cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ground-state OH maser distributions in the Galactic Centre region
Creators: name: Qiao, Hai-Hua
name: Walsh, Andrew J.
name: Shen, Zhi-Qiang
name: Dawson, Joanne R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state OH masers identified in the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl were observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array to obtain positions with high accuracy ($\sim$1\,arcsec). We classified these OH masers into evolved star OH maser sites, star formation OH maser sites, supernova remnant OH maser sites, planetary nebula OH maser sites and unknown maser sites using their accurate positions. Evolved star and star formation OH maser sites in the Galactic Centre region (between Galactic longitudes of $-5^{\circ}$ to $+5^{\circ}$ and Galactic latitudes of $-2^{\circ}$ and $+2^{\circ}$) were studied in detail to understand their distributions.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, IAUS 322, conference paper
Atlante dei siti fortificati della provincia di Viterbo, Italia (X-XV secolo). Fonti e metodi per la ricostruzione della rete insediativa bassomedievale
Creators: name: Toscano, Maurizio
name: Romagnoli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Middle Ages
fortified settlements
historical gazetteer
data modelling
Web Information System
Linked Open Data
Digital Humanities
GIS

description: This study addressed the historical phenomenon known as incastellamento, in the area of the current province of Viterbo, from a quantitative and geographical perspective. The time period considered was the tenth-fifteenth century. The paper describes the documentary sources, historical maps, aerial images, past studies and archaeological sources that are available to researchers, and which have been used, in good measure, to reconstruct the fortified settlement network. Moreover, the paper explains the methodologies used to identify, store and geocode the whole dataset, which so far comes to a total of 191 fortified settlements. In conclusion, we discuss the main characteristics of the online atlas, intended as an open and interoperable platform to consult, query and retrieve information from the dataset of late-medieval fortified settlements.
Search for gamma-ray emission from star-forming galaxies with Fermi LAT
Creators: name: Rojas-Bravo, Cesar
name: Araya, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies have found a positive correlation between the star-formation rate of galaxies and their gamma-ray luminosity. Galaxies with a high star-formation rate are expected to produce a large amount of high-energy cosmic rays, which emit gamma-rays when interacting with the interstellar medium and radiation fields. We search for gamma-ray emission from a sample of galaxies within and beyond the Local Group with data from the LAT instrument onboard the Fermi satellite. We exclude recently detected galaxies (NGC 253, M82, NGC 4945, NGC 1068, NGC 2146, Arp 220) and use seven years of cumulative Pass 8 data from the LAT in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. No new detections are seen in the data and upper limits for the gamma- ray fluxes are calculated. The correlation between gamma-ray luminosity and infrared luminosity for galaxies obtained using our new upper limits is in agreement with a previously published correlation, but the new upper limits imply that some galaxies are not as efficient gamma-ray emitters as previously thought.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 7 pages, 1 figure
Phosphorylation-induced mechanical regulation of intrinsically disordered neurofilament protein assemblies
Creators: name: Malka-Gibor, Eti
name: Kornreich, Micha
name: Laser-Azogui, Adi
name: Doron, Ofer
name: Zingerman-Koladko, Irena
name: Medalia, Ohad
name: Beck, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The biological function of protein assemblies was conventionally equated with a unique three-dimensional protein structure and protein-specific interactions. However, in the past 20 years it was found that some assemblies contain long flexible regions that adopt multiple structural conformations. These include neurofilament (NF) proteins that constitute the stress-responsive supportive network of neurons. Herein, we show that NF networks macroscopic properties are tuned by enzymatic regulation of the charge found on the flexible protein regions. The results reveal an enzymatic (phosphorylation) regulation of macroscopic properties such as orientation, stress-response and expansion in flexible protein assemblies. Together with a model explaining the attractive electrostatic interactions induced by enzymatically added charges, we demonstrate that phosphorylation-regulation is far richer and versatile than previously considered.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Modal analysis of the scattering coefficients of an open cavity in a waveguide
Creators: name: Tong, Yuhui
name: Pan, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characteristics of an acoustic scatterer are often described by scattering coefficients. The understanding of the mechanisms involved in the frequency dependent features of the coefficients has been a challenge task, owing to the complicated coupling between the waves in open space and the modes inside the finite scatterer. In this paper, a frequency-dependent modal description of the scattering coefficient is utilized to study the modal properties of the scatterer. The important role that eigenmodes play in defining the features of the scattering coefficients is revealed via an expansion of the coefficients by the eigenmodes. The results show the local extrema of the scattering coefficients can be attributed to the constructive/destructive interference of resonant and non-resonant modes. In particular, an approximated equation, which is equivalent to the standard Fano formula, is obtained to describe the sharp anti-symmetric Fano characteristics of the scattering coefficients. The special cases where scattering is dominated by a single resonance eigenmode, corresponding to the "resonance transmission", are also illustrated.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
What's Different between Visual Question Answering for Machine "Understanding" Versus for Accessibility?
