cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cloud Service Matchmaking Approaches: A Systematic Literature Survey
Creators: name: Zilci, Begüm İlke
name: Slawik, Mathias
name: Küpper, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Service matching concerns finding suitable services according to the service requester's requirements, which is a complex task due to the increasing number and diversity of cloud services available. Service matching is discussed in web services composition and user oriented service marketplaces contexts. The suggested approaches have different problem definitions and have to be examined closer in order to identify comparable results and to find out which approaches have built on the former ones. One of the most important use cases is service requesters with limited technical knowledge who need to compare services based on their QoS requirements in cloud service marketplaces. Our survey examines the service matching approaches in order to find out the relation between their context and their objectives. Moreover, it evaluates their applicability for the cloud service marketplaces context.
LST-1 observations of an enormous flare of BL Lacertae in 2021
Creators: name: Nozaki, Seiya
name: Asano, Katsuaki
name: Escudero, Juan
name: Emery, Gabriel
name: Priyadarshi, Chaitanya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first prototype of LST (LST-1) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been in commissioning phase since 2018 and already started scientific observations with the low energy threshold around a few tens of GeV. In 2021, LST-1 observed BL Lac following the alerts based on multi-wavelength observations and detected prominent gamma-ray flares. In addition to the daily flux variability, LST-1 also detected sub-hour-scale intra-night variability reaching 3-4 times higher than the gamma-ray flux from the Crab Nebula above 100 GeV. In this proceeding, we will report the analysis results of LST-1 observations of BL Lac in 2021, especially focusing on flux variability.
description: Presented at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023), 2023 (arXiv:2309.08219)
Exotic colored scalars at the LHC
Creators: name: Blum, Kfir
name: Efrati, Aielet
name: Frugiuele, Claudia
name: Nir, Yosef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phenomenology of exotic color-triplet scalar particles $X$ with charge $|Q|=2/3, 4/3,5/3,7/3,8/3$ and $10/3$. If $X$ is a non-singlet of $SU(2)_W$ representation, mass splitting within the multiplet allows for cascade decays of the members into the lightest state. We study examples where the lightest state, in turn, decays into a three-body $W^\pm jj$ final state, and show that in such case the entire multiplet is compatible with existing direct collider searches and indirect precision tests down to $m_X\sim250$~GeV. However, bound states $S$, made of $XX^†$ pairs at $m_S\approx2m_X$, form under rather generic conditions and their decay to diphoton can be the first discovery channel of the model. Furthermore, for $SU(2)_W$-non-singlets, the mode $S\to W^+W^-$ may be observable and the width of $S\toγγ$ and $S\to jj$ may appear large as a consequence of mass splittings within the $X$-multiplet. As an example we study in detail the case of an $SU(2)_W$ quartet, finding that $m_X\simeq450$~GeV is allowed by all current searches.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Scientific problems seen by primary school pupils : a study of the ability of primary school pupils to identify investigable scientific problems in everyday phenomena, and teacher roles which promote the development of this ability
Creators: name: Symington, David John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Super-resonant radiation stimulated by high-harmonics
Creators: name: Loures, Cristian Redondo
name: Roger, Thomas
name: Faccio, Daniele
name: Biancalana, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solitons propagating in media with higher order dispersion will shed radiation known as dispersive wave or resonant radiation, with applications in frequency broadening, deep UV sources for spectroscopy or simply fundamental studies of soliton physics. Starting from a recently proposed equation that models the behaviour of ultrashort optical pulses in nonlinear materials using the analytic signal, we find that the resonant radiation associated with the third-harmonic generation term of the equation is parametrically stimulated with an unprecedented gain. Resonant radiation levels, typically only a small fraction of the soliton, are now as intense as the soliton itself. The mechanism is quite universal and works also in normal dispersion and with harmonics higher than the third. We report experimental hints of this super-resonant radiation stimulated by the fifth harmonic in diamond.
