cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, 2023,18 (13.09.2023)
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: BTU  Cottbus - Senftenberg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke

description: 1. Erste Änderungssatzung zur Prüfungs- und Studienordnung für den Master-Studiengang Klimagerechtes Bauen und Betreiben (M. Sc.) vom 11. September 2023 2. Lesefassung: Prüfungs- und Studienordnung für den Master-Studiengang Klimagerechtes Bauen und Betreiben (M. Sc.) vom 01. März 2018 i. d. F. der ersten Änderungssatzung zur Prüfungs- und Studienordnung für den Master-Studiengang Klimagerechtes Bauen und Betreiben (M. Sc.) vom 11. September 2023
description: Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg; 2023, H. 18
Young Chinese students’ teamwork experiences in a UK business school – from a cultural perspective
Creators: name: Wang, Rebecca (Yi)
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: Using a qualitative approach, this study examines young Chinese students’ (born post 1985) perceptions of teamwork and how these perceptions change as a result of their experiences, whilst studying at a UK university. Built from deep and rich data collected from in-depth interviews with an experimental group of students, the research establishes that through direct communication with students from various cultural backgrounds during teamwork, the Chinese students adapt psychologically, cognitively and behaviourally to varying degrees. The decreased wariness of local and other international students and British university staff, increased self confidence and sense of achievement may be categorised as psychological adaptation. Changes are also revealed in their open mindedness, decreased ethnocentrism, increased cultural awareness, and attitudes towards time and assessment, opinions on abiding principles, that is following ethical and moral aspects and regulations. These may be labelled as cognitive adaptation. Further, changes are shown in their ways of expressing opinions, holding ground, handling uncertainties, mixing with local and international students, and studying autonomously. These may be termed as behavioural adaptation. The research finds that the extent of adaptation is moderated by their individual learning approaches, namely surface, deep and achieving. It stresses that creating optimal cultural synergy with diverse cultural contacts/exposure not only facilitates but maximises cultural adaptation, namely fitting in with new social and educational environment. The results are triangulated by the findings from a comparison group of similar students in China, with respect to age, gender and learning approaches, thus aiming to discount any bias. Implications arising from the study suggest that the internationalisation of education should enhance ‘cultural synergy’ so that both the local and international students can enrich their learning experiences and develop intercultural competence.
Reviews
Creators: name: Simmons, Jack
name: Hambling Evans, Rupert
name: Katherine Babette, Anne
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 28, 98-103
description: LEICESTERSHIRE AND THE QuoRN HUNT. By Colin D. B. Ellis. xiii + 221 pp. Leicester: Backus. 1951. 30s.; FRIAR LANE: THE STORY OF THREE HUNDRED YEARS. By Douglas Ashby. 131 pp. The Carey Kingsgate Press. 1951; THOSE TAKING PART, 1802-1952: A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOND STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LEICESTER. By E. M. Drew. 32 pp. Bond Street Congregational Church, Leicester. 1951; 1751-1951: TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN DISEWORTH, LEICS. 8 pp. Coalville Times Ltd. 1951. 2s. 6d; LEICESTER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY BULLETIN. Third Series. Vol. I, no. 1. 1952. 24 pp. Museum and Art Gallery. Is. 9d; BEGINNING IN ARCH�0LOGY. By Kathleen M. Kenyon. 203 pp. Phrenix House. 1952. 12s. 6d; THE PRESERVATION OF OUR CHURCHES. 112 pp. Church Information Board (Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W.1). 1952. 3s. 6d. (without illustrations). 5s. (illustrated); LIST OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF SURREY. Edited by C. D. Hawley. Fourth edition. xvi + 2II pp. Kingston-upon-Thames: Surrey County Council. 1951. 15s; ENGLISH CHURCHYARD SCULPTURE. By Frederick Burgess. 19 pp. Arts Council of Britain. n.d. Is. 6d.
