cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bulk viscous corrections to screening and damping in QCD at high temperatures
Creators: name: Du, Qianqian
name: Dumitru, Adrian
name: Guo, Yun
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-equilibrium corrections to the distribution functions of quarks and gluons in a hot and dense QCD medium modify the "hard thermal loops" (HTL). The HTLs determine the retarded, advanced, and symmetric (time-ordered) propagators for gluons with soft momenta as well as the Debye screening and Landau damping mass scales. We compute such corrections to a thermal as well as to a non-thermal fixed point.The screening and damping mass scales are sensitive to the bulk pressure and hence to (pseudo-) critical dynamical scaling of the bulk viscosity in the vicinity of a second-order critical point. This could be reflected in the properties of quarkonium bound states in the deconfined phase and in the dynamics of soft gluon fields.
description: 19 pages. no figure, added corrections of quadratic order in the bulk pressure to the symmetric gluon self energy, to appear in JHEP
A Song of Welcome: The First Century of the British Colonisation of Van Diemen's Land in three Indigenous Biographies
Creators: name: JOEL STEPHEN BIRNIE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200319 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 80601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature

description: Diving head-first into the colonial archive, this thesis embodies a necessary re-evaluation of the first century of British colonisation in Tasmania. Utilising decolonising methodologies, the research focuses on constructing three comprehensive historical biographies of Tarenootairer c.1806-1858, Mary Ann Arthur c.1819/21-1871 and Fanny Cochrane Smith c.1832-1905. From the abduction and slavery of the early Bass Strait sealing and whaling industries, to George Augustus Robinson’s ‘conciliation’ missions, and to the captivity of the Aboriginal establishments on Finders Island and Oyster Cove, through their extraordinary lives is rewritten this century from their own unique perspectives.
Spin Dynamics of Sr14Cu24O41 Two-Leg Ladder Studied by Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Blumberg, G.
name: Dennis, B. S.
name: Gozar, A.
name: Motoyama, N.
name: Shastry, B. S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Herr Dr. Albert Hablützel, 1865-1940
title: In memoriam
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gasser, J. C.
name: Weber, Karl
name: Hösli, Heinrich
name: Kägi, Hans
name: Rietmann, E.
name: Schellenberg, Ernst
name: Flückiger
name: Eckinger, H.
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Schaffhausen
subject: Winterthur

description: Enthält: Gedenkworte bei der kirchlichen Bestattung des Herrn Red. Dr. Albert Hablützel-Walser gesprochen von Herrn Pfarrer Dr. J. C. Gasser im Krematorium Winterthur am 5. Oktober 1940 ; Abschiedsworte im Namen der Pressekollegen von Prof. Dr. Karl Weber ; Ansprache gehalten im Krematorium Winterthur durch Heinrich Hösli ; Ehrung durch die Presse (Neues Winterthurer Tagblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, St. Galler Tagblatt, Der Wehnthaler, Journal de Genève).
‘A Man’s Home is His Castle. And Mine is a Cage’: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Economic Abuse in Victoria.
Creators: name: MADELEINE GRACE ULBRICK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Economic abuse commonly occurs alongside physical, sexual and psychological violence. This thesis draws on interviews with victims (n=18) as well as judicial officers, and legal stakeholders (n=62) across metropolitan, regional and rural Victoria. The interview data reveals the routes through which such abuse affects women – from experiences of insurmountable debt, property damage, malicious abuse of the legal and migration systems – to slavery-like conditions, sexual violence, and escalating, inescapable, and life threatening forms of physical violence. The case studies provide a rich understanding of the impacts of economic abuse demonstrating that denial of material security corresponds with denial of physical security.
