cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social participation is associated with a habituated blood pressure response to recurrent stress
Creators: name: Keogh, Tracey
name: Howard, Siobhán
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Lower cardiovascular reactivity is a proposed marker of motivational dysregulation and is related to a range of adverse behavioural and health outcomes. Social participation is a form of motivated behaviour and represents the frequency in which an individual engages in social activities. Low social participation has recently been linked to lower cardiovascular responses to acute psychological stress. With recent work emphasizing the importance of assessing adaptation of the cardiovascular response to recurrent stress, the aim of the current study is to build on previous work by examining the relationship between social participation and cardiovascular stress response adaptation. This study utilised data from the Pittsburgh Cold Study 3 (PCS 3). Two hundred and thirteen participants (M = 30.13; SD = 10.85) completed a social participation measure and had their systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR) monitored across two separate standardized stress testing sessions. The testing sessions consisted of a 20-minute baseline and a 15-minute stress task. Results indicated that higher levels of social participation were associated with greater blood pressure habituation to recurrent stress, extending previous work identifying that social participation was associated with higher cardiovascular responses to stress. The present study identifies that those reporting greater levels of social participation may show enhanced stress tolerance when exposed to recurrent stress.
Professional conflict and legal services: the legal aid debate in Australia, 1972-1982
Creators: name: Tomsen, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The bulk of the sociological literature on the professions and profession-state relations is underlaid with a misleading ideal-type of the free-market practitioner whose situation is contrasted from those employed in large bureaucracies. The autonomy, status and privileges of many professionals are seen as threatened by state encroachment in the form of direct control of professional work as an employer, or through the regulation of the market for professional services. 'Deprofessionalisation', or even 'proletarianisation', are seen as resulting from this. The need for a more sophisticated view of state-profession relations which considers their complex, mutual effects is suggested by the history of the legal profession and legal aid policy in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. In this period, new professional groups 'engaged' the state to expand public legal services and fill the unmet 'legal needs' of the poor and disadvantaged. An increased state responsibility for equal access to the legal system was evident in the rapid development of services in the Whitlam era. Despite the election of a conservative Federal government at the end of 1975 and the subsequent restructuring of. legal aid on state lines, this responsibility, and the increasing cost of services, have not waned. This brief, rapid expansion of salaried government aid led to a political mobilisation of the legal profession's traditional elites through the various state Law Societies. But the process of state engagement and the development of a diverse and vocal 'legal services' segment of the profession has altered its internal political balance. The Law Societies now have a much diminished influence and control over legal aid policy and administration. These developments parallel important changes in the size, social composition, training and work of the profession, as well as threats in the legal market from oversupply, economic downturn and rival occupations, which made an increase in the demand for legal services necessary. The declining influence of some lawyer groups over legal aid and related areas of policy, has not meant an overall loss of status or work autonomy for Australian lawyers. It is lawyers per se who still control these matters and who benefit from the public subsidisation of the legal market, expanded work, and the legalisation of a greater number of social problems and disputes.
Al-'adl wa al-'adâlah. Muqârabah kitâbiyyah wa lahwtiyyah
Creators: name: Ayuch, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social Justice
Synoptic Gospels
Biblical Theology
MIddle Eastern Christianity
Gospel of Matthew
Prophets of the Old Testament

description: تقدم هذه المساهمة قراءة كتابية ولاهوتية للعدل والعدالة في التراث الكتابي وفي اللاهوت المسيحي المعاصر. أثناء العرض يفسَّر بعض النصوص النبوية والحكمية من العهد القديم مع تسليط الضوء على الرابط المشترك بنصوص مهمة من العهد الجديد وخصوصًا في العظة على الجبل. في العموم يسعى الإنسان إلى العدالة لأنه بحاجة إلى سياق مجتمعيّ منظم ولكن المسيحي يسعى إليه أولاً لأنه يريد أن يسلك بحسب وصية الرب أن نحب القريب كأنفسنا ولأنه مدعو أن يقتدي بالله في كل ما يفعله من أجل الآخرين..
 يُظهر المؤمن إيمانَه في الأعمال، وبالتالي يعبر عن رأيه المستقيم بعمله المستقيم أيضًا الذي يتجلى بشكل خاض في معاملته للقريب وللبيئة.
