cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Low energy inelastic response in the superconducting phases of $PrOs_4Sb_{12}$
Creators: name: Setty, Chandan
name: Wang, Yuxuan
name: Phillips, Philip W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent AC susceptibility and polar Kerr effect measurements in the skutterudite superconductor PrOs4Sb12 (POS) uncovered the nature of the superconducting double transition from a high temperature, high field, time reversal symmetric phase (or the A phase) to a low temperature, low field, time reversal symmetry broken phase (or the B phase). Starting from a microscopic model, we derive a Ginzburg-Landau expansion relevant to POS that describes this entrance into the time reversal symmetry broken phase along the temperature axis. We also provide a study of the low energy inelastic (Raman) response in both the A and B phases of POS, and seek additional signatures which could help reveal the exact form of the gap functions previously proposed in these phases. By appropriately manipulating the incoming and scattered light geometries, along with additional subtraction procedures and suitable assumptions, we show that one can access the various irreducible representations contained in the point group describing POS. We demonstrate how to use this technique on example order parameters proposed in POS. Depending on whether there exist nodes along the c-axis, we find additional low energy spectral weight within the superconducting gap in the Eg geometry, a feature that could pin point the location of nodes on the Fermi surface.
description: 14 pages and 10 figures including the Appendix
Stochastic geometric models with non-stationary spatial correlations in Lagrangian fluid flows
Creators: name: Gay-Balmaz, François
name: Holm, Darryl D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by spatiotemporal observations from satellites of the trajectories of objects drifting near the surface of the ocean in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's `Global Drifter Program', this paper develops data-driven stochastic models of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD) with non-stationary spatial correlations representing the dynamical behaviour of oceanic currents. Three models are considered. Model 1 from Holm [2015] is reviewed, in which the spatial correlations are time independent. Two new models, called Model 2 and Model 3, introduce two different symmetry breaking mechanisms by which the spatial correlations may be advected by the flow. These models are derived using reduction by symmetry of stochastic variational principles, leading to stochastic Hamiltonian systems, whose momentum maps, conservation laws and Lie-Poisson bracket structures are used in developing the new stochastic Hamiltonian models of GFD.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
The 'responsible' woman: the BBC and women's radio 1945-1955
Creators: name: Skoog, Kristin
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: The BBC's women's radio in the British post-war period (1945 – 1955) is still a very much neglected area of historical research, although the BBC after the Second World War continued to produce many talks and programmes that were specifically aimed at women, such as the factual Woman’s Hour (1946) and the fictional Mrs. Dale’s Diary (1948). By building on archival research conducted mainly at the BBC Written Archives Centre, and further work carried out at the Mass Observation Archive, this thesis addresses the production side, as well as the text, and the audience; in a sense a very multifaceted approach. Focus has been laid on women's programmes such as Woman’s Hour and Mrs. Dale’s Diary. But other talks and discussions have also been considered not necessarily with just a focus on women. Throughout the research the editorial process has been of major interest; the thinking behind; the production process. The thesis will demonstrate the importance played by BBC women's programmes in this period but also in the general development of British broadcasting. The thesis also offers a detailed insight into the internal culture of the BBC, and its women's programmes, at a time when questions about culture and taste were surfacing. The thesis will therefore be an original contribution to knowledge to British broadcasting history, but due to its interdisciplinary nature using radio as a 'Historian', this work is further challenging previous assumptions about the post-war housewife, and the perception of the immediate post-war years as a particular stifling and conservative period, with no feminism.
Ancient Earthworks Discovered in Bradgate Park
Creators: name: Squires, Anthony
name: Hartley, Robert F
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 88, 1-14
description: Bradgate Park is a large open area of historic parkland four miles north-west of Leicester, managed by the Bradgate Park Trustees for the benefit of the local and wider public. Most of the park has open access during daylight hours and there are miles of informal paths. In recent years a large percentage of this area has been blanketed by bracken, growing to a height of well over 1m and getting on for 2m in places, completely hiding the ground surface. In the spring of 2012 the park authorities extended their clearance of bracken, allowing the surface of the ground, including any undulations and earthworks, to be seen clearly for the first time. This was noted by Anthony Squires, who had been studying the history of the park for many years. He shared his research with Robert Hartley, formerly a curator and archaeologist with the Leicestershire County Council Museums Service, who previously had also observed historic features in the park, mainly from air survey in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Quaternary quadratic lattices over number fields
Creators: name: Kirschmer, Markus
name: Nebe, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E20, 11E41, 11E12, 11R52

description: We relate proper isometry classes of maximal lattices in a totally definite quaternary quadratic space (V,q) with trivial discriminant to certain equivalence classes of ideals in the quaternion algebra representing the Clifford invariant of (V,q). This yields a good algorithm to enumerate a system of representatives of proper isometry classes of lattices in genera of maximal lattices in (V,q).
