cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Current challenges and good practices for water use authorisation systems in Africa (Pegasys and IWMI Policy brief)
Creators: name: Institute, Pegasys
name: Institute, International Water Management
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2017

description: Across Africa, water permit systems are used as a tool to regulate and control water use. And yet, the implementation of these systems is not without challenges: they are resource intensive, and require regular updating, and compliance monitoring and enforcement. In addition, their historical legacy and the way that they have been structured under contemporary legislation means that the water uses by rural and peri-urban small scale water users governed under customary law have largely been rendered illegal without a permit. A study on and exchange of experiences by water authorities and researchers in Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, identified both common challenges and different good practices in relation to three key functions of permit systems: water resources management, information generation, and revenue generation. Arising from this process, certain good practices and needs for further action were identified:

-how to recognise customary water law within the formal water law to overcome exclusion of small scale rural water users from the formal system, and to improve their legal watersecurity;

-understanding the cost-effectiveness of billing and revenue collection systems in relation to the collection of small sums of money from small-scale water users;

-developing a targeted and differentiated approach to the issuing of permits and to compliance monitoring and enforcement.

Further comparative study and policy dialogue between the water authorities and researchers in the five countries and elsewhere is needed.
Biographical representation, from narrative to list: The evolution of curricula vitae in the humanities, 1950 to 2010
Creators: name: Hamann, Julian
name: Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Categorization
subject: Curricula Vitae
subject: CVs
subject: Devices
subject: Evaluation
subject: German studies
subject: History
subject: Narrative
subject: 050 Allgemeine fortlaufende Sammelwerke

