cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Abderrahmane Sissako, Lars Von Trier, Michael Moore and the aesthetics of contemporary political cinema
Creators: name: Strachan, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores new currents in political cinema in the films of Abderrahmane Sissako, Lars von Trier and Michael Moore. The three filmmakers selected adopt aesthetic strategies to interrogate and expand older parameters of political cinema to create new and divergent radical cinemas. All three filmmakers work in a politically engaged terrain that challenges the status quo. They contextualize current historic/economic conditions and unite around anxieties and reactions to neoliberalism. They cover different geographic locations and enter at different points along a cultural spectrum to collectively serve as an overall global barometer to shifts in expression of the sociopolitical and cinematic landscape. The work of African filmmaker, Abderrahmane Sissako counters Europeanparochialism and Eurocentrism. Lars von Trier digs deep into a critique of the western canon and the Enlightenment, with an aesthetic of what Deleuze calls a "new baroque". Michael Moore with carnivalesque techniques, and populist appeal, challenges American neoliberalism. The thesis will analyse the aesthetic choices of the three filmmakers who adopt previous dominant models of political cinema and combine them with emergent political aesthetics. It has been stated that it is impossible to return to the heady days of the revolutionary idealist cinemas of the Soviet Revolution or post-1968. However, this thesis argues that there is a blurred boundary between the more modernist strategies of the militant cinema of the 1920s and the 1970s and those after the postmodern turn. The filmmakers selected for analysis create a new political cinema in keeping with postmodernist fragmentation and humour. At the same time, they also borrow an anti-canonical aesthetic from previous waves of political filmmakers by adopting "political modernism" in its Marxist/Brechtian form, using reflexive realism, alienation effects, and counter cinema as strategies The result of these combinations has created new, exciting and divergent cinemas that expand the definitions of older forms of political modernist cinema.
Generalized Brans-Dicke Theory: A Dynamical Systems Analysis
Creators: name: Roy, Nandan
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability criteria for the generalized Brans-Dicke cosmology in a spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model is discussed in the presence of a perfect fluid. The generalization comes through the channel that the Brans-Dicke coupling parameter $ω$ is allowed to be a function of the scalar field $ϕ$. This generalization can lead to a host of scalar-tensor theories of gravity for various choices of $ω= ω(ϕ)$. A very interesting general result has been found. Excepting for the case of a radiation distribution as the choice of the fluid, all other solutions find a natural habitat in the corresponding solutions in general relativity in an infinite $ω$ limit. For the radiation distribution, the dependence of stability on $ω$ is a bit obscure. If a scalar potential, function of the Brans-Dicke scalar field, is added to the action, the requirement of an infinite $ω$ for stability is relaxed for a matter distribution with a non-zero trace whereas it becomes a possibility for a radiation distribution.
description: 12 page, 26 figure
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Creators: name: Cunpeng Zhao
name: Guiyuan Zhao
name: Geng, Zhao
name: Zhaoxiao Wang
name: Kaihui Wang
name: Suen Liu
name: Hanshuang Zhang
name: Baosheng Guo
name: Junyi Geng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: The summary of the SLAF tag and SNP marker on chromosomes. (DOC 41 kb)
A selective prosographical study of marriage in the Roman elite in the second and first centuries B.C.: revisiting the evidence
Creators: name: Tansey, Patrick
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: One cannot hope to understand Roman politics or the successes and failures of the Romans without first coming to grips with Rome's remarkably durable and resilient governing class. The thousands of prosopographical entries in the Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft and the Prosopographia Imperii Romani remain therefore an indispensible resource for any serious student of Roman history, but there is a growing need to bring them up-to-date by correcting errors of fact and omissions, by taking account of subsequent discoveries and more recent historiographical developments, and by revisiting the evidence to verify some basic assumptions. Moreover, ever since the publication of Matthias Gelzer's ground-breaking treatise on the Roman nobility many scholars have been working towards a more precise and sophisticated taxonomy of the Roman elite: witness, for instance, the work of C. Nicolet and M. Stemmler on the equestrian order, T. P. Wiseman's New Menin the Roman Senate and the studies of the nobilitas by Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton,and K.