Wind Accretion - Observations Vs Theory
Creators: name: Shakura, N.
name: Postnov, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of quasi-spherical subsonic accretion onto magnetized rotating neutron star is reviewed. Different regimes of quasi-spherical accretion onto a neutron star: supersonic (Bondi) accretion, which takes place when the captured matter cools down rapidly and falls supersonically towards the neutron-star magnetosphere, and subsonic (settling) accretion which occurs when the plasma remains hot until it meets the magnetospheric boundary. In subsonic accretion, which works at X-ray luminosities $\lesssim 4\times 10^{36}$~erg~s$^{-1}$, a hot quasi-spherical shell must form around the magnetosphere, and the actual accretion rate onto the neutron star is determined by the ability of the plasma to enter the magnetosphere due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We show how the dimensionless parameters of the theory can be determined from observations of equilibrium X-ray pulsars (Vela X-1, GX 301-2). We also discuss how in the settling accretion theory bright X-ray flares ($\sim 10^{38}-10^{40}$~ergs) observed in supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXT) may be produced by sporadic capture of magnetized stellar-wind plasma. At sufficiently low accretion rates, magnetic reconnection can enhance the magnetospheric plasma entry rate, resulting in copious production of X-ray photons, strong Compton cooling and ultimately in unstable accretion of the entire shell. A bright flare develops on the free-fall time scale in the shell, and the typical energy released in an SFXT bright flare corresponds to the mass of the shell.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PoS Accretion Processes in Cosmic Sources, September 5-10, 2016, St-Petersburg; amendments in NS spin-up/spin-down treatment compared to the original paper Shakura et al. (2012). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1407.3163, arXiv:1412.2101
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Immune-related redox metabolism of embryonic cells of the tick Rhipicephalus microplus (BME26) in response to infection with Anaplasma marginale
Creators: name: Kalil, Sandra
name: Rosa, Rafael
name: Janaína Capelli-Peixoto
name: Pohl, Paula
name: Oliveira, Pedro
name: Fogaça, Andrea
name: Daffre, Sirlei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Primers used in RT-qPCR analysis and RNAi assays. (DOC 61 kb)
EMI analysis of GaN based buck converter using physical model in AWR
Creators: name: Tang, Shiwei
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The high performances of GaN transistors can be defined as faster switching capability, smaller parasitic parameter and better electric characteristic. All these features make them popular in dc-dc converter designs to achieve higher power density and and faster transient response capability. This research focuses on the circuit modelling of the next generation power devices. The GaN HEMT module based on Verilog-AMS language is applied in specific citcuits. AWR design environment is used to simulate the design circuits and the data measurements are analysed. The EMI analysis of the synchronous bucked based on GaN physical model are measured by the adjustment of parameters inside GaN device. Meanwhile, the typical dc-dc converters based on GaN HEMT and the application of GaN technology are discussed.
title: Data Collection for the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) based Electricity Access assessment to Replace Diesel generators in Refugee Camps in Southern Bangladesh and Northern Uganda
Creators: name: Bahaj, Abubakr
name: Alam, Maj
name: Blunden, Luke
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Refugees, Access to electricity, photovoltaic applications, microgrids

description: This report details the data collection methodology employed in the study, which investigates the potential for solar photovoltaic (PV) based electricity supply to support refugee camp operations and provide electricity access to refugee households, replacing the prevalent use of diesel-based electrification by aid agencies. The study focuses on refugee camps in Uganda and Bangladesh as case studies. Both structured and semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain insights into the current diesel-based electrification practices and the electrical demands across various segments of the refugee settlements. Collected data and insight were used to model range of PV-battery energy supply systems with detailed techno-economic analyses to be included in a separate publication. Such field data based renewable energy based alternative solutions to diesel power systems would enable aid agencies to make informed decisions in deploying clean energy supplies for refugee camps and their operations.
Civic and Organizational Heraldry: The College of William and Mary
Creators: name: Murawski, Mark
name: Boyd, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 210312 North American History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210305 British History

description: Part of a series discussing the arms and seals of places and institutions within the United States. This item covers the coat of arms of the College of William and Mary located in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Tax Behavior and Financing Behavior of Corporate Managers: Case of Banks and Decentralized Financial Systems (DFSs) in Benin
Creators: name: Stanislas T. Médard D. C. Agossadou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper aims to analyzing the influence of tax behavior on financing (financial leverage) behavior of corporate managers. The paper applies the generalized method of moments (GMM) to dynamic panel data. The sample used covers 21 firms, i.e. 11 banks for the period from 2011 to 2020 and 10 DFSs for the period from 2016 to 2021. It turns out that financial leverage behavior is influenced more positively by corporate income tax (CIT), then by dividends (DIVIDEND); and negatively by interest on debt (INTEREST), by cash flow (CASH_FLOW) and by past financial leverage (LEVERAGE(‑1)). This paper is one of the first to extend the literature by identifying the main determinants of financing behavior, notably the positive effect of corporate income tax (CIT).
