cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Proposition of FSR Photon Suppression Employing a Two-Positron Decay Dark Matter Model to Explain Positron Anomaly in Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Barak, Ramin
name: Belotsky, Konstantin
name: Shlepkina, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of an anomalous excess of high-energy (about 100 GeV and higher) positrons in cosmic rays is one of the rare problems in this field, which is proposed to be solved with dark matter (DM). Attempts to solve this problem are faced with the issue of having to satisfy the data on cosmic positrons and cosmic gamma radiation, which inevitably accompanies positron production, such as FSR (final state radiation), simultaneously. We have been trying to come up with a solution by means of two approaches: making assumptions (*) about the spatial distribution of the dark matter and (**) about the physics of its interactions. This work is some small final step of a big investigation regarding the search for gamma suppression by employing the second approach, and a model with a doubly charged particle decaying into two positrons (X++ $\rightarrow$ e+ e+) is suggested as the most prospective one from those considered before.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures; contents of this paper correspond to the one that has been published in the journal Universe
Conspiracy Narratives in contemporary society
Creators: name: Ulbrick, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ABSTRACT “We live in an age of conspiracy” says Don DeLillo (1989). In 2014 it seems that conspiracy theories, and speculation concerning the “truth” about major events, has become a popular theme and pastime in contemporary society. From sold out eleven hour David Icke presentations at Wembley Stadium in the UK (as well as his world tours), to the ever expanding radio and television network of Alex Jones in the United States, it is clear that there is more than just a fringe interest in conspiracy theories. In the academic literature dating back to Richard Hofstadter (1964) though, the phenomenon has been cast as a purely pathological or paranoid behaviour. Recent works, such as that of Sunstien and Vermeule (2009), Aaronovitch (2011) and van der Linden (2013) go further in suggesting that engagement with conspiracy theories is not only a pathological behaviour, but a danger both to modern society and one which threatens to bring an end to the “age of reason.” Others however, such as Jane and Fleming (2014) have suggested that conspiracy theories are actually a direct result of Enlightenment thinking, and that they offer a valuable counterweight to modern forms of propaganda. In this thesis I seek to challenge the view that conspiracy theories are a pathological behaviour, and offer instead that in contemporary engagement with conspiracy theories is a form of political resistance that allows the excluded and disaffected a political voice. I also offer that conspiracy theories are best understood as social, cultural and political narratives that are in the words of Michael Barkun (2003) a form of stigmatized knowledge. From this perspective it is possible, I argue, to contextualise conspiracy theories in terms of contemporary political and social issues. Finally, I suggest that conspiracy theories may be a method that is used by those who engage to negotiate social ambivalence as outlined by Bauman (1991). To do this, I interviewed eight Melbournians who were either engaged with conspiracy theories or considered themselves “sceptics.” Each of the participants, shared stories of their everyday experiences with conspiracy theories with me. I have analysed their responses using a thematic narrative analysis and underpinning my research were four research questions: [1] How do people living and working in Melbourne define and use conspiracy theories in their everyday lives?; [2] In my data, are conspiracy theories being discussed (and used) as a form of political action for the alienated and marginalized? [3] Does my data collected conform to the two broad understandings that I have outlined in the literature review (the cultural and psychological approaches)? [4] Following question 3, do my participants engage with conspiracy theories as social, cultural and political narratives that offer a new or alternative means of political resistance?
Early sex work initiation and condom use among alcohol-using female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Parcesepe, Angela M.
name: Martin, Sandra L.
name: Suchindran, Chirayath
name: Green, Sherri
name: L'Engle, Kelly L.
name: Mwarogo, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Early initiation of sex work is prevalent among female sex workers (FSWs) worldwide. The objectives of this study were to investigate if early initiation of sex work was associated with: (1) consistent condom use, (2) condom negotiation self-efficacy or (3) condom use norms among alcohol-using FSWs in Mombasa, Kenya.
Asymptote-based scientific animation
Creators: name: Gevorkyan, Migran N.
name: Korolkova, Anna V.
name: Kulyabov, Dmitry S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article discusses a universal way to create animation using Asymptote the language for vector graphics. The Asymptote language itself has a built-in library for creating animations, but its practical use is complicated by an extremely brief description in the official documentation and unstable execution of existing examples. The purpose of this article is to eliminate this gap. The method we describe is based on creating a PDF file with frames using Asymptote, with further converting it into a set of PNG images and merging them into a video using FFmpeg. All stages are described in detail, which allows the reader to use the described method without being familiar with the used utilities.
description: in English; in Russian
Victoria’s Islamic schools: facilitators of Islamic identity construction?
