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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 07/84
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Jahresabschluß des Studentenwerks Dortmund auf den 31. Dezember 1983
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 7, 1984
File 1: Robust laser ablation Lu–Hf dating of apatite: an empirical evaluation
Creators: name: Glorie, Stijn
name: Hand, Martin
name: Mulder, Jacob
name: Simpson, Alexander
name: Emo, Robert B.
name: Kamber, Balz
name: Fernie, Nicholas
name: Nixon, Angus
name: Gilbert, Sarah
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Concordia and weighted mean U–Pb plots for the secondary zircon, apatite, monazite and titanite standards. MSWD, mean squared weighted deviation; n, number of analyses.
Pluripotent adult stem cells from the mouse testis
Creators: name: Beteramia, Yullia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Spermatogonial Stem Cells (SSCs) obtained from the testis can give rise to cells in vitro with pluripotent characteristics similar to those of Embryonic Stem (ES) cells. The pluripotency transcription factor Nanog is expressed in these pluripotent ES-like cells and may have a role in their derivation. We have found, using a LacZ reporter allele in the pluripotency gene Nanog, that a unique population of Nanog expressing cells exist in the testis throughout development and in the adult. Nanog may therefore be a unique marker of pluripotent stem cells in the testis. We have tested multiple culture conditions in an effort to optimise the culture of SSCs and the generation and propagation of ES-like cells from the testis. These methods, though proven to be successful for other research groups, did not improve the efficiency of our SSC and ES-like cell culture. Despite difficulties encountered, we obtained ES-like cells, as supported by long term self-renewal, morphology and immunocytochemistry of pluripotency markers. However, these cells proliferated too slowly to be useful in further analysis and attempts to accelerate cell expansion failed. We investigated Nanog expression in the stem cell compartment of adult mouse testis by flow cytometric analysis. Although, we were able to successfully purify Side Population stem cells, spermatocytes and spermatids, correlation with Nanog gene expression was not achieved due to technical difficulties. Testis derived pluripotent stem cells may hold great promise for future biomedical research and application in human regenerative and therapeutic treatments; however, our understanding of their biology is still limited. Our investigation has shown how crucial the culture environment is and how difficult and unpredictable working with these cells can be without efficient isolation and culture protocols.
Harnack Inequalities for SDEs Driven by Time-Changed Fractional Brownian Motions
Creators: name: Deng, Chang-Song
name: Schilling, René L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish Harnack inequalities for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by a time-changed fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in(0,1/2)$. The Harnack inequality is dimension-free if the SDE has a drift which satisfies a one-sided Lipschitz condition, otherwise we still get Harnack-type estimates, but the constants will, in general, depend on the space dimension. Our proof is based on a coupling argument and a regularization argument for the time-change.
The Impact of Aerial Reconnaissance on Archaeology. Herausgegeben von G. S. Max­well
Creators: name: Baatz, Dietwulf
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: The Impact of Aerial Reconnaissance on Archaeology. Herausgegeben von G. S. Max­well. Research Report 49, The Council of British Archaeology, London 1983. ISBN 0-906780-24-1. IX und 150 Seiten, 95 Abbildungen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 66 Nr. 2 (1988)
Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto which published edition should I perform?
Creators: name: Simpson, Cheralyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Although Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto has become a cornerstone in the viola concerto repertoire of the twentieth century, it is a controversial composition as it remained unfinished, and only in manuscript sketch form, at the time of Bartók’s death. The original published version, edited and completed by Tibor Serly (with assistance from the work’s dedicatee, William Primrose), has remained the most popular and performed viola work for the past sixty-six years. However, dissatisfaction with this edition has led to the subsequent creation of two new published editions. Faced with multiple editions, a violist is now confronted with the dilemma of selecting one edition over another. This research project examines the genesis and context of Bartók’s Viola Concerto, the original sketch of the work and the three available published editions to determine the most appropriate outcome from a violist’s perspective. By analysing, learning, and performing the various editions, I have drawn conclusions as to a preferred performance version and set out reasons to justify my selection. It is hoped my thesis will be of interest to violists establishing their standard viola repertoire with particular reference to solo performance. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Proxima's orbit around Alpha Centauri
Creators: name: Kervella, P.
name: Thévenin, F.
