two in-plane strain components. The second approach provides a direct inversion of the average measurement to recover the spatially resolved strain using the Radon transform, taken from conventional absorption tomography along with results from continuum mechanics. The work contained in this thesis represents a significant step towards the development of neutron strain tomography as a general tool for materials characterisation.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science by published work to the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.
Role of Excitons in Electron- and Photon-Stimulated Desorption of Neutrals from Alkali Halides
Creators: name: Alexandrov, A.
name: Felici, A. C.
name: Orlando, T. M.
name: Piacentini, M.
name: Zema, N.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Data Management Plans in Geoscience - RDA Session of the WG Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs
Creators: name: Henzen, Christin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: data management plan, geoscience, earth system science, research data management

description: Invited talk on characteristics of Data Management Plans in Geoscience. Presented at the RDA Plenary Session - WG Discipline-specific Guidance for DMPs https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ZShHbe4JQJ7mQcBwhL1_USUTdLY_Ft4JPByTnA_fLk/edit#heading=h.epcrad9tdpet.
Biochemical characterisation of the Tom40 mutant mouse
Creators: name: Mooga, Ved Prakash
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 Institute for Molecular Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

About 99 percent of mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes, synthesised in the cytosol and are imported into the organelle. Tom40, the core component of the TOM (Translocase of the outer membrane) complex forms a central channel for precursor translocation across the mitochondrial outer membrane and it is essential for cell viability. Given the indispensable role of Tom40 in protein import into mitochondria, mutations in the mammalian Tom40 gene are likely to have pathological consequences. The work outlined in this thesis mainly focusses on characterizing mitochondria from stiliom (Tom40 mutant) mouse strain obtained from collaborators. None of the stiliom homozygous mice have lived for more than 7 weeks of age, the post mortem analyses revealing pulmonary vascular congestion. Genome sequencing of the mouse revealed a mutation in the TOMM40 gene resulting in a substitution of an alanine for a valine at amino acid 326 (Tom40A326V). The alteration in Tom40 protein causes a change in its electrophoretic mobility on an SDS-PAGE and the total Tom40 protein levels in the stiliom mouse tissues were reduced. Biochemical studies demonstrated that the single mutation in Tom40 leads to the destabilization of the TOM complex. Interestingly, 2DPAGE analyses show that theTom40A326V can stably associate with small TOM proteins, Tom5, Tom6 and Tom7, however, its interaction with Tom22, a subunit of the TOM complex, was significantly reduced. Based on the mitochondrial in vitro import assays, the import pathway of proteins VDAC1 (β-barrel outer membrane protein), Bak (single transmembrane domain outer membrane protein), ANT1 (inner membrane protein) and pOTC (matrix protein) remained unaffected in both stiliom fibroblasts and tissue mitochondria. Taken together, these observations indicate that the A326V mutation affects the stability of Tom40. The residue altered in Tom40 is important for interactions between components of the TOM complex. The majority of the mutagenesis studies on Tom40 performed previously were based on fungal models and stiliom is the first mouse model unveiling the correlation between alterations in Tom40 to the pathogenicity of a disease.
(200972) Sydney Harper
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.
Forschungsprojekt "Sicheres Klassenzimmer": Wirkung verschiedener Lüftungsmethoden hinsichtlich Luftqualität und Infektionsschutz im realen Schulunterricht
Creators: name: Schwarzbauer, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Luftqualität; Infektionsschutz; Schule; Covid-19; Influenza; Fensterlüftung; Luftreiniger; Raumlufttechnik

description: Interimsbericht zu den Messergebnissen von 37.000 Unterrichtstagen in 244 Klassenzimmern im Großraum München und der Stadt Mainz
Euler's partition theorem for all moduli and new companions to Rogers-Ramanujan-Andrews-Gordon identities
Creators: name: Xiong, Xinhua
name: Keith, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 11P84

description: In this paper, we give a conjecture, which generalises Euler's partition theorem involving odd parts and different parts for all moduli. We prove this conjecture for two family partitions. We give $q$-difference equations for the related generating function if the moduli is three. We provide new companions to Rogers-Ramanujan-Andrews-Gordon identities under this conjecture.
description: 12 pages, revised version
Mie-driven directional nanocoupler for Bloch surface wave photonic platform
Creators: name: Gulkin, Dmitry N.
name: Popkova, Anna A.
name: Afinogenov, Boris I.
name: Shilkin, Daniil A.
name: Kuršelis, Kęstutis
name: Chichkov, Boris N.
name: Bessonov, Vladimir O.
name: Fedyanin, Andrey A.
