cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metrologie für Röntgenlaser
Creators: name: Richter, Mathias
name: Gottwald, Alexander
name: Krumrey, Michael
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiometrie
subject: Freie-Elektronen-Laser
subject: Röntgenlaser
subject: Gas-Monitor-Detektoren
subject: Multiphoton-Ionisation

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 124 (2014), Heft 3, Seite 27 - 29. ISSN 0030-834X
A Survey on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
Creators: name: Wen, Jie
name: Zhang, Zheng
name: Fei, Lunke
name: Zhang, Bob
name: Xu, Yong
name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Li, Jinxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conventional multi-view clustering seeks to partition data into respective groups based on the assumption that all views are fully observed. However, in practical applications, such as disease diagnosis, multimedia analysis, and recommendation system, it is common to observe that not all views of samples are available in many cases, which leads to the failure of the conventional multi-view clustering methods. Clustering on such incomplete multi-view data is referred to as incomplete multi-view clustering. In view of the promising application prospects, the research of incomplete multi-view clustering has noticeable advances in recent years. However, there is no survey to summarize the current progresses and point out the future research directions. To this end, we review the recent studies of incomplete multi-view clustering. Importantly, we provide some frameworks to unify the corresponding incomplete multi-view clustering methods, and make an in-depth comparative analysis for some representative methods from theoretical and experimental perspectives. Finally, some open problems in the incomplete multi-view clustering field are offered for researchers.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2022)
Topological insulators in ordered double transition metals M$'_2$M$"$C$_2$ (M$'$= Mo, W; M$"$= Ti, Zr, Hf) MXenes
Creators: name: Khazaei, Mohammad
name: Ranjbar, Ahmad
name: Arai, Masao
name: Yunoki, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, so called MXenes, has recently found new members with ordered double transition metals M$'_2$M$"$C$_2$, where M$'$ and M$"$ stand for transition metals. Here, using a set of first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that some of the newly added members, oxide M$'_2$M$"$C$_2$ (M$'$= Mo, W; M$"$= Ti, Zr, Hf) MXenes, are topological insulators. The nontrivial topological states of the predicted MXenes are revealed by the $Z_2$ index, which is evaluated from the parities of the occupied bands below the Fermi energy at time reversal invariant momenta, and also by the presence of the edge states. The predicted M$'_2$M$"$C$_2$O$_2$ MXenes show nontrivial gaps in the range of 0.041 -- 0.285 eV within the generalized gradient approximation and 0.119 -- 0.409 eV within the hybrid functional. The band gaps are induced by the spin-orbit coupling within the degenerate states with $d_{x^2-y^2}$ and $d_{xy}$ characters of M$'$ and M$"$, while the band inversion occurs at the $Γ$ point among the degenerate $d_{x^2-y^2}$/$d_{xy}$ orbitals and a non-degenerate $d_{3z^2-r^2}$ orbital, which is driven by the hybridization of the neighboring orbitals. The phonon dispersion calculations find that the predicted topological insulators are structurally stable. The predicted W-based MXenes with large band gaps might be suitable candidates for many topological applications at room temperature. In addition, we study the electronic structures of thicker ordered double transition metals M$'_2$M$"_2$C$_3$O$_2$ (M$'$= Mo, W; M$"$= Ti, Zr, Hf) and find that they are nontrivial topological semimetals.
description: 9 pages with 6 figures
Effect of two-qutrit entanglement on quantum speed limit time of a bipartite V-type open system
Creators: name: Behzadi, N.
name: Ahansaz, B.
name: Ektesabi, A.
