cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agonist - antagonist 3D models of the GABA [subscript A] receptor binding site
Creators: name: De Gori, Ross
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501519) Sarah Castles
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.
title: Towards poetic visual communication : negotiating a balance between historical practice and contemporary methodologies
Creators: name: Wallis, NA
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2019

description: This research examines the impact of contemporary social, philosophical and material contexts on visual communication through a multi-layered study of poetics, from its recognition as a key methodology for design practice from the late 1950s through to the present day. Through an examination of this historically important design methodology, and the processes by which social change, theories, and technologies have transformed the contemporary practice of design, the constraints contemporary creatives face in the effort to create meaningful work are discussed. Two research strategies were utilised: (1) an analysis of the current state of practice of visual communication and the broader history of Design methodologies and philosophies, with a focus on one particular movement, poetics. This explorative stage consisted of an examination of journal articles, an analysis of case studies and interviews with leading practitioners. (2) This informed the development of an approach to design practice, through which design projects are explored through metaphor and arbitrary constraints (a poetic framework). Three projects were undertaken utilising this methodology: How to grow a chair, Travelling through the unfamiliar, and Poetic tactics. Through reflection on the successes and shortcomings of these three projects, it is concluded that poetics is a valid and productive approach to visual communication.
Flexible Clustering for High-Dimensional Data via Mixtures of Joint Generalized Hyperbolic Models
Creators: name: Tang, Yang
name: Browne, Ryan P.
name: McNicholas, Paul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A mixture of joint generalized hyperbolic distributions (MJGHD) is introduced for asymmetric clustering for high-dimensional data. The MJGHD approach takes into account the cluster-specific subspace, thereby limiting the number of parameters to estimate while also facilitating visualization of results. Identifiability is discussed, and a multi-cycle ECM algorithm is outlined for parameter estimation. The MJGHD approach is illustrated on two real data sets, where the Bayesian information criterion is used for model selection.
Allosteric interactions at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors
Creators: name: Christopoulos, Arthur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501518) George Wilson
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.
(501520) Rosa Isabella Ilderton
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.
Understanding the changes in dispersion of salmeterol xinafoate-lactose mixtures during storage at different relative humidities
Creators: name: Das, Shyamal Chandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Design and Analysis of Time-Invariant SC-LDPC Convolutional Codes With Small Constraint Length
Creators: name: Battaglioni, Massimo
name: Tasdighi, Alireza
name: Cancellieri, Giovanni
name: Chiaraluce, Franco
name: Baldi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we deal with time-invariant spatially coupled low-density parity-check convolutional codes (SC-LDPC-CCs). Classic design approaches usually start from quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) block codes and exploit suitable unwrapping procedures to obtain SC-LDPC-CCs. We show that the direct design of the SC-LDPC-CCs syndrome former matrix or, equivalently, the symbolic parity-check matrix, leads to codes with smaller syndrome former constraint lengths with respect to the best solutions available in the literature. We provide theoretical lower bounds on the syndrome former constraint length for the most relevant families of SC-LDPC-CCs, under constraints on the minimum length of cycles in their Tanner graphs. We also propose new code design techniques that approach or achieve such theoretical limits.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications
(501522) Ann Harrison [Ilderton]
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.
Optimality of orders one to three and beyond: characterization and evaluation complexity in constrained nonconvex optimization
Creators: name: Cartis, C.
name: Gould, N. I. M.
name: Toint, Ph. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.1; G.1.6
subject: 90C26, 90C46, 90C30

description: Necessary conditions for high-order optimality in smooth nonlinear constrained optimization are explored and their inherent intricacy discussed. A two-phase minimization algorithm is proposed which can achieve approximate first-, second- and third-order criticality and its evaluation complexity is analyzed as a function of the choice (among existing methods) of an inner algorithm for solving subproblems in each of the two phases. The relation between high-order criticality and penalization techniques is finally considered, showing that standard algorithmic approaches will fail if approximate constrained high-order critical points are sought.
description: 32 pages, 3 figures
Beating the limits with initial correlations
Creators: name: Basilewitsch, Daniel
name: Schmidt, Rebecca
name: Sugny, Dominique
name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
name: Koch, Christiane P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast and reliable reset of a qubit is a key prerequisite for any quantum technology. For real world open quantum systems undergoing non-Markovian dynamics, reset implies not only purification, but in particular erasure of initial correlations between qubit and environment. Here, we derive optimal reset protocols using a combination of geometric and numerical control theory. For factorizing initial states, we find a lower limit for the entropy reduction of the qubit as well as a speed limit. The time-optimal solution is determined by the maximum coupling strength. Initial correlations, remarkably, allow for faster reset and smaller errors. Entanglement is not necessary.
Structural studies of aldose reductase and sorbitol dehydrogenase : enzymes of the polyol pathway
Creators: name: Darmanin, Connie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Slow motion for one-dimensional nonlinear damped hyperbolic Allen-Cahn systems
Creators: name: Folino, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a nonlinear damped hyperbolic reaction-diffusion system in a bounded interval of the real line with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and we study the metastable dynamics of the solutions. Using an "energy approach" introduced by Bronsard and Kohn [CPAM 1990] to study slow motion for Allen-Cahn equation and improved by Grant [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 1995] in the study of Cahn-Morral systems, we improve and extend to the case of systems the results valid for the hyperbolic Allen-Cahn equation. In particular, we study the limiting behavior of the solutions as $\varepsilon\to0^+$, where $\varepsilon^2$ is the diffusion coefficient, and we prove existence and persistence of metastable states for a time $T_\varepsilon>\exp(A/\varepsilon)$. Such metastable states have a transition layer structure and the transition layers move with exponentially small velocity.
description: 24 pages
Comment on "Measurements without probabilities in the final state proposal"
Creators: name: Cohen, Eliahu
name: Nowakowski, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The final state proposal [G.T. Horowitz and J.M. Maldacena, J. High Energy Phys. 2004(2), 8 (2004)] is an attempt to relax the apparent tension between string theory and semiclassical arguments regarding the unitarity of black hole evaporation. The authors of [R. Bousso and D. Stanford, Phys. Rev. D 89, 044038 (2014)] analyze thought experiments where an infalling observer first verifies the entanglement between early and late Hawking modes and then verifies the interior purification of the same Hawking particle. They claim that "probabilities for outcomes of these measurements are not defined" and therefore suggest that "the final state proposal does not offer a consistent alternative to the firewall hypothesis." We show, in contrast, that one may define all the relevant probabilities based on the so-called ABL rule [Y. Aharonov, P.G. Bergmann, and J.L. Lebowitz, Phys. Rev. 134, 1410 (1964)], which is better suited for this task than the decoherence functional. We thus assert that the analysis of Bousso and Stanford cannot yet rule out the final state proposal.
description: Comment on [R. Bousso and D. Stanford, Phys. Rev. D 89, 044038 (2014), arXiv:1310.7457]. 10 pages. Accepted to Phys. Rev. D
(501521) Sanderson Ilderton
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.
In vitro - in vivo evaluation of self-emulsifying lipid-based formulations for the oral administration of poorly water-soluble drugs
Creators: name: Cuine, Jean François
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501523) Charles Richard Ilderton
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.
Eigenspaces of symmetric graphs are not typically irreducible
Creators: name: Berkolaiko, Gregory
name: Liu, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34B45, 05C50, 20C35

description: We construct rich families of Schrödinger operators on symmetric graphs, both quantum and combinatorial, whose spectral degeneracies are persistently larger than the maximal dimension of an irreducible representations of the symmetry group.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Iron-mediated reactivity of peroxide antimalarials
Creators: name: Creek, Darren John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Sewing Riemannian Manifolds with Positive Scalar Curvature
Creators: name: Basilio, J.
name: Dodziuk, J.
name: Sormani, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23, 49Q14

description: We explore to what extent one may hope to preserve geometric properties of three dimensional manifolds with lower scalar curvature bounds under Gromov-Hausdorff and Intrinsic Flat limits. We introduce a new construction, called sewing, of three dimensional manifolds that preserves positive scalar curvature. We then use sewing to produce sequences of such manifolds which converge to spaces that fail to have nonnegative scalar curvature in a standard generalized sense. Since the notion of nonnegative scalar curvature is not strong enough to persist alone, we propose that one pair a lower scalar curvature bound with a lower bound on the area of a closed minimal surface when taking sequences as this will exclude the possibility of sewing of manifolds.
description: 45 pages v2: the appendix has been shortened and figures updated throughout v3: slight revisions made when accepted by JGEA
Prostatic stromal cell function : modulation of contractility and viability by cGMP-dependent protein kinase
Creators: name: Cook, Anna-Louise M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501524) George Brumell
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.
(501525) William Salmon Mare
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.
The interactions of rat liver fatty acid binding protein with drug molecules
Creators: name: Chuang, Sara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Increase of the Energy Necessary to Probe Ultraviolet Theories Due to the Presence of a Strong Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Martinez-y-Romero, Rodolfo P.
name: Patino, Leonardo
name: Ramirez-Urrutia, Tiber
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the gauge gravity correspondence to study the renormalization group flow of a double trace fermionic operator in a quark-gluon plasma subject to the influence of a strong magnetic field and compare it with the results for the case at zero temperature and no magnetic field, where the flow between two fixed points is observed. Our results show that the energy necessary to access the physics of the ultraviolet theory increases with the intensity of the magnetic field under which the processes happen. We provide arguments to support that this increase is scheme independent, and to exhibit further evidence we do a very simple calculation showing that the dimensional reduction expected in the gauge theory in this scenario is effective up to an energy scale that grows with the strength of such a background field. We also show that independently of the renormalization scheme, the coupling of the double trace operators in the ultraviolet fixed point increases with the intensity of the background field. These effects combined can change both, the processes that are expected to be involved in a collision experiment at a given energy and the azimuthal anisotropy of the measurements resulting of them.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures. Added section about renormalization scheme independence
title: Clarifying and advancing the evidence for workplace mindfulness training in relation to employee stress, mental health, wellbeing and performance
Creators: name: Bartlett, LM
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: On the basis of evidence that mindfulness training reduces stress and related health problems in clinical and community populations, investment in mindfulness as a workplace stress management intervention is growing. However, the established, time-intensive, class-based training protocols used in health research are often adapted for workplace delivery to accommodate the demands of contemporary work settings. Variations to the evidenced training format include less class and practice time, and technology-supported delivery to replace or augment face-to-face classes. Mindfulness-based programs designed for workplace delivery (W-MBPs) therefore include a wide range of programs that differ by training dose and delivery mode. While most of the evidence in support of mindfulness training focuses on stress and health-related outcomes, W-MBPs are promoted into workplaces with promises of improved job performance and prosocial behaviours. Further, the strength of evidence in mindfulness research is subject to critiques of bias because more than half of the published findings are reliant on single-source self-report questionnaire data. It is therefore unclear if the range of promised benefits from W-MBPs is supported by evidence. The primary aim of this thesis was to clarify and advance knowledge about the effectiveness of W-MBPs for employee stress, mental health and wellbeing, and for organisational outcomes including performance benefits. Key conclusions and future directions The work reported in this thesis clarifies the evidence for W-MBPs in relation to employee stress, mental health, wellbeing and performance. Results show workplaces can be reasonably confident that employees participating in a W-MBP will experience reduced stress and improved mental health and wellbeing. These benefits appear equivalent across different industries and prevail despite variability in training formats. App-based training appears beneficial for people who engage in brief mindfulness meditation practices more than once a week. However, class-based interaction seems to motivate engagement with app-based learning materials and self-guided app use appears insufficient for consistent benefits. Recommendations are made to enhance interactive functionality and include established behaviour change techniques in future mindfulness apps. Finally, the OMM offers a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in mindfulness research to supplement self-reported findings. Data obtained using the OMM may prove useful for future studies investigating the organisational outcomes of training such as performance and social benefits, which are currently lacking evidentiary support.
Generic medicines : perceptions of consumers, community pharmacists, general practitioners, senior medical students and pharmacy pre-registrants in Australia
Creators: name: Hassali, Mohamed Azmi Ahmad
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A Note on Hardness of Diameter Approximation
Creators: name: Bringmann, Karl
name: Krinninger, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We revisit the hardness of approximating the diameter of a network. In the CONGEST model of distributed computing, $ \tilde Ω(n) $ rounds are necessary to compute the diameter [Frischknecht et al. SODA'12], where $ \tilde Ω(\cdot) $ hides polylogarithmic factors. Abboud et al. [DISC 2016] extended this result to sparse graphs and, at a more fine-grained level, showed that, for any integer $ 1 \leq \ell \leq \operatorname{polylog} (n) $, distinguishing between networks of diameter $ 4 \ell + 2 $ and $ 6 \ell + 1 $ requires $ \tilde Ω(n) $ rounds. We slightly tighten this result by showing that even distinguishing between diameter $ 2 \ell + 1 $ and $ 3 \ell + 1 $ requires $ \tilde Ω(n) $ rounds. The reduction of Abboud et al. is inspired by recent conditional lower bounds in the RAM model, where the orthogonal vectors problem plays a pivotal role. In our new lower bound, we make the connection to orthogonal vectors explicit, leading to a conceptually more streamlined exposition.
description: Accepted to Information Processing Letters
(501527) Lewis Wilmer Willett
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.
Molecular pharmacology of α₁[subscript]A-adrenoceptor isoforms
Creators: name: Phiri, Natalie Michelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Predicting the future of global seafood production
Creators: name: Rousseau, Y
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Understanding the impact of global fisheries on ecological and human systems is intimately linked to the yield of the ocean, the combination of marine resources and how to access them, i.e. fishing fleets. A major current limitation is the lack of integration of fishing fleets with ecological data, critical for understanding the sustainability of global fisheries. To address this research gap, I collected and classified 151 countries legal definitions of fishing sectors according to language, technology or fishing vessel characteristics. Based on these definitions, I reconstructed the global engine power, vessels number and fishing effort from 1950 to 2015, separating industrial and artisanal sectors. The fishing effort was then mapped, leveraging on existing mapped catch data, and compared with satellite tracking. Various models have attempted to express the global ocean’s yield, but the uncertainty was found to be vast, due to disciplinary shortcomings. Lack of harmonization of terms, particularly in fishing sector, impede the comparability of studies, and require further examination. These sectoral-specific hurdles reflected in the fishing fleets, the rate of change varying vastly between sectors. Globally, vessel numbers, engine power and fishing effort have increased in almost all regions since the 1950s. Only the most developed countries showed signs of stabilization and fleet reduction. Conversely, the global catch per unit of effort has decreased drastically since the 1950s, highlighting the strain on marine resources and hinting at future declines, particularly in Southeast Asia. Mapping of the effort confirmed the disparate nature of global fishing and highlighted the lack of detail of the artisanal sector. Future work is required to improve estimates of fisheries efficiency. A better understanding of the global yield and the links between fisheries and the oceans might be facilitated by integrating fleets in models, which this thesis has described in detail.
(501526) Rosa Robina Wilson
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.
title: Child protection practice : an unintended casualty of reform
Creators: name: Kemp, AP
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: Child protection services are ensnared in a cycle comprised of crisis, leading to promises to ‘fix the broken system’ followed by another crisis. These cycles routinely identify the need for systemic, organisational and operational improvements, and increasingly they confirm the centrality of quality applied practice in improving the safety and wellbeing outcomes of children at risk of harm. However, a major disjuncture exists between the promise of reform, and the implementation realities for practice and practitioners. What eventuates is a reform program which not only fails to address identified practice challenges, but appears to degrade practice even further. As a result, children’s safety is further compromised. Whilst theoretical narratives offer insights as to why such paradoxes occur, their explanatory power falls short when applied to understanding how well-intentioned reforms produce such deleterious consequences for practice. Using a case study design, this research examines the experiences of child protection practitioners engaged in a current reform in Australia, exploring how that reform was impacting on their experience of, and ability to engage in, meaningful practice. What these practitioners revealed was that the reform was having a detrimental impact on their practice. Their experiences were then viewed through the prism of Sam D Sieber’s framework of ‘regression’ and ‘conversion mechanisms’ contained in his book Fatal remedies (1981) in order to explore how this framework might shed new light on such paradoxical outcomes, and whether these practitioner insights might offer new opportunities to strengthen Sieber’s framework. By becoming more attuned to the regressive potential of reforms on practice, we may be better able to understand, identify and predict activities which cause this disruption. The research will propose preventative opportunities for future reform efforts so as to improve the ability of reforms to safeguard the most vulnerable children.
(501528) Thomas Ilderton
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.
Induction of smooth muscle nitric oxide synthase by 17β-estradiol and endothelium removal in organ culture
Creators: name: Binko, Justin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501529) Grace Thorp Dickson
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.
Topological quantum paramagnet in a quantum spin ladder
Creators: name: Joshi, Darshan G.
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been found that bosonic excitations of ordered media, such as phonons or spinons, can exhibit topologically nontrivial band structures. Of particular interest are magnon and triplon excitations in quantum magnets, as they can easily be manipulated by an applied field. Here we study triplon excitations in an S=1/2 quantum spin ladder and show that they exhibit nontrivial topology, even in the quantum-disordered paramagnetic phase. Our analysis reveals that the paramagnetic phase actually consists of two separate regions with topologically distinct triplon excitations. We demonstrate that the topological transition between these two regions can be tuned by an external magnetic field. The winding number that characterizes the topology of the triplons is derived and evaluated. By the bulk-boundary correspondence, we find that the non-zero winding number implies the presence of localized triplon end states. Experimental signatures and possible physical realizations of the topological paramagnetic phase are discussed.
description: 6+4 pages; References, footnotes, small clarification added in conclusions and suppl. mat (v2); Minor modifications, close to published version (v3)
Quaternionic spherical harmonics and a sharp multiplier theorem on quaternionic spheres
Creators: name: Ahrens, Julian
name: Cowling, Michael G.
name: Martini, Alessio
name: Müller, Detlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B15, 43A85 (Primary), 53C26 (Secondary)

description: A sharp $L^p$ spectral multiplier theorem of Mihlin--Hörmander type is proved for a distinguished sub-Laplacian on quaternionic spheres. This is the first such result on compact sub-Riemannian manifolds where the horizontal space has corank greater than one. The proof hinges on the analysis of the quaternionic spherical harmonic decomposition, of which we present an elementary derivation.
Modulatory role of serotonin in cocaine's behavioural effects in the rat
Creators: name: Herges, Sonja
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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Self-Stabilizing Disconnected Components Detection and Rooted Shortest-Path Tree Maintenance in Polynomial Steps
Creators: name: Devismes, Stéphane
name: Ilcinkas, David
name: Johnen, Colette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We deal with the problem of maintaining a shortest-path tree rooted at some process r in a network that may be disconnected after topological changes. The goal is then to maintain a shortest-path tree rooted at r in its connected component, V\_r, and make all processes of other components detecting that r is not part of their connected component. We propose, in the composite atomicity model, a silent self-stabilizing algorithm for this problem working in semi-anonymous networks, where edges have strictly positive weights. This algorithm does not require any a priori knowledge about global parameters of the network. We prove its correctness assuming the distributed unfair daemon, the most general daemon. Its stabilization time in rounds is at most 3nmax+D, where nmax is the maximum number of non-root processes in a connected component and D is the hop-diameter of V\_r. Furthermore, if we additionally assume that edge weights are positive integers, then it stabilizes in a polynomial number of steps: namely, we exhibit a bound in O(maxi nmax^3 n), where maxi is the maximum weight of an edge and n is the number of processes.
(501530) Sarah Thorp
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.
title: Conservation planning for Antarctic stations
Creators: name: Brooks, ST
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2020

description: The ice-free areas of Antarctica make up less than half a percent of the continent but are vital locations for scientific and biodiversity values: providing key habitats for the two vascular plant species, mosses, lichens, invertebrates, the majority of vertebrate breeding sites, and the most accessible locations for studying geoheritage. Human activity is also disproportionately concentrated within these ice-free areas, with the most pronounced impacts from the construction and operation of research stations. As a consequence of their locations, despite stations appearing to be small against the scale of the continent, their footprints can have profound impacts on nearby values, warranting conservation. To address this, an understanding of the term ‘footprint’, as it applies to stations, is first provided to aid conservation planning and standardise terminology. This is followed by an investigation of contemporary environmental accidents in Antarctica, finding that, while a substantial portion of the current footprint of stations originate from discontinued practices, the largest source of new human impacts, with a main exception of fuel spills, were from planned and permitted activities. To provide context for broad-scale conservation management, this thesis then provides the first report quantifying the footprint of station infrastructure across all Antarctica: with >390,000 m\(^2\) of buildings, and an additional disturbance footprint of >5,200,000 m\(^2\) just on ice-free land. The significance of this disturbance is further amplified by an analysis finding multiple physical and biological impacts occur in sites of visibly disturbed substrate across Antarctica’s ice-free regions. Drawing upon the knowledge gained, this thesis concludes by providing an approach to balance this footprint against obligations to protect the environment, agreed upon under the Antarctic Treaty System, through improved, strategic, and deliberate conservation planning of station sites.
The development of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for drug residue detection
Creators: name: Kachab, Edward Hanna
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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(501532) Violet Wilson
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.
(501531) George Wilson
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.
Amino acid amides as water-soluble prodrugs of primary aromatic amines
Creators: name: Pochopin, Nancy L.
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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A new signature of quantum phase transitions from the numerical range
Creators: name: Spitkovsky, Ilya M.
name: Weis, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B26, 52A10, 47A12, 15A18, 32C25, 62F30, 94A17, 54C08, 46T20

description: The ground state energy of a finite-dimensional one-parameter Hamiltonian and the continuity of a maximum-entropy inference map are discussed in the context of quantum critical phenomena. The domain of the inference map is a convex compact set in the plane, called the numerical range. We study the differential geometry of its boundary in relation to the ground state energy. We prove that discontinuities of the inference map correspond to $C^1$-smooth crossings of the ground state energy with a higher energy level. Discontinuities may appear only at $C^1$-smooth points of the boundary of the numerical range considered as a manifold. Discontinuities exist at all $C^2$-smooth non-analytic boundary points and are essentially stronger than at analytic points or at points which are merely $C^1$-smooth (non-exposed points).
description: 25 pages, 1 figure, 1 table (new in v2: proofs are simplified and exposition is improved)