Publisher: name: Berlin : de Gruyter
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bloch surface waves
subject: laser-induced backward transfer
subject: leakage radiation microscopy
subject: Mie resonances
subject: multiplexer
subject: silicon nanoparticles
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Modern integrated photonic platforms should combine low-loss guiding, spectral flexibility, high light confinement, and close packing of optical components. One of the prominent platforms represents a one-dimensional photonic crystal combined with dielectric nanostructures that manipulate low-loss Bloch surface waves (BSWs). Proper design of nanostructures gives rise to a variety of optical resonances suitable for efficient capturing and controlling light. In this work, we achieve color-selective directional excitation of BSWs mediated by Mie resonances in a semiconductor nanoparticle. We show that a single silicon nanoparticle can be used as a subwavelength multiplexer switching the BSW excitation direction from forward to backward within the 30 nm spectral range with its central wavelength governed by the nanoparticle size. Our work opens a route for the on-demand fabrication of photonic nanocouplers with tailored optical properties and submicron footprint.
Limits on the Cosmological Abundance of Supermassive Compact Objects from a Millilensing Search in Gamma-Ray Burst Data
Creators: name: Bonnell, Jerry T.
name: Marani, Gabriela F.
name: Nemiroff, Robert J.
name: Norris, Jay P.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Über die Grenzen hinaus
title: Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde an Prof. Dr. Johannes Wildt am 06.12.2000
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Metz-Göckel, Sigrid
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 12. Jahrgang 2001 Heft 1
Honeybee: a dynamic work stealing model for mobile crowd computing
Creators: name: Fernando, Thotage Niroshinie Erandika
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 Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
"Charged" phonons in an external field: a QED analog with Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Leizerovitch, Shay
name: Reznik, Benni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for using ultracold atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, to form an analog model of a relativistic massive field that carries "charge" and interacts with an external nondynamical gauge field. Such a "scalar QED" analog model, may be useful for simulating various effects of QFT involving charged particles, such as the Schwinger pair-creation of charged phonons in a constant external field, and vacuum instability.
Die Universität Dortmund auf dem Weg zu einem ganzheitlichen Qualitätsmanagement
Creators: name: Stich, Andreas
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 16. Jahrgang 2005 Heft 2
(200970) Mary Vyse Millard
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.
Linear Stability of Rotating Black Holes: Outline of the Proof
Creators: name: Finster, Felix
name: Smoller, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: After a brief introduction to the black hole stability problem, we outline our recent proof of the linear stability of the non-extreme Kerr geometry.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, minor improvements (published version)
Parent-child interaction in the context of parental bilingualism and childhood autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Rumney, Lisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: According to previous reports, bilingual families are often advised to restrict input for children with developmental disorders including ASD to one language. Dual language environments of bilingual families are often being discouraged due to predicted delays with language learning for children who already experience impairments in language; however there is little research to support this. Despite early findings suggesting that the language development of children with ASD does not appear to be impacted by bilingual exposure, research should also consider the extent to which parental bilingualism might affect aspects of the parent’s contribution during dyadic interaction with a child with ASD. In previous research, parent interaction style has been shown to have important benefits for the child such as enhanced social-communication abilities and language development, which are known to be commonly impaired in children with ASD. To date, no quantitative research has been conducted on whether parent-interaction style, specifically qualities such as parental synchrony and language scaffolding, are generalizable across each of the parent’s languages in the case of bilingualism. In addition, whether the language used by the bilingual parent has any impact on the child’s social-communication abilities during interaction with the parent has yet to be explicitly shown. With bilingual adults generally describing one language in which they are more proficient, or with which they feel more comfortable, it is important to consider whether factors such as comfort and competency in interacting in a given language have any impact on parental interaction style with their child with ASD. Further exploration of these factors is of particular significance given the unfounded advice bilingual families of children with ASD are reportedly receiving in regards to their language use with their child.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Beurteilung von Unterrichtsentwürfen
title: Eine Repertory-Grid-Befragung im Längsschnitt
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bausch, Isabell
name: Bruder, Regina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Auf der Grundlage einer abgewandelten Repertory-Grid-Methode wurde ein Fragebogen zur explorativen Erfassung von mathematikdidaktischem Wissen in Bezug auf Unterrichtsentwürfe entwickelt. An der Studie nehmen Lehramtsstudierende der TU Darmstadt und der University of Technology Sydney teil. Es werden erste teillängsschnittliche Ergebnisse der TU Darmstadt beschrieben und eine Möglichkeit vorgestellt dieses Instrument in der Lehrerausbildung zur Selbstreflektion über den eigenen Kompetenzerwerb zu nutzen.