D1.1 Current challenges and barriers to biodiversity inclusion in SP&MI
Creators: name: Orta-Ortiz, M. Susana
name: Falco, Enzo
name: Geneletti, Davide
name: Sica, Francesco
name: Locher-Krause, Karla E.
name: Zhu, Yuanzao
name: Wittmer, Heidi
name: Larsen, Sanne Vammen
name: Kornov, Lone
name: Batista e Silva, Jorge
name: David, Nuno
name: Hoyos Rojas, Lina
name: Loupa Ramos, Isabel
name: Frezzi, Silvia
name: Parretta, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This deliverable explores spatial planning systems established in Europe, including comprehensive integral spatial planning, regional economic spatial planning, land use spatial planning and urban spatial planning, through the lens of transformative change to preserve and enhance biodiversity. It developed a conceptual framework to assess the transformative potential of these spatial planning systems, grounded on overarching policy frameworks, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, the EU Territorial Agenda, and the New Leipzig Charter of European Planning.
Developing Materials Enabling More Efficient and Sustainable LED Technology for Solid State Lighting
Creators: name: Lopes Rodrigues, Edward
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: The project developed materials such as the one shown below based on phenanthrene and fluorene as starting material by attaching side chains to the molecule to adapt the material. The monomers were polymerised using the Suzuki coupling reaction or an organometallic dehalogenative polycondensation reaction. The resulting polymer was then characterised as nanoparticles. The synthesis of two polymer materials was completed including the monomer synthesis of the second material, with yields of up to 45% for the side chain addition step, and 30% for the bromination step. The polymers were successfully synthesised from these monomers, obtaining yields of 73% and 82%. Nanoparticle suspensions were then formed using 3 different methods including nanoprecipitation and mini-emulsion techniques. The nanoparticle sizes were then measured, and the stability and efficiency of both polymer nanoparticles were then measured. The results showed that moving to a phenanthrene-based polymer compared to a fluorene-based polymer led to greater stability in blue-emitting polymers. The increase in the size of the monomer unit reduces the efficiency of the phenanthrene polymer compared to the fluorene polymer which has greater efficiency. The reduction in efficiency is due to the greater chance of annihilation of the exciton-exciton singlet and triplet states as it has a larger absorption cross section and limited energy transfer within the polymer.
A Polyphasic Taxonomy Approach in the Identification of a New Strain of Penicillium thymicola
Creators: name: O'Rourke, Allison
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: Penicillium thymicola
Fungal Taxonomy
Metabolomics

description: Fungal taxonomy has been a consistent challenge in mycology for many decades. This is partly the result of phenotypic instability of fungi across different environments and generations, wherein a species may alter their morphology and secondary metabolite profile in response to their growth conditions. Thus, the use of a polyphasic approach to fungal taxonomy can be used to ensure the proper categorisation of fungal species. The polyphasic approach to fungal taxonomy applies a combination of taxonomic techniques in the identification of a fungal species, including macro- and micromorphological characteristics, phylogenetics and genetic barcoding, and secondary metabolite expression. Presented in this thesis is a polyphasic approach to taxonomize a newly isolated strain of Penicillium thymicola, isolated as an actinomycete culture contaminant in a chemical biology research laboratory. Throughout the analysis, the isolated strain is compared with a previously characterized strain of P. thymicola, DAOMC 180753. In our approach, three different fungal taxonomy techniques are applied to compare the two P. thymicola strains to each other and to the previously established P. thymicola type strain description. The fungal strains’ macro- and micromorphological phenotypes were analyzed on six different media types, a phylogenetic analysis was performed using accepted Penicillium sp. barcode gene sequences, and their metabolomic profiles were characterised via UPLC-HRMS. Based on these investigations, it was determined that the newly isolated strain was, in fact, a strain of P. thymicola. However, the previously characterised strain DAOMC 180753 diverged from the official species description in both the morphological and metabolomic analyses, which were the result of either strain degeneration or species misidentification.
