cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Square-root algorithms for maximum correntropy estimation of linear discrete-time systems in presence of non-Gaussian noise
Creators: name: Kulikova, Maria V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recent developments in the realm of state estimation of stochastic dynamic systems in the presence of non-Gaussian noise have induced a new methodology called the maximum correntropy filtering. The filters designed under the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) utilize a similarity measure (or correntropy) between two random variables as a cost function. They are shown to improve the estimators' robustness against outliers or impulsive noises. In this paper we explore the numerical stability of linear filtering technique proposed recently under the MCC approach. The resulted estimator is called the maximum correntropy criterion Kalman filter (MCC-KF). The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, the previously derived MCC-KF equations are revise and the related Kalman-like equality conditions are proved. Based on this theoretical finding, we improve the MCC-KF technique in the sense that the new method possesses a better estimation quality with the reduced computational cost compared with the previously proposed MCC-KF variant. Second, we devise some square-root implementations for the newly-designed improved estimator. The square-root algorithms are well known to be inherently more stable than the conventional Kalman-like implementations, which process the full error covariance matrix in each iteration step of the filter. Additionally, following the latest achievements in the KF community, all square-root algorithms are formulated here in the so-called array form. All the MCC-KF variants developed in this paper are demonstrated to outperform the previously proposed MCC-KF version in two numerical examples.
description: The paper is accepted for publication in Systems & Control Letters, 2017
Kosovo mythology: imagining Serbian national subjectivity in cultural productions from the fourteenth century until today
Creators: name: Jakica, Lara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis seeks to examine the development of Serbian national mythology and the formation of a national sensibility as it relates to the 1389 Kosovo battle. In Serbian political and cultural discourse, Kosovo is often used as a metaphor for patriotism and addressed as a foundation stone of Serbian national identity. References to medieval Kosovo can be found everywhere, in literature, music, art, religion and politics, which incorporate the Kosovo signifier into the symbolic order of Serbian national discourse. Many Serbian heroes and noblemen who took part and died in the battle of Kosovo have been canonised by the Serbian Orthodox Church, while their deeds have become a moral codex encrypted in the poetry of the oral tradition of story-telling. There are many historical, anthropological, religious and political approaches which examine the significance of this event, including literary and art criticism in which the story of Kosovo has taken a particularly important place. This thesis considers and acknowledges different approaches to this topic and offers detailed readings of specific elements of texts of popular culture – film, poetry, popular songs, and the whole semiotics of nationalism in public life – produced in the Milošević era up to the present, which incorporate the Kosovo mythology with a specific cultural or political agenda. While this agenda is not difficult to decode – it serves the function of rousing popular support for groups and parties which have very little else to offer except jingoistic nationalism - the questions raised and answered in this thesis concern the political and cultural unconscious which makes the exploitation of the historical myth of Kosovo still possible and effective in the era of post-Communist, post-capitalist Serbia. In order to tackle the historical unconscious which grounds popular culture texts from 1989-2013, the thesis relies on the theoretical apparatus of psychoanalysis, in particular the theory of subjectivity of Jacques Lacan, supplemented by the theory of memory of theorists such as Duncan Bell, Dominick LaCapra and Aleida Assmann for example. Understanding the impact of Kosovo mythology in contemporary popular culture texts in Serbia involves close reading and analysis of specific texts, such as early literature and poetry on the battle of Kosovo as well as more recent texts based on reference to medieval Kosovo. This dissertation is the first study to apply a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of Serbian epic poetry and its traces in contemporary poetry and visual art, and will produce a richer picture of the way Kosovo mythology operates in subject formation in contemporary Serbian culture.
Inner guidance: of Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese Buddhist pilgrims
Creators: name: Ng, Sandra Siow San
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis explores the meanings and experiences of doing pilgrimages with a focus on Buddhists living in Malaysia and Singapore. It aims firstly, to study the meanings of pilgrimage and the ways in which it is being practised, and secondly, to examine the transformations and experiences in becoming religious and/or spiritual through the process of doing pilgrimage. I conducted a total of twenty-seven in-depth, semi-structured, face-to-face, audio-recorded interviews with three cohorts of interviewees: nine Malaysian-Chinese laypersons, nine Singaporean-Chinese laypersons and nine Buddhist mentors (comprising four monks and five laypersons). Transcribed interviews as data were analysed using ATLAS.ti (a Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) which thematically structured six findings chapters (organised into two parts). Part 1 offers conventional understandings of pilgrimage that denote the going away from one’s everyday life to particular sacred places. Part 2 deconstructs and reconstructs the interpretations and practices of the pilgrimages as processual. This demonstrates the inseparability and interconnectedness of the notions of Time and Space in doing pilgrimage as a form of Buddhist cultivation. The degree of sense of time and sense of space in the processes of doing pilgrimage range from somewhat distinct, separable and ‘stoppable’ from our everyday life (hence, doing pilgrimage externally), to a more inseparable, overlapping, integrated concept of TimeSpace which enables one to become more aware and more present in one’s lived experiences (which in turn demonstrates ‘doing pilgrimage’ internally). I argue that pilgrims’ motivations—be they prescriptive, ambivalent or a matter of fidelity—are integral to fostering a better understanding of the pilgrimage phenomenon. By engaging a spatial and temporal framework in relation to pilgrimage as Buddhist praxis, this thesis contributes insights into what the pilgrimage means and how doing pilgrimages can potentially be transformative to the Buddhist’s religious and spiritual training and growth in the context of Malaysia and Singapore.