CMU pronouncing dictionary with IPA transcriptions
Creators: name: Taubert, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: TTS
subject: Speech synthesis
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Files: pronunciations.dict contains the adjusted pronunciations for each word from CMU dictionary vocabulary.txt: unique words occurring in pronunciations.dict phonemes.txt: phoneme set of pronunciations.dict consonants.txt: consonants of phonemes.txt vowels.txt: vowels of phonemes.txt (stress ignored) script.sh contains the script to reproduce the dictionary out of the original CMU dictionary Applied mappings AO -> ɔ EY -> eɪ UW -> u IH -> ɪ EH -> ɛ IY -> i AA -> ɑ AE -> æ OW -> oʊ AY -> aɪ AW -> aʊ OY -> ɔɪ UH -> ʊ SH -> ʃ B -> b D -> d M -> m Q -> ʔ L -> l K -> k R -> r CH -> tʃ NG -> ŋ P -> p Z -> z ZH -> ʒ JH -> dʒ T -> t G -> ɡ N -> n F -> f TH -> θ V -> v HH -> h DH -> ð S -> s W -> w Y -> j AH0 -> ə see here AH1 -> ˈʌ and AH2 -> ˌʌ ER0 -> ər ER1 -> ˈʌr and ER2 -> ˌʌr Furthermore: ə r -> ər results in ER0 and AH0 R to be the same ʌ r -> ʌr results in ER1 and AH1 R to be the same as well as ER2 and AH2 R ɔ r -> ɔr ɪ r -> ɪr ɛ r -> ɛr ʊ r -> ʊr
description: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 416228727 – CRC 1410
description: {"references": ["Weide, R. L. (1993, September 16). The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict"]}
Performance of privatised and private firms : empirical evidence from Egypt
Creators: name: Bekheit, Mohamed Bahaa El Din Mohamed M. M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: Privatisation has been a major political and economic phenomenon over the past few decades, and researchers continue to target it for both theoretical and empirical work. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the Egyptian experiment concerning its privatisation programme, and to determine whether this programme has affected the performance of privatised firms. Using 15 years of data, which cover the period 1990/1991 to 2004/2005; this thesis empirically investigates three main issues. Firstly, it examines whether the performance of privatised firms improves following privatisation through comparing pre- and postprivatisation performance in terms of profitability, operating efficiency, output, leverage and level of employment. Secondly, it evaluates the performance changes of privatised Egyptian firms after matching them to control firms (private firms) based on size and industry. Thirdly, it evaluates the impact of the post-privatisation sectoral environment and the pre-privatisation experience on post-privatisation performance. For the first two issues, several statistical techniques, such as parametric t-test, the non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Mann-Whitney test are performed. The results from this analysis indicate clearly that there are significant increases in both profitability and operating efficiency as well as significant declines in the leverage and employment, but there is no significant change in the output. Furthermore, the results show a significant difference in performance changes between privatised firms and private firms according to most performance measures. As to the third issue, several multi-regressions are used to model the relationship between the post-privatisation performance (as dependent variable) and ownership structure, the performance experience of the privatised firms pre-privatisation, the performance of their counterparts from competitor firms (private firms), and firm size (as independent variables). The results from this analysis demonstrate that the ownership structure really matters and that the performance of privatised firms depends on the degree of state ownership involvement; also, through the passage of time, the competitive environment has a significant impact on most performance measures of privatised firms. As such, this thesis represents the first study in Egypt to evaluate and compare the performance of privatised firms with the performance of their counterparts from private firms. The study contributes to the work on privatisation by comparing the performance changes of privatised firms to those of already private ones, so that the study can determine whether the post-privatisation performance matches that of the private firms. A caveat to the finding of this thesis is that the privatised firms might need a longer period to reflect more fully the impact of the privatisation programme on some of their performance measures.
(200965) Ernest John Kuhe
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.