cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Furthering British interests in New South Wales: the role of the Governors 1891-1914
Creators: name: Lang, Gordon Arthur Russell
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis examines the relationship between Britain and New South Wales during the period 1891 to 1914, focusing on the role of colonial governors. The thesis aims to explore the role of governors both as formal representatives of imperial authority and as promoters of a shared sense of cultural community. The central purpose of this exploration is to uncover the patterns of adaptation of governors to local expectation of them over the period and to evaluate their degree of success in furthering imperial interests by so doing. -- Evolution of the role of governor in the pivotal decades before and after Federation is explored by examination of three key themes. The first theme deals with local and imperial expectations of the role itself, and of the qualifications thought necessary for appointment to the office. The second theme explores governors' performance of the political duties of their role and traces how the imperial representative had to adapt to the changing circumstances over the period. Finally, a key contribution to historical knowledge involves an exploration of the governor's social and cultural performance. Just as the rise of the British 'welfare monarchy' during this period concentrated on developing a renewed image of community-binding benevolence, it is argued, so it also provided a model for governors to follow in New South Wales.
Letter from Ezra Pound to Black Sun Press, Harry and Caresse Crosby, January 30, 1928
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772

description: The Black Sun Press (Paris) published the first edition of Pound's Imaginary Letters, (A52), in September 1930. These letters tipped into Black Sun Press Canto 17-27 of Ezra Pound, Gallup A29, the Crosby copy with the special colophon "This copy is numbered 3 and is printed for C A H A R R Y E S S E". Greetings and a reference for Harry Crosby to see "The Letters of Gertrude Bell, Vol. II, p. 414, last eight lines of the page". Envelope addressed originally to Paris then to Cairo and finally to Luxor.
PARSEC DDOMP Workbook Checklist
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Specht, Alison
name: Corrêa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti
name: David, Romain
name: Edmunds, Rorie
name: Mabile, Laurence
name: Machicao, Jeaneth
name: O'Brien, Margaret
name: Wyborn, Lesley
name: Vellenich, Danton Ferreira
name: Miyairi, Nobuko
name: Murayama, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: DDOMP
Data Management Plan

description: The Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook (DDOMP) is used by the PARSEC team to establish the policies the team will follow, document the operational procedures necessary to comply with those policies, and organize the planned activities necessary to manage PARSEC data, software, and other digital outputs. It is a working document. Purpose of the Checklist Provide a quick and easy guide to PARSEC team members to support compliance with the PARSEC DDOMP and the Belmont Forum requirements. This work is part of the Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas (PARSEC) project with funding provided by the Belmont Forum. Version 2: Update to resource links.
description: {"references": ["Stall, Shelley, Specht, Alison, Corr\u00eaa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti, David, Romain, Edmunds, Rorie, Mabile, Laurence, \u2026 Wyborn, Lesley. PARSEC Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook. Zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.3891426."]}
Homomorphisms of modules associated with polynomial matrices with infinite elementary divisors
Creators: name: Astuti, Pudji
name: Wimmer, Harald K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15B33, 13C12, 93B25

