cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding the transformative potential of international education for Vietnamese overseas graduates and their communities
Creators: name: Pham, Lien Thi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Discourses in international education have largely focused on economic and political imperatives, which emphasise institutional measures such as student mobility, international partnerships and alliances as evidence of efficiency and achievement. This thesis aims to shift that thinking to consider perspectives of human development and international graduates’ contribution to development of their home countries. Along this vision, and in consideration of the large population of international students from Asian developing countries, this thesis explores the transformative potential of acquired international education for Vietnamese graduates in their local communities. Through the lens of Amartya Sen’s agency-focused Capability Approach, this thesis examines the aspirations, opportunities and practices of Vietnamese overseas graduates in their work and community work after returning to Viet Nam. This thesis employs Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts of habitus, capital and field to operationalise Sen’s notions of effective agency as the transformative capacity of these returnees to enable personal and social change in their work and community participation. It offers concepts of normative agency and intersubjective freedom as a theoretical framework, and the use of reflexive sociology as an innovative way to engage with the returnees’ “reasoning” of their values, choices and practices. This research employed a mixed method approach of online surveys of Vietnamese overseas-educated returnees (N=280), followed by in-depth interviews with key returnees and members of their networks (N=48). The interviews provided a fuller account of the returnees’ experiences identified in the surveys, thus were the primary focus of analysis and discussions in this thesis. This thesis provides understanding about the types of overseas-acquired skills, knowledge, attributes and attitudes that these returnees can utilise, in light of Viet Nam’s historical, economic, cultural and political contexts, and institutional structures of their workplaces and community organisations. The returnees’ practical experiences suggest competing values that underline the complexity of co-opting with societal norms and making autonomous choices and actions in the process of agency and social change. This thesis offers some implications for international education providers to contribute to ethical development of emerging knowledge societies, and for public policies in Viet Nam to support overseas-educated returnees in contributing to their communities. This thesis offers significant theoretical contributions and insights into the experiences of international graduates upon returning home, thus sets the ground for further research work in this area.
A Temporal Slow Growth Formulation for Direct Numerical Simulation of Compressible Wall--Bounded Flows
Creators: name: Topalian, Victor
name: Oliver, Todd A.
name: Ulerich, Rhys
name: Moser, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new slow growth formulation for DNS of wall-bounded turbulent flow is developed and demonstrated to enable extension of slow growth modeling concepts to complex boundary layer flows. As in previous slow growth approaches, the formulation assumes scale separation between the fast scales of turbulence and the slow evolution of statistics such as the mean flow. This separation enables the development of approaches where the fast scales of turbulence are directly simulated while the forcing provided by the slow evolution is modeled. The resulting model admits periodic boundary conditions in the streamwise direction, which avoids the need for extremely long domains and complex inflow conditions that typically accompany spatially developing simulations. Further, it enables the use of efficient Fourier numerics. Unlike previous approaches, the present approach is based on a temporally evolving boundary layer and is specifically tailored to give results for calibration and validation of RANS turbulence models. The use of a temporal homogenization simplifies the modeling, enabling straightforward extension to flows with complicating features, including cold and blowing walls. To generate data useful for calibration and validation of RANS models, special care is taken to ensure that the mean slow growth forcing is closed in terms of the mean and other quantities that appear in standard RANS models, ensuring that there is no confounding between typical RANS closures and additional closures required for the slow growth problem. The performance of the method is demonstrated on two problems: an essentially incompressible, zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer and a transonic boundary layer over a cooled wall with wall transpiration.
The Birth of Gods
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: History
subject: 220209 History of Ideas
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 219999 History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Jacques Cauvin stated that there had to a revolution of symbols and a birth of anthropomorphic gods before the Neolithic Revolution occurred. This paper agrees and adds to that idea. Doble believes that there was an even more fundamental shift in the thinking of humankind during the Paleolithic. In this early phase homo sapiens began to believe that there were forces in the external reality outside of human beings which could be known and once known could be influenced. This basic thought was true for shamanistic religions, for polytheism and monotheism and is also true for science today.