Texte lesen und verstehen, Lösungswege diskutieren: Das Schulbuch als zentrales Element mathematischen Kommunizierens?
Creators: name: Besser, Michael
name: Richard, Andreas
name: Linneweber-Lammerskitten, Helmut
name: Leiss, Dominik
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Sowohl im Europäischen Referenzrahmen für Sprache als auch in den Deutschen und Schweizer Bildungsstandards für das Fach Mathematik werden (schulische) Ziele für einen aktiven Umgang mit (mathematischer) Sprache formuliert. Hierauf aufbauend werden im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts MUS zwei Mathematikschulbücher auf deren Potential zum Aufbau eines derartigen Umgangs mit (mathematischer) Sprache als Facette mathematischen Kommunizierens untersucht.
File 2: Robust laser ablation Lu–Hf dating of apatite: an empirical evaluation
Creators: name: Glorie, Stijn
name: Hand, Martin
name: Mulder, Jacob
name: Simpson, Alexander
name: Emo, Robert B.
name: Kamber, Balz
name: Fernie, Nicholas
name: Nixon, Angus
name: Gilbert, Sarah
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Analytical conditions for the Lu–Hf and Ti-in-quartz laser sessions (named after the four study areas for this paper). *Laser spot diameters for standards are given within brackets.
Tradition and innovation in textile production and design in contemporary Japan: a sensory ethnographic approach
Creators: name: Hall, Jenny Meredith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ﻿Many Japanese people, including those in the government, the media and the artisans themselves, believe that the Japanese traditional textile industry is in decline. This thesis examines the contemporary Kyoto textile industry, focusing on the region where most of Japan’s kimonos and obis are made, to discover how young designers are incorporating traditional techniques and processes into their products. It argues that Japanese designers and consumers are redefining Japanese clothing while retaining its ‘traditional’ image. This is important because the reinvention of Japanese clothing demonstrates the embodiment of fashion concepts as well as the process by which tradition and modernity complement each other. The study draws upon ethnographic data collected in Kyoto via interviews, participant observation, textual analysis of advertising material, and statistical analysis of government and textile associations’ production data. Formal interviews were conducted in Japanese with 25 artisans, designers and manufacturers from 20 companies, and informal interviews conducted with another 30 individuals involved in the industry, including industry associations, wholesalers, weavers, dyers, finishers and retailers. The thesis utilises a sensory ethnographic approach to investigate the active use of the kimono, including the way that kimono is worn on the body, how garments are experienced as well as interpreted, and how this experience in turn affects production and consumption, including all of the senses in data collection methods and writing. This study found that the Japanese concept of ‘tradition’, which includes ideas of revitalization and change, means that Japanese artisans view innovations such as ‘digital yūzen’ and digital weaving as part of their traditional cultural heritage. Technological development is changing the system of production and distribution, allowing kimono to be made more quickly and in a more cost efficient way. There is also evidence of a renewed interpretation of wafuku (Japanese clothing) and new contexts for wearing wafuku occurring in the industry. The study established that Kyoto designers and consumers are both redefining wafuku while retaining its traditional image and working to disconnect kimono from classical conventions and settings. Ultimately, this thesis argues that the decline in ‘traditional’ kimono is being compensated for by a rise in new forms of revitalised Japanese clothing. Through this discussion, the thesis expands our knowledge of Japanese conceptualisations of tradition and fashion. It also contributes to the field of social anthropology by addressing the lack of sensory information in social anthropological discourse, ethnographic data collection methodology and anthropological literature.