description: Curricula vitae (CVs) are a crucial device for the evaluation of academic personae and biographies. They play a key role in the competitive assessments that underpin the reproduction of the academic workforce. Drawing on 80 CVs which have been part of candidates’ applications for vacant professorships, our article provides a longitudinal study of the development of CVs used by German scholars in professorial appointment procedures in the disciplines of German studies and history between 1950 and the late 2010s. The analysis reveals the evolution of CVs by tracing their various morphological shifts. We distinguish four formats throughout the period of study: CVs initially had a (1) narrative format that develops into an (2) intermediary segmented form before CVs take on a (3) list form in which biographical information congeals into distinct categories. In the 2010s, the list form develops into a (4) hyper-differentiated list form in which coherent biographical representations are finally dissolved into almost eclectic accumulations of finely grained performance categories. Against the backdrop of this finding, the contribution concludes with three general observations: First, the evolution of CVs reflects changes in the institutional environment, not least the increased competitive pressures in academic careers. Second, the evolution of biographical representations also conveys a transformation of the academic persona throughout which boundaries between personal and professional biographies are established. Third, we propose a reactivity of current list form CVs through which academics are disciplined to live up to the categories that wait to be realized in their CVs.
(201161) James Ross Gwatkin
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.
Substrate Dependency of Nucleation Mechanism in the formation of TiO2 Thin Films by Sol-gel Spin-Coating Method
Creators: name: Moniruzzaman Syed, Brittney Preyer, Selina Velasquez, Madiha Syeda, Jolaikha Sultana, Farhan Azim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) thin films were deposited on glass (Corning 7059) and p-type siliconsubstrates using the sol-gel spin coating technique. The sol-gel solution was prepared by mixinghydrochloric acid (HCl) and deionized water (DIW) in a 1:1 ratio, along with titanium isopropoxide (TIP)and absolute ethyl alcohol (AEA) in a 1:7 ratio. The films were deposited at a fixed spin speed of 1000rpm with varying deposition times (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 sec). The deposited films were characterizedusing Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and ellipsometry, while microscopic imaging wasused to analyze surface morphology. Raman spectra confirmed the crystalline nature of the TiO₂ films,with the rutile phase exhibiting a peak at approximately 819 nm. XRD results indicated that the maximum[δ] was estimated to be 10.5 nm on glass and 15.13 nm on silicon, as observed. The refractive index (n) ofTiO₂ films on silicon was consistently higher than that on glass across different deposition times.Additionally, the dielectric constant (k) of TiO₂ films on glass indicated better insulating propertiescompared to those on silicon. Thickness measurements revealed that TiO₂ films on silicon were smootherthan those on glass across varying deposition times. Roughness analysis showed that the surface roughness(Ra) of TiO₂ films on glass decreased with increasing deposition time, whereas the roughness of TiO₂films on silicon fluctuated.
The cosmological analysis of X-ray cluster surveys; III. 4D X-ray observable diagrams
Creators: name: Pierre, M.
name: Valotti, A.
name: Faccioli, L.
name: Clerc, N.
name: Gastaud, R.
name: Koulouridis, E.
name: Pacaud, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite compelling theoretical arguments, the use of clusters as cosmological probes is, in practice, frequently questioned because of the many uncertainties impinging on cluster mass estimates. Our aim is to develop a fully self-consistent cosmological approach of X-ray cluster surveys, exclusively based on observable quantities, rather than masses. This procedure is justified given the possibility to directly derive the cluster properties via ab initio modelling, either analytically or by using hydrodynamical simulations. In this third paper, we evaluate the method on cluster toy-catalogues. We model the population of detected clusters in the count-rate -- hardness-ratio -- angular size -- redshift space and compare the corresponding 4-dimensional diagram with theoretical predictions. The best cosmology+physics parameter configuration is determined using a simple minimisation procedure; errors on the parameters are derived by scanning the likelihood hyper-surfaces with a wide range of starting values. The method allows a simultaneous fit of the cosmological parameters, of the cluster evolutionary physics and of the selection effects. When using information from the X-ray survey alone plus redshifts, this approach is shown to be as accurate as the mass function for the cosmological parameters and to perform better for the cluster physics, as modelled in the scaling relations. It enables the identification of degenerate combinations of parameter values. Given the considerably shorter computer times involved for running the minimisation procedure in the observed parameter space, this method appears to clearly outperform traditional mass-based approaches when X-ray survey data alone are available.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
Looking in the mirror: second generation, Greek women reflecting on their identity
