cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Asymptotic Dynamical States in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators with Inertia
Creators: name: Plietzsch, Anton
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Stromnetze
subject: Synchronisation
subject: Nichtlineare Dynamik
subject: Stabilität
subject: Komplexe Netzwerke
subject: Oszillatoren
subject: Power Grids
subject: Synchronization
subject: Nonlinear Dynamics
subject: Stability
subject: Complex Networks
subject: Oscillators
subject: 530 Physik

description: Das Kuramoto-Modell mit Trägheit ist ein bekanntes und einfaches Modell für die Frequenzdynamik in Stromnetzen. Es wurde häufig genutzt um die Stabilität und Dynamik des Systems nahe dem vollständig synchronisierten Zustand zu untersuchen. Mit steigenden Anteil erneuerbarer Energiequellen und der damit verbundenen verminderten Schwungmasse im System werden Stromnetze jedoch anfälliger für das Auftreten unerwünschter dynamischer Zustände und großer Frequenzschwankungen. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, das dynamische Modell aus der Perspektive der nichtlinearen Dynamik zu untersuchen und die verschiedenen asymptotischen dynamischen Zustände neben synchronen Fixpunkt zu analysisieren. Es werden analytische und numerische Bedingungen für die Existenz solitärer Zustände einzelner Knoten sowie für die Koexistenz synchronisierter Cluster hergeleitet.
description: The Kuramoto model with inertia is a popular and straightforward model of the frequency dynamics in power grids. It has been widely used to study the stability and dynamics close to the global synchronous state. However, with an increasing share of renewable energies and the resulting decline of total system inertia the power system becomes more vulnerable to the emergence of undesirable dynamical states and large frequency deviations. The goal of this thesis is to approach this model from a viewpoint of nonlinear dynamics and analyze the different possible asymptotic dynamical states beside the synchronous fixed point. Analytical and numerical conditions for the existence of solitary states of single nodes as well as for coexisting synchronous clusters are derived.
Micro-epidemiology and spatial heterogeneity of P. vivax parasitaemia in riverine communities of the Peruvian Amazon: A multilevel analysis
Creators: name: Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel
name: Contreras-Mancilla, Juan
name: Lescano, Andres G.
name: Alava, Freddy
name: Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro
name: Speybroeck, Niko
name: Castro, Marcia C.
name: Vinetz, Joseph M.
name: Gamboa, Dionicia
name: Rosas-Aguirre, Angel
name: Bangdiwala, Shrikant I.
name: Rodriguez, Hugo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Malaria has steadily increased in the Peruvian Amazon over the last five years. This study aimed to determine the parasite prevalence and micro-geographical heterogeneity of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia in communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Four cross-sectional active case detection surveys were conducted between May and July 2015 in four riverine communities in Mazan district. Analysis of 2785 samples of 820 individuals nested within 154 households for Plasmodium parasitaemia was carried out using light microscopy and qPCR. The spatio-temporal distribution of Plasmodium parasitaemia, dominated by P. vivax, was shown to cluster at both household and community levels. Of enrolled individuals, 47% had at least one P. vivax parasitaemia and 10% P. falciparum, by qPCR, both of which were predominantly sub-microscopic and asymptomatic. Spatial analysis detected significant clustering in three communities. Our findings showed that communities at small-to-moderate spatial scales differed in P. vivax parasite prevalence, and multilevel Poisson regression models showed that such differences were influenced by factors such as age, education, and location of households within high-risk clusters, as well as factors linked to a local micro-geographic context, such as travel and occupation. Complex transmission patterns were found to be related to human mobility among communities in the same micro-basin.
Ages of records in random walks
Creators: name: Szabó, Réka
name: Vető, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K05, 60G50

description: We consider random walks with continuous and symmetric step distributions. We prove universal asymptotics for the average proportion of the age of the kth longest lasting record for k=1,2,... and for the probability that the record of the kth longest age is broken at step n. Furthermore, we show that the ranked sequence of proportions of ages converges to the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure
title: Address to the National Conference, Canadians for Health Research - Ottawa , 24-25 October , 1977
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: National Conference, Canadians for Health Research
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: basic science
subject: science fondamentale

description: Speech delivered October 24-25, 1977 (typed version of speech)
description: Discours prononcé les 24 et 25 octobre 1977 (version dactylographiée du discours)
description: The Gerhard Herzberg fonds is held at the NRC Archives. Contact NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca for information about access.
description: Le fonds Gerhard Herzberg est conservé aux Archives du CNRC. Contactez NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca pour des informations sur l'accès.
description: National Conference, Canadians for Health Research, Oct. 24-25, 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
title: Convocation Address, University of Western Ontario, 10 June 1976
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: University of Western Ontario
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: science policy
subject: politique scientifique