(502971) Mary Jane Maggs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Convergence of implicit schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequalities
Creators: name: Azimzadeh, Parsiad
name: Bayraktar, Erhan
name: Labahn, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49L25, 49N25, 65M06, 65M12, 93E20

description: In [Azimzadeh, P., and P. A. Forsyth. "Weakly chained matrices, policy iteration, and impulse control." SIAM J. Num. Anal. 54.3 (2016): 1341-1364], we outlined the theory and implementation of computational methods for implicit schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequalities (HJBQVIs). No convergence proofs were given therein. This work closes the gap by giving rigorous proofs of convergence. We do so by introducing the notion of nonlocal consistency and appealing to a Barles-Souganidis type analysis. Our results rely only on a well-known comparison principle and are independent of the specific form of the intervention operator.
description: 29 pages, to appear in SIAM J. Control Optim
Calendar of Early Leicestershire Wills and Administrations, 14951558 [part 1]
Creators: name: Hartopp, Henry
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 8, 79-126
description: An introduction to and transcription of the Leicestershire Wills and Administrations, 1495 to 1558.
(502970) Fanny Jane Knible Maggs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Infinitely ramified point measures and branching Lévy processes
Creators: name: Bertoin, Jean
name: Mallein, Bastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60G51, 60G55

description: We call a random point measure infinitely ramified if for every $n\in \mathbb N$, it has the same distribution as the $n$-th generation of some branching random walk. On the other hand, branching Lévy processes model the evolution of a population in continuous time, such that individuals move in space independently, according to some Lévy process, and further beget progenies according to some Poissonian dynamics, possibly on an everywhere dense set of times. Our main result connects these two classes of processes much in the same way as in the case of infinitely divisible distributions and Lévy processes: the value at time $1$ of a branching Lévy process is an infinitely ramified point measure, and conversely, any infinitely ramified point measure can be obtained as the value at time $1$ of some branching Lévy process.
description: To appear in Annals of Probability
Context aware cross-layer architecture for real-time wireless local area networking
Creators: name: Edirisinghe., Ruwini Kodikara
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.
Innovative methods of teaching in commerce
Creators: name: Valiuddin Shaikh, Farzana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marketing communications

description: With globalization and the emergence of “knowledge societies", only routine classroom teaching is most certainly not the need of the hour. What is required is “facilitating” students to apply theory to practice So Commerce Colleges should not just believe in educating students but in giving quality education'. In the process, the department should alwaysstress on doing equal justice to theory as well as practical application of it Commerce is such a subject where a teacher can use all the methods effectively such as lecture, discussion role playing, seminar, supervised as well as independent study, project method, field trip, etc. along with these colleges should introduced certificate courses and short term courses to develop the competence of the students and to enhance their potentiality. Also programmes of academic and non academic nature should be planned for an overallgrowth. But one of the major concerns is that teacher should use these methods in actual class room teaching along with number of activities. These activities aims towards inculcation of team work, personality development and acquainting the students about practical application of the classroom teaching. Introduction
(502969) Francis Maggs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Workplace design strategies within business organisations:Perception, power and the bottom line.
Creators: name: Levin, Arnold
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: This thesis uses critical theory as an approach to examine and shed new light on two areas of workplace design strategy. First, how much of the decisions to adopt workplace design strategies are influenced by the perceptions of the value of these strategies by those within the business organizations that are responsible for developing them; and second, that once adopted, these same individuals shape the perceptions of those stakeholders who are the recipients of these strategies in order to gain support and buy-in for these same strategies. The thesis first examines the various areas of organizational life that are touched by and inform workplace design strategies: strategy, organizational design and workplace design. Focusing on workplace design, the thesis traces the history of this relatively new field to uncover the roots of many of the factors that have helped shaped perceptions regarding workplace design strategies. Then, using fourteen business organizations, the thesis goes on to evaluating decisions regarding these strategies trough the perspective of structuration theory. The literature review suggests a gap in research focusing on the complexity of this decision making process, and the role perceptions play in forming one’s sense of reality which in turn creates the foundation for valuing first the role of workplace design strategies within business organizations, and then in which strategy to ultimately adopt. The existing literature focuses primarily on the roles of workplace design strategies in enabling organizational culture and often accept as valid, without any evidence based research to support it, that these strategies are the correct ones to adopt. The research also uncovers that much of the workplace design strategy process has been determined without this evidence based research to support it. If this is the case, then how are these decision made, and what informs these decisions, if not research? This thesis fills that gap. Through structuration theory, decisions are deconstructed in a manner previously ignored. Critical theory opens up areas of review such as the role of power and control, and managing meaning, that provide new insights into the decision making process.