A long way from Mount Sinjar: A study on the resettlement of Ezidi refugees in Wagga Wagga
Creators: name: Boz, Fatmanur Noor
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the settlement experiences of recently arrived Ezidi refugees in Wagga Wagga, southwest NSW. In 2014, many Ezidis experienced genocidal attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the Iraqi province of Sinjar and had to flee their homeland, seeking refuge in other countries. In 2016, the Australian Government announced it was granting asylum to Ezidis as part of its Humanitarian Settlement Program. Since then, some one thousand Ezidi asylum seekers have arrived in Australia, officially recognised as refugees. The majority of these migrants have been resettled in regional NSW, including Wagga Wagga, Coffs Harbour and Armidale. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this study investigates the settlement experiences of the Ezidi refugees in Wagga Wagga. My investigation of this topic has two analytical dimensions. First, I explore the efficacy of the social welfare services provided by the Australian government through its multicultural bodies in assisting and supporting the settlement of the Ezidi refugees in Wagga. Second, taking a phenomenological approach, the study examines the lived experiences of the Ezidi families there, including their creative efforts to establish new homely places for themselves in this rural town.
Additional file 2: of Chemotherapy diminishes lipid storage capacity of adipose tissue in a preclinical model of colon cancer
Creators: name: Ebadi, Maryam
name: Field, Catherine
name: Lehner, Richard
name: Mazurak, Vera
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Differentially expressed proteins in periuterine adipose tissue of animals receiving 2- cycles of chemotherapy compared to tumour-bearing animals. A total of 121 proteins were differentially expressed in periuterine adipose tissue after 2Â cycles of chemotherapy compared to the tumour. (DOCX 58Â kb)
MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS OʼSIMLIGINI O'RGANISH
Creators: name: Ismoilova, M.I.
name: Ermatov, R.K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Hozirgi kunda tabiiy birikmlar asosida dori vositalari yaratish va ishlab chiqarish organik kimyo va tibbiyot soxalarining asosiy vazifalaridan hisoblanadi. Chunki tabiiy moddalar asosida ishlab chiqarilgan dori vositalari o’zining eruvchanligi, zaharsizligi va keng doirada ta’sir etish xususiyati bilan sintetik dori vositalari bilan keskin farqlanadi. Shu jihatdan o’simliklardan ajratib olingan biologik faol moddalar va ularni modifikatsiyalash orqali dori vositalari ishlab chiqarish sohasida olib borilayotgan ishlar O’zbekistonda keng rivojlangan va xorijiy olimlar tomonidan e’tirof etilgan. Ko’pchilik o’simliklar tarkibida biologik faol birikmalar tutadi. Jumladan, mazkur ishida O’zbekistonda o’suvchi Melilotus officinalis o’simligi tarkibidagi flavonoidlarini ajratib olish uchun bag’ishlangan bo’lib bu soxada O’simlik moddalari kimyosi institutida bir qancha ilmiy izlanishlar olib borilgan. Bu o’simlikning boshqa turlaridan chet el olimlari bir qator biologik faol moddalarni ajratib olgan lekin, O’zbekiston sharoitida o’suvchi  Melilotus officinalis o’rganilmaganligi uchun ushbu ilmiy ish shu yo’nalishga qaratildi va olib borilgan izlanishlar natijasida biologik faollikka ega bo’lgan bir qancha fraksiyalar olindi va ularning biologik faolligi o’rganildi.
An analysis of the lexicogrammatical errors of Japanese university students studying English: a systemic functional grammar approach
Creators: name: Falkus, Justin
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents an analysis of written lexicogrammatical errors, made by first-year Japanese university students studying English as their second language (L2). The perspective taken by the analysis, and the tools with which it is conducted, are those of Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The research is contextualised by an exploration of the history of L2 error analysis as it appears in the academic literature. Since the literature presents a somewhat confusing picture, a new framework for categorising and understanding error analyses is presented. Sixty-six short essays, comprising 970 clauses, were collected and analysed. A total of 72 error categories were identified. The analysis shows that many errors are actually composite in nature, deriving from two and sometimes three different ‘strands of meaning’, or metafunctions. The analysis also illustrates that most errors involve not merely syntagmatic departures from English grammar, but also idiosyncratic paradigmatic choices from system networks. It is therefore argued that SFG allows us to posit two interpretations of these errors. The first considers them to be incorrect realisations of meaningful choices within what is commonly called ‘Standard English’, or what is called in this thesis the English System Network (ESN). The second interpretation takes the concept of ‘choice’ as its starting point, and views errors as incorrect selections from lexicogrammatical systems. While not amounting to a theory of an emerging variety of English, this second approach allows us to model lexicogrammatical systems as they emerge from learner texts. It is shown how these SFG-inspired perspectives can benefit language pedagogy, as they promote a greater focus on meaning than traditional, rule-based approaches. While still taking account of form, they help learners to visualise and contextualise these elements within the ESN through the use of system diagrams
Additional file 2: Data Set S1. of Structural, expression and evolutionary analysis of the non-specific phospholipase C gene family in Gossypium hirsutum
Creators: name: Jiuling Song
name: Yonghe Zhou
name: Juren Zhang
name: Kewei Zhang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The protein sequences used to generate phylogenetic tree. (DOC 54Â kb)
Dependence of the 0.5(2e2/h) conductance plateau on the aspect ratio of InAs quantum point contacts with in-plane side gates
Creators: name: Das, P. P.