Information in organisations : a comparative study of information cultures
Creators: name: Oliver., Gillian Christina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Rectors of the Chapel and Parish Church of Noseley
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 13, 73-79
description: Since the account of the manor and chapel of Noseley was printed in our Transactions, it has been possible, owing to the kind offices of Canon Foster, to obtain lists of the incumbents of the chapel and of the parish church, compiled chiefly from the registers of institutions at Lincoln. Institutions to the chapel begin after the resignation of the first warden, whose appointment has already been recorded. The various descriptions of their office are interesting enough to be given at length in connection with each institution. It will be noted that the chapel is referred to indiscriminately as a chapel, college or chantry, and that occasionally its close relation to the manor is stated with some detail. Its warden (gardianus or custos) has similarly more than one synonym : he is provost (praepositus), master (magister), or rector. The variations of these terms in the titles of heads of Oxford colleges will be remembered, and their use in the present instance reminds us that there is no real distinction in their meaning when applied to such persons, but that their use is purely arbitrary. In view of the very dubious recognition at a later date of the chapel as a parish church with a rector of its own, the institution of 1397 may be noticed. The form of that institution, which possibly arose from an error in the presentation deed, is obviously mistaken, as the union of the rectory of the parish church to the wardenship put an end to the separate advowson, so that the patron of the chapel could make no presentation to a rectory which had come automatically to an end as an independent benefice, and, while it existed separately, had been in another patron's gift.
A history of the internet and its domain names, as an application of structuration theory to technology
Creators: name: O'Daniel., Thomas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Seeking Thachsanh's rice bowl : an exploration of knowledge, ICTs and sustainable economic development in Vietnam
Creators: name: Tuyen., Nguyen Thanh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Market Bosworth
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 15, 97-123
description: The church of St. Peter consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower with spire. The fabric, as it stands, is very largely the result of rebuilding during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and of the earlier building few traces are left. The north aisle was added and the tower begun during the first quarter of the fourteenth century : the south aisle was added towards the end of the same century; and at the various periods during the next century the chancel was reconstructed, the nave arcades remodelled and the clerestory added, and the spire built.
A study of the experiential service design process at a luxury hotel
Creators: name: Weathers Nixon, Natalie
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: This thesis explores the process of designing experiential services at a luxury hotel. These processes were surfaced by means of a methodology that used the principles of jazz improvisation. Due to similarities between experiential service design and elements in jazz improvisation, representing experiential service design through the jazz improvisation metaphor leads to a new framework for exploring the process of experiential service design that is iterative in nature. A gap in the service design literature is that experiential service design is not operationalized in organizational improvisation, and one contribution from this study will be to fill that gap. This study contributes to the field of knowledge by exposing a new perspective on how experiential services can be better designed by adapting some of the design tools from this luxury hotel; a second contribution is a recommendation for how the improvisational lens works as an investigative tool to research experiential organizations. In the process, some new dimensions to understanding complexity are contributed. The research process utilized qualitative research methods. Frank Barrett (1998) identified seven characteristics of jazz improvisation which I have used as a heuristic device: 1) provocative competence (i.e., deliberately creating disruption); 2) embracing errors as learning sources; 3) minimal structures that allow for maximum flexibility; 4) distributed task (i.e., an ongoing give and take); 5) reliance on retrospective sensemaking (organizational members as bricoleurs, making use of whatever is at hand); 6) hanging out (connecting through communities of practice); and 7) alternating between soloing and supporting. This research is grounded in the body of literature regarding complexity, organizational improvisation, service design and experience design. The role of heterogeneous minimal structures that are fluid and optimize uncertainty is central to this investigation. Themes such as sensemaking and the role of story, meaning-making, organizational actors' use of tangible and intangible design skills, and embracing ambiguity in efforts to design experiential services are explored throughout the dissertation. The anticipatory nature of experiential service design is a principle outcome from the data that is incorporated into the new conceptual framework highlighting a "posture of service".