name: Lovis, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proxima and Alpha Centauri AB have almost identical distances and proper motions with respect to the Sun. Although the probability of such similar parameters is in principle very low, the question as to whether they actually form a single gravitationally bound triple system has been open since the discovery of Proxima one century ago. Owing to HARPS high precision absolute radial velocity measurements and the recent revision of the parameters of the Alpha Cen pair, we show that Proxima and Alpha Cen are gravitationally bound with a high degree of confidence. The orbital period of Proxima is approximately 550 000 years. With an excentricity of 0.50 (+0.08 -0.09), Proxima comes within 4.3 (+1.1 -0.9) kau of Alpha Cen at periastron. Its orbital phase is currently close to apastron (13.0 +0.3 -0.1 kau). This orbital motion may have influenced the formation or evolution of the recently discovered planet orbiting Proxima as well as circumbinary planet formation around Alpha Cen.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press
‘Contribution of aquatic Hyphomycete communities to leaf decomposition and food webs in alpine streams’
Creators: name: Suter, Stephanie Gillian Anne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Fungi are important decomposers of organic matter in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. In streams, aquatic Hyphomycetes are the fungal group responsible for leaf litter decomposition. Knowledge regarding this group is predominantly Northern Hemisphere dominated. Alpine studies are underrepresented in the literature, especially in Australia, with only one previous study. This thesis provides new information about the ecology of the fungal community present within Australian alpine streams. Specifically, I outline seasonal influences on the fungal community and how this affects the decomposition of Eucalyptus pauciflora both physically and chemically, and the role of fungal conditioning of these leaves in the food web of alpine streams. Measures of stream physico-chemical properties revealed seasonal variation driven predominantly by climate and the influence of biological and chemical processes occurring within upstream peatlands. Physical and chemical alterations to E. pauciflora leaves were determined via leaf mass loss, along with Synchrotron based infrared analysis. Fungal material was found to concentrate around the xylem tissues where active fungal decomposition was evident in the breakdown of lignin and carbohydrate. Fungal community changes were assessed via seasonal estimates of biomass and reproductive output, along with 454-pyrosequencing. Reproductive activity was greatest in the warmer seasons, with a seemingly dormant state occurring during the winter. The most noticeable community changes were revealed by DNA analysis as the pre-existing terrestrial fungal community was ultimately replaced by aquatic fungal species. The importance of conditioned leaves to alpine stream food webs was investigated using stable isotope analysis and 454-pyrosequencing. Despite being a common component in stream detritus, conditioned leaves were not found to be a dominant resource during summer. Alpine stream food webs appear complex, driven by autocthonous resources and terrestrial fall- ins which are utilised by the top-predator, Galaxias olidus. This thesis has added to Australia-specific knowledge, which is important for predicting impacts and guiding management decisions in an environment sensitive to climatic changes. It also highlighted the benefits of cross disciplinary approaches, along with combining traditional and novel techniques to study fungal community dynamics. Knowledge gaps were highlighted, particularly in genetic databases and genetic data analysis.
(201099) Gustavus Bosanquet
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.
Energy-level and structural arrangement of organic/metal and organic/organic interfaces
Creators: name: Stark, Christian Bernd
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Organic molecules provide unique electronic properties that offer immense possibilities to future electronic device industries. Semiconductor materials consisting of molecular building blocks can be customised with distinct functional properties and have already found their way into state-of-the-art devices for applications such as optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Further advancements in the performance and efﬁciencies of these devices necessitates a thorough understanding of the interfacial energy level alignment and interfacial structure resulting from surface transfer doping. The ﬂuorofullerenes are very efﬁcient molecular acceptors on account of their high electron afﬁnity, providing a model molecular system for the study of surface doping of underlying materials because the doping process may proceed with submonolayer ﬂuorofullerene coverages.The thesis presents synchrotron based photoemission investigations that elaborate the energy level alignment of ﬂuorofullerene molecules on zinc-tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) and copper-phthalocyanine (CuPc) ﬁlms. High-resolution core level photoelectron spectroscopy was used to identify and to follow the evolution with coverage of two distinct charge states of adsorbed ﬂuorofullerene molecules: charged molecules that participate in the charge transfer process and neutral molecules that do not. The relative intensity of the two molecular species was used to determine the molecular doping efﬁciency and applied to develop an integer charge transfer model to quantify the doping process and explore the organic energy level alignment. These experiments and the resulting doping model were further extended to consider the energy level structure at the interface of C60F48 and graphene. Here, intrinsically n-doped epitaxial graphene on Si(0001) and neutral ’quasi-free standing’ graphene were shown to develop p-type conductivity upon ﬂuorofullerene deposition. Complementing the knowledge of the energy level structure at ﬂuorofullerene interfaces, low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) was used to explore the structural behaviour of C60F48-ZnTPP and C60F48-Au(111) interfaces. For the case of the C60F48-ZnTPP interface, the ﬂuorofullerene adlayer was found to be randomly arranged and the underlying ZnTPP ﬁlm ordered for the case of multilayer ﬁlms. For the C60F48-Au(111) interface, ordered adlayers of C60F48 were identiﬁed, including a new, distinct orientationally ordered ’ﬂoral’ state of C60F48.