description: If the inverse of a nonsingular polynomial matrix $L$ has a polynomial part then one can associate with $L$ a module over the ring of proper rational functions, which is related to the structure of $L$ at infinity. In this paper we characterize homomorphisms of such modules.
description: 10 pages
Towards an improved model for senior-secondary music education : a multi-faceted perspective
Creators: name: Miles, William Edward
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Dynamics of a simple model microswimmer in an anisotropic fluid: implications for alignment behavior and active transport in a nematic liquid crystal
Creators: name: Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Abdallah
name: Menzel, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several recent experiments investigate the orientational and transport behavior of self-driven bacteria and colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystals. Correspondingly, we study theoretically the dynamics of a minimal model microswimmer in a uniaxially anisotropic fluid. As a first step, the hydrodynamic Green's function providing the resulting fluid flow in response to a localized force acting on the anisotropic fluid is derived analytically. On this basis, the behavior of both puller- and pusher-type microswimmers in the anisotropic fluid is analyzed. Depending on the propulsion mechanism and the relative magnitude of different involved viscosities, we find alignment of the swimmers parallel or perpendicular to the anisotropy axis. Particularly, also an oblique alignment is identified under certain circumstances. The observed swimmer reorientation results from the hydrodynamic coupling between the self-induced fluid flow and the anisotropy of the surrounding fluid, which distorts the self-generated flow field. We support parts of our results by a simplified linear stability analysis. Our theoretical predictions are in qualitative agreement with recent experimental observations on swimming bacteria in nematic liquid crystals. They support the objective of utilizing the, possibly switchable, anisotropy of a host fluid to guide individual microswimmers and active particles along a requested path, enabling controlled active transport.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures. Revised manuscript resubmitted to Phys. Rev. Fluids
Atomic "bomb testing": the Elitzur-Vaidman experiment violates the Leggett-Garg inequality
Creators: name: Robens, Carsten
name: Alt, Wolfgang
name: Emary, Clive
name: Meschede, Dieter
name: Alberti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elitzur and Vaidman have proposed a measurement scheme that, based on the quantum superposition principle, allows one to detect the presence of an object --- in a dramatic scenario, a bomb --- without interacting with it. It was pointed out by Ghirardi that this interaction-free measurement scheme can be put in direct relation with falsification tests of the macro-realistic worldview. Here we have implemented the "bomb test" with a single atom trapped in a spin-dependent optical lattice to show explicitly a violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality --- a quantitative criterion fulfilled by macro-realistic physical theories. To perform interaction-free measurements, we have implemented a novel measurement method that correlates spin and position of the atom. This method, which quantum mechanically entangles spin and position, finds general application for spin measurements, thereby avoiding the shortcomings inherent in the widely used push-out technique. Allowing decoherence to dominate the evolution of our system causes a transition from quantum to classical behavior in fulfillment of the Leggett-Garg inequality.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Letter from Ezra Pound to the British Union of Fascists, March 30, 1934
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764

description: A very interesting series of letters to A. Raven Thomson, "the philosopher of British Fascism" and author of "Civilization as Divine Superman (1932). He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and was Sir Oswald Moseley's secretary until Moseley's death in 1955. The remaining letters are to Leigh Vaughan Henry of the Policy Department, British Union of Fascists. These letters were sold to Special Collections by Bertram Rota in 1975. They demonstrate Pound's increasing impatience with the British Union of Fascists. Explaining how the material benefits of Mussolini style Facism and Social Credit are exactly similar, complaining that Gesell's translation: "New Economic Order" is still not published in England; Hitler's missed opportunity in not broadcasting "news of Woergl and Lilienfeld"; money; deplores concordat between Roman Church and Statal Rome; Fascism defined; his vote as proselyte of economic order defended; critical of B.U.F. for lack of economic definition; the need for definition.
Privileged scaffold-inspired drug discovery
Creators: name: TRUONG, DANIEL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organic chemical synthesis

description: Privileged scaffold-inspired drug discovery stands out as a potential strategy to improve the rate and success of the development of therapeutic agents. In this thesis, we investigated two medicinal chemistry projects where the privileged scaffold paradigm is examined. Firstly, 4-arylbenzosuber-1-one compounds were synthesised for the first time and assessed for potential use as a scaffold. Secondly, compound scaffolds with known activity against human targets were assessed as potential antifungal treatments. Both projects yielded products with informative pharmacological activity, laying a platform for future research that could identify new drugs for poorly treated diseases.
PARSEC DDOMP Workbook Checklist
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Specht, Alison
name: Corrêa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti
name: David, Romain
name: Edmunds, Rorie
name: Mabile, Laurence
name: Machicao, Jeaneth
name: O'Brien, Margaret
name: Wyborn, Lesley
name: Vellenich, Danton Ferreira
name: Miyairi, Nobuko
name: Murayama, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DDOMP
Data Management Plan

description: The Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook (DDOMP) is used by the PARSEC team to establish the policies the team will follow, document the operational procedures necessary to comply with those policies, and organize the planned activities necessary to manage PARSEC data, software, and other digital outputs. It is a working document. Purpose of the Checklist Provide a quick and easy guide to PARSEC team members to support compliance with the PARSEC DDOMP and the Belmont Forum requirements. This work is part of the Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas (PARSEC) project with funding provided by the Belmont Forum. Version 2: Update to resource links. Version 3: Significant changes to the guidance for using the tracking sheets to make it more streamlined. Aligned with the updated text in the DDOMP.
description: {"references": ["Stall, Shelley, Specht, Alison, Corr\u00eaa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti, David, Romain, Edmunds, Rorie, Mabile, Laurence, \u2026 Wyborn, Lesley. PARSEC Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook. Zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.3891426."]}
Letter from Ezra Pound to L/H (Leigh Vaughan Henry), August 24, [1934?]
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337