The impact of board processes on monitoring of financial reporting
Creators: name: Ranasinghe, Dinithi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Accounting, Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This study examines the impact of board processes on monitoring of financial reporting. It provides empirical, methodological and theoretical advancement of the governance literature towards an understanding of a group process-oriented view of board monitoring effectiveness. As hypothesized, in a sample of 184 ASX listed companies, it was found that board effort norms, and use of knowledge and skills, are positively and significantly related to monitoring of financial reporting. It was also revealed that dealing with cognitive conflicts have a curvilinear relationship with monitoring of financial reporting. It was also found that the board processes mediate the association between board structure and monitoring of financial reporting. Combining archival and survey data, this study used a novel approach in opening up the “black box” in corporate governance research around financial reporting. From a theoretical stance, it suggests that the application of agency theory alone does not adequately explain the dynamics of board behaviour around financial reporting issues. Instead, boards need to be viewed from a social-psychological process related to group participation and interaction. The findings provide implications for practitioners regarding the processes that may aid to deploy effective monitoring mechanisms over financial reporting. Existing corporate governance regulations focus on structural solutions. However, the study shows that the board processes are also important for effective monitoring of financial reporting.
Zur Erinnerung an Herrn Professor August Socin von Basel, geboren den 21. Februar 1837, gestorben den 22. Januar 1899
Creators: name: Byse, Charles
name: Bumm, Ernst
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1899
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Socin, August

description: Enthält: Biographische Notizen von Herrn Pfarrer Charles Byse, einem brüderlichen Freunde des Verstorbenen; Leichenrede, gehalten in der Kirche zu St. Peter von Herrn Pfarrer Tissot; Am offenen Grabe sprach der Rektor der Universität, Herr Prof. Dr. Bumm folgende tiefbewegte Worte; Nachruf aus der Allgemeinen Schweizer Zeitung vom 24. Januar [1899], Nr. 20 von C.
Cultural Conceptualisations of Animal Expressions in Persian
Creators: name: VAHEDE NOSRATI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This study investigates animal expressions that instantiate cultural conceptualisations in Persian and is the first attempt to employ the analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics to exclusively focus on exploring such conceptualisations. Analysis of the data reveals that the animal expressions in Persian are informed by conceptualisations which are culturally constructed. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that a number of socio-cultural factors such as religion, history, myth, and gender have a role in shaping the conceptualisations of animal expressions in Persian. Investigating these concepts and exploring their underlying roots are significant for a variety of domains including inter-cultural communication, translation, interpretation, and language learning and teaching.
(200826) Julia Robson Glaisyer
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Formal concept matching and reinforcement learning in adaptive information retrieval
Creators: name: Rajapakse, Rohana Kithsiri
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2003

description: The superiority of the human brain in information retrieval (IR) tasks seems to come firstly from its ability to read and understand the concepts, ideas or meanings central to documents, in order to reason out the usefulness of documents to information needs, and secondly from its ability to learn from experience and be adaptive to the environment. In this work we attempt to incorporate these properties into the development of an IR model to improve document retrieval. We investigate the applicability of concept lattices, which are based on the theory of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), to the representation of documents. This allows the use of more elegant representation units, as opposed to keywords, in order to better capture concepts/ideas expressed in natural language text. We also investigate the use of a reinforcement leaming strategy to learn and improve document representations, based on the information present in query statements and user relevance feedback. Features or concepts of each document/query, formulated using FCA, are weighted separately with respect to the documents they are in, and organised into separate concept lattices according to a subsumption relation. Furthen-nore, each concept lattice is encoded in a two-layer neural network structure known as a Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM), for efficient manipulation of the concepts in the lattice representation. This avoids implementation drawbacks faced by other FCA-based approaches. Retrieval of a document for an information need is based on concept matching between concept lattice representations of a document and a query. The learning strategy works by making the similarity of relevant documents stronger and non-relevant documents weaker for each query, depending on the relevance judgements of the users on retrieved documents. Our approach is radically different to existing FCA-based approaches in the following respects: concept formulation; weight assignment to object-attribute pairs; the representation of each document in a separate concept lattice; and encoding concept lattices in BAM structures. Furthermore, in contrast to the traditional relevance feedback mechanism, our learning strategy makes use of relevance feedback information to enhance document representations, thus making the document representations dynamic and adaptive to the user interactions. The results obtained on the CISI, CACM and ASLIB Cranfield collections are presented and compared with published results. In particular, the performance of the system is shown to improve significantly as the system learns from experience.
