cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
E$^2$CM: Early Exit via Class Means for Efficient Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Creators: name: Görmez, Alperen
name: Dasari, Venkat R.
name: Koyuncu, Erdem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art neural networks with early exit mechanisms often need considerable amount of training and fine tuning to achieve good performance with low computational cost. We propose a novel early exit technique, Early Exit Class Means (E$^2$CM), based on class means of samples. Unlike most existing schemes, E$^2$CM does not require gradient-based training of internal classifiers and it does not modify the base network by any means. This makes it particularly useful for neural network training in low-power devices, as in wireless edge networks. We evaluate the performance and overheads of E$^2$CM over various base neural networks such as MobileNetV3, EfficientNet, ResNet, and datasets such as CIFAR-100, ImageNet, and KMNIST. Our results show that, given a fixed training time budget, E$^2$CM achieves higher accuracy as compared to existing early exit mechanisms. Moreover, if there are no limitations on the training time budget, E$^2$CM can be combined with an existing early exit scheme to boost the latter's performance, achieving a better trade-off between computational cost and network accuracy. We also show that E$^2$CM can be used to decrease the computational cost in unsupervised learning tasks.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted to IJCNN 2022 (WCCI2022)
Assembling a micro-budget digital feature: screenplays, patterns & practices
Creators: name: Munt, Alexander
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In the mid 1990s the low-budget eature film model was 'digitised'. The affordability of the consumer grade digital video (DV) format together with the early success of the Danish Dogme films spurred a wave of digital filmmaking. In 2009, whilst the technology has kept pace with uptake of the High Definition (HD) format, the models at hand for the digital feature remain in short supply. Specifically, this thesis targets the 'micro-budget digital feature' as one emerging area of interest. In this context, it investigates a series of screenplay models, cinematic patterns and film practices. The thesis has two components. Initially, it proceeds with a series of case studies taken from Australian digital cinema, international art cinema (past and present) and early American independent cinema. Five screenplay models are presented: the 'Open Screenplay' (Abbas Kiarostami); the 'Scriptment' (Kriv Stenders); the 'Trame' (Jean-Luc Godard); the 'Cinematic Diary' (Gus Van Sant) and the 'Set-List' (Michael Winterbottom). It negotiates a matrix of concepts that surround 'alternative' screenwriting and 'scripting' for the digital feature film. A prime focus is on film form and cinematic patterns; screen aesthetics, mise-en-scene, montage, movement, music and sound design. Questions of micro-budget adaptation, voiceover narration and performance are also discussed. The second component of this thesis. The LBF Assembly, aligns with models of practice-led research in screen media arts. It is a screen media assembly that combines a hybrid screenplay with a selection of produced scenes. The LBF Assembly explores five key patterns from the case study research; voiceover narration; travelling shots; montage; spatial zones and pop-songs. It forms an experiment in small-scale, digital filmmaking practice that exploits the HD digital format. The interlinked parts of this research aim to contribute to an expanded notion of the screenplay in the digital age, of interest to screen theorists, screenwriters, filmmakers and industry bodies.
Nip it in the Bud: Moderation Strategies in Open Source Software Projects and the Role of Bots
Creators: name: Hsieh, Jane
name: Kim, Joselyn
name: Dabbish, Laura
name: Zhu, Haiyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Much of our modern digital infrastructure relies critically upon open sourced software. The communities responsible for building this cyberinfrastructure require maintenance and moderation, which is often supported by volunteer efforts. Moderation, as a non-technical form of labor, is a necessary but often overlooked task that maintainers undertake to sustain the community around an OSS project. This study examines the various structures and norms that support community moderation, describes the strategies moderators use to mitigate conflicts, and assesses how bots can play a role in assisting these processes. We interviewed 14 practitioners to uncover existing moderation practices and ways that automation can provide assistance. Our main contributions include a characterization of moderated content in OSS projects, moderation techniques, as well as perceptions of and recommendations for improving the automation of moderation tasks. We hope that these findings will inform the implementation of more effective moderation practices in open source communities.