Creators: name: Hassen, Yasmin Mohamed
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent times the popularity of Islamic schools in Australia has become of notable societal and academic interest. The research study unpacks the complex processes Muslim students in Victoria’s nine self-identifying Islamic schools go through in the construction of their religious identity. The study also examines experiences of belonging, exclusion and religious identity construction of young Muslims. The research intends to understand how the schooling of Muslim students fosters development of an Islamic identity among students in Victoria’s Islamic schools. The research adopts an in depth open-ended interview model as the preferred methodology. An open-ended interview model intends to privilege the knowledge and ‘voice’ of the subject to develop a deeper understanding of the lived reality of Islamic school graduates.
Oenothera perangusta var. rubricalyx Gates, Canad. Field-Naturalist 1950
Creators: name: Woźniak-Chodacka, Monika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Oenothera
Oenothera perangusta
Oenothera perangusta gates var. rubricalyx gates, canad. field-Naturalist

description: Oenothera perangusta Gates var. rubricalyx Gates, Canad. Field-Naturalist 64: 143. 1950.
 Type:— CANADA. Ontario: Thunder Bay Dist., Canadian Pacific Railway station at Jackfish Station, Lake Superior, 7 July 1933, Pease & Bean 23526 (holotype: GH-00073030!). Figure 2.
 Genetic features: —Permanent translocation heterozygote (PTH); main types of haploid genomes AC [based on morphology] (Dietrich et al. 1997).
 Distribution: —Similar as the type variety (Gates 1950, Rostański et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Woźniak-Chodacka, Monika, 2018, A revision of taxonomic relation between Oenothera perangusta and O. ersteinensis (Onagraceae) based on morphometric research and statistical analyses, pp. 55-74 in Phytotaxa 383 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.383.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13725223
Galaxy rotation curves in superfluid vacuum theory
Creators: name: Zloshchastiev, Konstantin G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Logarithmic superfluid theory of physical vacuum suggests that gravity has a multiple-scale structure; where one can recognize sub-Newtonian, Newtonian, logarithmic, linear and quadratic (de Sitter) terms in the induced spacetime metric and effective potential. To test the theory's predictions on a galactic scale, we apply best-fitting procedures to the rotation curve data obtained from fifteen galaxies by the HI Nearby Galaxy Survey; assuming their stellar disk's parameters to be fixed to the mean values measured using photometric methods. Although the fitting results seem to be sensitive to a stellar disk model chosen, they correspond closely with observational data, even for those galaxies which rotation velocity profiles do not have flat regions.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Improvised counterpoint: a study of contrapuntal strategies and interchangeable roles between two soloists in jazz improvisation
Creators: name: Beeche, Jack Trewhella
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Contrapuntal improvisation was an integral part of jazz at its inception in New Orleans and has continued to provide communal spontaneity to the music ever since. In particular, Dixieland, Cool Jazz and Free Jazz have maintained multi-voice, contrapuntal improvisation, however the music’s focus often shifts to an individual jazz soloist, removing opportunities for collective dialogue in the moment. In our current period, exploring, cultivating and evolving this improvisatory practice is of great value to the collaborative sound of jazz and its future. This research (recording and supporting exegesis) investigates melodic counterpoint between two jazz soloists, simultaneously improvising over a common form, harmony and tempo. It draws from an extensive body of literature on interaction in jazz, which commonly explores the rhythm section interacting with one soloist. Whilst detailed analyses of interaction between two simultaneous soloists exist, they are often limited. This artistic research in music (ARiM) aims to contribute to the field by identifying a systematic method of analysing and performing improvised counterpoint, in transcribed examples of selected musicians and myself. Applying this to performance encourages equal levels of influence from both soloists who must react to each other in the moment. An initial ‘outside-in’ investigation into the improvised counterpoint of three selected ‘Cool Jazz’ musicians (Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan and Jim Hall) aims to identify improvisatory strategies that lend coherence to their counterpoint. This will assemble a series of strategies that can be separated into comping and soloing roles depending on the aims of the improviser. Having developed this through practice, a second ‘inside-out’ investigation will observe the same strategies in my own performance, demonstrating coherent counterpoint and influences of the selected musicians. Further reflection upon my performance will then explore transitions between roles, revealing interactive ‘triggers’ that influence role changes in the other musician. Using the metaphor of jazz improvisation as conversation, this paper compiles a contrapuntal syntax of eleven strategies, developed from the selected musicians, and a framework of four common triggers for role transition found in my performance. These are articulated through transcription analyses and recordings. Although this is a case study of improvised counterpoint inherent to my performance and that of selected musicians, it aims to provide a model for analysing and developing cohesive counterpoint, between two equal soloists, in any improvising musician.