Entanglement of two hybrid optomechanical cavities composed of BEC atoms under Bell detection
Creators: name: Eghbali-Arani, Mohammad
name: Ameri, Vahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, firstly, we consider bipartite entanglement between each part of an optomechanical cavity composed of one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). we investigate atomic collision on the behavior of the BEC in the week photon-atom coupling constant, and use Bogoliubov approximation for the BEC. Secondly under above condition, we propose a scheme for entanglement swapping protocol wich involves tripartite systems. In our investigation, we consider a scenario where BECs, moving mirrors, and optical cavity modes are given in a Gaussian state with a covariance matrix (CM). By applying the Bell measurment to the output optical field modes, we show how the remote entanglement between two BECs, two moving mirrors, and BEC-mirror modes in different optomechanical cavity can be generated.
description: Quantum Information Processing, February 2017
(201097) Arthur Anderson Watkins
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.
At home from afar: the mobile lives of the transnational Filipino family
Creators: name: Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: High levels of human labour export are engendering changes in the organisation and dynamics of the Filipino family and Philippine society. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are lauded by the government as “Bagong Bayani”, or modern day heroes, because of their remittances, which amount to billions and keep the national economy afloat. OFWs seek work opportunities across continents to support their left-behind loved ones. Such fragmentation of the Filipino family leads to the formation of a new household arrangement: the transnational family. Running parallel to this steady international labour migration is the proliferation of digital mobile devices and convergent communication platforms. Mobile media, including smartphones, tablets and apps, and networked modes of communication, such as social networks, messaging applications and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), are used and integrated into family dynamics. These technologies and platforms enable and maintain linkages between the OFWs, their left-behind families and/or the larger community in the home country. Using a ritual framework of communication to articulate the fellowship that exists among transnational families, this thesis investigates the ways in which OFWs in Melbourne, Australia, and their left-behind family members in the Philippines exploit the affordances of broadband-enabled mobile media to forge ties and maintain relationships. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and visual methods have been employed to examine the implications of mobile media use for the perception, organisation, mobilisation, and experience of family at a distance in the twenty-first century. Twenty-one OFWs and their left-behind family members were interviewed for this research project. The thesis findings identify the binding role performed by mobile media use in the lives of the transnational Filipino family. The personalisation and customisation of the affordances of mobile media: (1) enact gendered and familial roles through mediated, mobile and ritualistic activities in everyday life; (2) enable imagined co-presence and intimacy at a distance through “traces of mediated mobilities” as a result of “mobile mediated interactions” in various contexts, ranging from the everyday, connection to the homeland, celebrations, and crisis management, and; (3) foster and strengthen familial or local community ties through hybridised, domestic, mobile, and liminal spaces of interaction, or “zones of fellowship”. However, while mobile media use helps to sustain relationships, it also generates “mobility-based ambivalences” for family members as they negotiate geographic and temporal boundaries. Such nuances in the socio-technical appropriation of mobile communication technologies are also impacted by the uneven technological infrastructures in the host and home country, gendered and familial roles, socio-economic and socio-cultural conditions, and the parameters of technology.
Schlieren study of a sonic jet injected into a supersonic cross flow using high-current pulsed LEDs
Creators: name: Giskes, Ella
name: Verschoof, Ruben A.
name: Segerink, Frans B.