Creators: name: Frosso Pirpiris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Society is constructed of - and - by a multiplicity of individuals, each of whom maintain their own values, beliefs, traditions and ambitions. Individual identity therefore is socially created and operates on two levels - collective and individual. Time, place, the family and one's parents, patterns of interaction between the individual and her environment, and an individual's sense of communal and self worth, all work to re-define one's identity. Individual identity functions in a similar fashion to a chameleon, constantly changing its colour, readjusting itself to its surroundings. Similarly, the individual him/herself is a prism of different colours and faces, images of reality. S/he is an amalgam of intercepting multiple identities. Thus, to achieve a more limpid reflection of the women studied in this dissertation, one must examine the 'points of intersection', where the individual interacts with, and responds to, collective images of ethnic, Greek, gender, and bi-cultural identities.
The forensic significance of artefacts deposited by the blowfly Lucilia cuprina
Creators: name: Durdle, Annalisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Śokha māte : the disparate development of Rabari and Mer contemporary art
Creators: name: Maddock, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is an Anthropolgy of Art case study. In the main it is an ethnographic account of particular paintings and sculptures created by members of tow Hindu castes located in the Porbandar region of Gujarat, West India. Historically, the Mers by caste occupation are farmers and the Rabaris shepherds. For at leat the last millennisa, together they have constituted the majority of the population residing in the villages of the region. Their visual art, given caste differences, is therefore best described as the popular rural style. The ethnography is based on my own observations made in the region during two periods of fieldwork, March 1989 - February 1990 and February 1991 - April 1992. For much of this time I lived in the Rabari area (Kedā) of Ordar village, ten kilometres from Porbandar. My study has also drawn heavily on existing religious, anthropological and historical texts, which in turn, before and after the event, have informed my field observations. Through the explicit engagement with such texts, I also hope that my own work is given context within and makes some contribution to, the more general study of Indian art, religion and society. The main methodological contribution of the thesis, I hope will come from my use of the comparative method. I chose to make a comparative study, as very early on I became aware that whilst traditional art practices were still very much a part of the Rabaris' lifestyle, most Mers had abandoned them in favoour of new art styles that more expressed their modern identity. This I argue is a result of greater economic, educationak sand political development amongst the Mer population since India Independence in 1947. For many reasons the Rabaris have not enjoyed similar socio-economic development, and it is this that I contend holds the key to understanding why, unlike the Mers, their visual arts still express tradition rather modernity. In brief, my comparsion of the two castes' disparate socio-cultural development also sheds light on both the aesthetic and the supra-aesthetic forces propelling the contemporary revolution in the popular art of the region. The thesis is presented in two volumes. The chapters in the first volume are included largely to give a background for reading the second volume, wherein my discussion of regional art takes place. However, I also hope that my analysis of regional village life, religion, social values and history, in the first volume, will have wider interest. The chapters in volume tewo explicitly and implicity build upon the information presented in volume one, and in so doing attempt to give an anthropological understanding painting and sculpture, as well as the new genres that have broken with tradition.
(201162) Walter Sutton
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.
Kāla Siddhānta
Creators: name: Londe, Karan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Galactic astronomy
Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
General relativity and gravitational waves
Planetary science (excl. solar system and planetary geology)
Astronomical sciences not elsewhere classified
Classical physics not elsewhere classified
Other physical sciences not elsewhere classified
Other mathematical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: For several hundred years and millennia, Time has always been considered as a part or a reference for any context or subject, however the understanding of the true nature of Time yet remains unaccomplished. This paper fulfils and provides a new approach to understanding Time in terms of standardizing all the Time references of different events to a single universal Time unit, enabling us for hypothetical reasoning and answers to the unasked questions like, what is Time? How is it? What's its true nature? What are its effects? Are the effects on us and other things the same? And were all the previous scientists correct about Time? This work also provides complete knowledge of how Time affects an object, and what is a Timeline? This work which will set basics for inter dimensional and Multiversal Time travel and communication, which consists of universal Time mechanics, which is applicable for each and every physically bounded structure, right from a single atom to any planetary structures and galaxies. This work will establish a different perception on Time, which will open a new gateway to understanding Time on its basic behaviour which will also inherit future technological advancements.
Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Creators: name: Krantz, Goran
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2015
Subjects: The value of dance in education
Using arts based research method and hermeneutic phenomenology exploring the experience of dance
Dance and a revised perspective on Gadamer's concept of Bildung
Art for arts sake
Interpretative activities and education