-J. Holkeskamp, or the research on the broader Italian aristocracy and its interactionwith the Roman elite by the likes of G. Camodeca, M. Torelli, and M. Cebeillac-Gervasoni, as well as the multitude of prosopographical studies devoted to specific individuals and families by many different hands. My aim is to make a contribution towards this goal by documenting marriage patterns in the Roman elite in order to gain a clearer understanding of the composition and evolution of the Roman aristocracy. As an aristocracy of office subject to the constraints of popular suffrage, the Roman Republican elite was not the sole arbiter of its own destiny, for despite its electoral influence, it did not exercise unfettered control over who was admitted to the senate and to the nobilitas. But marriage, and to a lesser extent adoption, gave established elite families an important say in elite recruitment because the rates of endogamy and exogamy in elite families determined whether bloodlines and property were concentrated within established families, or were more widely dispersed. What is more, in the ethos of the Roman elite and in the milieu which they inhabited an individual's maternal and paternal ancestry, and their relations by blood and marriage (adfines) were vitally important. They were intrinsic to the elite's own sense of identity and inseparable from their rank and popular standing, they influenced an individual's expectations and opportunities in life (especially when seeking the approval of the status-conscious Roman electorate), and helped shape their outlook and their actions. The first step therefore is to accurately map the Roman elite in as much detail as the surviving evidence allows.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0137
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0137, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0137, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Hybrid State Estimation in a Semitrailer for Different Loading Conditions
Creators: name: Ehlers, Simon F.G.
name: Kortmann, Karl-Philipp
name: Kobler, Jan-Philipp
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hybrid Estimation
subject: Kalman Filtering
subject: Recurrent Neural Networks
subject: State and Input Estimation
subject: Truck-Semitrailer Combination
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: For state and parameter estimation in vehicles, Kalman filters, especially nonlinear extensions like the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and unscented Kalman filter (UKF), are very common. However, the estimation accuracy is highly dependent on the quality of the model used in the process update of the Kalman filter. Model errors can result from non-modeled dynamics that are either unknown or very difficult to describe. In recent years data-driven approaches for state estimation are the subject of research with promising results in estimation accuracy and reduced implementation effort. In this work, both a model-based method with an UKF and a data-driven approach based on recurrent neural networks (RNN) are implemented and combined to two hybrid methods for the application of state and parameter estimation in a truck-semitrailer for three different loading conditions. Hybrid estimation architectures promise to combine the advantages of model-based and data-driven methods to achieve better estimation accuracy than their standalone components. To the best knowledge of the authors, this work is the first to extend the field of hybrid state estimation to semitrailers estimating the truck steering angle, articulation angle, and the trailer's lateral and vertical tire forces. Four estimation architectures (an UKF, one purely data-driven method, and two hybrid methods) are optimized and compared to each other regarding estimation accuracy. The UKF is optimized with a particle swarm optimization (PSO) while the hyperparameters of the data-driven method are tuned with the asynchronous successive halving algorithm (ASHA) to result in a fair comparison. All methods are developed and compared based on an experimental data set from a test vehicle.
GUT Models at Current and Future Hadron Colliders and Implications to Dark Matter Searches
Creators: name: Arcadi, Giorgio
name: Lindner, Manfred
name: Mambrini, Yann
name: Pierre, Mathias
name: Queiroz, Farinaldo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grand Unified Theories (GUT) offer an elegant and unified description of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions at high energy scales. A phenomenological and exciting possibility to grasp GUT is to search for TeV scale observables arising from Abelian groups embedded in GUT constructions. That said, we use dilepton data (ee and $μμ$) that has been proven to be a golden channel for a wide variety of new phenomena expected in theories beyond the Standard Model to probe GUT-inspired models. Since heavy dilepton resonances feature high signal selection efficiencies and relatively well-understood backgrounds, stringent and reliable bounds can be placed on the mass of the $Z^{\prime}$ gauge boson arising in such theories. In this work, we obtain 95\% C.L. limits on the $Z^{\prime}$ mass for several GUT-models using current and future proton-proton colliders with $\sqrt{s}= 13~{\rm TeV},\, 33~{\rm TeV},\,{\rm and}\, 100$~TeV, and put them into perspective with dark matter searches in light of the next generation of direct detection experiments.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. In memory of Pierre Binetruy
Successful endothelial monolayer formation on melt electrowritten scaffolds under dynamic conditions to mimic tunica intima
Creators: name: Loewner, Sebastian
name: Heene, Sebastian
name: Cholewa, Fabian
name: Heymann, Henrik
name: Blume, Holger
name: Blume, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Singapore : Whioce
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamic cultivation
subject: Endothelium
subject: Melt electrowriting
subject: Scaffold
subject: Tissue engineering
