cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Finding and making: Winnicottian imagination and W. C. Piguenit’s creative spaces
Creators: name: Pirotta, Natalie Joan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Communications, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

William Charles Piguenit’s (1834 – 1914) landscape paintings form the basis for this study of creative practice in and outside the studio setting. Piguenit travelled to the South-West of Tasmania several times between 1871 and 1887 to find the dramatic scenery, which he then painted on canvas in his studio in Hunter’s Hill, New South Wales. Taking its cue from Paul Carter and Simon Schama, this thesis argues that Piguenit found the landscapes in his travels that already existed in his mind. As a young man Piguenit collected picturesque and Romantic images from journals and newspapers and pasted them into a scrapbook when he travelled into the Tasmanian wilderness, he identified and found an emotional connection with Romantic views, and these are the scenes that he chose to re-create in his studio. Donald Winnicott’s theories of transitional phenomena are employed in this thesis to explore this paradox of both finding and making the landscape. Winnicott’s theories concern the process of engagement between subject and object, and transitional space is the ‘resting place’ between inner and outer. It is where the line blurs between what is ‘found’ and what is ‘made.’ Winnicott’s theory of Transitional space is extended to encompass the creative activities in the artist’s studio the centre of creative action that is both transitional and real. Derek Pigrum’s extension of Winnicott theories to the ‘charged objects’ that are found and placed in the studio is applied to this biography of Piguenit’s creative imagination, and the creative act. This thesis combines traditional research methods, such as original archival and biographical research, with ‘the archive of the feet’ travel to Lake St Clair and to Hunter’s Hill to identify and experience firsthand the locations Piguenit painted. The thesis is written from the perspective of a scholar who is also a painter, and is underpinned by the candidate’s own studio practice finding and re-making Piguenit’s paintings and images of Lake St Clair in order to find connections between the making of the works and the scholarly research.
(201444) Sarah Jane [Rothwell]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dicritical singularities and laminar currents on Levi-flat hypersurfaces
Creators: name: Pinchuk, Sergey
name: Shafikov, Rasul
name: Sukhov, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F75, 34M, 32S, 32D

description: We establish an effective criterion for a dicritical singularity of a real analytic Levi-flat hypersurface. The criterion is stated in terms of the Segre varieties. As an application, we obtain a structure theorem for some class of currents in the nondicritical case.
description: 11 pages. To appear in Izv. Math
Real-time large-scale supplier order assignments across two-tiers of a supply chain with penalty and dual-sourcing
Creators: name: Chauhan, Vinod Kumar
name: Mak, Stephen
name: Parlikad, Ajith Kumar
name: Alomari, Muhannad
name: Casassa, Linus
name: Brintrup, Alexandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplier selection and order allocation (SSOA) are key strategic decisions in supply chain management which greatly impact the performance of the supply chain. Although, the SSOA problem has been studied extensively but less attention paid to scalability presents a significant gap preventing adoption of SSOA algorithms by industrial practitioners. This paper presents a novel multi-item, multi-supplier double order allocations with dual-sourcing and penalty constraints across two-tiers of a supply chain, resulting in cooperation and in facilitating supplier preferences to work with other suppliers through bidding. We propose Mixed-Integer Programming models for allocations at individual-tiers as well as an integrated allocations. An application to a real-time large-scale case study of a manufacturing company is presented, which is the largest scale studied in terms of supply chain size and number of variables so far in literature. The use case allows us to highlight how problem formulation and implementation can help reduce computational complexity using Mathematical Programming (MP) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) approaches. The results show an interesting observation that MP outperforms GA to solve SSOA. Sensitivity analysis is presented for sourcing strategy, penalty threshold and penalty factor. The developed model was successfully deployed in a large international sourcing conference with multiple bidding rounds, which helped in more than 10% procurement cost reductions to the manufacturing company.
description: accepted at Computers & Industrial Engineering (2022)
Knot Invariants and M-Theory I: Hitchin Equations, Chern-Simons Actions, and the Surface Operators
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Keshav
name: Diez, Veronica Errasti
name: Ramadevi, P.