description: Abstract The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic activity towards exploring the meaningfulness of the arts themselves. New researches as well as new theoretical approaches are thus called for (Winner, Goldstein and Vincent-Lancrin, 2013). Hence my research question is: what are students’ experiences of dance? Research on experiences in the arts is contested by the problem to verbalise lived experience. Therefore, in the thesis, a new method based on hermeneutic phenomenology (HP) and arts-based research (ABR) is developed. It includes artistic activity in three forms arts: dance, poetry, and visual art. An oral interview built on a circular structure gives the students a variety of opportunities to interpret and verbalise their experiences of dance. Twenty students, 18 years old, who regularly dance in school, participated. Answers were analysed following van Manen’s (1990) method of structural analysis of themes, including poetic interpretations. The findings reveal that dance is experienced as very important for personal exploration and transformation. Experiences of finding ‘my home’, security, freedom, authenticity, well-being, and happiness are most evident in research participants. Dance strengthens students’ motivation to take on the challenges of life and their ability to concentrate. The experience of dance is described as an extraordinary state of mind. Both participant evaluations and the analysis of results indicate that the method, phenomenology of artistic practice, was successful. Thus this thesis contributes to the development of ABR and HP. A theoretical perspective placing artistic activity at the centre of the creation of knowledge and based on Gadamer’s (1993) ideas on Bildung is presented. Recent educational discussions (Biesta, 2012) highlight the importance of interpretative activities and understanding of self in setting future directions for education. This thesis discusses dance in relation to this context and indicates that dance is an important school subject, being based on existential values. In concluding that dance has a positive influence on the life of the students and provides a unique opportunity to explore self, this thesis argues that educationalists should reconsider the value of dance in schools.
Fermi surface and effective masses in photoemission response of the (Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$)Fe$_2$As$_2$ superconductor
Creators: name: Derondeau, Gerald
name: Bisti, Federico
name: Kobayashi, Masaki
name: Braun, Jürgen
name: Ebert, Hubert
name: Rogalev, Victor A.
name: Shi, Ming
name: Ma, Junzhang
name: Ding, Hong
name: Schmitt, Thorsten
name: Strocov, Vladimir N.
name: Minár, Ján
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angle-resolved photoemission spectra of the superconductor (Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$)Fe$_2$As$_2$ have been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Our results explain the previously obscured origins of all salient features of the ARPES response of this paradigm pnictide compound and reveal the origin of the Lifshitz transition. Comparison of calculated ARPES spectra with the underlying DMFT band structure shows an important impact of final state effects, which results for three-dimensional states in a deviation of the ARPES spectra from the true spectral function. In particular, the apparent effective mass enhancement seen in the ARPES response is not an entirely intrinsic property of the quasiparticle valence bands but may have a significant extrinsic contribution from the photoemission process and thus differ from its true value. Because this effect is more pronounced for low photoexcitation energies, soft-X-ray ARPES delivers more accurate values of the mass enhancement due to a sharp definition of the 3D electron momentum.
description: including Supplemental Material
The Karen's struggles in Burma : a Karen perspective
Creators: name: Ananias Ganemy Kunoo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis seeks to present a Karen perspective on that people’s struggle in the civil war in Burma that has now lasted for more than fifty year. It took pains to define the various branches of the Karen nation and to trace its historical background. It highlighted the long history of ethnic antagonism and warfare amongst the different ethnic groups in Burma and, in particular, the persecution that the Karen have suffered at various times at the hands of their aggressive neighbours. It argued that this history of persecution and its more recent recurrence lay at the core of the outbreak of civil war in the wake of Burma gaining its independence.It