On profinite subgroups of an algebraic group over a local field
Creators: name: Loisel, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to link anisotropy properties of an algebraic group together with compactness issues in the topological group of its rational points. We nd equivalent conditions on a smooth ane algebraic group scheme over a non-Archimedean local eld for the associated rational points to admit maximal compact subgroups. We use the structure theory of pseudo-reductive groups provided, whatever the characteristic, by Conrad, Gabber and Prasad. We also investigate thoroughly maximal prop subgroups in the semisimple case, using Bruhat-Tits theory.
Chemische Biologie von Membranproteinen: Synthese und Modifikation des Transducers NpHtrII aus dem Photorezeptor-Komplex von Natronomonas pharaonis
Creators: name: Dittmann, Marc
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Proteinsynthese
subject: Native chemische Ligation
subject: Halobakterieller Transducer des Rhodopsins
subject: Thioindigo
subject: 570

description: In dieser Arbeit wird die chemische Synthese der Membrandomäne des archaebakteriellen Transducerproteins NpHtrII unter Ausnutzung der Nativen Chemischen Ligation (NCL) beschrieben. Durch die Etablierung einer Synthese werden die Voraussetzungen für eine chemische Modifizierung des NpHtrII geschaffen, um sowohl den Einbau eines chemisch synthetisierten Photoschalters als auch die Inkorporation von Reportergruppen für spektroskopische Methoden zu ermöglichen. Diese Modifikationen werden zusätzliche bio-physikalische Untersuchungen erlauben und so helfen, weitere Kenntnisse über die Funktion des NpHtrII auf molekularer Ebene zu erhalten.
Narrating diaspora across media
Creators: name: Jungbluth, Eva
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The PhD thesis "Narrating Diaspora across Media" investigates narratives of diaspora in three distinct media formats: novels, feature films and graphic narratives. Its methodology brings together various branches from diaspora studies and narrative theory, both of which chronicle theoretical developments into various directions since the 1990s. Thus, diaspora and migration literatures have drawn increasing scholarly attention to literary representations of diasporic experiences and transnational and transcultural processes, which manifest very differently in various contexts of global migration. During the same period, narrative theory has undergone significant theoretical and methodological re-conceptions – from the structuralist and text-immanent approaches in the 1970s to today’s “postclassical” narratologies. Narrating Diaspora across Media connects culture-oriented and transmedial narratologies, and examines the ways in which recurrent themes in diaspora narratives are realised across media formats. With the particular interest in representations of space and time, the PhD thesis focuses on such themes as the journey, history and memory, and asks questions about relationships between content and form. How, for example, are movement, arrival and distance fictionally constructed and narratively realised? How are the tensions between ‘official’ history and individual histories and memories literarily discussed? How are the medium-specific properties of the novel’s written language, the film’s moving image, and the graphic narrative’s multimodal narrative resources utilised, how their aesthetic devices exploited for ‘staging’ these themes? Eventually, the narratives discussed in this thesis all enjoy certain popularity on the international market, which also raises interest in certain strategies that may be involved in making these narratives attractive to global audiences. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Monash University, Australia.
Films, layers and droplets: The effect of near-wall fluid structure on spreading dynamics
Creators: name: Yin, Hanyu
name: Sibley, David N.
name: Thiele, Uwe
name: Archer, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the spreading of liquid droplets on a solid substrate at very small scales. We focus on the regime where effective wetting energy (binding potential) and surface tension effects significantly influence steady and spreading droplets. In particular, we focus on strong packing and layering effects in the liquid near the substrate due to underlying density oscillations in the fluid caused by attractive substrate-liquid interactions. We show that such phenomena can be described by a thin-film (or long-wave or lubrication) model including an oscillatory Derjaguin (or disjoining/conjoining) pressure, and explore the effects it has on steady droplet shapes and the spreading dynamics of droplets on both, an adsorption (or precursor) layer and completely dry substrates. At the molecular scale, commonly used two-term binding potentials with a single preferred minimum controlling the adsorption layer height are inadequate to capture the rich behaviour caused by the near-wall layered molecular packing. The adsorption layer is often sub-monolayer in thickness, i.e., the dynamics along the layer consists of single-particle hopping, leading to a diffusive dynamics, rather than the collective hydrodynamic motion implicit in standard thin-film models. We therefore modify the model in such a way that for thicker films the standard hydrodynamic theory is realised, but for very thin layers a diffusion equation is recovered.
description: 17 pages, 21 figures
Cenobamate: A Review in Focal-Onset Seizures
Creators: name: Nie, Tina
name: Hoy, Sheridan M.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Declarations
Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Authorship and Conflict of interest Tina Nie and Sheridan M. Hoy are salaried employees of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declare no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to this article and are responsible for its content.
Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
Abstract
Cenobamate (Ontozry®) is a once-daily oral antiseizure medication (ASM) approved in the EU for the adjunctive treatment of focal-onset seizures, with or without secondary generalisation, in adults with epilepsy that have not been adequately controlled despite previous treatment with ≥ 2 anti-epileptic drugs. In clinical studies, its short-term use significantly reduced seizure frequency and was associated with significantly higher odds of achieving a ≥ 50% reduction in seizure frequency in adults with uncontrolled focal-onset seizures despite treatment with 1–3 concomitant ASMs. Seizure freedom rates were also improved. All these benefits were sustained over up to 48 months. Cenobamate was generally well tolerated across both the short- and longer-term (up to 94 months) clinical studies, with its low starting dosage (12.5 mg/day) and slow (12-week) titration schedule appearing to result in fewer severe treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) during the titration period. Somnolence, dizziness and fatigue were the most frequently reported TEAEs. The effectiveness and adverse events of cenobamate in real-world studies were consistent with those seen in the clinical studies. Thus, cenobamate continues to represent a useful adjunctive treatment option in adults with uncontrolled focal-onset seizures.
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Lösungsdokumentationen beim Einsatz neuer Technologien im Umfeld des Arbeitens mit Funktionen
Creators: name: Beck, Johannes
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Der Einsatz neuer Technologien bringt Veränderungen des Mathematikunterrichtes mit sich. Gerade wenn Verfahren verwendet werden, die eine Lösung ermöglichen, die vom üblichen handschriftlichen Rechnen abweicht, stellt insbesondere die Dokumentation des Lösungsprozesses ein neues Problem dar. In diesem Beitrag werden primär solche Geräte (Taschencomputer TC) und Softwareprogramme im Fokus stehen, welche die Funktionen von wissenschaftlichen Taschenrechnern, dynamischen Geometrie-Softwares, Tabellenkalkulationsprogrammen und Computeralgebrasystemen in sich vereinen und damit bei vielen Aufgaben verschiedene Lösungswege eröffnen. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, ein Arbeitsschema für Kategorien von Dokumentationen zu präsentieren, das als theoretischer Hintergrund dient, und aus dem sich Hilfestellungen für die Schulpraxis ableiten lassen. Dabei soll davon ausgegangen werden, dass die Dokumentation nur auf Papier geschieht und auf digitale Unterstützung, wie etwa das Speichern von Dateien oder Anfertigen von Screenshots, verzichtet wird. Zum einen erscheint es schwieriger, sich beim Dokumentieren auf Stift und Papier zu beschränken, zum anderen gilt z.B. in Bayern, dass in Prüfungen nur auf Papier dokumentiert werden darf (vgl. ISB, S. 79).
The coalfield and the apocalypse: poetry and the politics of time
Creators: name: Williamson, Caroline Mary Wintringham
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: What forms can the future take in our minds, in relation to the threat of climate change? Public responses to the bleak scenarios outlined by scientists have too often taken the form either of denial or despair. This creative writing thesis uses the work of Walter Benjamin and an examination of the work of some contemporary poets to open up ways of thinking through the politics of time in relation to the possibility of catastrophic climate change. My long poem ‘Cap Coch’ explores the coalfield of South Wales in the 1870s, a time of rapid expansion of mining and of dramatic social change. It establishes a distant time and place as being as conflicted and contradictory as our own, and even less aware of long-term environmental damage. It works towards a template for a way of thinking not just about the past but about the future: not as a single catastrophe but, as Walter Benjamin would have it, a chain of distinct events, equal in complexity to our own times. In the first chapter of the critical section of the thesis, I examine the life and writing of Walter Benjamin, in particular his final work ‘On the Concept of History’. I argue that his thinking exists in dialogue and mobility: multilayered, imagistic, deliberately incapable of being pinned down to a single interpretation. In his thinking about time and change he holds to a hard-won optimism, even in the face of immediate and overwhelming danger. The second and third chapters of the thesis explore these themes in the work of two very different poets. In her book Sea Change, the American poet Jorie Graham draws on the work of climate scientists to construct a catastrophic end for the human race. I offer a reading of the text – in opposition to her own accounts of it, and those of many of her critics – as an exploration of ways of relating to time in terms of the stages of a human life, and draw an analogy between the narrow dystopian vision in the first part of the book and my reading of Benjamin’s grieving angel of history: a position to be critiqued. Much of the work of Australian poet Jill Jones inhabits a complex present moment, urban, self-questioning and anti-rhetorical, that refuses to be mobilised into the conventions of environmental politics. She enacts a form of time comparable to that in which Benjamin sees the seeds of the future concealed within the present, ready at any moment to crack open, revealing the possibility of things being otherwise. The thesis concludes that poetry offers an open field in which both the form of a poem and its content may offer a range of other ways of being in the world, which are not necessarily openly political but which sidestep the conventional polarisation between denial and despair. With Benjamin, it asserts that even in the face of overwhelming odds the possibility of unimaginable change is always with us.