Coherent and Incoherent Structural Dynamics in Laser-Excited Antimony
Creators: name: Waldecker, Lutz
name: Zier, Tobias
name: Vasileiadis, Thomas
name: Bertoni, Roman
name: H., Felipe Valencia
name: Garcia, Martin E.
name: Zijlstra, Eeuwe S.
name: Ernstorfer, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the excitation of phonons in photoexcited antimony and demonstrate that the entire electron-lattice interactions, in particular coherent and incoherent electron-phonon coupling, can be probed simultaneously. Using femtosecond electron diffraction (FED) with high temporal resolution, we observe the coherent excitation of the fully symmetric \Ag\ optical phonon mode via the shift of the minimum of the atomic potential energy surface. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on laser excited potential energy surfaces are performed to quantify the change in lattice potential and the associated real-space amplitude of the coherent atomic oscillations. Good agreement is obtained between the parameter-free calculations and the experiment. In addition, our experimental configuration allows observing the energy transfer from electrons to phonons via incoherent electron-lattice scattering events. The electron-phonon coupling is determined as a function of electronic temperature from our DFT calculations and the data by applying different models for the energy-transfer.
Western projections onto Tibetan Buddhism - Cultural transfer of religious, psychological and artistic values
Creators: name: GIOVANNI ARCA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Religious Studies
subject: 170111 Psychology of Religion
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 200522 Other Asian Literature (excl. South-East Asian)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The West has generally understood Tibetan Buddhism through a composite process of cultural transfers and filters. Christianity, Esoteric currents, Psychology and Art have contributed to transfer meanings that do not belong to this religious tradition, thereby creating perceptions that misrepresent it. This study investigates the causes, nature and extent of these western misconceptions of Tibetan Buddhism, and demonstrates how this affects its perception from a global socio-religious standpoint.
Strategic monetary-fiscal interactions and policy outcomes
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thanh Dat
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.

This thesis examines strategic monetary-fiscal interactions-the game between the central bank and the government. The emphasis is on the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis during which policymakers faced some unprecedented challenges. This was primarily a combination of short-term threat of double-dip recession and liquidity trap combined with a long-term threat of unsustainable debt due to aging populations. The diverse monetary-fiscal policy mixes observed around the globe (ranging from large stimuli to austerity) have suggested that central bank and government may have different preferences regarding the solution of both short-term and long-term threats, and thus a policy conflict may occur. The main contribution of the thesis is to formally model the potential policy conflict and identify institutional determinants of likely monetary and fiscal regimes. Importantly, the analysis aims to formulate policy recommendations that may prevent a costly tug-of-war between central bank and government and ensure socially optimal macroeconomic outcomes. This is both in a single country setting and in a currency union such as the European monetary union, where the analysis shows free riding of small member governments makes the solution even more difficult. The thesis consists of four separate studies. The first one is empirical in nature and provides evidence of structural variation in the U.S. fiscal behaviour over time, namely a worrying recent trend away from fiscal sustainability. The subsequent three studies are game theoretic in nature. They offer novel frameworks with generalized timing of moves to capture strategic monetary-fiscal interactions more realistically. The analysis shows how the resulting monetary and fiscal policy regimes depend on various institutional and policy variables such as business cycle uncertainty, the public’s expectations, policy implementation lags and, perhaps most importantly, on the degrees of monetary and fiscal policy leadership. The beneficial role of numerical inflation targets, formal central bank independence, and enforceable fiscal rules are highlighted as well.
Magnetic Correlations and the Quantum Critical Point of UCu5xPdx (x = 1, 1.5)
Creators: name: Aronson, M. C.
name: Chau, R.
name: Maple, M. B.
name: Osborn, R.