Creators: name: Cao, Yang Trista
name: Seelman, Kyle
name: Lee, Kyungjun
name: Daumé, Hal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In visual question answering (VQA), a machine must answer a question given an associated image. Recently, accessibility researchers have explored whether VQA can be deployed in a real-world setting where users with visual impairments learn about their environment by capturing their visual surroundings and asking questions. However, most of the existing benchmarking datasets for VQA focus on machine "understanding" and it remains unclear how progress on those datasets corresponds to improvements in this real-world use case. We aim to answer this question by evaluating discrepancies between machine "understanding" datasets (VQA-v2) and accessibility datasets (VizWiz) by evaluating a variety of VQA models. Based on our findings, we discuss opportunities and challenges in VQA for accessibility and suggest directions for future work.
A problem solving model for school based in-service training in open design elementary schools : a grassroots approach to in-service education
Creators: name: Leighton, Spencer W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Lattice dynamics of KNi2Se2
Creators: name: Lazarević, N.
name: Radonjić, M.
name: Šćepanović, M.
name: Lei, Hechang
name: Tanasković, D.
name: Petrovic, C.
name: Popović, Z. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first principle calculations of the lattice dynamics of KNi$_{2}$Se$_2$ together with the Raman scattering study.\ We have observed three out of four Raman active modes predicted by the factor group analysis. Calculated phonon frequencies are in good agreement with experimental findings.\ Contrary to its iron counterpart (K$_x$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_2$), K$_{0.95}$Ni$_{1.86}$Se$_2$ does not show vacancy ordering.
Finding Papua in Java: Papuans encounter stories about the past and themselves
Creators: name: Lopez, Belinda
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Creative component: Tete. Exegesis: Finding Papua in Java: Papuans encounter stories about the past and themselves. This PhD thesis comprises a nonfiction novel, Tete, and an exegesis. The project asks how Papuans encounter stories from the past and present in Java, Indonesia, how these stories spread, and to what effect. The exegesis 1) draws on Martin Nakata's (2007) concept of the Cultural Interface to illustrate the "contested nature" of perspectives in the Papuan Interface; 2) Analyses the purpose and impact of Papuan stories and storytelling, particularly about history, by fusing several narrative methodologies defined by non-Indigenous and First Nations' scholars, including Arthur Frank's (2010) dialogical narrative analysis and Benny Giay's (2006) interpretation of memoria passionis; 3) Applies the concept of 'trickster stories' to a number of case studies in Java, to demonstrate how independent Papuan scholars fluidly remix canons of knowledge, creating an ecosystem committed to decolonised scholarship; 4) Scrutinises previous scholarship of Trickster and cargo cults, and develops these tropes as a method to critique anthropological and creative writing research, amongst emerging debates about decolonised methodologies; 5) Demonstrates how ethnographic data can be shared through academic and literary writing genres, and how narrative methodologies might be applied to both a nonfiction novel and scholarly essays as a strategy of "insisting on attention to Indigenous history-making" and "insisting on attention to colonial power" (Kaplan 1995, 458).
Comptes quotidiens en espèces du bayt māl (Trésor) de Tūkar (Soudan) pour le mois de dhū al-qaʿda 1307 : Translittération
Creators: name: Poussier, Anaël
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sudan
19th century
Mahdiyya
Tūkar
administration
accounting

description: Enregistrement comptable quotidien des entrées et sorties en espèces du bayt māl de Tūkar, l’administration provinciale de l’État mahdiste au Soudan-Est. Datation : ap. dhū al-qaʿda 1307 (approximativement) (juin-juillet 1890). Lieu de production de la source (absence de certitudes) : Tūkar (ʿAfafīt), Soudan
 Lieu de conservation et cote : Mahdiyya 5/06/29, Dār al-wathāʾiq al-qawmiyya (National Records Office), Khartoum. Extrait : p. 28-51. Les règles de translittération employées sont celles de l’International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).