Sapicolella laciniata C. Cusset
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Sapicolella
Sapicolella laciniata

description: Sapicolella laciniata (Engl.) C.Cusset (Cusset 1987: 93) = Pohliella laciniata Engl.
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 427, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
description: {"references": ["____ (1987). Podostemaceae. Flore du C ameroun 20. MESRES, Yaounde."]}
Yang-Baxter equations with two Planck constants
Creators: name: Levin, A.
name: Olshanetsky, M.
name: Zotov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider Yang-Baxter equations arising from its associative analog and study corresponding exchange relations. They generate finite-dimensional quantum algebras which have form of coupled ${\rm GL}(N)$ Sklyanin elliptic algebras. Then we proceed to a natural generalization of the Baxter-Belavin quantum $R$-matrix to the case ${\rm Mat}(N,\mathbb C)^{\otimes 2}\otimes {\rm Mat}(M,\mathbb C)^{\otimes 2}$. It can be viewed as symmetric form of ${\rm GL}(NM)$ $R$-matrix in the sense that the Planck constant and the spectral parameter enter (almost) symmetrically. Such type (symmetric) $R$-matrices are also shown to satisfy the Yang-Baxter like quadratic and cubic equations.
description: 20 pages, minor corrections
DIVAKARUNI'S SISTER OF MY HEART: A SEARCH OF IDENTITY
Creators: name: Jayashri Shivajirao Jadhav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Identity, Tradition, Patriarchy, Modernism

description: Abstract  The literary work of Chitra Baneerjee Divakaruni is a verbal representation of past and present, East and West, Tradition and Modernity. She hardly ever writes in isolation. Though she inherits the tradition, simultaneously makes an effort to create new spaces beyond those established conventions. While representing the past and traditions, she has crossed the barriers of rigid tradition. Divakaruni’s major themes center on her desire to investigate the identity of South Asian women. While giving voice to her immigrant experience in writing, Divakaruni has also helped immigrant women to cope with the new culture. Divakaruni’s heroines face emotional constraints since they are also unable to express themselves. The protagonists of the novel become even more silent after they are married. As girls, they grow up negotiating their mothers' traditional Indian Value system and desires with Western Philosophies influencing their own generation.
The Nature of the Interlayer Interaction in Bulk and Few-Layer Phosphorus
Creators: name: Shulenburger, Luke
name: Baczewski, Andrew D.
name: Zhu, Zhen
name: Guan, Jie
name: Tomanek, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An outstanding challenge of theoretical electronic structure is the description of van der Waals (vdW) interactions in molecules and solids. Renewed interest in resolving this is in part motivated by the technological promise of layered systems including graphite, transition metal dichalcogenides, and more recently, black phosphorus, in which the interlayer interaction is widely believed to be dominated by these types of forces. We report a series of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations for bulk black phosphorus and related few-layer phosphorene, which elucidate the nature of the forces that bind these systems and provide benchmark data for the energetics of these systems. We find a significant charge redistribution due to the interaction between electrons on adjacent layers. Comparison to density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate not only wide variability even among different vdW corrected functionals, but the failure of these functionals to capture the trend of reorganization predicted by QMC. The delicate interplay of steric and dispersive forces between layers indicate that few-layer phosphorene presents an unexpected challenge for the development of vdW corrected DFT.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
The objectivity of ontological discourse
Creators: name: Lu, Shang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis examines whether there are objectively true answers to ontological questions. Traditionally, ontological questions are taken to be significant to philosophers: to give those questions firm answers is typically the first step in establishing a metaphysical system or even a philosophical system. However, recently, more and more philosophers have questioned whether ontological statements really present objective truths about the world. Given that it is widely received that ontology might be the center of metaphysics, to answer this question is therefore very important. In chapter 1, I present some major worries about the objectivity of ontological statements and some important theories in the contemporary literature addressing those worries. In chapter 2, I analyze those theories in detail and suggest that none of them gives a completely satisfactory account of the objectivity of ontology. My positive proposal, raised in chapter 3, is that objectivity of discourses comes in degrees and that we can assess it according to a reasonably comprehensive set of criteria. In chapter 4, I apply those criteria in the assessment of the discourse of ontology. I reached two major conclusions: (a), Euthyphro Contrast, Cognitive Command and Data Sensitivity are the plausible criteria of the objectivity of discourses; (b), since ontological discourse does not strongly exhibit any of those marks, the objectivity of ontological discourse is very weak.