name: Rainford, B. D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Real earnings management and corporate governance in family firms: evidence from an emerging economy
Creators: name: Razzaque, Rushdi Rezaur
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Accounting, La Trobe Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This study examines the relationship between family ownership and real earnings management (REMs) in an emerging economy, Bangladesh. Existing literature has evidence of minority expropriations by controlling shareholders in relatively weak investor protection environments. This thesis hypothesises and provides evidence that family firms in Bangladesh engage more in REMs compared to non-family firms during the period 2006-2011. This study also finds that independent directors are less effective in restraining REMs in family firms compared to non-family firms in Bangladesh. Moreover, the analysis shows that firms likely to engage in REMs in the current period demonstrate poorer future operational performance compared to firms not suspected of engaging in REMs. Concerning the nature of the relationship between family ownership and REMs, the existence of curvilinear relationships between family ownership and REMs is documented. In Bangladesh, family firms manifest higher levels of REMs at a relatively earlier stage of ownership concentration and this pattern reverses once family ownership passes a certain ownership threshold. This indicates higher entrenchment effect at the earlier family ownership threshold. However, the alignment effect grows stronger at relatively higher family ownership concentration, which is demonstrated by a lower magnitude of REMs. An additional examination finds that such a curvilinear relationship varies significantly from strong corporate governance firms to weak corporate governance firms in Bangladesh. This thesis also examines the related party transactions (RPT) and their association with REMs. In an environment with inadequate minority investor protection, controlling viii family owners are likely to employ RPT as a self-serving mechanism. Consistent with this argument, this study finds that RPT are more associated with REMs in family firms compared to non-family firms in Bangladesh. Finally, this study examines whether investors in Bangladesh consider the likelihood of expropriation in the form of RPT in family firms or not. The finding suggests that investors assign a value discount to such transactions in terms of lower future stock returns.
Perturbative spacetimes from Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Luna, A.
name: Monteiro, R.
name: Nicholson, I.
name: Ochirov, A.
name: O'Connell, D.
name: Westerberg, N.
name: White, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories. In this paper, we expand the scope of the double copy to construct spacetime metrics through a systematic perturbative expansion. The perturbative procedure is based on direct calculation in Yang-Mills theory, followed by squaring the numerator of certain perturbative diagrams as specified by the double-copy algorithm. The simplest spherically symmetric, stationary spacetime from the point of view of this procedure is a particular member of the Janis-Newman-Winicour family of naked singularities. Our work paves the way for applications of the double copy to physically interesting problems such as perturbative black-hole scattering.
description: v2: 20 pages + refs, minor improvements
'Dhamma' – The Grundnorm of Sri Lanka's 'Living Law'
Creators: name: Sumanatilake, P. Saliya
Publisher: name: Self published via Amazon's free KDP (ASIN B0CG4QGT42)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Buddhist inscriptions
subject: Customary law, International--History
subject: Domestic relations (Customary law)
subject: Judicial process (Customary law)
subject: Customary laws
subject: Customary law--History
subject: Customary law, International
subject: Sri Lankans
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973
subject: Rawls, John, 1921-2002

description: This extracted book chapter contributes to the literature by inter alia demonstrating king Aśoka's recourse to the Cakkavatti 'conquest' toward bringing about Sri Lanka's accession, by way of 'legal revolution,' to the beneficent policies of confederate self-rule under the Grundnorm of 'Dhamma,' which to date remains efficacious within the hearts and minds of its native peoples.
What should we do about habitual caffeine use in athletes?
Creators: name: Pickering, Craig
name: Kiely, John
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321006
subject: Sport and exercise nutrition

description: Caffeine is a well-established ergogenic aid, demonstrated to enhance performance across a wide range of capacities through a variety of mechanisms. As such, it is frequently used by both athletes and non-athletes alike. As a result, caffeine ingestion is ubiquitous in modern society, with athletes typically being exposed to regular non-supplemental caffeine through a variety of sources. Previously, it has been suggested that regular caffeine use may lead to habituation and subsequently a reduction in the expected ergogenic effects, thereby blunting caffeine’s performance-enhancing impact during critical training and performance events. In order to mitigate this expected performance loss, some practitioners recommended a pre-competition withdrawal period to restore the optimal performance benefits of cafeine supplementation. However, at present the evidence base exploring both caffeine habituation and withdrawal strategies in athletes is surprisingly small. Accordingly, despite the prevalence of caffeine use within athletic populations, formulating evidence-led guidelines is difficult. Here, we review the available research regarding habitual caffeine use in athletes and seek to derive rational interpretations of what is currently known—and what else we need to know—regarding habitual caffeine use in athletes, and how athletes and performance staff may pragmatically approach these important, complex, and yet under-explored phenomena
Phase Modulation of Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses Reflected From Steep, Dense Plasmas
Creators: name: Gibbon, P.
name: Kingham, R. J.
name: Sauerbrey, R.
name: Theobald, W.
name: Veisz, L.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Musicology in Australian Tertiary Institutions: Curriculum, Characters and Controversy
Creators: name: Burslem, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This ethnographic study examines ‘musicology’ in Australian tertiary music courses, focusing specifically on what it means to be a tertiary musicology educator, and how curriculum is shaped by institutional, governmental and music industry forces. Thirty-eight tertiary music educators from across nine Australian institutions participated in the research, revealing myriad experiences, perspectives and attitudes pertaining to tertiary musicology education. Drawing on phenomenology, participant-observation, interviews and yo-yo fieldwork, the research provides unique insights into exactly what is being taught in tertiary musicology units around Australia. Furthermore, it explores who ‘musicology’ educators are, their identities and career pathways, as well as how such individuals’ approach musicology teaching and learning.
Optimisation of a generalised radial-aortic transfer function using parametric techniques
Creators: name: Akalanli, Cagla Gul
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Dalit identity in New Casteist print media: Paradoxical inclusion and frames of power, hierarchy and social dominance
Creators: name: ALI SAHA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This thesis explores an area of entrenched inequality in India: caste, caste-based inequalities, ideologies, and power relations. It explores how mainstream print media in India, contributes to these inequalities. Through an explicit examination, I demonstrate how Dalit communities, their identities and their experiences of discrimination are framed in print media. Precisely, through the use of comparative analysis along with the consolidation of social and media theory this thesis explores that Indian print media, in a constitutionally casteless society, frames caste ideologies and legitimises primordial social dominance structure and power to shape and define caste discrimination, anti-Dalit prejudice and a negative stereotypical Dalit identity.
title: Rapid hyperpolarization and purification of the metabolite fumarate in aqueous solution
Creators: name: Knecht, Stephan
name: Blanchard, John W.
name: Barskiy, Danila
name: Cavallari, Eleonora
name: Dagys, Laurynas
name: Dyke, Erik Van
name: Tsukanov, Maksim
name: Bliemel, Bea
name: Münnemann, Kerstin
name: Aime, Silvio
name: Reineri, Francesca
name: Levitt, Malcolm H.
name: Buntkowsky, Gerd
name: Pines, Alexander
name: Blümler, Peter
name: Budker, Dmitry
name: Eills, James
Publisher: name: National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2023

description: Hyperpolarized fumarate is a promising biosensor for carbon-13 magnetic resonance metabolic imaging. Such molecular imaging applications require nuclear hyperpolarization to attain sufficient signal strength. Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization is the current state-of-the-art methodology for hyperpolarizing fumarate, but this is expensive and relatively slow. Alternatively, this important biomolecule can be hyperpolarized in a cheap and convenient manner using parahydrogen-induced polarization. However, this process requires a chemical reaction, and the resulting solutions are contaminated with the catalyst, unreacted reagents, and reaction side-product molecules, and are hence unsuitable for use in vivo. In this work we show that the hyperpolarized fumarate can be purified from these contaminants by acid precipitation as a pure solid, and later redissolved to a desired concentration in a clean aqueous solvent. Significant advances in the reaction conditions and reactor equipment allow for formation of hyperpolarized fumarate at ¹³C polarization levels of 30–45%.
(200828) Francis Corder Clayton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Raising the SUSY-breaking scale in a Goldstone-Higgs model
Creators: name: Alanne, Tommi
name: Rzehak, Heidi
name: Sannino, Francesco
name: Thomsen, Anders Eller
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that by combining the elementary-Goldstone-Higgs scenario and supersymmetry it is possible to raise the scale of supersymmetry breaking to several TeVs by relating it to the spontaneous-symmetry-breaking one. This is achieved by first enhancing the global symmetries of the super-Higgs sector to SU(4) and then embedding the electroweak sector and the Standard-Model fermions. We determine the conditions under which the model achieves a vacuum such that the resulting Higgs is a pseudo-Goldstone boson. The main results are: the supersymmetry-breaking scale is identified with the spontaneous-symmetry-breaking scale of SU(4) which is several TeVs above the radiatively induced electroweak scale; intriguingly the global symmetry of the Higgs sector predicts the existence of two super-Higgs multiplets with one mass eigenstate playing the role of the pseudo-Goldstone Higgs; the symmetry-breaking dynamics fixes $\tan β= 1$ and requires a supplementary singlet chiral superfield. We finally discuss the spectrum of the model that now features superpartners of the Standard-Model fermions and gauge bosons in the multi-TeV range.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. v2 matches the journal version
Making Memories: Intersections in Memory, the Law and First World War Fiction
Creators: name: CAMILLE REBEKAH ECKHAUS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Through a novel and an exegesis, Making Memories explores the intersections between remembering, forgetting and the law within the context of the First World War. Crucially, it addresses how the need to establish a coherent narrative that accords with a social group’s view of the war allowed, and continues to provide, for certain elements to be forgotten or overlooked while others are repeated.
(200827) John Glaisyer
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Near-Threshold Photoionization of Hydrogenlike Uranium Studied in Ion-Atom Collisions via the Time-Reversed Process
Creators: name: Beyer, H. F.
name: Bosch, F.
name: Brinzanescu, O.
name: Dunford, R. W.
name: Eichler, J.
name: Hagmann, S.
name: Ichihara, A.
name: Kozhuharov, C.
name: Krämer, A.
name: Liesen, D.
name: Ludziejewski, T.
name: Ma, X.
name: Mokler, P. H.
name: Stachura, Z.
name: Stöhlker, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
BLUEBERRIES & THE ESSAY AS INSTITUTION?: Tracing ideology in the contemporary essay
Creators: name: Ellena Savage
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This creative writing thesis offers an exploration of the generic lineage and limits of the contemporary essay in the interests of ascertaining its radical, even revolutionary, status and potential. Focusing on institutions as spaces that regulate social roles and power relations, this thesis traces the contemporary essay’s genealogy in three directions: its liberal-Humanist origins; its complex foothold within the university; and its deployment as a socially engaged literary form in the wake of second-wave feminism, bringing it into conversation with #metoo.
A novel chromone-based as a potential inhibitor of ULK1 that modulates autophagy and induces apoptosis in colon cancer
Creators: name: Shamsudin, Nur Farisya
name: Leong, Sze-Wei
name: Koeberle, Andreas
name: Suriya, Utid
name: Rungrotmongkol, Thanyada
name: Chia, Suet Lin
name: Taher, Muhammad
name: Haris, Muhammad Salahuddin
name: Alshwyeh, Hussah Abdullah
name: Alosaimi, Areej A
name: Mediani, Ahmed
name: Ilowefah, Muna Abdulsalam
name: Islami, Deri
name: Faudzi, Siti Munirah Mohd
name: Aluwi, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi Mohd
name: Wai, Lam Kok
name: Rullah, Kamal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Aim: Chromones are promising for anticancer drug development. Methods & results: 12 chromone-based compounds were synthesized and tested against cancer cell lines. Compound 8 showed the highest cytotoxicity (LC50 3.2 μM) against colorectal cancer cells, surpassing 5-fluorouracil (LC50 4.2 μM). It suppressed colony formation, induced cell cycle arrest and triggered apoptotic cell death, confirmed by staining and apoptosis markers. Cell death was accompanied by enhanced reactive oxygen species formation and modulation of the autophagic machinery (autophagy marker light chain 3B (LC3B); adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK); protein kinase B (PKB); UNC-51-like kinase (ULK)-1; and ULK2). Molecular docking and dynamic simulations revealed that compound 8 directly binds to ULK1. Conclusion: Compound 8 is a promising lead for autophagy-modulating anti-colon cancer drugs. 12 chromone-based compounds were synthesized and assessed for cytotoxicity against four human cancer cell lines i.e. kidney (786-0), breast (MCF-7), colorectal (SW620) and bladder (T-24) cancer cells. Compound 8 exhibited the highest cytotoxic activity (LC50 3.2 μM) compared with the positive control 5-fluorouracil (5-FU, LC50 4.2 μM), especially against SW620 colorectal carcinoma cells. Compound 8 suppressed colony formation, induced cell cycle arrests and triggered apoptotic cell death, confirmed by propidium iodide/annexin V staining and expression studies on apoptosis markers. Enhanced formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and modulation of autophagic machinery (LC3B, AMPK, AKT, ULK1 and ULK2) were observed in response to compound 8. A molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations suggested a potential direct binding between compound 8 and ULK1. Compound 8 represents a promising lead for a novel class of autophagy-modulating anti-colon cancer drugs.