Intrinsic group behaviour: dependence of pedestrian dyad dynamics on principal social and personal features
Creators: name: Zanlungo, Francesco
name: Yucel, Zeynep
name: Brscic, Drazen
name: Kanda, Takayuki
name: Hagita, Norihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Being determined by human social behaviour, pedestrian group dynamics depends on "intrinsic properties" of the group such as the purpose of the pedestrians, their personal relation, their gender, age, and body size. In this work we quantitatively study the dynamical properties of pedestrian dyads by analysing a large data set of automatically tracked pedestrian trajectories in an unconstrained "ecological" setting (a shopping mall), whose relational group properties have been coded by three different human observers. We observed that females walk slower and closer than males, that workers walk faster, at a larger distance and more abreast than leisure oriented people, and that inter group relation has a strong effect on group structure, with couples walking very close and abreast, colleagues walking at a larger distance, and friends walking more abreast than family members. Pedestrian height (obtained automatically through our tracking system) influences velocity and abreast distance, both growing functions of the average group height. Results regarding pedestrian age show as expected that elderly people walk slowly, while active age adults walk at the maximum velocity. Groups with children have a strong tendency to walk in a non abreast formation, with a large distance (despite a low abreast distance). A cross-analysis of the interplay between these intrinsic features, taking in account also the effect of extrinsic crowd density, confirms these major effects but reveals also a richer structure. An interesting and unexpected result, for example, is that the velocity of groups with children {\it increases} with density, at least in the low-medium density range found under normal conditions in shopping malls. Children also appear to behave differently according to the gender of the parent.
A generic framework for process execution and secure multi-party transaction authorization
Creators: name: Weigold, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: Process execution engines are not only an integral part of workflow and business process management systems but are increasingly used to build process-driven applications. In other words, they are potentially used in all kinds of software across all application domains. However, contemporary process engines and workflow systems are unsuitable for use in such diverse application scenarios for several reasons. The main shortcomings can be observed in the areas of interoperability, versatility, and programmability. Therefore, this thesis makes a step away from domain specific, monolithic workflow engines towards generic and versatile process runtime frameworks, which enable integration of process technology into all kinds of software. To achieve this, the idea and corresponding architecture of a generic and embeddable process virtual machine (ePVM), which supports defining process flows along the theoretical foundation of communicating extended finite state machines, are presented. The architecture focuses on the core process functionality such as control flow and state management, monitoring, persistence, and communication, while using JavaScript as a process definition language. This approach leads to a very generic yet easily programmable process framework. A fully functional prototype implementation of the proposed framework is provided along with multiple example applications. Despite the fact that business processes are increasingly automated and controlled by information systems, humans are still involved, directly or indirectly, in many of them. Thus, for process flows involving sensitive transactions, a highly secure authorization scheme supporting asynchronous multi-party transaction authorization must be available within process management systems. Therefore, along with the ePVM framework, this thesis presents a novel approach for secure remote multi-party transaction authentication - the zone trusted information channel (ZTIC). The ZTIC approach uniquely combines multiple desirable properties such as the highest level of security, ease-of-use, mobility, remote administration, and smooth integration with existing infrastructures into one device and method. Extensively evaluating both, the ePVM framework and the ZTIC, this thesis shows that ePVM in combination with the ZTIC approach represents a unique and very powerful framework for building workflow systems and process-driven applications including support for secure multi-party transaction authorization.
Trusted transaction secure network : agent-based distributed security control system for traffic on the Internet
Creators: name: Nasution., Benny Benyamin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On the geometric notion of connection and its expression in tangent categories
Creators: name: Lucyshyn-Wright, Rory B. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D99, 53C05, 53B05, 18F15

description: Tangent categories provide an axiomatic approach to key structural aspects of differential geometry that exist not only in the classical category of smooth manifolds but also in algebraic geometry, homological algebra, computer science, and combinatorics. Generalizing the notion of (linear) connection on a smooth vector bundle, Cockett and Cruttwell have defined a notion of connection on a differential bundle in an arbitrary tangent category. Herein, we establish equivalent formulations of this notion of connection that reduce the amount of specified structure required. Further, one of our equivalent formulations substantially reduces the number of axioms imposed, and others provide useful abstract conceptualizations of connections. In particular, we show that a connection on a differential bundle E over M is equivalently given by a single morphism K that induces a suitable decomposition of TE as a biproduct. We also show that a connection is equivalently given by a vertical connection K for which a certain associated diagram is a limit diagram.