name: Venner, Cornelis H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Benefiting from the development of increasingly advanced high speed cameras, flow visualization and analysis nowadays yield detailed data of the flow field in many applications. Notwithstanding this progress, for high speed and supersonic flows it is still not trivial to capture high quality images. In this study we present a Schlieren setup that uses pulsed LEDs with high currents (up to 18 Ampere) to increase the optical output to sufficient levels. The bright and short pulses, down to 130 nanoseconds, allow detailed and sharp imaging of the flow with a high spatial resolution adequate for supersonic flow. The pulse circuit and pulse width determination are explained in detail. As a test case we studied the near field of a 2 mm diameter sonic jet injected transversely into a supersonic cross flow. This is a model flow for fuel injection in scramjet engines, which is not yet fully understood. Owing to the high resolution and accuracy of the images produced by the newly developed system we prove the existence of a large (density) gradient wave traveling in the windward subsonic region between the Mach barrel and the bowshock, which hitherto was observed only in some numerical studies but not yet shown in experiments. Furthermore, we demonstrate with this Schlieren setup that time-correlated images can be obtained, with an interframe time of 2 microseconds, so that also flow unsteadiness can be studied such as the movement of shock waves and trajectories of vortices. The obtained results of the jet penetration height are presented as a power law correlation. The results of this study show that the designed setup using a low-cost LED and low-cost control system is a high potential option for application in visualization studies of high speed flows.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
(201098) Arthur Talbot Bevan
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.
Effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain
Creators: name: Cotchett, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Thesis with publications.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain. Design: A systematic review of the literature was first conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain. This was followed by a Modified Delphi study to develop a consensus-driven trigger point dry needling treatment for plantar heel pain. Finally, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain. Setting: The modified Delphi Study was completed using the online survey tool SurveyMonkey® . The RCT was conducted at a university-based clinic. Participants: The Modified Delphi study included 30 experts in the use of trigger point dry needling. In the RCT, 84 participants with plantar heel pain were randomly allocated to a group that received either real or sham trigger point dry needling. Outcome measures: In the RCT, the primary outcome measures were a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ). Secondary outcome measures included the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Results: The results of the Modified Delphi study indicated that 93% of experts agreed with a consensus-driven dry needling treatment for plantar heel pain to be used in a RCT. In the RCT, significant effects favoured real trigger point dry needling over sham trigger point dry needling for pain at the primary end point of six weeks (adjusted mean difference: VAS first step pain -14.4mm, 95% CI -23.5 to -5.2; FHSQ foot pain 10.0 points, 95% CI 1.0 to 19.1), although the between group difference was lower than the minimal important difference. Conclusion: Dry needling provided statistically significant improvements in plantar heel pain but the magnitude of this effect was lower than what is considered clinically meaningful to people with plantar heel pain.
Sex work careers: career trajectories in the Australian indoor sex industry
Creators: name: Gilmour, Fairleigh Evelyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Two questions form the basis of this qualitative study: What meanings do women ascribe to their sex work careers? How are their career goals and aspirations shaped by the regulatory schemas under which they labour? Research continues to explore the complexity of career identity and career trajectories in the contemporary labour market. However, the ongoing refusal to acknowledge sexual services labour as work has limited the extent to which sex work has been explored in terms of broader careers. In order to examine this topic, this study investigates participants’ careers in the indoor Australian sex industry. Fourteen current and former sex workers participated in in-depth life-narrative interviews about their careers; and four support and advocacy workers participated in semi-structured interviews about sex-work career trajectories and work conditions, in three Australian jurisdictions: the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, and Victoria. Analysis of the data indicates that participants understood their labour as constituting work, and frequently understood their sex work as part of a career. Using Inkson’s (2007) career metaphors to structure the analysis, I examine participants’ meaning-making of their careers as: a story; a legacy of gendered and socio-economic constraints; as intertwined with the life cycle; a carefully crafted and planned construction; a result of matching the right career to the right person (or not); and as a networked practice involving relationships with others. Participants’ narratives demonstrated both the complex construction of career meaning within the life narrative, as well as the agentic and creative configuration of life and career undertaken by participants. Participants’ narratives also revealed the impacts of regulatory schemas on career objectives and work conditions, with these structural forces shaping and limiting career paths. In this thesis I examine the various ways within both legal and illegal sex work, that a specific kind of worker is normalized and controlled (with others rendered ‘deviant’ and denied rights because of this delineation). Moreover, I examine how various forms of regulation and surveillance shape work practices in the area, but also how they potentially shape, produce and limit careers in the sex industry. This thesis highlights the agency demonstrated by participants through their negotiation or resistance of dominant discourses, social norms and regulatory frameworks in attempting to work successfully in the sex industry.