is argued that the Karen felt particularly aggrieved that their loyalty towards the British allies during World War II counted little in the planning for post-war independence and that substantive power was handed over to the Burmese ethnic group and that Karen claims for an independent state were ignored. It is argued that the Burmese initiated military conflict and forced the Karen to take up arms in their defence in a quest to establish their own independent government in the Karen ‘liberated’ areas. Over time, other ethnic nationalities joined the Karen in opposition to the Rangoon ruling government and this alliance has pressed for the establishment of a genuine federal system for Burma, with the right of self-determination to be guaranteed to all the ethnic nations.It is also argued that the Burmese military regime has continued to prosecute what amounts to a genocidal war and their policy of ‘ethnic cleansing’ has placed them amongst the world’s worst violators of human rights. Trade, investment and, particularly, arms sales from ASEAN members and other neighbouring countries have enabled this military regime to further pursue this policy with the result that thousands of refugees have fled to Thailand and other neighbouring countries. Despite this, however, this thesis shows that the Karen led resistance politically sand has continued its military opposition to the Burmese regime, celebrating the fifieth anniversary of their struggle.
The Cypriot Greek Orthodox Community of "Apostolos Andreas" Sunshine: an exceptional organization of the Greek diaspora
Creators: name: Georgiou-Yiannis, Georgia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Humanities (Greek Studies Program), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The Western Suburbs of Melbourne, in particular the suburb of Sunshine, are closely linked to the settlement of Greek Migrants. More so, the Western Suburbs are connected with the settlement and organization of the Greek Cypriot community. Greek Cypriot migrants and their descendants heavily populate the area and their presence is tangible up to the present. The Greek Cypriot migrants are the current prevailing ethnic group. Despite the importance and presence of the Greek Cypriot community to the area, little has been written about the organization and settlement of this particular group. This thesis is an exploration of the history of the Greek Cypriot immigration to the suburb of Sunshine. Most importantly, it concentrates on the establishment and development of the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Community of “Apostolos Andreas” Sunshine, which is one of the oldest and most significant Greek organizations in Melbourne, which continues to play a major role in the life of the Greek Cypriot community. The establishment of the Community and the subsequent establishment of the church of “Apostolos Andreas” constitute a notable paradigm of the Greek Cypriot diaspora. This paradigm illustrates the reasons for the migration of Greeks from Cyprus to Australia and their way of life when they settled in Sunshine. Furthermore, it allows us to draw a parallel between this particular group and other Greek groups within the broader context of Greek diaspora. The study of the development of the Community, with special emphasis on the role of its church, reflects the convergences and divergences of these groups. That is, the Greek Cypriots on the one hand are closely aligned to the culture of Cyprus and are focused on preserving their Cypriot identity as distinct from other Greeks in Australia, and on the other hand the Community is willing to work either directly or indirectly with existing Greek institutions in Australia to share in their common Greek culture. The Community’s evolution highlights the differences and similarities of their Greek Identity. This is an aspect they are attempting to pass on to second generation Greek Cypriots, despite the constant exposure of the second generation to non-Greek Cypriot culture in Australian Society.
IEA Wind TCP Task 52 General Meeting 2023. Working Group 7 - The wind lidar ontolgy group
Creators: name: Costa, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation of the wind lidar ontology viewer available at Wind lidar ontology viewer. In this presentation a lidar ontology application tool, available at GitHub Lidar Ontology Tool, is referenced. It provides insights into how this application enhances the understanding and utilization of wind lidar ontology concepts.
Achieving and sustaining safely managed drinking water in Bangladesh (REACH Policy brief)
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2017