Norodom Sihanouk and the formulation of Cambodian foreign policy (1953-1976)
Creators: name: Jeldres, Julio Armando
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research seeks to provide a critical case study in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy in Cambodia between 1953, when the country obtained independence from France until the mid-1970s, when Norodom Sihanouk, ceased to have any impact on the conduct of foreign policy in Cambodia. It seeks to investigate the use of the Cold War by Norodom Sihanouk to keep his country free from involvement in the war in Vietnam through a combination of shrewd political skills, unpredictable diplomacy and charm.
THE EFFECTS OF WHOLE TREE HARVESTING ON SITE HYDROLOGY AND SOIL STRUCTURE AT BEDDGELERT FOREST, N. WALES, UK
Creators: name: HODGKINS, JULIA ELIZABETH
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1996

description: The ITE biogeochemistry group monitoring solute movement at Beddgelert Forest provided an opportunity to study the hydrology of a steep section of hillslope in a high rainfall environment. The aim of the experiment was to characterise and compare the hillslope hydrologies of one forested and one whole tree harvested site. Particular attention was paid to the influence of trees both directly on soil water pathways and indirectly on soil characteristics. Atmospheric inputs were monitored for the slope and individual plots for one year. In spite of high rainfall volumes, the slope was not waterlogged indicating a soil with high conductivity. However, frequent macropore flow was not observed at the site. Tensiometer results showed that the mineral soil remained unsaturated. Therefore, a type of preferential flow dominates at both sites. A one dimensional modelling approach to soil water movement confirmed that mesopores within the soil could conduct a large volume of water rapidly. Modelling demonstrated the importance of soil structure especially a large pore size distribution. Analyses of active soil water pathways based on tensiometer results were inconclusive. Downslope moisture gradient combined with high conductivity suggested that large quantities of water could be transmitted. Similarly, the well structured surface soil and marked horizon development also indicate lateral flow may be dominant. The study showed that saturated hydraulic conductivity was highly variable at both the forest and whole tree harvested sites. Analysis of semi-variograms indicated that most of the variance occurred at a sampling distance of 50 cm (i.e. individual tree roots and slate fragments were causing variations in Kg). Investigations of soil structure found more vertical cracks in the forest soil compared to the whole tree harvested site. At the more detailed ped scale, fractal dimensions of both sites were similar. Based on these results combined with temporal moisture content data the research has demonstrated that first, the hydrologicai regime at both sites were similar. Second, the direct impact of trees was limited. Third, the large cracks at the forest site were not significant. The major result of this research was that at both sites vertical flow in the Ah/Ea horizon dominates and a significant amount of water moved laterally within the Eag, Bs and C horizons. This result has major implications for the solute chemistry and movement of acid deposition in that soil water born solutes will tend to enter water courses more rapidly than if vertical flow predominated.
Developing coaches’ sociological literacy and their informed agency as social actors
Creators: name: Bailey, Jake
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified

description: This PhD by published works is comprised of two key elements. First, an introductory critical analysis, which aims to contextualise and explain the contribution of the collected chapters and articles. This is achieved through a reflective, biographical account, that locates the publications within the wider field of coaching literature, whilst suggesting a trajectory of thought across the ten-years covered. The account provides an overview of the research produced in three distinct, but overlapping, phases from my position as a practitioner-researcher. The critical analysis is proceeded by the presentation of the publications. Taken as a whole, the case is made that sociological theory creates, for those willing to engage with it, opportunity and space for perceptual shifts that can have an impact on the way practice is understood, conceptualised, and, consequently, enacted. It is argued that developing greater understanding of the social context within which coaching occurs holds the potential to liberate and inform coaches’ actions, helping them respond in ways that are contextually appropriate and more likely to have the intended impact for learners. Hence, a sociological awareness can not only lead to greater appreciation of what we can and perhaps can’t do, it also gives flight to inferential thought about what, as coaches, we might be able to do. This line of thought acknowledges and reinforces that coaching is, first and foremostly, done with others; it is a social, relational, pedagogical action at heart. Whilst requiring knowledge of technique and tactics, coaching is about the actors (the ‘who’) involved, and what they stand for, in the construction of the practice. Consequently, intellectual endeavour is promoted as an important component of coach learning and practice, supporting, and advancing the case for coaches to develop a ‘quality of mind’ to improve both the process and act of coaching. The Published works are not included here due to copyright restrictions
File 8: Robust laser ablation Lu–Hf dating of apatite: an empirical evaluation
Creators: name: Glorie, Stijn
name: Hand, Martin
name: Mulder, Jacob
name: Simpson, Alexander
name: Emo, Robert B.
name: Kamber, Balz
name: Fernie, Nicholas
name: Nixon, Angus
name: Gilbert, Sarah
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Apatite REE spidergraphs, normalized to primitive mantle values (McDonough and Sun 1995).