Comparative evaluation of efficacy of Gambhari phala granules as against Haridra Khanda in the management of Sheetapitta (Urticaria)- A study protocol
Creators: name: Yadav, Tanika
name: Dr Vaishali Kuchewar
name: Dr Pankaj Yadav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urticaria, Pitta, rakta, Sheetpitta, Shaman chikitsa,Gambhari, Haridra Khanda, Abhyantar chikitsa

description: Study protocol on Urticaria
Lecture: Cosmological Inference with Cobaya
Creators: name: Cañas-Herrera, Guadalupe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Lecture material for the course "Cosmological Inference with Cobaya" for PhD schools in Cosmology. This presentation contains the necessary theoretical input to carry out the tutorials in the GitHub repository "Cobaya-tutorials".  

This material has been used at the following schools for PhD candidates:

École "Rodolphe Clédassou", sponsord by the French organisations CNES, CNRS and CEA, at the sessions of 2022, 2023 and 2024 (for students of Year/Cycle 2).

Advanced Euclid School "the Science of Future Cosmological Surveys", hosted at the Les Houches School of Physics and sponsord by CNES, CNRS and PNCG, at the session of 2022.
Slow modes in the Hermean magnetosphere: effect of the solar wind hydrodynamic parameters and IMF orientation
Creators: name: Varela, J.
name: Pantellini, F.
name: Moncuquet, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this study is to simulate the slow mode structures in the Hermean magnetosphere. We use a single fluid MHD model and a multipolar expansion of the Northward displaced Hermean magnetic field, to perform simulations with different solar wind parameter to foreseen the most favorable configuration for the formation of slow modes, attending to the solar wind density, velocity, temperature and the interplanetary magnetic field orientation. If the interplanetary magnetic field is aligned with the Mercury-Sun direction, the magnetic axis of Mercury in the Northward direction or the planet orbital plane, slow mode structures are observed nearby the South pole. If the orientation is in the Sun-Mercury or Northward directions, slow mode structures are observed nearby the North pole, but smaller compared with the structures near the South pole. Increase the density or the solar wind velocity avoids the formation of slow modes structures, not observed for a dynamic pressure larger than $6.25 \cdot 10^{-9}$ Pa in the case of a Northward interplanetary magnetic field orientation, due to the enhancement of the bow shock compression. If the solar wind temperature increases, the slow mode structures are wider because the sonic Mach number is smaller and the bow shock is less compressed.
Engineering Curvature Induced Anisotropy in Thin Ferromagnetic Films
Creators: name: Tretiakov, Oleg A.
name: Morini, Massimiliano
name: Vasylkevych, Sergiy
name: Slastikov, Valeriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large curvature effects on micromagnetic energy of a thin ferromagnetic film with nonlocal dipolar energy are considered. We predict that the dipolar interaction and surface curvature can produce perpendicular anisotropy which can be controlled by engineering a special type of periodic surface shape structure. Similar effects can be achieved by a significant surface roughness in the film. We show that in general the anisotropy can point in an arbitrary direction depending on the surface curvature. We provide simple examples of these periodic surface structures to demonstrate how to engineer particular anisotropies in the film.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
A study of some aspects of curriculum content in health education in Victorian secondary schools
Creators: name: Laird, Don.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Fermi Repulsion
Creators: name: Randall, Lisa
name: Scholtz, Jakub
name: Unwin, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that Fermi repulsion can lead to cored density profiles in dwarf galaxies for sub-keV fermionic dark matter. We treat the dark matter as a quasi-degenerate self-gravitating Fermi gas and calculate its density profile assuming hydrostatic equilibrium. We find that suitable dwarf galaxy cores of larger than 130 pc can be achieved for fermion dark matter with mass in the range 70 eV - 400 eV. While in conventional dark matter scenarios, such sub-keV thermal dark matter would be excluded by free streaming bounds, the constraints are ameliorated in models with dark matter at lower temperature than conventional thermal scenarios, such as the Flooded Dark Matter model that we have previously considered. Modifying the arguments of Tremaine and Gunn we derive a conservative lower bound on the mass of fermionic dark matter of 70 eV and a stronger lower bound from Lyman-$α$ clouds of about 470 eV, leading to slightly smaller cores than have been observed. We comment on this result and how the tension is relaxed in dark matter scenarios with non-thermal momentum distributions.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Custom Chipset and Compact Module Design for a 75-110 GHz Laboratory Signal Source
Creators: name: Morgan, Matthew A.