description: Updated to reflect journal version (published 2018-08-25)
Ashby de la Zouch
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 15, 59-96
description: The church of St. Helen consists of a chancel with a north chapel of two storeys and a south transeptal chapel, a clerestoried nave of four bays with north and south aisles, to which outer aisles have been added in modern times, and west tower. The whole building has been much modernised, and most of the older work is of the fifteenth century, when the church was largely rebuilt. The whole exterior, with the exception of the tower, is practically new, the older walling having been thoroughly refaced.
Copula Index for Detecting Dependence and Monotonicity between Stochastic Signals
Creators: name: Karra, Kiran
name: Mili, Lamine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper introduces a nonparametric copula-based index for detecting the strength and monotonicity structure of linear and nonlinear statistical dependence between pairs of random variables or stochastic signals. Our index, termed Copula Index for Detecting Dependence and Monotonicity (CIM), satisfies several desirable properties of measures of association, including Renyi's properties, the data processing inequality (DPI), and consequently self-equitability. Synthetic data simulations reveal that the statistical power of CIM compares favorably to other state-of-the-art measures of association that are proven to satisfy the DPI. Simulation results with real-world data reveal the CIM's unique ability to detect the monotonicity structure among stochastic signals to find interesting dependencies in large datasets. Additionally, simulations show that the CIM shows favorable performance to estimators of mutual information when discovering Markov network structure.
description: Keywords: copula, statistical dependency, monotonic, equitability, discrete 40 pages
Beyond Assembly Bias: Exploring Secondary Halo Biases for Cluster-size Haloes
Creators: name: Mao, Yao-Yuan
name: Zentner, Andrew R.
name: Wechsler, Risa H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Secondary halo bias, commonly known as 'assembly bias,' is the dependence of halo clustering on a halo property other than mass. This prediction of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmology is essential to modelling the galaxy distribution to high precision and interpreting clustering measurements. As the name suggests, different manifestations of secondary halo bias have been thought to originate from halo assembly histories. We show conclusively that this is incorrect for cluster-size haloes. We present an up-to-date summary of secondary halo biases of high-mass haloes due to various halo properties including concentration, spin, several proxies of assembly history, and subhalo properties. While concentration, spin, and the abundance and radial distribution of subhaloes exhibit significant secondary biases, properties that directly quantify halo assembly history do not. In fact, the entire assembly histories of haloes in pairs are nearly identical to those of isolated haloes. In general, a global correlation between two halo properties does not predict whether or not these two properties exhibit similar secondary biases. For example, assembly history and concentration (or subhalo abundance) are correlated for both paired and isolated haloes, but follow slightly different conditional distributions in these two cases. This results in a secondary halo bias due to concentration (or subhalo abundance), despite the lack of assembly bias in the strict sense for cluster-size haloes. Due to this complexity, caution must be exercised in using any one halo property as a proxy to study the secondary bias due to another property.