La responsabilità da greenwashing finanziario dopo il Regolamento (UE) 2019/2088 sulla trasparenza in materia di sostenibilità
Creators: name: ROMANO', THEA
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Genova
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: SFDR; sustainable finance disclosure regulation; ESG; sustainable finance; greenwashing
subject: SFDR
subject: sustainable finance disclosure regulation
subject: ESG
subject: sustainable finance
subject: greenwashing

description: The present work, on the one hand, deals with the recent EU regulation on the subject of transparency on sustainability in the financial markets sector, in particular regulation 2019/2088, on the other it questions the real scope of this regulatory intervention with respect to its premises, in terms of investor protection and contrast to financial greenwashing. As the relevant regulations have just come into force, it is likely that restitution or compensation claims related to this type of information will become more frequent in the future. The research poses some investigative questions which, in summary, concern: the effectiveness of the regulation on sustainability disclosure with respect to the objective of investor protection and the resolution of information asymmetries; the connection between the SFDR discipline and the classification of MiFID II and IDD products and with the Taxonomy regulation; the assessment of litigation linked to sustainability and greenwashing as an emerging risk; the identification of private remedies (private enforcement) to combat misleading information in the SFDR regulation and the adequacy of the remedial framework offered in Italy.
Making Distinct Dynamical Systems Appear Spectrally Identical
Creators: name: Campos, Andre G.
name: Bondar, Denys I.
name: Cabrera, Renan
name: Rabitz, Herschel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a laser pulse can always be found that induces a desired optical response from an arbitrary dynamical system. As illustrations, driving fields are computed to induce the same optical response from a variety of distinct systems (open and closed, quantum and classical). As a result, the observed induced dipolar spectra without detailed information on the driving field is not sufficient to characterize atomic and molecular systems. The formulation may also be applied to design materials with specified optical characteristics. These findings reveal unexplored flexibilities of nonlinear optics.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Characterisation of acid sulfate soils in south-west Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Glover, Fiona
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 Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Acid sulfate soils(ASS) are an important environmental concern. Acidity from the oxidation of these sediments can be flushed into waterways following rainfall events, causing ecological and infrastructure degradation. Until recently, the distribution of ASS was believed to be predominantly coastal, but ASS are now recognised in inland environments. While knowledge of ASS has been growing, little of the published literature has been conducted on a regional scale, and this gap has been highlighted across many areas of Australia, including within the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CMA). Four sites were investigated on the Basalt Plains, where drainage patterns have been disrupted by lava flows: two sites are swamps and two sites are smaller depressions. The two swamps are waterlogged for longer periods of time than the smaller depressions; sufficient evaporation within the upper layer of the swamps allows precipitation of carbonate minerals, providing a buffering capacity in excess of any potential acidity generated by the sulfide minerals. The depressions contain no carbonate minerals, but only have very low levels of sulfides, and therefore will not undergo a large acidification. In the Otway Ranges, five sites were investigated: three occur in 'peat swamps' and two within the altered floodplain of the Barwon River. The three sites that occur in ‘peat’ swamps are currently oxidising due to seasonal fluctuation in the watertable [sic] and alteration of nearby creeks. There is a large potential for further oxidation, and analysis of the surface water at one of the ‘peat’ swamp sites (Boundary Creek) shows acid is leaching from the swamp. No carbonate minerals were found, and the sites have no ability to neutralise the acidity in‐situ. The two remaining sites on the altered floodplain of the Barwon River have only low levels of sulfides, and are unlikely to undergo acidification. Mapping of ASS is therefore important in determining areas potentially at risk. The Basalt Plains were excluded from the mapping due to the large buffering capacity within the sediments. Mapping of the Otway Ranges was conducted using LIDAR topography, geology and ecological vegetation maps (EVCs). Areas with slope angles of 0‐4° extracted from the LIDAR overestimated the potential areas for ASS to occur, and were constrained by using the pre‐existing EVC mapping overlaid on the LIDAR topography. The GIS mapping matched known ASS sites, indicating that the method developed for mapping these areas remotely is accurate.
(201093) Agnes Carus-Wilson Bevan
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.
Evidence for a Multiple Superconducting Gap in MgB2 from High-Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kiss, T.
name: Takano, Y.
name: Togano, K.
name: Tsuda, S.
name: Yokoya, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
(201095) Agnes Carus Wilson
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.
(201096) Granville Bevan
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.