name: Boyd, Tod A.
name: Castro, Jason J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the development and characterization of a compact, full-waveguide bandwidth (WR-10) signal source for general-purpose testing of mm-wave components. The MMIC-based multichip module is designed for compactness and ease-of-use, especially in size-constrained test sets such as a wafer probe station. It takes as input a cm-wave CW reference and provides a factor of three frequency multiplication as well as amplification, output power adjustment, and in-situ output power monitoring. It utilizes a number of custom MMIC chips such as a Schottky-diode limiter and a broadband mm-wave detector, both designed explicitly for this module, as well as custom millimeter-wave multipliers and amplifiers reported in previous papers.
description: 6 pages, 14 figures, to be submitted to IOPScience Measurement Science and Technology journal
Direct evidence for hydrothermal fluid mineralization in the Velkerri Formation, Northern Australia
Creators: name: Targett, Peter
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The presence of reactive iron and sulfur within marine sediments is routinely used as a proxy for marine anoxia in ancient sediments, assuming these elements were sourced from the overlying water column. Iron and sulfur in sediments of the 1.42 Ga Velkerri Formation in the McArthur Basin, northern Australia serve as one of the key records of Earth's oxygenation history. This thesis shows that much of this iron and sulfur was introduced by hydrothermal fluids long after deposition. Mineralized veins and breccias cut across sedimentary laminae at micro and macro scales. They are composed of vein lining dolomite, ankerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, quartz, rutile, and iron oxides (hematite and magnesioferrite) indicating multiple fluid generations. Nanometer - scale mineral mapping combined with high resolution electron imaging identifies pervasive influence of later fluids in veins and micro pores through the sediment. 20 - 70% of Fe and S bearing pyrite can be attributed to later fluid sources using this approach, which would go unrecognized using averaged bulk sample analyses attributing this fraction to a seawater source. Clumped isotope palaeothermometry identifies a range of precipitation temperatures; 88.25 - 201.61 C consistent with hydrothermal mineralization observed throughout the McArthur Basin.
Anton Vroland, his life and work
Creators: name: Lawry, H. James.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Interview with Peter Wylie
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Wylie, Peter
Death & Loss
Indigenous Community
Stigma & Discrimination
Isolation & Lack of Support

description: An interview with Peter Wylie as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewer: Ben Klassen. Location: Vancouver (Momentum).
On integrals associated with the Free particle wave packet
Creators: name: Patkowski, Alexander E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss some properties of integrals associated with the free particle wave packet, $ψ(x,t),$ which are solutions to the time-dependent Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation for a free particle in one dimension. Some noteworthy discussion is made in relation to integrals which have appeared in the literature. We also obtain formulas for half-integer arguments of the Riemann zeta function.
description: Corrected Lemma 1.1 and a constant
Speed of information processing, task complexity, and fluid and crystallized intelligence
Creators: name: Jenkinson, Josephine C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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2D CFT Partition Functions at Late Times
Creators: name: Dyer, Ethan
name: Gur-Ari, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the late time behavior of the analytically continued partition function $Z(β+ it) Z(β- it)$ in holographic $2d$ CFTs. This is a probe of information loss in such theories and in their holographic duals. We show that each Virasoro character decays in time, and so information is not restored at the level of individual characters. We identify a universal decaying contribution at late times, and conjecture that it describes the behavior of generic chaotic $2d$ CFTs out to times that are exponentially large in the central charge. It was recently suggested that at sufficiently late times one expects a crossover to random matrix behavior. We estimate an upper bound on the crossover time, which suggests that the decay is followed by a parametrically long period of late time growth. Finally, we discuss integrable theories and show how information is restored at late times by a series of characters. This hints at a possible bulk mechanism, where information is restored by an infinite sum over non-perturbative saddles.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures
Discrimination between spin-dependent charge transport and spin dependent recombination in π-conjugated polymers by correlated current and electroluminescence-detected magnetic resonance
Creators: name: Kavand, Marzieh
name: Baird, Douglas
name: van Schooten, Kipp
name: Malissa, Hans
name: Lupton, John M.