Spinning droplets: non-first generation East and Southeast Asian Australian poets and the discourse of water
Creators: name: McFarlane, Rosalind Nicole
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Poetry written by diasporic Asian groups in Australia has been gaining increasing attention, especially with the 2013 release of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill, the first anthology of this kind of work. This thesis aims to be the first instance of sustained critical attention paid to many of the poets included in this anthology, including Adam Aitken, Ivy Alvarez, Lachlan Brown, Lily Chan, Bella Li, Debbie Lim, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Omar Musa, Vuong Pham , Jaya Savige and James Stuart. The poets in this study were chosen because they represent a growing area in Australia: that of Asian Australians who were born in or moved to Australia as children, and who thus have a different perspective on the diasporic experience to those who arrived as adults. There has yet to be much critical attention paid to these non-first generation writers, and this thesis aims precisely to explore the unique perspective these writers may offer. Further, each of these writers has published at least one book or chapbook in Australia, demonstrating their ongoing commitment to their creative work and to being read by an Australian audience. This also allows the study to use an Australian literary perspective when considering how these poets actively engage with an Australian audience. The choice to focus on poets who have a connection to East or Southeast Asia was made for reasons of focus and brevity, the same reasons the editors of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets limit their collection to poets with cultural backgrounds from specific parts of Asia, though this work draws the lines closer to East and Southeast Asia to allow a more in depth critical focus. I also chose to focus on this group because of the long history they have in Australia and their current creative diasporic community. Jacqueline Lo notes the centrality of this group when founding Asian Australian studies, and there has continued to be a growing conversation around them. I chose to focus on the trope of water when reading these poems because it represents a connection between Australia and Southeast/East Asia, but also because it represents a separation at the same time. At various times Australia has seen the sea as a way to connect, particularly economically, with East and Southeast Asia. However, this same sea has also been seen as a form of insecurity that allows an invasion. I wanted to investigate the ways in which poets, who by being diasporic are both connected to and separated from the two spaces of Asia and Australia through and because of water.
Memory and universality in interface growth
Creators: name: De Nardis, Jacopo
name: Doussal, Pierre Le
name: Takeuchi, Kazumasa A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding possible universal properties for systems far from equilibrium is much less developed than for their equilibrium counterparts and poses a major challenge to present day statistical physics. The study of aging properties, and how the memory of the past is conserved by the time evolution in presence of noise is a crucial facet of the problem. Recently, very robust universal properties were shown to arise in one-dimensional growth processes with local stochastic rules,leading to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. Yet it has remained essentially unknown how fluctuations in these systems correlate at different times. Here we derive quantitative predictions for the universal form of the two-time aging dynamics of growing interfaces, which, moreover, turns out to exhibit a surprising breaking of ergodicity. We provide corroborating experimental observations on a turbulent liquid crystal system, which demonstrates universality. This may give insight into memory effects in a broader class of far-from-equilibrium systems.
description: 6 pages + supplemental material (5 pages). 9 figures
Arithmetic functions in short intervals and the symmetric group
Creators: name: Rodgers, Brad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the variance of sums of arithmetic functions over random short intervals in the function field setting. Based on the analogy between factorizations of random elements of $\mathbb{F}_q[T]$ into primes and the factorizations of random permutations into cycles, we give a simple but general formula for these variances in the large $q$ limit for arithmetic functions that depend only upon factorization structure. From this we derive new estimates, quickly recover some that are already known, and make new conjectures in the setting of the integers. In particular we make the combinatorial observation that any function of this sort can be decomposed into a sum of functions $u$ and $v$, depending on the size of the short interval, with $u$ making a negligible contribution to the variance, and $v$ asymptotically contributing diagonal terms only. This variance evaluation is closely related to the appearance of random matrix statistics in the zeros of families of L-functions and sheds light on the arithmetic meaning of this phenomenon.
description: 45 pages. Includes a new explicit characterization of decomposition and variance; e.g. Corollary 3.5
File 3: Robust laser ablation Lu–Hf dating of apatite: an empirical evaluation
Creators: name: Glorie, Stijn
name: Hand, Martin
name: Mulder, Jacob
name: Simpson, Alexander
name: Emo, Robert B.
name: Kamber, Balz
name: Fernie, Nicholas
name: Nixon, Angus
name: Gilbert, Sarah
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Isochron and weighted mean plots for the Lu–Hf matrix-correction standard (OD-306) and secondary standards HR-1 and Bamble-1. MSWD, mean squared weighted deviation; n, number of analyses; P(χ2), Chi-squared probability for a single data population. Where required (i.e. insufficient spread along the isochron), the isochrons were anchored to an initial 177Hf/176Hf ratio of 3.55 ± 0.05 (see text).