In vestibus virilibus: female transvestitism is late medieval English culture
Creators: name: Eatock, Lexie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the sexual connotations of female to male cross-dressing in late medieval English culture, and how this perceived sexuality was interpreted within legal system and broader culture. It analyses the representation of the cross-dressing saints of antiquity in literary culture, considering how this may have popularised the concept of transvestitism, as well as revealing the unintended sexuality associated with the acts of these women. This thesis then examines five prosecuted cases of female to male cross-dressing in English courts between 1429 and 1520, analysing the basis of these prosecutions and building a comparison between the legal and literary cultures of the period. Finally, the thesis considers the best-known medieval cross-dresser, Joan of Arc, prosecuted for a variety of crimes by an ecclesiastical court in France under the control of the English military. Scholars have argued that this act of cross-dressing is about religious practice or aiming to improve their social status. I will argue instead that by taking dressing and acting as men, these women instead evoked sexual connotations.
A synthesis of barriers to and enablers of pro-poor climate change adaptation in four South African municipalities
Creators: name: Meggan Spires
name: Sheona E. Shackleton
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Qualitative case studies were undertaken to explore the multiple, interacting factors that hinder and/or facilitate planned pro-poor climate change adaptation in four South African municipalities. A comparison of barriers and enablers across the cases revealed several key themes. Municipalities struggle to implement climate change adaptation within contexts of significant social, economic and ecological challenges. These contextual barriers, when combined with certain cognitive barriers, led to reactive responses. Existing municipal systems and structures make it difficult to enable climate change adaptation, which is inherently cross-sectoral and messy. Lack of locally applicable knowledge, funding and human resources were found to be significant resource barriers, and were often underlain by social barriers relating to perceptions, beliefs and governance challenges. Enablers of engaged officials, operating within conducive organizational environments and drawing on partnerships and networks, were able to circumvent these barriers to some extent. When enablers coincided with windows of opportunity that increased prioritization of climate change, projects with ancillary benefits were implemented. The implications of these results are discussed and suggestions made for how pro-poor municipal planned climate change adaptation that responds to the needs of vulnerable communities can be further understood and enabled in the future.
Estimating the Number of Sources in Magnetoencephalography Using Spiked Population Eigenvalues
Creators: name: Yao, Zhigang
name: Zhang, Ye
name: Bai, Zhidong
name: Eddy, William F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an advanced imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields outside the human head produced by the electrical activity inside the brain. Various source localization methods in MEG require the knowledge of the underlying active sources, which are identified by a priori. Common methods used to estimate the number of sources include principal component analysis or information criterion methods, both of which make use of the eigenvalue distribution of the data, thus avoiding solving the time-consuming inverse problem. Unfortunately, all these methods are very sensitive to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), as examining the sample extreme eigenvalues does not necessarily reflect the perturbation of the population ones. To uncover the unknown sources from the very noisy MEG data, we introduce a framework, referred to as the intrinsic dimensionality (ID) of the optimal transformation for the SNR rescaling functional. It is defined as the number of the spiked population eigenvalues of the associated transformed data matrix. It is shown that the ID yields a more reasonable estimate for the number of sources than its sample counterparts, especially when the SNR is small. By means of examples, we illustrate that the new method is able to capture the number of signal sources in MEG that can escape PCA or other information criterion-based methods. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
A reduced-order NLTE kinetic model for radiating plasmas of outer envelopes of stellar atmospheres
Creators: name: Munafo, A.
name: Mansour, N.