name: Boehme, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-dependent processes play a crucial role in organic electronic devices. Spin coherence can give rise to spin mixing due to a number of processes such as hyperfine coupling, and leads to a range of magnetic field effects. However, it is not straightforward to differentiate between pure single-carrier spin-dependent transport processes which control the current and therefore the electroluminescence, and spin-dependent electron-hole recombination which determines the electroluminescence yield and in turn modulates the current. We therefore investigate the correlation between the dynamics of spin-dependent electric current and spin-dependent electroluminescence in two derivatives of the conjugated polymer poly(phenylene-vinylene) using simultaneously measured pulsed electrically detected (pEDMR) and optically detected (pODMR) magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This experimental approach requires careful analysis of the transient response functions under optical and electrical detection. At room temperature and under bipolar charge-carrier injection conditions, a correlation of the pEDMR and the pODMR signals is observed, consistent with the hypothesis that the recombination currents involve spin-dependent electronic transitions. This observation is inconsistent with the hypothesis that these signals are caused by spin-dependent charge carrier transport. These results therefore provide no evidence that supports earlier claims that spindependent transport plays a role for room temperature magnetoresistance effects. At low temperatures, however, the correlation between pEDMR and pODMR is weakened, demonstrating that more than one spin-dependent process influences the optoelectronic materials properties.
description: 34 pages, 6 figures
Identification of Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Counterparts for the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer with Machine Learning
Creators: name: Mong, Yik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Astronomical instrumentation
Instruments and techniques
Astronomical sciences not elsewhere classified
Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
Computer vision
High energy astrophysics and galactic cosmic rays

description: Real-bogus classification problem is one of the most challenging problems in time-domain astronomy. With an effective classifier, it helps to reduce our manual vetting time to identify transients quickly. My work demonstrates two different approaches to solve for real-bogus classification. Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) has followed up 92 Fermi GRB from 22 February 2019 to 7 June 2020. My work demonstrates a comprehensive archival search on the potential GRB afterglow detections. This study can help further improving our future follow-up strategies on Fermi GRB events.
Studies towards metabolically stable Fluorine-18 labelled peptides and their efficient syntheses
Creators: name: Evans, Brendan J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful nuclear medicine imaging technique that has become invaluable for the in vivo diagnosis and staging of cancers and many other diseases. The overall aim of this project was to develop strategies for improving the metabolic stability and ease of synthesis of 18F radiolabelled peptide conjugates for use in PET. The first objective was to use model systems to determine if the substitution of an amide bond with a sulfonamide bond increases the metabolic stability of peptide conjugates. For this, N-benzoyl glycine and N-benzenesulfonyl glycine were incubated with the human carboxylesterase/amidase model enzyme pig liver esterase. Both compounds exhibited good stability, however, future work with other enzyme systems would be valuable. The second objective was to synthesise a series of bifunctional aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds that possess the good leaving group tetramethylammonium (TMA) and an activated 4-nitrophenyl ester to enable efficient fluorination and peptide conjugation. Unfortunately, the 4-nitrophenyl ester proved to be too active, making it difficult to form the TMA activated aromatic systems. As a result, a new method was developed based upon the synthesis of TMA methyl esters. Using this method, the synthesis of a TMA bearing methyl ester was successfully trialled.
Constraints on the merging of the transition lines at the tricritical point in a wing-structure phase diagram
Creators: name: Taufour, Valentin
name: Kaluarachchi, Udhara S.
name: Kogan, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the phase diagram of a ferromagnetic system driven to a quantum phase transition with a tuning parameter $p$. Before being suppressed, the transition becomes of the first order at a tricritical point, from which wings emerge under application of the magnetic field $H$ in the $T$-$p$-$H$ phase diagram. We show that the edge of the wings merge with tangent slopes at the tricritical point.
Fast and Efficient Scene Categorization for Autonomous Driving using VAEs
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Saravanabalagi
name: Horgan, Jonathan
name: Sistu, Ganesh
name: McDonald, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scene categorization is a useful precursor task that provides prior knowledge for many advanced computer vision tasks with a broad range of applications in content-based image indexing and retrieval systems. Despite the success of data driven approaches in the field of computer vision such as object detection, semantic segmentation, etc., their application in learning high-level features for scene recognition has not achieved the same level of success. We propose to generate a fast and efficient intermediate interpretable generalized global descriptor that captures coarse features from the image and use a classification head to map the descriptors to 3 scene categories: Rural, Urban and Suburban. We train a Variational Autoencoder in an unsupervised manner and map images to a constrained multi-dimensional latent space and use the latent vectors as compact embeddings that serve as global descriptors for images. The experimental results evidence that the VAE latent vectors capture coarse information from the image, supporting their usage as global descriptors. The proposed global descriptor is very compact with an embedding length of 128, significantly faster to compute, and is robust to seasonal and illuminational changes, while capturing sufficient scene information required for scene categorization.
description: Published in the 24th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2022)
Compactness and existence results for the $p$-Laplace equation
Creators: name: Badiale, Marino
name: Guida, Michela
name: Rolando, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 35J92, Secondary 35J20, 46E35, 46E30

description: Given $10$, $r>0$, we define the weighted spaces \[ W=\left\{ u\in D^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^{N}):\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}V\left( \left| x\right| \right) \left| u\right| ^{p}dx
description: This document is an expanded and complementary version of arXiv:1510.03879, and continues the work of arXiv:1403.3803 and arXiv:1506.00056
Simplified Models for Dark Matter Face their Consistent Completions
Creators: name: Goncalves, Dorival
name: Machado, Pedro A. N.
name: No, Jose Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simplified dark matter models have been recently advocated as a powerful tool to exploit the complementarity between dark matter direct detection, indirect detection and LHC experimental probes. Focusing on pseudoscalar mediators between the dark and visible sectors, we show that the simplified dark matter model phenomenology departs significantly from that of consistent ${SU(2)_{\mathrm{L}} \times U(1)_{\mathrm{Y}}}$ gauge invariant completions. We discuss the key physics simplified models fail to capture, and its impact on LHC searches. Notably, we show that resonant mono-Z searches provide competitive sensitivities to standard mono-jet analyses at $13$ TeV LHC.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
An overview of paramedic advanced practice and the use of medicines management activities in England
Creators: name: Edwards, Judith
name: Dr Nicola Carey
name: Prof Melaine Coward
name: Collen, Andy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Advanced practice, paramedics, medicines management activities, survey

description: On-line survey exploring medicines management in paramedics in advanced practice roles in England
description: {"references": ["Bigham, BL. et al. Expanding paramedic scope in the community: a systematic review of the literature. Prehospital Emergency Care 2013;17: 361-372.", "Caffrey SM. et al. Paramedic specialization: a strategy for better out-of-hospital care. Air Medical Journal. 2014;33(6):265-273", "College of Paramedics 2018. Improving Patients' Access to Medicines: A Guide to Implementing Paramedic Prescribing within the NHS in the UK. Bridgewater, UK: College of Paramedics"]}
Multi-terminal multi-junction dc SQUID for nanoscale magnetometry
Creators: name: Meltzer, Alexander Y.
name: Uri, Aviram
name: Zeldov, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Miniaturization of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) is of major importance for the development of sensitive scanning nanoscale magnetometry tools. The high sensitivity of nanoSQUIDs is restricted, however, to only particular periodic values of the applied magnetic field, making accurate measurements at intermediate values of the field impossible. We present a theoretical investigation of a multi-terminal, multi-junction SQUID (mSQUID) that lifts this limitation by providing electrical means for a continuous shift of the quantum interference pattern with respect to the applied field. Analysis of 4-terminal, 4-junction and 3-terminal, 3-junction mSQUIDs shows that operation at maximum sensitivity can be obtained at any value of the magnetic field by applying control current to the extra terminals. The model describes the variation and the shift of the interference pattern as a function of the control currents, junction asymmetries, and the mSQUID inductance. The mSQUID is also shown to provide a direct measurement of the current-phase relations of superconducting junctions. The derived model provides a quantitative description of the recently developed multi-terminal nanoSQUID-on-tip.