name: Tatar, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Witten introduced a type IIB brane construction with certain boundary conditions to study knot invariants and Khovanov homology. The essential ingredients used in his work are the topologically twisted N = 4 Yang-Mills theory, localization equations and surface operators. In this paper we extend his construction in two possible ways. On one hand we show that a slight modification of Witten's brane construction could lead, using certain well defined duality transformations, to the model used by Ooguri-Vafa to study knot invariants using gravity duals. On the other hand, we argue that both these constructions, of Witten and of Ooguri-Vafa, lead to two different seven-dimensional manifolds in M-theory from where the topological theories may appear from certain twisting of the G-flux action. The non-abelian nature of the topological action may also be studied if we take the wrapped M2-brane states in the theory. We discuss explicit constructions of the seven-dimensional manifolds in M-theory, and show that both the localization equations and surface operators appear naturally from the Hamiltonian formalism of the theories. Knots and link invariants are then constructed using M2-brane states in both the models.
description: 153 pages, 15 pdf figures, LaTex. v2: Minor corrections to section 2.2; v3: Some typos corrected, references updated and a new section added. Final version to appear in Physical Review D
A Trainable Sequence Learner that Learns and Recognizes Two-Input Sequence Patterns
Creators: name: Hohenheim, Jan
name: Liu, Zhaoyu Devon
name: Stecconi, Tommaso
name: Palopoli, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present two designs for an analog circuit that can learn to detect a temporal sequence of two inputs. The training phase is done by feeding the circuit with the desired sequence and, after the training is completed, each time the trained sequence is encountered again the circuit will emit a signal of correct recognition. Sequences are in the order of tens of nanoseconds. The first design can reset the trained sequence on runtime but assumes very strict timing of the inputs. The second design can only be trained once but is lenient in the input's timing.
description: Submitted to IEEE TENCON 2022
Theatre culture in Japan since the 1960s : reading the politics of the avant-garde
Creators: name: Eckersall, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Modeling the lowest-cost splitting of a herd of cows by optimizing a cost function
Creators: name: Gajamannage, Kelum
name: Bollt, Erik M.
name: Porter, Mason A.
name: Dawkins, Marian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37F99, 37M05

description: Animals live in groups to defend against predation and to obtain food. However, for some animals --- especially ones that spend long periods of time feeding --- there are costs if a group chooses to move on before their nutritional needs are satisfied. If the conflict between feeding and keeping up with a group becomes too large, it may be advantageous to some animals to split into subgroups of animals with similar nutritional needs. We model the costs and benefits of splitting by a herd of cows using a cost function (CF) that quantifies individual variation in hunger, desire to lie down, and predation risk. We model the costs associated with hunger and lying desire as the standard deviations of individuals within a group, and we model predation risk as an inverse exponential function of group size. We minimize the cost function over all plausible groups that can arise from a given herd and study the dynamics of group splitting. We explore our model using two examples: (1) we consider group switching and group fission in a herd of relatively homogeneous cows; and (2) we examine a herd with an equal number of adult males (larger animals) and adult females (smaller animals).
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
(201445) Frederick Auguste Laing
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Lyapunov-based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Attitude Trajectory Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Creators: name: Bui, Duy Nam
name: Van Nguyen, Thi Thanh
name: Phung, Manh Duong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a new Lyapunov-based nonlinear model predictive controller (LNMPC) for the attitude control problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is essential for their functioning operation. The controller is designed based on a quadratic cost function integrating UAV dynamics and system constraints. An additional contraction constraint is then introduced to ensure closed-loop system stability. That constraint is fulfilled via a Lyapunov function derived from a sliding mode controller (SMC). The feasibility and stability of the LNMPC are finally proved. Simulation and comparison results show that the proposed controller guarantees the system stability and outperforms other state-of-the-art nonlinear controllers such as the backstepping controller (BSC) and SMC. In addition, the proposed controller can be integrated into an existing UAV model in the Gazebo simulator to perform software-in-the-loop tests. The results show that the LNMPC is better than the built-in PID controller of the UAV, which confirms the validity and applicability of our proposed approach.