Characterisation of norovirus isolates obtained from Children with acute gastroenteritis
Creators: name: Mahar, Jackie Elizabeth
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Thesis with publications.

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

Noroviruses are the most common cause of gastroenteritis. Human noroviruses are classified into more than 26 genotypes based on sequence of the capsid or RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene. Genotype II.4 is the most commonly identified norovirus genotype in adults, however, genotype distribution in children is variable. This dissertation aimed to conduct a molecular epidemiological study of norovirus strains causing paediatric gastroenteritis, while investigating the evolutionary mechanisms employed by paediatric-associated strains, and identifying antibody-binding epitopes on the capsid protein. Stool samples were collected from 272 Australian children hospitalised with gastroenteritis during 2006 to 2008. Using RT-PCR, norovirus was detected in 35% of samples, with GII.4 (49%) and GII.3 recombinant strains (46%) identified as the most prevalent genotypes. Due to the high incidence of recombination and paediatric association of GII.3 strains, the evolutionary mechanisms were investigated. The capsid gene of 6 GII.3 norovirus paediatric strains were sequenced and aligned with 66 GII.3 capsid sequences from GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis predicted the GII.3 capsid gene to have evolved via five genetic lineages and the clustering of GII.3 capsid sequences was associated with intergenic recombination. Rate analyses suggested that the switching of RdRp genes may aid in increased evolution rate and adaptability. Six antibody-binding epitopes were identified on the GII.3 capsid using immunoprecipitation, mass spectrometry and Mimotopes. The epitopes were highly conserved, except for two within the P2 domain that were in close association with human attachment factor binding sites. There were several sites within these two epitopes that varied according to lineage, suggesting a possible role of immune pressure in GII.3 evolution. Interestingly, GII.3 noroviruses exhibited broad intergenotype cross-reactivity. This study highlighted the importance of GII.3 norovirus as a cause of paediatric disease. Furthermore, this study characterised major evolutionary mechanisms and immunogenic regions important to the persistence and spread of this virus.
File 10: Robust laser ablation Lu–Hf dating of apatite: an empirical evaluation
Creators: name: Glorie, Stijn
name: Hand, Martin
name: Mulder, Jacob
name: Simpson, Alexander
name: Emo, Robert B.
name: Kamber, Balz
name: Fernie, Nicholas
name: Nixon, Angus
name: Gilbert, Sarah
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Full Concordia plots for the zircon U–Pb data from the Reynolds–Anmatjira samples. The age calculation is based on the youngest concordant grains (green symbols) only. MSWD, mean squared weighted deviation; P(χ2), Chi-squared probability for a single data population.
Thinking in time: the poetry of Laurie Duggan, Pam Brown and Ken Bolton & Suns and other poems
Creators: name: Wright, Tim Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis comprises two parts: a work of criticism, and a collection of poems. The critical work focuses on three contemporary Australian poets — Ken Bolton, Laurie Duggan, and Pam Brown. It argues that the work of each demonstrates a modernist preoccupation with time, interrelated with the use of discursive-critical modes of expression. Analysis is brought to bear on the various ways that time is exercised as a conscious constraint on key poems, and the differing ways in which this allows for a poetry of temporalised ‘thinking’. Examples of the serial poem or the sequence, the process poem, the notebook poem, the lyric and the elegy are closely-read in illustration of this argument. Favoured styles and techniques such as collage, citation of popular culture, and a continuing engagement of the present tense of inscription, are analysed with respect to the differing ‘time senses’ the poems inhabit and express. Contemporary with and often considered members of the Generation of ’68, the poets have been friends and correspondents since the 1970s, when each began publishing, and this social connection is overt in a number of the poems. A distinct aesthetic begins to appear in the late 1970s, and this is developed in the later poetry of the 1990s and 2000s. Notable aspects of the work of the three poets include: an ironic and deflationary tone; the use of satirical and parodic modes; a continuing interest in the complexities of the everyday; and the eschewing of metaphor and favouring of critical and discursive modes. The poems that make up the second part of the thesis were composed in parallel with the research, and the models and approaches explored in this research find their way into the writing. Several poems extend from forms and styles evident in poems by Duggan, Brown and Bolton (as well as poems by those who have influenced them). A wish to experiment with forms that render time an overt element of the poem (and of poetic thinking more broadly) motivates a number of poems included in the collection. These connections are explored in a brief exegesis which is positioned at the end of the collection.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 70