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: The lack of transplantable tissues and organs as well as the limitations of synthetic implants highlight the need for tissue-engineered constructs to obtain safe, long-lasting, and limitless tissue replacements. Scaffolds for cardiovascular applications, such as for a tissue-engineered vascular graft (TEVG), are thus highly required. For TEVGs, tubular scaffolds should support the formation of confluent endothelial layers in particular under dynamic conditions to prevent thrombosis and maintain hemostasis. For that purpose, a porous and highly diffusible scaffold structure is necessary to allow optimal cell adhesion as well as oxygen and nutrient exchange with the surrounding tissue. Here, we present a three-dimensional-printed scaffold made by a combination of fused deposition modeling (FDM) and melt electrowriting (MEW) out of polycaprolactone that enables monolayer formation and alignment of endothelial cells in the direction of medium flow under a shear stress of up to 10 dyn cm-2. Pore size and coating with human fibrin were optimized to enable confluent endothelial layers on the printed scaffold structures. Cell orientation and shape analysis showed a characteristic alignment and elongation of the tested endothelial cells with the direction of flow after dynamic cultivation. In contrast, melt electrospun scaffolds based on the same CAD design under comparable printing and cultivation conditions were not sufficient to form gapless cell layers. Thus, the new scaffold fabricated by MEW/FDM approach appears most suitable for TEVGs as a template for the innermost vascular wall layer, the tunica intima.
Robust peak-to-peak gain analysis using integral quadratic constraints
Creators: name: Schwenkel, Lukas
name: Köhler, Johannes
name: Müller, Matthias A.
name: Allgöwer, Frank
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: integral quadratic constraints
subject: peak-to-peak gain
subject: reachable set
subject: Robust control
subject: ℓ -norm 1
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: This work provides a framework to compute an upper bound on the robust peak-to-peak gain of discrete-time uncertain linear systems using integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). Such bounds are of particular interest in the computation of reachable sets and the ℓ1-norm, as well as when safety-critical constraints need to be satisfied pointwise in time. The use of ρ-hard IQCs with a terminal cost enables us to deal with a wide variety of uncertainty classes, for example, we provide ρ-hard IQCs with a terminal cost for the class of parametric uncertainties. This approach unifies, generalizes, and significantly improves state-of-the-art methods, which is also demonstrated in a numerical example.
Distributed Model Predictive Control for Periodic Cooperation of Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Köhler, Matthias
name: Müller, Matthias A.
name: Allgöwer, Frank
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: cooperative control
subject: distributed MPC
subject: multi-agent systems
subject: nonlinear systems
subject: Predictive control
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: We consider multi-agent systems with heterogeneous, nonlinear agents subject to individual constraints that want to achieve a periodic, dynamic cooperative control goal which can be characterised by a set and a suitable cost. We propose a sequential distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme in which agents sequentially solve an individual optimisation problem to track an artificial periodic output trajectory. The optimisation problems are coupled through these artificial periodic output trajectories, which are communicated and penalised using the cost that characterises the cooperative goal. The agents communicate only their artificial trajectories and only once per time step. We show that under suitable assumptions, the agents can incrementally move their artificial output trajectories towards the cooperative goal, and, hence, their closed-loop output trajectories asymptotically achieve it. We illustrate the scheme with a simulation example.
The unity of metaphysics and ethics in Spinoza
Creators: name: Buterin, Simon
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis will give an exposition of Spinoza’s key metaphysical and ethical doctrines, with a view to clarifying their underlying unity. The importance of the unity for ethics is to support the case for a conception of ethical life that goes beyond a focus on the individual ethical subject, towards a view of ethical life that includes our strivings to understand the world around us. It is shown that Spinoza belongs to a tradition of philosophical thought in which ideas of a good life are inextricably bound up with the comprehension of the essential nature of our surroundings. To live ethically is to have one’s thoughts move away from the idea of a self in an endeavour to see how one is related to the environment one lives in. In developing this conception of the unity of metaphysics and ethics, Spinoza, like other philosophers in this tradition, draws on ideas of truth and perfection, which become the motivating force behind human action. In the final chapter of the thesis links are made between Spinoza’s attempt at unifying metaphysics and ethics and Iris Murdoch’s approach to ethics, and the project of unifying metaphysics and ethics is defended against approaches that are based on the separation of these branches of philosophy, such as that proposed by Christine Korsgaard.
Condition Monitoring using Domain-Adversarial Networks with Convolutional Kernel Features
Creators: name: Caceres-Castellanos, Cesar
name: Fehsenfeld, Moritz
name: Kortmann, Karl-Philipp
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Domain adaptation
subject: Fault detection and diagnosis
subject: Machine learning
subject: Semi-supervised learning
subject: Time series modeling
subject: Unsupervised learning
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: The data-based condition monitoring and diagnosis of a mechatronic system can be a challenge due to the amount of labeled data traditional methods require. Moreover, transferring a trained classification model from its source domain to another mechatronic system is a difficult task due to even minor differences between sensors, dimensions, or environmental conditions. Additionally, labeled data may not be available or difficult to obtain in this new target domain. In this paper, a novel approach to time series based domain adaptation is proposed by modifying a Domain-Adversarial Neural Network. Therefore, a MiniRocket transform is combined with an artificial neural network as a composed feature extractor. This model aims to extract domain invariant features from multivariate time series data that can be used for cross-domain condition monitoring of mechatronic systems. The model is tested for belt tension monitoring using data from two belt drives considering two types of excitation. Experimental results for wideband excitation show that the proposed model estimates the tension of the belt with high accuracy in the target domain (unsupervised). For the jerk-limited excitation, accuracy is improved for the target domain in a semi-supervised setting.
Searching for initial stage of massive star formation around the H II region G18.2-0.3
Creators: name: Zhang, Chuan-Peng
name: Yuan, Jing-Hua
name: Xu, Jin-Long
name: Liu, Xiao-Lan
name: Yu, Nai-Ping
name: Li, Nan
name: He, Li-Ping
name: Zhang, Guo-Yin
name: Wang, Jun-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sometimes the early star formation can be found in cold and dense molecular clouds, such as infrared dark cloud (IRDC). Considering star formation often occurs in clustered condition, HII regions may be triggering a new generation of star formation, so we can search for initial stage of massive star formation around HII regions. Based on that above, this work is to introduce one method of how to search for initial stage of massive star formation around HII regions. Towards one sample of the HII region G18.2-0.3, multiwavelength observations are carried out to investigate its physical condition. In contrast and analysis, we find three potential initial stages of massive star formation, suggesting that it is feasible to search for initial stage of massive star formation around HII regions.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Accepted by Research in Astron. Astrophys
Neural Network based Tire-Road Friction Estimation Using Experimental Data
Creators: name: Lampe, Nicolas
name: Kortmann, Karl-Philipp
name: Westerkamp, Clemens
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: intelligent autonomous vehicles
subject: machine learning in estimation
subject: maximum friction coefficient estimation
subject: neural networks
subject: parameter estimation
subject: road condition
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Knowledge of the maximum friction coefficient µmax between tire and road is necessary for implementing autonomous driving. As this coefficient cannot be measured via existing serial vehicle sensors, µmax estimation is a challenging field in modern automotive research. In particular, model-based approaches are applied, which are limited in the estimation accuracy by the physical vehicle model. Therefore, this paper presents a data-based µmax estimation using serial vehicle sensors. For this purpose, recurrent artificial neural networks are trained, validated, and tested based on driving maneuvers carried out with a test vehicle showing improved results compared to the model-based algorithm from previous works.
Destructive quantum interference in electron transport: A reconciliation of the molecular orbital and the atomic orbital perspective
Creators: name: Zhao, Xin
name: Geskin, Victor
name: Stadler, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Destructive quantum interference (DQI) in single molecule electronics is a purely quantum mechanical effect and entirely defined by inherent properties of the molecule in the junction such as its structure and symmetry. This definition of DQI by molecular properties alone suggests its relation to other more general concepts in chemistry as well as the possibility of deriving simple models for its understanding and molecular device design. Recently, two such models have gained wide spread attention, where one was a graphical scheme based on visually inspecting the connectivity of carbon sites in conjugated pi systems in an atomic orbital (AO) basis and the other one put the emphasis on the amplitudes and signs of the frontier molecular orbitals (MOs). There have been discussions on the range of applicability for these schemes, but ultimately conclusions from topological molecular Hamiltonians should not depend on whether they are drawn from an AO or a MO representation, as long as all the orbitals are taken into account. In this article we clarify the relation between both models in terms of the zeroth order Green's function and compare their predictions for a variety of systems. From this comparison we conclude that for a correct description of DQI from a MO perspective it is necessary to include the contributions from all MOs rather than just those from the frontier orbitals. The cases where DQI effects can be successfully predicted within a frontier orbital approximation we show to be limited to alternant even-membered hydrocarbons, as a a direct consequence of the Coulson-Rushbrooke pairing theorem in quantum chemistry.
description: 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Special Topic Issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics on Frontiers in Molecular Scale Electronics
Unravelling risk in child protection
Creators: name: Williamson, Katharine Claire
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis looks critically at risk management and its dominance in child welfare policy. The Knightian and Keynesian view of risk compared to uncertainty is used to show that 'risk' is not the correct term for understanding capitalist economies because they are always unpredictable. This thesis takes the Keynesian view of radical uncertainty into the social policy field to demonstrate that the term 'risk' is even less useful. An analysis of major historical developments and recent changes to child welfare policy in New South Wales sees dangers to children framed as risks capable of measurement and prediction. Rather than accept this notion, this thesis casts dangers to children as unknowable and unpredictable to show that attempts to quantify risk in policy ignore uncertainty. It argues that any model relying on risk is unlikely to strengthen child protection systems as intended. In an effort to conceptualise an alternative framework, I consider what it means to look out for and welcome children into the world and suggest how child welfare policy might adopt models from this standpoint.
Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Fault Diagnosis of Belt Drives
Creators: name: Fehsenfeld, Moritz
name: Kühn, Johannes
name: Kortmann, Karl-Philipp
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Domain adaptation
subject: Fault detection and diagnosis
subject: Machine learning
subject: Mechatronic systems
subject: Motion control systems
subject: Time series modeling
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: The implementation effort of data-driven fault diagnosis systems greatly exceeds its economic benefits in many industrial cases. Consequently, highly adapted, individual solutions instead of widespread distribution in the market are currently the result. The biggest problem is the availability of large amounts of labeled data, in particular fault data. In this work, we propose a multi-source domain adaptation procedure that integrates synthetic fault data generation into cross-domain classifier training to overcome this issue. The approach does not require fault data in the target domain which is highly relevant in practice. It is examined using the rarely studied example of diagnosing faulty pretensioning of belt drives. Datasets for multiple domains are collected by attaching different loads to the machine. An extensive experimental study on single and multiple source domains demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The generation of fault data outperforms the benchmark methods, especially for multi-source scenarios. Overall, the cross-domain fault diagnosis of belt drives yields promising results to enable a broad range of industrial applications.
New MLIS Graduates: Tech Gurus or Tunnel Vision? (2018). Journal of New Librarianship 2(2), 125.
Creators: name: Aizpurua, Michelle De
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: New MLIS graduates in the library are expected to meet the technological needs of a changing profession, but is this coming at the expense of their ability to connect with patrons?
Planting the seeds of a Tree of Death: A new approach, supporting information, test cases, and a national-scale study of population mortality structures from animal-marking records
Creators: name: SHANE BAYLIS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 10401 Applied Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Ecology

description: This thesis demonstrates a new method for estimating death curves – showing how likely an individual is to live to a particular age – for wild populations of animals. The method is designed to be used on large-scale animal-marking datasets that include many species, and allows comparisons of death curves between species and between populations of the same species. The thesis includes a large-scale analysis of mortality structures for Australian bird populations, and tests ideas relating life history characters – such as body size and number of offspring per year – to differences in mortality between species.
Flows along arch filaments observed in the GRIS 'very fast spectroscopic mode'
Creators: name: Manrique, S. J. González
name: Denker, C.
name: Kuckein, C.
name: Yabar, A. Pastor
name: Collados, M.
name: Verma, M.
name: Balthasar, H.
name: Diercke, A.
name: Fischer, C. E.
name: Gömöry, P.
name: González, N. Bello
name: Schlichenmaier, R.
name: Armas, M. Cubas
name: Berkefeld, T.
name: Feller, A.
name: Hoch, S.
name: Hofmann, A.
name: Lagg, A.
name: Nicklas, H.
name: Suárez, D. Orozco
name: Schmidt, D.
name: Schmidt, W.
name: Sigwarth, M.
name: Sobotka, M.
name: Solanki, S. K.
name: Soltau, D.
name: Staude, J.
name: Strassmeier, K. G.
name: Volkmer, R.
name: von der Lühe, O.
name: Waldmann, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new generation of solar instruments provides improved spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution, thus facilitating a better understanding of dynamic processes on the Sun. High-resolution observations often reveal multiple-component spectral line profiles, e.g., in the near-infrared He I 10830 Å triplet, which provides information about the chromospheric velocity and magnetic fine structure. We observed an emerging flux region, including two small pores and an arch filament system, on 2015 April 17 with the 'very fast spectroscopic mode' of the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) situated at the 1.5-meter GREGOR solar telescope at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. We discuss this method of obtaining fast (one per minute) spectral scans of the solar surface and its potential to follow dynamic processes on the Sun. We demonstrate the performance of the 'very fast spectroscopic mode' by tracking chromospheric high-velocity features in the arch filament system.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the conference proceedings of the IAUS 327: "Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere"
Robust model predictive control for linear sampled-data systems with irregular sampling times
Creators: name: Buschermöhle, Philipp
name: Lilge, Torsten
name: Müller, Matthias A.
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model Predictive Control
subject: Non-Uniform Sampling
subject: Optimal Control
subject: Robust Control
subject: Sampled-Data Control
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: This paper presents a sampled-data tube-based robust MPC scheme for linear continuous-time systems with irregular sampling times. The sampled-data control law is updated only at discrete sampling instances, but the proposed controller guarantees constraint satisfaction of the continuous-time state for all times. The proposed MPC scheme allows for two sources of uncertainty, (i) uncertain sampling times and (ii) an additional disturbance to the continuous-time system. A constraint adaptation is presented to handle this setting in a rigid tube MPC framework. Constraint satisfaction and convergence of the continuous-time state are shown for the proposed MPC scheme.
Feature size below 100 nm realized by UVLED- based microscope projection photolithography
Creators: name: Zheng, Lei
name: Birr, Tobias
name: Zywietz, Urs
name: Reinhardt, Carsten
name: Roth, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Changchun : Light Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Microfabrication
Nanofabrication
Projection lithography
Subwavelength structuring
UV-LED lithography

description: The demand for miniaturization and integration of optical elements has fostered the development of various micro- and nanofabrication technologies. In this work, we developed a low-cost UV-LED-based microscope projection photolithography system for rapid and high-resolution fabrication. This system can be easily implemented using off-the-shelf components. It allows for micro- and nanostructuring within seconds. By optimizing the process, a minimum feature size down to approximately 85 nm was successfully realized. In addition, investigations on fabrication of the same structures using both costly and economic microscope objectives were performed. Feature sizes below 100 nm can be stably achieved. The demonstrated approach extends the technology capabilities and may find applications in fields such as nanophotonics, biophotonics sensing and material science.
A preliminary investigation using unnatural amino acids to stabilise peptide radiotracers
Creators: name: King, Andrew T.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Peptide-based radiotracers are a valuable tool for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in nuclear medicine. However, some peptide-based radiotracers exhibit low metabolic stability and are rapidly degraded by proteolytic enzymes in vivo. This rapid degradation contributes to insufficient accumulation and high background radioactivity, ultimately leading to poor diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities. Previous work has shown that peptide-based radiotracers with unnatural amino acids linking the radioisotope and the peptide can improve the metabolic stability of the peptide. A promising unnatural amino acid linker that has demonstrated improvement in metabolic stability of peptides, but is still relatively underexplored, is the β-amino acid. A series of aliphatic and aromatic β-amino acids and their isostere conjugates, linked via their carboxyl groups to the amine group of glycine ethyl ester, were synthesised to assess their comparative metabolic stability. A range of synthetic strategies were performed to obtain the conjugates, which were fully characterised by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Preliminary in vitro incubation studies with porcine liver esterase (as a model of human esterase) provided some evidence for the aromatic β-amino acid-glycine ethyl ester conjugate being more stable than its α-amino acid analogue, but further studies are needed for more conclusive results.
Heralded multiphoton states with coherent spin interactions in waveguide QED
Creators: name: Paulisch, V
name: González-Tudela, A
name: Kimble, H J
name: Cirac, J I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WaveguideQEDoffers the possibility of generating strong coherent atomic interactions either through appropriate atomic configurations in the dissipative regime or in the bandgap regime. In this work, we show how to harness these interactions in order to herald the generation of highly entangled atomic states, which afterwards can be mapped to generate single mode multi-photonic states with high fidelities.Weintroduce two protocols for the preparation of the atomic states, we discuss their performance and compare them to previous proposals. In particular, we show that one of them reaches high probability of success for systems with many atoms but low Purcell factors.
Volarisation of Brewer's spent grain for noodles preparation and its potential assessment against obesity
Creators: name: Anisha, Anisha
name: Kaushik, Deepika
name: Kumar, Mukul
name: Kumar, Ashwani
name: Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
name: Proestos, Charalampos
name: Khan, Mohammad Rizwan
name: Elobeid, Tahra
name: Kaur, Jasjit
name: Oz, Fatih
Publisher: name: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Amylase assay
subject: Brewer's spent grain
subject: lipase assay
subject: noodles
subject: obesity
subject: value-added product
subject: 630
subject: 640
subject: 610
subject: 660

description: Brewer's spent grain is the most prevalent low-cost by-product of brewing industry, contributing to about 85% of all by-products produced. It is of interest for food industry applications because of its high nutritional value (fibres, protein and bioactive substances). The objective of this study was to determine the effects of different brewer's spent grain composition usage on various quality criteria of noodles as well as to investigate the possible usage opportunities and assessments of them in the production of noodles against obesity. For this purpose, noodle production was carried out using five different compositions of brewer's spent grain barley, barley and wheat, barley and rice, barley and maize, barley and finger millets, all at different concentrations (5%, 10%, 15% and 20%). Various quality criteria of the noodles were determined. Noodles made with the addition of barley and maize spent grains were found to be high in physio-chemical and nutritional properties, and amylase and lipase inhibition assay. Concentration above 15% of spent grains affected the texture of the noodles. From the sensory evaluation, 10% concentration of barley and maize noodles was selected as it had good texture, colour and appearance. It was comparatively good in taste and aroma from other samples.
Cardiac Remodelling and Fibrosis in Cardiomyopathy: Role of Galectin-3
Creators: name: MY-NHAN NGUYEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This thesis provides a comprehensive investigation on the contribution of heart scarring, known as cardiac fibrosis, to remodelling and impaired function of the heart. It highlights a relationship between the presence of cardiac fibrosis and severity of irregular heartbeats, and demonstrated the complex role of a molecule called ‘galectin-3’ in the pathogenesis of fibrosis and remodelling in cardiomyopathy. The thesis provides new mechanisms for elevation of galectin-3 blood levels that is invaluable for clinical use of galectin-3 as a predictor of heart disease. Collectively, these works have advanced our understanding of cardiac fibrosis and galectin-3 in heart disease.
Efficient synthesis of tertiary amine by direct N-alkylation of secondary amine with carboxylic acid using Ni (0) encat catalyst
Creators: name: Quadri, Syed Aziz Imam
name: Tonmoy C. Das
name: Shivaji Jadhav
name: Mazahar Farooqui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: In this article, direct N-alkylation of secondary amines with carboxylic acid is described. Readily available diversified carboxylic acid has been explored on variant secondary amines using encapsulated Nickel as catalyst and inexpensive sodium borohydride as the hydride source. High yields, mild reaction conditions, tolerance to sensitive functional group and facile operational procedure are the significance of the present methodology.