The Social and Vocational Value and Outcomes of the New South Wales School Infrastructure Traineeship Program (ITP) for Trainees.pdf
Creators: name: Brown, Seth
name: Phillips, Scott
name: Rushbrook, Peter
name: Cooper, Grant
name: Kelly, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This Report presents the findings of research conducted to evaluate the NSW government’s Infrastructure Traineeship Program (ITP) for trainees from a diversity of backgrounds. The ITP offers Certificate IV courses relevant to the infrastructure and construction industry drawn from VET programs such as project management, business, and procurement and contracting. The program is managed through Group Training Organisations (GTOs) and delivered through Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). The report presents: ● a comprehensive review of the research and policy literature; ● describes and analyses evidence gathered from trainees and industry stakeholders (via surveys and semi-structured video-based interviews); ● and presents an evaluation of the social and vocational value and outcomes of the ITP for a variety of stakeholders, including young trainees from a diversity of backgrounds, and business, training providers, and government agencies and departments.
Ordering of the $0d_{5/2}$ and $1s_{1/2}$ proton levels in light nuclei
Creators: name: Hoffman, C. R.
name: Kay, B. P.
name: Schiffer, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A survey of the available single-proton data in $A\leq17$ nuclei, along with calculations using a Woods-Saxon potential, show that the ordering of the $0d_{5/2}$ and $1s_{1/2}$ proton orbitals are determined primarily by the proximity of the $s$-state proton energy to the Coulomb barrier. This is analogous to the dependence of the corresponding neutron orbitals in proximity to the neutron threshold, that was previously discussed.
The Global Care Ecosystems of 3D Printed Assistive Devices
Creators: name: Savage, Saiph
name: Flores-Saviaga, Claudia
name: Rodney, Rachel
name: Savage, Liliana
name: Schull, Jon
name: Mankoff, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The popularity of 3D printed assistive technology has led to the emergence of new ecosystems of care, where multiple stakeholders (makers, clinicians, and recipients with disabilities) work toward creating new upper limb prosthetic devices. However, despite the increasing growth, we currently know little about the differences between these care ecosystems. Medical regulations and the prevailing culture have greatly impacted how ecosystems are structured and stakeholders work together, including whether clinicians and makers collaborate. To better understand these care ecosystems, we interviewed a range of stakeholders from multiple countries, including Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, France, India, Mexico, and the U.S. Our broad analysis allowed us to uncover different working examples of how multiple stakeholders collaborate within these care ecosystems and the main challenges they face. Through our study, we were able to uncover that the ecosystems with multi-stakeholder collaborations exist (something prior work had not seen), and these ecosystems showed increased success and impact. We also identified some of the key follow-up practices to reduce device abandonment. Of particular importance are to have ecosystems put in place follow up practices that integrate formal agreements and compensations for participation (which do not need to be just monetary). We identified that these features helped to ensure multi-stakeholder involvement and ecosystem sustainability. We finished the paper with socio-technical recommendations to create vibrant care ecosystems that include multiple stakeholders in the production of 3D printed assistive devices.
Different modes of alteration in carbonaceous chondrites: timelines and processes
Creators: name: Kovach, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: There are many unknowns when it comes to understanding our Solar System, one of them being the alteration processes that meteorites undergo. Meteorites represent a point in time from which they were extracted from the prevailing Solar System processes, therefore their microstructures, microtextures and composition provide invaluable evidence to the role of volatiles and early Solar System processes. This study examines three carbonaceous chondrites; NWA 3118, a CV and two CMs - Murchison and Sutter's Mill. These samples were analysed using SEM-EBSD and FEI Teneo Lovac FEG-SEM with dual Bruker Series 6 detectors (also referred to as NanoMin), each method presented various advantages and disadvantages. The observed microstructures enable the development of a timeline, where it is inferred whether the chondrites preserve primary formation or secondary alteration processes. From discussing and interpreting these microtextures, it was inferred that NWA 3118 provides an insight into predominantly primary formation features. In comparison, the microstructures seen in this Murchison sample indicate alteration on its parent body and multiple additions to the chondrite. Sutter's Mill underwent the same early processes as Murchison; however, its highly unusual lithology is attributed to potential asteroidal mixing. These findings are then linked to the role of volatiles, therefore gaining an insight into early Solar System processes.