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Benutzungsordnung der im zentralen Bibliotheksgebäude der Universität untergebrachten Bibliothekseinrichtungen der Universität Dortmund, der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ruhr und der Fachhochschule Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 70
Children of the volk: children's literature as an ideological tool in National Socialist Germany
Creators: name: Robertson, Stephanie Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Between 1933 and 1945, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist Party was able to establish a totalitarian government in Germany and its occupied territories. A primary aim of this fascist regime was the implementation of measures which would allow for complete control over Germany’s cultural sector. The regulation of the cultural sphere was designed to create a new ‘ideal’ society, which aligned with the goals of the National Socialist Party. The National Socialist regime systematically regulated and controlled the administration of literature, a medium which was perceived as a powerful means of bringing about a change in attitudes and the belief systems of both adults and children. Particular attention was paid to the restructuring of the children’s literature sector. Therefore, guidelines were produced for authors and educational institutions to mandate what was ‘acceptable’ children’s reading material. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the National Socialist agenda of restructuring and controlling the children’s literature market, the degree to which this was successfully implemented, and most importantly, how National Socialist ideals and objectives were reflected in the children’s books produced between 1933 and 1945. This is investigated in reference to a number of exemplary texts. Additionally, how the National Socialist’s propagandist agenda correlated with the children’s literature produced during this time is also addressed. In this context, it is also important to closely compare European children’s literature produced prior to the National Socialist period, to establish how the literary focus might have shifted. This thesis identifies specific beliefs of the National Socialist regime, such as the racial superiority of the Germanic or Nordic people, anti-Semitic sentiment, devotion to the Führer and the fatherland, and the National Socialist understanding of gender roles, in order to explore how these beliefs and ideas are reflected in the literature for children. A critical review of the children’s literature produced during this period sets out to establish whether these themes are apparent and in which ways they are communicated to the child reader, in relation to both boys and girls. This thesis also explores the ways in which National Socialist authors adapted complex adult themes, such as racial hygiene, for the comprehension of child readers. The children’s literature examined in this thesis is divided into three periods; the literature published in the early period (1933–1936), the middle period or the years shortly before the war (1936–1939), and the late period or war period (1939–1945). This accounts for the different ‘generations’ of child readers who had more or less extensive exposure to the ideology of National Socialism.
On Supersymmetric Geometric Flows and $\mathcal{R}^2$ Inflation From Scale Invariant Supergravity
Creators: name: Rajpoot, Subhash
name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of geometric flows pertaining to $\mathcal{R}^2$ scale invariant (super) gravity theories coupled to conformally invariant matter fields are investigated. Related to this work are supersymmetric scalar manifolds that are isomorphic to the Kählerian spaces $\mathcal{M}_n=SU(1,1+k)/U(1)\times SU(1+k)$ as generalizations of the non-supersymmetric analogs with $SO(1,1+k)/SO(1+k)$ manifolds. For curved superspaces with geometric evolution of physical objects, a complete supersymmetric theory has to be elaborated on nonholonomic (super) manifolds and bundles determined by non-integrable superdistributions with additional constraints on (super) field dynamics and geometric evolution equations. We also consider generalizations of Perelman's functionals using such nonholonomic variables which result in the decoupling of geometric flow equations and Ricci soliton equations with supergravity modifications of the $R^2$ gravity theory. As such, it is possible to construct exact non-homogeneous and locally anisotropic cosmological solutions for various types of (super) gravity theories modelled as modified Ricci soliton configurations. Such solutions are defined by employing the general ansatz encompassing coefficients of generic off-diagonal metrics and generalized connections that depend generically on all spacetime coordinates. We consider nonholonomic constraints resulting in diagonal homogeneous configurations encoding contributions from possible nonlinear parametric geometric evolution scenarios, off-diagonal interactions and anisotropic polarization/ modification of physical constants. We also analyze the conditions under which such modified mimetic type theories and solutions reproduce the Starobinsky inflationary models in the double scalar approach.
description: v3 is accepted to AP NY, updated affiliation, and new references; Authors comments on "text overlap with arXiv:1409.7076 ...": together with [T. Gheorghiu et al. AP NY 369 (2016) 1], we present further developments of the published version of arXiv: 1409.7076 - cited several times, with repeating text and results by A. Kehagias, et al