Brain Modeling for Control: A Review
Creators: name: Acharya, Gagan
name: Ruf, Sebastian F.
name: Nozari, Erfan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neurostimulation technologies have seen a recent surge in interest from the neuroscience and controls communities alike due to their proven potential to treat conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, and depression. The provided stimulation can be of different types, such as electric, and optogenetic, and is generally applied to a specific region of the brain in order to drive the local and/or global dynamics to a desired state of (in)activity. However, an underlying theoretical understanding of the efficacy of neurostimulation is still lacking. From a control-theoretic perspective, it is important to understand how each stimulus modality interacts with the complex brain network in order to assess the controllability of the system and develop neurophysiologically relevant computational models that can be used to design the stimulation profile in a closed-loop manner. In this paper, we review the computational modeling studies of (i) deep brain stimulation, (ii) transcranial magnetic stimulation, (iii) direct current stimulation, (iv) transcranial electrical stimulation, and (v) optogenetics as five of the most popular neurostimulation technologies in research and clinical settings. For each technology, we split the reviewed studies into (a)theory-driven biophysical models capturing the low-level physics of the interactions between the stimulation source and neuronal tissue, (b) data-driven stimulus-response models which capture the end-to-end effects of stimulation on various biomarkers of interest and (c) data-driven dynamical system models that extract the precise dynamics of the brain's response to neurostimulation from neural data. While our focus is particularly on the latter category due to their greater utility in control design, we review key works in the former two categories as the basis and context in which dynamical system models have been and will be developed.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables
A device-interaction model for users with special needs
Creators: name: Ojeda-Castelo, Juan Jesus
name: Piedra-Fernandez, Jose A.
name: Iribarne, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interaction is a fundamental part of using any computer system but it is still an issue for people with special needs. In order to improve this situation, this paper describes a new device-interaction model based on adaptation rules for user models. The aim is the adaptation at the interaction level, taking into account the interaction device features in order to improve the usability through the user experience in the education sector. In the evaluation process, several students from a special education center have participated. These students have either a physical or sensory disability or autism. The results are promising enough to consider that this model will be able to help students with disabilities to interact with a computer system which will inevitably provide tremendous benefits to their academic and personal development.
description: Journal paper published in Multimedia Tools and Applications
BRST symmetry and fictitious parameters
Creators: name: Nogueira, A. A.
name: Pimentel, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our goal in this work is to present the variational method of fictitious parameters and its connection with the BRST symmetry. Firstly we implement the method in QED at zero temperature and then we extend the analysis to GQED at finite temperature. As we will see the core of the study is the general statement in gauge theories at finite temperature, assigned by Tyutin work, that the physics does not depend on the gauge choices, covariant or not, due to BRST symmetry.
description: 15 pages
Pseudo-binomial Approximation to $(k_1, k_2)$-runs
Creators: name: Kumar, A. N.
name: Upadhye, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62E17, 62E20 (Primary), 60E05, 60F05 (Secondary)

description: ($k_1,k_2$)-runs have received a special attention in the literature and its distribution can be obtained using combinatorial method (Huang and Tsai) and Markov chain approach (Dafnis et al). But the formulae are difficult to use when the number of Bernoulli trials is too large under identical setup and is generally intractable under non-identical setup. So, it is useful to approximate it with a suitable random variable. In this paper, it is demonstrated that pseudo-binomial is most suitable distribution for approximation and the approximation results are derived using Stein's method. Also, application of these results is demonstrated through real-life problems. It is shown that the bounds obtained are either comparable to or improvement over bounds available in the literature.
description: 25 pages, 3 tables
Exploiting exotic LHC datasets for long-lived new particle searches
Creators: name: Faham, Hesham El
name: Giammanco, Andrea
name: Hajer, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the expectation that new physics may manifest itself in the form of very heavy new particles, most of the operation time of the LHC is devoted to $pp$ collisions at the highest achievable energies and collision rates. The large collision rates imply tight trigger requirements that include high thresholds on the final-state particles' transverse momenta $p_{T}$ and an intrinsic background in the form of particle pileup produced by different collisions occurring during the same bunch crossing. This strategy is potentially sub-optimal for several well-motivated new physics models where new particles are not particularly heavy and can escape the online selection criteria of the multi-purpose LHC experiments due to their light mass and small coupling. A solution may be offered by complementary datasets that are routinely collected by the LHC experiments. These include heavy ion collisions, low-pileup runs for precision physics, and the so-called 'parking' and 'scouting' datasets. While some of them are motivated by other physics goals, they all have the usage of mild $p_{T}$ thresholds at the trigger-level in common. In this study, we assess the relative merits of these datasets for a representative model whose particular clean signature features long-lived resonances yielding displaced dimuon vertices. We compare the reach across those datasets for a simple analysis, simulating LHC data in Run 2 and Run 3 conditions with the Delphes simulation. We show that the scouting and parking datasets, which afford low-$p_{T}$ trigger thresholds by only using partial detector information and delaying the event reconstruction, respectively, have a reach comparable to the standard $pp$ dataset with conventional thresholds. We also show that heavy ion and low-pileup datasets are far less competitive for this signature.
