cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(201425) Bertha Cuff Ridley
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.
Making History: Bioethics, Culture and the History of Moral Ideas
Creators: name: Little, Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 220101 Bioethics (human and animal)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The way we think about the history of moral ideas plays a crucial role in our understanding of bioethics and bioethical debates. The way we think about this history can increase or limit our appreciation of the diversity of perspectives on the moral sphere. For this reason, it can assist in naturalizing a given normative approach and in demonizing others.
Unfortunately, accounts of the character and development of bioethics are often marked by a general disregard for historical change and cultural context. In general, they have the effect of discouraging attempts to think beyond contemporary approaches to ethics. Their unreflective nature is such that the normative effects of particular historical views are unacknowledged.
Stochastic p-bits for Invertible Logic
Creators: name: Camsari, Kerem Yunus
name: Faria, Rafatul
name: Sutton, Brian M.
name: Datta, Supriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional logic and memory devices are built out of deterministic units such as transistors, or magnets with energy barriers in excess of 40-60 kT. We show that stochastic units, p-bits, can be interconnected to create robust correlations that implement Boolean functions with impressive accuracy, comparable to standard circuits. Also they are invertible, a unique property that is absent in digital circuits. When operated in the direct mode, the input is clamped, and the network provides the correct output. In the inverted mode, the output is clamped, and the network fluctuates among possible inputs consistent with that output. We present an implementation of an invertible gate to bring out the key role of a three-terminal building block to enable the construction of correlated p-bit networks. The results for this implementation agree well with those from a universal model, showing that p-bits need not be magnet-based: any three-terminal tunable random bit generator should be suitable. We present an algorithm for designing a Boltzmann machine (BM) with symmetric connections that implements a given truth table. We then show how BM Full Adders can be interconnected in a partially directed manner to implement large operations such as 32-bit addition. Hundreds of p-bits get precisely correlated such that the correct answer out of 2^33 possibilities can be extracted by looking at the mode of a number of time samples. With perfect directivity a small number of samples is enough, while for less directed connections more samples are needed, but even in the former case invertibility is largely preserved. This combination of accuracy and invertibility is enabled by the hybrid design that uses bidirectional units to construct circuits with partially directed connections. We establish this result with examples including a 4-bit multiplier which in inverted mode functions as a factorizer.
description: This is the third in a series of papers on probabilistic spin logic (PSL). The other papers are: arXiv:1606.00130, arXiv:1608.00679, arXiv:1611.05477
Oxidation of iminodiethanol by Ce (IV) in microheterogeneous system: a comprehensive kinetic analysis
Creators: name: Padhy, Ranjan Kumar
name: Sahu, Sarita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A comprehensive kinetic analysis of catalyzed oxidative degradation of iminodiethanol by Ce(IV) in pure aqueous and microheterogeneous or surfactant media has been reported. The oxidation reactions were first order with respect to [Ce (IV)], the dependence of rate on iminodiethanol concentration is first order, the rate constant values increased with increasing dielectric constant of the medium and the entropy of activation was negative. Kinetic information suggested that the oxidation reactions proceed through intermediate complex formation. The profile of pseudo-first order rate constant, kψ against [SDS] (sodium dodecyl sulfate) shows a maximum at about the concentration near which the randomized surfactant monomers started aggregating for the formation of micelle. To demonstrate the kinetic pattern and to evaluate the micelle-reactant binding constant values, Berezin’s model has been advanced. The transfer free energy per mole of the solute from water to the micellar phase has also been computed. Activation parameters for the oxidation reaction are obtained from the temperature dependence studies. Basing on all analytical results plausible mechanisms are proposed for the catalyzed oxidation of iminodiethanol by Ce (IV) both in aqueous and surfactant medium.
Inapplicability of exact constraints and a minimal two-parameter generalization to the DFT+$U$ based correction of self-interaction error
Creators: name: Moynihan, Glenn
name: Teobaldi, Gilberto
name: O'Regan, David D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In approximate density functional theory (DFT), the self-interaction error is an electron delocalization anomaly associated with underestimated insulating gaps. It exhibits a predominantly quadratic energy-density curve that is amenable to correction using efficient, constraint-resembling methods such as DFT + Hubbard $U$ (DFT+$U$). Constrained DFT (cDFT) enforces conditions on DFT exactly, by means of self-consistently optimized Lagrange multipliers, and while its use to automate error corrections is a compelling possibility, we show that it is limited by a fundamental incompatibility with constraints beyond linear order. We circumvent this problem by utilizing separate linear and quadratic correction terms, which may be interpreted either as distinct constraints, each with its own Hubbard $U$ type Lagrange multiplier, or as the components of a generalized DFT+$U$ functional. The latter approach prevails in our tests on a model one-electron system, $H_2^+$, in that it readily recovers the exact total-energy while symmetry-preserving pure constraints fail to do so. The generalized DFT+$U$ functional moreover enables the simultaneous correction of the total-energy and ionization potential or the correction of either together with the enforcement of Koopmans condition. For the latter case, we outline a practical, approximate scheme by which the required pair of Hubbard parameters, denoted as U1 and U2, may be calculated from first-principles.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for Physical Review B Rapid Communications on 30th November 2016
‘The rose garden of refuge’: the fifteenth century Ottoman Palace at Edirne/Adrianople
Creators: name: Scollay, Fiona Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The thesis is a study of the Ottoman palace at Edirne/Adrianople and the life lived within it from the time the complex was built in 1451 until its final destruction in 1877. The palace played a pivotal role at various times in Ottoman history. Initially designed to serve as an imperial palace before the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the riverside compound subsequently served as a well-loved pleasure palace and military staging post for Ottoman campaigns in the Balkans. The story of the palace illustrates transitions from one imperial era to another. The study focuses on a number of episodes from the history of the palace that suggest the royal complex extended Persianate cultural ideals into the emerging Ottoman realm in southeast Europe. Models of kingship described in Persianate literary culture thrived at the court in Edirne. Yet their conception was modified by the unique cultural encounter of the Ottomans with Orthodox Christianity and centuries of Byzantine rule. This survey of the Edirne palace architecture, ceremony and patterns of daily life fills a gap in the literature to date that tends to focus on the Topkapı and subsequent palaces in Istanbul and elsewhere. The aim is to bring in to focus the ways the location, structure and life of the palace constitute an early statement of the Ottoman conception of imperial rule and what later became a distinctive Ottoman visual and cultural style. The work discusses questions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in reference to architecture, art and literature; the process of integration and sharing of cultural material conveyed in poetic texts; and dramatic and unprecedented executions and depositions of sultans and leading court officials and sultans in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. All these questions were once associated with the so-called ‘decline’ of the Ottoman empire, but they are now seen as an opening up of the Ottoman power structure to new ways of sharing its administration and its rewards.
The decision-making for selecting cold chain logistics providers in the food industry
Creators: name: Nalinee Wiangkam
name: Thitipong Jamrus
name: Panitas Sureeyatanapas
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cold chain logistics
Logistics service provider
Multiple criteria decision-making
Index of item-objective congruence (IOC)
Fuzzy TOPSIS

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 49, 6, 811-818
Reconstituting technology : critical theory and the philosophy of technology
Creators: name: Cooper, Simon K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Prioritising customer-focused KPIs for home furniture delivery and assembly service using AHP: A case study of a multinational company in Thailand
Creators: name: Rattikan Jaisankad
name: Suratin Tunyaplin
name: Tuangyot Supeekit
name: Wirachchaya Chanpuypetch
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Performance measurement
Last-mile delivery service
Multinational company
Home furniture
Supply chain operations reference model
Analytic hierarchy process

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 49, 6, 819-827
Reprogramming fructan biosynthesis in perennial ryegrass (lolium perenne L.) and establishing novel symbiota with neotyphodium fungal endophytes
Creators: name: Dhavale, Tejaswini
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Botany, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Behavioural reactions to rejection: the respective influence of attachment and rejection sensitivity
Creators: name: Denehey, Amber M.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The respective influence of attachment and rejection sensitivity in relating to behavioural reactions to perceived rejection was investigated across two studies. In both studies, attachment and rejection sensitivity were measured using the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised measure (Fraley, Waller, and Brennan, 2000) and the Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (Downey and Feldman, 1996) respectively. The first study sampled self-reported behavioural reactions to perceived rejection through the use of daily diaries in a community sample of 89 participants. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that attachment anxiety was associated with rejection-related outcomes across romantic interactions, whilst rejection sensitivity was not. Rejection sensitivity was associated with such outcomes across non-romantic interactions, but was only related to situational rejection sensitivity. The second study sampled behavioural reactions to perceived rejection that were coded by two coders using the Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System (Heyman and Vivian, 2000) and a newly constructed global coding measure based on interpersonal circumplex theory (Kiesler, 1983; Leary, 1957; Wiggins, 1979). This second study employed 24 community-sampled couples who had been together for a minimum of four months and exposed one member of each couple to a rejection manipulation. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that attachment appears a more relevant construct in associating with post-rejection behaviours in the context of couple relationships, given rejection sensitivity was not significantly associated with any post-rejection behavioural outcomes. Implications for attachment and rejection sensitivity theory are discussed.
Language Dynamics of the Italian Community in Australia
Creators: name: Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Multilingual societies, like Australia, offer different opportunities for in-depth sociolinguistic studies. One of the most important aspects of a language contact situation is the issue of language shift, and its ramifications. It is within the framework of language shift and language maintenance that the present thesis is structured. The discussion on what is meant by language shift and language maintenance will be taken up in detail in Chapter 2. In this chapter I will summarize the arguments for the maintenance of any language, with particular reference to the languages spoken in Australia.[…]
(201421) Samuel Tertius Ridley
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.
Fingerprints of heavy scales in electroweak effective Lagrangians
Creators: name: Pich, Antonio
name: Rosell, Ignasi
name: Santos, Joaquin
name: Sanz-Cillero, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The couplings of the electroweak effective theory contain information on the heavy-mass scales which are no-longer present in the low-energy Lagrangian. We build a general effective Lagrangian, implementing the electroweak chiral symmetry breaking $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_R\to SU(2)_{L+R}$, which couples the known particle fields to heavier states with bosonic quantum numbers $J^P=0^\pm$ and $1^\pm$. We consider colour-singlet heavy fields that are in singlet or triplet representations of the electroweak group. Integrating out these heavy scales, we analyze the pattern of low-energy couplings among the light fields which are generated by the massive states. We adopt a generic non-linear realization of the electroweak symmetry breaking with a singlet Higgs, without making any assumption about its possible doublet structure. Special attention is given to the different possible descriptions of massive spin-1 fields and the differences arising from naive implementations of these formalisms, showing their full equivalence once a proper short-distance behaviour is required.
description: 57 pages, 1 pdf figure. Version published at JHEP
Antecedents and Issues Influencing Financial Disclosure: A Case Study of Malaysian Local Government
Creators: name: Teruki, Neilson
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Accounting, La Trobe Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Corporatising Tribalism: Understanding the Development and Advancement of the United Arab Emirates
Creators: name: Thani, Salma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140301 Cross-Sectional Analysis
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis examines the development of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from its pearling past to its current standing as a global leader in the sport, aviation and tourism sectors. As this thesis shows, the UAE’s sheikdoms have diversi⸀猀ed their oil revenues into these three sectors to ensure the country’s sustainability in the post-oil era. Despite these developments, and the establishment of a political federation in 1971, the thesis contends that the major determinant of the UAE’s economic growth has been tribal rivalries. Consequently, the emergence of the sectors has been fuelled by competition between the UAE’s sheikdoms.
The British Ambulance Service, photograph from Nelson's Portfolio of War Pictures
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ambulance service
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/806788
subject: World War (1914-1918)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746
subject: War--Medical aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170349
subject: War horses
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170502

description: An image from Nelson's Portfolio of War Pictures: No 4. "Though motor ambulances are largely used in the present war, the old-fashioned four-horse Red Cross wagon is by no means superannuated. It is still used mainly for transferring the wounded from the actual fighting line and the dressing stations immediately to the rear to the base, where smooth-travelling motors are assembled to convey the patients to the nearest hospital." -- caption of photograph
Themes and attitudes in selected Australian feature films, 1913-1929
Creators: name: Cooper, Ross Francis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Childhood maltreatment and the development of subclinical borderline personality features in adulthood: the role of resilience as a protective factor
Creators: name: Nicholls, Emma
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Doctor of Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Research literature has established a link between adult recollections of childhood maltreatment and adult borderline personality features. There has also been research conducted into resilience as a possible protective factor in the association between childhood maltreatment and psychopathology. Resilience is a concept whereby individuals do well psychologically in the face of adversity. The aim of study 1 was to investigate how subclinical borderline personality features were associated with adult recollections of childhood maltreatment and global resilience. Participants were 564 members of the community recruited through various methods (mean age = 30.78, SD = 12.06; 67.6% female). Results supported the hypotheses that participants’ level of subclinical borderline personality features would be associated with recollections of past experiences of childhood maltreatment and current global resilience. Low subclinical borderline personality features were associated high levels of resilience for those reporting recollections of childhood maltreatment. This suggests that resilience may protect individuals with recollections of maltreatment in childhood from developing subclinical borderline personality features. Study 2 investigated specific protective factors that may increase resilience levels and therefore reduce subclinical borderline personality features for individuals reporting recollections of childhood maltreatment. The research literature has found support for the resilience factors of family characteristics, interpersonal functioning, social support, and coping style as important in protecting individuals from developing psychopathology. Study 2 recruited 258 participants in a community sample (mean age of 33.64, SD = 13.39; 74.8% female). Results revealed that subclinical borderline personality features were associated with adult recollections of childhood maltreatment and all the listed resilience factors. Low levels of subclinical borderline personality features were associated with high levels of each of the resilience factors and recollections of childhood maltreatment. These resilience factors may be important in protecting an individual from developing subclinical borderline personality features following maltreatment in childhood.
Entropy as a function of magnetization for a 2D spin-ice model exhibiting a Kasteleyn transition
Creators: name: Grigera, S. A.
name: Hooley, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined analytical and numerical study of the entropy as a function of magnetization for an orientable 2D spin-ice model that exhibits a Kasteleyn transition. The model that we use is related to the well known six-vertex model but, as we show, our representation of it is more convenient for constructing approximate expressions for the entropy at fixed magnetization. We also discuss directions for further work, including the possibility of deforming our model into one exhibiting a quantum Kasteleyn transition.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Synthesis and preparation of poly (AM-co-AMPS)/GO nanocomposites hydrogel as a rheology modifier and fluid loss controller for use in oil well cementing
Creators: name: Narimani, Amir
name: Kordnejad, Farid
name: Kaur, Prabhjyot
name: Trivedi, Japan
name: Najmeddine, Ferhi
name: Hemmati, Mahmood
name: Duong, Adam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of the present work is to evaluate the influence of graphene oxide (GO) on copolymer nanocomposites hydrogel structure based on acrylamide (AM) and 2-acryloamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS) in the presence of the N, N-methylene-bis-acryl-amide (NMBA) by the free radical copolymerization technique. The influence of poly (AM-co-AMPS)/GO as a rheology modifier along with fluid loss controller on the rheological and mechanical properties of brine cement slurry was also investigated. The characterization results confirmed the synthesis of AM monomer and AMPS and showed their grafting with GO surface. The poly (AM-co-AMPS)/GO hydrogel improved the rheological properties of the cement slurry as compared to conventional cement slurry. Furthermore, free water and fluid loss of cement slurry declined by adding the copolymer nanocomposites hydrogel at elevated temperatures. Moreover, not only the thickening time of cement slurry dropped but also, the compressive strength increased with a rise of nanocomposites hydrogel concentrations. However, the nanocomposite hydrogels showed a great effect on early compressive strength than the final compressive strength. The results of this investigation revealed the excellent performance of crosslinked structure of copolymer nanocomposites hydrogel due to the linking of sulfonated AMPS and AM on the surface of GO nanosheet in the attendance of NMBA. This renders greater stability to the cement slurry against salinity and temperature changing of well formations during cementing operation. Thus, poly (AM-co-AMPS)/GO as a suitable rheology modifier and property enhancer can be applied in oil well cementing.
The art of making do: an investigation into women artists and the representation of the domestic environment
Creators: name: Wheeldon, Tegan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts by Research to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This research project is comprised of two parts: a studio based investigation, resulting in a presentation of the art practice, and a discussion of the themes, intentions and practical outcomes within a written exegesis. In this manner the art practice shapes a response to the theoretical research and also provides new avenues of investigation and discussion within the scope of the research topic. This research project investigates a paradoxical and long lasting association between women and their domestic environment. Furthermore, it seeks to discover how women artists have used household paraphernalia and the ‘art of making do’ to represent their relationship with the private sphere of the “home”. In my art practice, materials are recycled, recreated and reinvented in a manner that implies ‘making do’. Moreover, salvaged domestic objects are used to explore the memories, relationships and experiences that occur and exist within the domestic environment. The abiding relationship between women and the art of needlework is also investigated. The traditional branding of the domestic environment as “a woman’s place”, and the classification of needlework as “women’s work” and a hiddenstream art practice, are key points of discussion. In the art practice, the traditional relationship between women, needlework and the domestic environment, is researched via the sampler and the ‘glory box’. The research uses the ‘glory box’ as a symbol, and as a metaphor, for a woman’s diverse and often challenging relationship with her domestic environment. Finally, the domestic environment is explored as a site of memory and meaning, focusing specifically on the representation of subjective experiences and relationships. Studio investigations into the metaphorical use of stitching as a healing/mending process are explored through the reconstruction and transformation of personal memories. The research concludes with a discussion about the recent discovery of and integration of my own childhood drawings and writings into the art practice.
Schwann cell remyelination of the central nervous system: why does it happen and what are the benefits?
Creators: name: Chen, Civia Z
name: Neumann, Björn
name: Förster, Sarah
name: Franklin, Robin JM
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Myelin sheaths, by supporting axonal integrity and allowing rapid saltatory impulse conduction, are of fundamental importance for neuronal function. In response to demyelinating injuries in the central nervous system (CNS), oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) migrate to the lesion area, proliferate and differentiate into new oligodendrocytes that make new myelin sheaths. This process is termed remyelination. Under specific conditions, demyelinated axons in the CNS can also be remyelinated by Schwann cells (SCs), the myelinating cell of the peripheral nervous system. OPCs can be a major source of these CNS-resident SCs-a surprising finding given the distinct embryonic origins, and physiological compartmentalization of the peripheral and central nervous system. Although the mechanisms and cues governing OPC-to-SC differentiation remain largely undiscovered, it might nevertheless be an attractive target for promoting endogenous remyelination. This article will (i) review current knowledge on the origins of SCs in the CNS, with a particular focus on OPC to SC differentiation, (ii) discuss the necessary criteria for SC myelination in the CNS and (iii) highlight the potential of using SCs for myelin regeneration in the CNS.
A planning tool of equity transit-oriented development (ETOD) : evaluating, classifying, and optimizing transit stop in an equitable perspective in Austin, Texas
Creators: name: Zhao, Yingrui
name: 0000-0003-3123-7505
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Equitable TOD
Node-place model
K-means clustering
Genetic argorithm

description: This study develops a set of planning tools for achieving equitable goals at the 133-bus stop of the Project Connect plan in Austin, Texas. This topic is important for Austin is that the upgrading of the city is forcing vulnerable groups to displace them from their original communities. As part of a 7-billion-dollar public transit expansion plan, Project Connect gave 300 million dollars in anti-displacement funding. This report answers the three questions on implementing the anti-displacement: First, whether the neighborhood of stops has issues of inequality funding. The second one, stops are the vulnerable stop. Finally, this report answers how economic, social, and environmental impacts will be brought about by the Project Connect plan. This report uses a node-place-vulnerability model, finding that vulnerable groups have a below-average transportation supply. Continuously, the K-means clustering algorithm identifies the vulnerable bus and rail stops located around the Rundberg stop and Riverside stop. Lastly, this study applies Genetic Algorithms (GA) to optimize land use, finding that the transit system will greatly benefit accessibility to housing. Besides, the high-intensity development will result in an unproportionally high level of emissions from buildings and traffic.
The relationship between students’ attitudes toward online homework and mathematics anxiety
Creators: name: Albelbisi, Nour Awni
name: Al-Adwan, Ahmad Samed
name: Habibi, Akhmad
name: Rasool, Shahid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The present paper aims at investigating the relationship between students’ attitudes toward online homework use and mathematics anxiety among secondary school students. In this study, a model has been proposed by integrating the technology acceptance model (TAM) with mathematics anxiety theory. Three hundred and forty-five secondary school students participated in the instrument of the study that included 20-item based on a 5-point Likert scale. The subsequent analysis using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) supported the negative relationship between attitude toward an online homework (OHW) tool and mathematics anxiety. The results revealed that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are predictors of attitude toward the use of OHW. This study maximized the capability of acceptance of the OHW tool in mathematics learning. The findings provided by the study will encourage mathematics educators to implement mathematics OHW tools in the learning process.
Machine learning applications towards risk prediction and cost forecasting in healthcare
Creators: name: Singh, Kristian
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Machine learning
Deep learning
Healthcare

description: The United States spends a considerable amount on healthcare and health related expenditures. A sizeable portion of these costs are created by the performing of and recovery from surgery. In this report machine learning methodologies are used to predict the potential risk an individual undergoing elective spinal surgery has for a high-cost recovery. Two models are built in this report, a time-series model to forecast future costs forward over an unknown time horizon, and a multi-class classifier to create the risk predictions. The results of these different model architectures are compared to one another, and the best are then stacked to create a final ensemble learner.
Effect of pH on the morphology of magnetite nanoparticles for adsorption of Cr(VI) ions from aqueous medium
Creators: name: Khan, Basharat
name: Nawaz, Mohsan
name: Price, Gareth J.
name: Hussain, Rafaqat
name: Waseem, Muhammad
name: Haq, Sirajul
name: Rehman, Wajid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
classificationCode: 29999
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Magnetite nanoparticles (MNPs) are important candidates for environmental applications. In this study, we have synthesized MNPs by oil in water (o/w) microemulsion assisted co-precipitation method. The particles were obtained by varying the pH (10–12) of the solution. The synthesized MNPs were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-rays diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-rays (EDX) spectroscopy. Based on the point of zero charge (PZC), sorption of Cr(VI) on MNPs was carried out at pH 6 by batch method. The synthesized MNPs were found highly efficient for sorption of Cr(VI) ions. The sorption efficiency of MNPs prepared at pH 10 showed the maximum uptake of 63.3 (±1.06) mg/g of Cr(VI) ions. The thermodynamic parameters of sorption process like enthalpy and entropy (ΔH and ΔS) were found positive while negatively increased trend of Gibb’s free energy (ΔG) was observed indicating that the sorption process is spontaneous and thermodynamically favorable.
Time-reversal symmetry breaking and gapped surface states due to spontaneous emergence of new order in $d$-wave nanoislands
Creators: name: Nagai, Yuki
name: Ota, Yukihiro
name: Tanaka, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently for the $d$-wave order parameter in nanoscale $d$-wave systems with [110] surfaces and show that spontaneous time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking occurs at low temperatures due to a spontaneously induced complex order parameter of extended $s$-wave symmetry. The Andreev surface bound states, which are protected by a one-dimensional (1D) topological invariant in the presence of TRS, are gapped by the emergence of this new order parameter. The extended $s$-wave order parameter is localized within a narrow region near the surfaces, which is consistent with the fact that topological protection of the gapless Andreev surface states is characterized by the 1D topological invariant. In this TRS-breaking phase, not only is the complex order parameter induced, but also the $d$-wave order parameter itself becomes complex. Furthermore, the disappearance of topological protection brings about novel vortex phenomena near the surfaces. We show that vortex-antivortex pairs are formed in the extended $s$-wave order parameter along the surfaces if the side length of a nanoisland or the width of an infinitely long nanoribbon is relatively large.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures + 6 pages (supplemental material), to be published in Phys. Rev. B Rapid communication
Spatial resolution of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy – DFT assessment of the chemical effect
Creators: name: Latorre, Federico
name: Kupfer, Stephan
name: Bocklitz, Thomas
name: Kinzel, Daniel
name: Trautmann, Steffen
name: Gräfe, Stefanie
name: Deckert, Volker
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC Publ.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Density functional theory
subject: Quantum chemistry
subject: Raman scattering
subject: Adenine molecules
subject: Density-functional level
subject: 600

description: Experimental evidence of extremely high spatial resolution of tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) has been recently demonstrated. Here, we present a full quantum chemical description (at the density functional level of theory) of the non-resonant chemical effects on the Raman spectrum of an adenine molecule mapped by a tip, modeled as a single silver atom or a small silver cluster. We show pronounced changes in the Raman pattern and its intensities depending on the conformation of the nanoparticle–substrate system, concluding that the spatial resolution of the chemical contribution of TERS can be in the sub-nm range.
Three new acridone alkaloids from Glycosmis lanceolata (Blume) D.Dietr. and their cytotoxic effects on tumour cell lines
Creators: name: Ito, Chihiro
name: Matsui, Takuya
name: Sato, Ami
name: Ruangrungsi, Nisjiri
name: Itoigawa, Masataka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Hematology

description: We separated and structurally elucidated three new acridone alkaloids (glycomontamine A (1), B (2), and C (3)), together with three known compounds (glycofoline, kokusaginine and dictamnine) from the acetone extract of Glycosmis lanceolata (Blume) D.Dietr. branches collected in Thailand. The compounds were assayed for cell viability using human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549, breast adenocarcinoma cell line T47D, cervix epithelioid carcinoma cell line Hela, acute lymphoid leukaemia B cell line NALM-6, and human dermal fibroblasts. The viability of Hela cells treated with compound 1 (IC50 17.6 μM) and T47D cells treated with compound 2 (IC50 17.4 μM) decreased dose-dependently. Both compounds also showed cytotoxicity against NALM-6 cells (IC50 16.5 and 9.3 μM). Additionally, compound 1 decreased the mitochondrial membrane potential of Hela cells, whereas compound 2 did not change the mitochondrial membrane potential in T47D cells.
No comets to point to
Creators: name: Flanagan, Abigail
name: 0000-0001-5763-6278
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art
Abstraction
Lyric
Thinking field

description: Through a series of interconnected inquiries, references, and anecdotes, this thesis charts my path to making the artwork I make today and my relationship to specific subjects such as abstraction, lyricism, perception, and materiality. I argue for the definitions of these terms to freely meander across the various media I use to demonstrate a capacious yet incomplete form of knowledge that is in keeping with the wide-ranging artistic and literary references I draw from in my practice. I write into a conviction of epistemological equilibrium, where binaries are already uncoupled, rather than write in defense of a non-binary position. I write to blur, not to distinguish. I wonder how the abstract and the concrete contain each other, how instances of hearsay stain fact with fiction, and how the documentary image embeds truth with perpetual doubt. Lastly, I will share a story that traces threads of my art practice. Spatially and temporally, this thesis serves as a branch from which to alight, pause, and take off.
Quasianalytic Ilyashenko algebras
Creators: name: Speissegger, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A60, 30E15

description: I construct a quasianalytic field $\mathcal F$ of germs at $+\infty$ of real functions with logarithmic generalized power series as asymp\-totic expansions, such that $\mathcal F$ is closed under differentiation and $\log$-composition; in particular, $\mathcal F$ is a Hardy field. Moreover, the field $\mathcal F \circ (-\log)$ of germs at $0^+$ contains all transition maps of hyperbolic saddles of planar real analytic vector fields.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure; final changes of section numbering to conform with published version
(201422) Thomas Plews
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.
Removal of hydrochlorothiazide micropollutant from synthetic pharmaceutical effluent by ionic flocculation
Creators: name: Ratkievicius, Luciana Avelino
name: da Cunha Filho, Fernando José Vieira
name: Melo, Ricardo Paulo Fonseca
name: de Vasconcelos, Bruna Rego
name: de Jesus Nogueira Duarte, Lindemberg
name: Lopes, Francisco Wendell Bezerra
name: de Barros Neto, Eduardo Lins
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Emerging pollutants (EPs) have recently been reported to affect the quality of water and pose high risks to human health. The recalcitrant behavior of the drug hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) in wastewater, for example, highlights the need to develop new treatments that are more efficient in removing this pollutant. In this study, the removal of hydrochlorothiazide from a synthetic pharmaceutical effluent through micellar ionic flocculation was evaluated, using a biodegradable anionic surfactant, derived from natural materials such as coconut oil and animal fat. The effects of different parameters, such as contact time, stirring speed, temperature, surfactant concentration and pH on drug removal efficiency were assessed. Under optimal processing conditions: [HCT] = 20 ppm, [surfactant] = 300 ppm, 1:2 calcium/surfactant ratio, temperature 30 °C, contact time 5 min, fast stirring speed 100 rpm, slow stirring speed 50 rpm and pH 10, HCT removal efficiency reached 88%, indicating that ionic flocculation using base soap is a promising technique in the treatment of pharmaceutical effluents contaminated by hydrochlorothiazide. The desorption kinetics of HCT from the floc surface were also analyzed, confirming that desorption is governed by the pseudo-second order, where interactions between the polar group of the base soap (COOH−), Ca+2 ions and HCT (C7H8ClN3O4S2) detach the HCT molecules present in the flocs. Moreover, 15% of HCT was spontaneously desorbed after 40 min.
Journal : 12.13.2021--1.23.2022
Creators: name: Rossoff, Emma
name: 0000-0002-6114-0483
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art

description: This master’s report is a transcription of my studio journal from December 13, 2021, to January 23, 2022, the time period in which I began my thesis installation. Some later edits and editions were also made.
Nonlocality free wirings and the distinguishability between Bell boxes
Creators: name: Gallego, Rodrigo
name: Aolita, Leandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell nonlocality can be formulated in terms of a resource theory with local-hidden variable models as resourceless objects. Two such theories are known, one built upon local operations assisted by shared randomness (LOSRs) and the other one allowing, in addition, for prior-to-input classical communication. We show that prior communication, although unable to create nonlocality, leads to wirings not only beyond LOSRs but also not contained in a much broader class of (nonlocality-generating) global wirings. Technically, this is shown by proving that it can improve the statistical distinguishability between Bell correlations optimised over all fixed measurement choices. This has implications in nonlocality quantification, and leads us to a natural universal definition of Bell nonlocality measures. To end up with, we also consider the statistical strength of nonlocality proofs. We point out some issues of its standard definition in the resource-theoretic operational framework, and suggest simple fixes for them. Our findings reveal non-trivial features of the geometry of the set of wirings and may have implications in the operational distinguishability of nonlocal behaviors.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected and some proofs simplified