description: Member of the Policy Department of the British Union of Fascists, 1934. Commenting on p. 2 of a letter received on the topic of how to institute Douglasism in England; offers to submit an article to Blackshirt and asks questions about the form of his article; note on verso of E.P.C. 41.
PARSEC DDOMP Workbook Checklist
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Specht, Alison
name: Corrêa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti
name: David, Romain
name: Edmunds, Rorie
name: Mabile, Laurence
name: Machicao, Jeaneth
name: O'Brien, Margaret
name: Wyborn, Lesley
name: Vellenich, Danton Ferreira
name: Miyairi, Nobuko
name: Murayama, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DDOMP
Data Management Plan

description: The Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook (DDOMP) is used by the PARSEC team to establish the policies the team will follow, document the operational procedures necessary to comply with those policies, and organize the planned activities necessary to manage PARSEC data, software, and other digital outputs. It is a working document. Purpose of the Checklist Provide a quick and easy guide to PARSEC team members to support compliance with the PARSEC DDOMP and the Belmont Forum requirements. This work is part of the Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas (PARSEC) project with funding provided by the Belmont Forum. Version 2: Update to resource links. Version 3: Significant changes to the guidance for using the tracking sheets to make it more streamlined. Aligned with the updated text in the DDOMP. Version 4: Updated footer to include concept DOI for this document. Added the citation information for this document at the bottom.
description: {"references": ["Stall, Shelley, Specht, Alison, Corr\u00eaa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti, David, Romain, Edmunds, Rorie, Mabile, Laurence, \u2026 Wyborn, Lesley. PARSEC Data and Digital Output Management Plan and Workbook. Zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.3891426."]}
Ultrafast spin-flip dynamics in transition metal complexes triggered by soft X-ray light
Creators: name: Wang, Huihui
name: Bokarev, Sergey I.
name: Aziz, Saadullah G.
name: Kühn, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in attosecond physics provide access to the correlated motion of valence and core electrons on their intrinsic timescales. For valence excitations, processes related to the electron spin are usually driven by nuclear motion. For core-excited states, where the core hole has a nonzero angular momentum, spin-orbit coupling is strong enough to drive spin-flips on a much shorter time scale. Here, unprecedented short spin-crossover driven by spin-orbit coupling is demonstrated for L-edge (2p$\rightarrow$3d) excited states of a prototypical Fe(II) complex. It occurs on a time scale, which is faster than the core hole lifetime of about 4~fs. A detailed analysis of such phenomena will
description: 2 figures
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine and Their Fused Analogues as Potential Anticancer Agents
Creators: name: NG, JIA HUI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organic chemical synthesis