Achieving algorithmic resilience for temporal integration through spectral deferred corrections
Creators: name: Grout, R. W.
name: Kolla, H.
name: Minion, M. L.
name: Bell, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spectral deferred corrections (SDC) is an iterative approach for constructing higher- order accurate numerical approximations of ordinary differential equations. SDC starts with an initial approximation of the solution defined at a set of Gaussian or spectral collocation nodes over a time interval and uses an iterative application of lower-order time discretizations applied to a correction equation to improve the solution at these nodes. Each deferred correction sweep increases the formal order of accuracy of the method up to the limit inherent in the accuracy defined by the collocation points. In this paper, we demonstrate that SDC is well suited to recovering from soft (transient) hardware faults in the data. A strategy where extra correction iterations are used to recover from soft errors and provide algorithmic resilience is proposed. Specifically, in this approach the iteration is continued until the residual (a measure of the error in the approximation) is small relative to the residual on the first correction iteration and changes slowly between successive iterations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this strategy for both canonical test problems and a comprehen- sive situation involving a mature scientific application code that solves the reacting Navier-Stokes equations for combustion research.
Gay mobile apps and the evolving virtual risk environment: a cross-sectional online survey among men who have sex with men in China
Creators: name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Huang, Shujie
name: Tso, Lai Sze
name: Best, John
name: Wei, Chongyi
name: Zhang, Ye
name: Liu, Feng-Ying
name: Yang, Bin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The expansion of gay sex-seeking application (gay app) use among men who have sex with men (MSM) may create new virtual risk environments that are associated with STI transmission. The goals of this study were to compare sexual behaviors between gay app users and non-users, and to describe sexual behaviors among gay app users in China.
Positive and negative parity hyperons in nuclear medium
Creators: name: Azizi, K.
name: Er, N.
name: Sundu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of nuclear medium on the residue, mass and self energy of the positive and negative parity $Σ$, $Λ$ and $Ξ$ hyperons are investigated using the QCD sum rule method. In the calculations, the general interpolating currents of hyperons with an arbitrary mixing parameter are used. We compare the results obtained in medium with those of the vacuum and calculate the shifts in the corresponding parameters. It is found that the shifts on the residues in nuclear matter are over all positive for both the positive and negative parity hyperons, except for the positive parity $Σ$ hyperon that the shift is negative. The shifts on the masses of these baryons are obtained to be negative. The shifts on the residues and masses of negative parity states are large compared to those of positive parities. The maximum shift belongs to the residue of the negative parity $Λ$ hyperon. The vector self-energies gained by the positive parity baryons are large compared to the negative parities' vector self-energies. The maximum value of the vector self-energy belongs to the positive parity $Σ$ hyperon. The numerical values are compared with the existing predictions in the literature.
description: 20 Pages, 9 Figures and 7 Tables
On the Evolution of: Language and Di Inferi
Creators: name: Lehti, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470305
subject: Early English languages
classificationCode: 470307
subject: English language
classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages
classificationCode: 430310
subject: Global and world history

description: Abstract: the underworld is a fascinating concept that offers insights into ancient traditions still observed today. It raises a fascinating question: do we bury the dead because of a pre-ancient belief in a concept of the underworld, or did we create the concept of the underworld as a means to explain why we bury the dead.
Recruiting the social contacts of patients with STI for HIV screening in Lilongwe, Malawi: process evaluation and assessment of acceptability
Creators: name: Miller, William C.
name: Martinson, Francis
name: Bonongwe, Naomi
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Stanley, Christopher C.
name: Kamanga, Gift
name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Mapanje, Clement
name: Rosenberg, Nora E.
name: Rutstein, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To explore acceptability of recruiting social contacts for HIV and STI screening in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Implicit Manifold Gaussian Process Regression
Creators: name: Fichera, Bernardo
name: Borovitskiy, Viacheslav
name: Krause, Andreas
name: Billard, Aude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gaussian process regression is widely used because of its ability to provide well-calibrated uncertainty estimates and handle small or sparse datasets. However, it struggles with high-dimensional data. One possible way to scale this technique to higher dimensions is to leverage the implicit low-dimensional manifold upon which the data actually lies, as postulated by the manifold hypothesis. Prior work ordinarily requires the manifold structure to be explicitly provided though, i.e. given by a mesh or be known to be one of the well-known manifolds like the sphere. In contrast, in this paper we propose a Gaussian process regression technique capable of inferring implicit structure directly from data (labeled and unlabeled) in a fully differentiable way. For the resulting model, we discuss its convergence to the Matérn Gaussian process on the assumed manifold. Our technique scales up to hundreds of thousands of data points, and may improve the predictive performance and calibration of the standard Gaussian process regression in high-dimensional settings.