Fingerprints of different interaction mechanisms on the collective modes in complex (dusty) plasmas
Creators: name: Khrapak, S. A.
name: Klumov, B. A.
name: Thomas, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss the relations between the exact shape of interparticle interactions in complex (dusty) plasmas and the dispersion relation of the longitudinal collective mode. Several representative repulsive potentials, predicted previously theoretically, are chosen and the corresponding dispersion relations are calculated using the quasi-crystalline approximation. Both weakly coupled and strongly coupled regimes are considered. It is shown that the long-wavelength portions of the dispersion relations are sensitive to the long-range asymptote of the interaction potential. This can be used to discriminate between different interaction mechanisms operational in complex plasmas experimentally. Main requirements are briefly discussed.
title: Законодательство России о железнодорожной перевозке грузов в XIX–XX веках
Creators: name: Тимофеев, Александр
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье исследуется состояние правового регулирования железнодорожного дела в России на рубеже XIX–XX столетий. Автором отмечается, что в рассматриваемый период отсутствовало достаточное законодательное закрепление договора перевозки как самостоятельного договорного типа гражданского права. Кроме того, в данной статье исследованы положения Устава от 12 июня 1885 года о перевозке грузов железнодорожным перевозчиком, договорный характер перевозки груза, наличие публично-правовых элементов в железнодорожной перевозке, об оформлении договора перевозки груза по накладной и дубликате накладной, ответственности железнодорожного перевозчика при утрате, повреждении, недостаче. Также исследован порядок урегулирования разногласий владельцев груза с железными дорогами при несохранной перевозке и проведен сравнительный анализ с не принятым, но широко обсуждаемым в юридических кругах исследуемого периода проектом Гражданского уложения, который по мысли законодателя закрепил бы на законодательном уровне самостоятельное значение договора перевозки, усовершенствовал бы уровень правового регулирования деятельности различных видов транспорта и его имущественную ответственность.
A Novel Averaging Technique for Discrete Entropy-Stable Dissipation Operators for Ideal MHD
Creators: name: Derigs, Dominik
name: Winters, Andrew R.
name: Gassner, Gregor J.
name: Walch, Stefanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entropy stable schemes can be constructed with a specific choice of the numerical flux function. First, an entropy conserving flux is constructed. Secondly, an entropy stable dissipation term is added to this flux to guarantee dissipation of the discrete entropy. Present works in the field of entropy stable numerical schemes are concerned with thorough derivations of entropy conservative fluxes for ideal MHD. However, as we show in this work, if the dissipation operator is not constructed in a very specific way, it cannot lead to a generally stable numerical scheme. The two main findings presented in this paper are that the entropy conserving flux of Ismail & Roe can easily break down for certain initial conditions commonly found in astrophysical simulations, and that special care must be taken in the derivation of a discrete dissipation matrix for an entropy stable numerical scheme to be robust. We present a convenient novel averaging procedure to evaluate the entropy Jacobians of the ideal MHD and the compressible Euler equations that yields a discretization with favorable robustness properties.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
Strict lower bounds with separation of sources of error in non-overlapping domain decomposition methods
Creators: name: Rey, Valentine
name: Gosselet, Pierre
name: Rey, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article deals with the computation of guaranteed lower bounds of the error in the framework of finite element (FE) and domain decomposition (DD) methods. In addition to a fully parallel computation, the proposed lower bounds separate the algebraic error (due to the use of a DD iterative solver) from the discretization error (due to the FE), which enables the steering of the iterative solver by the discretization error. These lower bounds are also used to improve the goal-oriented error estimation in a substructured context. Assessments on 2D static linear mechanic problems illustrate the relevance of the separation of sources of error and the lower bounds' independence from the substructuring. We also steer the iterative solver by an objective of precision on a quantity of interest. This strategy consists in a sequence of solvings and takes advantage of adaptive remeshing and recycling of search directions.
description: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley, 2016
Limits on Pop III star formation with the most iron-poor stars
Creators: name: de Bennassuti, M.
name: Salvadori, S.
name: Schneider, R.
name: Valiante, R.