Security characterisation and compositional analysis for component-based software systems
Creators: name: Khan., Khaled Md.
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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 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
(502968) Frances Gisbourne Green
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Non asymptotic distributional bounds for the Dickman Approximation of the running time of the Quickselect algorithm
Creators: name: Goldstein, Larry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05, 68Q25

description: Given a non-negative random variable $W$ and $θ>0$, let the generalized Dickman transformation map the distribution of $W$ to that of $$ W^*=_d U^{1/θ}(W+1), $$ where $U \sim {\cal U}[0,1]$, a uniformly distributed variable on the unit interval, independent of $W$, and where $=_d$ denotes equality in distribution. It is well known that $W^*$ and $W$ are equal in distribution if and only if $W$ has the generalized Dickman distribution ${\cal D}_θ$. We demonstrate that the Wasserstein distance $d_1$ between $W$, a non-negative random variable with finite mean, and $D_θ$ having distribution ${\cal D}_θ$ obeys the inequality $$ d_1(W,D_θ) \le (1+θ)d_1(W,W^*). $$ The specialization of this bound to the case $θ=1$ and coupling constructions yield $$ d_1(W_{n,1},D) \le \frac{8\log (n/2)+10}{n} \quad \mbox{for all $n \ge 1$, where} \quad W_{n,1}=\frac{1}{n}C_{n,1}-1, $$ and $C_{n,m}$ is the number of comparisons made by the Quickselect algorithm to find the $m^{th}$ smallest element of a list of $n$ distinct numbers. A similar bound holds for $m \ge 2$, and together recover the results of [12] that show distributional convergence of $W_n$ to the standard Dickman distribution in the asymptotic regime $m=o(n)$. By developing an exact expression for the expected running time $E[C_{n,m}]$, lower bounds are provided that show the rate is not improvable for all $m \not = 2$.
description: Proof of Lemma 2.5 simplified, minor correction to proof of Theorem 1.3
Development of planar filters and diplexers for wireless transceiver front ends
Creators: name: Zayniyev, Damir
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2010

description: The central theme of this work is the design of compact microstrip bandpass filters and diplexers and the investigation of applications of these circuits in integrated transceiver RF front-end. The core of this thesis therefore presents the following stages of the work: - Analysis of coupled pseudo-interdigital resonators and lines; formulation of approximate transmission zero conditions and the investigation of coupling between these two resonators and related structures. - Development of compact, low loss and high selectivity microstrip pseudointerdigital bandpass filters. The design procedure of the filter consists of three simple steps, starting from the design of a parallel-coupled bandpass filter using the image parameter method applied to coupled microstrip lines. The development of compact microstrip diplexers composed of these filters uses the optimized common-transformer diplexing technique. An experimental verification of the developed filters and diplexers is made. - Investigation of the use of stepped impedance resonators (SIR) for the design of pseudo-interdigital bandpass filters with advanced characteristics. The design of compact dual-band filter using SIR. The investigation of possible improvement of the stopband of bandpass filters using bandstop generating structures. The application of SIR, defected ground structures (DGS), spur-lines, and opencircuited stubs in the design of compact bandpass filters with improved stopband. - The application of the proposed filters and diplexers in the design of integrated antenna filters and antenna diplexers. Improvement of performance of patch antennas, such as suppression of spurious harmonics of single-band antenna and improvement of bandwidth and selectivity of dual-band antenna, as a result of integration with filters. Separation of antennas’ bands and reduction of component count in integrated antenna diplexers.