description: The thesis is focused on preparing pyrazolopyrimidines structurally similar to biogenic purines and evaluating their anticancer properties. The fused heterocyclic systems related to the pyrazolopyrimidine skeleton also fall within the area of the thesis's interest. Several new efficient methods for the preparation of these compounds were developed. More than 150 novel compounds were prepared and studied. Some promising antileukemic compounds were identified.
Risks and risk premiums in commodity markets
Creators: name: Handika, Rangga
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis investigates risks and risk premiums in several different commodity markets. In commodity markets risks are measured by volatility and risk premiums. Risk premiums are the additional returns required by an investor to hold a risky asset in contrast to a risk free asset, which has a zero risk premium. The thesis follows "the thesis by publication" format and it contains four completed research papers presented in Chapter 2-5. Chapter 2 and 3 provide an empirical analysis of the relationship between spot and futures prices in interconnected regional Australian electricity markets. We find positive and significant risk premiums for several of the considered regions. Using a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) approach in a general equilibrium model, we find that price levels, as well as skewness and kurtosis of spot prices are determinants of the realized risk premiums in these markets. Applying a dynamic model for the risk premiums, we also find that the observed futures risk premiums tend to increase when: (i) contracts are closer to the beginning of the delivery period, (ii) spot prices are high, and (iii) the frequency of extreme price outcomes such as, e.g. price spikes increases. Chapter 4 examines the impact of explanatory variables such as load, weather and capacity constraints, on the occurrence and magnitude of price spikes in Australian electricity markets. Applying the Heckman correction model, we find that market loads, relative air temperature and reserve margins are significant variables for the occurrence of price spikes. Electricity loads and relative air temperature are also significant variables impacting on the size or magnitude of a price spike. Our results also indicate that the Heckman selection model outperforms classical OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) estimation in explaining the magnitude of the observed price spikes. Chapter 5 presents a comprehensive examination of convenience yield risk premiums in various commodity markets. In a first step, by using a combinaton of long and short commodity futures contracts, we construct delta-neutral portfolios that are only sensitive to convenience yield risk. We find that convenience yield risk premiums are positive and, that risk premiums are very large for metals and grains while there are no significant convenience yield risk premiums for oil and gas. Overall, we find that realized futures premiums in power markets, and convenience yield risk premiums in commodities markets tend to be positive and significant. The finding indicates that market participants in commodity markets are generally risk averse and dislike uncertainties in power prices and convenience yields.
Online Training of an Opto-Electronic Reservoir Computer Applied to Real-Time Channel Equalisation
Creators: name: Antonik, Piotr
name: Duport, François
name: Hermans, Michiel
name: Smerieri, Anteo
name: Haelterman, Marc
name: Massar, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reservoir Computing is a bio-inspired computing paradigm for processing time dependent signals. The performance of its analogue implementation are comparable to other state of the art algorithms for tasks such as speech recognition or chaotic time series prediction, but these are often constrained by the offline training methods commonly employed. Here we investigated the online learning approach by training an opto-electronic reservoir computer using a simple gradient descent algorithm, programmed on an FPGA chip. Our system was applied to wireless communications, a quickly growing domain with an increasing demand for fast analogue devices to equalise the nonlinear distorted channels. We report error rates up to two orders of magnitude lower than previous implementations on this task. We show that our system is particularly well-suited for realistic channel equalisation by testing it on a drifting and a switching channels and obtaining good performances
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Letter from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky, October 29, 1930
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: An interesting series of letters about contributions to Pound's Magazine The Exile; its publication and distribution in the United States; and advice to Zukofsky on critical writing and establishing a "little" magazine in America. These letters have been dated either by Zukofsky himself or by the book dealer: James Drake Inc., N.Y. who sold the letters to Special Collections Advice on poets to be included in the Objectivist's group: Covici Friede, Horace Gregory, Rez, McA, Ric Johns, Crosby, Carnevali, Bill, Possum, Cummings, HM.
Semi-isometric CR immersions of CR manifolds into Kähler manifolds and applications
Creators: name: Son, Duong Ngoc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32W10, 32V20, 32V40

description: We study the second fundamental form of semi-isometric CR immersions from strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds into Kähler manifolds. As an application, we give a precise condition for the CR umbilicality of real hypersurfaces, extending an well-known theorem by Webster on the nonexistence of CR umbilical points on generic real ellipsoids. As other applications, we extend the linearity theorem of Ji-Yuan for CR immersions into spheres with vanishing second fundamental form to the important case of three-dimensional manifolds, and prove the ``first gap'' theorem in the spirit of Webster, Faran, Cima-Suffridge, and Huang for semi-isometric CR immersions into a complex euclidean space of ``low'' codimension. Our new approach to the linearity theorem is based on the study of the first positive eigenvalue of the Kohn Laplacian.
description: Final version, accepted in Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5)
Fully Polarizable QM/Fluctuating Charge Approach to Two-Photon Absorption of Aqueous Solutions
Creators: name: Di Remigio, Roberto
name: Giovannini, Tommaso
name: Ambrosetti, Matteo
name: Cappelli, Chiara
name: Frediani, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the extension of the quantum/classical polarizable fluctuating charge model to the calculation of single residues of quadratic response functions, as required for the computational modeling of two-photon absorption cross-sections. By virtue of a variational formulation of the quantum/classical polarizable coupling, we are able to exploit an atomic orbital-based quasienergy formalism to derive the additional coupling terms in the response equations. Our formalism can be extended to the calculation of arbitrary order response functions and their residues. The approach has been applied to the challenging problem of one- and two-photon spectra of rhodamine 6G (R6G) in aqueous solution. Solvent effects on one- and two-photon spectra of R6G in aqueous solution have been analyzed by considering three different approaches, from a continuum (QM/PCM) to two QM/MM models (non-polarizable QM/TIP3P and polarizable QM/FQ). Both QM/TIP3P and QM/FQ simulated OPA and TPA spectra show that the inclusion of discrete water solvent molecules is essential to increase the agreement between theory and experiment. QM/FQ has been shown to give the best agreement with experiments.
Two-step Approximate Bayesian Computation for inferring network models using Copula
Creators: name: KE, YUQIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational statistics
Applied statistics