name: Omukai, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of star-forming mini-haloes, and the Initial Mass Function (IMF) of Population III (Pop III) stars, on the Galactic halo Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF) and on the properties of C-enhanced and C-normal stars at [Fe/H]50% level by PISNe are thus extremely rare, corresponding to $\approx$ 0.25% of the total stellar population at [Fe/H]
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The only change is the correction of a mistake in the list of authors
$P$-wave coupled-channel scattering of $B_sπ,\,B_s^*π,\,B\overline K,\,B^{*}\overline K$ and the puzzling $X(5568)$
Creators: name: Kang, Xian-Wei
name: Oller, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The D0 Collaboration has recently reported a narrow peak structure in the $B_s^0π^\pm$ invariant-mass spectrum, that is called $X(5568)$. Its proposed quantum numbers $J^P=0^+/1^+$ are not determined unambiguously, and we show that one can fit the data assuming $J^P=1^-$ with the same mass and width for the resonance signal. The corresponding isovector $P$-wave coupled-channel scattering involving the states $B_sπ$, $B_s^*π$, $B \overline{K}$ and $B^*\overline K$ is studied employing leading-order Heavy Meson Chiral Perturbation Theory, which is then unitarized making use of standard techniques from Unitary Chiral Perturbation Theory. The subtraction constants that appear in the unitarization process are determined by a $u$-channel crossing symmetry constraint or by naturalness arguments, being the numerical values obtained in both cases quite closed, and no further freedom is left in the model. A crucial point is that if the $X(5568)$ is $1^-$ and decaying into $B_s^0π^\pm$ then it should appear as a pole in the $T$-matrix elements. It finally turns out that no $X(5568)$ pole is found that can be qualified as dynamically generated from the isovector $P$-wave coupled-channel dynamics. This result disfavors the interpretation of the $X(5568)$ within a "molecular" picture.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
A study of the perceptual bases of specific reading disability
Creators: name: Sykes, Stewart Craig
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Extinction of Light and Coherent Scattering by a Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond
Creators: name: Tran, Thai Hien
name: Wrachtrup, Jörg
name: Gerhardt, Ilja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherently scattered light from a single quantum system promises to get a valuable quantum resource. In this letter an external laser field is efficiently coupled to a single nitrogen vacancy (NV-)center in diamond. By this it is possible to detect a direct extinction signal and estimate the NV's extinction cross-section. The exact amount of coherent and incoherent photons is determined against the saturation parameter, and reveals the optimal point of generating coherently scattered photons and an optimal point of excitation. A theoretical model of spectral diffusion allows to explain the deviation to an atom in free-space. The introduced experimental techniques are used to determine the properties of the tight focusing in an interference experiment, and allow for a direct determination of the Gouy-phase in a strongly focused beam.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Ideologies of Difference: Racism in the Making of Multiculturalism in North Queensland
Creators: name: Elder, Janice Reta
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is an empirical study of the changing relations between culturally and 'racially' defined social groups. It explores h o w structural factors in the economy, and political discourse, enframe local inter-group relations, and provide the concepts and imagery used in the construction and reproduction of local 'ideologies of difference'. The study analyses the w a y in which contradictions arising from the incompatibility of economic development imperatives, liberal values and racism are reflected in political strategies of inclusion and exclusion, and h o w these change, forming and transforming 'cultural communities'. The study is located in a small sugar growing district in north Queensland which is a microcosm of Australian society in several important ways. The history of relations between Aboriginal and immigrant Australians, and the cultural diversity of the latter group, provide a social context which enables a close examination of the development of the important contemporary notions of racism and multiculturalism. It is argued that the two issues are closely related, with images of Aborigines shaping attitudes to incoming groups and, in turn, the immigrant experience influencing perceptions of Aborigines. The fortunes of the sugar industry, its employment policies and labour markets dominated the local economy from the first years of European settlement. Relations within the industry and the work culture, combined with the northern 'frontier' location shaped experience in the district and local responses to national discourse. Attitudes to cultural and 'racial' difference were more extreme than in other parts of Australia, but not unique. Issues are more sharply defined revealing the linkage between racism, ethnocentrism and cultural identity and gender. The study explores the delicate balance between tolerance and intolerance. Rather than simply demonstrating the existence of racism and cultural dominance, the aim is to provide insights into the contemporary situation and the possibilities for change.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
A composite tale of two right-handed neutrinos
Creators: name: Barenboim, Gabriela
name: Bosch, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we develop a model for Higgs-like composites based on two generations of right handed neutrinos which condense. We analyze the Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of the theory with two explicit breakings, setting the different scales of the model and obtaining massive bosons as a result. Finally, we calculate the gravitational wave imprint left by the phase transition associated to the symmetry breaking of a generic potential dictated by the symmetries of the composites.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
Brief review on black hole loop quantization
Creators: name: Olmedo, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we present a review about the quantization of spherically-symmetric spacetimes adopting loop quantum gravity techniques. Several models that have been studied so far share similar properties: the resolution of the classical singularity and some of them an intrinsic discretization of the geometry. We also explain the extension to Reissner---Nordström black holes. Besides, we review how quantum test fields on these quantum geometries allow us to study phenomena, like the Casimir effect or Hawking radiation. Finally, we briefly describe a recent proposal that incorporates spherically-symmetric matter, discussing its relevance for the understanding of black hole evolution.