name: Panesi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work proposes a self-consistent reduced-order NLTE kinetic model for radiating plasmas such as are found in the outer layers of stellar atmospheres. Starting from the most up-to-date set of ab-initio and experimental data, the highly complex collisional-radiative kinetic mechanism is simplified by lumping the bound energy states in groups. Different grouping strategies are investigated, such as uniform and Maxwell-Boltzmann. The reduced set of governing equations for the material gas and the radiation field is obtained based on a moment method. Applications consider the steady flow across a shock wave in partially ionized hydrogen. The results show that adopting a Maxwell-Boltzmann grouping allows, on the one hand, for a substantial reduction of the number of unknowns and, on the other, to maintain accuracy for both gas and radiation quantities. It is observed that, when neglecting line radiation, the use of two groups already leads to a very accurate resolution of the photo-ionization precursor, internal relaxation and radiative cooling regions. The inclusion of line radiation requires adopting just one additional group to account for optically thin losses in the alpha, beta and gamma lines of the Balmer and Paschen series. This trend has been observed for a wide range of shock wave velocities.
Multivariate Hadamard self-similarity: testing fractal connectivity
Creators: name: Wendt, Herwig
name: Didier, Gustavo
name: Combrexelle, Sébastien
name: Abry, Patrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: While scale invariance is commonly observed in each component of real world multivariate signals, it is also often the case that the inter-component correlation structure is not fractally connected, i.e., its scaling behavior is not determined by that of the individual components. To model this situation in a versatile manner, we introduce a class of multivariate Gaussian stochastic processes called Hadamard fractional Brownian motion (HfBm). Its theoretical study sheds light on the issues raised by the joint requirement of entry-wise scaling and departures from fractal connectivity. An asymptotically normal wavelet-based estimator for its scaling parameter, called the Hurst matrix, is proposed, as well as asymptotically valid confidence intervals. The latter are accompanied by original finite sample procedures for computing confidence intervals and testing fractal connectivity from one single and finite size observation. Monte Carlo simulation studies are used to assess the estimation performance as a function of the (finite) sample size, and to quantify the impact of omitting wavelet cross-correlation terms. The simulation studies are shown to validate the use of approximate confidence intervals, together with the significance level and power of the fractal connectivity test. The test performance and properties are further studied as functions of the HfBm parameters.
Split Q-Balls
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Losano, L.
name: Marques, M. A.
name: Menezes, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the presence of non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in (1, 1) spacetime dimensions. The model engenders the global U(1) symmetry and is of the k-field type, since it contains a new term, of the fourth-order power in the derivative of the complex scalar field. It supports analytical solution of the Q-ball type which is stable quantum mechanically. The new solution engenders an interesting behavior, with the charge and energy densities unveiling a splitting profile.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. To appear in PLB
Inertio-elastic instability in Taylor-Couette °ow of a model wormlike micellar system
Creators: name: Mohammadigoushki, Hadi
name: Muller, Susan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we use flow visualization and rheometry techniques to study the dynamics and evolution of secondary flows in a model wormlike micellar solution sheared between concentric cylinders, i.e., in a Taylor-Couette (TC) cell. The wormlike micellar solution studied in this work contains cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium salicylate (NaSal). This system can be shear banding and highly elastic, non-shear banding and moderately elastic, or nearly Newtonian as the temperature is varied over a narrow range. The effect of elasticity on transitions and instabilities is probed by changing the temperature over a wide range of elasticity (El<< 1, El ~1, and El>>1). Elasticity is defined as the ratio of the Weissenberg number to the Reynolds number. For shear banding wormlike micelle solutions where El>> 1, a primary transition from the base Couette flow to stationary vortices that are evenly spaced in the axial direction of the shear cell and are characterized by an asymptotic wave-length is observed. The dimensionless wave- length at the onset of this shear banding transition for CTAB/NaSal system turns out to be much larger than those reported for other shear banding wormlike micelle systems. For the same fluid at a temperature where it shear-thins but does not display shear banding, El~1, and for slow ramp speeds, the primary transition is to distinct structures that are not stationary but rather travel in the axial direction. At low elasticity (El<< 1), where the fluid behaves as a nearly Newtonian fluid, several transitions from purely azimuthal Couette flow to modified Taylor vortex flows and finally chaotic regimes are documented. The behavior in the shear-banding and non-shear-banding regimes are discussed and compared with results in related systems.