Auslander's Theorem for permutation actions on noncommutative algebras
Creators: name: Gaddis, Jason
name: Kirkman, Ellen
name: Moore, W. Frank
name: Won, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16E65, 16W22

description: When $A = \mathbb{k}[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ and $G$ is a small subgroup of $\operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb{k})$, Auslander's Theorem says that the skew group algebra $A \# G$ is isomorphic to $\operatorname{End}_{A^G}(A)$ as graded algebras. We prove a generalization of Auslander's Theorem for permutation actions on $(-1)$-skew polynomial rings, $(-1)$-quantum Weyl algebras, three-dimensional Sklyanin algebras, and a certain graded down-up algebra. We also show that certain fixed rings $A^G$ are graded isolated singularities in the sense of Ueyama.
An Iron Age Boundary System and Roman Burials at Leicester Lane, St Johns, Enderby
Creators: name: Harvey, James R
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 85, 51-71
description: Fieldwork between 2006 and 2008 has located evidence of a double-ditched Iron Age boundary system, the Fosse Way Roman road and later Roman burials west of St Johns and south of Leicester Lane, Enderby. Dating evidence from the eastern ditch suggests the formalisation of a boundary and/or trackway in the Mid-Late Iron Age that probably directly or indirectly relates to the Iron Age enclosures that have been recorded at Grove Farm to the north. This boundary was then reused and remodelled shortly after the conquest to form part of a new settlement system extending to the east. The Roman burials may be of inhabitants of this as yet unconfirmed Roman settlement.
Water phantom characterization of a novel optical fiber sensor for LDR brachytherapy
Creators: name: Martyn, Michael
name: KAM, WERN
name: Woulfe, Peter
name: O'Keeffe, Sinead
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This work considers the feasibility of using a novel optical fiber-based sensor, employing a terbium-doped gadolinium oxysulfide (Gd2O2S:Tb) inorganic scintillator, as a real-time in vivo dosimetry solution for applications in low-dose-rate (LDR) prostate brachytherapy (BT). This study specifically considers the influence of scintillator geometry (hemisphere tip versus cylindrical cavity), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) fiber core diameter (0.5 versus 1.0 mm), and sensor housing material (stainless steel versus plastic) on the measured scintillation signal. Characterization measurements were performed using a silicon photon-multiplier (SiPM) detector and a commercial water phantom system, integrated with custom 3-D printed components to allow for precise positioning of the LDR BT radiation source with respect to the optical fiber sensor (OFS). Significant differences in the rate of fall-off in the scintillation signal, with distance from the source, were observed between the different scintillator geometries considered. The hemisphere tip geometry was shown to be the most accurate, tracking with the expected fall-off in dose-rate, within measurement uncertainty. Reducing the fiber core diameter from 1.0 to 0.5 mm resulted in a sixfold reduction in the detected scintillation signal. A further 57% reduction was observed when housing the 0.5-mm fiber within a stainless steel LDR BT needle applicator. Initial results demonstrate the feasibility of employing an OFS, for applications in LDR BT, given the excellent agreement of measurements with theoretical expectations. Furthermore, a calibration process has been described for converting the detected scintillation signal into absorbed dose/dose rate, using our water phantom-based experimental setup.
Blowing smoke
Creators: name: Berry, Elizabeth Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental fiction
subject: Coming-of-age
subject: LGBTQ+
subject: California
subject: Climate change
subject: PR6102.E8B6
subject: Ecofiction.
subject: Bildungsromans
subject: Climatic changes--Fiction

description: A novel fully contained in eight chapters, Blowing Smoke tells the story of Grace, who is home for the summer between her first and second year studying Environmental Science at a state university in California. Grace is struggling with a transitional period in her life: her parents are recently divorced and her father is getting remarried, she is experiencing heartbreak for the first time, her younger sister is rebellious and has potential substance abuse issues, and her mother is distant and has an eating disorder. Through the summer, Grace grapples with her sexuality, spends time with her sister, and prepares for a fated week as a freshman orientation leader. Despite the devastation she has seen in the world, between the way her father treated their family and what she knows about the ugly state of the environment, she wonders if she can or should move past what she’s experienced and lead a happy life. Blowing Smoke’s chapter titles are taken from the United Nations’ list of Causes and Effects of Climate Change. In addition to highlighting the story’s backdrop of California’s degrading natural environment, the table of contents mimics an Environmental Science textbook much like the ones Grace uses in the college courses which haunt her. The circumstances of the world Grace grows up in mean that her relationship with the environment and its health is not always linear. Just as often as she experiences grief, hurt, anxiety, and paranoia in tandem with the planet, she experiences joy, euphoria, and power in the wake of environmental destruction. Though Grace’s inner world, Blowing Smoke examines the increasingly fraught relationship between the health of our climate and personal gain or comfort. Her journey through June, July, and August illustrates the uniquely confusing experience of coming of age on a dying planet.