description: 49 pages, several typos have been corrected, corrections included in order to match the published version
Bibliographic Analysis on Research Publications using Authors, Categorical Labels and the Citation Network
Creators: name: Lim, Kar Wai
name: Buntine, Wray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bibliographic analysis considers the author's research areas, the citation network and the paper content among other things. In this paper, we combine these three in a topic model that produces a bibliographic model of authors, topics and documents, using a nonparametric extension of a combination of the Poisson mixed-topic link model and the author-topic model. This gives rise to the Citation Network Topic Model (CNTM). We propose a novel and efficient inference algorithm for the CNTM to explore subsets of research publications from CiteSeerX. The publication datasets are organised into three corpora, totalling to about 168k publications with about 62k authors. The queried datasets are made available online. In three publicly available corpora in addition to the queried datasets, our proposed model demonstrates an improved performance in both model fitting and document clustering, compared to several baselines. Moreover, our model allows extraction of additional useful knowledge from the corpora, such as the visualisation of the author-topics network. Additionally, we propose a simple method to incorporate supervision into topic modelling to achieve further improvement on the clustering task.
description: Preprint for Journal Machine Learning
Viscoelasticity of model surfactant solutions determined by rotational magnetic spectroscopy
Creators: name: Loosli, F.
name: Najm, M.
name: Berret, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Being able to reduce the size of a rheometer down to the micron scale is a unique opportunity to explore the mechanical response of expensive and/or confined liquids and gels. To this aim, we synthesize micron size wires with magnetic properties and examine the possibility of using them as microrheology probes. In this work, we exploit the technique of rotational magnetic spectroscopy by placing a wire in a rotating magnetic field and monitor its temporal evolution by time-lapse microscopy. The wire-based microrheology technique is tested on wormlike micellar surfactant solutions showing very different relaxation dynamics and viscosities. A model for the wire rotation is also developed and used to predict the wire behavior. It is shown that the rheological parameters of the surfactant solutions including the static shear viscosity, the entangled micellar network relaxation time and the elastic modulus are in good agreement with those of conventional rheometry.
description: 10 pages 6 figures, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2016
On Data-Independent Properties for Density-Based Dissimilarity Measures in Hybrid Clustering
Creators: name: Møllersen, Kajsa
name: Dhar, Subhra S.
name: Godtliebsen, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hybrid clustering combines partitional and hierarchical clustering for computational effectiveness and versatility in cluster shape. In such clustering, a dissimilarity measure plays a crucial role in the hierarchical merging. The dissimilarity measure has great impact on the final clustering, and data-independent properties are needed to choose the right dissimilarity measure for the problem at hand. Properties for distance-based dissimilarity measures have been studied for decades, but properties for density-based dissimilarity measures have so far received little attention. Here, we propose six data-independent properties to evaluate density-based dissimilarity measures associated with hybrid clustering, regarding equality, orthogonality, symmetry, outlier and noise observations, and light-tailed models for heavy-tailed clusters. The significance of the properties is investigated, and we study some well-known dissimilarity measures based on Shannon entropy, misclassification rate, Bhattacharyya distance and Kullback-Leibler divergence with respect to the proposed properties. As none of them satisfy all the proposed properties, we introduce a new dissimilarity measure based on the Kullback-Leibler information and show that it satisfies all proposed properties. The effect of the proposed properties is also illustrated on several real and simulated data sets.