description: In this thesis we first give a brief review of the ABC method. Then we propose a two-step method for parameter inference based on Rejection ABC and MCMC ABC algorithms with Gaussian copula for early rejection. Moreover, we present several examples of network models to compare our strategy with conventional ABC methods. The first proposed algorithm based on Rejection ABC algorithm is evaluated by an exact model, a deterministic model and two stochastic models. The second proposed algorithm based on MCMC ABC is evaluated by an exact model and two deterministic models. Numerical results show that our methods are efficient.
A Generalized Uhlenbeck and Beth Formula for the Third Cluster Coefficient
Creators: name: Larsen, Sigurd Yves
name: Lassaut, Monique
name: Amaya-Tapia, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relatively recently (A. Amaya-Tapia, S. Y. Larsen and M. Lassaut. Ann. Phys., vol. 306 (2011) 406), we presented a formula for the evaluation of the third Bose fugacity coefficient - leading to the third virial coefficient - in terms of three-body eigenphase shifts, for particles subject to repulsive forces. An analytical calculation for a 1-dim. model, for which the result is known, confirmed the validity of this approach. We now extend the formalism to particles with attractive forces, and therefore must allow for the possibility that the particles have bound states. We thus obtain a true generalization of the famous formula of Uhlenbeck and Beth (G.E. Uhlenbeck and E. Beth. Physica, vol. 3 (1936) 729; E. Beth and G.E. Uhlenbeck. ibid, vol.4 (1937) 915) (and of Gropper (L. Gropper. Phys. Rev. vol. 50 (1936) 963; ibid vol. 51 (1937) 1108)) for the second virial. We illustrate our formalism by a calculation, in an adiabatic approximation, of the third cluster in one dimension, using McGuire's model as in our previous paper, but with attractive forces. The inclusion of three-body bound states is trivial; taking into account states having asymptotically two particles bound, and one free, is not.
description: 38 pages, 6 figures
Cross-cultural awareness and the expatriate experience : a tri-sector study of cross-cultural training in Australian organizations
Creators: name: Mehegan, Patricia Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Production of defensive metabolites by Pinus patula X Pinus tecunumanii hybrids in response to Fusarium circinatum infection
Creators: name: Van Zyl, Lente
name: Hammerbacher, Almuth
name: Steenkamp, Emma
name: Fru, Felix
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pine tree, secondary defence metabolite, Fusarium circinatum, terpene, phenolic