A Computer-Based Method to Improve the Spelling of Children with Dyslexia
Creators: name: Rello, Luz
name: Bayarri, Clara
name: Otal, Yolanda
name: Pielot, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.4.2; K.3

description: In this paper we present a method which aims to improve the spelling of children with dyslexia through playful and targeted exercises. In contrast to previous approaches, our method does not use correct words or positive examples to follow, but presents the child a misspelled word as an exercise to solve. We created these training exercises on the basis of the linguistic knowledge extracted from the errors found in texts written by children with dyslexia. To test the effectiveness of this method in Spanish, we integrated the exercises in a game for iPad, DysEggxia (Piruletras in Spanish), and carried out a within-subject experiment. During eight weeks, 48 children played either DysEggxia or Word Search, which is another word game. We conducted tests and questionnaires at the beginning of the study, after four weeks when the games were switched, and at the end of the study. The children who played DysEggxia for four weeks in a row had significantly less writing errors in the tests that after playing Word Search for the same time. This provides evidence that error-based exercises presented in a tablet help children with dyslexia improve their spelling skills.
description: 8 pages, ASSETS'14, October 20-22, 2014, Rochester, NY, USA
The disappearance of the progenitor of SN 2012aw in late-time imaging
Creators: name: Fraser, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new late-time near-infrared imaging of the site of the nearby core-collapse supernova SN 2012aw, confirming the disappearance of the point source identified by Fraser et al. (2012) and Van Dyk et al. (2012) as a candidate progenitor in both J and Ks filters. We re-measure the progenitor photometry, and find that both the J and Ks magnitudes of the source are consistent with those quoted in the literature. We also recover a marginal detection of the progenitor in H-band, for which we measure H=19.67+/-0.40 mag. Comparing the luminosity of the progenitor to stellar evolutionary models, SN 2012aw appears to have resulted from the explosion of a 12.5+/-1.5 Msun red supergiant.
description: MNRAS accepted
The sustainability of community-managed water supply. A case study of Ilala community-managed water supply, Kwara State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Gbahabo, Percy Terfa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Community-managed water supply has, since the 1990s, been widely hailed and promoted as the solution to the challenges of rural community water provision in Africa. However, the sustainability of this approach to water provision is debated because of low rural water supply and frequent system break down in many different context. The research falls within the area of community water management and sustainability. Particularly, it will investigate the sort of community management that may make rural water supply sustainable. The research uses the case study of Ilala community, Kwara State, and was undertaken through review of relevant documents, of personal observations and of interviews with Ilala community members and government officials. Literature on the sustainability of community-managed water supply is controversial as there seems to be lack of agreement about the sustainability of the model. This thesis contributes to the debate about the sustainability of community-managed water supply. Field data from Ilala reveal that community water management is sustainable in Ilala. Furthermore, the research findings show that the motivation of beneficiaries to utilize the improved water source was necessary for sustainability. Second, community practice of maintenance in the absence of formal support structure significantly enhanced the sustainability of the water scheme. More so, regular contribution for water tariff enforced by the traditional ruler was also instrumental to the continuous functionality of the water scheme. Lastly, the existence of a strong Community Development Association and the availability strong leadership in the community provided support to the community-managed water scheme and enhanced sustainability. Field data further show that the state created and empowered agencies such as the Kwara State Community and Social Development Agencies and Kwara State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency to provide support to rural communities to manage their water. Ilala community did receive government assistance to construct the community water scheme, but that one-off support is arguably inadequate. Providing on-going support to rural communities is necessary to ensure sustainability in rural water supply. The report concludes with some suggestions for improvement in state policy
Narratives of the People’s War in British film, 1940 – 1958
Creators: name: Thomson, Damian Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The cinematic narrative of a ‘People’s War’ is often seen to represent either a groundswell of liberal sentiment in wartime Britain, or a pure exercise in propaganda employed by the governing classes, offering merely the illusion of radical change. I argue that neither of these interpretations adequately do justice to the multi-faceted nature of the People’s War narrative, which was at the same time organic and cultivated; both liberal and conservative. The People’s War was not a homogenous concept; rather it was the site of debates around the nature of postwar British society. It reflected a broad desire for postwar change, but also conflicting views about the nature of this change. Even where these tensions around the People’s War have been acknowledged, I argue they have been misunderstood as class tensions when in fact they are chiefly ideological. They stemmed more from a clash between liberal and conservative postwar desires than they did from a conflict between classes. Indeed, issues of class tension are far less central to the People’s War than is often assumed. Closer inspection of the wartime films considered by this thesis reveals the People’s War to be in many respects a middle-class narrative that did not disappear altogether after 1945 as is often claimed. Instead, it continued to provide a vehicle for the middle classes to engage in debates around how the wartime experience should influence postwar society into the 1950s. While many histories of British cinema interpret the war films of the 1950s as a middle-class denial of the People’s War and its radical promise, I demonstrate that 1950s war films continued to engage with a number of key themes of the People’s War. Far from being written out by the middle classes during the 1950s, the People’s War narrative evolves to reflect the increasing conservatism of Britain’s middle classes. I demonstrate that it is only in the wake of the Suez Crisis in 1956 that filmmakers begin to shift away from the People’s War narrative, as Britain grapples with both the geopolitical fallout from Suez and the changing demands of a younger generation for whom the Second World War lacks immediacy and relevance.
Spatial distribution and cluster analysis of risky sexual behaviours and STDs reported by Chinese adults in Guangzhou, China: a representative population-based study
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
name: Hall, Brian J
name: Zhou, Fangjing
name: Ling, Li
name: Latkin, Carl
name: Chen, Wen
name: Tucker, Joseph D
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To assess associations between residences location, risky sexual behaviours and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among adults living in Guangzhou, China.
From contemplation to transformation : myth, history, and the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood.
Creators: name: Kent, James Francis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 220210 History of Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History

description: The relationship between history and myth suffers from an ambiguity from which a philosophical topos, and thus philosophical project, emerges. This thesis deals with the philosophical potential of this ambiguity. If, as I argue, the ambivalence of this ambiguous relation is both necessary and in some sense inescapable to be philosophically illuminating, the goal is, then, not to reconcile these two concepts (and indeed to highlight the impossibility of doing so), but to articulate the possibilities that emerge from the exploration of that very ambivalence. This will be done through an exploration of the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), whose philosophy (at times difficult to locate within a school or tradition) will be triangulated via thinkers who have wrestled with the problem of history and myth, namely Herodotus, Giambattista Vico and Siegfried Kracauer. Behind these explicit comparisons, I will also rely on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg (his theory of myth will buttress a large part of the conceptual grounding of the project) and Walter Benjamin, whose ideas regarding history and myth constitute important, if momentary, illuminations. These confrontations not only allow Collingwood to emerge as a genuine and original philosopher of history and myth in his own right, but also embody a new insight into the philosophical interest of history and its relation to myth.
The forgotten people: the Vietnamese asylum seekers in Hong Kong's detention centres 1988-1997
Creators: name: Stewart, Robert Hugh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis deals with the treatment of Vietnamese asylum seekers in Hong Kong after 16 June 1988, when the colony unilaterally introduced a policy of screening new arrivals for refugee status. It argues that the vast majority of Vietnamese asylum seekers who arrived in Hong Kong after this date were treated unfairly and inhumanely during their detention in purpose-built centres. It shows they were deprived of a fair hearing of their refugee status because the screening process was flawed, and then were forcibly repatriated to Vietnam in contravention of the internationally accepted norm of non-refoulement. This thesis argues that the Hong Kong government condoned widespread corruption and hardship in the detention centres of Hong Kong in an effort to speed up the removal of those Vietnamese boat people who had reached its shores and to deter more from leaving Vietnam. Further, this thesis argues that the UNHCR, the Hong Kong government and the international community failed to adequately protect the human rights of this group of Vietnamese boat people because of the adoption of flawed processes to assess their refugee status, and detain and repatriate the asylum seekers. The thesis argues that the concern of the Hong Kong government to remove the boat people from its shores and deter more from coming was politically motivated and outweighed official UNHCR policy, international law and accepted thinking on refugees. At the same time, even though the UNHCR was mandated by the international community to protect the asylum seekers, it failed to serve as a protection agency for Vietnamese asylum seekers. The thesis argues that the UNHCR’s financial dependency on nation states, such as the United Kingdom and its colony Hong Kong, compromised the protection role of the refugee agency. The thesis also identifies the failings of the international governance system for human rights in Asia, and specifically highlights the absence of a regional Human Rights Commission and the consequent lack of enforcement of human rights treaties in the region. This thesis analyses an important and largely unscrutinized episode in refugee history. The reason it is important lies in the number of procedural precedents and human rights violations that occurred, resulting in tragic consequences for this group of individuals. This situation could have been avoided or handled in a more appropriate way that was in the best interests of the asylum seekers.