Structure and Physical Conditions in the Huygens Region of the Orion Nebula
Creators: name: O'Dell, C. R.
name: Ferland, G. J.
name: Peimbert, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HST images, MUSE maps of emission-lines, and an atlas of high velocity resolution emission-line spectra have been used to establish for the firrst time correlations of the electron temperature, electron density, radial velocity, turbulence, and orientation within the main ionization front of the nebula. From the study of the combined properties of multiple features, it is established that variations in the radial velocity are primarily caused by the photo-evaporating ionization front being viewed at different angles. There is a progressive increase of the electron temperature and density with decreasing distance from the dominant ionizing star Theta1 Ori C. The product of these characteristics (NexTe) is the most relevant parameter in modeling a blister-type nebula like the Huygens Region, where this quantity should vary with the surface brightness in Halpha. Several lines of evidence indicate that small-scale structure and turbulence exists down to the level of our resolution of a few arcseconds. Although photo-evaporative ow must contribute at some level to the well-known non-thermal broadening of the emission lines, comparison of quantitative predictions with the observed optical line widths indicate that it is not the major additive broad- ening component. Derivation of Te values for H+ from radio+optical and optical-only ionized hydro- gen emission showed that this temperature is close to that derived from [Nii] and that the transition from the well-known at extinction curve that applies in the Huygens Region to a more normal steep extinction curve occurs immediately outside of the Bright Bar feature of the nebula.
The remediation of weaknesses in physics concepts among secondary school students in West Kalimantan
Creators: name: Sutrisno, Leo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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From gluon topology to chiral anomaly: Emergent phenomena in quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Liao, Jinfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC and the LHC have found a new emergent phase of QCD, a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) that is distinctively different from either the low temperature hadron phase or the very high temperature weakly coupled plasma phase. Highly nontrivial emergent phenomena occur in such sQGP and two examples will be discussed in this contribution: the magnetic component of sQGP that stems from topologically nontrivial configurations in the gluon sector; and the anomalous chiral transport that arises as macroscopic manifestation of microscopic chiral anomaly in the quark sector. For both examples, their important roles in explaining pertinent heavy-ion data will be emphasized.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; plenary talk at SQM2016; version to appear in the proceedings
Parent participation in curriculum decision making: a case study
Creators: name: Beagley, David Edward
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: This study is an historical study of parent participation in school level decision making, particularly in curriculum issues, in relation to the Victorian Government policies of Devolution through the 1980s. It was conducted as a case study of one rural secondary school, examining how the role of parents in the school's curriculum development and associated decision making structures may have changed during the decade from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. The findings indicated that little effective parent participation developed or took place in the school over the period under study. Major contributing factors identified are the lack of policy direction and official mechanisms, especially in implementation of change, the definition of appropriate participant roles, the culture of traditional authorities in education (teacher in the classroom, principal in school processes and bureaucracy in administration), and the local factors of community attitudes and demographic profile. While the local factors are significant, it is concluded that the policies did not provide sufficient direction or mechanism to overcome the entrenched culture of traditional authorities in schooling. Changes in practice were directed more by the influence of specific personalities in single situations than any development of general attitude or institutional structure.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Education by Research, to the School of Education, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.

Originally part of the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) database.
title: Advancing climate change adaptation technologies: Exploring patenting motives and barriers of low- and middle-income inventors
Creators: name: Mognato, Marco
name: Elsen, Maximilian
name: Tietze, Frank
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Intellectual property
subject: patenting motives
subject: patenting barriers
subject: climate change adaptation technology
subject: Low- and middle-income countries

description: Climate change adaptation technologies (CCAT) are critically needed in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), which tend to be most affected by climate change. Inventors from LMIC (i.e. LMIC inventors) tend to possess valuable local knowledge for developing CCAT inventions. While previous research shows that IP rights regimes, such as patent systems, tend to be weak in LMIC, little is known about the motives for LMIC inventors that still apply for patents and the barriers they face. In this study, we focus particularly on LMIC inventors that develop CCAT inventions, investigating their patenting motives, benefits, and barriers. We identified CCAT inventions that originated from LMIC using the Y02A CPC patent classification. From an astonishingly small sample of 71 patents, we interviewed thirteen inventors using a semi-structured interview approach. From an inductive coding approach, six propositions emerged that we discussed subsequently with policy experts, such as from the United Nations Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and WIPO Green. Despite the fact that patent regimes in LMIC tend to be weak, our findings indicate the important role of patents for LMIC inventors to attract investments and facilitate technology diffusion. However, weak national patent systems and corruption in LMIC tend to limit the protection of inventions, which appears to be a barrier for inventors. The results also indicate that national and international organisations should consider better supporting LMIC inventors by providing more IP education and more effective technology matchmaking models. Findings also imply that the need for CCAT inventions represents an innovation opportunity for LMIC, with potential substantial economic benefits.