name: Faizi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, quantum speed limit (QSL) time of a bipartite V-type three-level atomic system under the effect of two-qutrit entanglement is investigated. Each party interacts with own independent reservoir. By considering two local unitarily equivalent Wener states and the Horodecki PPT state, as initial states, the QSL time is evaluated for each of them in the respective entangled regions. It is counterintu-itively observe that the effect of entanglement on the QSL time driven from each of the initial Werner states are completely different when the degree of non-Markovianity is considerable. In addition, it is interesting that the effect of entanglement of the non-equivalent Horodecki state on the calculated QSL time displays an intermediate behavior relative to the cases obtained for the Werner states.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
Determinants of Life Insurance Demand in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gebreyes, Roman
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The Ethiopian insurance industry is experiencing encouraging growth since its inception in 1905; however, there is still low level insurance penetration equal to 0.2 % of GDP. The paper tries to explore the determinants of life insurance demand in Ethiopia using a time series data over the period of 1980-2009 within an error correction model. The co-integration test revealed financial development (FD) and inflation are significant variables both in the long run and short run dynamic regression with their positive and negative sign respectively. A change in income has a positively correlated in the short run, while the long run regression shows that current income is inversely related to demand for life insurance. The current price of insurance, a change in real interest rate (RIR) and gross domestic saving per-capita(GDS) have significant but inversely related to demand for life insurance in Ethiopia. The error correction term is significant at 1 percent with a feedback effect of about 63 percent. The explanatory power of the independent variables is also strong at about 98 percent. The Durbin Watson statistics of 1.93 indicates the presence of very little form of auto-correlation
Adams Operations on Matrix Factorizations
Creators: name: Brown, Michael K.
name: Miller, Claudia
name: Thompson, Peder
name: Walker, Mark E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define Adams operations on matrix factorizations, and we show these operations enjoy analogues of several key properties of the Adams operations on perfect complexes with support developed by Gillet-Soulé in their paper "Intersection Theory Using Adams Operations". As an application, we give a proof of a conjecture of Dao-Kurano concerning the vanishing of Hochster's theta invariant.
description: 21 pages
A new approach to the simulation of fluid-particle systems
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, Seshadri
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Multiuser receivers for coded transmit diversity DS-CDMA systems
Creators: name: Sivahumaran, Thirukkumaran
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Elastically-mediated interactions between grain boundaries and precipitates in two-phase coherent solids
Creators: name: Xu, Yechuan
name: Geslin, Pierre-Antoine
name: Karma, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate analytically and numerically the interaction between grain boundaries and second phase precipitates in two-phase coherent solids in the presence of misfit strain. Our numerical study uses amplitude equations that describe the interaction of composition and stress [R. Spatschek and A. Karma, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 81}, 214201 (2010)] and free-energies corresponding to two-dimensional hexagonal and three-dimensional BCC crystal structures that exhibit isotropic and anisotropic elastic properties, respectively. We consider two experimentally motivated geometries where (i) a lamellar precipitate nucleates along a planar grain boundary that is centered inside the precipitate, and (ii) a circular precipitate nucleates inside a grain at a finite distance to an initially planar grain boundary. For the first geometry, we find that the grain boundary becomes morphologically unstable due to the combination of long-range elastic interaction between the grain boundary and compositional domain boundaries, and shear-coupled grain boundary motion. We characterize this instability analytically by extending the linear stability analysis carried out recently [P.-A. Geslin, Y.-C. Xu, and A. Karma, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 114}, 105501 (2015)] to the more general case of elastic anisotropy. The analysis predicts that elastic anisotropy hinders but does not suppress the instability. Simulations also reveal that, in a well-developed non-linear regime, this instability can lead to the break-up of low-angle grain boundaries when the misfit strain exceeds a threshold that depends on the grain boundary misorientation. For the second geometry, simulations show that the elastic interaction between an initially planar grain boundary and an adjacent circular precipitate causes the precipitate to migrate to and anchor at the grain boundary.
Metrologie mit Synchrotronstrahlung – eine kurze Einführung
Creators: name: Richter, Mathias
name: Ulm, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metrologie
subject: Radiometrie
subject: Synchrotronstrahlung
subject: Elektronenspeicherringe
subject: Monochromatoren

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 124 (2014), Heft 3, Seite 3 - 6. ISSN 0030-834X
Performance Analysis and Optimization for RIS-Assisted Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems with Imperfect Hardware
Creators: name: Peng, Zhangjie
name: Chen, Xianzhe
name: Pan, Cunhua
name: Elkashlan, Maged
name: Wang, Jiangzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with imperfect hardware. At the RIS, the paper considers phase noise, while at the base station, the paper takes into consideration the radio frequency impairments and low-resolution analog-to-digital converters. The paper derives approximate expressions for the ergodic achievable rate in closed forms under Rician fading channels. For the cases of infinite numbers of antennas and infinite numbers of reflecting elements, asymptotic data rates are derived to provide new design insights. The derived power scaling laws indicate that while guaranteeing a required system performance, the transmit power of the users can be scaled down at most by the factor 1/M when M goes infinite, or by the factor 1/(MN) when M and N go infinite, where M is the number of antennas and N is the number of the reflecting units. Furthermore, an optimization algorithm is proposed based on the genetic algorithm to solve the phase shift optimization problem with the aim of maximizing the sum rate of the system. Additionally, the optimization problem with discrete phase shifts is considered. Finally, numerical results are provided to validate the correctness of the analytical results.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
On the origin of the Schechter-like mass function of young star clusters in disk galaxies
Creators: name: Lieberz, Patrick
name: Kroupa, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass function of freshly formed star clusters is empirically often described as a power law. However the cluster mass function of populations of young clusters over the scale of a galaxy has been found to be described by a Schechter-function. Here we address this apparent discrepancy. We assume that in an annulus of an isolated self- regulated radially-exponential axially-symmetric disk galaxy, the local mass function of very young (embedded) clusters is a power law with an upper mass limit which depends on the local star formation rate density. Radial integration of this mass function yields a galaxy-wide embedded cluster mass function. This integrated embedded cluster mass function has a Schechter-type form, which results from the addition of many low mass clusters forming at all galactocentric distances and rarer massive clusters only forming close to the center of the galaxy.
description: 11 pages 11 figures 1 table to be published in MNRAS
Die Elektronenspeicherringe MLS und BESSY II als primäre Strahlernormale
Creators: name: Klein, Roman
name: Thornagel, Reiner
name: Ulm, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiometrie
subject: Synchrotronstrahlung
subject: Elektronenspeicherringe
subject: Primärnormal

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 124 (2014), Heft 3, Seite 7 - 15. ISSN 0030-834X
The elastic buckling of void-filled thin-walled box sections
Creators: name: Sironic, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Microfinance and Loan Repayment Performance: A Case Study of the Oromia Credit and Savings Share Company (OCSSCO) in Kuyu
Creators: name: Abafita, Jemal
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: This study was conducted with the aim of analysing the factors that influence microfinance loan repayment, evaluating the loan rationing mechanism and also assessing the impact of the program on the livelihood of borrowers, using primary data collected through structured questionnaire. The estimation results of the descriptive statistics and the probit model show that education, income, loan supervision, suitability of repayment period, availability of other credit sources and livestock are important and significant factors that enhance the loan repayment performance, while loan diversion and loan size are found to significantly increase loan default. In addition female borrowers were found better in terms of loan repayment. According to these findings the institution is recommended to see into these factors with care and design a better lending strategy focusing on effective supervision, training and approval of appropriate loan size so as to minimize the loan default problem observed. Moreover, it should pay attention to expanding of its services so that more poor women join the program and benefit from it there by contributing to the improvement of the repayment performance. Regarding the loan rationing, borrowers who are literate, loan diverters, support more dependents and earn more income, were disfavored; while those who are older, male, apply for larger loan amounts, own livestock of higher value, perceive supervision as adequate and the repayment period as suitable were favored. There were some serious problems observed in the rationing mechanism the institution employed, i.e., borrowers who are good payers (like those who are literate) were rationed more while those who contribute to the default problem (like those who are male and who apply for larger loan amounts) were rationed less. The institution is particularly recommended to improve these problems observed in its rationing mechanism. The credit scheme was also found to have positive impact in improving the income, education, health and nutritional status of the borrowers as evidenced by the Wilcoxon test that compares the situations before and after participation in the credit scheme. Key Words: microfinance, loan repayment performance, loan diversion, loan rationing, impact, creditworthy
Ratchet effect in an underdamped periodic potential and its characterisation
Creators: name: Saikia, Shantu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ratchet effect in a driven underdamped periodic potential system is studied. The presence of a space dependent and periodic friction coefficient, but with a phase difference with the symmetric periodic potential is shown to generate substantial ratchet current.The ratchet performance is characterised in terms of the various parameters of transport. The performance of this ratchet is compared with a ratchet with an underlying periodic and asymmetric potential. It is shown that an optimum combination of inhomogeneity in the system and asymmetry of the potential can substantially enhance the performance of an underdamped ratchet.
description: 18 pages 16 figures
Quellengestützte Radiometrie mit Synchrotronstrahlung
Creators: name: Klein, Roman
name: Kroth, Simone
name: Paustian, Wolfgang
name: Richter, Mathias
name: Thornagel, Reiner
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: Quellengestützte Radiometrie
Strahlungsquellen
UV-Strahlung
VUV-Strahlung
EUV-Strahlung

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 124 (2014), Heft 3, Seite 16 - 20. ISSN 0030-834X
Empfängergestützte Radiometrie mit Kryoradiometern und monochromatisierter Synchrotronstrahlung
Creators: name: Gottwald, Alexander
name: Kroth, Udo
name: Krumrey, Michael
name: Müller, Peter
name: Scholze, Frank
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Empfängergestützte Radiometrie
subject: Kryoradiometer
subject: Primärnormal
subject: Detektoren
subject: Photodioden
subject: VUV-Strahlung
subject: EUV-Strahlung

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 124 (2014), Heft 3, Seite 21 - 26. ISSN 0030-834X
Applications of a novel x-ray phase retrieval technique
Creators: name: Siu, Karen Kit-Wan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Over 45 000 RR Lyrae Stars in the Magellanic System
Creators: name: Soszyński, I.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Szymański, M. K.
name: Wyrzykowski, Ł.
name: Ulaczyk, K.
name: Poleski, R.
name: Pietrukowicz, P.
name: Kozłowski, S.
name: Skowron, D.
name: Skowron, J.
name: Mróz, P.
name: Pawlak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the largest collection of RR Lyrae stars in the Magellanic System and in its foreground. The sample consists of 45 451 RR Lyr stars, of which 39 082 were detected toward the Large Magellanic Cloud and 6369 toward the Small Magellanic Cloud. We provide long-term time-series photometric measurements collected during the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV). We discuss several potential astrophysical applications of our collection: investigation of the structure of the Magellanic Clouds and the Galactic halo, studies of the globular clusters in the Magellanic System, analysis of double-mode RR Lyr stars, and search for RR Lyr stars in eclipsing binary systems.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Computational modelling and prediction of protease specificity
Creators: name: Boyd, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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One-loop diagrams in the Random Euclidean Matching Problem
Creators: name: Lucibello, Carlo
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Sicuro, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The matching problem is a notorious combinatorial optimization problem that has attracted for many years the attention of the statistical physics community. Here we analyze the Euclidean version of the problem, i.e. the optimal matching problem between points randomly distributed on a $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, where the cost to minimize depends on the points' pairwise distances. Using Mayer's cluster expansion we write a formal expression for the replicated action that is suitable for a saddle point computation. We give the diagrammatic rules for each term of the expansion, and we analyze in detail the one-loop diagrams. A characteristic feature of the theory, when diagrams are perturbatively computed around the mean field part of the action, is the vanishing of the mass at zero momentum. In the non-Euclidean case of uncorrelated costs instead, we predict and numerically verify an anomalous scaling for the sub-sub-leading correction to the asymptotic average cost.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
High accuracy three-dimensional model generation
Creators: name: Boey, Seng Heng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A Study on Rice Production in Sierra Leone: Investigating Constraints
Creators: name: Bangura, Sheka
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2002

description: Rice is the staple food of Sierra Leone with no close substitute. The crop accounts for the largest share of the agricultural GDP of the country. However, its production has been declining over the past two decades. Sierra Leone was once an exporter of rice until 1953; thereafter importation assumed the main source of supplying the grain for domestic consumption as production could no longer meet local demand. Decline in the domestic production of the crop has had severed sosio-economic implications ranging from hiking consumer prices to balance of payment problems and debt burden. The country is reported with huge potential for increased agricultural productivity but the situation has rather been let to degenerate to a state where she has to depend on international market and aid for the supply of her staple food. The objective of this study is therefore to investigate the constraints underlying the decline in the crop's production in Sierra Leone. The trends behind the decline are explored with the aim of explaining the factors that emerge therein. The tools employed for analyzing the problem involved a thorough descriptive statistical analysis, coefficients of protection analysis (using nominal protection coefficient), and a supply response analysis using a time series regression framework (for the period 1964-1998) within the context of the Nerlovian supply response approach. Major constraints found negatively impacting on output of the grain are such as price disincentives to farmers (though with low response); the coefficient of public investment is negative, suggesting inter alia that concentration of public expenditure on providing social infrastructure that are limited to urban areas serves to attract rural labour; there is problem of disproportionate attention on traditional upland farming system which is less productive compared to lowlands; the macroeconomic environment has not been conducive; market institutions were weak (a problem that is aggravated by infrastructural bottlenecks); modern farming implements and fertilizers were in low use; rice technological approach did not seem to be appropriate; these are some of the constraints highlighted among the lot in this study. Recommendations are made toward the findings.
Práticas de Ciência Aberta dos periódicos científicos do domínio do direito indexados na coleção SciELO Brasil
Creators: name: Araújo, Paula Carina de
name: Nobre, Rafael Logan de Souza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão "Pecha Kucha II" da 14ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, Natal Brasil, de 18 a 21 de setembro de 2023.
Paint2Pix: Interactive Painting based Progressive Image Synthesis and Editing
Creators: name: Singh, Jaskirat
name: Zheng, Liang
name: Smith, Cameron
name: Echevarria, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Controllable image synthesis with user scribbles is a topic of keen interest in the computer vision community. In this paper, for the first time we study the problem of photorealistic image synthesis from incomplete and primitive human paintings. In particular, we propose a novel approach paint2pix, which learns to predict (and adapt) "what a user wants to draw" from rudimentary brushstroke inputs, by learning a mapping from the manifold of incomplete human paintings to their realistic renderings. When used in conjunction with recent works in autonomous painting agents, we show that paint2pix can be used for progressive image synthesis from scratch. During this process, paint2pix allows a novice user to progressively synthesize the desired image output, while requiring just few coarse user scribbles to accurately steer the trajectory of the synthesis process. Furthermore, we find that our approach also forms a surprisingly convenient approach for real image editing, and allows the user to perform a diverse range of custom fine-grained edits through the addition of only a few well-placed brushstrokes. Supplemental video and demo are available at https://1jsingh.github.io/paint2pix
description: ECCV 2022
Die Erzählung von der Versuchung Abrahams Gen 22,1-19 und das Problem einer Theologie der elohistischen Pentateuchtexte
Creators: name: Schmitt, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 34 (1986): Biblische Notizen, Band 34
Brain Topography Adaptive Network for Satisfaction Modeling in Interactive Information Access System
Creators: name: Ye, Ziyi
name: Xie, Xiaohui
name: Liu, Yiqun
name: Wang, Zhihong
name: Chen, Xuesong
name: Zhang, Min
name: Ma, Shaoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the growth of information on the Web, most users heavily rely on information access systems (e.g., search engines, recommender systems, etc.) in their daily lives. During this procedure, modeling users' satisfaction status plays an essential part in improving their experiences with the systems. In this paper, we aim to explore the benefits of using Electroencephalography (EEG) signals for satisfaction modeling in interactive information access system design. Different from existing EEG classification tasks, the arisen of satisfaction involves multiple brain functions, such as arousal, prototypicality, and appraisals, which are related to different brain topographical areas. Thus modeling user satisfaction raises great challenges to existing solutions. To address this challenge, we propose BTA, a Brain Topography Adaptive network with a multi-centrality encoding module and a spatial attention mechanism module to capture cognitive connectivities in different spatial distances. We explore the effectiveness of BTA for satisfaction modeling in two popular information access scenarios, i.e., search and recommendation. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets verify the effectiveness of introducing brain topography adaptive strategy in satisfaction modeling. Furthermore, we also conduct search result re-ranking task and video rating prediction task based on the satisfaction inferred from brain signals on search and recommendation scenarios, respectively. Experimental results show that brain signals extracted with BTA help improve the performance of interactive information access systems significantly.
description: Accepted by Multimedia 2022 (MM'22) as a full paper
The adhesion of flame and plasma sprayed coatings
Creators: name: Berndt, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Eigenvalue Outliers of non-Hermitian Random Matrices with a Local Tree Structure
Creators: name: Neri, Izaak
name: Metz, Fernando Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra of sparse non-Hermitian random matrices determine the dynamics of complex processes on graphs. Eigenvalue outliers in the spectrum are of particular interest, since they determine the stationary state and the stability of dynamical processes. We present a general and exact theory for the eigenvalue outliers of random matrices with a local tree structure. For adjacency and Laplacian matrices of oriented random graphs, we derive analytical expressions for the eigenvalue outliers, the first moments of the distribution of eigenvector elements associated with an outlier, the support of the spectral density, and the spectral gap. We show that these spectral observables obey universal expressions, which hold for a broad class of oriented random matrices.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Households' Willingness to pay for Water Hyacinth Control to Lake Tana, Ethiopia: An application of Contingent Valuation Method
Creators: name: Tesfa, Getnet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Currently, Water Hyacinth (WH) has become a growing problem in Lake Tana. Infestations of this weed have been, causing environmental, economic, and social problems to the riparian communities. This study uses a cross-sectional survey of 398 randomly selected households in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia, to assess their willingness to pay (WTP) for Water Hyacinth Control to Lake Tana applining contingent valuation approach, and Considering hypothetical scenarios encircling different socio-economic variables. The Tobit regression model was used to analyze the socio-economic factors influencing urban households' WTP decisions for water hyacinth Control in Lake Tana. The results showed that household's were on average willing to pay the amount of 1011.436 ETB with a total contribution of 77,624,226.2 ETB for a one-time payment to clean water hyacinth from Lake Tana. Results reveal that residents' WTP for control of water hyacinth is significantly related to income, member of household's having job and awareness of water hyacinth, among other factors. The mean WTP that found can be a guide for municipal officials in setting a more appropriate fee that can finance cleaning up water hyacinth, where both regional and federal governments have co-operated.
The modelling of compression buckles formed during the cold field bending of line pipe
Creators: name: Bilston, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Analysis of abnormal gait using accelerometry and development of a miniature system
Creators: name: Pendharkar, Gita
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Motion sickness prediction on marine vessels
Creators: name: Smith, Rohan C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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An investigation into the shear resistance and failure mechanisms of shear critical re beams
Creators: name: Sonnenberg, Andrew
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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Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of entangled spin-orbital excitations in superconducting PrFeAsO0.7
Creators: name: Nomura, T.
name: Harada, Y.
name: Niwa, H.
name: Ishii, K.
name: Ishikado, M.
name: Shamoto, S.
name: Jarrige, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy electron excitation spectra were measured on a single crystal of a typical iron-based superconductor PrFeAsO$_{0.7}$ using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Fe-$L_3$ edge. Characteristic RIXS features are clearly observed around 0.5, 1-1.5 and 2-3 eV energy losses. These excitations are analyzed microscopically with theoretical calculations using a 22-orbital model derived from first-principles electronic structure calculation. Based on the agreement with the experiment, the RIXS features are assigned to Fe-$d$ orbital excitations which, at low energies, are accompanied by spin flipping and dominated by Fe $d_{yz}$ and $d_{xz}$ orbital characters. Furthermore, our calculations suggest dispersive momentum dependence of the RIXS excitations below 0.5 eV, and predict remarkable splitting and merging of the lower-energy excitations in momentum space. Those excitations, which were not observed in the present experiment, highlight the potential of RIXS with an improved energy resolution to unravel new details of the electronic structure of the iron-based superconductors.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
An investigation of the hydrology and hydrodynamics of constructed stormwater wetlands
Creators: name: Somes, Nicholas L.G.
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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EFFECT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON KNWOLEDGE AND ATTITUDEIN HEART FAILURE AMONG STAFF NURSESIN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN MAKATI CITY
Creators: name: R.N Sanchez, Zharmaine C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Self- care in heart failure
Heart Failure
Discharge Teaching in Heart Failure patients
Nurses knowledge on heart failure education

description: Patients diagnosed with heart failure requires wide array of health needs that a nurse who exemplifies competency be able manage these patients holistically during the pursuit of care. In order to improve nursing competencies, one must initially care for oneself in order to be teachable that will reach mastery particularly in disease management and later on undergo continuous modeling through trainings and seminars, which all described in Albert Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory. With this, the cross-sectional, quasi-experimental study was focused on measuring the knowledge and attitude of nurses caring for patients with heart failure before and after attending an educational program. With the 30 nurses who were identified from Intensive Care Unit, Medicine Ward, Geriatric Ward in Ospital ng Makati, a tertiary hospital, invitation to attend a 60-minute educational program regarding the principles of heart failure management as stipulated in nursing process,
 Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention and Evaluation was undertaken.
 Significant improvement on scores (μ=2-3 points) in the 40-item knowledge scale was noted post-teaching phase. With p<0.05, there was a significant relation between nurses’ level of experience in the area and level of knowledge (p=0.03), as well as no. of heart failure patients cared in 4-week duration and level of attitude (p=0.004). Meanwhile, there was no significant relationship between the level of knowledge and attitude of nurses towards heart failure management (p=0.27).
description: Masters Thesis
An exact solution for the Hawking effect in a dispersive fluid
Creators: name: Philbin, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the group velocity of low-frequency waves. We find the exact solution for wave propagation in the flow. The scattering shows amplification of classical waves, leading to spontaneous emission when the waves are quantized. In the dispersionless limit the system corresponds to a 1+1-dimensional black-hole or white-hole binary and there is a thermal spectrum of Hawking radiation from each horizon. Dispersion changes the scattering coefficients so that the quantum emission is no longer thermal. The scattering coefficients were previously obtained by Busch and Parentani in a study of dispersive fields in de Sitter space [Phys. Rev. D 86, 104033 (2012)]. Our results give further details of the wave propagation in this exactly solvable case, where our focus is on laboratory systems.
description: 18 pages, minor changes
Zebrafish larvae show negative phototaxis to near-infrared light
Creators: name: Hartmann, Sarah
name: Kunze, Jan
name: Vogt, Roland
name: Rauschert, Anna
name: Kuhnert, Klaus-Dieter
name: Wanzenböck, Josef
name: Lamatsch, Dunja K
name: Witte, Klaudia
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
subject: Zebrafish
subject: Phototaxis
subject: Zebrabärbling
subject: Phototaxis

description: Zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio) are among the most used model species to test biological effects of different substances in biomedical research, neuroscience and ecotoxicology. Most tests are based on changes in swimming activity of zebrafish larvae by using commercially available high-throughput screening systems. These systems record and analyse behaviour patterns using visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) light sources, to simulate day (VIS) and night (NIR) phases, which allow continuous recording of the behaviour using a NIR sensitive camera. So far, however, the sensitivity of zebrafish larvae to NIR has never been tested experimentally, although being a critical piece of information for interpreting their behaviour under experimental conditions. Here, we investigated the swimming activity of 96 hpf (hours post fertilization) and 120 hpf zebrafish larvae under light sources of NIR at 860 nm and at 960 nm wavelength and under VIS light. A thermal source was simultaneously presented opposite to one of the light sources as control. We found that zebrafish larvae of both larval stages showed a clear negative phototactic response towards 860 nm NIR light and to VIS light, but not to 960 nm NIR light. Our results demonstrated that zebrafish larvae are able to perceive NIR at 860 nm, which is almost identical to the most commonly used light source in commercial screening systems (NIR at 850 nm) to create a dark environment. These tests, however, are not performed in the dark from the zebrafish´s point of view. We recommend testing sensitivity of the used test organism before assuming no interaction with the applied light source of commonly used biosensor test systems. Previous studies on biological effects of substances to zebrafish larvae should be interpreted with caution.
Experimental analysis of the damping characteristics of an oil ball damper
Creators: name: Song, Seon Ho
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Tourism and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Data Approach
Creators: name: Hagos, Tsega
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange earnings, income and employment, which, can contribute to poverty alleviation of African countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of tourism sector on economic growth and the vise versa. To achieve this objective a dynamic panel estimated by the systems generalized method of moment's estimator and pooled ordinary least squares are applied on forty two African countries for the period 1995-2005. This study will contribute to the limited empirical literature on the impact of tourism on economic growth and the vise versa in the region. We found a significant positive contribution of the tourism sector for economic growth of the countries from the economic growth model. Similarly, the econometric results from the tourists` arrival model indicated that economic growth is vital for the development of the tourism sector. Hence, African countries should create conducive environment (e.g. political stability) and commit their resources to increase the contribution of the tourism industry to national income. Key words: Tourism, Economic growth, Panel data, Africa.
National Register Eligibility Assessment of JB MDL Facility Number 3209, 2251, 1749
Creators: name: J. Barnes Plimpton
Publisher: name: HDR
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85893/joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst
subject: New Jersey (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1367/new-jersey-state-territory
subject: Woodland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/13/woodland
subject: PaleoIndian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/4/paleoindian
subject: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: McGuire AFB
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169264/mcguire-afb
subject: Hangar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/123185/hangar
subject: Double Cantilever
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169272/double-cantilever
subject: Cold War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138138/cold-war

description: Architectural history reconnaissance level assessments of three facilities potentially affected by the KC-46 beddown, including a historical context and condition assessment for Building 3209. Building 3209 (Big Beige) is NRHP eligible under Criterion C for its double cantilever design.
Site Form, Site 28BU1008
Creators: name: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 28-BU-1008
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/131834/28-bu-1008
subject: Homestead
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/670/homestead
subject: Foundation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/927/foundation
subject: Twentieth
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169758/twentieth
subject: Concrete
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/85665/concrete
subject: Pier
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/85684/pier
subject: Footer
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169761/footer
subject: Forster House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169783/forster-house
subject: Brick
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/9178/brick

description: Initial New Jersey Site Registration Form.
How is Lorentz Invariance encoded in the Hamiltonian?
Creators: name: Kajuri, Nirmalya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the disadvantages of the Hamiltonian formulation is that Lorentz invariance is not manifest in the former. Given a Hamiltonian, there is no simple way to check whether it is relativistic or not. One would either have to solve for the equations of motion or calculate the Poisson Brackets of the Noether charges to perform such a check. In this paper we show that, for a class of Hamiltonians, it is possible to check Lorentz invariance directly from the Hamiltonian. Our work is particularly useful for theories where the other methods may not be readily available.
description: 8 pages, no figures; v2: Typos corrected, acknowledgement added. Changed to match published version