cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(200448) Joseph James Chase
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.
Laser spectroscopic studies of the P(7) subband of the v₃ band of methane
Creators: name: Hubbert, Graeme D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The P(7) subband of the v₃ absorption band of methane has been investigated by laser spectroscopoy techniques. An introduction to the infra-red vibration-rotation absrption bands of methane is given and other investigations of the v₃ band are discussed. A new method of stabilising the emission from a 3.392µ helium-neon laser has been divised using simple thermal control techniques. The stabilisation of the laser provided a source of monchromatic infro-red radiation capable of resolutions of the order of 10¯⁵ cm¯¹ . With the aid of the high resolving powers of the laser, high accuracy absorption data has been obtained over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. The lack of detailed comparisons of accurate experimental absorption coefficients with predictions from the theory is noted, and a brief review of the theory of absorption profiles which include the effects of several line broadening mechanisms is given. [...]
COORDINATES COMPARISON OF GOOGLE? MAPS AND ORTHOPHOTO MAPS IN THAILAND
Creators: name: Deeboon Methakullachat, Boonsap Witchayangkoon
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Map accuracy
Geographic coordinates
Accuracy checkpoints
Google map error
High-resolution satellite image.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 17, 10A17O: 1-8
Improved Classification Rates under Refined Margin Conditions
Creators: name: Blaschzyk, Ingrid
name: Steinwart, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H30, 62G20, 68T05

description: In this paper we present a simple partitioning based technique to refine the statistical analysis of classification algorithms. The core of our idea is to divide the input space into two parts such that the first part contains a suitable vicinity around the decision boundary, while the second part is sufficiently far away from the decision boundary. Using a set of margin conditions we are then able to control the classification error on both parts separately. By balancing out these two error terms we obtain a refined error analysis in a final step. We apply this general idea to the histogram rule and show that even for this simple method we obtain, under certain assumptions, better rates than the ones known for support vector machines, for certain plug-in classifiers, and for a recently analyzed tree based adaptive-partitioning ansatz. Moreover, we show that a margin condition which sets the critical noise in relation to the decision boundary makes it possible to improve the optimal rates proven for distributions without this margin condition.
description: 32 pages
(200463) Edward Hilder
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.
D2 Batch tests
Creators: name: Bartocci, Pietro
name: Abad, Alberto
name: Mendiara, Teresa
name: Cabello, Arturo
name: De Las Obras Loscertales, Margarita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemical Looping Combustion; Oxygen Carrier; Batch Reactor; Fluidised bed; Reduciton; Oxidation

description: The objective of the GTCLC-NEG MSCA-IF project is to evaluate the potential of the pressurized chemical looping combustion (PCLC) to produce electricity with CO2 capture by integrating the PCLC unit with a gas turbine. In order to achieve high energy efficiency, the PCLC unit should operate at elevated temperature, in the range of 1000-1200 °C. One of the critical issues related to the development of the PCLC process is to be confident on the oxygen carrier performance at such high temperatures. This work was focused on the evaluation of oxygen carrier materials during their redox cycling at suitable temperatures for the PCLC process. These materials were based on iron and nickel, which were selected from results in previous deliverables.
(200468) John Taylor
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.
Water quality management strategy : an approach for the Wafi Prospect-Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Cabalda, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study attempted to develop a water quality management strategy for CRA’s Wafi Copper-Gold Prospect located in Papua New Guinea. A literature review of water quality management (WQM) and planning practices was undertaken with the intention of developing a WQM framework that can be used in mining projects like the Wafi. Two key components of the WQM framework are environmental baseline setting and the mining project’s operational details from which other components on the framework can be developed.To develop a WQM strategy for Wafi prospect, a literature research supplemented by field investigation was undertaken to establish the key components of a WQM program. For project details several assumptions were made since the prospect is still at an early stage of evaluation and the mineralisation not fully defined. Assessment of potential problems was focussed on acid mine drainage for which control strategies were developed, despite the limitations on the data available. This study highlights the importance of integrating environmental management issues at the conceptual stage of mining planning and engineering so that adverse impact on the environment, including the effect of mining on the quality of water, can be controlled/mitigated
Lateral Obstruents in the Taita Hills: An areal-historical perspective
Creators: name: Sosal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Languages of Kenya
Taita Hills
Davida
Saghala
Taita Cushitic
Lateral Obstruent
Phonology
Historical Linguistics
Areal Linguistics

description: The Taita Hills of South Eastern Kenya is home to two neighboring Bantu languages, Saghala and Davida, and the hypothetical Taita Cushitic languages proposed by Ehret &; Nurse (1981). This paper aims to investigate the origin of lateral obstruents (LO) found in those languages from a historical linguistic and language contact perspective. Through a comparative analysis of Davida lexical items with lateral obstruents against Cushitic and other Bantu languages, the study identifies that the lateral obstruents in Davida can be traced back to the Bantu spirantization process (cf. Slavikova, 1975), a common phenomenon in East African Bantu languages. The findings provide evidence that the emergence of ɮ j and ɮ in Davida is rooted in internal sound change processes within the Bantu language family. The study also indicates that most evidence for lateral obstruents is found in Davida and Bantu-inherited items. However, the voiceless lateral obstruent ɬ in Saghala is only found in Cushitic loans. The results contribute to the debate on the origin and development of lateral obstruents in Bantu and their relationship with the Cushitic languages in East Africa and beyond (see Beer et al., Forthcoming, for a perspective on lateral obstruents in East Africa and Gunnink & Vlugt, 2022, for a perspective on lateral obstruents in Southern Bantu). The study offers insights into the (socio)linguistic history of the Taita Hills and the broader dynamics of language change and contact in the region.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Sosal, Ahmed. 2023. Lateral Obstruents in the Taita Hills: An areal-historical perspective. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 17/05/2023.
Metasomatic oxidation of subduction zone mantle: Implication for arc metallogeny
Creators: name: ANDREA RIELLI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology

description: This thesis investigates redox processes taking place during metasomatic alteration of the Earth’s mantle by slab fluids, and the subsequent partial melting of metasomatised mantle, by applying different geochemical and petrological techniques to orogenic garnet peridotites from the Western Gneiss Region of Norway and peridotite xenoliths from Lake Bullen Merri (Victoria, Australia). The results are used to investigate the genesis of oxidised magmas at convergent margins and the relationship between metasomatism, oxidation and genesis of arc-related ore deposits.
Comment on "Noether's-type theorems on time scales" [J. Math. Phys. 61, 113502 (2020)]
Creators: name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49K05, 49N99

description: We comment on the validity of Noether's theorem and on the conclusions of [J. Math. Phys. 61 (2020), no. 11, 113502].
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published in the 'Journal of Mathematical Physics'. Submitted 08-Jul-2022; Revised 10-Sep-2022; Accepted 13-Sep-2022
EFFICIENCY IMPROVMENT OF PERSONNEL IN A MEDICAL ORGANIZATION VIA A PROCESS APPROACH: CASE OF MEDICAL AND SANITARY PART OF KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: Olga V. Demyanova, Alfiya H. Gismatulina
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Staff recruitment
Staff efficiency improvement
Corporate spirit
Labor productivity
Staff perspectives
Staff activities
Human capital management.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 17, 10A17P: 1-8
(200445) Eliza Chase
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.
ADE Spectral Networks and Decoupling Limits of Surface Defects
Creators: name: Longhi, Pietro
name: Park, Chan Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study vacua and BPS spectra of canonical surface defects of class $\mathcal{S}$ theories in different decoupling limits using ADE spectral networks. In some regions of the IR moduli spaces of these 2d-4d systems, the mixing between 2d and 4d BPS states is suppressed, and the spectrum of 2d-4d BPS states becomes that of a 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theory. For some decoupling limits, we identify the 2d theories describing the surface defects with nonlinear sigma models and coset models that have been previously studied. We also study certain cases where the decoupling limit of a surface defect exhibits a set of vacua and a BPS spectrum that appear to be entirely new. A detailed analysis of these spectra and their wall-crossing behavior is performed.
description: 50 pages with figures generated using http://het-math2.physics.rutgers.edu/loom and http://het-math2.physics.rutgers.edu/cproj ; v2: version published in JHEP
Salvaging vanishing art and heritage with community collaborative archaeology in Kondoa, Tanzania
Creators: name: Ranhorn, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Tanzanian Rift Valley
Kisese II
Archaeology
Kondoa

description: The archaeological record of central Tanzania is rich, but it is also understudied. However, because of historical imbalances between foreign researchers and people living at or near archaeological sites, there are often disconnects between how outsiders view and engage with the material and how outsiders engage with it. In order to address these disconnects, a model of community collaborative archaeology puts the local communities at the heart of the project, and gives them maximum say in setting the research agenda and in actually conducting the archaeology. This talk outlines community collaborative archaeology undertaken at Kisese II rock shelter site near Kondoa, Tanzania, as a concrete example, as well as highlights the history of the site and the many contributions upon which the project depends.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Ranhorn, Kathryn. 2022. Salvaging vanishing art and heritage with community collaborative archaeology in Kondoa, Tanzania. Talk given at The Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 09/03/2022.
Investigating the function of phospholipid flippases in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: MICHELLE WENDY PEARCE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Drosophila have three receptor families that detect odours in their environment. In order to function properly one of these families, the odorant receptor family, requires the phospholipid flippase protein, dATP8B. Phospholipid flippases maintain the composition of important lipids in cellular membranes. My research showed that that when the dATP8B protein is non-functional, the amount of odorant receptor in olfactory cell membranes is substantially reduced, causing an olfactory defect. The functions of the other five Drosophila flippases were also explored and putative roles for three of these were found.
Development of an expert system facilitating the selection of a mix for an asphalt pavement and analysis of fatigue tests
Creators: name: Gossain, Vishal
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pavements, Asphalt--Texas--Design and construction--Databases
subject: Asphalt--Fatigue--Testing
subject: Asphalt--Testing

description: This thesis is aimed at developing a decision support system for facilitating the selection of an appropriate mix for an asphalt pavement. This system is designed with the new pavement engineer in mind who does not have sufficient experience to make an informed judgment about the mix selection. The system takes structural and traffic characteristics as well as climatic conditions as input, and outputs the mix and the binder type as well as other relevant information about the design parameters according to the knowledge collected from surveys by experts, laboratory testing and relevant information databases. Four point beam bending fatigue tests have been carried out as a part of the laboratory tests to acquire knowledge about the fatigue response of the different mixes for the decision support system. The secondary goals of carrying out the tests were to evaluate the test procedure and to identify the advantages of using modified binders with respect to the fatigue life of the various mixes
Dye-Sensitised Photoelectrodes for Light-Driven Water Splitting
Creators: name: DIJON ANDREW HOOGEVEEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90605 Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 30604 Electrochemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials

description: Improving the performance and stability of photo-active electrodes which are capable of generating molecular hydrogen fuel from water. Several strategies to improve on the state-of-the-art systems are presented in this thesis.
Ecological Infrastructures: Rethinking Foraging and Farming in the Sandawe Homeland
Creators: name: Knisley, Matthew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
subject: Sandawe
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Botany
subject: Ethnobotany
subject: Green Vegetables
subject: Foraging
subject: Farming

description: The Sandawe are one of two groups of north-central Tanzania, along with the Hadza, whose language has been categorized (controversially) as Khoisan by some linguists. Due partly to this linguistic categorization, ancestral Sandawe are thought to have been foragers until recent centuries. Foraging contributes to present-day Sandawe identity, but local and outside observers alike have described this legacy as endangered by increasing sedentism and a growing reliance upon food production. Long-term ethnographic and ethnobotanical research concerning a particular category of plant foods – leafy vegetables – suggests that contemporary food-getting repertoires form a complex social, spatial, and temporal system that exceeds the explanatory capacity of quasi-historical subsistence categories like “forager” and “farmer.” These results provide the basis for reconsidering a wide range of practical and conceptual matters related to the study of human-environment interactions and historical reconstructions of regional milieus in this ethno-linguistically, socio-politically, and techno-economically complex region.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Knisley, Matthew. 2021. Ecological Infrastructures: Rethinking Foraging and Farming in the Sandawe Homeland. Talk given at Rift Valley Network Webinar Series 22/09.2021.
Efficient Simulation of Complex Capillary Effects in Advanced Manufacturing Processes using the Finite Volume Method
Creators: name: Zimbrod, Patrick
name: Schreter, Magdalena
name: Schilp, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accurate representation of surface tension driven flows in multiphase systems is considered a challenging problem to resolve numerically. Although there have been extensive works in the past that have presented approaches to resolve these so called Marangoni flows at the phase boundaries, the question of how to efficiently resolve the interface in a universal and conservative manner remains largely open in comparison. Such problems are of high practical relevance in many manufacturing processes, especially in the microfluidic regime where capillary effects dominate the local force equilibria. In this work, we present a freely available numerical solver based on the Finite Volume Method that is able to resolve arbitrarily complex, incompressible multiphase systems with the mentioned physics at phase boundaries. An efficient solution with respect to the number of degrees of freedom can be obtained by either using high order WENO stencils or by employing adaptive cell refinement. We demonstrate the capabilities of the solver by investigating a model benchmark case as well as a single track laser melting process that is highly relevant within laser additive manufacturing.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures The presented solver is available via Github at https://github.com/pzimbrod/thermocapillaryInterFoam. All data used in this article along with the case files can be accessed at https://github.com/pzimbrod/ieee-iceccme-2022
Redox Activity and Hydride Reactivity of Group 2 and Group 12 Organometallics
Creators: name: MICHAEL JOHN CRANFIELD DAWKINS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 39904 Organometallic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 30204 Main Group Metal Chemistry

description: Unlocking novel and applicable chemistry of earth abundant metals such as magnesium and zinc requires ligand scaffolds that enable certain reaction pathways. This thesis examines the effect of extremely low coordination number on the reactivity of zinc hydride bonds, including a study on their catalytic efficacy. Then, the ability of diiminopyridines to imbue alkaline earth metals complexes with redox reactivity is presented. Reactivity studies towards both organic and inorganic molecules demonstrate the complexes act as potent reducing agents, with the relevant redox potentials quantified electrochemically.
Graph embeddings for blockchain-induced networks
Creators: name: Máté Szőke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, the rapid growth of blockchain technology has sparked massive curiosity and transformed various industries. Among the numerous blockchain platforms, Ethereum has gathered significant attention for its decentralized applications and smart contracts. Understanding Ethereum and its network interactions is a challenging task but with various methods at our disposal, such as graph embeddings, we gain valuable insight into its operations.
 Graph embeddings are powerful techniques in the realm of data representation, which have become a focal point in analyzing complex structures. By capturing the essence of graph’s structure and semantics, embeddings enable efficient analysis of
 vast networks. In the context of blockchain-induced networks, graph embeddings offer effective insights into the behavior and dynamics of transactions and addresses.
 In my Bachelor’s thesis, conducted under the guidance and support of Dr. Ferenc Beres and Marcell Nagy, I aim to explore the connection between graph embeddings and blockchain-induced networks from Ethereum with a binary classification problem
 on certain Ethereum accounts’ network interactions as graphs. Additionally, I analyze graph-level properties and employ dimensionality reduction techniques to visualize these networks in the embedding space.
Polish spaces of causal curves
Creators: name: Miller, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C50, 53C80, 28E99, 60B05

description: We propose and study a new approach to the topologization of spaces of (possibly not all) future-directed causal curves in a stably causal spacetime. It relies on parametrizing the curves "in accordance" with a chosen time function. Thus obtained topological spaces of causal curves are separable and completely metrizable, i.e. Polish. The latter property renders them particularly useful in the optimal transport theory. To illustrate this fact, we explore the notion of a causal time-evolution of measures in globally hyperbolic spacetimes and discuss its physical interpretation.
description: 32 pages
Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Low Oxidation State Tetrel Compounds Utilising Bulky Amide Ligands
Creators: name: JOHN ANTHONY KELLY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 39904 Organometallic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This thesis outlines the synthesis of unique Group 14 (Si-Pb) compounds. It covers the development of large ligand molecules and how they are utilised in stabilising reactive compounds, including metal clusters. The physical properties of said compounds is examined and their reactivity with small molecules (dihydrogen, carbon dioxide) is probed.
Convex polygons and separation of convex sets
Creators: name: Rivera-Campo, Eduardo
name: Urrutia, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for any collection F of $n \ge 2$ pairwise disjoint compact convex sets in the plane there is a pair of sets A and B in F such that any line that separates A from B separates either A or B from a subcollection of F with at least n/18 sets.
Network segregation in a model of misinformation and fact checking
Creators: name: Tambuscio, Marcella
name: Oliveira, Diego F. M.
name: Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca
name: Ruffo, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Misinformation under the form of rumor, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories spreads on social media at alarming rates. One hypothesis is that, since social media are shaped by homophily, belief in misinformation may be more likely to thrive on those social circles that are segregated from the rest of the network. One possible antidote is fact checking which, in some cases, is known to stop rumors from spreading further. However, fact checking may also backfire and reinforce the belief in a hoax. Here we take into account the combination of network segregation, finite memory and attention, and fact-checking efforts. We consider a compartmental model of two interacting epidemic processes over a network that is segregated between gullible and skeptic users. Extensive simulation and mean-field analysis show that a more segregated network facilitates the spread of a hoax only at low forgetting rates, but has no effect when agents forget at faster rates. This finding may inform the development of mitigation techniques and overall inform on the risks of uncontrolled misinformation online.
Interrelationships Between Ethnomusicology and Linguistics, with Examples from the Wider Rift Valley Region
Creators: name: Taylor, Julie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Languages of Kenya
Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Sabaot
Sangu
Sandawe
Nilotic
Bantu
ethnomusicology
anthropology

description: The talk will begin with an introduction to ethnomusicology and its intersections with anthropology/ethnology and linguistics. Specific examples of the latter will be drawn from the Sabaot and Sangu music systems which either border or sit within the Eastern Rift Valley, and there will be reference to the value of linguistic checking during a short visit to the Sandawe, as well as challenges of data collection. The place for determining emic elements of a music system will be considered in light of other approaches to music analysis, along with reflections on the importance of evaluating the stability and malleability of artistic forms of communication.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Taylor, Julie. 2022. Interrelationships Between Ethnomusicology and Linguistics, with Examples from the Wider Rift Valley Region. Talk given at The Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 23/02/2022.
Design and synthesis of novel photo-responsive thymine bolaamphiphiles & their self-assembling structures
Creators: name: Shereiqi, Ahmed S Al
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, topochemical principles were used to create light responsive materials by designing and synthesising self-assembling structures. The incorporation of photodimerising units such as thymine is expected to enhance photo-chemical reaction and polymerisation throughout the self-assemblies. Several photo-responsive self-assemblies based on bio-inspired bolaamphiphiles with oligo (ethylene oxide) hydrophilic outer segments and a hydrophobic inner segment with thymine were synthesised. These self-assembling structures were designed so they meet the criteria governing the photroreactivity of molecules. The morphology and the molecular weight of the self-assemblies after the UV irradiation were investigated by several techniques including NMR, GPC, DLS, TEM. And the potential structures of bolaamphiphiles are also studied using the computational simulations.
Using nonlinear Breit-Wheeler to test nonlinear vacuum birefringence
Creators: name: Borysov, O.
name: Heinemann, B.
name: Ilderton, A.
name: King, B.
name: Potylitsyn, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum electrodynamics predicts that the quantum vacuum is birefringent, but due to the very small cross-section this is yet to be confirmed by experiment. Vacuum birefringence arises as the elastic part of photon-photon scattering; the inelastic part is Breit-Wheeler pair-production. We outline how measurements of the photon-polarised nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process can be used to infer a measurement of nonlinear vacuum birefringence. As an example scenario, we calculate the accuracy of such a measurement for parameters anticipated at upcoming laser-particle experiments.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
The Effect Of AGN Heating On The Low-Redshift Lyα Forest
Creators: name: Gurvich, Alex
name: Burkhart, Blakesley
name: Bird, Simeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of AGN heating and the ultraviolet background on the low-redshift Lyman-$α$ forest column density distribution (CDD) using the Illustris simulation. We show that Illustris reproduces observations at $z =0.1$ in the column density range $10^{12.5} - 10^{13.5}$cm$^{-2}$, relevant for the "photon underproduction crisis." We attribute this to the inclusion of AGN feedback, which changes the gas distribution so as to mimic the effect of extra photons, as well as the use of the Faucher-Giguère ultraviolet background, which is more ionizing at $z=0.1$ than the Haardt & Madau background previously considered. We show that the difference between simulations run with smoothed particle hydrodynamics and simulations using a moving mesh is small in this column density range but can be more significant at larger column densities. We further consider the effect of supernova feedback, Voigt profile fitting and finite resolution, all of which we show to have little influence on the CDD. Finally, we identify a discrepancy between our simulations and observations at column densities $10^{14} - 10^{16}$cm$^{-2}$, where Illustris produces too few absorbers, which suggests the AGN feedback model should be further refined. Since the "photon underproduction crisis" primarily affects lower column density systems, we conclude that AGN feedback and standard ionizing background models can resolve the crisis.
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
Creators: name: Kiebacher, Thomas
name: Lüth, Michael
name: Lüth, Volker
name: Kučera, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Barbula
Barbula unguiculata

description: Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
 SPECIMEN. — Austria. Carinthia: Heiligenblut, s.d., Kučera (CBFS[CBFS 12829]; HM147804, HM147777).
description: Published as part of Kiebacher, Thomas, Lüth, Michael, Lüth, Volker & Kučera, Jan, 2019, Morphological and molecular evidence for synonymy of Cinclidotus confertus Lüth with C. riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn., pp. 259-269 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (20) on page 269, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a20, http://zenodo.org/record/7999944
Lectures on the Strominger system
Creators: name: Garcia-Fernandez, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These notes give an introduction to the Strominger system of partial differential equations, and are based on lectures given in September 2015 at the GEOQUANT School, held at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) in Madrid. We describe the links with the theory of balanced metrics in hermitian geometry, the Hermite-Yang-Mills equations, and its origins in physics, that we illustrate with many examples. We also cover some recent developments in the moduli problem and the interrelation of the Strominger system with generalized geometry, via the cohomological notion of string class.
description: 46 pages, several typos corrected, references added
The influence of basement structure on the formation of Jurassic-Cretaceous rift basins along the southern margin of Australia
Creators: name: Kharazizadeh, Nasim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian southern margin, formed as a result of rifting between Australia and Antarctica during the Late Jurassic-Cretaceous, includes a series of Mesozoic sedimentary basins that are underlain by Archean, Proterozoic and, Paleozoic basement blocks. Basement blocks along the margin vary considerably in lithological and structural characteristics (thickness, composition, fabric), making the southern margin an ideal location to identify relationships between underlying basement and basin formation.
 In this study, the properties of the underlying basement along the southern margin of Australia, specifically the basement of the Otway Basin and the neighbouring Duntroon and Ceduna sub-basins, as well as the current geometry of the basins have been reviewed and analysed. The analyses and calculations were done by mapping major basement blocks and structures on gravity and magnetic maps, re-interpreting seismic sections and using Australia’s Moho depth model and a crustal thickness map of the Australian southern margin.
 The amount of extension and the stretching factor (β factor) have been measured along the southern margin from west to east to identify different modes of rifting and factors that may control the style of rifting. Results show that total amount of extension and stretching factor varies along the margin. Reduced extension and low to intermediate β factors are observed in regions predominantly underlain by the old, cold and thick Archean cratonic region, whilst larger amounts of extension and larger β factors are found in younger, thinner and warm Phanerozoic regions. In addition, the pattern of extensional faults, and the distribution of faults length and spacing demonstrates the strong influence of basement age and pre-existing basement properties on sedimentary basins. Regions that are underlain by cratonic blocks are characterised by a small number of large faults with wide spacing, while a large number of small, short faults are found in younger and warmer regions.
 In order to identify the possible relationship between the basement structures and extensional faults, the main pre-existing basement structures have been mapped using gravity and magnetic data. In a limited area, normal faults followed the orientation of pre-existing basement structures. Observations show that in most regions basement structures have no controls on the formation of younger faulting patterns, with most normal faults having an orientation that is highly oblique to perpendicular to the strike of basement faults.
(200452) Martha Thomas
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.
Dependent Defaults and Losses with Factor Copula Models
Creators: name: Ackerer, Damien
name: Vatter, Thibault
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 60E05, 60E10, 62H05, 62H20, 65T50, 91G20, 91G40, 91G60

description: We present a class of flexible and tractable static factor models for the term structure of joint default probabilities, the factor copula models. These high-dimensional models remain parsimonious with pair-copula constructions, and nest many standard models as special cases. The loss distribution of a portfolio of contingent claims can be exactly and efficiently computed when individual losses are discretely supported on a finite grid. Numerical examples study the key features affecting the loss distribution and multi-name credit derivatives prices. An empirical exercise illustrates the flexibility of our approach by fitting credit index tranche prices.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Design, development and characterisation of an optimised scaffold to enhance cell proliferation for tissue repair
Creators: name: Kumar, Subodh
name: Lahiri, Chanakya
name: Chaaudhary, Somya
name: Paul, Prateek
name: Verma, Yogesh Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Scaffolds are implanted to spur the regeneration of damaged tissues. The inappropriate construction of scaffolds laden with cells is not efficient. The optimisation of the scaffolds’ constituents is essential for tissue repair. In this study, a scaffold embedded with Raloxifene drug was optimised via Response Surface Methodology (RSM), targeting controlled cell proliferation. The independent variables for RSM (fibronectin, collagen I, glutaraldehyde, and Raloxifene) were screened in Swiss target prediction software (probability ≥99%) to optimise dependent variables (porosity, cell viability, degradation, and swelling) by ANOVA and characterised with FTIR, SEM and contact angle measurement. The scaffold was tested for antimicrobial property, and proliferation and attachment of mouse mesenchymal stem cells. The ANOVA analysis with p value ≤ 0.0001 suggested the optimal concentration of biomaterials and drugs. The optimised scaffold displayed 80% porosity with pore size 33 ± 3 µm. We also observed significant cell attachment and proliferation (p value ≤ 0.05) in optimised scaffold. The scaffold may be further evaluated for its potential for tissue repair.
Swahili Riddles from Coastal Kenya
Creators: name: Raia, Annachiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Languages of Kenya
Bantu
Swahili
Riddles

description: An overview of riddles and riddling in Swahili as spoken in coastal Kenya.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Raia, Annachiara. 2020. Swahili Riddles from Coastal Kenya. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Workshop "Riddles of the Rift Valley: Variation and convergence in a verbal genre". 20/11/2020.
Cloning, expression and characterization of xylanases from Paenibacillus sp. isolated from landfill leachate
Creators: name: TZE CHIEN PATRIC CHUA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: In landfills, buried plant biomass are often degraded by soil microorganisms using enzymes. These enzymes, collectively termed as lignocellulases, can be useful tools to improve various processes in the industry. Although the application of these enzymes has been practiced, there are always discoveries of new enzyme strains with undescribed properties from nature. In particular, the specific adaptations to the landfill environment (e.g. wide pH fluctuations, substrate scarcity) remains largely unknown. This project describes the isolation of lignocellulose-degrading bacteria from a local landfill site, its subsequent genome sequencing, gene cloning and characterization of the attributes of the produced enzymes.
Asymptotically periodic points, bifurcations, and transition to chaos in fractional difference maps
Creators: name: Edelman, Mark
name: Helman, Avigayil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 26A33, 47H99, 34A99, 37G15, 70K50, 39A70

description: In this paper, we derive analytic expressions for coefficients of the equations that allow calculations of asymptotically periodic points in fractional difference maps. Numerical solution of these equations allows us to draw the bifurcation diagram for the fractional difference logistic map. Based on the numerically calculated bifurcation points, we make a conjecture that in fractional maps the value of the Feigenbaum constant $δ$ is the same as in regular maps, $δ=4.669...$.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 14/86
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Textilgestaltung an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Primarstufe" als Schwerpunktfach (SF) und als weiteres Unterrichtsfach (UF) vom 15. Juli 1986
description: Studienordnung für den Studiengang Textilgestaltung an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe I" vom 15. Juli 1986
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 14, 1986
A First Look at Riddles and Riddling in Gisamjanga Datooga
Creators: name: Mitchell, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Nilotic
Southern Nilotic
Datooga
Gisamjanga
Riddles

description: An overview of riddles and riddling in the Gisamjanga variety of Datooga.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Mitchell, Alice. 2020. A First Look at Riddles and Riddling in Gisamjanga Datooga. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Workshop "Riddles of the Rift Valley: Variation and convergence in a verbal genre". 20/11/2020.
Vitendawili vya Kiiraqw
Creators: name: Alphonce, Chrispina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Afroasiatic
South Cushitic
Iraqw
Riddles

description: Marudio ya vitendawili kwenye Kiiraqw.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Alphonce, Chrispina. 2020. Vitendawili vya Kiiraqw. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Workshop "Riddles of the Rift Valley: Variation and convergence in a verbal genre". 20/11/2020.
title: 3D Frequency Selective Surface Displacement Sensor using Complementary Dielectrics (accepted)
Creators: name: Njogu, Peter
name: Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito
name: Chen, Zhijiao
name: Parker, E.A.
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2023

description: A novel displacement sensor using a frequency selective surface (FSS) with a removable substrate complement is proposed. The new concept sensor is based on modifying the effective permittivity of the FSS when the substrate complement is gradually withdrawn. The change in the effective permittivity produces a change in capacitance, and thus in the resonant frequency. The FSS consists of an array of square loops elements in a square lattice. A 3D convoluted version of the FSS sensor improves the angle of incident behavior and increases the displacement range. The dielectric layers of the 3D FSS sensor were 3D printed while the metal layers were painted using silver conductive paint. The transmission response, S 21 , has been employed as the validation parameter. The proposed sensor operates in a frequency range between 2.0 GHz and 2.8 GHz and has achieved a 0.052 GHz/mm sensitivity and 12 mm dynamic range and has a dimension of 207mm by 207mm. The sensor is passive, compact, inexpensive, and easy to operate. The envisaged application is the wireless detection of structural movement, which can be critical in civil structures such as bridges or buildings or earthquake monitoring.
description: Author's Accepted Manuscript