description: Ensuring safely managed drinking water for everyone is a global policy priority. The Government of Bangladesh remains at the forefront of the global effort to define and achieve the expanded Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs recognise that ‘access’ is only one step towards achieving safe and reliable drinking water for everyone, every day. In this policy brief, the authors report on a water audit of 3,830 tubewells across 10 villages in Chandpur and Comilla Districts in order to support national policy strategies seeking to achieve safely managed water for all.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.13/2009
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Fortschreibung des Frauenförderplans der Fakultät 12 Erziehungswissenschaft und Soziologie der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Frauenförderplan - Fortschreibung 2008 - 2010 der Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen (BCI) der TU Dortmund
description: Frauenförderplan - Fortschreibung 2008 - 2010 der Fakultät für Mathematik
description: Frauenförderplan - Fortschreibung 2008 - 2010 der Fakultät Statistik
description: Frauenförderplan - Fortschreibung 2008 - 2010 der Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
description: Richtlinien für die Vergütung von Gastvorträgen / Kolloquien und Gastaufenthalten an der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 06.08.2009
description: Veröffentlichung der Bilanz des Studentenwerks Dortmund AöR zum 31. Dezember 2008 gem. § 10 Abs. 5 Studentenwerksgesetz (StWG NRW)
description: Veröffentlichung der Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung des Studentenwerks Dortmund AöR für die Zeit vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2008 gem. § 10 Abs. 5 Studentenwerksgesetz (StWG NRW)
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 13, 2009
The Number Behind the Simplest SIC-POVM
Creators: name: Bengtsson, Ingemar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simple concept of a SIC poses a very deep problem in algebraic number theory, as soon as the dimension of Hilbert space exceeds three. A detailed description of the simplest possible example is given.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure; talk at the Vaxjo conference "Quantum and Beyond", 2016; corrections to section 4 included
A Victorian house painter & plein-airist : John Mather's early Melbourne years (1878-1891)
Creators: name: Cornell, Joan M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis highlights John Mather's role as a disseminator of Aestheticism and Plein-Airism in Melbourne during 1878-1891. Mathers trained as a professional house painter and decorator and he boasted the work had taken him to the major centers in Britain, and to Paris. He became involved in a number of important decorative commissions in Melbourne, from the onset of his arrival in Janurary 1878: namely at Mandeville Hall which was being refurbished in the latest London Aesthetic stle, and subsequently for the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, where he was the main contractor for the decoration and painting. For all commissions Mather displayed a working knowledge of English Aestheticism and was a key player in establishing the style in Melbourrne. Mather executed four main tableaus under the dome of the Exhibition Buildings during 1880, which were derided by the press as "circus posters" for their stylisation and flatness, two vital aspects of good design, which had been at the heart of Henry Cole's reformist policies for decorative art in Britain. The situation demonstrates colonial ignorance about Aestheticism. Mather had lessons in water-colour from Thomas Fairbairn, a painter associated with a group of Scots, who had established an equivalent of Fontainebleau at Cadzow forest near Hamilton, during the 1850s. Mather arrived already familiar with the plein-air progamme, at first using water-colour as a useful tool for sketching from nature and later applying the principles of brevity to the oil medium. Although Mather at first adapts to Buvelot's brand of picturesque naturalism, he had a tendency to focus on the foreground representation of local grasses and flora and to localise the landscape by truthfully recording the disposition of flora. Mather's interest in prosaic urban views contrasts with his respresentations of mountain scenery and cliffs lashed with wild seas. It is sa residual taste for the sublime which links Mathere with von Guerard and with his Scottish predecessors and contemporaries, such as Horatio McCulloch and Peter Graham. But with on significant difference: Mather paints wild subjects en plein air.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.15/2009
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berichtigung der Prüfungsordnung für die Masterstudiengänge der Fakultät Maschinenbau der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 25.09.09 (AM Nr. 12/2009, Seite 19 ff.)
description: Dienstvereinbarung für die Einführung und Nutzung des Zutrittskontrollsystems SIPORT in den Räumlichkeiten der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 15, 2009
Computer applications for painting
Creators: name: Hopkins, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: My M.A. proposal, and subsequent research, was to explore the viability of using the computer in the painting studio as an aid in producing paintings and drawings: Using the computer to generate, modify, develop and store images. Then, to employ the computer interactively during various' stages of the progress of a painting, to assist with decisions about colour, form and shape etc.
My intention was to use the computer primarily as a tool or a means to help in the production of paintings and drawings, not produce 'computer art' as such. Consequently, I was not concerned with the high end of computer systems andprograms, but with inexpensive equipment and programs compatible with the painting studio. Most of the programs I used were either free-ware or less than one hundred dollars.
Optimizing egalitarian performance in the side-effects model of colocation for data center resource management
Creators: name: Pascual, Fanny
name: Rzadca, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In data centers, up to dozens of tasks are colocated on a single physical machine. Machines are used more efficiently, but tasks' performance deteriorates, as colocated tasks compete for shared resources. As tasks are heterogeneous, the resulting performance dependencies are complex. In our previous work [18] we proposed a new combinatorial optimization model that uses two parameters of a task - its size and its type - to characterize how a task influences the performance of other tasks allocated to the same machine. In this paper, we study the egalitarian optimization goal: maximizing the worst-off performance. This problem generalizes the classic makespan minimization on multiple processors (P||Cmax). We prove that polynomially-solvable variants of multiprocessor scheduling are NP-hard and hard to approximate when the number of types is not constant. For a constant number of types, we propose a PTAS, a fast approximation algorithm, and a series of heuristics. We simulate the algorithms on instances derived from a trace of one of Google clusters. Algorithms aware of jobs' types lead to better performance compared with algorithms solving P||Cmax. The notion of type enables us to model degeneration of performance caused by using standard combinatorial optimization methods. Types add a layer of additional complexity. However, our results - approximation algorithms and good average-case performance - show that types can be handled efficiently.
description: Author's version of a paper published in Euro-Par 2017 Proceedings, extends the published paper with addtional results and proofs
Ethics and Childhood Obesity Prevention Policy
Creators: name: TIMOTHY JAMES ALLEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Preventing obesity in children is the best solution to lower overall obesity rates, experts argue. This thesis evaluates the ethics of some controversial policies to prevent childhood obesity: bans on trans fats (TFs), particular family-based interventions, and body mass index (BMI) measurement programs in schools. I develop an ethics framework with which to systematically evaluate these policies. I find that the family-based interventions and BMI measurement programs in question may be acceptable if they are designed to minimise harms and to support parents. However, TF bans and similar policies would be much more ethically acceptable and should be prioritised.
Understanding river water quality risks to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in Dhaka (REACH Policy brief)
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018