Assessing the effect of sample bias correction in species distribution models
Creators: name: Dubos, Nicolas
name: Préau, Clémentine
name: Lenormand, Maxime
name: Papuga, Guillaume
name: Montsarrat, Sophie
name: Denelle, Pierre
name: Louarn, Marine Le
name: Heremans, Stien
name: Roel, May
name: Roche, Philip
name: Luque, Sandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Open-source biodiversity databases contain a large amount of species occurrence records, but these are often spatially biased, which affects the reliability of species distribution models based on these records. Sample bias correction techniques include data filtering at the cost of record numbers or require considerable additional sampling effort. However, independent data are rarely available and assessment of the correction technique must rely on performance metrics computed with subsets of the only available (biased) data, which may be misleading. Here we assess the extent to which an acknowledged sample bias correction technique is likely to improve models' ability to predict species distributions in the absence of independent data. We assessed the variation in model predictions induced by the correction and model stochasticity. We present an index of the effect of correction relative to model stochasticity, the Relative Overlap Index (ROI). We tested whether the ROI better represented the effect of correction than classic performance metrics and absolute overlap metrics using 64 vertebrate species and 21 virtual species with a generated sample bias. When based on absolute overlaps and cross-validation performance metrics, we found no effect of correction, except for cAUC. When considering its effect relative to model stochasticity, the effect of correction depended on the site and the species. Virtual species enabled us to verify that the correction actually improved distribution predictions and the biological relevance of the selected variables at the sites with a clear gradient of sample bias, and when species distribution predictors are not correlated with sample bias patterns.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures + Appendix
A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces
Creators: name: Caiazzo, Ilaria
name: Burdge, Kevin B.
name: Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel
name: Fuller, James
name: Ferrario, Lilia
name: Gaensicke, Boris T.
name: Hermes, J. J.
name: Heyl, Jeremy
name: Kawka, Adela
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Marsh, Thomas R.
name: Mroz, Przemek
name: Prince, Thomas A.
name: Richer, Harvey B.
name: Rodriguez, Antonio C.
name: van Roestel, Jan
name: Vanderbosch, Zachary P.
name: Vennes, Stephane
name: Wickramasinghe, Dayal
name: Dhillon, Vikram S.
name: Littlefair, Stuart P.
name: Munday, James
name: Pelisoli, Ingrid
name: Perley, Daniel
name: Bellm, Eric C.
name: Breedt, Elme
name: Brown, Alex J.
name: Dekany, Richard
name: Drake, Andrew
name: Dyer, Martin J.
name: Graham, Matthew J.
name: Green, Matthew J.
name: Laher, Russ R.
name: Kerry, Paul
name: Parsons, Steven G.
name: Riddle, Reed L.
name: Rusholme, Ben
name: Sahman, Dave I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterised by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Earth-like planet. In the resulting strong gravity, heavy elements sink toward the centre and the upper layer of the atmosphere contains only the lightest element present, usually hydrogen or helium. Several mechanisms compete with gravitational settling to change a white dwarf's surface composition as it cools, and the fraction of white dwarfs with helium atmospheres is known to increase by a factor ~2.5 below a temperature of about 30,000 K; therefore, some white dwarfs that appear to have hydrogen-dominated atmospheres above 30,000 K are bound to transition to be helium-dominated as they cool below it. Here we report observations of ZTF J203349.8+322901.1, a transitioning white dwarf with two faces: one side of its atmosphere is dominated by hydrogen and the other one by helium. This peculiar nature is likely caused by the presence of a small magnetic field, which creates an inhomogeneity in temperature, pressure or mixing strength over the surface. ZTF J203349.8+322901.1 might be the most extreme member of a class of magnetic, transitioning white dwarfs -- together with GD 323, a white dwarf that shows similar but much more subtle variations. This new class could help shed light on the physical mechanisms behind white dwarf spectral evolution.
description: 45 pages, 11 figures
Proximity effects and pair currents in cuprate junctions
Creators: name: Koren, Gad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proximity effects and pair currents were measured in epitaxial trilayer \textit{c-axis} junctions comprise of a $PrBa_2Cu_3O_{7-δ}$ barrier sandwiched in between an overdoped $Y_{0.94}Ca_{0.06}Ba_2Cu_3O_{7-δ}$ and underdoped $YBa_2Cu_{2.7}Co_{0.3}O_y$ layers. These junctions had two $\rm T_c$ values of $\rm T_c(high)=84-86$ K and $\rm T_c(low)=50-55$ K, allowing investigation when both electrodes are superconducting, or when only one is superconducting while the other is in its pseudogap regime. For T below $\rm T_c(high)$ but much above $\rm T_c(low)$, two distinct proximity effect transitions were observed in the resistance at two temperature regimes, between 80 and 84 K, and 76 to 80 K. The first is a conventional proximity effect with the $\rm T_c(high)$ electrode, while the second is a second-order proximity effect of this electrode with uncorrelated pairs in the pseudogap regime. Conductance spectra measured between 2 and 86 K showed four different $I_c$ pair currents which were attributed to coherent pairs tunneling through the barrier below 42 K, to fluctuating pairs current up to $\sim$77 K, and to proximity pairs current between 77 and 84 K. All pair currents were suppressed under magnetic fields, with two distinct decay parameters that originated in the two different electrodes, with a significant suppression observed in the pseudogap regime.