name: Jones, A.
name: Cahay, M.
name: Kalita, S.
name: Mal, S. S.
name: Sterin, N. S.
name: Yadunath, T. R.
name: Advaitha, M.
name: Herbert, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of a 0.5 conductance plateau in asymmetrically biased quantum point contacts with in-plane side gates has been attributed to the onset of spin-polarized current through these structures. For InAs quantum point contacts with the same width but longer channel length, there is roughly a fourfold increase in the range of common sweep voltage applied to the side gates over which the 0.5 conductance plateau is observed when the QPC aspect ratio (ratio of length over width of the narrow portion of the structure) is increased by a factor 3. Non-equilibrium Green s function simulations indicate that the increase in the size of the 0.5 conductance plateau is due to an increased importance, over a larger range of common sweep voltage, of the effects of electron-electron interactions in QPC devices with larger aspect ratio. The use of asymmetrically biased QPCs with in-plane side gates and large aspect ratio could therefore pave the way to build robust spin injectors and detectors for the successful implementation of spin field effect transistors
description: 30 pages, 9 figures
"Nor are you touched by the emotion that overcame Eve": sexual desire and female sexual renunciation in the works of Bishop Avitus of Vienne
Creators: name: Rosbrook, Catherine
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus lived at the turn of the sixth - century AD. He was bishop of Vienne, a see located in the Burgundian Kingdom. His surviving works, including a letter collection, two poems (De spiritalis historiae gestis and de consolatoria castitatis laude) and several homiletic fragments, have been previously noted by scholars for their political and theological content. My thesis provides a new perspective on Avitus : I argue that the theme of sexuality features prominently throughout his works. To demonstrate my argument, I reconstruct the beliefs Avitus held about two particular aspects about of sexuality, sexual desire and female sexual renunciation, by drawing upon his various texts. I suggest that in his writings Avitus consistently depicts sexual desire as a destructive, contaminating force, which he believed capable of tainting the act of sex, the institution of marriage, and the process of reproduction. I then propose that Avitus believed the contaminating effects of sexual desire can be minimised through a commitment to sexual renunciation. According to Avitus, female renunciants in particular are entitled to significant worldly and heavenly benefits as a reward for resisting the temptations of sexual desire and exhibiting great willpower. Throughout the thesis I show that Avitus' beliefs about both sexual desire and female sexual renunciation recall the theologies of his forebears, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine. Given the wide circulation of these men's works in late - antique Gaul, it is likely that they could have influenced Avitus' own writings about sexuality. Although Avitus' works do not survive in the volume Ambrose's, Jerome's or Augustine's do, I contend that they are nonetheless significant and worthy of recognition for the information about sexuality they contain. I hope to show that the pervading themes of sexual desire and female sexual renunciation render Avitus' letters, poetry and, to a lesser extent, his sermons, unique and significant sources for the place of sexuality in post - Roman, pre - Mero vingian Gaul.
High gain 2D printed antenna array
Creators: name: Weerathunge, Nethini Thilanga
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Microstrip patch antennas play a vital role in wireless telecommunication due to their unbeatable qualities such as thin planner profile and low cost. There are many studies being conducted to investigate whether they can be used for long distance telecommunication, such as for spacecraft and satellites. In order to communicate between long distances the antenna should have a large gain and directivity. The directivity of patch antennas can be improved by arranging them in an array. The gain of an antenna array increases with the number of antenna elements. The reflection coefficient determines how well an antenna is impedance matched. It ensures that the reflected power by patch antenna is at a low level such that it has a high efficiency. In addition, farfield patterns indicate the side lobe levels and the beam width of the antenna's radiation pattern. This project designed a 3D model of a 4 x 4 array with improved gain and directivity. The array is fed by a corporate feed network consisting of quarter wavelength transformers in order to match the impedances. CST software was used for all the designing and simulation purposes of the antenna array. It provides different optimiser tools to tune the array to achieve the desired results. The reflection coefficient, voltage standing wave ratio and farfield pattern were used to examine the performance of the array.