description: In rapidly developing economies, untreated wastewater is a serious and growing problem. Untreated wastewater impacts human health and well-being, economic growth and ecosystems. The poor and vulnerable are often most at risk. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 aims to improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping, and minimising the release of hazardous chemicals. The Government of Bangladesh is working to meet the indicators of success for this goal, which include halving the proportion of untreated wastewater.

In this policy brief, we present new data and provisional findings from river water monitoring sites together with a survey of over 1,800 households. We assess regulatory compliance at these sites along the Tongi-Turag-Balu Rivers using spatial analysis and suggest strategies to support progress toward achieving target reductions in wastewater and improving safe water for all.
Misogynistic Hate Speech on Social Networks: a Critical Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: Spallaccia, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gender studies

description: The present dissertation aims at recognising online misogyny as a form of hate speech, by providing a qualitative analysis of this discourse on Twitter and Facebook. While recent reports in media coverage have revealed that sexist harassment is the most pervasive social problem on Web 2.0, much scholarly research has mainly focused on other types of hate speech (e.g., racist and xenophobic vilification), overlooking the seriousness of misogynistic verbal abuse. The multilayered impact of misogynous discourse on women’s lives shows the urgent need to recognise gender-based prejudice as a form of hate speech, and to provide a more thorough and updated theorisation of this phenomenon. For this reason, the present dissertation suggests considering online misogyny as a harmful speech which employs different tactics and discursive strategies to harass and silence women who engage in online public conversation. Following the methodology of feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, it develops an extensive qualitative study of the abuse experienced online by six women who reside in three different countries (i.e., Australia, Italy, and the USA). By analysing the discursive strategies commonly employed in user-generated contents to reaffirm hegemonic patriarchal ideologies and fixed gender identities, this dissertation also examines the entanglement between gender prejudice and other types of discrimination (i.e., racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and ageism), and it identifies the articulation of online misogynistic hate speech through a series of tactics which harm women’s lives on multiple levels. Therefore, it presents a taxonomy of these impacts through a new model that was specifically developed for the research at issue, and that will hopefully guide future research on misogynistic hate speech. In conclusion, this study argues for the development of effective educational tools to tackle sexist hate speech online, to guarantee women’s digital citizenship, and to promote a more respectful conversation in cyberspace.
An Analysis of the Doodle Tonguing Technique for Trombone and its Application to Performance
Creators: name: Vizard, Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This exegesis investigates the Doodle Tonguing technique for trombone, and its use in jazz performance. Doodle Tonguing is a modification of the standard tonguing techniques used by brass players and was developed for the trombone by Carl Fontana in the late 1940’s. A review of literature showed that Doodle Tonguing was developed in order to allow trombonists to play difficult rapid passages with greater fluidity and evenness than could be achieved with standard tonguing techniques, essentially imitating a valve instrument. Although Doodle Tonguing was recognized as having advantages, especially when performing rapid passages, adoption of the technique was relatively low and the technique had been crudely documented.

 An artistic research in music investigation was conducted to elucidate the following:

 1) How may Doodle Tonguing extend the scope of performance on the Trombone?

 2) Can the Doodle Tonguing technique be better codified in order to more accurately reflect current practice?