description: The pathogen Fusarium circinatum, causal agent of pitch canker disease, is currently one of the biggest fungal threats to pine health worldwide. Symptomatic infections are associated with a high mortality rate, particularly for nursery and established plants. Pitch canker disease results in reduced growth and significant annual losses in the South African forestry industry. Pines respond to insect damage and fungal infection by forming traumatic resin ducts, as well as upregulating the production of defence compounds. These phytochemicals include terpenes, the main chemical constituents of pine resin, and phenolics, produced in specialized cells of the secondary phloem. Many of these compounds belonging to these two phytochemical groups are known to have inhibitory or lethal effects on pine pests and pathogens. Although most Pinus species are susceptible to F. circinatum, there is variation in susceptibility to this pathogen among the different species and their hybrids. Resistance of a pine species to the pitch canker fungus is a major determining factor in the species' value to the pine industry; however, the underlying mechanisms of resistance are poorly understood. To explore defense responses between resistant and susceptible pines, we used GCMS and LCMS to characterize the phytochemical changes in young P. patula X P. tecunumanii hybrid clones in response to F. circinatum infection. A significant increase was observed in the concentration of terpenes and phenolics between five- and 14-days post-inoculation. More resistant hybrids plants showed moderate disease symptoms as well as lower concentrations of defensive phytochemicals, both constitutively and in response to F. circinatum infection. These findings suggest that increased concentrations of terpenoid oleoresin and phenolics are not part of the defence strategy of pine against infection by F. circinatum. Understanding F. circinatum’s ability not only to overcome, but seemingly benefit from a more severe phytochemical defense response, will help explain the enduring pervasiveness of this global pine pathogen.
description: Poster presented at the 52nd SASPP (South African Society for Plant Pathology) congress, August 2022. Poster details the findings of my MSc research.
description: {"references": ["Franceschi VR, Krokene P, Christiansen E & Krekling T (2005) . New Phytologist 167: 353-376", "Mitchell RG, Wingfield MJ, Hodge GR, Steenkamp ET & Coutinho TA (2013). New Forests 44: 443-456."]}
Letter from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky, February 25, 1928
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: An interesting series of letters about contributions to Pound's Magazine The Exile; its publication and distribution in the United States; and advice to Zukofsky on critical writing and establishing a "little" magazine in America. These letters have been dated either by Zukofsky himself or by the book dealer: James Drake Inc., N.Y. who sold the letters to Special Collections. Enclosing snippet from Dial letter of Feb. 9, advising Zukofsky on where to submit poems, and asking him to submit his own poems and those of his contemporaries for the next Exile (No. 4).
On structure and TKK algebras for Jordan superalgebras
Creators: name: Barbier, Sigiswald
name: Coulembier, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B60, 17B70, 17C50

description: We compare a number of different definitions of structure algebras and TKK constructions for Jordan (super)algebras appearing in the literature. We demonstrate that, for unital superalgebras, all the definitions of the structure algebra and the TKK constructions fall apart into two cases. Moreover, one can be obtained as the Lie superalgebra of superderivations of the other. We also show that, for non-unital superalgebras, more definitions become non-equivalent. As an application, we obtain the corresponding Lie superalgebras for all simple finite dimensional Jordan superalgebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.
Letter from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky, June 26, 1932
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: An interesting series of letters about contributions to Pound's Magazine The Exile; its publication and distribution in the United States; and advice to Zukofsky on critical writing and establishing a "little" magazine in America. These letters have been dated either by Zukofsky himself or by the book dealer: James Drake Inc., N.Y. who sold the letters to Special Collections Letter discussing George Oppen's Prologema I. Mentions J.C. Grey and Gorham Munson, Rakoski, Rascoe, To, Bill, Hays, Foster, Tyler, Parks, Fifth Floor Window, Basil, Mangan and Grey.
Role of sirtuins in the regulation of Toxoplasma gondii interconversion between tachyzoite and bradyzoite cysts
Creators: name: TAN, KARL VERN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical parasitology

description: The high prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in the worldwide human population (30%) is mainly due to the ability of the proliferative stage parasite to convert into latent tissue cysts. To date, there are no effective treatments available to treat and control the spread of this disease, and the stage conversion mechanism of the parasite remains unclear. This thesis investigates the role of sirtuin in modulating the stage conversion process. The findings in the present study suggest that T.gondii sirtuin may not play a role in regulating the interconversion process.
Stability of Features in Radiomics Studies with Application in Cancer Imaging
Creators: name: Green, Christopher
name: Hussein, Mohammad
name: Scuffham, James
name: Clark, Catharine
name: Dikaios, Nikolaos
name: Evans, Philip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Radiomics allows additional information to be extracted from medical images, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. By calculating features based on the voxel intensities and spatial relationships, we can gain further knowledge of the underlying structure of cancer tumours. These radiomic features (RFs) can be utilised to predict cancer patient outcome. However, when patients are imaged there are a variety of settings and scanner manufacturers available, which can have a significant impact on RFs. Due to the findings in the literature there is much discussion on the reliability of RFs. This work addresses two key radiomics questions. The first is whether consistent RF values can be obtained from a consistent experimental setup. The second is looking at CT image reconstruction parameters and how these effect RFs. A phantom, containing 10 different materials, designed for radiomic research, was CT scanned 5 times on the same scanner, with a 10-minute rest period between scans. The phantom was then scanned 10 times in quick succession, using the same setup. This tested the effects of the x-ray detectors heating up on the RF values. For the second research question, one CT image was reconstructed using a range of reconstruction parameters, such as kernel sharpness and denoise level, to assess their impact on RFs. RF stability was evaluated using a second order coefficient of variation. X-ray detector heat was found to have a minimal impact on RF stability, with both sets of scans having 96% of RFs being stable. Across all the reconstruction parameters the RF stability was poor, with 69% of RFs being unstable. Reconstruction parameters, such as high kernel sharpness and denoising level were found to have a large impact on the RFs. These results help to determine which aspects of CT imaging need to be standardised to obtain reliable measurements in radiomic studies.
Letter from Ezra Pound to the British Union of Fascists, April 15, 1934
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337