A Neolithic Mortuary Enclosure at Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray
Creators: name: Harvey, James R
name: Cooper, Lynden
name: Cooper, Nicholas
name: Monckton, Angela
name: Possnert, G�Ran
name: Sundstr�M, Ingela
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 85, 1-20
description: An excavation and watching brief at Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray revealed two distinctly separate phases of archaeological activity dating from the Neolithic and Iron Age. This paper will present the results of the Neolithic evidence and suggest that it may represent a small mortuary enclosure. A group of three elongated pits and a post-hole aligned north-west to south-east contained Neolithic pottery and lithics, and provided radiocarbon dates between 3790 and 3460 cal BC. The arrangement can be paralleled with long barrow forms known from the south of England. The archive will be deposited with Leicestershire County Council, under the accession number X.A.32.2006, and the full report (Harvey 2010) is available on the Online Access to the Index of Archaeological Investigations (OASIS) held by the Archaeological Data Service at the University of York under ID:universi1-85072, available at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/query. cfm or at the Leicestershire County Council, Historic Environment Record.
A Geometric Framework for Stochastic Shape Analysis
Creators: name: Arnaudon, Alexis
name: Holm, Darryl D.
name: Sommer, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a stochastic model of diffeomorphisms, whose action on a variety of data types descends to stochastic evolution of shapes, images and landmarks. The stochasticity is introduced in the vector field which transports the data in the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM) framework for shape analysis and image registration. The stochasticity thereby models errors or uncertainties of the flow in following the prescribed deformation velocity. The approach is illustrated in the example of finite dimensional landmark manifolds, whose stochastic evolution is studied both via the Fokker-Planck equation and by numerical simulations. We derive two approaches for inferring parameters of the stochastic model from landmark configurations observed at discrete time points. The first of the two approaches matches moments of the Fokker-Planck equation to sample moments of the data, while the second approach employs an Expectation-Maximisation based algorithm using a Monte Carlo bridge sampling scheme to optimise the data likelihood. We derive and numerically test the ability of the two approaches to infer the spatial correlation length of the underlying noise.
Henry Sacheverell (1548-1620) of Old Hays, Ratby; Morley and Hopwell Hall, Derbyshire; and New Hall, Warwickshire: Recusant Catholic or Reformed Protestant?
Creators: name: Harwood, Doug
name: Stock, Sandra
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 89, 179-200
description: Henry Sacheverell of Old Hays, Ratby; Morley and Hopwell in Derbyshire: and New Hall, Warwickshire (see Fig. 1) was a member of a wealthy and influential family, with a strong Roman Catholic background. Between 1600 and 1603, he moved to the moated farm of Old Hays, Ratby, in order to live with his mistress, Elizabeth Kayes (Keyes; Kaies) and their children. This paper considers his life, the background to his move to Old Hays, and an examination of his religious allegiance during this time of great turmoil between Catholics and Protestants. No evidence of recusancy was established, but it would appear that he retained his Catholic faith, albeit in a cautious and covert way.
Reviews
Creators: name: Simmons, Jack
name: Tyrwhitt-Drake Clarke, David
name: Katherine Babette Evans, Anne
name: Haward Martin, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 29, 83-88
description: CHARNWOOD FOREST. By C. N. Hadfield. Leicester: Backus (for the Leicester-shire County Council). 1952. xvii + 104 pp. �1; ASHBY DE LA ZoucH CASTLE. By T. L. Jones. H .M. Stationery Office. 1953. 28 pp. 1s. 6d.; HANDLIST OF LEICESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS TRANSCRIPTS. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1953. 44 pp. 2s. 6d.; A HANDLIST OF THE RECORDS OF THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND OF THE ARCHDEACONS OF LINCOLN AND STOW. By Kathleen Major. 1953. xiv + 122 pp. Oxford University Press. London: Cumberlege. 16s.; MONASTIC SITES FROM THE AIR. By David Knowles and J. K. St. Joseph. Cambridge University Press. 1952. xxviii + 283 pp. 55s.; JOHN WYCLIFFE AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH NONCONFORMITY. By K. B. McFarlane. English Universities Press. 1952. 197 pp. 7s. 6d.; THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE Fox. Edited by John Nickalls. Cambridge University Press. 1952. xlviii + 789 pp. 21s.; THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND By Thomas Fuller. Edited by John Freeman, Allen + 716 pp. 42s.; ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1948-1949. Council for British Archreology, 10 Bolton Gardens, London, S.W.5. 1952. x+ 102 pp. 4s. 6d.