Improving modern dimension reduction methods through transformations
Creators: name: Garnham, Alexandra Louise
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: A prominent difficulty facing researchers is the visualization of high dimensional data. Several dimension reduction techniques have been developed to facilitate this process; however they have limitations. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how estimates produced from dimension reduction methodologies can be significantly improved using simple yet effective response transformations. In order to compare and assess the effectiveness of the applied response transformations, influence functions are utilized to evaluate the success of a method. Within this thesis, primary focus is on the dimension reduction methods Principal Hessian Directions (pHd) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). Furthermore, consideration is also given to Sliced Inverse Regression (SIR) and Sliced Average Variance Estimation (SAVE). When designing response transformations for pHd and OLS, the limitations of these methods were studied with a view toward creating transformations that overcame these issues. The selected transformations not only remove elements detrimental to estimation, they can also introduce beneficial components. To identify the most appropriate transformation, a minimal influence approach is implemented. With respect to OLS, an influence measure is also given which quantifies its effectiveness as a dimension reduction method. Additionally, several weighted estimators are provided that combine results following various transformations. These weighted techniques have allowed the creation of a method which enables OLS, traditionally a single-index model method, to be applied in the multi-index model setting. Several dimension reduction methodologies, including OLS and SIR, are severely affected by an impediment known as symmetric dependency. To overcome this problem, response and predictor transformations are provided which utilize estimates from methods unaffected by symmetric dependency to significantly improve results of those techniques that are. It is established that OLS and SIR can be improved greatly with this approach when faced with symmetric dependency.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Influence of the fluid structure on the binding potential: comparing liquid drop profiles from density functional theory with results from mesoscopic theory
Creators: name: Hughes, Adam P.
name: Thiele, Uwe
name: Archer, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a film of liquid on a solid surface, the binding potential $g(h)$ gives the free energy as a function of the film thickness $h$ and also the closely related structural disjoining pressure $Π= - \partial g / \partial h$. The wetting behaviour of the liquid is encoded in the binding potential and the equilibrium film thickness corresponds to the value at the minimum of $g(h)$. Here, the method we developed in [J. Chem. Phys. 142, 074702 (2015)], and applied with a simple discrete lattice-gas model, is used with continuum density functional theory (DFT) to calculate the binding potential for a Lennard-Jones fluid and other simple liquids. The DFT used is based on fundamental measure theory and so incorporates the influence of the layered packing of molecules at the surface and the corresponding oscillatory density profile. The binding potential is frequently input in mesoscale models from which liquid drop shapes and even dynamics can be calculated. Here we show that the equilibrium droplet profiles calculated using the mesoscale theory are in good agreement with the profiles calculated directly from the microscopic DFT. For liquids composed of particles where the range of the attraction is much less than the diameter of the particles, we find that at low temperatures $g(h)$ decays in an oscillatory fashion with increasing $h$, leading to highly structured terraced liquid droplets.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures
Doping and Temperature Dependence of the Mass Enhancement Observed in the Cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 + delta
Creators: name: Fedorov, A. V.
name: Johnson, V.
name: Valla, T.
name: Wells, B. O.
name: Yusof, Z.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Quantitative mixing for locally Hamiltonian flows with saddle loops on compact surfaces
Creators: name: Ravotti, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a compact surface $\mathcal{M}$ with a smooth area form $ω$, we consider an open and dense subset of the set of smooth closed 1-forms on $\mathcal{M}$ with isolated zeros which admit at least one saddle loop homologous to zero and we prove that almost every element in the former induces a mixing flow on each minimal component. Moreover, we provide an estimate of the speed of the decay of correlations for smooth functions with compact support on the complement of the set of singularities. This result is achieved by proving a quantitative version for the case of finitely many singularities of a theorem by Ulcigrai (ETDS, 2007), stating that any suspension flow with one asymmetric logarithmic singularity over almost every interval exchange transformation is mixing. In particular, the quantitative mixing estimate we prove applies to asymmetric logarithmic suspension flows over rotations, which were shown to be mixing by Sinai and Khanin.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures. Revised version according to the referees' suggestions
Nanosized copper-based catalyst for automotive: physicochemical characterization
Creators: name: Soto, Amaia
name: Moschovi, Anastasia Maria
name: Mathioudakis, Georgios
name: Lada, Zoi
name: Andrikopoulos, Konstantinos S.
name: Sygellou, Labrini
name: Dracopoulos, Vassilios
name: Yakoumis, Iakovos
name: Voyiatzis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Safe-by-Design
nanomaterials
nanosafety
multi-component nanomaterials
high aspect ration nanoparticles
nano-enabled products

description: Nanotechnology is conceived as a Key Enabling Technology, becoming an increasingly research area providing functional materials to many industrial sectors, such as automotive, health, packaging, textiles, construction, etc.