Sapicolella amicorum J. B. Hall
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Sapicolella
Sapicolella amicorum

description: Sapicolella amicorum J.B.Hall (Hall 1971: 122) = Pohliella amicorum (J.B. Hall) Cheek ined. (Cheek 2020)
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 427, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
description: {"references": ["Hall, J. B. (1971). New Podostemaceae from Ghana with notes on related species. Kew Bull. 26: 125 - 126. https: // doi. orc / 10.2207 / 3117227", "____ (2020). A synoptic revision of Pohliella (Podostemaceae) with notes on Aulea, C ipoia and Sapicolella. biorpiv https: // doi. orc / 10.1101 / 2020.05.22.111922 [accessed 20 May 2021]."]}
Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ib Supernova iPTF 13bvn: Revealing the complex explosion geometry of a stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova
Creators: name: Reilly, Emma
name: Maund, Justyn R.
name: Baade, Dietrich
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Clocchiatti, Alejandro
name: Patat, Ferdinando
name: Höflich, Peter
name: Spyromilio, Jason
name: Wang, Lifan
name: Zelaya, Paula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present six epochs of spectropolarimetric observations and one epoch of spectroscopy of the Type Ib SN iPTF 13bvn. The epochs of these observations correspond to $-$10 to $+$61 days with respect to the {\it r}-band light curve maximum. The continuum is intrinsically polarised to the $0.2-0.4\%$ level throughout the observations, implying asphericities of $\sim10\%$ in the shape of the photosphere. We observe significant line polarisation associated with the spectral features of Ca II IR3, He I/Na I D, He I λλ6678, 7065, Fe II λ4924 and O I λ7774. We propose that an absorption feature at $\sim 6200\mathrmÅ$, usually identified as Si II $λ6355$, is most likely to be high velocity $\mathrm{Hα}$ at $-16,400$ $\mathrm{km \; s^{-1}}$. Two distinctly polarised components, separated in velocity, are detected for both He I/Na I D and Ca II IR3, indicating the presence of two discrete line forming regions in the ejecta in both radial velocity space and in the plane of the sky. We use the polarisation of He I $λ5876$ as a tracer of sources of non-thermal excitation in the ejecta; finding that the bulk of the radioactive nickel was constrained to lie interior to $\sim 50-65\%$ of the ejecta radius. The observed polarisation is also discussed in the context of the possible progenitor system of iPTF 13bvn, with our observations favouring the explosion of a star with an extended, distorted envelope rather than a compact Wolf-Rayet star.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
The effect of HIV counselling and testing on HIV acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
Creators: name: Ryan, Julia
name: Miller, William C.
name: Hauser, Blake M.
name: Rosenberg, Nora E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Annually, millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) receive HIV counselling and testing (HCT), a service designed to inform persons of their HIV status and, if HIV-uninfected, reduce HIV acquisition risk. However, the impact of HCT on HIV acquisition has not been systematically evaluated. We conducted a systematic review to assess this relationship in SSA.
Increased air temperature decreases high-speed, but not total distance, in international field hockey
Creators: name: James, Carl A
name: Willmott, Ashley G.B.
name: Dhawan, Aishwar
name: Stewart, Craig
name: Gibson, Oliver R
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This study investigated the effect of heat stress on locomotor activity within international field hockey at team, positional and playing-quarter levels. Analysis was conducted on 71 matches played by the Malaysia national men’s team against 24 opponents. Fixtures were assigned to match conditions, based on air temperature [COOL (14 ± 3°C), WARM (24 ± 1°C), HOT (27 ± 1°C), or VHOT (32 ± 2°C), p < 0.001]. Relationships between locomotor metrics and air temperature (AIR), absolute and relative humidity, and wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) were investigated further using correlation and regression analyses. Increased AIR and WBGT revealed similar correlations (p < 0.01) with intensity metrics; high-speed running (AIR r = −0.51, WBGT r = −0.45), average speed (AIR r = −0.48, WBGT r = −0.46), decelerations (AIR r = −0.41, WBGT r = −0.41), sprinting efforts (AIR r = −0.40, WBGT r = −0.36), and sprinting distance (AIR r = −0.37, WBGT r = −0.29). In comparison to COOL, HOT, and VHOT matches demonstrated reduced high-speed running intensity (−14–17%; p < 0.001), average speed (−5-6%; p < 0.001), sprinting efforts (−17%; p = 0.010) and decelerations per min (−12%; p = 0.008). Interactions were found between match conditions and playing quarter for average speed (+4-7%; p = 0.002) and sprinting distance (+16-36%; p < 0.001), both of which were higher in the fourth quarter in COOL versus WARM, HOT and VHOT. There was an interaction for “low-speed” (p < 0.001), but not for “high-speed” running (p = 0.076) demonstrating the modulating effect of air temperature (particularly >25°C) on pacing within international hockey. These are the first data demonstrating the effect of air temperature on locomotor activity within international men’s hockey, notably that increased air temperature impairs high-intensity activities by 5–15%. Higher air temperatures compromise high-speed running distances between matches in hockey.
Neolourya pierrei Rodriguez 1934
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Neolourya
Neolourya pierrei

description: Neolourya pierrei Rodriguez (1934a: 97)
 Material cited in the protologue:―Cochinchine, île de Phu Quoc (Pierr e).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Vietnam. Cochinchina, in insula Phu Quoc, February 1874, L. Pierre 6689 (P, barcode P00509883!; iso-: P, barcode P00753459 *!).
 Other original material examined:―[Illustration]: A sheet of drawings made by E. Delpy in May 1905 of an inflorescence (from the lectotype) and flowers (probably mostly from the isolectotype) under the name of “ Lourya ”, attached to the lectotype. Some of them are reproduced in Rodriguez (1934b: 666, fig. 65-7–12).
 Current name:― Peliosanthes weberi (L.Rodr.) Tanaka (2004a: 362).
 Neolourya weberi Rodriguez (1934a: 97)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Tonkin (Weber).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Vietnam. Tonkin, Weber s.n. cult. in Hort. Bot. Paris., May 1905, Labroy s.n. (P, barcode P 00509882!).
 Other original material examined:― Vietnam. Tonkin, Weber s.n. cult. in Hort. Bot. Paris., Juin 1904, cum notula (P, barcode P00753460 *). [Illustration]: An unpublished sheet of drawings made by E. Delpy in May 1905 of an inflorescence and flowers of the same plant as the lectotype under the name of “ Lourya Weberi Pierre ”, attached to the lectotype. [Manuscript with illustration]: An unpublished manuscript by Pierre with some drawings of floral parts of the same plant as the lectotype under the name of “ L. Weberi Pierre ”, attached to the lectotype; an unpublished sheet of drawings dated 18 June 1904 of floral parts and a leaf of the same plant as P00753460 under the name of “ Lourya ”, attached to this specimen.
 Note:―The specific epithet came from Lourya Weberi Pierre that was not published. The lectotype has a label inscribed by Pierre with “ Lourya Weberi sp. nov. ”.
 Current name:― Peliosanthes weberi (L.Rodr.) Tanaka (2004a: 362).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on pages 161-162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Men of legend: the social composition of the 3rd Battalion First AIF
Creators: name: Kowal, Seth Steven
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis challenges myths about the social composition of the First Australian Imperial Force and its 3rd Battalion. It aims to debunk some of the stereotypes inherent in C.E.W. Bean's Anzac legend along with generalisations presented by 3rd Battalion historian Eric Wren in his 1935 publication From Randwick to Hargicourt. Chapter 1 challenges Wren's statement that the 3rd Battalion existed as a country formation. It explores the significance of agricultural workers in the 3rd Battalion and examines residential composition of 3rd Battalion soldiers. Chapter 2 contests Bean's notion that the Australian bush lifestyle created half-soldiers due to the time Australian service members had spent in the countryside during their youth. It probes the significance of the 3rd Battalion's foreign-born component and analyses how long these immigrant diggers lived in Australia prior to enlistment. Chapter 3 questions Bean's idea that the AIF existed as an egalitarian military organisation, where social class and religious beliefs did not determine military rank. It investigates the pre-war occupations, height and religious affiliations of 3rd Battalion officers, non-commissioned officers and the rank and file to determine if any significant differences existed in the social backgrounds of 3rd Battalion soldiers from different military ranks.