description: v2: version accepted by JHEP. 23 pages with tables and figures
Her 'brilliant (?) career' : the literary history of Miles Franklin
Creators: name: Duncan, Roy Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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(201446) Susanna Stanton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Excess reciprocity distorts reputation in online social networks
Creators: name: Livan, Giacomo
name: Caccioli, Fabio
name: Aste, Tomaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The peer-to-peer (P2P) economy relies on establishing trust in distributed networked systems, where the reliability of a user is assessed through digital peer-review processes that aggregate ratings into reputation scores. Here we present evidence of a network effect which biases digital reputation, revealing that P2P networks display exceedingly high levels of reciprocity. In fact, these are much higher than those compatible with a null assumption that preserves the empirically observed level of agreement between all pairs of nodes, and rather close to the highest levels structurally compatible with the networks' reputation landscape. This indicates that the crowdsourcing process underpinning digital reputation can be significantly distorted by the attempt of users to mutually boost reputation, or to retaliate, through the exchange of ratings. We uncover that the least active users are predominantly responsible for such reciprocity-induced bias, and that this fact can be exploited to obtain more reliable reputation estimates. Our findings are robust across different P2P platforms, including both cases where ratings are used to vote on the content produced by users and to vote on user profiles.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey
Creators: name: Lyne, A. G.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Ferdman, R.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Knispel, B.
name: Lynch, R.
name: Allen, B.
name: Brazier, A.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Cardoso, F.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Madsen, E.
name: McKee, J.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Parent, E.
name: Patel, C.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Scholz, P.
name: Seymour, A.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Spitler, L. G.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J.
name: Wharton, R. S.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery and timing observations of 29 distant long-period pulsars discovered in the ongoing Arecibo PALFA pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Telescope, confirmation and timing observations of these pulsars over several years at Jodrell Bank Observatory have yielded high-precision positions and measurements of rotation and radiation properties. We have used multi-frequency data to measure the interstellar scattering properties of some of these pulsars. Most of the pulsars have properties that mirror those of the previously known pulsar population, although four show some notable characteristics. PSRs J1907+0631 and J1925+1720 are young and are associated with supernova remnants or plerionic nebulae: J1907+0631 lies close to the center of SNR G40.5-0.5, while J1925+1720 is coincident with a high-energy Fermi gamma-ray source. One pulsar, J1932+1500, is in a surprisingly eccentric, 199-day binary orbit with a companion having a minimum mass of 0.33 solar masses. Several of the sources exhibit timing noise, and two, PSRs J0611+1436 and J1907+0631, have both suffered large glitches, but with very different post-glitch rotation properties. In particular, the rotational period of PSR J0611+1436 will not recover to its pre-glitch value for about 12 years, a far greater recovery timescale than seen following any other large glitches.
description: 30 pages, 8 Figures, accepted by ApJ, accepted version
Committing archaeology in Australia
Creators: name: Cros, Hilary du
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Algebraic properties of quantum reference frames: Does time fluctuate?
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
name: Tsobanjan, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum reference frames are expected to differ from classical reference frames because they have to implement typical quantum features such as fluctuations and correlations. Here, we show that fluctuations and correlations of reference variables, in particular of time, are restricted by their very nature of being used for reference. Mathematically, this property is implemented by imposing constraints on the system to make sure that reference variables are not physical degrees of freedom. These constraints not only relate physical degrees of freedom to reference variables in order to describe their behavior, they also restrict quantum fluctuations of reference variables and their correlations with system degrees of freedom. We introduce the notion of "almost-positive" states as a suitable mathematical method. An explicit application of their properties to examples of recent interest in quantum reference frames reveals previously unrecognized restrictions on possible frame-system interactions. While currently discussed clock models rely on assumptions that, as shown here, make them consistent as quantum reference frames, relaxing these assumptions will expose the models to new restrictions that appear to be rather strong. Almost-positive states also shed some light on a recent debate about the consistency of relational quantum mechanics.
description: 20 pages
The antiferroelectric phase transition in Rb3D(SO4)2 single crystals studied by 87Rb NMR
Creators: name: Böhmer, Roland
name: Titze, A.
name: Hinze, G.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 530

description: The quadrupole perturbed central transition of the magnetic 87Rb resonance was used to study Rb3D(SO4)2 single crystals. Three resonance lines were found at room temperature. This result is in accord with the monoclinic space group reported for these crystals and does not require the previously invoked self-trapped proton states. The number of resonance lines quadruples below the antiferroelectric phase transition near 82 K. From the line splitting the order-parameter exponent of the low-temperature phase was found to be β=0.2. Spin-lattice relaxation times have been determined in the fully protonated and deuterated disulfates and were used to deduce the temperature dependence of the order-parameter fluctuations.
(201443) John Rothwell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Myth and modernity : an investigation of Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's critique of myth
Creators: name: Drury, Christopher Mark Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Infinite-dimensional input-to-state stability and Orlicz spaces
Creators: name: Jacob, Birgit
name: Nabiullin, Robert
name: Partington, Jonathan R.
name: Schwenninger, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93D20, 93C05, 93C20, 37C75

description: In this work, the relation between input-to-state stability and integral input-to-state stability is studied for linear infinite-dimensional systems with an unbounded control operator. Although a special focus is laid on the case $L^{\infty}$, general function spaces are considered for the inputs. We show that integral input-to-state stability can be characterized in terms of input-to-state stability with respect to Orlicz spaces. Since we consider linear systems, the results can also be formulated in terms of admissibility. For parabolic diagonal systems with scalar inputs, both stability notions with respect to $L^\infty$ are equivalent.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures, submitted. Thoroughly revised version with streamlined presentation. The Proof of Thm. 4.1 (what used to be Thm 4.2) has been simplified
Data archive of "Investigating the prevalence of RNA binding metabolic enzymes in E. coli"
Creators: name: Klein, Thomas
name: Funke, Franziska
name: Lehmann, Gerhard
name: Babinger, Patrick
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: raw sequencing data
Simulated bifurcation for higher-order cost functions
Creators: name: Kanao, Taro
name: Goto, Hayato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-performance Ising machines for solving combinatorial optimization problems have been developed with digital processors implementing heuristic algorithms such as simulated bifurcation (SB). Although Ising machines have been designed for second-order cost functions, there are practical problems expressed naturally by higher-order cost functions. In this work, we extend SB to such higher-order cost functions. By solving a problem having third-order cost functions, we show that the higher-order SB can outperform not only the second-order SB with additional spin variables, but also simulated annealing applied directly to the third-order cost functions. This result suggests that the higher-order SB can be practically useful.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Grazing Management and Plant Community Composition on Bodmin Moor
Creators: name: Stewart, Gavin
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/564 on 14.03.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The research presented in this thesis was focused on aspects of the dynamic response of upland vegetation to grazing, to allow evaluation of the suitability of Countryside Stewardship (CS) management for the rehabilitation of dwarf-shrub cover in the upland landscape of Bodmin Moor. Initial chapters review the ecological character of Bodmin Moor, grazing management and vegetation in upland habitats, and succession in relation to grazing. Chapter Five provides the first extensive and detailed phytosociological investigation of the vegetation of Bodmin Moor-providing a baseline for further work. It also examines the spatial distribution of the plant communities in relation to environmental gradients and grazing management. Bodmin Moor was dominated by acid grassland and mire with some small heathland fragments. It lacked the cover of ericaceous dwarf-shrubs that define heathland in the rest of Britain. Chapter Six provides the first description of the soil seed banks on Bodmin Moor and determined that seed availability was not limiting the rehabilitation of dwarf-shrub cover. Chapter Seven utilised an existing monitoring scheme on Bodmin Moor North SSSI to identify vegetation changes associated with the establishment of a CS management regime. It was found that CS grazing levels were not high enough to suppress Molinia caerulea and dwarf-shrubs were not favoured. Chapter Eight reports on a Molinia caerulea defoliation experiment, which suggested that heavy summer grazing was the most suitable grazing option for the control of Molinia caerulea using livestock. Unfortunately, other work indicates that this is not compatible with the maintenance of dwarf-shrubs. CS protocols may not be suitable for dwarf-shrub rehabilitation on the graminoid-dominated vegetation of Bodmin Moor. Furthermore, the desirability of the objectives of CS can be questioned, and they may be impossible to achieve by the manipulation of grazing regimes alone (Chapter Nine).