Reviews
Creators: name: Haward Martin, Geoffrey
name: Scarfe, Norman
name: Simmons, Jack
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 31, 69-72
description: THE LEICESTERSHIRE SURVEY, c. A.D. 1130. Edited by c. F. Slade. The University College of Leicester. 1956. 98 pp. Maps. 16s.; THE RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION OF LEICESTER. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1956. 60 pp. 7s. 6d.; STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY: A TRIBUTE TO G. M. TREVELYAN. Edited by J. H. Plumb. Longmans. 1955. xv + 287 pp. 2rs.; LOCAL PORTRAITS. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1956. 70 pp. Illustrated. 2s. 6d.; LEICESTER MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERY. Eighteen postcards. 4d. each.
Reviews
Creators: name: Haward Martin, Geoffrey
name: Scarfe, Norman
name: Simmons, Jack
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 32, 99-104
description: THE LEICESTERSHIRE SURVEY, c. A.D. 1130. Edited by c. F. Slade. The University College of Leicester. 1956. 98 pp. Maps. 16s.; THE RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION OF LEICESTER. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1956. 60 pp. 7s. 6d.; STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY: A TRIBUTE TO G. M. TREVELYAN. Edited by J. H. Plumb. Longmans. 1955. xv + 287 pp. 21s.; LOCAL PORTRAITS. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1956. 70 pp. Illustrated. 2s. 6d.; LEICESTER MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERY. Eighteen postcards. 4d. each.
Reviews
Creators: name: Haward Martin, Geoffrey
name: Simmons, Jack
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 35, 89-91
description: LOCAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND. By W. G. Hoskins. Longmans. 1959. xii+ 196 pp. 21S; THE STORY OF MELTON MOWBRAY. By Philip E. Hunt. Grantham: Palmers Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. 2nd impression, 1959. (10)+ 146 pp. 8s. 6d; LEICESTERSHIRE HISTORY. A HANDLIST TO PRINTED SOURCES IN THE LIBRARIES OF LEICESTER. By J. M. Lee. Leicester University, Department of Adult Education (Vaughan College Papers, No. 4). Cyclostyled: 64 pp. ( + 4 pp. �supplement). 1958. 2s. 6d.; NCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MATTHEW HOLBECHE BLOXAM. By Philip B. Chatwin. Stratford-on-Avon: The Dugdale Society (Occasional Papers, no. 13). 20 pp. 1959. No price stated.
A Thirteenth-Century Kiln-Site at Potters Marston
Creators: name: Haynes, Joyce
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 28, 55-62
description: It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Mr. D. T.-D. Clarke, Keeper of Antiquities at Leicester City Museums, to examine the pottery sherds excavated at Potters Marston, Leicestershire. The deserted village site of Potters Marston is eight miles south-west of Leicester. The ridges and mounds marking houses and streets can be clearly seen in the fields known as the Big and Little Townships. Potters Marston Hall and farm are built on the foundations of the moated manor, including enom1ous cellars. The medieval dovecote and a small chapel of about 1230 A.D. (restored) are still in good condition, and though the moat is drained, the site remains remarkably complete and undisturbed. From all the evidence it seems at its most populous to have been a flourishing centre of industry.
Putting Out in the Leicester Hosiery Industry in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Head, Peter
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 37, 44-59
description: If, in the middle of the nineteenth century, a contemporary who knew about these things had been asked to name the most important centres of the English hosiery industry he would have mentioned first the towns of Nottingham and Leicester.' Here hosiery was the staple industry, the means by which most inhabitants earned their livelihood. The 1851 census enumerated slightly over half of Leicester's 60,600 inhabitants as being gain-fully employed; orver 70 per cent of these were employed in industrial occupa-tions; 75 per cent of the industrially employed were engaged in "textiles" and "dress", and about 40 per cent were employees of the hosiery industry proper. To this last figure should be added an unknown number of women who were working in the industry but were not enumerated as such by the 1851 census, and also a large ,but unascertainable number of wm-kers employed by the Leicester industry in the surrounding countryside. No other industry or occupation employed more than 6 per cent of the total industrial labour force. No other industry had anywhere near as many manufacturers as the hundred hosiers and more who had businesses in the town.