Inexact Dual-Primal Isogeometric Tearing and Interconnecting Methods
Creators: name: Hofer, Christoph
name: Langer, Ulrich
name: Takacs, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we investigate inexact variants of dual-primal isogeometric tearing and interconnecting methods for solving large-scale systems of linear equations arising from Galerkin isogeometric discretizations of elliptic boundary value problems. The considered methods are extensions of standard finite element tearing and interconnecting methods to isogeometric analysis. The algorithms are implemented by means of energy minimizing primal subspaces. We discuss the replacement of local sparse direct solvers by iterative methods, particularly, multigrid solvers. We investigate the incorporation of these iterative solvers into different formulations of the algorithm. Finally, we present numerical examples comparing the performance of these inexact versions.
Supplementary document for Experimental free-space continuous-variable quantum key distribution with thermal source - 6239055.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Mingqi
name: Huang, Peng
name: Wang, Ping
name: Wei, Shurong
name: Zeng, Guihua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Growth rates and functional traits of tropical rainforest and savannah species
Creators: name: Gray, Emma Fiona
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Summary: Plant growth rates play a crucial role in vegetation dynamics, for example by influencing competitive ability, or the rate of vegetation recovery post disturbance. Plant traits are assumed to underpin variation in growth rates consistently, but most evidence comes from seedlings or closed forest vegetation. Here I aimed to test whether: (1) Trait-growth relationships are the same in adult plants as is known from seedlings; and (2) Trait-growth relationships are consistent across savannas and closed forests. I used adult growth rate and trait measurements from species in a tropical rainforest in Australia, and three tropical savanna regions (one in Australia, Brazil and South Africa). In all sites I tested clear hypotheses relating to four traits related to carbon gains and losses, namely photosynthetic rate, specific leaf area (SLA), wood density, and the ratio of leaf mass to wood mass on canopy branches. In savannas I also considered bark thickness, which is important for insulation against fire in these fire-prone systems, but assumed to be costly to growth. In tropical forests I further considered whether traits were linked to a species trajectory of growth across its lifetime. I found evidence that traits were related to adult growth rates in a predictable way in tropical forests, and that variation in trait values was linked to three distinct strategies regarding lifetime growth trajectories. Savannas showed some consistency with forests regarding trait-growth relationships, though the relative importance of traits in each site varied. I attributed differences in trait-growth patterns largely to differences in the prevailing disturbance regime in each savanna. My thesis provides strong evidence that traits have a predictable effect on the growth rates of adult plants, but that generalisations are difficult without an understanding of regional differences in ecology, evolutionary history, and disturbance regimes. These regional differences will have consequences for vegetation response to future changes in climate.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0113v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0113v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0113v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Becoming worlds: place, subjectivity and assemblage in literature for young adults
Creators: name: Zarate, Andrea
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Child subjectivity is a key area within children’s literature research. This thesis explores the notion of embodied subjectivity by locating the formation of subject hood in the context of place. I discuss representations of place in a range of literature for young adults, drawing primarily from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s ontology of becoming to conceptualise place as a constantly shifting, unstable assemblage that not only physically enacts practices of power, but also reveals the instability of social organisation and discourse. I propose that the concepts within Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of becoming allow us to consider children’s texts beyond frameworks of ideology and power. Discussions that privilege ideology implicitly place the child in a powerless position, limiting our readings to how the child subject’s actions resist or comply with dominant social ideologies. I argue that such readings blind us to other models of agency and subjectivity, reifying ideology over the capacity of minor subjects to create new relations and changes within the social field. My analysis of place reveals that children’s literature is a genre that thrives when read for, and through, multiplicity. Deleuze and Guattari’s theories allow us to consider young adult literature as a genre characterised by becoming: becoming-place, becoming-subject and becoming-minor. I conclude that children’s literature does not only function to reflect ideological concerns or convey social agenda, but, through its representations of place and social order, also has the capacity to present its own emergent ontology of the becoming subject.