description: New results which were not reported in arXiv:1609.01432
The iron lady and the angry students : project-based learning using the internet critically in a Korean ELT university setting
Creators: name: Kim, Mi Kyong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Battery Materials
Creators: name: Haber, Shira
name: Leskes, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The increasing need for portable and large-scale energy storage systems requires development of new, long lasting and highly efficient battery systems. Solid state NMR spectroscopy has emerged as an excellent method for characterizing battery materials. Yet, it is limited when it comes to probing thin interfacial layers which play a central role in the performance and lifetime of battery cells. Here we review how Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) can lift the sensitivity limitation and enable detection of the electrode-electrolyte interface, as well as the bulk of some electrode and electrolyte systems. We describe the current challenges from the point of view of materials development; considering how the unique electronic, magnetic and chemical properties differentiate battery materials from other applications of DNP in materials science. We review the current applications of exogenous and endogenous DNP from radicals, conduction electrons and paramagnetic metal ions. Finally, we provide our perspective on the opportunities and directions where battery materials can benefit from current DNP methodologies as well as project on future developments that will enable NMR investigation of battery materials with sensitivity and selectivity under ambient conditions.
Where Did the Outskirts Go? Outer Stellar Haloes as a Sensitive Probe of Supernova Feedback
Creators: name: Keller, B. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent comparison by Merritt et al. 2020 of simulated and observed Milky Way-mass galaxies has identified a significant tension between the outskirts ($r>20\kpc$) of the stellar halos in simulated and observed galaxies. Using observations from the Dragonfly telescope and simulated galaxies from the Illustris-TNG100 project, Merritt et al. 2020 finds that the outskirts of stellar halos in simulated galaxies have surface densities $1-2$ dex higher than observed galaxies. In this paper, we compare two suites of 15 simulated Milky Way-like galaxies, each drawn from the same initial conditions, simulated with the same hydrodynamical code, but with two different models for feedback from supernovae. We find that the MUGS simulations, which use an older ``delayed-cooling'' model for feedback, also produce too much stellar mass in the outskirts of the halo, with median surface densities well above observational constraints. The MUGS2 simulations, which instead use a new, physically-motivated ``superbubble'' model for stellar feedback, have $1-2$ dex lower outer stellar halo masses and surface densities. The MUGS2 simulations generally match both the median surface density profile as well as the scatter in stellar halo surface density profiles seen in observed stellar halos. We conclude that there is no ``missing outskirts'' problem in cosmological simulations, provided that supernova feedback is modelled in a way that allows it to efficiently regulate star formation in the low-mass progenitor environments of stellar halo outskirts.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. ApJ published version
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, March 29, [1949?]
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Pound asks Seel if she has proper maple trees to make maple syrup and sugar.
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, February 9, [1950?]
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel.
Non-equilibrium fractional quantum Hall states visualized by optically detected MRI
Creators: name: Moore, John N.
name: Hayakawa, Junichiro
name: Mano, Takaaki
name: Noda, Takeshi
name: Yusa, Go
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using photoluminescence microscopy enhanced by MRI, we visualize in real space both electron and nuclear polarization occurring in non-equilibrium FQH liquids. We observe stripe-like regions comprising FQH excited states which discretely form when the FQH liquid is excited by a source-drain current. These regions are topologically protected and deformable, and give rise to bidirectionally polarized nuclear spins as spin-resolved electrons flow across their boundaries.
description: 4 figures
Embedding Intelligence in Materials for Responsive Built Environment: A Topical Review on Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators and Sensors
Creators: name: Schwartz, Mathew
name: Lagerwall, Jan P. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) are an exciting category of material that has tremendous application potential across a variety of fields, owing to their unique properties that enable both sensing and actuation. To some, LCEs are simply another type of Shape Memory Polymer, while to others they are an interesting on-going scientific experiment. In this visionary article, we bring an interdisciplinary discussion around creative and impactful ways that LCEs can be applied in the Built Environment to support kinematic and kinetic buildings and situational awareness. We focus particularly on the autonomy made possible by using LCEs, potentially removing needs for motors, wiring and tubing, and even enabling fully independent operation in response to natural environment variations, requiring no power sources. To illustrate the potential, we propose a number of concrete application scenarios where LCEs could offer innovative solutions to problems of great societal importance, such as autonomous active ventilation, heliotropic solar panel systems which can also remove snow or sand autonomously, and invisible coatings with strain mapping functionality, alerting residents in case of dangerous (static or dynamic) loads on roofs or windows, as well as assisting building safety inspection teams after earthquakes.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures. This is a strongly crossdisciplinary paper, aiming to connect the community working with liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) with designers of the built environment, who can use the unique properties of LCEs in numerous ways, as illustrated in our paper. It is a paper of strongly visionary character, designed to stimulate discussion and motivate new research thrusts
Female university students' dysfunctional choices of study fields in Korean universities
Creators: name: Kim, Hyo Young
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Small-Variance Nonparametric Clustering on the Hypersphere
Creators: name: Straub, Julian
name: Campbell, Trevor
name: How, Jonathan P.
name: Fisher, John W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Structural regularities in man-made environments reflect in the distribution of their surface normals. Describing these surface normal distributions is important in many computer vision applications, such as scene understanding, plane segmentation, and regularization of 3D reconstructions. Based on the small-variance limit of Bayesian nonparametric von-Mises-Fisher (vMF) mixture distributions, we propose two new flexible and efficient k-means-like clustering algorithms for directional data such as surface normals. The first, DP-vMF-means, is a batch clustering algorithm derived from the Dirichlet process (DP) vMF mixture. Recognizing the sequential nature of data collection in many applications, we extend this algorithm to DDP-vMF-means, which infers temporally evolving cluster structure from streaming data. Both algorithms naturally respect the geometry of directional data, which lies on the unit sphere. We demonstrate their performance on synthetic directional data and real 3D surface normals from RGB-D sensors. While our experiments focus on 3D data, both algorithms generalize to high dimensional directional data such as protein backbone configurations and semantic word vectors.
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, [1950?], 04
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Dorothy Pound handwrites a note on the letter.
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, [1948?], 01
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Pound asks Seel to send a paragraph on conversations of Goethe with Eckermann.
Hairy Lovelock black holes and Stueckelberg mechanism for Weyl symmetry
Creators: name: Chernicoff, Mariano
name: Giribet, Gaston
name: Oliva, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lovelock theory of gravity -and, in particular, Einstein theory- admits black hole solutions that can be equipped with a hair by conformally coupling the theory to a real scalar field. This is a secondary hair, meaning that it does not endow the black hole with new quantum numbers. It rather consists of a non-trivial scalar field profile of fixed intensity which turns out to be regular everywhere outside and on the horizon and, provided the cosmological constant is negative, behaves at large distance in a way compatible with the Anti-de Sitter (AdS) asymptotic. In this paper, we review the main features of these hairy black hole solutions, such as their geometrical and thermodynamical properties. The conformal coupling to matter in dimension $D>4$ in principle includes higher-curvature terms. These couplings are obtained from the Lovelock action through the Stueckelberg strategy. As a consequence, the resulting scalar-tensor theory exhibits a self-duality under field redefinition that resembles T-duality. Through this field redefinition, the matter content of the theory transforms into a Lovelock action for a dual geometry. Since the hairy black holes only exist for special relations between the dual Lovelock coupling constants, it is natural to compare those relations with the causality bounds coming from AdS/CFT. We observe that, while the lower causality bound is always obeyed, the upper causality bound is violated. The latter, however, is saturated in the large $D$ limit.
description: To be published in Journal of Physics Conference Series (IOP). Joint Proceedings of the XV Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields & the XXX Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, [1950?], 05
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel.
Open Medical Gesture: An Open-Source Experiment in Naturalistic Physical Interactions for Mixed and Virtual Reality Simulations
Creators: name: Talbot, Thomas B
name: Chinara, Chinmay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) simulations are hampered by requirements for hand controllers or attempts to perseverate in use of two-dimensional computer interface paradigms from the 1980s. From our efforts to produce more naturalistic interactions for combat medic training for the military, USC has developed an open-source toolkit that enables direct hand controlled responsive interactions that is sensor independent and can function with depth sensing cameras, webcams or sensory gloves. Natural approaches we have examined include the ability to manipulate virtual smart objects in a similar manner to how they are used in the real world. From this research and review of current literature, we have discerned several best approaches for hand-based human computer interactions which provide intuitive, responsive, useful, and low frustration experiences for VR users.
description: AHFE 2022
Letter from Else Seel to Ezra Pound, May/June 1949
Creators: name: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Seel discusses Goethe.
Inference for Multivariate Regression Model based on synthetic data generated under Fixed-Posterior Predictive Sampling: comparison with Plug-in Sampling
Creators: name: Moura, Ricardo
name: Klein, Martin
name: Coelho, Carlos A.
name: Sinha, Bimal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H10, 62H15, 62H12, 62J05, 62F10, 62E15, 62E10, 62E17, 62D99

description: The authors derive likelihood-based exact inference methods for the multivariate regression model, for singly imputed synthetic data generated via Posterior Predictive Sampling (PPS) and for multiply imputed synthetic data generated via a newly proposed sampling method, which the authors call Fixed-Posterior Predictive Sampling (FPPS). In the single imputation case, our proposed FPPS method concurs with the usual Posterior Predictive Sampling (PPS) method, thus filling the gap in the existing literature where inferential methods are only available for multiple imputation. Simulation studies compare the results obtained with those for the exact test procedures under the Plug-in Sampling method, obtained by the same authors. Measures of privacy are discussed and compared with the measures derived for the Plug-in Sampling method. An application using U.S.\ 2000 Current Population Survey data is discussed.
A fourth derivative test for exponential sums
Creators: name: Robert, O
name: Sargos, P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give an upper bound for the exponential $\sum_{m=1}^M \exp( 2iπf (m))$ in terms of $M$ and $λ$, where $λ$ is a small positive number which denotes the size of the fourth derivative of the real valued function $f$. The classical van der Corput's exponent 1/14 is improved into 1/13 by reducing the problem to a mean square value theorem for triple exponential sums.
Letter from Else Seel to Ezra Pound, July 6, 1950
Creators: name: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Seel discusses her future.
Colored-hadron distribution in hadron scattering in SU(2) lattice QCD
Creators: name: Takahashi, Toru T.
name: Kanada-En'yo, Yoshiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In color SU(2) lattice QCD, we investigate colored-diquark distributions in two-hadron scatterings by means of Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes on the lattice. With colored-diquark operators in the Coulomb gauge, we measure components of two colored diquarks realized as intermediate states via one gluon exchange (OGE) processes in hadron scattering. From the colored-diquark distributions, we estimate the dominant range of gluon (color) exchanges between closely located two hadrons. We find that the colored-diquark components are enhanced at the short range ($\leq$0.2 fm) and their tails show the single-exponential damping. In order to distinguish the genuine colored-diquark components originating in the color exchange processes from trivial colored two-quark components contained in two color-singlet hadrons as a result of simple transformation of hadronic basis, we repeat the analyses on the artificially constructed gauge fields, where low- and high-momentum gluon components are decoupled and only restricted pair of quarks can share and exchange low-momentum gluons. We observe qualitatively the same behaviors and confirm that the short-range enhancement of the colored-diquark distributions is the genuine OGE-origin color excitation in hadron scattering.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures
Letter from Else Seel to Fran, July 20, 1949
Creators: name: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Seel handwrites a letter to Fran in German.
Management development evaluation practices in Australian business organisations : the human resource practitioners' perspective
Creators: name: Khosa, Mufunani
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Stein neighbourhoods of bordered complex curves attached to holomorphically convex sets
Creators: name: Forstneric, Franc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32E10, 32E20, 32U05

description: In this paper we construct open Stein neighbourhoods of compact sets of the form $A\cup K$ in a complex space, where $K$ is a compact holomorphically convex set, $A$ is a compact complex curve with boundary $bA$ of class $\mathscr C^2$ which may intersect $K$, and $A\cap K$ is $\mathscr O(A)$-convex.
Textual realisations: a comparison of meaning in children's picture story books, comics, photonovellas, film/television/videos and computer books
Creators: name: Cross, Judith L.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The images in children's texts are vessels in which meaning is codified. Images are codified by their creator and decoded by the reader/viewer. This coding varies depending on the format of the text, the audience and the relationship between text and its context. Video versions of children's stories, may initially appear similar to their printed counterparts, but their meanings are usually significantly different. The reading/ viewing experience of various realisations is, in fact, essentially different although this may not be immediately apparent to the child reader / viewer. -- The profiles of ten children's stories are described in order to compare and contrast how the 'personalities' of these picture stories change depending on whether they are realised in comic book form, photonovella, picture story book, film/ television/ video or computer format. These profiles are arrived at via the application of systemicfunctional grammar as developed by Michael Halliday (1985a) and adapted for the analysis of images by Kress and van Leeuwen (1990). The various media presentations of these stories position the reader / viewer differently and thereby determine how the texts will be read/ viewed even though the titles of these various stories may remain unchanged from their original face-to-face (oral) versions. A comparison of children's picture story texts, a comparison which involves analysing a variety of adaptations, is detailed in this thesis. This comparison is one which describes both the different and the similar ways in which a person reads or views image texts depending on the semiotic system of presentation. -- Also emphasised in this paper is the importance for educators and those concerned with children's literacy, to bear in mind that picture story books, photonovellas, comics, films, television, videos and books on computers are not translations, transcodings or substitutes for their original versions. They are more appropriately conceived of simply as different texts, thoroughly different realisations of a similar plot and, moreover, differentiated in often unacknowledged ways. The various textual realisations can be seen to require specific visual competencies, specific ways of reading and thinking about how images mean.
Letter from Dorothy Pound to Else Seel, March 15, 1948
Creators: name: Pound, Dorothy
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Dorothy Pound asks Seel to translate an enclosure and send to Dallam Simpson.
Black hole microstates from the worldsheet
Creators: name: Bufalini, Davide
name: Iguri, Sergio
name: Kovensky, Nicolas
name: Turton, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently an exact worldsheet description of strings propagating in certain black hole microstate geometries was constructed in terms of null-gauged WZW models. In this paper we consider a family of such coset models, in which the currents being gauged are specified by a set of parameters that a priori take arbitrary values. We show that consistency of the spectrum of the worldsheet CFT implies a set of quantisation conditions and parity restrictions on the gauging parameters. We also derive these constraints from an independent geometrical analysis of smoothness, absence of horizons and absence of closed timelike curves. This allows us to prove that the complete set of consistent backgrounds in this class of models is precisely the general family of (NS5-decoupled) non-BPS solutions known as the JMaRT solutions, together with their various (BPS and non-BPS) limits. We clarify several aspects of these backgrounds by expressing their six-dimensional solutions explicitly in terms of five non-negative integers and a single length-scale. Finally we study non-trivial two-charge limits, and exhibit a novel set of non-BPS supergravity solutions describing bound states of NS5 branes carrying momentum charge.
description: 43 pages, v3: typos corrected
Letter from Ezra Pound to Gloria Seel, April 17, [1950?]
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel. Pound offers condolences on the death of Gloria Seel's father.
A new 2D monolayer BiXene, M2C (M=Mo, Tc, Os)
Creators: name: Sun, Weiwei
name: Li, Yunguo
name: Wang, Baotian
name: Jiang, Xue
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail I.
name: Korzhavyi, Pavel
name: Eriksson, Olle
name: Di Marco, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Note this is a rather coarse version of our manuscript since uploading tex files are necessary (we are not willing to upload all tex files). The existence of BiXenes, a new family of 2D monolayers is here predicted. Theoretically, BiXenes have 1H symmetry (P-6m2) and can be formed from the 4d/5d binary carbides. As the name suggests, they are close relatives of MXenes, which instead have 1T symmetry (P-3m1). The newly found BiXenes, as well as some new MXenes, are shown to have formation energies close to that of germanene, which suggests that these materials should be possible to be synthesised. Among them, we illustrate that 1H-Tc2C and 1T-Mo2C are dynamically stable at 0 K, while 1H-Mo2C, 1TTc2C, 1H-Tc2C, and 1T-Rh2C are likely to be stabilised via strain or temperature. In addition, the nature of the chemical bonding is analysed, emphasizing that the covalency between the transition metal ions and carbon is much stronger in BiXenes than in MXenes. The emergence of BiXenes can not only open up a new era of conducting 2D monolayers, but also provide good candidates for carrier materials aimed at energy storage and spintronic devices that have already been unveiled in MXenes.
Applying User Experience and User-Centered Design Software Processes in Undergraduate Mobile Application Development Teaching
Creators: name: López, Manuel Ignacio Castillo
name: Cervantes, Ana Libia Eslava
name: Martínez, Gustavo de la Cruz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Agile methods in undergraduate courses have been explored by various authors looking to close the gap between industry and professional profiles. We have structured an Android application development course based on a tailored agile process for development of educational software tools. This process is based on both Scrum and Extreme Programming in combination with User Experience (UX) and User-Centered Design (UCD) approaches. The course is executed in two phases: the first half of the course's semester presents theory on agile and mobile applications development, the latter half is managed as a workshop where students develop for an actual client. The introduction of UX and UCD exploiting the close relationship with stakeholders expected from an agile process can enhance Quality in Use features. Since 2019 two of the projects have been extended in agreement between the client and students. Students, clients and users have found value in the generated products.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, conference
Letter from Ezra Pound to Else Seel, March 21, [1949?]
Creators: name: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/29337
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067794
subject: Poets, German
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067907
subject: Seel, Else, 1894-1974
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/184483
subject: Women poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178321

description: Part of a collection of letters between Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Editha Frobenius, Peter Russel and Else Seel.
Optimized EMS Real-Time Simulation and Validation for Singapore Pulau Ubin Microgrid
Creators: name: Qian, Ziyuan
name: Cao, Shuyu
name: Jiang, Hao
name: Bala Krishnan, Sivaneasan
name: Tan, Kuan Tak
name: Tseng, King Jet
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems

description: This paper presents a cost-optimized Energy Management System (EMS) algorithm developed for Singapore Palau Ubin Microgrid islanded mode operation. The microgrid comprises two PV MPPT DC/DC inverters, one battery DC/DC converter, one grid-forming DC/AC inverter, one diesel generator (DG), and a few distributed loads. The proposed micro grid EMS utilizes the PV irradiation profile and the load profile to distribute the power between DG and the battery storage system to meet the load demand at a minimal cost. The OPAL-RT real-time simulation is implemented to validate the optimized microgrid EMS power distribution. The real-time simulation results prove that the battery power profile matches with EMS calculation results even though the battery power reference cannot be controlled directly in the hybrid DC/AC microgrid. The stable transient performance is achieved in the micro grid real-time simulation.
The 'woman question' in Melbourne 1880-1914
Creators: name: Kelly, Farley
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Gate-Tunable Negative Longitudinal Magnetoresistance in the Predicted Type-II Weyl Semimetal WTe2
Creators: name: Wang, Yaojia
name: Liu, Erfu
name: Liu, Huimei
name: Pan, Yiming
name: Zhang, Longqiang
name: Zeng, Junwen
name: Fu, Yajun
name: Wang, Miao
name: Xu, Kang
name: Huang, Zhong
name: Wang, Zhenlin
name: Lu, Haizhou
name: Xing, Dingyu
name: Wang, Baigeng
name: Wan, Xiangang
name: Miao, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The progress in exploiting new electronic materials and devices has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), particularly a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles and may harbor novel electrical transport properties because of the exotic Fermi surface. Nevertheless, such a type-II WSM material has not been experimentally observed in nature. In this work, by performing systematic magneto-transport studies on thin films of a predicted material candidate WTe2, we observe notable angle-sensitive (between the electric and magnetic fields) negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (MR), which can likely be attributed to the chiral anomaly in WSM. This phenomenon also exhibits strong planar orientation dependence with the absence of negative longitudinal MR along the tungsten chains (a axis), which is consistent with the distinctive feature of a type-II WSM. By applying a gate voltage, we demonstrate that the Fermi energy can be tuned through the Weyl points via the electric field effect; this is the first report of controlling the unique transport properties in situ in a WSM system. Our results have important implications for investigating simulated quantum field theory in solid-state systems and may open opportunities for implementing new types of electronic applications, such as field-effect chiral electronic devices.
description: accepted by Nature Communications; 27 pages, 3 figures, 9 supplementary figures; submitted on May 1st, 2016