A 3D printable synthetic hydrogel as an immobilization matrix for continuous synthesis with fungal peroxygenases
Creators: name: Meyer, Lars-Erik
name: Horváth, Dorottya
name: Vaupel, Sonja
name: Meyer, Johanna
name: Alcalde, Miguel
name: Kara, Selin
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 3D printing
subject: Hydrogels
subject: Bioprocesses
subject: Case-studies
subject: Continuous synthesis
subject: Immobilisation
subject: Immobilization matrices
subject: Oxidation reactions
subject: Space time yield
subject: Enzyme immobilization
subject: 540

description: Enzyme immobilization is the key to an intensified bioprocess that allows recycling of the heterogenized enzyme and/or continuous biocatalytic production. In this communication, we present a case study for enzyme immobilization in a novel, 3D printable synthetic hydrogel and its use in continuous oxidation reactions. Immobilization resulted in an average immobilization yield of 6.1% and continuous synthesis was run for 24 hours with a space-time yield of 3.1 × 10−2 g L−1 h−1
Deprotection of durable benzenesulfonyl protection for phenols — efficient synthesis of polyphenols
Creators: name: Alam, Mohammad Shariful
name: Sangho Koo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A robust protection method for phenol was demonstrated by the use of durable benzenesulfonyl group, which survives various harsh reaction conditions using Grignard reagent, organolithium reagent, metal alkoxide, phosgene, mineral, and Lewis acids. A facile deprotection condition utilizing pulverized KOH (5 equiv) and t-BuOH (10 equiv) in hot toluene makes this protocol as a practical method, which can be applied to the multistep synthesis of biologically and medicinally important polyphenol compounds.
Transmit Array Interpolation for DOA Estimation via Tensor Decomposition in 2D MIMO Radar
Creators: name: Cao, Ming-Yang
name: Vorobyov, Sergiy A.
name: Hassanien, Aboulnasr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional (2D) joint transmit array interpolation and beamspace design for planar array mono-static multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation via tensor modeling. Our underlying idea is to map the transmit array to a desired array and suppress the transmit power outside the spatial sector of interest. In doing so, the signal-tonoise ratio is improved at the receive array. Then, we fold the received data along each dimension into a tensorial structure and apply tensor-based methods to obtain DOA estimates. In addition, we derive a close-form expression for DOA estimation bias caused by interpolation errors and argue for using a specially designed look-up table to compensate the bias. The corresponding Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) is also derived. Simulation results are provided to show the performance of the proposed method and compare its performance to CRB.
description: 37 pages, 13 figures, Submitted to the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing in December 2016
Estimation of the genome-wide number and patterns of putative somatic mutations within individuals of Eucalyptus pauciflora
Creators: name: Morales-Suárez, Eder Alejandro
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Somatic mutations occur in the body cells of an individual organism. In plants, somatic mutations can accumulate as they grow, causing genetic variation between cells within an individual. Furthermore, in plants, unlike in animals, somatic mutations can be heritable, with potential effects including reduction in fitness through the accumulation of deleterious mutations, increase in genetic diversity in clonal populations, and increased survival under stressful environments. Despite the evidence of the occurrence and consequences of somatic mutations in plants, very little is known about the extent to which they occur across the genome. Even with the progress of next-generation sequencing technology, the lack of standard bioinformatic pipelines makes it difficult to investigate somatic mutations in plants. In this thesis, I present the application of a novel bioinformatics pipeline for somatic variant discovery across the entire genome of three individuals of the snow gum tree Eucalyptus pauciflora. We selected individuals of E. pauciflora (located at the Thredbo Kosciusko National Park in Australia) and sequenced the full genome of eight branches in triplicate within each tree. First, using the sequence data of one individual tree (Chapter 2), I generated(and described the corresponding method) a pseudo-reference genome for this non-model species. Later, I present a novel bioinformatics pipeline for the genome-wide discovery of variable sites with different levels of filtering. I also show how the application of a statistical/phylogenetic approach can serve as a positive-control analysis to assess the relatedness of genotypic information within trees. Later on, I present the analysis described above in two more trees and I compare numbers and patterns of putative somatic mutations among individuals (Chapter 3). I also show the impact of different reference genomes to improve mapping quality and reduce general error rate (Chapter 4). This investigation allowed me to compare how important is mapping quality in the discovery of variable sites within trees. Finally, I present the results of a gene annotation prediction analysis that determined the location in the genome of the putative somatic mutations identified with my protocols (Chapter4). These results provide the first genome-wide comparison of number and patterns of putative somatic mutations in more than one individual applying the same bioinformatics pipeline and open the possibility to explore the potential fitness effects of somatic mutations within plants.