description: 14+1 pages, 9+1 figures. Figures 2 and 8 highlight the main results. Accepted by MNRAS. Fig 9 updated; main result unchanged
title: Recording in the Fashion Design Process
Creators: name: McGilp, Helen Laura
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: Although fashion is everywhere in our day-to-day lives, the process of fashion design itself remains mysterious. Few academic studies have been carried out into fashion design processes in industry from the perspective of the designer, who also appears to record little of their own practice. The benefits of recording in design processes are well supported by the literature in other design disciplines, such as architecture or engineering. However, little is known about recording and non-recording practices in the fashion industry. This thesis addresses the gap through the overall research question: What roles do recording and non-recording practices play in the fashion design process, from the perspective of designer? An in-depth analysis was undertaken of 5 case study fashion designers who, over their careers, worked with 47 fashion brands, primarily situated within a Western context, operating transnationally. To anchor the analysis of recording, the cases were combined with an extended analysis of the literature to reveal the different roles of fashion designers. A generic fashion design process model is presented as an organising structure. Thematic analysis was used to determine 91 interconnected record archetypes. Patterns of recording practice were drawn out around themes of purpose, form, function, retention and retrieval. Comparative analysis undertaken through the lens of literature from other fields analysed patterns of non-recording. Offering a detailed glimpse into the—often hidden—world of fashion design, the thesis uncovered a rich spectrum of recording practices encompassing a large number of partial and informal records. In the absence of external requirements for recording, the primary formal records are highly detailed product specifications. It is shown, however, that fashion designers manage their design processes with surprisingly few records, making opportunistic use of fragmentary records and occasionally operating in the absence of records.
(503111) John Church
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Periodic orbits in virtually contact structures
Creators: name: Bae, Youngjin
name: Wiegand, Kevin
name: Zehmisch, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D35, 70H05, 37J45

description: We prove that certain non-exact magnetic Hamiltonian systems on products of closed hyperbolic surfaces and with a potential function of large oscillation admit non-constant contractible periodic solutions of energy below the Mañé critical value. For that we develop a theory of holomorphic curves in symplectizations of non-compact contact manifolds that arise as the covering space of a virtually contact structure whose contact form is bounded with all derivatives up to order three.
description: Theorem 1.1 added, version accepted for publication in J. Topol. Anal, typos corrected
Photo-polarimetric characteristics of brown dwarfs, Part I: uniform cloud decks
Creators: name: Sanghavi, Suniti
name: Shporer, Avi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is a theoretical exploration for facilitating the interpretation of polarimetric observations in terms of cloudiness, rotational velocities and effective temperatures of brown dwarfs (BDs). An envelope of scatterers like free-electrons, atoms/molecules, or haze/clouds affects the Stokes-vector of radiation emitted by oblate bodies. Due to high rotation rates, BDs can be considerably oblate. We present a conics-based radiative transfer (RT) scheme for computing the disc-resolved and disc-integrated polarized emission of an oblate BD or extrasolar giant planet (EGP) bearing homogenous or patchy clouds. Assuming a uniform grey atmosphere, we theoretically examine the photopolarimetric sensitivity to its scattering properties like cloud optical thickness and grain-size, concurrently with BD properties, like oblateness, inclination and effective temperature, which are all treated as free parameters. Additionally, we examine the potential effects of gravitational darkening (GD), revealing that it could significantly amplify disc-integrated polarization. GD imparts a non-linear inverse temperature-dependence to the resulting polarization. Photopolarimetric observations are sensitive to oblateness and inclination. The degree-of-polarization (DoP) increases in response to both, making it potentially useful for assessing the spatial orientation of the BD. Under our model assumptions, increasing droplet size in optically thick clouds causes a blue-ward shift in near-infrared (NIR) colors of BDs --- interesting in view of the observed J-K brightening in L/T transition. For large cloud grains, polarization decreases sharply, while transmitted intensity shows a steady increase. BD polarization is thus a potential indicator not only of the presence of clouds but also provides information on cloud grain size.
Equivalent Model of Transient Gyrotron Cathode Response
Creators: name: Xu, Weiye
name: Xu, Handong
name: Liu, Fukun
name: Wang, Xiaojie
name: Yang, Yong
name: Zhang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gyrotron is the high power millimeter wave source in the electron cyclotron resonance heating system for the tokamak. The cathode power supply is one of the most important ancillary devices for gyrotron. Some interesting transient phenomena about the cathode voltage and the cathode current was found in the gyrotron operation in the electron cyclotron resonance heating system for the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. The cathode voltage drops to about 10% of the original value by about 90 μs in the overcurrent case, which is much longer than the 25 μs in the normal case. In order to explain these phenomena, an equivalent circuit model of the magnetron injection gun was proposed. The equivalent circuit is composed of parallel resistors and capacitors, and it can explain the test results very well. Using the equivalent circuit model to analyze gyrotrons may become an effective means of developing and operating an electron cyclotron heating system.