description: The Gerhard Herzberg fonds is held at the NRC Archives. Contact NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca for information about access.
description: Le fonds Gerhard Herzberg est conservé aux Archives du CNRC. Contactez NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca pour des informations sur l'accès.
Uniqueness: Evidential Support, Evidence, and Rationality
Creators: name: JENNIFER RUTH MUNT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Uniqueness is an extremely demanding view about the relationship between evidence and rational belief: it holds that our evidence determines exactly what it is rational for us to believe with respect to any given proposition. The aim of this thesis is to identify and interrogate some of the crucial – but not currently recognised – assumptions about evidential support, evidence, and rationality underlying many of the arguments given for Uniqueness. These are assumptions about the very epistemic considerations proponents of Uniqueness tell us are best captured by this view. However, I argue that on each of these focal points, proponents of Uniqueness end up being committed to something implausible.
Neutrino-driven winds in the aftermath of a neutron star merger: nucleosynthesis and electromagnetic transients
Creators: name: Martin, Dirk
name: Perego, Albino
name: Arcones, Almudena
name: Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl
name: Korobkin, Oleg
name: Rosswog, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive nucleosynthesis study of the neutrino-driven wind in the aftermath of a binary neutron star merger. Our focus is the initial remnant phase when a massive central neutron star is present. Using tracers from a recent hydrodynamical simulation, we determine total masses and integrated abundances to characterize the composition of unbound matter. We find that the nucleosynthetic yields depend sensitively on both the life time of the massive neutron star and the polar angle. Matter in excess of up to $9 \cdot 10^{-3} M_\odot$ becomes unbound until $\sim 200~{\rm ms}$. Due to electron fractions of $Y_{\rm e} \approx 0.2 - 0.4$ mainly nuclei with mass numbers $A < 130$ are synthesized, complementing the yields from the earlier dynamic ejecta. Mixing scenarios with these two types of ejecta can explain the abundance pattern in r-process enriched metal-poor stars. Additionally, we calculate heating rates for the decay of the freshly produced radioactive isotopes. The resulting light curve peaks in the blue band after about $4~{\rm h}$. Furthermore, high opacities due to heavy r-process nuclei in the dynamic ejecta lead to a second peak in the infrared after $3-4~{\rm d}$.
description: 15 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJ
An Analysis of Thickness-shear Vibrations of an Annular Plate with the Mindlin Plate Equations
Creators: name: Wang, Ji
name: Chen, Hui
name: Ma, Tingfeng
name: Du, Jianke
name: Yi, Lijun
name: Yong, Yook-Kong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mindlin plate equations with the consideration of thickness-shear deformation as an independent variable have been used for the analysis of vibrations of quartz crystal resonators of both rectangular and circular types. The Mindlin or Lee plate theories that treat thickness-shear deformation as an independent higher-order vibration mode in a coupled system of two-dimensional variables are the choice of theory for analysis. For circular plates, we derived the Mindlin plate equations in a systematic manner as demonstrated by Mindlin and others and obtained the truncated two-dimensional equations of closely coupled modes in polar coordinates. We simplified the equations for vibration modes in the vicinity of fundamental thickness-shear frequency and validated the equations and method. To explore newer structures of quartz crystal resonators, we utilized the Mindlin plate equations for the analysis of annular plates with fixed inner and free outer edges for frequency spectra. The detailed analysis of vibrations of circular plates for the normalized frequency versus dimensional parameters provide references for optimal selection of parameters based on the principle of strong thickness-shear mode and minimal presence of other modes to enhance energy trapping through maintaining the strong and pure thickness-shear vibrations insensitive to some complication factors such as thermal and initial stresses.
description: Paper to be presented to the 2015 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum, Denver, CO, USA. April 12-16, 2015
Towards a Concurrent and Distributed Route Selection for Payment Channel Networks
Creators: name: Rohrer, Elias
name: Laß, Jann-Frederik
name: Tschorsch, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: payment channel
subject: flow network
subject: security