Optimal Energy Harvesting from Vortex-Induced Vibrations of Cables
Creators: name: Antoine, G. O.
name: de Langre, E.
name: Michelin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) of flexible cables are an example of flow-induced vibrations that can act as energy harvesting systems by converting energy associated with the spontaneous cable motion into electricity. This work investigates the optimal positioning of the harvesting devices along the cable, using numerical simulations with a wake oscillator model to describe the unsteady flow forcing. Using classical gradient-based optimization, the optimal harvesting strategy is determined for the generic configuration of a flexible cable fixed at both ends, including the effect of flow forces and gravity on the cable's geometry. The optimal strategy is found to consist systematically in a concentration of the harvesting devices at one of the cable's ends, relying on deformation waves along the cable to carry the energy toward this harvesting site. Furthermore, we show that the performance of systems based on VIV of flexible cables is significantly more robust to flow velocity variations, in comparison with a rigid cylinder device. This results from two passive control mechanisms inherent to the cable geometry : (i) the adaptability to the flow velocity of the fundamental frequencies of cables through the flow-induced tension and (ii) the selection of successive vibration modes by the flow velocity for cables with gravity-induced tension.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Proc. Roy. Soc. A
On the Survival of High-Altitude Open Clusters within the Milky Way Galaxy Tides
Creators: name: Martinez-Medina, L. A.
name: Pichardo, B.
name: Peimbert, A.
name: Moreno, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is a common assumption that high-altitude open clusters live longer compared with clusters moving close to the Galactic plane. This is because at high altitudes, open clusters are far from the disruptive effects of in-plane substructures, such as spiral arms, molecular clouds and the bar. However, an important aspect to consider in this scenario is that orbits of high-altitude open clusters will eventually cross the Galactic plane, where the vertical tidal field of the disk is strong. In this work we simulate the interaction of open clusters with the tidal field of a detailed Milky Way Galactic model at different average altitudes and galactocentric radii. We find that the life expectancy of clusters decreases as the maximum orbital altitude increases and reaches a minimum at altitudes of approximately 600 pc. Clusters near the Galactic plane live longer because they do not experience strong vertical tidal shocks from the Galactic disk; then, for orbital altitudes higher than 600 pc, clusters start again to live longer due to the decrease in the number of encounters with the disk. With our study, we find that the compressive nature of the tides in the arms region and the bar have an important role on the survival of small clusters by protecting them from disruption: clusters inside the arms can live up to twice as long as those outside the arms at similar galactocentric distance.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
An analysis of the expressive manual communication of a group of deaf children
Creators: name: Jeanes, Raymond C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Collective Ratchet Effects and Reversals for Active Matter Particles on Quasi-One-Dimensional Asymmetric Substrates
Creators: name: McDermott, D.
name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
name: Reichhardt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using computer simulations, we study a two-dimensional system of sterically interacting self-mobile run-and-tumble disk-shaped particles with an underlying periodic quasi-one-dimensional asymmetric substrate, and show that a rich variety of collective active ratchet behaviors arise as a function of particle density, activity, substrate strength, and substrate period. The ratchet efficiency is nonmonotonic since the ratcheting is enhanced by increased activity but diminished by the onset of self-clustering of the active particles. Increasing the particle density decreases the ratchet efficiency for weak substrates but increases the ratchet efficiency for strong substrates due to collective hopping events. At the highest particle densities, the ratchet motion is destroyed by a self-jamming effect. We show that it is possible to realize reversals of the ratchet effect, where the net flux of particles is along the hard rather than the easy direction of the substrate asymmetry. The reversals occur in the strong substrate limit when multiple rows of active particles can be confined in each substrate minimum, permitting emergent particle-like excitations to appear that experience an inverted effective substrate potential. We map out a phase diagram of the forward and reverse ratchet effects as a function of the particle density, activity, and substrate properties.
description: 11 pages, 10 pdf figures
First, persons: discovering internet accounts of men with autism spectrum conditions
Creators: name: Robertson, Malcolm
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is a developmental condition in which individuals have difficulties in social interaction, communicative development and imagination, and exhibit a restricted range of interests. Although rates of diagnosis are rising, few studies have taken a first person perspective, and explored how adults with ASC describe their own experiences. The paper presents clinical qualitative research into ASC, using autobiographical accounts and Web pages created by men with ASC. A number of life stories posted on the Internet were collected and analysed. Results brought into question the received wisdom that ASC is a disability, with many participants suggesting that difference is a more useful framework for understanding ASC. The study proposes several themes that may assist helping professionals to work therapeutically with young men with ASC.
Teenage reading : an investigation of the reading preferences and patterns of a sample group of secondary school students
Creators: name: Height, Anne V.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.