description: 8 pages
User-centric modelling for data warehouses
Creators: name: Nair., Resmi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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(503110) Sybil Constance Bigge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Exploring quantum chaos with a single nuclear spin
Creators: name: Mourik, Vincent
name: Asaad, Serwan
name: Firgau, Hannes
name: Pla, Jarryd J.
name: Holmes, Catherine
name: Milburn, Gerard J.
name: McCallum, Jeffrey C.
name: Morello, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most classical dynamical systems are chaotic. The trajectories of two identical systems prepared in infinitesimally different initial conditions diverge exponentially with time. Quantum systems, instead, exhibit quasi-periodicity due to their discrete spectrum. Nonetheless, the dynamics of quantum systems whose classical counterparts are chaotic are expected to show some features that resemble chaotic motion. Among the many controversial aspects of the quantum-classical boundary, the emergence of chaos remains among the least experimentally verified. Time-resolved observations of quantum chaotic dynamics are particularly rare, and as yet unachieved in a single particle, where the subtle interplay between chaos and quantum measurement could be explored at its deepest levels. We present here a realistic proposal to construct a chaotic driven top from the nuclear spin of a single donor atom in silicon, in the presence of a nuclear quadrupole interaction. This system is exquisitely measurable and controllable, and possesses extremely long intrinsic quantum coherence times, allowing for the observation of subtle dynamical behavior over extended periods. We show that signatures of chaos are expected to arise for experimentally realizable parameters of the system, allowing the study of the relation between quantum decoherence and classical chaos, and the observation of dynamical tunneling.
description: revised and published version
Some notes on manors and manorial history
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 15, 294-307
description: The popular idea of a manor assumes that it is a fixed geographical area with definite boundaries, which belongs to a lord with certain rights over his tenants. In common usage, we speak of this or that lordship, almost in the same way in which we refer to a parish.
Asynchrobatic logic for low-power VLSI design
Creators: name: Willingham, David
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: In this work, Asynchrobatic Logic is presented. It is a novel low-power design style that combines the energy saving benefits of asynchronous logic and adiabatic logic to produce systems whose power dissipation is reduced in several different ways. The term “Asynchrobatic” is a new word that can be used to describe these types of systems, and is derived from the concatenation and shortening of Asynchronous, Adiabatic Logic. This thesis introduces the concept and theory behind Asynchrobatic Logic. It first provides an introductory background to both underlying parent technologies (asynchronous logic and adiabatic logic). The background material continues with an explanation of a number of possible methods for designing complex data-path cells used in the adiabatic data-path. Asynchrobatic Logic is then introduced as a comparison between asynchronous and Asynchrobatic buffer chains, showing that for wide systems, it operates more efficiently. Two more-complex sub-systems are presented, firstly a layout implementation of the substitution boxes from the Twofish encryption algorithm, and secondly a front-end only (without parasitic capacitances, resistances) simulation that demonstrates a functional system capable of calculating the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) of a pair of 16-bit unsigned integers, which under typical conditions on a 0.35μm process, executed a test vector requiring twenty-four iterations in 2.067μs with a power consumption of 3.257nW. These examples show that the concept of Asynchrobatic Logic has the potential to be used in real-world applications, and is not just theory without application. At the time of its first publication in 2004, Asynchrobatic Logic was both unique and ground-breaking, as this was the first time that consideration had been given to operating large-scale adiabatic logic in an asynchronous fashion, and the first time that Asynchronous Stepwise Charging (ASWC) had been used to drive an adiabatic data-path.
The church of the Holy Trinity Barrow on Soar
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 15, 282-284
description: The church at present consists of chancel, with vestry and organ-chamber on the north side, nave of four bays, north and south aisles with transeptal extensions, south porch, and west tower. Externally, it presents no features of interest, as the outer walls have been almost entirely rebuilt, and the old tower, which fell in 1868, was rebuilt in 1870; but enough of the older work remains inside the building to indicate an interesting development of plan.
(503109) Isabella Selby
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Ciz1 as a biomarker and drug target in Glioblastoma multiforme
Creators: name: Iwanowytsch, Olivia
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell cycle
Cancer biology
Neurooncology

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most prevalent primary brain tumour in adults with an extremely poor prognosis. The aggressive and infiltrative nature of these tumours renders them resistant to conventional therapies, posing a huge challenge in terms of treatment. As such, there is an unmet need for the development of more robust biomarkers to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for high-grade gliomas. CIZ1 is a nuclear matrix associated-protein involved in various biological processes such as X chromosome localisation and inactivation, epigenetic maintenance and initiation of DNA replication. CIZ1 has been implicated in a number of common cancers including breast, prostate and lung. This work will focus on the role of CIZ1 in the initiation of DNA replication and the manipulation of CIZ1 in attempt to reduce growth and proliferation of primary GBM cell lines and unrelated tumour types in vitro. The role of CIZ1 as a diagnostic biomarker in GBM will also be assessed via immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis using a cohort of patient-derived tissue sections. GBM cell lines require CIZ1 for efficient proliferation; chemical inhibition of CIZ1 with CDK and DDK inhibitors reduced CIZ1 protein levels and proliferative rates in U87-MG and BTNW914 cells. Whilst CIZ1 protein was not depleted, CIZ1 mRNA levels and cell proliferation reduced, S-phase progression also slowed. IHC analysis of FFPE patient- derived tissue sections revealed aberrant subcellular localisation of CIZ1. The mislocalisation of CIZ1 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm can differentiate between normal and tumour cells, implicating CIZ1 as a histopathological biomarker in GBM. Overexpression of CIZ1 was observed where the tumour intersection was visible, although further investigation using an expanded cohort of patient samples is required. Taken together these results support the use of CIZ1 as a biomarker and drug target in GBM; therapeutic approaches to reduce CIZ1 levels could be of clinical significance in the reduction of tumour growth.
New approaches for partition based functional decomposition
Creators: name: Muthukumar., Venkatesan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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How Reliable and Capable is Multi-Connectivity?
Creators: name: Wolf, Albrecht
name: Schulz, Philipp
name: Dörpinghaus, Meik
name: Filho, José Cândido Silveira Santos
name: Fettweis, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-connectivity (MCo) is considered to be a key strategy for enabling reliable transmissions and enhanced data rates in fifth-generation mobile networks, as it provides multiple links from source to destination. In this work, we quantify the communication performance of MCo in terms of outage probability and throughput. For doing so, we establish a simple, yet accurate analytical framework at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), in which the number of links, the spectral efficiency, the path loss, and the SNR are incorporated, giving new insights into the potentials of MCo as compared with single-connectivity (SCo). These are our main contributions: (1) finding the exact coding gain of the outage probability for parallel block-fading channels; (2) quantifying the performance improvement of MCo over SCo in terms of SNR gain; and (3) comparing optimal and suboptimal combining algorithms for MCo at the receiver side, namely joint decoding, selection combining, and maximal-ratio combining, also in terms of SNR gain. Additionally, we apply our analytical framework to real field channel measurements and thereby illustrate the potential of MCo to achieve high reliability and high data rates in real cellular networks.
(503108) Mary Grey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On the(re)emergence of cultural revolution imagery in China, Hong Kong and Singapore in the 21st century
Creators: name: Wong, Natalie
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: This thesis interrogates the (re)emergence of Cultural Revolution imagery in the 21st century as a cultural lens through which contemporary contradictory relations between China, Hong Kong and Singapore are revealed. Between the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, a number of images originating from political posters produced during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the People's Republic of China (PRC) were circulating in urban city cultures of Hong Kong and Singapore, and in cyberspace in China. Removed from their original context those images were reproduced as new cultural products and sites in new urban environments. The research methods are predominantly shaped by the nature of the research which could broadly be described as ‘visual culture’ and the transformations of a set of images across time, as an extremely recent phenomenon. Drawing on key concepts in cultural studies, such as signifying practices, representation, articulation and identity, I use Cultural Revolution popular cultural products as ‘media texts’ to understand societies and contemporary urban popular cultures in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. As my research reveals, Cultural Revolution imagery can be flexibly transferred to different physical and virtual forms and its meaning varies according to cultural contexts, local practices which are shaped by historical backgrounds of respective locations. It is the transferability of Cultural Revolution imagery which continues to play a role in mass communication in contemporary urban popular culture. The first chapter sets the scene for the (re)emergence of Cultural Revolution imagery in the 21st century in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Chapter Two provides a detailed account of methodologies and examines academic literature. Chapter Three discusses the commodification of Chinese Revolutionary imagery in mobile multimedia pictures in Chinese urban culture. Chapter Four examines the ways in which Chinese Revolutionary imagery was borrowed by Hong Kong designers in the post-1997 Hong Kong context through some examples of commercial commodities using Cultural Revolution imagery as branding elements. Chapter Five discusses how Chinese Revolutionary imagery was used in commercial spaces (i.e. theme restaurant) in Singapore at the turn of the 21st century.
The Leicestershire Archaeological Society in the Present Century
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 21, 121-148
description: I have been asked to write some account of the history of a Society with whose fortunes I have been closely connected for thirty-five years. At the end of this period one can look back to a date when the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society, as it was then called, had already celebrated its jubilee. Born at a period when ecclesiological and antiquarian zeal was spreading beyond a limited circle of enthusiasts and provoking the curiosity of a wider public, the interest to which it testified was quickened by the activity in church-building which accom-panied the development of the Gothic Revival, stimulated by the Oxford Movement. At the time of whkh I write, it was pur-suing a tranquil course on the old lines which its founders had established. The long reports printed in the volumes of its Transactions display considerible watchfulness over the state of historical monuments in the county, one of the chief duties of such societies, and form a valuable record of the vicissitudes of old and the progress of new buildings during each year. For this it had to thank its chief honorary secretary, Major Freer, whose devotion to its interests continued unabated until his death. The range of contributors to its Transactions and the subjects with which they dealt were somewhat limited-a phenomenon by no means confined to this Society-and one result of the division or its publications between two periodicals was that much scholarly and useful work by its members found its way year by year into the somewhat inadequately named Associated Architectural Societies' Reports and Papers, published at Lincoln. Here, bound up in one volume with equally inter-esting productions of the Lincolnshire, Worthamptonshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire Architectural Societies, all founded about the same time and for the same ends, several important papers lie entombed. In some respects the decision of each of these bodies to break their time-honoured union and publish separate records of their proceedings is to be regretted, as the co-operation involved in the planning of the yearly volume brought their leading members into annual consultation and correspondence with beneficial results. At the same time, while the other societies had no independent organs of their own, there can be no question that our separate Transactions suffered by the arrangement, so that, in the first decade of this century, the annual reports of the Society, with illustrated accounts of its annual excursions, were the outstanding features, with few exceptions, of parts published at long and irregular intervals.
Ecclesiastical Benefices and their Incumbents
Creators: name: Hamilton Thompson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 22, 1-32
description: The custom of displaying a list of the incumbents of a parish church within its walls needs no commendation. lt is a most valuable testimony to the historical continuity of the parish and its church, and, if accompanied by sufficient detail, may form a document of great service to the historian. But, in not a few instances, such lists are compiled from imperfect sources and without proper enquiry into the methods needed for their construction; while, even when the list of names by itself is full and correct, it often is without the addition of particulars which, given as they habitually are in the records from which those names are taken, do not deserve to be overlooked. It is for the use of those who wish to know something of the souroes from which lists of this kind are taken and to learn how they are compiled and what they should include that these notes are written.