The consequences and prevention of bacterial biofilm infection of silicone breast implants
Creators: name: Jacombs, Anita
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Bacteria are one of the most successful organisms on the Earth’s surface. Mankind has evolved to utilise many of the actions of bacteria to our benefit and advantage, such as synergistic bacterial colonisation of the gut and its function in digestion. Bacteria also cause many human diseases. Indeed one of the most important human advances over the past 200 years has been the rapid development of the Discipline of Microbiology as it has given medicine the knowledge and ability to now treat and cure many of these previously life-threatening infections. The discovery of bacteria living within communal structures, or biofilms, in the 1970’s challenged much of our scientific and medical knowledge of bacteria in health and disease. Bacterial biofilms are now acknowledged to be important in the aetiology of many infections, including infections of surgical implants. Biofilm infection is estimated to occur in between 1-9% of all surgical implants, depending on the device. These infections are characterised by a chronic indolent inflammatory process that can be punctuated by localised or embolic septic events. They are very difficult to diagnose and treat, commonly requiring surgical removal with or without implant replacement and are associated with rapidly increasing health care costs that are not sustainable into the future. Silicone breast implants are just one type of surgical implant where bacterial biofilm infection has been implicated in a chronic fibrotic inflammation of the implant capsule. There is now increasing evidence that this may lead to capsular contracture, the most common long-term complication of silicone breast implants. This thesis reviews the evidence for the role of bacterial biofilm infection of breast implants and the formation of capsular contracture. It also uses the porcine model of biofilm infection of silicone implants to: 1) further investigate the role of endogenous breast bacteria in the development of capsular contracture; 2) evaluate the ability of a novel antibiotic prosthetic cover to prevent bacterial biofilm infection; 3) investigate the cellular immune response to biofilm infection of silicone implants; and 4) postulate whether biofilm-related chronic inflammation and its immune response may be implicated in the neoplastic process of the new entity of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
A synthesis of barriers to and enablers of pro-poor climate change adaptation in four South African municipalities
Creators: name: Meggan Spires
name: Sheona E. Shackleton
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Qualitative case studies were undertaken to explore the multiple, interacting factors that hinder and/or facilitate planned pro-poor climate change adaptation in four South African municipalities. A comparison of barriers and enablers across the cases revealed several key themes. Municipalities struggle to implement climate change adaptation within contexts of significant social, economic and ecological challenges. These contextual barriers, when combined with certain cognitive barriers, led to reactive responses. Existing municipal systems and structures make it difficult to enable climate change adaptation, which is inherently cross-sectoral and messy. Lack of locally applicable knowledge, funding and human resources were found to be significant resource barriers, and were often underlain by social barriers relating to perceptions, beliefs and governance challenges. Enablers of engaged officials, operating within conducive organizational environments and drawing on partnerships and networks, were able to circumvent these barriers to some extent. When enablers coincided with windows of opportunity that increased prioritization of climate change, projects with ancillary benefits were implemented. The implications of these results are discussed and suggestions made for how pro-poor municipal planned climate change adaptation that responds to the needs of vulnerable communities can be further understood and enabled in the future.
Drone Squadron Optimization: a Self-adaptive Algorithm for Global Numerical Optimization
Creators: name: de Melo, Vinícius Veloso
name: Banzhaf, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes Drone Squadron Optimization, a new self-adaptive metaheuristic for global numerical optimization which is updated online by a hyper-heuristic. DSO is an artifact-inspired technique, as opposed to many algorithms used nowadays, which are nature-inspired. DSO is very flexible because it is not related to behaviors or natural phenomena. DSO has two core parts: the semi-autonomous drones that fly over a landscape to explore, and the Command Center that processes the retrieved data and updates the drones' firmware whenever necessary. The self-adaptive aspect of DSO in this work is the perturbation/movement scheme, which is the procedure used to generate target coordinates. This procedure is evolved by the Command Center during the global optimization process in order to adapt DSO to the search landscape. DSO was evaluated on a set of widely employed benchmark functions. The statistical analysis of the results shows that the proposed method is competitive with the other methods in the comparison, the performance is promising, but several future improvements are planned.
description: Short version - Full version published by Springer Neural Computing and Applications
Recognition of the prioritized types and individual of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the drinking water of Shanghai and a health risk assessment
Creators: name: Gu, Guoqiang
name: Yin, Haowen
name: Zhu, Qing
name: Shen, Lu
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Liu, Min
name: Wu, Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) exist and are often grouped into categories according to their functional mechanism and effect on human health. In this study, six types of PPCPs were detected and characterized in the drinking water of Shanghai, covering 35 water treatment plants. The PPCPs concentrations were ranged from 2.57 ng/L to 19.4 ng/L and over 10 ng/L in nearly half of the samples. Hormones, blockers, and veterinary drugs were considered to contribute negligibly to the overall pollution from PPCPs for their low concentrations. However, dicyclohexylamine and psycholeptics were detected in all samples, with a maximum concentration of 11.8 ng/L, 7.82 ng/L, and 9.07 ng/L for dicyclohexylamine, sertraline, and sulpiride, respectively. In addition, high toxicity antitumor drug cyclophosphamide was detected in one-third of the samples and the highest concentration was 3.72 ng/L. In all, the four PPCPs evaluated accounted for over 80% of the detected PPCPs levels. Therefore, it was determined that the major PPCPs are contributing to water pollution in the region. While these compounds do not pose a potential human health risk at their present levels, close attention should be paid to the use of these PPCPs and their discharge into drinking water source.
title: Synthesis and characterization of silica-based nano-detoxifiers
Creators: name: Grötzl, Lisa
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: mesoporous silica nanoparticles

description: Intoxication is a major problem affecting all ages.1 Whether through unintentional contact in household, overdosing on easily accessible analgesics, intentional drug abuse or suicide attempts, poisoning could lead to serious harm.2 Several ways of toxin removal from the body have been applied in the medical field so far. Antidotes have been found to offer the most reliable solution. However, they are limited to only a few toxins and the identity of the harmful substance must be known.3 As an alternative, mesoporous silica nanoparticles were herein introduced with mesopores large enough to confine small organic molecules.4 Synthesis strategies were explored to obtain suitable silica-based oral nano-detoxifiers. Three different morphologies of particles were synthesized: dendritic- in a size of 120 nm and pore size of 3.8 nm, virus-like- in a diameter of 100 nm with a broad pore size range and nanorod silica nanoparticles with 170 nm length, aspect ratio of 2.3 and 3.2 nm pore size. The particles were grafted with phosphonate-, epoxide- and polyethylene glycol groups to enhance the particle toxin interaction and support colloidal stability. Their adsorption capacity was investigated by the loading of paracetamol, the model toxin of this project. Results showed that plain and phosphonated dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles captured most paracetamol in ethanol. Additional adsorption studies in simulating gastric and intestinal fluids were attempted. We herein present preliminary results for the application of mesoporous silica nanoparticles in the detoxifying field.
Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition
Creators: name: Chen, Zuhuang
name: Wang, Xi
name: Qi, Yajun
name: Yang, Sui
name: Soares, Julio A N T
name: Apgar, Brent A
name: Gao, Ran
name: Xu, Ruijuan
name: Lee, Yeonbae
name: Zhang, Xiang
name: Yao, Jie
name: Martin, Lane W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-assembly via nanoscale phase-separation offers an elegant route to fabricate nanocomposites with physical properties unattainable in single-component systems. One important class of nanocomposites are optical metamaterials which exhibit exotic properties and lead to opportunities for agile control of light propagation. Such metamaterials are typically fabricated via expensive and hard-to-scale top-down processes requiring precise integration of dissimilar materials. In turn, there is a need for alternative, more efficient routes to fabricate large-scale metamaterials for practical applications with deep-subwavelength resolution. Here, we demonstrate a bottom-up approach to fabricate scalable nanostructured metamaterials via spinodal decomposition. To demonstrate the potential of such an approach, we leverage the innate spinodal decomposition of the VO2-TiO2 system, the metal-to-insulator transition in VO2, and thin-film epitaxy, to produce self-organized nanostructures with coherent interfaces and a structural unit cell down to 15 nm (tunable between horizontally- and vertically-aligned lamellae) wherein the iso-frequency surface is temperature-tunable from elliptic- to hyperbolic-dispersion producing metamaterial behavior. These results provide an efficient route for the fabrication of nanostructured metamaterials and other nanocomposites for desired functionalities.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures
Neural correlates of auditory processing and language impairment in children with autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Yau, Shu Hui
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The term autism spectrum disorders (ASD) refers to a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by social and communication impairments, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour. The thesis contains four studies using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure brain responses to auditory stimuli. The aim is to better understand the neural correlates of auditory processing defects in ASD, and determine how such deficits may be associated with spoken language impairment that affect many individuals on the autism spectrum.
Additional file 4 of Comparative mitogenome analyses uncover mitogenome features and phylogenetic implications of the subfamily Cobitinae
Creators: name: Yu, Peng
name: Zhou, Li
name: Yang, Wen-Tao
name: Miao, Li-jun
name: Li, Zhi
name: Zhang, Xiao-Juan
name: Wang, Yang
name: Gui, Jian-Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Marginal likelihood values of different combinations of clock model and tree prior.
Anodische Elektrofermentation von Acetoin in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Beblawy, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020

description: Anodische Elektrofermentation ist eine neue Strategie anaerober Biotechnologie. Sie ermöglicht Umsetzungen, bei denen die mittlere Oxidationsstufe des Endproduktes höher ist als die des Substrats. Konventionell werden solche Reaktionen ausschließlich unter oxischen Prozessbedingungen katalysiert. Dies geht mit einer starken Biomassebildung und einem hohem Energieaufwand einher. Bei der Elektrofermentation fällt stattdessen als Nebenprodukt lediglich elektrische Energie an, welche universell verwendet werden kann. Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Etablierung eines Systemes zur Elektrofermentation von Acetoin in einem metabolisch veränderten Escherichia coli Stamm. Bei Acetoin handelt es sich um einen vielversprechenden Kandidaten für Basischemikalien einer anvisierten Bioökonomie. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit konnte ein funktionales System zur Elektrofermentation von Acetoin in Escherichia coli etabliert werden. Darauf aufbauend wurde im zweiten Teil der Arbeit das Reaktorsystem dahingehend weiterentwickelt, den Anforderungen dieses speziellen Fermentationsprozesses Rechnung zu tragen und inhibierende Faktoren zu identizieren und zu eliminieren. Im dritten Teil der Arbeit wurden Untersuchungen zur Physiologie des Produktionsstammes vorgenommen und die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über die Acetyl-Phosphat abhängige Stowechselregulation zur Beschleunigung der metabolischen Rate angewandt. Im letzten Charakterisierungsschritt konnte die Leistungsgrenze des Reaktorsystems ermittelt und eine Modellbetrachtung des Fermentationsprozesses angestellt werden. Es konnte hierdurch ein Fermentationsprozess etabliert werden, welcher Acetoin mit einer Ausbeute von rund 80 % des theoretischen Maximums produziert. Ferner wurde eine Steigerung der Umsatzrate um das 15-Fache erreicht. Mit einer Produktivität von 76 mg l−1 h werden erstmals Werte erreicht, die eine zukünftige Konkurrenz zu oxischen Fermentationen plausibel erscheinen lassen.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0200
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0200, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0200, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Between two worlds: The implications of existing between land and sea for the conservation of mangrove ecosystems
Creators: name: STEFANIE MARCELLA ROG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Limited terrestrial ecological knowledge and unclear governance strategies severely impede our ability to effectively conserve declining mangrove forests. My research adds significant new knowledge about the terrestrial vertebrates occurring in mangroves through a global review and extensive field surveys in Australia using a novel survey approach. The prevalence of threatened and invasive species in mangroves support the necessity of specific management objectives. This study outlines a new agenda for further research and highlights improvements to management and governance required to protect these vital ecosystems.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0077r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0077r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0077r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
All 3d electron-hole bilayers in CrN/MgO(111) multilayers
Creators: name: Botana, Antia S.