 3) How can Doodle Tonguing be applied to improvised performance?

 Five benefits to performance were linked to Doodle Tonguing: clear execution of phrases at rapid tempos; assistance in the execution of awkward slurs; facilitation of legato playing at soft volumes; affecting smooth and accurate transitions in the high register of the trombone and widening the palette of rhythmic variations available to improvisers. Of these, the latter four benefits are not well documented or recognized in extant literature. The net effect of these benefits is an increased creative flow when performing.

 The research identified a variety of Doodle Tonguing methods, some of which shared commonalities and some of which did not. Methods that were only previously described anecdotally were synthesized and incorporated into my own practice, leading to a Doodle Tonguing methodology which provided the greatest performance benefits to me. Additionally, a performance outcome was produced as a result of this research, consisting of six works specifically composed to illustrate the usage of Doodle Tonguing in an improvised performance context.

 The findings of this research suggest that although it is difficult to achieve proficiency with the Doodle Tonguing technique, there are numerous significant performance benefits to be derived from doing so. Further, a better codification of the technique, alongside a better understanding of the benefits of this technique, is likely to lead to more widespread adoption of Doodle Tonguing amongst trombonists, both within the jazz genre and beyond.
Nonequilibrium Majorana fluctuations
Creators: name: Smirnov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonequilibrium physics of random events, or fluctuations, is a unique fingerprint of a given system. Here we demonstrate that in noninteracting systems, whose dynamics is driven by Majorana states, the effective charge $e^*$, characterizing the electric current fluctuations, is fractional. This is in contrast to noninteracting Dirac systems with the trivial electronic charge, $e^*=e$. Quite the opposite, in the Majorana state we predict two different fractional effective charges at low and high energies, $e^*_l=e/2$ and $e^*_h=3e/2$, accessible at low and high bias voltages, respectively. We show that while the low energy effective charge $e^*_l$ is sensitive to thermal fluctuations of the current, the high energy effective charge $e^*_h$ is robust against thermal noise. A unique fluctuation signature of Majorana fermions is, therefore, encoded in the high voltage tails of the electric current noise easily accessible in experiments on strongly nonequilibrium systems even at high temperatures.
description: essentially improved
(201156) James Thomas Gwatkin
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.
(201158) Charles Standen Paine
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.
The Memory Artist: Exploring Trauma Through Literature, Landscape and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia
Creators: name: KATHERINE ALICE ANNE BRABON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This thesis investigates the relationship between literature, collective trauma and specific periods of twentieth-century Russian history. It comprises two components. The creative component is a novel, titled The Memory Artist. Set in Russia in 1999, the novel looks back on the 1960s through the eyes of the protagonist who grew up in Moscow during the Brezhnev era. The other component is a critical study that examines the ways literature can engage with historical trauma through representations of landscape and the operation of memory in individuals and societies.
Resilient options for improving drinking water security in coastal Bangladesh (REACH Discussion paper)
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018

description: While 98% of the population in Bangladesh has access to a technologically improved water source, only 39% is estimated to have ‘safely managed’ drinking water services, when water quality is taken into account (World Bank, 2018). The problem is more acute in the southwest coastal region, with complex hydrogeological conditions and adverse water quality resulting in high spatial variability in drinking water coverage. Research findings from a selected polder show substantially low coverage of safe drinking water, despite exponential growth of privately installed tubewells in the past decades. In hard to reach and hydrogeologically difficult areas, households trade-off between quality, distance and affordability in deciding their water source. The country has set its priorities for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a strong focus on sustainable and climate resilient water supply systems and increased coverage via introduction and expansion of appropriate, affordable options. Achieving these targets entail analysis of the range of alternative options to determine the combination of interventions required to provide safe drinking water for all in particular contexts.
(201159) John Law Worthington
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.
The grain, the snail and the artist: transformations in current visual arts practice through engagement with contemporary agriculture
Creators: name: Eckermann, Belinda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: An exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Masters by Research to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Practice-based thesis.