Samuel Beckett : a crisis of representation
Creators: name: Drummond, David B.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Nanoarchitectonics in fully printed perovskite solar cells with carbon-based electrodes
Creators: name: Bogachuk, Dmitry
name: Girard, Jessica
name: Tilala, Siddharth
name: Martineau, David
name: Narbey, Stephanie
name: Verma, Anand
name: Hinsch, Andreas
name: Kohlstädt, Markus
name: Wagner, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sacrificial film of polystyrene nanoparticles was utilized to introduce nano-cavities in mesoporous metal oxide layers. This enabled the growth of larger perovskite crystals inside the oxide scaffold with significantly suppressed non-radiative recombination and improving device performance. This work exemplifies potential applications of such nanoarchitectonic approaches in perovskite opto-electronic devices.
description: 4 pages
The effects of association equilibria on the interphase transport of phenol
Creators: name: Dressman, Jennifer Boehm
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201440) John Sawyer
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Strange-Meson Spectroscopy -- from COMPASS to AMBER
Creators: name: Wallner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: COMPASS is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at CERN's M2 beam line aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. It has collected the so far world's largest data set on diffractive production of the $K^-π^-π^+$ final state, which in principle gives access to all strange mesons. Based on this data set, we performed an elaborate partial-wave analysis. It reveals signals in the mass region of well-known states, such as the $K_2^*(1430)$. In addition, we found indications for a resonance-like signal in the mass region of the $K(1630)$. This state would be a supernumerary state and hence could be a candidate for an exotic strange meson. The partial-wave analysis is limited in some areas by the limited kinematic coverage of the final-state particle identification of the COMPASS setup. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new high-precision strange-meson spectroscopy measurement at the AMBER experiment, which will be located at CERN's M2 beam line.
description: XVth Quark confinement and the Hadron spectrum conference
Seed contaminants in ryegrass and clover seed for sowing imported into New Zealand
Creators: name: Buddenhagen, Chris
name: Rubenstein, Jesse
name: Hampton, John
name: Onofre, Kelsey
name: Rolston, Phil
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: About 40% of New Zealand’s land area is in pasture, with perennial ryegrass and white clover being favoured forages. Ryegrass and clover contribute $14.5 billion and $2.3 billion NZD to GDP annually. Seed companies develop varieties but also import seed for multiplication. Ryegrass and clover seed is sold to local and international markets, contributing ca. $125 million in sales. To control biosecurity risks, imported seed is inspected using the International Seed Testing Association Rules to determine physical purity and contamination by weed seeds. Enforcement measures against seed consignments based on the weed contaminants are rare. A quarantine list identifies ca. 1170 species of concern. We examined seed contaminants from inspections carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries over five years (2014–2018). Eight seed companies contributed to most of the importations. Seed lots were sourced from 17 (ryegrass) and 19 (clover) countries. Of the 560 ryegrass consignments, 16% had weed contaminants and 0.5% contained the quarantine species Alopecurus myosuroides and Arctium minus. Of 381 clover consignments, 19% were contaminated but no quarantine weed seeds were detected. A total of 65 and 62 contaminating weed species were detected in ryegrass and clover respectively. The most common were Polygonum aviculare and Poa annua in ryegrass, and Lolium spp. and Chenopodium album in clover. Most weed seed detections do not cause a shipment to be re-dressed or destroyed. The frequency with which weed seed contaminants are missed during inspection is not known and there is concern that some seeds could be from herbicide-resistant genotypes. The New Zealand arable industry participates in an international seed network that supports arable and pasture farming worldwide, but this has important biosecurity risks.