description: A very interesting series of letters to A. Raven Thomson, "the philosopher of British Fascism" and author of "Civilization as Divine Superman (1932). He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and was Sir Oswald Moseley's secretary until Moseley's death in 1955. The remaining letters are to Leigh Vaughan Henry of the Policy Department, British Union of Fascists. These letters were sold to Special Collections by Bertram Rota in 1975. They demonstrate Pound's increasing impatience with the British Union of Fascists. Note: "Not for print but make any use you care to, of it, in conference, some of it obviously confidential other parts I am quite ready to say in print if you think you can use it" to be passed on to "D.A.O. Fletcher". Summarizing some of the developments in Italy and contrasting them with the English scene; Pound's argument is summarized in the Ms. insertion "To lead in Italy a party must keep out the Barbarian but to lead England you must be a party of Economic enlightenment"; Pound encourages B.U.F. to be the first to bring in Douglasism.
Safeguarding Decentralized Wireless Networks Using Full-Duplex Jamming Receivers
Creators: name: Zheng, Tong-Xing
name: Wang, Hui-Ming
name: Yang, Qian
name: Lee, Moon Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the benefits of full-duplex (FD) receiver jamming in enhancing the physical-layer security of a two-tier decentralized wireless network with each tier deployed with a large number of pairs of a single-antenna transmitter and a multi-antenna receiver. In the underlying tier, the transmitter sends unclassified information, and the receiver works in the halfduplex (HD) mode receiving the desired signal. In the overlaid tier, the transmitter deliveries confidential information in the presence of randomly located eavesdroppers, and the receiver works in the FD mode radiating jamming signals to confuse eavesdroppers and receiving the desired signal simultaneously. We provide a comprehensive performance analysis and network design under a stochastic geometry framework. Specifically, we consider the scenarios where each FD receiver uses single- and multi-antenna jamming, and analyze the connection probability and the secrecy outage probability of a typical FD receiver by providing accurate expressions and more tractable approximations for the two metrics. We further determine the optimal deployment of the FD-mode tier in order to maximize networkwide secrecy throughput subject to constraints including the given dual probabilities and the network-wide throughput of the HD-mode tier. Numerical results are demonstrated to verify our theoretical findings, and show that network-wide secrecy throughput is significantly improved by properly deploying the FD-mode tier.
description: Journal paper, double column, 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted to appear on IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Metabolic pathways of bacteria inhabiting dynamic sandy sediments
Creators: name: HUTCHINSON, TESS FRANCES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental biogeochemistry

description: Sandy marine sediments are dynamic environments that constantly fluctuate in oxygen concentration due to waves and currents. As such, these settings select for metabolically flexible bacteria, those capable of using oxygen and other dissolved species to survive, while excluding bacteria with stricter anoxic metabolisms. This thesis explores the flexible bacteria inhabiting these sediments, revealing the unique metabolism they possess in regard to carbon degradation and energy storage.
Electronic Transitions for a Fully Polarizable QM/MM Approach Based on Fluctuating Charges and Fluctuating Dipoles: Linear and Corrected Linear Response Regimes
Creators: name: Giovannini, Tommaso
name: Riso, Rosario Roberto
name: Ambrosetti, Matteo
name: Puglisi, Alessandra
name: Cappelli, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fully polarizable QM/MM approach based on fluctuating charges and fluctuating dipoles, named QM/FQFμ (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019, 15 2233-2245), is extended to the calculation of vertical excitation energies of solvated molecular systems. Excitation energies are defined within two different solvation regimes, i.e. linear response (LR), where the response of the MM portion is adjusted to the QM transition density, and corrected-Linear Response (cLR) in which the MM response is adjusted to the relaxed QM density, thus being able to account for charge equilibration in the excited state. The model, which is specified in terms of three physical parameters (electronegativity, chemical hardness, and polarizability) is applied to vacuo-to-water solvatochromic shifts of aqueous solutions of para-nitroaniline, pyridine and pyrimidine. The results show a good agreement with their experimental counterparts, thus highlighting the potentialities of this approach.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Letter from Ezra Pound to the British Union of Fascists, June 10, 1934
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors, American--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821772
subject: Authors, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: A very interesting series of letters to A. Raven Thomson, "the philosopher of British Fascism" and author of "Civilization as Divine Superman (1932). He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and was Sir Oswald Moseley's secretary until Moseley's death in 1955. The remaining letters are to Leigh Vaughan Henry of the Policy Department, British Union of Fascists. These letters were sold to Special Collections by Bertram Rota in 1975. They demonstrate Pound's increasing impatience with the British Union of Fascists. Follow-up on letter to Fletcher -- notes some of recent publications on Social Credit, further ideas to help reconcile B.U.F. and Douglasite views
An Efficient Method of Partitioning High Volumes of Multidimensional Data for Parallel Clustering Algorithms
Creators: name: Mishra, Saraswati
name: Suman, Avnish Chandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.3; D.1.3