Conceptualizations of Sadness in Persian
Creators: name: MEHRI MOHAMMAD-BAGHERI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the social and cultural norms of expressing sadness in Persian by exploring the cultural categories, metaphors, and schemas (or collectively described as cultural conceptualizations) associated with sadness, and reflected in the language. Besides, the act of responding to the expression of sadness (verbal sympathizing) as another norm-based behavior was analyzed in terms of the cultural schemas underlying it. To this aim, the theoretical and analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics together with the insights from the field of Pragmatic Act Theory (PAT) were adopted.
Meson-baryon effective chiral Lagrangians at order $p^4$
Creators: name: Jiang, Shao-Zhou
name: Chen, Qing-Sen
name: Liu, Yan-Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the three-flavor Lorentz-invariant meson-baryon chiral Lagrangians at the order $p^4$, with which a full one-loop investigation may be performed. One obtains 540 independent terms. The processes with the minimal number of mesons and photons that this order Lagrangians may contribute to are also presented.
description: 14 pages
Boundary Measurement Matrices for Directed Networks on Surfaces
Creators: name: Machacek, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14M15, Secondary 05C10

description: Franco, Galloni, Penante, and Wen have proposed a boundary measurement map for a graph on any closed orientable surface with boundary. We consider this boundary measurement map which takes as input an edge weighted directed graph embedded on a surface and produces on element of a Grassmannian. Computing the boundary measurement requires a choice of fundamental domain. Here the boundary measurement map is shown to be independent of the choice of fundamental domain Also, a formula for the Plücker coordinates of the element of Grassmannian in the image of the boundary measurement map is given. The formula expresses the Plücker coordinates as a rational function which can be combinatorially described in terms of paths and cycles in the directed graph.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures
Temples of Bacchus: temperance and protestant morality in Victoria, 1837-1908
Creators: name: Rhule, Brian Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of European & Historical Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis investigates the temperance movement as an agent of religious, moral and social reform on Australian culture and society between 1837 and 1908. The colonial temperance movement developed within the framework of the transatlantic exchange of temperance ideas, organisations and strategies between the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The thesis, which uses Victoria as a case study in the development of international temperance ideology and strategies, asserts that although temperance advocates were united by a shared conviction that the culture of alcohol was primarily responsible for poverty, crime, domestic violence and other social problems, temperance ideology was underpinned by evangelical Protestant notions of morality or righteousness and commitment to evangelical ‘mission’ in the temporal world. Temperance strategies in Victoria reflected the attempt to effect the moral regeneration of individuals and of colonial society. Pursuing a temperance-led moral reformation, advocates were forced to address contemporary liberal objections to the temperance program of reform. Their response was to turn Mill’s principle of individual liberty to their own use by placing the focus of the temperance debate on the right of society to protect itself from the adverse consequences of the culture of alcohol. The ‘moral liberal-democratic’ principles they espoused anticipated ‘progressive liberalism’ promoted by Thomas H. Green and others in the United Kingdom. The thesis also examines the confluence of evangelical Protestant and liberal principles within the context of the role of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Victoria between 1886 and 1908, and the place of woman suffrage, social purity and Christian Citizenship in the formulation of the ‘Ethical state’. The temperance debate contributed substantially to progressive liberal notions of the moral obligations of the state and the creation of moral citizenship. The thesis informs historical understanding of the influence of evangelical Protestant morality in the development of colonial Australian society and culture during the period.