name: Pardo, Victor
name: Pickett, Warren E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CrN/MgO(111) multilayers modeled via \textit{ab initio} calculations give rise to nanoscale, scalable, spatially separated two-dimensional electron and hole gases (2DEG+2DHG), each confined to its own CrN interface. Due to the Cr $3d^3$ configuration, both electron and hole gases are based on correlated transition metal layers involving bands of $3d$ character. Transport calculations predict each subsystem will have a large thermopower, on the order of 250 $μ$$V /K$ at room temperature. These heterostructures combine a large thermoelectric efficiency with scalable nanoscale conducting sheets; for example, operating at a temperature difference of 50K, 40 bilayers could produce a 1 V voltage with a film thickness of 100 nm.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Strengths, challenges, and learning strategies of students with dyslexia at Australian universities: An online mixed-methods survey
Creators: name: MacCullagh, Lois
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Dyslexia generally affects reading and spelling, but not intelligence (International Dyslexia Association, 2018). Students with dyslexia can succeed at university, but related challenges can affect wellbeing and attainment (Alexander-Passe, 2015; Mortimore & Crozier, 2006; Richardson, 2015). Research literature has described many potential strengths and learning strategies of students with dyslexia, which could help overcome challenges (MacCullagh et al., 2017; Pino & Mortari, 2014). However, few quantitative comparisons have been conducted between dyslexic and non-dyslexic groups, nor between different learning strategies. Thus, it is not known if university students with and without dyslexia differ significantly on academic strengths, challenges, or learning strategies. Nor is it known if students with dyslexia consider any specific strategies more helpful than other strategies. To begin resolving these uncertainties, an online mixed methods survey was conducted, recruiting 70 students with dyslexia formally assessed (D-A) and 58 non-dyslexic peers (ND) from Australian universities. Reported academic strengths were not found to differ significantly between groups. However, average difficulty ratings by the D-A group were significantly higher than for ND peers across all learning and assessment activities surveyed, except essay exams. The D-A and ND groups also differed significantly in usage proportions for some learning strategies, but not on average helpfulness ratings for any strategy. Ranking overall perceived helpfulness of learning strategies for D-A participants by combining usage proportions and average helpfulness ratings for this group indicated 'Reducing Contrast' as the highest ranked strategy, and 'Special Font' the lowest. These quantitative findings were supported by qualitative comments. University students with dyslexia can use evidence from this study when considering which learning strategies to implement. University staff, researchers, and policymakers can also use findings of this study to inform their decisions. Such applications of the study findings could ultimately improve wellbeing and success of university students with dyslexia.
Pentazole and Ammonium Pentazolate: Crystalline Hydro-Nitrogens at High Pressure
Creators: name: Steele, Brad A.
name: Oleynik, Ivan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two new crystalline compounds, pentazole (N_{5}H) and ammonium pentazolate (NH_{4})(N_{5}), both featuring cyclo-{\rm N_{5}^{-}} are discovered using first principles evolutionary search of the nitrogen-rich portion of the hydro-nitrogen binary phase diagram (N_{x}H_{y}, x\geqy) at high pressures. Both crystals consist of the pentazolate N_{5}^{-} anion and ammonium NH_{4}^{+} or hydrogen H^{+} cations. These two crystals are predicted to be thermodynamically stable at pressures above 30 GPa for (NH_{4})(N_{5}) and 50 GPa for pentazole N_{5}H. The chemical transformation of ammonium azide (NH_{4})(N_{3}) mixed with di-nitrogen (N_{2}) to ammonium pentazolate (NH_{4})(N_{5}) is predicted to become energetically favorable above 12.5 GPa. To assist in identification of newly synthesized compounds in future experiments, the Raman spectra of both crystals are calculated and mode assignments are made as a function of pressure up to 75 GPa.