description: An optimal data partitioning in parallel & distributed implementation of clustering algorithms is a necessary computation as it ensures independent task completion, fair distribution, less number of affected points and better & faster merging. Though partitioning using Kd Tree is being conventionally used in academia, it suffers from performance drenches and bias (non equal distribution) as dimensionality of data increases and hence is not suitable for practical use in industry where dimensionality can be of order of 100s to 1000s. To address these issues we propose two new partitioning techniques using existing mathematical models & study their feasibility, performance (bias and partitioning speed) & possible variants in choosing initial seeds. First method uses an n dimensional hashed grid based approach which is based on mapping the points in space to a set of cubes which hashes the points. Second method uses a tree of voronoi planes where each plane corresponds to a partition. We found that grid based approach was computationally impractical, while using a tree of voronoi planes (using scalable K-Means++ initial seeds) drastically outperformed the Kd-tree tree method as dimensionality increased.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Adjustment of parents of children with obstetrical brachial plexus injuries : testing a risk and resistance model
Creators: name: McLean, Louise Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Synthesis, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Ba$_2$Ni$_3$F$_{10}$ Nanowires
Creators: name: Zhou, Shuang
name: Wang, Ji
name: Weng, Yakui
name: Wu, Zhangting
name: Ni, Zhenhua
name: Xu, Qingyu
name: Du, Jun
name: Dong, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A low temperature hydrothermal route has been developed, and pure phase Ba$_2$Ni$_3$F$_{10}$ nanowires have been successfully prepared under the optimized conditions. Under the 325 nm excitation, the Ba$_2$Ni$_3$F$_{10}$ nanowires exhibit three emission bands with peak positions locating at 360 nm, 530 nm, and 700 nm, respectively. Combined with the first-principles calculations, the photoluminescence property can be explained by the electron transitions between the t2g and eg orbitals. Clear hysteresis loops observed below the temperature of 60 K demonstrates the weak ferromagnetism in Ba$_2$Ni$_3$F$_{10}$ nanowires, which has been attributed to the surface strain of nanowires. Exchange bias with blocking temperature of 55 K has been observed, which originates from the magnetization pinning under the cooling field due to antiferromagnetic core/weak ferromagnetic shell structure of Ba2Ni3F10 nanowires.
On the Calculation of IR Spectra with a Fully Polarizable QM/MM Approach Based on Fluctuating Charges and Fluctuating Dipoles
Creators: name: Giovannini, Tommaso
name: Grazioli, Laura
name: Ambrosetti, Matteo
name: Cappelli, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fully polarizable QM/MM approach based on fluctuating charges and fluctuating dipoles, named QM/FQFμ (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019, 15, 2233-2245), is extended to the evaluation of nuclear gradients and the calculation of IR spectra of molecular systems in condensed phase. To this end, analytical equations defining first and second energy derivatives with respect to nuclear coordinates are derived and discussed. The potentialities of the approach are shown by applying the model to the calculation of IR spectra of Methlyoxirane, Glycidol and Gallic Acid in aqueous solution. The results are compared with the continuum QM/PCM and the polarizable QM/FQ, which is based on Fluctuating Charges only.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures