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Exploring applications of multi-dexterity in drum kit performance
Creators: name: Cameron, Christopher Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The drum kit is one of only a few instruments that invites the use of all four of a performer’s limbs. Control and fluidity in performance requires substantial development of limb independence and interdependence as well as a certain level of dexterity with each limb. Exploring multi-dexterity is a logical and almost inevitable juncture in the ongoing development of drum kit performance. The pursuit of an even performance ability between the hands existed well before the turn of the twentieth century. Incorporation of a more balanced contribution from all four limbs arose in the mid-twentieth century as the drum kit developed into an instrument that demanded higher levels of dexterity with the feet to meet the requirements of a number of advancing musical styles. Ever since, drummers have constantly explored new ways to utilise all four limbs, essentially working towards the goal of achieving a more refined multi-dexterity. Through design, experimentation and observation of my performance, this artistic research investigates possibilities of an ‘even’ playing capacity with each limb and how this might further the ongoing development of the instrument. This has been tested by interchanging the traditional roles of each limb, as found in the jazz tradition, across all possible limb permutations. New or uncommon combinations of drum kit elements are also explored through an innovative and unique drum kit design. The results of this study demonstrate that multi-dexterous concepts can provide new possibilities for the performing drummer and that there is unexplored potential for use of four limbs in this context.
Modern epicureanism
Creators: name: Lowry, Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Epicureanism has long been perceived as a theory of hedonism imbodying many contradictions and unintuitive directives. The fact that much of the surviving work of Epicurus exists only through the works of Roman scholars seeking to discount his ideas is a good reason to believe that Epicureanism has been misperceived and misrepresented. From what we do have of Epicurus’ work we can form a different picture of Epicureanism. This thesis explores the idea that instead of designating Epicureanism as a theory of consequentialism and value monism as some out of misguided belief do, we should regard Epicurus as a proponent of virtue ethics that understands the good life to come about by valuing many things as good in and of themselves. Epicurus was working within a decidedly eudaimonistic framework, and sought to establish a conception of the good life in line with other scholars of his time, like Aristotle and Plato. It is clear from his surviving works that such a conception, although contentious, is not unfounded. I will further argue that we should regard what Epicurus described as the katastematic state, the highest state of pleasure, as a state of living tranquilly. This is the telos, the way of being, that Epicurus believed would create happiness. This thesis also explores the Epicurean directive to avoid pain and anxiety and looks at why this is such an important aspect to Epicurean theory. Pain and anxiety, Epicurus argued, is the biggest obstacle to pleasure, and once this was removed, we could experience the greatest pleasure. It is not only the absence of pain that created happiness, but I will add that we must be positively experiencing life in a way that allows us to celebrate the absence of pain. This thesis explores the notion that our modern society and growing inequality is presenting significant hurdles to achieving happiness in the form of cultivating anxiety. It looks to the nature of failing societies and identifies problems that are of concern for a Modern Epicurean aiming to live tranquilly. Finally in order to counteract this problem it explores the ideas of politics and justice in Epicurean theory and expands on the few surviving fragments of Epicurus' works which discuss how an Epicurean should act in accordance with sociological conventions. For if we are to live like an Epicurean such a desire should not force us to sacrifice the many positive aspects of living within society.
Quantifying Nearshore Sea Turtle Densities: Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Population Assessments
Creators: name: Bezy, Vanessa
name: Lohmann, Kenneth J.
name: Sykora-Bodie, Seth T.
name: Newton, Everette
name: Johnston, David W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Although sea turtles face significant pressure from human activities, some populations are recovering due to conservation programs, bans on the trade of turtle products, and reductions in bycatch. While these trends are encouraging, the status of many populations remains unknown and scientific monitoring is needed to inform conservation and management decisions. To address these gaps, this study presents methods for using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to conduct population assessments. Using a fixed-wing UAS and a modified strip-transect method, we conducted aerial surveys along a three-kilometer track line at Ostional, Costa Rica during a mass-nesting event of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea). We visually assessed images collected during six transects for sea turtle presence, resulting in 682 certain detections. A cumulative total of 1091 certain and probable turtles were detected in the collected imagery. Using these data, we calculate estimates of sea turtle density (km-2) in nearshore waters. After adjusting for both availability and perception biases, we developed a low-end estimate of 1299 ± 458 and a high-end estimate of 2086 ± 803 turtles per km-2. This pilot study illustrates how UAS can be used to conduct robust, safe, and cost-effective population assessments of sea turtle populations in coastal marine ecosystems.
title: Johannes Widmer
title: [geb. 1805, gest. 1886]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wolf, R.
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1886
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Lengnau (Aargau)
subject: Zürich

description: In: Notizen zur schweizerischen Kulturgeschichte, 380
Discovery of a Bloch point quadrupole constituting hybrid topological strings
Creators: name: Yasin, Fehmi Sami
name: Masell, Jan
name: Takahashi, Yoshio
name: Akashi, Tetsuya
name: Baba, Norio
name: Karube, Kosuke
name: Shindo, Daisuke
name: Arima, Takahisa
name: Taguchi, Yasujiro
name: Tokura, Yoshinori
name: Tanigaki, Toshiaki
name: Yu, Xiuzhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological magnetic (anti)skrymions are robust string-like objects heralded as potential components in next-generation topological spintronics devices due to their manipulability via low-energy stimuli such as magnetic fields, heat, and electric/thermal current. While these two-dimensional (2D) topological objects are widely studied, intrinsically three-dimensional (3D) electron-spin real-space topology remains less explored despite its prevalence in bulky magnets. Here, we capture the 3D structure of antiskyrmions in a single-crystal, precision-doped (Fe_{0.63}Ni_{0.3}Pd_{0.07})_{3}P lamellae using holographic vector field electron tomography at room temperature and zero field. Our measurements reveal hybrid string-like solitons composed of skyrmions with topological number W = -1 on the lamellae's surfaces and an antiskyrmion (W = +1) connecting them. High resolution images uncover a Bloch point (BP) quadrupole (four magnetic (anti)monopoles) positioned along the rectangular antiskyrmion's four corners (Bloch lines), which enable the observed lengthwise topological transitions. Furthermore, we calculate and compare the energy densities of hybrid strings with ideal (anti)skyrmion strings using micromagnetic simulations, which suggest that this composite (anti)BP structure stabilizes via the subtle interplay between the magnetostatic interaction and anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The discovery of these hybrid spin textures enables topological tunabilty, a tunable topological Hall effect, and the suppression of skyrmion Hall motion, disrupting existing paradigms within spintronics.
description: 11 pages, 4 main figures, 7 extended data figures, 1 extended data table
Independent tuning of electronic properties and induced ferromagnetism in topological insulators with heterostructure approach
Creators: name: Jiang, Zilong
name: Chang, Cui-Zu
name: Tang, Chi
name: Wei, Peng
name: Moodera, Jagadeesh S.
name: Shi, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been recently demonstrated in Cr- and V-doped three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) at temperatures below 100 mK. In those materials, the spins of unfilled d-electrons in the transition metal dopants are exchange coupled to develop a long-range ferromagnetic order, which is essential for realizing QAHE. However, the addition of random dopants does not only introduce excess charge carriers that require readjusting the Bi/Sb ratio, but also unavoidably introduces paramagnetic spins that can adversely affect the chiral edge transport in QAHE. In this work, we show a heterostructure approach to independently tune the electronic and magnetic properties of the topological surface states in (BixSb1-x)2Te3 without resorting to random doping of transition metal elements. In heterostructures consisting of a thin (BixSb1-x)2Te3 TI film and yttrium iron garnet (YIG), a high Curie temperature (~ 550 K) magnetic insulator, we find that the TI surface in contact with YIG becomes ferromagnetic via proximity coupling which is revealed by the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). The Curie temperature of the magnetized TI surface ranges from 20 to 150 K but is uncorrelated with the Bi fraction x in (BixSb1-x)2Te3. In contrast, as x is varied, the AHE resistivity scales with the longitudinal resistivity. In this approach, we decouple the electronic properties from the induced ferromagnetism in TI. The independent optimization provides a pathway for realizing QAHE at higher temperatures, which is important for novel spintronic device applications.
description: Accepted by Nano Letters
title: A Prediction-Based Framework to Reduce Procrastination in Adaptive Learning Systems
Creators: name: Imhof, Christof
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychology

description: Procrastination and other types of dilatory behaviour are common in online learning, especially in higher education. While procrastination is associated with worse performance and discomfort, positive forms of delay can be used as a deliberate strategy without any such consequences. Although dilatory behaviour has received attention in research, it has to my knowledge never been included as an integral part of an adaptive learning system. Differentiating between different types of delay within such a system would allow for tailored interventions to be provided in the future without alienating students who use delay as a successful strategy. In this thesis, I present four studies that provide the basis for such an endeavour. I first discuss the results of two studies that focussed on the prediction of the extent of dilatory behaviour in online assignments. The results of both studies revealed an advantage of objective predictors based on log data over subjective variables based on questionnaires. The predictive performance slightly improved when both sets of predictors were combined. In one of these studies, we implemented Bayesian multilevel models while the other aimed at comparing various machine learning algorithms to determine the best candidates for a future inclusion in real-time predictive models. The results reveal that the most suitable algorithm depended on the type of predictor, implying that multiple models should be implemented in the field, rather than selecting just one. I then present a framework for an adaptive learning system based on the other two studies, where I highlight how dilatory behaviour can be incorporated into such a system, in light of the previously discussed results. I conclude this thesis by providing an outlook into the necessary next steps before an adaptive learning system focussing on delay can be established.
Reduced White Matter Integrity in Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
Creators: name: Ding, Zhongxiang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Li, Gang
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Hu, Dewen
name: Shen, Celina
name: Shi, Feng
name: Shen, Hui
name: Liu, Huasheng
name: Lee, Seong-Whan
name: Jiang, Weixiong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Emerging neuroimaging research suggests that antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) may be linked to abnormal brain anatomy, but little is known about possible impairments of white matter microstructure in ASPD, as well as their relationship with impulsivity or risky behaviors. In this study, we systematically investigated white matter abnormalities of ASPD using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures: fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD). Then, we further investigated their correlations with the scores of impulsivity or risky behaviors. ASPD patients showed decreased FA in multiple major white matter fiber bundles, which connect the fronto-parietal control network and the fronto-temporal network. We also found AD/RD deficits in some additional white matter tracts that were not detected by FA. More interestingly, several regions were found correlated with impulsivity or risky behaviors in AD and RD values, although not in FA values, including the splenium of corpus callosum, left posterior corona radiate/posterior thalamic radiate, right superior longitudinal fasciculus, and left inferior longitudinal fasciculus. These regions can be the potential biomarkers, which would be of great interest in further understanding the pathomechanism of ASPD.
Quantum Integrals for a Semi-Infinite $q$-Boson System with Boundary Interactions
Creators: name: van Diejen, Jan Felipe
name: Emsiz, Erdal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide explicit formulas for the quantum integrals of a semi-infinite $q$-boson system with boundary interactions. These operators and their commutativity are deduced from the Pieri formulas for a $q\to 0$ Hall-Littlewood type degeneration of the Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials.
A Parsec-Scale Catalog of Molecular Clouds in the Solar Neighborhood Based on 3D Dust Mapping: Implications for the Mass-Size Relation
Creators: name: Cahlon, Shlomo
name: Zucker, Catherine
name: Goodman, Alyssa
name: Lada, Charles
name: Alves, João
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We dendrogram the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map, leveraging its $\sim 1$ pc spatial resolution to produce a uniform catalog of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood. Using accurate distances, we measure the properties of 65 clouds in true 3D space, eliminating much of the uncertainty in mass, size, and density. Clouds in the catalog contain a total of $1.1 \times 10^5 \; \rm M_{\odot}$, span distances of $116-440$ pc, and include a dozen well-studied clouds in the literature. In addition to deriving cloud properties in 3D volume density space, we create 2D dust extinction maps from the 3D data by projecting the 3D clouds onto a 2D "Sky" view. We measure the properties of the 2D clouds separately from the 3D clouds. We compare the scaling relation between the masses and sizes of clouds following Larson 1981. We find that our 2D projected mass-size relation, $M \propto r^{2.1}$, agrees with Larson's Third Relation, but our 3D derived properties lead to a scaling relation of about one order larger: $M \propto r^{2.9}$. Validating predictions from theory and numerical simulations, our results indicate that the mass-size relation is sensitive to whether column or volume density is used to define clouds, since mass scales with area in 2D ($M \propto r^{2}$) and with volume in 3D ($M \propto r^{3}$). Our results imply a roughly constant column and volume density in 2D and 3D, respectively, for molecular clouds, as would be expected for clouds where the lower density, larger volume-filling gas dominates the cloud mass budget.
description: Published in ApJ. For data behind the tables see https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BFYDG8 . For interactive version of a 3D map showing the clouds identified in this work press: https://faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu/czucker/Paper_Figures/3D_Cloud_Catalog_Cahlon_2023.html
Redundant Functions for Nap1 and Chz1 in H2A.Z Deposition
Creators: name: Dokholyan, Nikolay V.
name: Difiore, Julia V.
name: Parra, Michael A.
name: Jha, Deepak K.
name: Ramachandran, Srinivas
name: Strahl, Brian D.
name: Dronamraju, Raghuvar
name: Adams, Alexander T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: H2A.Z is a histone H2A variant that contributes to transcriptional regulation, DNA damage response and limits heterochromatin spreading. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, H2A.Z is deposited by the SWR-C complex, which relies on several histone chaperones including Nap1 and Chz1 to deliver H2A.Z-H2B dimers to SWR-C. However, the mechanisms by which Nap1 and Chz1 cooperate to bind H2A.Z and their contribution to H2A.Z deposition in chromatin is not well understood. Using structural modeling and molecular dynamics simulations, we identify a series of H2A.Z residues that form a chaperone-specific binding surface. Mutation of these residues revealed different surface requirements for Nap1 and Chz1 interaction with H2A.Z. Consistent with this result, we found that loss of Nap1 or Chz1 individually resulted in mild defects in H2A.Z deposition, but that deletion of both Nap1 and Chz1 resulted in a significant reduction of H2A.Z deposition at promoters and led to heterochromatin spreading. Together, our findings reveal unique H2A.Z surface dependences for Nap1 and Chz1 and a redundant role for these chaperones in H2A.Z deposition.
Procreation, population and permissibility
Creators: name: Tilsley, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis I examine the permissibility of bringing a child into being from a person-affecting position. I argue that as long as a future person's life is somewhat worth living, and that their lifetime wellbeing has been maximised, they will not be wronged by being brought into existence. I further argue that it is permissible to bring about future population X, as long as those living with X have lives that are somewhat worth living. Finally I argue that in addition to the permissibility of procreation, becoming a parent creates many goods for the potential parent.
On-field infrastructures
Creators: name: Messina, Alfio
name: Contrafatto, Danilo
name: Carbone, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: field infrastructures
Mt. Etna
MEMS gravimeter
quantum gravimeter

description: This is deliverable 3.3 – On-field infrastructures – of the H2020 FET-Open project NEWTON-g (GA No 801221). The work described here was carried out in the framework of WP3 (On-field application). D3.3 provides a detailed description of the field infrastructures that were developed to allow efficient functioning of the devices composing the gravity imager, during the deployment on the summit of Mt. Etna.
Study of the Top-quark Pair Production in Association with a Bottom-quark Pair from Fast Simulations at the LHC
Creators: name: Jo, Young Kwon
name: Choi, Su Yong
name: Kim, Tae Jeong
name: Roh, Youn Jung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large number of top quarks will be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for Run II period. This will allow us to measure the rare processes from the top sector in great details. We present the study of the top-quark pair production in association with a bottom-quark pair (ttbb) from fast simulations for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The differential distributions of ttbb are compared with the top-quark pair production with two additional jets (ttjj) and with the production in association with the Higgs (ttH), where the Higgs decays to a bottom-quark pair. The significances of ttbb process in the dileptonic and semileptonic decay mode are calculated with the data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1, which is foreseen to be collected in the early Run II period. This study will be an important input in searching for new physics beyond the standard model as well as in searching for ttH process where the Yukawa coupling with the top quark can be directly measured.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Child and infant burials in New Kingdom Egypt: a Gurob case study
Creators: name: Petkov, Johanna Leah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is a re-evaluation of commonly held assumptions on child and infant burials. It challenges the bias that often exists in the discussion of these individuals. In particular, the mortuary remains of non-elite children and infants are viewed by some researchers as crude burials, containing very few grave goods. According to this view they represent little economic outlay, were often interred elsewhere because of their lack of integration within their community, and were sometimes disposed of like garbage. To re-evaluate these views, a case study is undertaken of 127 non-elite child and infant burials from the New Kingdom cemeteries of Gurob. Specifically, funerary material is used to explore whether age impacted the degree to which an individual was considered a member of the community, based upon the location, type of burial container, and the grave goods included within the burial. This thesis argues that infants and children were treated as diversely as adults in the mortuary sphere and did not appear to exhibit signs of neglect or exclusion from their community at Gurob. This thesis presents a catalogue of all child and infant burials from the New Kingdom cemeteries of Gurob, thus representing the first major synthesis of this material.
Entropy production and the geometry of dissipative evolution equations
Creators: name: Reina, Celia
name: Zimmer, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purely dissipative evolution equations are often cast as gradient flow structures, $\dot{\mathbf{z}}=K(\mathbf{z})DS(\mathbf{z})$, where the variable $\mathbf{z}$ of interest evolves towards the maximum of a functional $S$ according to a metric defined by an operator $K$. While the functional often follows immediately from physical considerations (e.g., the thermodynamic entropy), the operator $K$ and the associated geometry does not necessarily so (e.g., Wasserstein geometry for diffusion). In this paper, we present a variational statement in the sense of maximum entropy production that directly delivers a relationship between the operator $K$ and the constraints of the system. In particular, the Wasserstein metric naturally arises here from the conservation of mass or energy, and depends on the Onsager resistivity tensor, which, itself, may be understood as another metric, as in the Steepest Entropy Ascent formalism. This new variational principle is exemplified here for the simultaneous evolution of conserved and non-conserved quantities in open systems. It thus extends the classical Onsager flux-force relationships and the associated variational statement to variables that do not have a flux associated to them. We further show that the metric structure $K$ is intimately linked to the celebrated Freidlin-Wentzell theory of stochastically perturbed gradient flows, and that the proposed variational principle encloses an infinite-dimensional fluctuation-dissipation statement.
The Magnitude of Ming
Creators: Christopher Lupke, Editor and Author
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2005

This edited volume explores the Chinese notion of "ming" (fate, command, allotted lifespan, life-giving force) in its various forms, in an array of texts, and over a the whole span of Chinese written history. The essays analyze instances of the term and concept "ming" in bronze inscription, the Zuozhuan, Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi, Daoist religious texts, medieval Chinese poetry, late imperial drama, fiction, and criticism, and in modern Chinese fiction. It is a comprehensive treatment that considers many dimensions of the concept. I edited the volume and provided the introduction. In addition, I wrote the last chapter: "Divi/Nation: Modern Literary Representations of the Chinese Imagined Community." This essay discusses four major narrative works in contemporary Chinese literature and mentions several others in passing.
Path-Goal Theory-based Leadership Development Deployment Guidelines for the Middle Managers of an International University in China
Creators: name: Liyan Chen
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: directive leadership
supportive leadership
participative leadership
achievement-oriented leadership
leadership effectiveness.

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 66-88
Composition Algebras and Outer Automorphisms of Algebraic Groups
Creators: name: Alsaody, Seidon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17A75, 20G15, 11E88

description: In this note, we establish an equivalence of categories between the category of all eight-dimensional composition algebras with any given quadratic form $n$ over a field $k$ of characteristic not two, and a category arising from an action of the projective similarity group of $n$ on certain pairs of automorphisms of the group scheme $\mathbf{PGO}^+(n)$ defined over $k$. This extends results recently obtained in the same direction for symmetric composition algebras. We also derive known results on composition algebras from our equivalence.
Servant Leadership Transformation in Public Service: An Exploratory Case Study of Behavior Change of Civil Servants at Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia Servant Leadership Transformation in Public Service: An Exploratory Case Study of Behavior Change of Civil Servantsat Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia
Creators: name: Chandynavuth, Min
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: self-interest
servant attitude
attitude
servant leadership
civil servant
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Cambodia

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 109-133
Strangeness in nuclei and neutron stars: a challenging puzzle
Creators: name: Lonardoni, Diego
name: Lovato, Alessandro
name: Gandolfi, Stefano
name: Pederiva, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prediction of neutron stars properties is strictly connected to the employed nuclear interactions. The appearance of hyperons in the inner core of the star is strongly dependent on the details of the underlying hypernuclear force. We summarize our recent quantum Monte Carlo results on the development of realistic two- and three-body hyperon-nucleon interactions based on the available experimental data for light- and medium-heavy hypernuclei.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Elliptic and Triangular Flow of Identified Particles from the AMPT Model at RHIC Energies
Creators: name: Sun, Xu
name: Liu, Jianli
name: Schmah, Alexander
name: Shi, Shusu
name: Zhang, Jingbo
name: Huo, Lei
name: Jiang, Hanzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = $ 11.5, 39, and 200 GeV and triangular flow ($v_{3}$) at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = $ 200 GeV of identified particles ($π^{\pm}, K^{\pm}, K^{0}_{S}, p, \bar{p}, ϕ, Λ$ and $\barΛ$) from 0\%--80\% central Au+Au collisions are analyzed using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model. It is shown that the experimental results from the $η$-sub event plane method can be reproduced with a parton scattering cross section between 1.5 and 3 mb. We also studied the differential and integrated $v_{2}/v_{3}$ ratios and conclude that they are anti-corrected with the parton scattering cross section.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
CP-odd contributions to the $ZZ^\astγ$, $ZZγ^\ast$, and $ZZZ^\ast$ vertices induced by nondiagonal charged scalar boson couplings
Creators: name: Moyotl, A.
name: Toscano, J. J.
name: Tavares-Velasco, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In models with extended scalar sectors with several Higgs multiplets, such as Higgs triplet models, the $Z$ gauge boson can have nondiagonal couplings to charged Higgs bosons. In a model-independent way, we study the potential contributions arising from such theories to the CP-violating trilinear neutral gauge boson couplings $ZZ^*γ$, $ZZγ^*$, and $ZZZ^*$, which are parametrized by four form factors: $h^Z_{1,2}$, $f_4^γ$, and $f_4^Z$, respectively. Such form factors can only be induced if there are at least two nondegenerate charged Higgs scalars and an imaginary phase in the coupling constants. For the masses of the charged scalar bosons we consider values above 300 GeV and find that the form factors can reach the following orders of magnitude: $|h_1^Z|\sim 10^{-5}-10^{-4}$, $|h_2^Z|\sim 10^{-7}-10^{-6}$, $|f_4^γ|\sim 10^{-5}-10^{-3}$ and $|f_4^Z|\sim 10^{-6}-10^{-5}$, though there could be an additional suppression factor arising from the coupling constants. We also find that the form factors decouple at high energies and are not very sensitive to a change in the masses of the charged scalar bosons. Apart from a proportionality factor, our results for the $f_4^Z$ form factor, associated with the $ZZZ^*$ vertex, is of the same order of magnitude than that induced via nondiagonal neutral scalar boson couplings in the framework of a two-Higgs doublet model.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Robust Fusion of Diffusion MRI Data for Template Construction
Creators: name: Yap, Pew-Thian
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Yang, Zhanlong
name: Chen, Geng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Construction of brain templates is generally carried out using a two-step procedure involving registering a population of images to a common space and then fusing the aligned images to form a template. In practice, image registration is not perfect and simple averaging of the images will blur structures and cause artifacts. In diffusion MRI, this is further complicated by intra-voxel inter-subject differences in fiber orientation, fiber configuration, anisotropy, and diffusivity. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the construction of diffusion MRI templates in light of inter-subject differences. Our method involves a novel q-space (i.e., wavevector space) patch matching mechanism that is incorporated in a mean shift algorithm to seek the most probable signal at each point in q-space. Our method relies on the fact that the mean shift algorithm is a mode seeking algorithm that converges to the mode of a distribution and is hence robust to outliers. Our method is therefore in effect seeking the most probable signal profile at each voxel given a distribution of signal profiles. Experimental results show that our method yields diffusion MRI templates with cleaner fiber orientations and less artifacts caused by inter-subject differences in fiber orientation.
When Is It Transformative and Why Does It Matter?
Creators: name: Adamson, Maureen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open access

description: With the word "transformation" in open access and scholarship, context is everything. What is transformative for a publisher may not be to the same degree for the academic research library, even when reaching for similar goals. This lack of clarity can be confusing without context. This also impacts expectations for how resources and budgets should support open access and open scholarship. This article explores why definitions matter to align publisher and academic institution / library interests in a changing landscape.
The Application of Virtual Reality Technology to Enhance Students’ Chorus Conducting Performance in a Technology Institute in Southeast China
Creators: name: Ge, Tian
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: choir conduct
chorus conductor Performance
VR Technology
blended learning

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 134-152
Gravity Spy: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward
Creators: name: Zevin, Michael
name: Jackson, Corey B.
name: Doctor, Zoheyr
name: Wu, Yunan
name: Østerlund, Carsten
name: Johnson, L. Clifton
name: Berry, Christopher P. L.
name: Crowston, Kevin
name: Coughlin, Scott B.
name: Kalogera, Vicky
name: Banagiri, Sharan
name: Davis, Derek
name: Glanzer, Jane
name: Hao, Renzhi
name: Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.
name: Patane, Oli
name: Sanchez, Jennifer
name: Smith, Joshua
name: Soni, Siddharth
name: Trouille, Laura
name: Walker, Marissa
name: Aerith, Irina
name: Domainko, Wilfried
name: Baranowski, Victor-Georges
name: Niklasch, Gerhard
name: Téglás, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gravity Spy project aims to uncover the origins of glitches, transient bursts of noise that hamper analysis of gravitational-wave data. By using both the work of citizen-science volunteers and machine-learning algorithms, the Gravity Spy project enables reliable classification of glitches. Citizen science and machine learning are intrinsically coupled within the Gravity Spy framework, with machine-learning classifications providing a rapid first-pass classification of the dataset and enabling tiered volunteer training, and volunteer-based classifications verifying the machine classifications, bolstering the machine-learning training set and identifying new morphological classes of glitches. These classifications are now routinely used in studies characterizing the performance of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. Providing the volunteers with a training framework that teaches them to classify a wide range of glitches, as well as additional tools to aid their investigations of interesting glitches, empowers them to make discoveries of new classes of glitches. This demonstrates that, when giving suitable support, volunteers can go beyond simple classification tasks to identify new features in data at a level comparable to domain experts. The Gravity Spy project is now providing volunteers with more complicated data that includes auxiliary monitors of the detector to identify the root cause of glitches.
description: 33 pages, 5 figures, published in European Physical Journal Plus for focus issue on "Citizen science for physics: From Education and Outreach to Crowdsourcing fundamental research"
Making the stabilizer ZX-calculus complete for scalars
Creators: name: Backens, Miriam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for quantum processes with built-in rewrite rules. The rewrite rules allow equalities to be derived entirely graphically, leading to the question of completeness: can any equality that is derivable using matrices also be derived graphically? The ZX-calculus is known to be complete for scalar-free pure qubit stabilizer quantum mechanics, meaning any equality between two pure stabilizer operators that is true up to a non-zero scalar factor can be derived using the graphical rewrite rules. Here, we replace those scalar-free rewrite rules with correctly scaled ones and show that, by adding one new diagram element and a new rewrite rule, the calculus can be made complete for pure qubit stabilizer quantum mechanics with scalars. This completeness property allows amplitudes and probabilities to be calculated entirely graphically. We also explicitly consider stabilizer zero diagrams, i.e. diagrams that represent a zero matrix, and show that two new rewrite rules suffice to make the calculus complete for those.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2015, arXiv:1511.01181
MoS$_2$ 2D-polymorphs as a Li-/Na-ion batteries: 1T' vs 2H phases
Creators: name: González, J. W.
name: Flórez, E.
name: Correa, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we compare the performance of two phases of MoS$_2$ monolayers: 1T' and 2H, about their ability to adsorb lithium and sodium ions. Employing the density functional theory and molecular dynamics, we include the ion concentration to analyze the electronic structure, ion kinetics, and battery performance. The pristine 2H-MoS$_2$ monolayer is the ground state. However, the charge transfer effects above a critical ion concentration yields a stability change, where the 1T'-MoS$_2$ monolayer with adsorbed ions becomes more stable than the 2H counterpart. The diffusion of ions onto the 1T' monolayer is anisotropic, being more efficient at ion adsorption than the 2H phase. Finally, we calculate the open circuit voltage and specific capacity, confirming that the 1T'-MoS$_2$ phase has great potential for developing lithium/sodium ion batteries.
description: 27 pages 7 figures
Electronic structure of a graphene superlattice with a modulated Fermi velocity
Creators: name: Lima, Jonas R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of a graphene superlattice composed by two periodic regions with different Fermi velocity, energy gap and electrostatic potential is investigated by using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It must be expected that the change of the Fermi velocity in one region of the graphene superlattice is equivalent to changing the width of this region keeping the Fermi velocity unchanged, provided that the time taken to charge carriers cross the region is the same. However, it is shown here that these two systems are not equivalent. We found extra Dirac points induced by the periodic potential and their location in the \textbf{k} space. It is shown that the Fermi velocity modulation breaks the symmetry between the electron and hole minibands and that it is possible to control the behavior of the extra Dirac points. The results obtained here can be used in the fabrication of graphene-based electronic devices.
Thermodynamics and fractal dynamics of nematic spin ice, a doubly frustrated pyrochlore Ising magnet
Creators: name: Hallén, Jonathan N.
name: Castelnovo, Claudio
name: Moessner, Roderich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ising antiferromagnets on the triangular and on the pyrochlore lattices are two of the most iconic examples of magnetic frustration, paradigmatically illustrating many exotic properties such as emergent gauge fields, fractionalisation, and topological order. In this work, we show that the two instances of frustration can, remarkably, be combined in a single system, where they coexist without inducing conventional long range ordering. We show that the system undergoes a first order phase transition upon lowering the temperature, into a yet different frustrated phase that we characterise to exhibit nematic order. We argue that an extensive degeneracy survives down to zero temperature, at odds with a customary Pauling estimate. Dynamically, we find evidence of anomalous noise in the power spectral density, arising from an effectively anisotropic fractal motion of monopoles at low temperature.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures
RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine Efficacy is Not Modified by Seasonal Precipitation: Results from a Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi
Creators: name: Keeler, Corinna
name: Kamthunzi, Portia
name: Martinson, Francis
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Lievens, Marc
name: Emch, Michael E.
name: Han, Larry
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Juliano, Jonathan J.
name: Tegha, Gerald
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The World Health Organization has selected Malawi as one of three sites to pilot the roll-out of RTS,S/AS01 in phase 4 trials. As policy discussions for the expanded use of RTS,S/AS01 continue, it will be critical to determine the performance of the vaccine according to seasonal patterns of malaria transmission in regions of Africa. Given waning vaccine efficacy over time, this secondary analysis demonstrates that administering the vaccine to children in the months prior to malaria season could maximize impact of the vaccine. We followed children (5-17 months) and infants (6-12 weeks) assigned to one of three groups: (1) vaccine with four doses; (2) vaccine with three doses; (3) control. The primary endpoint was defined as episodes of clinical malaria. During the 4-years of follow-up, 658 of 1544 (42.6%) children and infants had at least one episode of clinical malaria. With each 1-inch increase in rainfall per month there was an associated increase in the rate of malaria by 12.6% (95% CI 9.6%, 15.6%, P
Greening the workplace: conceptualising workplaces as settings for enabling sustainable consumption
Creators: name: Süßbauer, Elisabeth
name: Schäfer, Martina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: pro-environmental behaviour
subject: workplace setting
subject: sustainable consumption
subject: social practice theory
subject: employee participation

description: This conceptual paper contributes to management studies on workplace-related pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) by combining approaches from social practice theory (SPT), the settings-based approach to health promotion as well as the literature on organisational learning. From these perspectives, sustainable consumption at the workplace is seen as being embedded in daily routines which are rarely reflected upon and cannot easily be changed. We argue that companies – instead of focusing on individual attitudes and knowledge of employees – should enable them to experiment with sustainable consumption practices, provide supportive organisational and material structures, and integrate their experiences and needs in a continuous process of co-designing such an 'enabling setting'. We present an analytical framework that can be used to identify weaknesses of existing entrepreneurial strategies to promote PEB among employees and to conceptualise comprehensive strategies for 'greening' the workplace.
On Minimal Spectral Factors with Zeroes and Poles lying on Prescribed Region
Creators: name: Baggio, Giacomo
name: Ferrante, Augusto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider a general discrete-time spectral factorization problem for rational matrix-valued functions. We build on a recent result establishing existence of a spectral factor whose zeroes and poles lie in any pair of prescribed regions of the complex plane featuring a geometry compatible with symplectic symmetry. In this general setting, uniqueness of the spectral factor is not guaranteed. It was, however, conjectured that if we further impose stochastic minimality, uniqueness can be recovered. The main result of his paper is a proof of this conjecture.
description: 14 pages, no figures. Revised version with minor modifications. To appear in IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control
Determinants for Open Innovation and Innovation Performance towards Value Creation and Organization Performance for Bureaucratic Personnel Development
Creators: name: Isaree Suwannasri
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: open innovation
technology exploitation
organization performance
bureaucratic organization.

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 153-170
The Study of Job Satisfaction of Employment Guidance Teachers in Heilongjiang International University in China
Creators: name: Quishi Wang
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: job satisfaction
employment guidance teachers
work load
work salary
interpersonal relationship
position promotion.

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 171-185
Cross-domain integration for the development of tech- nology-based detection-analytics-intervention chains in the REACH project
Creators: name: Linner, T.
Publisher: name: Technical University of Munich
Year: 2018
Subjects: Assistive technology, ageing society, innovation, and complexity management

description: In REACH, an experimental, cross-domain sensing-monitoring-intervention system that can be placed unobtrusively in various care settings and living environments of elderly citizens was developed. Through multiple Touchpoints, REACH implements and systemises several instances of the early detection of physical inactivity patterns and associated risks. To achieve the set-out project goals, REACH (a multi-partner research project) requires a structured development process in combination with a consequent cross-domain integration. The paper analyses the most important areas for which cross-domain integration is required: integration of cross complex knowledge domains, integration of cross physical world and data domains, integration of cross testing and study design domains, and the integration of cross artefacts and services worlds. The paper concludes that for handling the complexity of REACH, it was necessary to split the project (for development purposes) into micro-clusters (e.g. Touchpoints, Physical Activity Dimensions, etc.) and explore the interactions of domains by systematically forming and testing micro-chains of the Sensing-Monitoring-Intervention flow.