Soziale Arbeit und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Creators: name: Wandeler, Bernard (Hrsg.)
name: Hofer, Katrin (Hrsg.)
name: Guggisberg, Dorothee
name: Durrer Eggerschwiler, Bea
name: Bieri, Sabin
name: Hochuli, Marianne
name: Binder-Zehetner, Andrea
name: Klimenta, Harald
name: Windlin, Beatrice
name: Schweitzer, Karin
name: Matson, Fleur
name: Estermann, Lea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

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The imaginary identity : the contribution of literature to the French notion of sovereignty
Creators: name: Doyle, Natalie Jeanne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201441) John Andrews
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework
Creators: name: AL-ALwani, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sustainability Assessment
Middle Eastern Cities

description: The construction of a guiding methodological framework for local sustainability assessment is a key to achieving a sustainable future. This study develops an approach to local sustainability assessment (ALSA), a methodological framework that facilitates the formulation, selection and prioritisation of key indicators to guide the assessment of city sustainability at a local level in Middle Eastern cities. Based on a literature review, this research devised a methodological framework, ALSA, which is a combination of the Commission on Sustainable Development’s (CSD)Theme Indicator Framework (2001) (themes, sub themes and indicators) and a Goal-Based Framework (indicators that most directly reflect the issues of a case study and its local communities and stakeholders). This combination framework is shown to be more appropriate in this instance than other types of frameworks, in terms of overcoming some inherent weaknesses, leading to the adoption of a top-down / bottom-up approach. Such an approach is shown to be the best way of developing indicators which are (top-down) scientifically valid and generic with (bottom-up) stakeholder and local communities needs. The ALSA methodological framework involves four steps, which are: issue identification, objective formulation, indicator formulation and indicator selecting and ranking. The first set of proposed indicators contained 98 indicators. This set of proposed indicators was revised and analysed by means of a series of shared ideas from literature and through consultation with experts from specific areas, using a workshop format. This revision stage was used to reformulate and select valid and useful indicators (comparable, measurable, and sensitive). The second set of valid and useful indicators (after the first revisions) contains 57 indicators. The indicators were ranked on the basis of priority to identify a final set of indicators that cover the four dimensions of sustainability, which are defined within this work as environmental, social, economic and institutional. The evaluation (SWOT analysis) of this framework was examined during this study. The city of Hilla, Iraq, was selected as a case study to prove the applicability of the ALSA methodological framework in a real world case study. It is argued that this study is pioneering in adding knowledge and understanding of the development of a methodological framework to provide local sustainability indicators in a post-conflict, Middle Eastern city in an oil-rich country. It is concluded that the ALSA methodological framework provides an efficient and rigorous approach for the formulation, selection and prioritization of key indicators that will measure and encapsulate the essence of a sustainable city and could help Middle Eastern cities achieve higher levels of progress towards sustainability in practice.
Einführung in die Grundlagen der Psychologie
Creators: name: Gasch, Bernd
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Diese Lehrveranstaltung wendet sich an Hörer ohne spezifische Vorkenntnisse im Fach Psychologie. Sie versucht, einen Überblick über wichtige methodische und inhaltliche Aspekte des Faches zu vermitteln und die Grobstrukturen herauszuarbeiten. Sie geht in die Breite und nicht in die Tiefe.
Hidden biases in flux-resolved X-ray spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kang, Jia-Lai
name: Wang, Jun-Xian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux-resolved X-ray spectroscopy is widely adopted to investigate the spectral variation of a target between various flux levels. In many cases it is done through horizontally splitting a single light curve into multiple flux levels with certain count rate threshold(s). In this work we point out there are two hidden biases in this approach which could affect the spectral analyses under particular circumstances. The first is that, when Poisson fluctuations of the source counts in light curve bins are non-negligible compared with the intrinsic variation, this approach would over-estimate (under-estimate) the intrinsic average flux level of the high (low) state. The second bias is that, when the Poisson fluctuations of the background count rate is non-negligible, the background spectrum of the high (low) state would be under-estimated (over-estimated), thus yielding biased spectral fitting parameters. We take NuSTAR spectra for example to illustrate the effects of the biases, and particularly, how the measurements of the coronal temperature in AGNs would be biased. We present a toy method to assess the significance of such biases, and approaches to correct for them when necessary.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS. Comments are welcome!