description: Payment channel networks use off-chain transactions to provide virtually arbitrary transaction rates. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on payment channels and consider them as a flow network. We propose an extended push-relabel algorithm to find payment flows in a payment channel network. Our algorithm enables a distributed and concurrent execution without violating capacity constraints. To this end, we introduce the concept of capacity locking. We prove that flows are valid and present first results.
Modulation of Interleukin-12 activity in the presence of heparin
Creators: name: Zaharoff, David A.
name: Koppolu, Bhanu Prasanth
name: Felber, Barbara K.
name: Jayanthi, Srinivas
name: Nguyen, Khue G.
name: Smith, Sean G.
name: Kumar, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), especially heparin and heparan sulfate (HS), modulate the functions of numerous cytokines. The aims of this multidisciplinary research were to characterize heparin binding to interleukin-12 (IL-12) and determine the mechanism(s) by which heparin influences IL-12 bioactivity. Heparin and HS were found to bind human IL-12 (hIL-12) with low micromolar affinity and increase hIL-12 bioactivity by more than 6-fold. Conversely, other GAGs did not demonstrate significant binding, nor did their addition affect hIL-12 bioactivity. Biophysical studies demonstrated that heparin induced only minor conformational changes while size-exclusion chromatography and small angle X-ray scattering studies indicated that heparin induced dimerization of hIL-12. Heparin modestly protected hIL-12 from proteolytic degradation, however, this was not a likely mechanism for increased cytokine activity in vitro. Flow cytometry studies revealed that heparin increased the amount of hIL-12 bound to cell surfaces. Heparin also facilitated hIL-12 binding and signaling in cells in which both hIL-12 receptor subunits were functionally deleted. Results of this study demonstrate a new role for heparin in modulating the biological activity of IL-12.
Water vulnerability and community livelihoods: A case study of the Kaleya rural farmers in Mazabuka, Zambia.
Creators: name: THANDIWE ANNASTACIA MPALA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Water resources are subject to vulnerability as a result of climate change. This manifests through water scarcity and shortages consequently affecting livelihood components such as capabilities, outcomes and strategies. This study sought to investigate the impact of water vulnerability on livelihood components using the Kaleya Smallholder Scheme in Zambia as a case study. A qualitative case study approach for data collection and analysis was employed. The study revealed that water vulnerability brought about changes to livelihood capabilities and outcomes and it influenced a strategy among the rural farmers. This study highlights that examining water vulnerability has the potential to provide a direct and in-depth understanding of the extent to which communities are susceptible to the symptoms and effects of poverty. This is especially in the context in which local communities are directly dependent on water resources for their daily livelihoods.
Semi-visible dark photon in a model with vector-like leptons for the $(g-2)_{e,μ}$ and $W$-boson mass anomalies
Creators: name: Abdallah, Waleed
name: Ashry, Mustafa
name: Kawamura, Junichiro
name: Moursy, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model realizes that a semi-visible dark photon which can contribute to the anomalous magnetic moment ($g-2$) of both electron and muon. In this model, the electron $g-2$ is deviated from the Standard Model (SM) prediction by the 1-loop diagrams involving the vector-like leptons, while that of muon is deviated due to a non-vanishing gauge kinetic mixing with photons. We also argue that the $W$-boson mass can be deviated from the SM prediction due to the vector-like lepton loops, so that the value obtained by the CDF II experiment can be explained. Thus, this model simultaneously explains the recent three anomalies in $g-2$ of electron and muon as well as the $W$-boson mass. The constraints on the $\mathcal{O}(1)~\mathrm{GeV}$ dark photon can be avoided because of the semi-invisible decay of the dark photon, $A^\prime \to 2 N \to 2ν\,2χ\to 2ν\,4e$, where $N$ is a SM singlet vector-like neutrino and $χ$ is a CP-even Higgs boson of the $U(1)^\prime$ gauge symmetry.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; ver2 matched to published version
Coping with change in print journalism: An analysis of the lived experience of Melbourne journalists, 1975–2015
Creators: name: JUDITH LEE HUGHES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: History

description: Between 1975 and 2015 print journalists in Australia experienced an unprecedented period of change in terms of technology, culture and security of employment. In order to better understand this critical period of journalism history this thesis examines the lived experience of nine Melbourne journalists. Using an oral history approach, the research utilises life history as well as career history interviews to provide a broader context to the journalistic experience of change and to form a meaningful portrait of journalists at work.
Exploring technological conditions for the adaptive capacity of hydropower organisation to the impacts of climate change: a case study of ZESCO in the Kafue river basin, Zambia
Creators: name: MUSYANI SIAME
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management

description: This thesis explores technological adaptive capacity of hydropower organisation to cope with the effects of climate change using the case of ZESCO in the Kafue River basin. The main objective was to ascertain the role of technology in influencing the prerequisites of adaptive capacity to drought involving three technology dimensions: technological diversity, capacity and location. The thesis applies a field research method, a case study approach and uses in-depth interviews and documentary analyses. The study revealed that ZESCO is faced with limited technology in terms of location, capacity and diversity thereby, contributing to low power generation leading to power shortages.
Reporte de caso patológico Eimeriosis en alpaca tui del CE. Chuquibambilla.pdf
Creators: name: Coronel Humasi, Italo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300910
subject: Veterinary pathology

description: El estudio se realizó en el CE Chuquibambilla y el laboratorio de patología veterinaria de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia de la UNA. Mediante el desarrollo de la necropsia y el estudio histopatológico se dio el hallazgo de la infeccion por Eimeria macusaniensis en una alpaca suri de clase tui la cual presento en el examen antemortem anorexia, condición corporal baja y letargia. En la etapa post mortem, al examen externo presentó secreción nasal serosa, delgadez muscular, congestión de mucosa conjuntival y restos de heces en la fibra zonal. Al estudio anatomopatológico se observó hidrotórax e hidropericardio leves, congestión focal en estómago, yeyuno y linfonodos mesentéricos regionales. Al examen histopatológico se presentó gastritis ulcerativa leve, enteritis necrótica exfoliativa e invasión de estadios parasitarios de E. macusaniensis, y linfadenitis reactiva.
Did constitutions matter during the American Civil War?
Creators: name: SUKRIT SABHLOK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200506 North American Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: History

description: This thesis examines the US Constitution and the Confederate Constitutions (provisional and final) with attention to how each document may have hindered each respective central government in its ability to win the American Civil War. I find that the Confederate States disregarded several provisions, even though in some cases this led to loss of revenue that could have allowed for more adequate supply of its armies. Ultimately, non-constitutional discretionary factors primarily account for the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War, however constitutional institutions did hamper the Confederacy's ability to raise revenue from internal taxation and recruit soldiers.
Exploring growth in the adaptive cycle of a collaborative irrigation scheme: A case study of the Kaleya Smallholders Company Limited (KASCOL) in Zambia
Creators: name: VICTOR SIINGWA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The study explored growth phase in the KASCOL collaborative irrigation scheme. In the study the adaptive cycle was used as a heuristic model for organizing and interpreting growth phase in the scheme. Social capital was a key variable that was explored in the adaptive cycle of the scheme. Social capital was measured in terms of trust and commitments. The findings revealed that increasing levels of social capital influenced growth phase in the KASCOL collaborative scheme. The implication of this finding is that attributes of social capital- trust and commitment are critical in the governance and management of water resources.
title: F. B. Watts Memorial Lecture: Science & society
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Scarborough College Alumni Association
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: science and society
subject: science et société

description: F. B. Watts Memorial Lecture. Lecture presented at Scarborough College of University of Toronto on March 12, 1974
description: « F. B. Watts Memorial Lecture ». Conférence présentée au Scarborough College de l'Université de Toronto le 12 mars 1974.
description: The Gerhard Herzberg fonds is held at the NRC Archives. Contact NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca for information about access.
description: Le fonds Gerhard Herzberg est conservé aux Archives du CNRC. Contactez NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca pour des informations sur l'accès.
Through The Ring Of Fire: $γ$-Ray Variability In Blazars By A Moving Plasmoid Passing A Local Source Of Seed Photons
Creators: name: MacDonald, Nicholas R.
name: Marscher, Alan P.
name: Jorstad, Svetlana G.
name: Joshi, Manasvita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blazars exhibit flares across the electromagnetic spectrum. Many $γ$-ray flares are highly correlated with flares detected at optical wavelengths; however, a small subset appears to occur in isolation, with little or no variability detected at longer wavelengths. These "orphan" $γ$-ray flares challenge current models of blazar variability, most of which are unable to reproduce this type of behavior. We present numerical calculations of the time-variable emission of a blazar based on a proposal by Marscher et al. (2010) to explain such events. In this model, a plasmoid ("blob") propagates relativistically along the spine of a blazar jet and passes through a synchrotron-emitting ring of electrons representing a shocked portion of the jet sheath. This ring supplies a source of seed photons that are inverse-Compton scattered by the electrons in the moving blob. The model includes the effects of radiative cooling, a spatially varying magnetic field, and acceleration of the blob's bulk velocity. Synthetic light curves produced by our model are compared to the observed light curves from an orphan flare that was coincident with the passage of a superluminal knot through the inner jet of the blazar PKS 1510$-$089. In addition, we present Very Long Baseline Array polarimetric observations that point to the existence of a jet sheath in PKS 1510$-$089, thus providing further observational support for the plausibility of our model. An estimate of the bolometric luminosity of the sheath within PKS 1510$-$089 is made, yielding $L_{\rm sh} \sim 3 \times 10^{45} ~ \rm erg ~ \rm s^{-1}$. This indicates that the sheath within PKS 1510$-$089 is potentially a very important source of seed photons.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Ist die Pflege bereit für die Zukunft? : Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz im stationären akuten Setting
Creators: name: Unmüssig, Thomas
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pflegefachperson
Demenzkranke
Spital
Fähigkeit
Fertigkeit
610.73: Pflege

description: Ausgangslage: Die Zahl der Menschen mit Demenz steigt stetig an. In der Schweiz werden im Jahr 2050 über 300 000 Menschen an Demenz erkrankt sein. Folglich wird auch die Zahl dieser im stationären akuten Setting zunehmen. Die Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz im Akutspital ist sehr anspruchsvoll und teilweise von mangelhafter Qualität.
Fragestellung: Welche Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten von diplomiertem Pflegepersonal für die Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz im Akutspital werden in der Literatur beschrieben?
Methode: Es wurde eine systematisierte Literaturrecherche in den Datenbanken CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO und Cochrane Library durchgeführt.
Ergebnisse: Patientenzentriertes Verhalten, Kommunikation, Zusammenarbeit mit Angehörigen, Umgang mit herausforderndem Verhalten, Unterstützung in den Alltagsaktivitäten/im Symptommanagement sowie Steuerung und Planung der Pflege/des Aufenthaltes sind notwendige Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten zur Versorgung von Menschen mit Demenz im Akutspital. Wissen und Erfahrungen sind dabei grundlegend für den Auf- und Ausbau dieser Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten.
Schlussfolgerung: Zentral ist die Fähigkeit, sich patientenzentriert zu verhalten. Dies kann durch eine personenzentrierte Pflege, welche eine positive Grundhaltung gegenüber Menschen mit Demenz sowie einen Beziehungsaufbau voraussetzt, erreicht werden. In Aus- und in Weiterbildungen sollten die Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten in den beschriebenen Bereichen und speziell die personenzentrierte Pflege sowie kritisches Denken geschult werden.
Exploring Deployment Strategies for the Tor Network
Creators: name: Döpmann, Christoph
name: Rust, Sebastian
name: Tschorsch, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: Internet security
subject: overlay networks
subject: Tor
subject: anonymity

description: In response to upcoming performance and security challenges of anonymity networks like Tor, it will be of crucial importance to be able to develop and deploy performance improvements and state-of-the-art countermeasures. In this paper, we therefore explore different deployment strategies and review their applicability, impact, and risks to the Tor network. In a simulation-based evaluation, which leverages historical data of Tor, we show that the deployment strategies can practically be applied to realize significant protocol changes in Tor. Our results, however, also indicate that during the transitional phase a certain degradation of anonymity is unavoidable.
Myosin-X knockout is semi-lethal and demonstrates that myosin-X functions in neural tube closure, pigmentation, hyaloid vasculature regression, and filopodia formation
Creators: name: Mustapha, Mirna
name: Cheney, Richard E.
name: Heimsath, Ernest G.
name: Hammer, John A.
name: Yim, Yang-In
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Myosin-X (Myo10) is an unconventional myosin best known for its striking localization to the tips of filopodia. Despite the broad expression of Myo10 in vertebrate tissues, its functions at the organismal level remain largely unknown. We report here the generation of KO-first (Myo10 tm1a/tm1a ), floxed (Myo10 tm1c/tm1c ), and KO mice (Myo10 tm1d/tm1d ). Complete knockout of Myo10 is semi-lethal, with over half of homozygous KO embryos exhibiting exencephaly, a severe defect in neural tube closure. All Myo10 KO mice that survive birth exhibit a white belly spot, all have persistent fetal vasculature in the eye, and ~50% have webbed digits. Myo10 KO mice that survive birth can breed and produce litters of KO embryos, demonstrating that Myo10 is not absolutely essential for mitosis, meiosis, adult survival, or fertility. KO-first mice and an independent spontaneous deletion (Myo10 m1J/m1J ) exhibit the same core phenotypes. During retinal angiogenesis, KO mice exhibit a ~50% decrease in endothelial filopodia, demonstrating that Myo10 is required to form normal numbers of filopodia in vivo. The Myo10 mice generated here demonstrate that Myo10 has important functions in mammalian development and provide key tools for defining the functions of Myo10 in vivo.
"Please Listen Carefully": Oral History and the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
Creators: name: SAMANTHA JAN PRENDERGAST
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: History

description: This thesis examines a collection of 1950s interview records known as the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. Between 1950 and 1951 Harvard University researchers travelled to US-occupied Germany to interview émigrés and displaced persons from the USSR: they never audio-recorded their interviews. In this thesis I ask what we can learn from the translated, non-verbatim interview transcripts. I argue that, despite the second-hand nature of the records, the Harvard Project transcripts provide valuable insight into the ways that post-WWII Soviet émigrés made sense of their lives and imagined their futures.
Axiologies at Odds: Reconciling Incompatible Theories of the Good
Creators: name: SAMUEL JAMES MAWSON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This thesis aims to reconcile a number of conflicting views in moral theory. It demonstrates that if certain independently plausible views such as time discounting and Prioritarianism are combined they will advocate inconsistent and self-defeating courses of action. The thesis outlines a set of criteria that, if adhered to, would allow these views to be combined without generating problematic results. The particular moral views discussed here are of interest because they are frequently represented in frameworks used for evaluating policy in the areas of public health funding and climate change mitigation.
Arabana and the Ghan
Creators: name: Duke, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores the interactions in northern South Australia of the Arabana people and the old Ghan railway from 1884 to 1983. The Ghan is the common name for the railway that now links Adelaide and Darwin. This latter destination, however, is only a 21st century development. For most of the period covered by this thesis the railway line extended only from Adelaide or even conceptually from Port Augusta to Alice Springs. In general, a railway was considered a symbol of modernity and European superiority over its colonised peoples. For the Arabana, however, this railway offered opportunities to engage with the white settler society which were denied to other Aboriginal peoples. The Arabana helped survey, construct, service and work on the railway from its beginnings in 1884. By the 1930s, Arabana started to be employed in skilled occupations and had wage parity with white workers. The railway also provided the Arabana with opportunities to travel beyond their country and participate in settler society. As this thesis contends, the Arabana’s experience challenges the widely held views of Australian Aboriginal-white settler relations as being solely marked by exploitation and dispossession. In the Arabana’s contrasting case, a determining factor was the opportunities offered by the Ghan. As the stories of individual Arabana show, they were important contributors in the development and maintenance of one of this country’s most important infrastructure developments while, critically, maintaining connection to country and culture. And this contribution was acknowledged with equal pay starting some forty years before the Equal Wage case of the 1960s.
Interstellar dust charging in dense molecular clouds: cosmic ray effects
Creators: name: Ivlev, Alexei
name: Padovani, Marco
name: Galli, Daniele
name: Caselli, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local cosmic-ray (CR) spectra are calculated for typical characteristic regions of a cold dense molecular cloud, to investigate two so far neglected mechanisms of dust charging: collection of suprathermal CR electrons and protons by grains, and photoelectric emission from grains due to the UV radiation generated by CRs. The two mechanisms add to the conventional charging by ambient plasma, produced in the cloud by CRs. We show that the CR-induced photoemission can dramatically modify the charge distribution function for submicron grains. We demonstrate the importance of the obtained results for dust coagulation: While the charging by ambient plasma alone leads to a strong Coulomb repulsion between grains and inhibits their further coagulation, the combination with the photoemission provides optimum conditions for the growth of large dust aggregates in a certain region of the cloud, corresponding to the densities $n(\mathrm{H_2})$ between $\sim10^4$ cm$^{-3}$ and $\sim10^6$ cm$^{-3}$. The charging effect of CR is of generic nature, and therefore is expected to operate not only in dense molecular clouds but also in the upper layers and the outer parts of protoplanetary discs.
description: accepted by ApJ
Keeping it in the Family: The Diplomatic Role of Eleonora and Beatrice d’Aragona in Dynastic Networks
Creators: name: JESSICA GIANNA MOIRA O'LEARY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: History

description: This thesis explores how Eleonora (1450-1493) and Beatrice d’Aragona (1457-1508), daughters of king Ferrante of Naples, negotiated their natal and marital relationships to achieve diplomatic outcomes. This thesis will argue that Ferrante expected his daughters to follow paternal imperatives and to remain engaged in collective dynastic strategy, but that the extent of the women’s continued participation in familial projects was dependent on the nature of their marital relationships. It was access to these relationships which enabled courtly women to re-enter the diplomatic space after marriage, not as objects, but as agents, with their own strategies, politics, and schemes.
Transformationen zur Jahrtausendwende
Creators: name: Hagen Hodgson, Petra
Publisher: name: Verlag Werk
Year: 1998
Subjects: 720: Architektur

description: Wie die Vorbereitungen zeigen, rührt London sein «Millennium» mit der ganz grossen Kelle an. Zur Jahrtausendwende feiert sich die Trendmetropole selber: Unter den Vorhaben finden sich ausser dem kolossalen «Dome» Verkehrsinfrastrukturen, Museen und Erneuerungsprojekte des öffentlichen Raums. Dabei werden der vernachlässigte Raum der Themse und deren Südufer zu einem eigentlichen Erlebnisraum stilisiert. Spektakuläre Einzelobjekte sollen ähnlich wie Mitterrands Grands Projets den unterprivilegierten Stadtteilen Impulse geben. In England lassen sich erstmals nach fünfzehn Jahren mit Architekturpolitik wieder Botschaften transportieren. Abzusehen bleibt, für wie lange und für welche Zwecke.
Responding to Sounds of the Environment: Developing Strategies for Improvised Musical Performance
Creators: name: McAuliffe, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research project concerns the development of an improvisatory music practice informed by sounds of the environment. The primary outcome of this project is a compilation of audio recordings of five works created while undertaking the research. This exegesis elucidates my interest in developing performance frameworks for improvising musicians by studying sounds of the environment, outlines the development of performance strategies in response to field recordings from select locations, and provides a commentary on the final works.

 Following a reflective, practice-led research methodology a study of select field recordings of acoustic locations was undertaken to develop improvised musical works. Selected locations were those I traversed during my routine activities while living in Melbourne, Australia. The refinement of the musical process involved reviewing literature by theorists and musicians such as Luigi Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer, Salomé Voegelin, and Paul Hegarty, and the musical output of practitioners such as Luc Ferrari, Brian Eno, and Jim Denley. Engaging with the work of significant predecessors whose work has also been inspired by sounds of the environment informed my practice and contextualised my contribution to the field.

 Inspired by Jon Rose’s essay The Music of Place: Reclaiming a practice, the performance practice established during this research integrated my interest in free improvisation within the notion of place – the sounds of my everyday environment. I have demonstrated how these sounds can inform an improvisatory performance practice – an approach that is malleable and could be adopted by other practitioners from differing musical backgrounds. In addition, this project offers broad insights into a contemporary improvisatory practice for both specialised and non-specialised listeners and readers.
Pulicat Lagoon_Manuscript_Non Anonymous.docx
Creators: name: s, Rajakumari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50302 Land Capability and Soil Degradation
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management

description: STUDY OF THE PULICAT LAGOON ON THE BASIS OF DEPRIVED VEGETATION AND WATER AREA AGAINST INCREASED LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Near-surface Heating of Young Rift Sediment Causes Mass Production and Discharge of Reactive Dissolved Organic Matter
Creators: name: Ziervogel, Kai
name: Schmidt, Frauke
name: Lin, Yu-Shih
name: Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
name: Feseker, Tomas
name: Koch, Boris P.
name: Kellermann, Matthias Y.
name: Teske, Andreas
name: Zabel, Matthias
name: Goldhammer, Tobias
name: Witt, Matthias
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Ocean margin sediments have been considered as important sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the deep ocean, yet the contribution from advective settings has just started to be acknowledged. Here we present evidence showing that near-surface heating of sediment in the Guaymas Basin, a young extensional depression, causes mass production and discharge of reactive dissolved organic matter (DOM). In the sediment heated up to ~100 °C, we found unexpectedly low DOC concentrations in the pore waters, reflecting the combined effect of thermal desorption and advective fluid flow. Heating experiments suggested DOC production to be a rapid, abiotic process with the DOC concentration increasing exponentially with temperature. The high proportions of total hydrolyzable amino acids and presence of chemical species affiliated with activated hydrocarbons, carbohydrates and peptides indicate high reactivity of the DOM. Model simulation suggests that at the local scale, near-surface heating of sediment creates short and massive DOC discharge events that elevate the bottom-water DOC concentration. Because of the heterogeneous distribution of high heat flow areas, the expulsion of reactive DOM is spotty at any given time. We conclude that hydrothermal heating of young rift sediments alter deep-ocean budgets of bioavailable DOM, creating organic-rich habitats for benthic life.
Nonlinear bang-bang eigenproblems and optimization of resonances in layered cavities
Creators: name: Karabash, Illya M.
name: Logachova, Olga M.
name: Verbytskyi, Ievgen V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49R05, 47J10, 35B34, 49M05, 78M50 (Primary), 46N10, 90C29, 47A55, 70J10, 34L15 (Secondary)

description: Quasi-normal-eigenvalue optimization is studied under constraints $b_1(x) \le B(x) \le b_2 (x)$ on structure functions $B$ of 2-side open optical or mechanical resonators. We prove existence of various optimizers and provide an example when different structures generate the same optimal quasi-(normal-)eigenvalue. To show that quasi-eigenvalues locally optimal in various senses are in the spectrum $Σ^{nl}$ of the bang-bang eigenproblem $y" = - ω^2 y [ b_1 + (b_2 - b_1) χ_{\mathbb{C}_+} (y^2 ) ]$, where $χ_{\mathbb{C}_+} (\cdot)$ is the indicator function of the upper complex half-plane $\mathbb{C}_+$, we obtain a variational characterization of the nonlinear spectrum $Σ^{nl}$ in terms of quasi-eigenvalue perturbations. To address the minimization of the decay rate $| \mathrm{Im} \ ω|$, we study the bang-bang equation and explain how it excludes an unknown optimal $B$ from the optimization process. Computing one of minimal decay structures for 1-side open settings, we show that it resembles gradually size-modulated 1-D stack cavities introduced recently in Optical Engineering. In 2-side open symmetric settings, our example has an additional centered defect. Nonexistence of global decay rate minimizers is discussed.
description: 39 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. The results of the paper were partially reported at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Seoul ICM 2014) and in several seminar and workshop talks
Santa Maria delle Carceri: politics and devotion in renaissance Prato
Creators: name: Halliday, Roslyn Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In 1484, the painting of Santa Maria delle Carceri, located in Prato’s abandoned medieval prison, quite suddenly became the focus of widespread devotion. The frescoed Madonna was reportedly seen leaping off the wall before descending into the subterranean cells below. Vast numbers of miracles were subsequently attributed to the image, accounts of which survive in two manuscripts and form the basis of the study. The texts reveal the way in which the old prison became a liturgical space, and how religious devotion developed within a broader ecclesiastical framework, under the guidance of local clergy. The politicised nature of the space is also illuminated through the descriptions of the struggle for control over the cult between Prato’s communal authorities and the provost of the pieve, Carlo de’ Medici. While the commune retained control of the cult, in accordance with the papal bull that sanctioned worship, the conflict is revealing of broader and protracted tensions between Prato and Florence. The thesis draws the political and religious aspects of the cult into dialogue, and argues that the cultic practices enacted in the space exemplify the intersection between local religious expression and the Church universal. Furthermore, the cult was used by the inhabitants of Prato as an expression of civic pride, while simultaneously serving the competing interests of Florentine hegemony.
Comparative Analysis of Korean Translations of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
Creators: name: Hyun-Jun Roh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description:
 Down and Out in Paris and London is a work of memoir by George Orwell in 1933. It provides realistic reportage style commentary with a sentiment of social criticism. Down and Out has been translated into Korean three times over a period of 18 years, which is unusual for a literary text less popular than Orwell’s other works. These three translated texts are different from each other in terms of style, translators’ affiliations to Orwell, and level of localisation. This thesis investigates the literary features of Down and Out in Paris and London, and compares the approaches taken by Korean translators to represent key source text elements in the target texts. It identifies important shifts over the course of time in the translators’ approaches at textual and contextual level, and relates these shifts to the rapid globalisation of South Korean society in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In contrast, translators’ understanding of social dynamics is found to remain relatively static across the three translations. This analysis contributes to understandings of how translators interpret context. Interpretation of context does not mean seeking equivalence between the source text and target text in translation activity. Rather, it is about identifying indicators of core message in the source text, weaving patterns and inter-connectivity between key elements in the source text, and representing them according to the prevailing, and constantly changing, norms of the target culture.
title: Opening address at Gauss Bicentennial Symposium, April 30, 1977
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Royal Society of Canada
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Gauss, Carl Friedrich

description: typed version of speech
description: version dactylographiée du discours
description: The Gerhard Herzberg fonds is held at the NRC Archives. Contact NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca for information about access.
description: Le fonds Gerhard Herzberg est conservé aux Archives du CNRC. Contactez NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca pour des informations sur l'accès.
description: Gauss Bicentennial Symposium, April 30, 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Short-range dynamics of a nematic liquid-crystalline phase
Creators: name: Poulos, Andreas S.
name: Constantin, Doru
name: Davidson, Patrick
name: Pansu, Brigitte
name: Freyssingeas, Éric
name: Madsen, Anders
name: Chanéac, Corinne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we studied the dynamics in the nematic phase of a nanorodsuspension. The collective diffusion coefficient in the plane perpendicular to the director varies sharply with the wave vector. Combining the structure factor and the diffusion coefficient, we find that the hydrodynamic function of the phase decreases by more than a factor of 10 when going from length scales comparable to the interparticle distance toward larger values. Thus, the collective dynamics of the nematic phase experiences strong and scale-dependent slowing down, in contrast with isotropic suspensions of slender rods or of spherical particles.