Representation Learning by Rotating Your Faces
Creators: name: Tran, Luan
name: Yin, Xi
name: Liu, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The large pose discrepancy between two face images is one of the fundamental challenges in automatic face recognition. Conventional approaches to pose-invariant face recognition either perform face frontalization on, or learn a pose-invariant representation from, a non-frontal face image. We argue that it is more desirable to perform both tasks jointly to allow them to leverage each other. To this end, this paper proposes a Disentangled Representation learning-Generative Adversarial Network (DR-GAN) with three distinct novelties. First, the encoder-decoder structure of the generator enables DR-GAN to learn a representation that is both generative and discriminative, which can be used for face image synthesis and pose-invariant face recognition. Second, this representation is explicitly disentangled from other face variations such as pose, through the pose code provided to the decoder and pose estimation in the discriminator. Third, DR-GAN can take one or multiple images as the input, and generate one unified identity representation along with an arbitrary number of synthetic face images. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation on a number of controlled and in-the-wild databases demonstrate the superiority of DR-GAN over the state of the art in both learning representations and rotating large-pose face images.
description: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
(502965) Fanny Mary Ann Bower Couzens
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
StructuralReuse - WP2. M2.1 Non-destructive testmethods
Creators: name: S. Samdal, Jan-Erik
name: Grumsen, Per
name: Kortermann Hansen, Henrik
name: Bøwig Brøndum, Anders
name: Høegh-Jørgensen, Jacob
Publisher: name: Technical University of Denmark
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400504
subject: Construction engineering
classificationCode: 400505
subject: Construction materials
classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering
classificationCode: 401106
subject: Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling

description: This document forms a summary of the current methods to non-destructively investigate structural components of steel, concrete, and wood, and the measuring equipment widely available and utilized in the current building industry. The document is founded on the functional requirements collated in Work Package 1, M1.1. Functional requirements for steel, concrete and wood, and the process outlined on the requisite functional requirements for building components. We kindly refer the reader to the documents containing work package 1, for more information regarding said functional requirements. This represents the milestone of Grand Solutions development-project Business Reuse, Work package 2, T2.1 Overview and rating of Non-destructive Test methods (NDT). The report can be read as a continuation of DTU’s state of the art article, constituting a white paper of the current field of non-destructive test methods. The summary aims to identify currently available equipment and recommendations required to estimate the material quality of the building component. It is necessary to underline that non-destructive test methods are solely intended to estimate the quality of the building material. Non-destructive testing can never stand on its own, and always require destructive testing to calibrate the results and provide more detail regarding the material. Non-destructive testing is solely used to reduce the need of destructive testing – to estimate that the building material is uniform, and representative of the results found by destructive testing. All use of this report and guidelines within, are solely the readers responsibility. The guidelines are provided on an informational level only. Special thanks to Innovationsfonden and Realdania for providing the funding through Grand Solutions, and all organisations involved in the project working groups: DTU, Dansk Standard, Rambøll, Center for små og mellemstore virksomheder (Juridisk institus aarhus universitet, Lendager, DTU Skylab, Gate 21, ListByg, Innovationsfonden, Realdania Denne rapport er en del af projektet StrucuralReuse, som du kan finde mere om her: StructuralReuse (dtu.dk)
StructuralReuse Midway Conference Publication
Creators: name: Ottosen, Lisbeth M.
name: Gustafsson, Karoline Fogh
name: Lysgaard Vind, Ditte
name: Hagemann Snabe, Kathrine
Publisher: name: Technical University of Denmark
Year: 2023
Subjects: Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling
Building science, technologies and systems

description: Publikation fra StructuralReuse's midtvejskonference
A Short Description of the original building accounts of Kirby Muxloe Castle
Creators: name: Henry Fosbrooke, Thomas
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 11, 87-88
description: Brief description of The Manuscripts and other documents belonging to the ancient family of Hastings, relating to the building accounts of Kirby Muxloe Castle.