Birth Dissonance - Using Pain Relief in Childbirth
Creators: name: ELIZABETH ANNE SUTTON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Women develop expectations about childbirth and pain management in labour. Fifteen women expecting their first child and who were hoping for a 'normal/natural' birth were interviewed about how they developed their expectations of birth and labour pain (before they had their babies) and how they felt about their birth performance after they had given birth. Women reported various responses from health care staff to their requests for pain relief during labour. Six women reported feeling traumatised by their birth experience. Women who experience 'birth dissonance' - a mismatch between their expectations and their experience, appear more likely to develop trauma type symptoms.
NMR analysis, cytotoxic activity and theoretical study of a complex between SRPIN340 and p-sulfonic acid calix[6]arene
Creators: name: de Souza Viol, Lívia Cristina
name: Silva, Natália Aparecida Liberto
name: Cerceau, Cristiane Isaac
name: de Andrade Barros, Marcus Vinícius
name: Siqueira, Raoni Pais
name: Gonçalves, Victor Hugo Sousa
name: Bressan, Gustavo Costa
name: Fernandes, Sergio Antonio
name: Alvarenga, Elson Santiago
name: Teixeira, Róbson Ricardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Aim: This study aimed to enhance the aqueous dissolution of SRPK inhibitor N-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)isonicotinamide (SRPIN340). Materials & Methods: A complex with p-sulfonic calix[6]arene (Host) and SRPIN340 (Guest) was prepared, studied via 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and theoretical calculations and biologically evaluated on cancer cell lines. Results & conclusion: The 1:1 host (H)/guest (G) complex significantly enhanced the aqueous dissolution of SRPIN340, achieving 64.8% water solubility as determined by 1H NMR quantification analysis. The H/G complex reduced cell viability by 75% for HL60, ∼50% for Nalm6 and Jurkat, and ∼30% for B16F10 cells. It exhibited greater cytotoxicity than free SRPIN340 against Jurkat and B16F10 cells. Theoretical studies indicated hydrogen bond stabilization of the complex, suggesting broader applicability of SRPIN340 across diverse biological systems. This study aimed to enhance the aqueous dissolution of the serine/arginine-rich protein-specific kinase (SRPK) inhibitor N-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)isonicotinamide (SRPIN340), which has low water solubility. A complex of p-sulfonic calix[6] arene (CX6SO3H) with SRPIN340 was prepared and analyzed using 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), showing that the host molecule induced changes in the chemical shifts of SRPIN340 compared to its free form. The Job plot method indicated a 1:1 stoichiometry for the CX6SO3H/SRPIN340 complex. The formation of the CX6SO3H/SRPIN340 complex was further investigated using B3LYP theoretical calculations, which revealed stabilization through hydrogen bonds. The 1:1 host/guest complex significantly enhanced the aqueous dissolution of SRPIN340, with 64.8% of the complex being water-soluble, as determined by 1H NMR quantification. The CX6SO3H/SRPIN340 complex exhibited a reduction in cell viability of 75% for HL60, approximately 50% for Nalm6 and Jurkat, and around 30% for B16F10 cells. Notably, the complex showed enhanced cytotoxicity against Jurkat and B16F10 cells compared to free SRPIN340. The development of the CX6SO3H/SRPIN340 complex represents a significant advancement in improving the aqueous availability and cytotoxic efficacy of SRPIN340.
Knotted optical vortices in exact solutions to Maxwell's equations
Creators: name: de Klerk, Albertus Johannes Jacobus Maria
name: van der Veen, Roland Ivo
name: Dalhuisen, Jan Willem
name: Bouwmeester, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a family of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in which the points of zero intensity form knotted lines topologically equivalent to a given but arbitrary algebraic link. These lines of zero intensity, more commonly referred to as optical vortices, and their topology are preserved as time evolves and the fields have finite energy. To derive explicit expressions for these new electromagnetic fields that satisfy the nullness property, we make use of the Bateman variables for the Hopf field as well as complex polynomials in two variables whose zero sets give rise to algebraic links. The class of algebraic links includes not only all torus knots and links thereof, but also more intricate cable knots. While the unknot has been considered before, the solutions presented here show that more general knotted structures can also arise as optical vortices in exact solutions to Maxwell's equations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; revised abstract, introduction, and conclusion; results unchanged