The role of electron confinement in Pd films for the oscillatory magnetic anisotropy in an adjacent Co layer
Creators: name: Manna, Sujit
name: Przybylski, M.
name: Sander, D.
name: Kirschner, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the interplay between quantum well states in Pd and the magnetic anisotropy in Pd/Co/Cu(001) by combined scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and magneto optical Kerr effect (MOKE) measurements. Low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy reveals occupied and unoccupied quantum well states (QWS) in atomically flat Pd films on Co/Cu(001). These states give rise to sharp peaks in the differential conductance spectra. A quantitative analysis of the spectra reveals the electronic dispersion of the Pd(001) d-band ($Δ$$_5$-type) along the $Γ$-X direction. \textit{In-situ} MOKE experiments on Pd/Co/Cu(1, 1, 13) uncover a periodic variation of the in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy as a function of Pd thickness with a period of 6 atomic layers Pd. STS shows that QWS in Pd cross the Fermi level with the same periodicity of 6 atomic layers. Backed by previous theoretical work we ascribe the variation of the magnetic anisotropy in Co to QWS in the Pd overlayer. Our results suggest a novel venue towards tailoring uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic films by exploiting QWS in an adjacent material with large spin-orbit coupling.
description: 9 pages including 6 figures
Correspondence to Katharine Maltwood from the Theosophorical Society in Canada, December 6, 1936
Creators: name: Smythe, Albert E. S.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Archaeoastronomy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/812887
subject: Religion, Prehistoric
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1093897
subject: Earthworks (Art)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/900959
subject: Maltwood, K. E.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/23431
subject: Zodiac
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1184573
subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628

description: A typed letter from the Theosophorical Society, 33 Forest Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Letter from Albert E. S. Smythe discussing his interest in Katharine Maltwood’s book, The Guide to the Temple of the Stars, the legends of the Holy Grail, and the Somerset (Glastonbury) Zodiac. The letter indicates why some people may be tentative to support her theory of the Somerset Zodiac a "conspiracy of silence" is referred to, and also offers assistance to Katharine Maltwood should she wish to further publicize her work. A response to Smythe from Katharine Maltwood is handwritten in pencil on verso.
Non-formal education in rural Thailand : an information and advice service in five villages
Creators: name: Sungsri, Sumalee
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The anthropology of a workplace: the Victorian Land Titles Office
Creators: name: Katz, Evie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: This thesis uses a cultural perspective to explore the working life of employees in a government office during the 1980s. During that period three significant changes took place - in the promotion system, in management recruitment and policies, and in the introduction of computer technology. In comparing and contrasting these changes with past practices, we gain an understanding of the relationship between organisational culture and organisational change.

Originally part of the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) database.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the School of Sociology and Anthropology], Faculty of Faculty of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Gas Kinematics in the HII regions G351.69-1.15 and G351.63-1.25
Creators: name: Veena, V. S.
name: Vig, S.
name: Tej, A.
name: Kantharia, N. G.
name: Ghosh, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the structure and kinematics of two neighbouring H II regions identified as cometary and bipolar, using radio recombination lines (RRL). The H172α RRLs from these H II regions: G351.6-1.15 and G351.6-1.25, are mapped using GMRT, India. We also detect carbon RRLs C172α towards both these regions. The hydrogen RRLs display the effects of pressure and dynamical broadening in the line profiles, with the dynamical broadening (15 km/s) playing a major role in the observed profile of G351.6-1.15. We investigate the kinematics of molecular gas species towards this H II region from the MALT90 pilot survey. The molecular gas is mostly distributed towards the north and north-west of the cometary head. The molecular line profiles indicate signatures of turbulence and outflow in this region. The ionized gas at the cometary tail is blue shifted by 8 km/s with respect to the ambient molecular cloud, consistent with the earlier proposed champagne flow scenario. The relative velocity of 5 km/s between the northern and southern lobes of the bipolar H II region G351.6-1.25 is consistent with the premise that the bipolar morphology is a result of the expanding ionized lobes within a flat molecular cloud.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures, 5 tables, accepted for puplication in MNRAS
Annual Report 2021 CEAB-CSIC
Creators: name: Mora, Marta
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2022
Subjects: Memoria anual
Annual Report

description: “Early in 2021 we were eager on what to expect in year two of the pandemic. The extraordinary progress and success of vaccination, saving several million human lives in the most developed countries, worldwide projected “vaccine” (and therefore science) as the word of the year. Smart, open, and innovative approaches were developed within the CSIC Global Health PTI (Interdisciplinary Thematic Platforms) in a creative and multidisciplinary atmosphere, and our Institute successfully participated in the cross-cutting working group on data and artificial intelligence applications. We were also deeply involved in three of the CSIC2030 “white papers” on Global Change Impacts, Oceans, and Brain and Behaviour. Despite the difficulties, CEAB has produced more science than ever in this period and it is now a well routed Institute worldwide recognized in Ecology, Marine Ecology and Aquatic Sciences, with several relevant publications in the top journals Biological Conservation, Ecology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Global Change Biology, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Science of the Total Environment, Science Advances, PNAS, and Nature Ecology&Evolution, among others. Congratulations to the big CEAB family, scientists, technicians and administrative staff, all of them necessary for producing the best standards in science. Finally, I want to add a few personal words. I am coming to the end of my period of Director of CEAB in late 2022. It has been a big pleasure, and a very stimulating journey plenty of challenges to be leading the transformative refoundation of CEAB for the last 8 yrs. I enjoyed it very much and I send my best wishes for the new Director and the new dreams CEAB may reach. If you can imagine it, it can be done.
An investigation of the impact of pre-service teacher education and other professional support on classroom practices of primary teachers
Creators: name: Sullivan, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Progressive Gauge U(1) Family Symmetry for Quarks and Leptons
Creators: name: Ma, Ernest
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pattern of quark and lepton mass matrices is unexplained in the standard model of particle interactions. I propose the novel idea of a progressive gauge U(1) symmetry where it is a reflection of the regressive electroweak symmetry breaking pattern, caused by an extended Higgs scalar sector. Phenomenological implications of this new hypothesis are discussed.
description: 9 pages, no figure
Sum of two repdigits a square
Creators: name: Goddard, Bart
name: Rouse, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D61 (Primary), 11G05, 11A63 (Secondary)

description: A \emph{repdigit} is a natural number greater than 10 which has all of its base-10 digits the same. In this paper we find all examples of two repdigits adding to a square. The proofs lead to interesting questions about consecutive quadratic residues and non-residues, and provide an elementary application of elliptic curves.
description: 9 pages
Towards Better Modeling with Missing Data: A Contrastive Learning-based Visual Analytics Perspective
Creators: name: Xie, Laixin
name: Ouyang, Yang
name: Chen, Longfei
name: Wu, Ziming
name: Li, Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.1.2; H.1.2; H.4.2

description: Missing data can pose a challenge for machine learning (ML) modeling. To address this, current approaches are categorized into feature imputation and label prediction and are primarily focused on handling missing data to enhance ML performance. These approaches rely on the observed data to estimate the missing values and therefore encounter three main shortcomings in imputation, including the need for different imputation methods for various missing data mechanisms, heavy dependence on the assumption of data distribution, and potential introduction of bias. This study proposes a Contrastive Learning (CL) framework to model observed data with missing values, where the ML model learns the similarity between an incomplete sample and its complete counterpart and the dissimilarity between other samples. Our proposed approach demonstrates the advantages of CL without requiring any imputation. To enhance interpretability, we introduce CIVis, a visual analytics system that incorporates interpretable techniques to visualize the learning process and diagnose the model status. Users can leverage their domain knowledge through interactive sampling to identify negative and positive pairs in CL. The output of CIVis is an optimized model that takes specified features and predicts downstream tasks. We provide two usage scenarios in regression and classification tasks and conduct quantitative experiments, expert interviews, and a qualitative user study to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. In short, this study offers a valuable contribution to addressing the challenges associated with ML modeling in the presence of missing data by providing a practical solution that achieves high predictive accuracy and model interpretability.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures. This paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
Annual report GEO3BCN-CSIC 2021
Creators: name: CSIC-Instituto De Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN)
Publisher: name: CSIC - Instituto de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Memoria anual
Annual report

description: Supervision: Santiago Giralt Romeu.-- Coordination & design: Lara Expósito Monar.-- Content: GEO3BCN staff.-- Images: Jordi Cortés Picas.
description: Memoria anual de investigación correspondiente al año 2021 que resume la producción científica llevada a cabo por el personal del GEO3BCN.
Synthesis and Superconducting Properties of a Hexagonal Phosphide ScRhP
Creators: name: Inohara, Takumi
name: Okamoto, Yoshihiko
name: Yamakawa, Youichi
name: Takenaka, Koshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the synthesis and superconducting properties of the ternary phosphide ScRhP. The crystal structure of ScRhP is determined to be the ordered Fe2P type with the hexagonal P-62m space group by powder X-ray diffraction experiments. Resistivity, magnetization, and heat capacity data indicate that ScRhP is a bulk superconductor with a transition temperature Tc of 2 K. This Tc is lower than that of its 5d analogue, ScIrP (Tc = 3.4 K), although ScRhP is found to have larger electronic density of states at the Fermi energy and a higher Debye temperature than those of ScIrP.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Class and society in the Port Phillip district, 1834-1847
Creators: name: Sullivan, Martin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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King Arthur's Round Table
Creators: name: Maltwood, K. E.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cartography
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/848025
subject: Deep space--Orion (Constellation)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1243330
subject: Maltwood, K. E.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/23431

description: The first page of Chapter I: The Fire Sign, Leo and the first page of Chapter XII: Orion the Giant "Light of Heaven", from Katharine Maltwood's manuscript "King Arthur's Round Table". The first page of Chapter XII Orion the Giant "Light of Heaven" features a cut out photograph of the Giant Orion from Katherine Maltwood's Somerset Zodiac (also known as Glastonbury Zodiac). A caption under the photograph reads: "DUNDON Hill - photographed from the - air, here reveals - “THE GIANT’s” - head, and arm which - Messire Gawain - is said to have cut off in - Branch 6, Title 5, of the High History". The first page of Chapter I: The Fire Sign, Leo features a cut out photograph of Leo from Katharine Maltwood's Somerset Zodiac (also known as Glastonbury Zodiac). A caption under the photograph reads: “The ‘formidable animal’ - The Lion that the Knights of King Arthur are - represented as killing".
Neutrino emissivities and bulk viscosity in neutral two-flavor quark matter
Creators: name: Berdermann, J.
name: Blaschke, D.
name: Fischer, T.
name: Kachanovich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study thermodynamic and transport properties for the isotropic color-spin-locking (iso-CSL) phase of two-flavor superconducting quark matter under compact star constraints within a NJL-type chiral quark model. Chiral symmetry breaking and the phase transition to superconducting quark matter leads to a density dependent change of quark masses, chemical potentials and diquark gap. A self-consistent treatment of these physical quantities influences on the microscopic calculations of transport properties. We present results for the iso-CSL direct URCA emissivities and bulk viscosities, which fulfill the constraints on quark matter derived from cooling and rotational evolution of compact stars. We compare our results with the phenomenologically successful, but yet heuristic 2SC+X phase. We show that the microscopically founded iso-CSL phase can replace the purely phenomenological 2SC+X phase in modern simulations of the cooling evolution for compact stars with color superconducting quark matter interior.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, references added, text improved