Russian Intervention in Syrian Arab Spring: An Analysis on Russian alliance with Syria
Creators: name: K. R., GOPALAN
name: Nooruddeen, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: The West Asia particularly Syrian region has garnered the Russian attention for ages. At the time of Cold War when the world was divided into two blocs based on their ideologiesKremlin's relationship with Syria was strategically planned. Russia intentionally maintained close ties to Syria since Assad's father took power via coup in 1970. Russia also faces allegations that it is the major arms provider to Syria and is the major reason for chaos in Syria. This studyanalyses the many interests of Russia on Syria. The transformation of Socialist Friendship towards a PoliticalPragmatism, being a prominent part of Russia's Middle East Foreign Policy nurtured the ties. The Cultural, Commercial, Strategic and Military interests of Russia in Syria is dealtexhaustively. The current inductive study aims to find the historical base of Russian Federation in the state of Syriaand also aims to forecast the future of Russian intervention in Syria. The first part of this research paper will bring ahistorical understanding on the policies of Russia towards Syria. The latter part discusses the many roles of Russia and analyse how Russian – Syrian relations unchanged in the geo political line, and followed by conclusion.
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication in vehicle management
Creators: name: Morsalin, Sayidul
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Vehicle tracking by automated machine-to-machine (M2M) communication over cellular wireless networks will be a key component in future "intelligent transport" systems in which existing transport infrastructure is used more efficiently, resulting in reduced traffic congestion, improved fuel efficiency, etc. Furthermore, as transport becomes electrified, M2M communication will enable the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) on the electricity distribution network to be managed. In this research, we have implemented a Raspberry Pi based data logging system (DLS) operating over a commercial 4G wireless network. The DLS sends trip information, such as state of charge (SoC) and location of EVs to a remote server at regular intervals. We also address the question of scalability of the wireless DLS, and report both numerical simulations and analytical results showing that up to 250 vehicles can be supported per base station before communication delays and blocking disrupt system operation. Lastly, we implement a neural-network-based intelligent decision-making system to utilise the M2M logged data for charge scheduling and load management of EVs in the power grid.
Additional file 1: of MICRA: an automatic pipeline for fast characterization of microbial genomes from high-throughput sequencing data
Creators: name: SĂŠgolĂ¨Ne Caboche
name: GaĂŤl Even
name: Loywick, Alexandre
name: Audebert, Christophe
name: Hot, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary figures, notes, and tables. (PDF 3297 kb)
The analysis of polymer pipe behaviour in fire conditions
Creators: name: Marsden, Timothy William
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This report investigates the properties of polymer pipes of varying materials and their performance in high temperature compression testing. The inherent appeal of pipes being the ease of manufacturing and implementation is also their downfall as polymers are adversely affected by heat. This becomes a major issue when they are implemented instead of metal pipes in fire conditions. With the tendency of polymers to melt away in high temperatures, Hilti has developed products with the aim to address this issue through the implementation of intumescent materials. The presence of this intumescent material in firestop products takes the heat induced swelling characteristic of the material to crush the polymer pipes it surrounds and prevent fire and smoke spread from what would be a gaping installation hole. These intumescent materials are activated at temperatures of over 180°C but little is known about how the polymer pipe is affected by this radial compression under those high temperature conditions due the expensive and wasteful current testing methods. The procedure developed in this report acts as a building block for future development in this area by successfully designing a diametral compression test for polymer pipes. This then extended on to be applied to a designed and purpose built high temperature testing rig allowing for the production of high temperature results for a range of polymer pipes gaining the first results of their kind for this new area of research and investigation.
Two-photon superbunching of pseudothermal light in a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer
Creators: name: Bai, Bin
name: Liu, Jianbin
name: Zhou, Yu
name: Zheng, Huaibin
name: Chen, Hui
name: Zhang, Songlin
name: He, Yuchen
name: Li, Fuli
name: Xu, Zhuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-photon superbunching of pseudothermal light is observed with single-mode continuous-wave laser light in a linear optical system. By adding more two-photon paths via three rotating ground glasses,g(2)(0) = 7.10 is experimentally observed. The second-order temporal coherence function of superbunching pseudothermal light is theoretically and experimentally studied in detail. It is predicted that the degree of coherence of light can be increased dramatically by adding more multi-photon paths. For instance, the degree of the second- and third-order coherence of the superbunching pseudothermal light with five rotating ground glasses can reach 32 and 7776, respectively. The results are helpful to understand the physics of superbunching and to improve the visibility of thermal light ghost imaging.
Événement d'engagement national en Morocco 2024
Creators: name: Khomsi, Mahdi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Les pressions de dégradation, principalement dues aux activités humaines liées à la surconsommation et aux processus industriels, affectent la santé des sols par des dommages physiques ou l'introduction de polluants. À leur tour, ces processus perturbent la capacité des sols à fournir une série de services écosystémiques, impliquant ainsi des conséquences économiques, environnementales et sociétales majeures; soit 60 à 70 % des sols en Europe sont dans un état malsain. Il est donc urgent de passer à l'action.

L'ambitieuse mission de l'UE "Un pacte pour les sols en Europe" a pour objectif la création de 100 "Living Labs" et "Lighthouses" régionaux, véritables centres de connaissances et d'innovation, capables de créer et de tester, conjointement, des pratiques et des solutions de gestion des sols permettant d'améliorer la santé de ceux-ci.L'ambition de la mission d'obtenir des effets visibles grâce à ses huit objectifs spécifiques rend nécessaire un déploiement régulier et efficace des "Living Labs", ainsi qu'un bon fonctionnement et une capitalisation efficace des résultats. À cet effet, les LL doivent être bien ancrés, sur la base de communautés fortes et engagées, conscientes des besoins spécifiques des sols dans le cadre de la mission et de l'accès aux réseaux de connaissances et d'échange de connaissances.

Sous la coordination de BUSINESSMED et dans le cadre l’évènement d’engagement en Tunisie, le projet NATI00NS assistera et agira en tant que médiateur pour la mission, en adressant les principaux messages de sensibilisation aux parties prenantes nationales.
Using a solar air heater to ventilate classrooms during the winter season in New Zealand: a potential alternative solution to assist during COVID 19 outbreaks
Creators: name: Boulic, Mikael
name: Wang, Yu
name: Phipps, Robyn
name: Plagmann, Manfred
name: Cunningham, Chris
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023

description: No description supplied
Lipschitz 1-connectedness for some solvable Lie groups
Creators: name: Cohen, David Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 22E25

description: A space X is said to be Lipschitz 1-connected if every L-Lipschitz loop in X bounds a O(L)-Lipschitz disk. A Lipschitz 1-connected space admits a quadratic isoperimetric inequality, but it is unknown whether the converse is true. Cornulier and Tessera showed that certain solvable Lie groups have quadratic isoperimetric inequalities, and we extend their result to show that these groups are Lipschitz 1-connected.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Structural, expression and evolutionary analysis of the non-specific phospholipase C gene family in Gossypium hirsutum
Creators: name: Jiuling Song
name: Yonghe Zhou
name: Juren Zhang
name: Kewei Zhang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: List of primers used for gene amplification. (DOC 40Â kb)
Extreme disturbances show greater influence on dolphin populations: a simulation approach
Creators: name: Reed, Joshua
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In South Australia, discrete populations of bottlenose dolphins inhabit two large gulfs, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent. In each gulf, dolphin population abundance has been estimated and key threats; climate change, habitat disturbance (shipping and noise pollution), fishery interactions and epizootic events, identified. The Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) framework was developed to understand how disturbances can influence population dynamics. We used population estimates combined with population specific bioenergetics models to undertake a PCoD assessment and compared how these two populations respond to the identified regional threats. Populations were modelled over a five year period looking at the influence of each disturbance separately. As expected, extreme disturbance scenarios, in terms of frequency and intensity, had the biggest influence on population trends. However, the magnitude of the effect differed by population, with Spencer Gulf showing a 43% and Gulf St Vincent a 23% decline under high frequency and high impact epizootic scenarios. Epizootic events had the largest influence on population trends and reproductive parameters for both populations, followed by climate change. Modelling provides insight into how disturbances may affect different population, and so informs management on how best to mitigate their potential effects while there is still time to act.
title: Post-sonic and psychosocially engaged: developing a decentred, impact-focused approach to open-score composition
Creators: name: Moorehouse-Everett, A
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis documents the development of a post-sonic and psychosocially engaged
approach to open-score composition - a transdisciplinary mode of music-making that
operates at the boundaries of socially engaged art practices, experimental music, and music
therapy, to pursue a novel conceptualisation of its impacts. The thesis begins by setting out
the context for such a practice by introducing these complementary areas of research,
before focusing on four key themes (reaction, interaction, impact, and performativity) that
are used to introduce a series of critical arguments, musical analyses, and commentaries of
my own compositions. In Chapter 1, the theme of reaction is approached in order to reflect
upon critical or contrarian art practices - pieces or movements that primarily position
themselves as an alternative to established forms of practice. This chapter charts some of
these methods and legacies, primarily in relation to the art-group Fluxus and post-Cagean
experimental music, before introducing my own works that were conceived from a similarly
reactive position. Then, in Chapter 2, greater attention is given to socially engaged arts
practices, and how interactions are quantified, valued, or discussed in this artform, with
particular prominence given to the writings of Bishop and Nicholas Bourriaud, before the
interactive elements of my own compositions are again discussed. In Chapter 3, the question
of impact in participatory art and music-making is addressed with greater urgency, and
evaluative frameworks from music therapists including Brynjulf Stige and Stuart Wood are
introduced to sketch out the means by which impacts might be evaluated more successfully
in socially engaged composition practices. Again, this discussion is followed by an
introduction to elements of my work that explore these themes, and a number of my works
are evaluated using frameworks taken from music therapy. Next, in the fourth chapter on
the theme of performativity, the thesis condenses the criticisms and conclusions of the
previous three chapters into an affirmative and original illustration of what a
transdisciplinary approach to post-sonic and psychosocially engaged open-score composition
may consist of, predominantly through a detailed commentary on a substantial collection of
compositions taken from my portfolio. The thesis concludes with some closing remarks that
sketch out some of the forms future practice could feasibly take and the contexts in which
they could be deployed.
We regret the error: a novel and exegesis
Creators: name: Luft, Alexander
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Working from a historical framework that positions newspapers and novels as divergent textual forms under a cultural paradigm of actuality, this series of essays examines journalism as a literary topos in 20th century American fiction. I argue for reading journalism-centered fictions as metanarratives about the formation of public knowledge and its underlying power structures. The first essay examines two novelistic accounts of Louisiana Senator Huey "Kingfish" Long's authoritarian tendencies-Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men-and their broad conceptions of the role of factuality in public discourse. The second essay argues two historically interested novels, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days, implicate journalistic practice in writing the "first draft of history" and subsequent erasure of alternative cultural histories. Finally, I read E.L.Doctorow's The Waterworks as a drama of unreportable truth, in which Doctorow imagines the incapacity of facts to function in a public sphere compromised by private interests. As a whole ,these essays reflect American novelists' thoroughgoing skepticism of journalism's devotion to epistemologies of verification. I take up this tradition with my own novel and its confrontation with the epistemological crises attendant to the United States' War on Terror. Set in a small town in Illinois in 2006, We Regret the Error centers on a young reporter named David Sinclair who struggles to find his place as the new editor of the weekly New Rome News. To win the favor of the town, Sinclair sets out to write a profile of a local war hero, Tiberius Marks, currently deployed in Afghanistan. But as Sinclair grows closer to Marks's fiancé, Ernestine Burden, reality and reportage diverge. When Ernie reveals that Tie has been missing in action for weeks, Sinclair makes the fateful choice to invent and publish a story of Tie's death, a version of martyrdom the town chooses to adopt as truth.
Cutting the Error by Half: Investigation of Very Deep CNN and Advanced Training Strategies for Document Image Classification
Creators: name: Afzal, Muhammad Zeshan
name: Kölsch, Andreas
name: Ahmed, Sheraz
name: Liwicki, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an exhaustive investigation of recent Deep Learning architectures, algorithms, and strategies for the task of document image classification to finally reduce the error by more than half. Existing approaches, such as the DeepDocClassifier, apply standard Convolutional Network architectures with transfer learning from the object recognition domain. The contribution of the paper is threefold: First, it investigates recently introduced very deep neural network architectures (GoogLeNet, VGG, ResNet) using transfer learning (from real images). Second, it proposes transfer learning from a huge set of document images, i.e. 400,000 documents. Third, it analyzes the impact of the amount of training data (document images) and other parameters to the classification abilities. We use two datasets, the Tobacco-3482 and the large-scale RVL-CDIP dataset. We achieve an accuracy of 91.13% for the Tobacco-3482 dataset while earlier approaches reach only 77.6%. Thus, a relative error reduction of more than 60% is achieved. For the large dataset RVL-CDIP, an accuracy of 90.97% is achieved, corresponding to a relative error reduction of 11.5%.
Universal experimental test for the role of free charge carriers in thermal Casimir effect within a micrometer separation range
Creators: name: Bimonte, G.
name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a universal experiment to measure the differential Casimir force between a Au-coated sphere and two halves of a structured plate covered with a P-doped Si overlayer. The concentration of free charge carriers in the overlayer is chosen slightly below the critical one, f or which the phase transition from dielectric to metal occurs. One ha f of the structured plate is insulating, while its second half is made of gold. For the former we consider two different structures, one consisting of bulk high-resistivity Si and the other of a layer of silica followed by bulk high-resistivity Si. The differential Casimir force is computed within the Lifshitz theory using four approaches that have been proposed in the literature to account for the role of free charge carriers in metallic and dielectric materials interacting with quantum fluctuations. According to these approaches, Au at low frequencies is described by either the Drude or the plasma model, whereas the free charge carriers in dielectric materials at room temperature are either taken into account or disregarded. It is shown that the values of differential Casimir forces, computed in the micrometer separation range using these four approaches, are widely distinct from each other and can be easily discriminated experimentally. It is shown that for all approaches the thermal component of the differential Casimir force is sufficiently large for direct observation. The possible errors and uncertainties in the proposed experiment are estimated and its importance for the theory of quantum fluctuations is discussed.
description: 26 pages, 1 table, 8 figures; Phys. Rev. A, accepted for publication. Figure 5 is corrected
Recent results from the Belle experiment
Creators: name: King, Zachary
name: Schwartz, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent results from the Belle experiment, which took data at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider in Japan. The experiment recorded about 1000 fb^{-1} of data running mainly at the Υ(4S) and Υ(5S) resonances. The results presented here are obtained from the full data set.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, contribution to the XIIth International Conference on Beauty, Charm, and Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2016)
Additional file 3: of Evaluations of the uptake and impact of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement and extensions: a scoping review
Creators: name: Page, Matthew
name: Moher, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Summary across reports of SRs adhering to the PRISMA Statement. (DOCX 17Â kb)
Additional file 1 of Activin a suppresses peripheral CD8+ T lymphocyte activity in acute-phase Kawasaki disease
Creators: name: Wu, Qian
name: Weng, Ruohang
name: Xu, Yongbin
name: Wang, Linlin
name: Huang, Yanyan
name: Yang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Fig.S1 The percentage of lymphocyte subsets in the acute-phase Kawasaki disease. Peripheral blood was collected and anticoagulated with EDTAs in patients with Kawasaki disease and healthy controls. The percentage of CD4+ T lymphocyte, CD8+ T lymphocyte and CD19+ B lymphocyte in peripheral blood was determined by flow cytometry. R1 indicates gate for lymphocyte. HC, Healthy controls group; KD, Kawasaki disease group. Fig.S2 The expression of ActRIIA on CD4+ T lymphocyte, CD8+ T lymphocyte and CD19+ B lymphocyte. Total PBMCs were isolated from Kawasaki disease patients and healthy controls, stimulated with activin A (5 ng/ml) for 24 h in vitro. Cells were then harvested, stained and the expression of cell surface molecules ActRIIA was analyzed by flow cytometry. HC, Healthy controls group; KD, Kawasaki disease group: KD Act, Kawasaki disease with activin-A stimulated group. Fig.S3 The expression of CD25 and CD69 on CD4+ T lymphocyte, CD8+ T lymphocyte and CD19+ B lymphocyte. Total PBMCs were isolated from Kawasaki disease patients and healthy controls, stimulated with activin A (5 ng/ml) for 24 h in vitro. Cells were then harvested, stained and the expression of CD25 and CD69 were analyzed by flow cytometry. HC, Healthy controls group: KD, Kawasaki disease group: KD Act, Kawasaki disease with activin-A stimulated group.
tempo após um contratempo: Reverberações persistentes da Revolução dos Cravos
Creators: name: Godinho, Paula
name: Andrade, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal
Year: 2024

description: Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, N.º 21 (2024): Um tempo após um contratempo: Reverberações persistentes da Revolução dos Cravos
Additional file 1: of Cervical cytology and human papillomavirus among asymptomatic healthy volunteers in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Creators: name: Takamatsu, Reika
name: Viengvansay Nabandith
name: Vatsana Pholsena
name: Phouthasone Mounthisone
name: Katsu Nakasone
name: Ohtake, Kentarou
name: Yoshimi, Naoki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Questionnaires in English. We asked the social status and knowledge about cervical cancer as questionnaires. It was originally written in the Lao language and this was translated in English. (PDF 248Â kb)