 The main objective of DIAGONAL project is to increase the understanding on Multi-Component NanoMaterials (MCNM) and High Aspect Ratio Nanoparticles (HARNS) behavior along their life cycle from NM design and production to its application into Nano-Enabled products (NEP).
 DIAGONAL aims to bring new methodologies to guarantee long-term nanosafety and contribute to fill current gaps in: Risk Assessment, Risk Management and Risk Governance.
 DIAGONAL will bring Safe-by-Design knowledge and tools to a development stage which can be implemented in the MCNM and HARNs related industries, relying on experimental (in vitro) and modelling (in silico) research to understand and ultimately predict the interactions among the NM components, their transformation products, and between the NMs and the environment, promoting a better understanding of potential adverse effects on human health, and biota.
The Development of Vocational Interests and Abilities in Secondary School Aged Children
Creators: name: Bennett, Stephanie Jane
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Development
subject: Vocational Interests

description: This body of work has focussed on the measurement, structure and stability of vocational interests and abilities in mainstream, mixed-ability secondary school aged children. This set of studies investigated how a large group of children’s vocational interests developed over a two year period, and how their interests for activities/occupations were related to selected abilities (Mechanical, Spatial Rotation and Logical Reasoning). Published research has consistently demonstrated that for adults, vocational interests are stable over time, and that interests typically fall into six main categories; Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional (Holland, 1959). Furthermore, there is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the relationships between these six categories broadly approximate a hexagonal framework once individuals reach adulthood (e.g. Holland et al., 1969). Data analysis revealed that similar to adults, children’s interests overall were remarkably stable over time, and that this was particularly the case for Realistic and Social interests. The findings were also suggestive of a pathway of interest development in children aged 11-17. The youngest children who participated in this research had interests that were often gender stereotyped, though the structure of their interests was not consistent with the hexagonal structure commonly seen in adults. However, as children got older, their interests became more aligned to a hexagonal format, particularly for the female group. Furthermore, there were clear gender differences with females typically having more distinctive and more consistent interest profiles over time. There were a few weak associations between ability and interest, with the clearest link suggesting that early Realistic interests are predictive (in part) of later Mechanical ability. These findings consequently have practical implications for the timing and delivery of careers counselling in school. Theoretical implications and future directions have also been identified and discussed.
"Devil's Staircase"-Type Phase Transition in NaV2O5 under High Pressure
Creators: name: Fujii, Y.
name: Isobe, M.
name: Ohwada, K.
name: Takesue, N.
name: Ueda, Y.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The melting mosh pi/ot: extreme music performance in early 2010s multi-ethnic Malaysia
Creators: name: Ferrarese, Marco
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the construction and negotiation of ‘authentic’ extreme music identities in early 2010s Malaysia, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and fast developing Southeast Asian society. First, it demonstrates that extreme music performance in Malaysia references to globally authenticated models of metal and punk. Second, it establishes that the construction of Malaysian extreme music identity is influenced by pre-existing ethnic markers that contribute to forming ‘sedimented hybrid’, multi-layered identities. This thesis concludes that early 2010s Malaysian extreme music provides an accessible social space where inter-ethnic solidarity and discourses are promoted at the grassroots level.
Finite element method to solve the spectral problem for arbitrary self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on manifolds with a boundary
Creators: name: López-Yela, A.
name: Pérez-Pardo, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical scheme to compute the spectrum of a large class of self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on manifolds with boundary in any dimension is presented. The algorithm is based on the characterisation of a large class of self-adjoint extensions of Laplace-Beltrami operators in terms of their associated quadratic forms. The convergence of the scheme is proved. A two-dimensional version of the algorithm is implemented effectively and several numerical examples are computed showing that the algorithm treats in a unified way a wide variety of boundary conditions.
description: 9 Figures
Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams
Creators: name: Brown, C.
name: Bulanov, S. V.
name: Campbell, E. M.
name: Cowan, T. E.
name: Fountain, W.
name: Hatchett, S. P.
name: Johnson, J.
name: Key, M. H.
name: Pegoraro, F.
name: Pennington, D. M.
name: Roth, M.
name: Ruhl, H.
name: Snavely, R. A.
name: Wilks, S. C.
name: Yasuike, K.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters