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A Systematic Analysis of Census and Labor Data to Create a Community Profile of Work
Creators: name: Lawson, Morgan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Employment and working conditions are recognized as determinants of health. Employment is affected by and effects socioeconomic status and material circumstances. The effects of work on community health are currently being studied through the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project at the UIC Center for Healthy Work. Greater Lawndale is a community of high economic hardship in the City of Chicago. A community profile was created using publicly available data released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The profile compares demographic, employment, and housing data for Greater Lawndale to the City of Chicago. Analysis of data from the American Community Survey highlight the inequity between Chicago overall, and Greater Lawndale. Demographic data show that African Americans and Latinos are overrepresented in Greater Lawndale compared to the entire City of Chicago. Employment and education data show that residents of Greater Lawndale work in generally low-skill, low-wage jobs and have lower levels of education compared to Chicago. Overall, Greater Lawndale faces higher rates of poverty than the City of Chicago. The social conditions surrounding this community have an impact on the ability of residents to obtain quality employment with healthy working conditions. Low-wage, low-income employment in turn, impacts the material circumstances and social position of residents of Greater Lawndale.
Electron transport properties of sub-3-nm diameter copper nanowires
Creators: name: Jones, Sarah L. T.
name: Sanchez-Soares, Alfonso
name: Plombon, John J.
name: Kaushik, Ananth P.
name: Nagle, Roger E.
name: Clarke, James S.
name: Greer, James C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density functional theory and density functional tight-binding are applied to model electron transport in copper nanowires of approximately 1 nm and 3 nm diameters with varying crystal orientation and surface termination. The copper nanowires studied are found to be metallic irrespective of diameter, crystal orientation and/or surface termination. Electron transmission is highly dependent on crystal orientation and surface termination. Nanowires oriented along the [110] crystallographic axis consistently exhibit the highest electron transmission while surface oxidized nanowires show significantly reduced electron transmission compared to unterminated nanowires. Transmission per unit area is calculated in each case, for a given crystal orientation we find that this value decreases with diameter for unterminated nanowires but is largely unaffected by diameter in surface oxidized nanowires for the size regime considered. Transmission pathway plots show that transmission is larger at the surface of unterminated nanowires than inside the nanowire and that transmission at the nanowire surface is significantly reduced by surface oxidation. Finally, we present a simple model which explains the transport per unit area dependence on diameter based on transmission pathways results.
Children's social cognition and their understanding of television
Creators: name: Knowles, Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Novel Electron-Phonon Relaxation Pathway in Graphite Revealed by Time-Resolved Raman Scattering and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Yang, Jhih-An
name: Parham, Stephen
name: Dessau, Daniel
name: Reznik, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time dynamics of photoexcited electron-hole pairs is important for a number of technologies, in particular solar cells. We combined ultrafast pump-probe Raman scattering and photoemission to directly follow electron-hole excitations as well as the G-phonon in graphite after an excitation by an intense laser pulse. This phonon is known to couple relatively strongly to electrons. Cross-correlating effective electronic and phonon temperatures places new constraints on model-based fits. The accepted two-temperature model predicts that G-phonon population should start to increase as soon as excited electron-hole pairs are created and that the rate of increase should not depend strongly on the pump fluence. Instead we found that the increase of the G-phonon population occurs with a delay of $\sim$65 fs. This time-delay is also evidenced by the absence of the so-called self-pumping for G phonons. It decreases with increased pump fluence. We show that these observations imply a new relaxation pathway: Instead of hot carriers transferring energy to G-phonons directly, the energy is first transferred to optical phonons near the zone boundary K-points, which then decay into G-phonons via phonon-phonon scattering. Our work demonstrates that phonon-phonon interactions must be included in any calculations of hot carrier relaxation in optical absorbers even when only short timescales are considered.
Evaluation of DNA Loss in Touch Samples from Various Substrates
Creators: name: Tang, Jessica Lin
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Touch samples, by nature, may contain a low quantity of DNA, and the manipulations of collection and analysis can further reduce this amount. Studies have tracked up to a 70-90% loss of DNA during the performance of standard protocols. It has not been clear, however, at which point(s) during collection and/or analysis the DNA is primarily lost. To evaluate loss during collection and extraction, three mock fingerprint controls were developed. Twenty microliter mock fingerprints (0-1500 cells, 0.00 – 9.00 ng DNA) were pipetted: 1) On to a surface to measure the quantity of material lost to the entire collection-extraction process, 2) On to the swab to determine the amount of material retained on the surface and swab after extraction through minor calculations, and 3) Directly into the extraction tube to monitor the material lost due to the extraction procedures. Five-point standard curves were constructed by plotting DNA recovered after extraction vs. initial DNA added for the mock fingerprints. Validation of the mock fingerprint controls was done first on glass slides to serve as a baseline followed by three crime scene objects: steering wheel, brass door plate, and glassine (drug) baggie. The R-squared values for the curves from all four substrates ranged from 0.9890-0.9999, validating the use of mock fingerprints as positive controls. The results demonstrated an average total percent loss of 67% was found to occur from collection to extraction: 10% remained on the surface, 24% was retained on the swab, and 33% was lost to the extraction. By tracking the loss and looking at the effects surface type may have on touch DNA yields, this will improve the recovery of these samples and increase the use of touch DNA in forensic science.
Averaged electron collision cross sections for thermal mixtures of $α$-Alanine conformers in the gas phase
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Milton M.
name: de Lima, Erik V. R.
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical study of elastic electron collisions with 9 conformers of the gas-phase amino acid $α$-alanine (CH$_3$CH(NH$_2$)COOH) is performed. The eigenphase sums, resonance features, differential and integral cross sections are computed for each individual conformer. Resonance positions for the low-energy $π^*$ shape resonance are found to vary from 2.6 eV to 3.1 eV and the resonance widths from 0.3 eV to 0.5 eV. Averaged cross sections for thermal mixtures of the 9 conformers are presented. Both theoretical and experimental population ratios are considered. Thermally-averaged cross sections obtained using the best theoretical estimates give reasonable agreement with the observed thermal cross sections. Excited conformers IIA and IIB make a large contribution to this average due to their large permanent dipole moments.
description: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., in press
Administering women's education in a Muslim tribal community in Pakistan
Creators: name: Khan, Jamsheeda Parveen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Integrability of motion around galactic razor-thin disks
Creators: name: Vieira, Ronaldo S. S.
name: Ramos-Caro, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the three-dimensional bounded motion of a test particle around razor-thin disk configurations, by focusing on the adiabatic invariance of the vertical action associated with disk-crossing orbits. We find that it leads to an approximate third integral of motion predicting envelopes of the form $Z(R)\propto[Σ(R)]^{-1/3}$, where $R$ is the radial galactocentric coordinate, $Z$ is the z-amplitude (vertical amplitude) of the orbit and $Σ$ represents the surface mass density of the thin disk. This third integral, which was previously formulated for the case of flattened 3D configurations, is tested for a variety of trajectories in different thin-disk models.
description: Version accepted for publication at Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. Replaces arxiv version arxiv:1206.6501. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10569-016-9705-0
Gamma-Ray Emission from Supernova Remnants and Surrounding Molecular Clouds
Creators: name: Gabici, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnant shocks. Gamma-ray observations of both supernova remnants and associated molecular clouds have been used in several occasions to test (so far quite successfully) this popular hypothesis. Despite that, a conclusive solution to the problem of cosmic ray origin is still missing, and further observational and theoretical efforts are needed. In this paper, the current status of these investigations is briefly reviewed.
description: Invited talk at GAMMA2016. 12 pages, 7 figures
Improving the teaching of biology at the Senior Secondary General School
Creators: name: Kardi, Soeparman
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Soliton repetition rate in a silicon-nitride microresonator
Creators: name: Bao, Chengying
name: Xuan, Yi
name: Wang, Cong
name: Jaramillo-Villegas, Jose A.
name: Leaird, Daniel E.
name: Qi, Minghao
name: Weiner, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The repetition rate of a Kerr comb comprising a single soliton in an anomalous dispersion silicon nitride microcavity is measured as a function of pump frequency tuning. The contributions from the Raman soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) and from thermal effects are evaluated both experimentally and theoretically; the SSFS is found to dominate the changes in repetition rate. The relationship between the changes in repetition rate and pump frequency detuning is found to be independent of the nonlinearity coefficient and dispersion of the cavity. Modeling of the repetition rate change by using the generalized Lugiato-Lefever equation is discussed; the Kerr shock is found to have only a minor effect on repetition rate for cavity solitons with duration down to ~50 fs.
Long-Term Photometry of IC 348 with the YETI Network
Creators: name: Fritzewski, D. J.
name: Kitze, M.
name: Mugrauer, M.
name: Neuhäuser, R.
name: Adam, C.
name: Briceño, C.
name: Buder, S.
name: Butterley, T.
name: Chen, W. -P.
name: Dinçel, B.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Errmann, R.
name: Garai, Z.
name: Gilbert, H. F. W.
name: Ginski, C.
name: Greif, J.
name: Hardy, L. K.
name: Hernández, J.
name: Huang, P. C.
name: Kellerer, A.
name: Kundra, E.
name: Littlefair, S. P.
name: Mallonn, M.
name: Marka, C.
name: Pannicke, A.
name: Pribulla, T.
name: Raetz, St.
name: Schmidt, J. G.
name: Schmidt, T. O. B.
name: Seeliger, M.
name: Wilson, R. W.
name: Wolf, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present long-term photometric observations of the young open cluster IC 348 with a baseline time-scale of 2.4 yr. Our study was conducted with several telescopes from the Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (YETI) network in the Bessel $R$ band to find periodic variability of young stars. We identified 87 stars in IC 348 to be periodically variable; 33 of them were unreported before. Additionally, we detected 61 periodic non-members of which 41 are new discoveries. Our wide field of view was the key to those numerous newly found variable stars. The distribution of rotation periods in IC 348 has always been of special interest. We investigate it further with our newly detected periods but we cannot find a statistically significant bimodality. We also report the detection of a close eclipsing binary in IC 348 composed of a low-mass stellar component ($M \gtrsim 0.09\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) and a K0 pre-main sequence star ($M \approx 2.7\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$). Furthermore, we discovered three detached binaries among the background stars in our field of view and confirmed the period of a fourth one.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 23 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables
A comparison of normal reading, speed reading and speed listening
Creators: name: Junor, Lloyd
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Interaction of Airy-Gaussian beams in defected photonic lattices
Creators: name: Shi, Zhiwei
name: Xue, Jing
name: Zhu, Xing
name: Xiang, Ying
name: Li, Huagang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate interactions by means of direct numerical simulations between two finite Airy-Gaussian (AiG) beams in different media with the defected photonic lattices in one transverse dimension. We discuss different lattice structures in which the beams with different intensities and phases are launched into the medium, but accelerate in opposite directions. During interactions we see the interference fringe, breathers and soliton pairs generated that are not accelerating. In the linear media, the initial deflection direction of the accelerated beams is changed by adjusting the phase shift and the beam interval. For a certain lattice period, the periodic interference fringe can form. A constructive or destructive interference can vary with the defect depth and phase shift. While the nonlinearity is introduced, the breathers is generated. Especially, the appropriate beam amplitude and lattice depth may lead to the formation of soliton pairs.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Quasi-normality induced by differential inequalities
Creators: name: Grahl, Jürgen
name: Nevo, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D45, 30A10

description: We show that the family ${\cal F}_k$ of all meromorphic functions $f$ in a domain $D$ satisfying $$\frac{|f^{(k)}|}{1+|f|}(z)\ge C \qquad \mbox{ for all } z\in D$$ (where $k$ is a natural number and $C>0$) is quasi-normal. The proof relies mainly on the Zalcman-Pang rescaling method.
description: 14 pages
Many-body localization and delocalization from the perspective of Integrals of Motion
Creators: name: Rademaker, Louk
name: Ortuno, Miguel
name: Somoza, Andres M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study many-body localization (MBL) and delocalization from the perspective of integrals of motion (IOMs). MBL can be understood phenomenologically through the existence of macroscopically many localized IOMs. However, IOMs exist for all many-body systems, and non-localized IOMs determine properties on the ergodic side of the MBL transition too. Here we explore their properties using our method of displacement transformations. We show how different quantities can be calculated using the IOMs as an expansion in the number of operators. For all values of disorder the typical IOMs are localized, suggesting the importance of rare fluctuations in understanding the delocalization transition.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to special issue on "Many-Body Localization" in Annalen der Physik. Comments are welcome!
Family education : implications for the development of family education from a study of the family cluster model
Creators: name: Eastman, Moira
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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"Results_CLs_sorted.txt" of "Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum using sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2011

description: Results summary and efficiency*acceptance
description: CERN-LHC. Measurement of distributions of events with 6 or more jets in association with missing transverse momentum produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data sample has a total integrated luminosity of 1.34 fb-1 and uses data-driven techniques to determine the backgrounds. Distributions of the number of jets and of the variable (Missing ET)/sqrt(HT) are presented, where HT is the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of all the jets in the event. Exclusion limits on M_1/2 versus M_0 in the contect of the MSUGRA/CMSSM are also presented. The tables also give, for illustrative purpose, the expectations from the MSUGRA/CMSSM point with M_0=1220 Gev and M_1/2=180 GeV.
Testing theories of Gravity and Supergravity with inflation and observations of the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Chakravarty, Girish Kumar
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Mohanty, Subhendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many extensions of Einstein's theory of gravity have been studied and proposed with various motivations like the quest for a quantum theory of gravity to extensions of anomalies in observations at the solar system, galactic and cosmological scales. These extensions include adding higher powers of Ricci curvature $R$, coupling the Ricci curvature with scalar fields and generalized functions of $R$. In addition when viewed from the perspective of Supergravity (SUGRA) many of these theories may originate from the same SUGRA theory interpreted in different frames. SUGRA therefore serves as a good framework for organizing and generalizing theories of gravity beyond General Relativity. All these theories when applied to inflation (a rapid expansion of early Universe in which primordial gravitational waves might be generated and might still be detectable by the imprint they left or by the ripples that persist today) can have distinct signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation temperature and polarization anisotropies. In this review we give a detailed discussion on the standard model of cosmology ($Λ$CDM), inflation and cosmological perturbation theory. We survey the theories of gravity beyond Einstein's General Relativity, specially which arise from SUGRA, and study the consequences of these theories in the context of inflation and put bounds on the theories and the parameters therein from the observational experiments like Planck, Keck/BICEP. The possibility of testing these theories in the near future in CMB observations and new data coming from colliders like the LHC, provides an unique opportunity for constructing verifiable models of particle physics and General Relativity.
description: 64 pages, 12 figures, partially based on arXiv:1303.3870, arXiv:1405.1321, arXiv:1511.03121
TASI lectures on AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Penedones, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding space formalism. We then consider QFT in a fixed AdS background and show that one can define boundary operators that enjoy very similar properties as in a CFT, except for the lack of a stress tensor. Including a dynamical metric in AdS generates a boundary stress tensor and completes the CFT axioms. We also discuss some applications of the bulk geometric intuition to strongly coupled QFT. Finally, we end with a review of the main properties of Mellin amplitudes for CFT correlation functions and their uses in the context of AdS/CFT.
description: 63 pages, 7 figures
Coincidences among skew dual stable Grothendieck polynomials
Creators: name: Alwaise, Ethan
name: Chen, Shuli
name: Clifton, Alexander
name: Patrias, Rebecca
name: Prasad, Rohil
name: Shinners, Madeline
name: Zheng, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The question of when two skew Young diagrams produce the same skew Schur function has been well-studied. We investigate the same question in the case of stable Grothendieck polynomials, which are the K-theoretic analogues of the Schur functions. We prove a necessary condition for two skew shapes to give rise to the same dual stable Grothendieck polynomial. We also provide a necessary and sufficient condition in the case where the two skew shapes are ribbons.
description: 20 pages
An investigation of the change in ideas about nursing held by pre-service nurses
Creators: name: Crispin, Wendy M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A Note on Weyl invariance in gravity and the Wess-Zumino functional
Creators: name: Attard, J.
name: Lazzarini, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the explicit calculation of the Wess-Zumino functional pertaining to the breaking term of the Weyl symmetry for the Einstein-Hilbert action allows to restore the Weyl symmetry by introducing the extra dilaton field as Goldstone field. Adding the Wess-Zumino counter-term to the Einstein-Hilbert action reproduces the usual Weyl invariant action used in standard literature. Further consideration might confer to the Einstein-Hilbert action a new status.
description: Contribution to the Special Issue 'Memoriam Raymond Stora', devoted to "Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory", Nucl. Phys. B
Boundary-induced dynamics in 1D topological systems and memory effects of edge modes
Creators: name: He, Yan
name: Chien, Chih-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamics induced by a change of boundary conditions reveals rate-dependent signatures associated with topological properties in one-dimensional Kitaev chain and SSH model. While the perturbation from a change of the boundary propagates into the bulk, the density of topological edge modes in the case of transforming to open boundary condition reaches steady states. The steady-state density depends on the transformation rate of the boundary and serves as an illustration of quantum memory effects in topological systems. Moreover, while a link is physically broken as the boundary condition changes, some correlation functions can remain finite across the broken link and keep a record of the initial condition. By testing those phenomena in the non-topological regimes of the two models, none of the interesting signatures of memory effects can be observed. Our results thus contrast the importance of topological properties in boundary-induced dynamics.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted
Relaxation of the chiral imbalance in dense matter of a neutron star
Creators: name: Dvornikov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the quantum field theory methods, we calculate the helicity flip of an electron scattering off protons in dense matter of a neutron star. The influence of the electroweak interaction between electrons and background nucleons on the helicity flip is examined. We also derive the kinetic equation for the chiral imbalance. The derived kinetic equation is compared with the results obtained by other authors.
description: 8 pages in pdflatex, EPJ Web of Conferences latex style; contribution to proceedings of Quarks-2016
La danza della luna
Creators: name: Baioni, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: luna, fasi lunari, semina

description: «Che cosa guardi Leonardo»? Domanda Chiara, bambina di sei anni, al cugino Leonardo, che frequenta la prima media: «Guardo la danza della luna». «La danza della luna»? «Sì, Chiara, guarda questa fotografia». «Oh, che meraviglia», esclama Chiara. «Beh, Leo, spiegami un po’: io non sapevo che la luna danzasse». Dice Leo: «La luna si sposta continuamente». Il mio papà l’ha fotografata ogni sera alla stessa ora, per ventotto giorni: si vede che, ogni sera, la luna si sposta di un pezzetto. «Non sapevi?» La luna non solo danza, ma fa alzare e abbassare le maree e poi il nonno mi ha insegnato che occorre osservare le fasi lunari per seminare. Ti spiego. Continua a leggere...
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Christian education reconsidered : towards an ecological future
Creators: name: Aspinall, Phillip John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Integral operator approach over octonions to solution of nonlinear PDE
Creators: name: Frenod, Emmanuel
name: Ludkowski, Sergey Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30G35, 32W50, 35G20

description: Integration of nonlinear partial differential equations with the help of the non-commutative integration over octonions is studied. An apparatus permitting to take into account symmetry properties of PDOs is developed. For this purpose formulas for calculations of commutators of integral and partial differential operators are deduced. Transformations of partial differential operators and solutions of partial differential equations are investigated. Theorems providing solutions of nonlinear PDEs are proved. Examples are given. Applications to PDEs of hydrodynamics and other types PDEs are described.
description: 41 pages
Connectionist knowledge representation and second language acquisition : a case of the fail-soft beauty of graceful degradation
Creators: name: Zakaria, Nooraya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Superiorization of Incremental Optimization Algorithms for Statistical Tomographic Image Reconstruction
Creators: name: Helou, Elias S.
name: Zibetti, Marcelo V. W.
name: Miqueles, Eduardo X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose the superiorization of incremental algorithms for tomographic image reconstruction. The resulting methods follow a better path in its way to finding the optimal solution for the maximum likelihood problem in the sense that they are closer to the Pareto optimal curve than the non-superiorized techniques. A new scaled gradient iteration is proposed and three superiorization schemes are evaluated. Theoretical analysis of the methods as well as computational experiments with both synthetic and real data are provided.
Reduction in energy dissipation rate with increased effective applied field
Creators: name: Janu, Zdenek
name: Soukup, Frantisek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamics of the response of type-II superconductors to a time-varying magnetic field can exhibit a rate-independent or rate-dependent hysteresis. An energy dissipation rate in a superconductor placed in a time-varying magnetic field depends on its wave form and type of hysteresis, which depends on temperature. The same wave form may reduce the energy dissipation rate in the case of true hysteresis, while it may increase the energy dissipation rate in the case of dynamic hysteresis compared with an energy dissipation rate in a pure sinusoidal field. We present experimental data which confirm the energy dissipation rate calculated using the critical state theory for the case of rate-independent hysteresis and limiting behavior in a normal state for the case of rate-dependent hysteresis.
Synthesis of Multifunctional Probes for Targeted Chemical Proteomics
Creators: name: Cook, Phoebe
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Targeted chemical proteomics relies on chemical probes developed from enzyme inhibitors for selective labelling of endogenous proteins at a proteome-wide scale. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a validated drug target, with its dysregulation driving progression in several types of cancer. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that target EGFR lose efficacy within months of treatment due to drug resistance, emphasising the need for developing new therapeutics for combating resistance. Therefore, new targeted chemical proteomics tools are required to investigate the cellular mechanisms behind EGFR acquiring drug resistance to TKIs. While EGFR targeting probes are known, these probes have been primarily used for profiling inhibitor reactivity and are limited in selectivity. Here, we report the synthesis of new chemical probes with a sulfonyl fluoride for targeting lysine residues to potentially increase selectivity for endogenous EGFR. An aryl sulfonyl fluoride reactive group was successfully attached to an anilinoquinazoline core to provide a new probe, and future work will involve optimised synthesis of analogous probes and cellular investigation of their specificity for endogenous EGFR.
Predicting the Amplitude and Hemispheric Asymmetry of Solar Cycle 25 with Surface Flux Transport
Creators: name: Hathaway, David H.
name: Upton, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence strongly indicates that the strength of the Sun's polar fields near the time of a sunspot cycle minimum determines the strength of the following solar activity cycle. We use our Advective Flux Transport (AFT) code, with flows well constrained by observations, to simulate the evolution of the Sun's polar magnetic fields from early 2016 to the end of 2019 --- near the expected time of Cycle 24/25 minimum. We run a series of simulations in which the uncertain conditions (convective motion details, active region tilt, and meridional flow profile) are varied within expected ranges. We find that the average strength of the polar fields near the end of Cycle 24 will be similar to that measured near the end of Cycle 23, indicating that Cycle 25 will be similar in strength to the current cycle. In all cases the polar fields are asymmetric with fields in the south stronger than those in the north. This asymmetry would be more pronounced if not for the predicted weakening of the southern polar fields in late 2016 and through 2017. After just four years of simulation the variability across our ensemble indicates an accumulated uncertainty of about 15\%. This accumulated uncertainty arises from stochastic variations in the convective motion details, the active region tilt, and changes in the meridional flow profile. These variations limit the ultimate predictability of the solar cycle.
description: 8 pages 7 figures Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics
Plano de Gestão de Dados Acionável por Máquina, da teoria à prática: uma análise das ferramentas ARGOS e FioDMP
Creators: name: Veiga, Viviane
name: Henning, Patrícia
name: Cardoso, João
name: Pereira, Filipa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão "Comunicação I" da 14ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, Natal Brasil, de 18 a 21 de setembro de 2023.
Formation of buried conductive micro-channels in single crystal diamond with MeV C and He implantation
Creators: name: Picollo, F.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Bellotti, F.
name: Pastuović, Ž.
name: Skukan, N.
name: Giudice, A. Lo
name: Amato, G.
name: Jakšić, M.
name: Vittone, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As demonstrated in previous works, implantation with a MeV ion microbeam through masks with graded thickness allows the formation of conductive micro-channels in diamond which are embedded in the insulating matrix at controllable depths [P. Olivero et al., Diamond Relat. Mater. 18 (5-8), 870-876 (2009)]. In the present work we report about the systematic electrical characterization of such micro-channels as a function of several implantation conditions, namely: ion species and energy, implantation fluence. The current-voltage (IV) characteristics of the buried channels were measured at room temperature with a two point probe station. Significant parameters such as the sheet resistance and the characteristic exponent (alpha) of the IV power-law trend were expressed as a function of damage density, with satisfactory compatibility between the results obtained in different implantation conditions.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Characterising employees' learning in Australian organisations
Creators: name: Yu, Richard Shue Tak
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Diffusion of IPST physical science curriculum : an evaluation of its inservice education component
Creators: name: Wongthonglour, Sobhi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-$β$ decay of $^{136}$Xe
Creators: name: Szwec, S. V.
name: Kay, B. P.
name: Cocolios, T. E.
name: Entwisle, J. P.
name: Freeman, S. J.
name: Gaffney, L. P.
name: Guimarães, V.
name: Hammache, F.
name: McKee, P. P.
name: Parr, E.
name: Portail, C.
name: Schiffer, J. P.
name: de Séréville, N.
name: Sharp, D. K.
name: Smith, J. F.
name: Stefan, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantitative description of the change in ground-state neutron occupancies between $^{136}$Xe and $^{136}$Ba, the initial and final state in the neutrinoless double-$β$ decay of $^{136}$Xe, has been extracted from precision measurements of the cross sections of single-neutron adding and -removing reactions. Comparisons are made to recent theoretical calculations of the same properties using various nuclear-structure models. These are the same calculations used to determine the magnitude of the nuclear matrix elements for the process, which at present disagree with each other by factors of 2 or 3. The experimental neutron occupancies show some disagreement with the theoretical calculations.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Ewes with higher embryo survival rear lambs that grow faster
Creators: name: Shorten, Paul
name: O’Connell, Anne
name: Juengel, Jenny
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal reproduction and breeding

description: A key economic driver of a meat producing sheep flock is the total kilograms of lamb liveweight at weaning per ewe exposed to the ram. Optimization of key reproductive steps is required to achieve peak performance of a sheep flock. The goal of this paper was to use more than 56,000 records from a commercial flock to investigate the key reproductive steps affecting flock reproductive performance. We also applied a maximum-likelihood based technique to predict the embryo survival and ovulation rate for daughters of individual sires based on measurements of the number of fetuses at midpregnancy (detected by ultrasound-scanning). The model was used to determine how changes in premating liveweight, age, predicted ovulation rate, embryo survival, number of fetuses at midpregnancy, lamb survival, and lamb growth rate affect the total lamb liveweight at weaning per ewe exposed to the ram in the flock. The data from the commercial flock was also used to investigate the role of ewe age and premating liveweight on each reproductive step. Sensitivity analyses were performed to identify the key reproductive steps affecting flock reproductive performance. The elasticity for embryo survival was 80% of that for lamb survival. There was also significant between sire variance in the estimates of ovulation rate and embryo survival. The reproductive performance of daughters of sires with high (top 50%) and low (bottom 50%) embryo survival was investigated. Embryo survival was 0.88 in the high group and 0.82 in the low group (a 6% reduction in embryo survival). The expected total weight of lambs weaned per ewe exposed to the ram was 42 kg in the high embryo survival group and 37 kg in the low embryo survival group (a 12% reduction in the total weight of lambs weaned per ewe exposed to the ram). The proportion of twin litters was 70% in the high group and 60% in the low group, highlighting the potential importance of embryo survival for the rate of twinning in flocks with ovulation rates greater than two ova. Although lamb survival was similar between the high and low embryo survival groups, lamb growth was reduced by 10% in the low embryo survival group for the same litter size (P < 0.001). This novel positive phenotypic association between embryo survival and lamb growth rate can potentially be exploited to improve flock performance.
Training EFL writing students in Indonesia in the use of strategies for peer response
Creators: name: Widiati, Utami
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Matched-filtering Line Search Methods Applied to Suzaku Data
Creators: name: Miyazaki, Naoto
name: Yamada, Shin'ya
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Axelsson, Magnus
name: Ohashi, Takaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed search for emission and absorption lines and assessing their upper limits are performed for Suzaku data. The method utilizes a matched-filtering approach to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio for a given energy resolution, which could be applicable to many types of line search. We first applied it to well-known AGN spectra that have been reported to have ultra-fast outflows, and find that our results are consistent with previous findings at the ~3σ level. We proceeded to search for emission and absorption features in the two bright magnetars 4U 0142+61 and 1RXS J1708-4009, applying the filtering method to Suzaku data. We found that neither source showed any significant indication of line features, even using long Suzaku observations and dividing their spectra into spin phases. The upper limits on the equivalent width of emission/absorption lines are constrained to be a few eV at ~1 keV, and a few hundreds of eV at ~10 keV. This strengthens previous reports that persistently bright magnetars do not show proton cyclotron absorption features in soft X-rays and, even if they exist, they would be broadened or much weaker than below the detection limit of X-ray CCD.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN: I. Near infrared observations and spectral fitting
Creators: name: Onori, F.
name: La Franca, F.
name: Ricci, F.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Sani, E.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Bongiorno, A.
name: Fiore, F.
name: Marconi, A.
name: Vignali, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present medium resolution near infrared spectroscopic observations of 41 obscured and intermediate class AGN (type 2, 1.9 and 1.8; AGN2) with redshift $z \lesssim$0.1, selected from the Swift/BAT 70-month catalogue. The observations have been carried out in the framework of a systematic study of the AGN2 near infrared spectral properties and have been executed using ISAAC/VLT, X-shooter/VLT and LUCI/LBT, reaching an average S/N ratio of $\sim$30 per resolution element. For those objects observed with X-shooter we also obtained simultaneous optical and UV spectroscopy. We have identified a component from the broad line region in 13 out of 41 AGN2, with FWHM ${\rm > 800 }$ km/s. We have verified that the detection of the broad line region components does not significantly depend on selection effects due to the quality of the spectra, the X-ray or near infrared fluxes, the orientation angle of the host galaxy or the hydrogen column density measured in the X-ray band. The average broad line region components found in AGN2 has a significantly (a factor 2) smaller FWHM if compared with a control sample of type 1 AGN.
description: MNRAS in press; published on MNRAS Advance Access, issue September 16, 2016
Phonon broadening from supercell lattice dynamics: random and correlated disorder
Creators: name: Overy, Alistair R.
name: Simonov, Arkadiy
name: Chater, Philip A.
name: Tucker, Matthew G.
name: Goodwin, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how supercell implementations of conventional lattice dynamical calculations can be used to determine the extent and nature of disorder-induced broadening in the phonon dispersion spectrum of disordered crystalline materials. The approach taken relies on band unfolding, and is first benchmarked against virtual crystal approximation phonon calculations. The different effects of mass and interaction disorder on the phonon broadening are then presented, focussing on the example of a simple cubic binary alloy. For the mass disorder example, the effect of introducing correlated disorder is also explored by varying the fraction of homoatomic and heteroatomic neighbours. Systematic progression in the degree of phonon broadening, on the one hand, and the form of the phonon dispersion curves from primitive to face-centered cubic type, on the other hand, is observed as homoatomic neighbours are disfavoured. The implications for rationalising selection rule violations in disordered materials and for using inelastic neutron scattering measurements as a means of characterising disorder are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Measuring neutrino-induced exclusive charge-current final states on hydrogen at T2K
Creators: name: Coplowe, David
name: Lu, Xianguo
name: Barr, Giles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By taking advantage of symmetries with respect to the plane containing the directions of the neutrino and outgoing lepton, it is possible to isolate neutrino interactions on hydrogen in composite nuclear targets. This technique enables us to study the `primary' neutrino-nucleon interaction and therefore gain access to fundamental model parameters free from nuclear effects. Using T2K Monte Carlo equivalent to $\sim7\times10^{21}$ POT, we present an update on the measurement of the exclusive charged-current $μ^-$, p, $π^+$ final state on hydrogen.
description: 3 pages, 3 Figures, XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016)