cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phase-field Modeling of Phase Changes and Mechanical Stresses in Electrode Particles of Secondary Batteries
Creators: name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2021
Subjects: Phasenfeldansatz
Phasentrennung
Nichtlokalität
Endliche Verformungselastizität
Sekundärbatterien
Phase-field approach
Phase segregation
Nonlocality
Finite deformation elasticity
Secondary batteries

description: Most storage materials exhibit phase changes, which cause stresses and, thus, lead to damage of the electrode particles. In this work, a phase-field model for the cathode material NaxFePO4 of Na-ion batteries is studied to understand phase changes and stress evolution. Furthermore, we study the particle size and SOC dependent miscibility gap of the nanoscale insertion materials. Finally, we introduce the nonlocal species concentration theory, and show how the nonlocality influences the results.
Glärnisch : von der letzten Wand gegen Feuerberg
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1868

description: Wanderer und Bergsteiger, vermutlich Mitglieder des Schweizer Alpenclubs, auf einem Schneefeld im Glärnischmassiv vor dem Hintergrund des Gipfels des Gross Fürberg, der auch als Inner Fürberg bekannt ist.
description: Fotograf/in gemäss Katalog der Müller-Wegmann'schen Sammlung: "Siber-Gysi"
description: Die Fotografie gehört zu vier Fotografien, die Johann Müller Wegmann von Herr Siber Gisi geschenkt wurden. Umschlag mit Feder beschriftet: "Herrn Müller Wegmmann ... mit besten Empfehlungen von Siber Gisi. 4 Photographien auf dem Ruchen Glärnisch aufgenommen (Geschenk von Herr Siber Gisi)"
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
Panorama vom Ruchen Glärnisch
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1868

description: Fotograf/in gemäss Katalog der Müller-Wegmann'schen Sammlung: "Siber-Gysi"
description: Die Fotografie gehört zu vier Fotografien, die Johann Müller Wegmann von Herr Siber Gisi geschenkt wurden. Umschlag mit Feder beschriftet: "Herrn Müller Wegmmann ... mit besten Empfehlungen von Siber Gisi. 4 Photographien auf dem Ruchen Glärnisch aufgenommen (Geschenk von Herr Siber Gisi)"
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
Proton and molecular permeation through the basal plane of monolayer graphene oxide
Creators: name: Wu, Z. F.
name: Sun, P. Z.
name: Wahab, O. J.
name: Tao, Y. -T.
name: Barry, D.
name: Periyanagounder, D.
name: Pillai, P. B.
name: Dai, Q.
name: Xiong, W. Q.
name: Vega, L. F.
name: Lulla, K.
name: Yuan, S. J.
name: Nair, R. R.
name: Daviddi, E.
name: Unwin, P. R.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Lozada-Hidalgo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a prospect of membranes that combine negligible gas permeability with high proton conductivity and could outperform the existing proton exchange membranes used in various applications including fuel cells. Graphene oxide (GO), a well-known 2D material, facilitates rapid proton transport along its basal plane but proton conductivity across it remains unknown. It is also often presumed that individual GO monolayers contain a large density of nanoscale pinholes that lead to considerable gas leakage across the GO basal plane. Here we show that relatively large, micrometer-scale areas of monolayer GO are impermeable to gases, including helium, while exhibiting proton conductivity through the basal plane which is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of graphene. These findings provide insights into the key properties of GO and demonstrate that chemical functionalization of 2D crystals can be utilized to enhance their proton transparency without compromising gas impermeability.
Sizes of Galactic Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Bergh, Sidney van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study is made of deviations from the mean power-law relationship between the Galactocentric distances and the half-light radii of Galactic globular clusters. Surprisingly, deviations from the mean R_h versus R_gc relationship do not appear to correlate with cluster luminosity, cluster metallicity, or horizontal branch morphology. Differences in orbit shape are found to contribute to the scatter in the R_h versus R_gc relationship of Galactic globular clusters.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Quantization of a gauge theory on a curved noncommutative space
Creators: name: Buric, M.
name: Dimitrijevic, M.
name: Radovanovic, V.
name: Wohlgenannt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantization of a gauge analogon of the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model: we find divergent one-loop contributions to the 1-point and 2-point Green functions. We obtain that five counterterms are necessary for renormalization and that all divergences are logarithmic.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Durch Fernrohr vom Gross Schwendi ob Rothenthurm 1519 m
v. Gross-Schwändi (siehe Neuselstock), d. Fernr
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1871
Subjects: Berg

description: [Johann Müller-Wegmann]
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
Enhancing Energy-efficiency by Solving the Throughput Bottleneck of LSTM Cells for Embedded FPGAs
Creators: name: Qian, Chao
name: Ling, Tianheng
name: Schiele, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To process sensor data in the Internet of Things(IoTs), embedded deep learning for 1-dimensional data is an important technique. In the past, CNNs were frequently used because they are simple to optimise for special embedded hardware such as FPGAs. This work proposes a novel LSTM cell optimisation aimed at energy-efficient inference on end devices. Using the traffic speed prediction as a case study, a vanilla LSTM model with the optimised LSTM cell achieves 17534 inferences per second while consuming only 3.8 $μ$J per inference on the FPGA XC7S15 from Spartan-7 family. It achieves at least 5.4$\times$ faster throughput and 1.37$\times$ more energy efficient than existing approaches.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Large-angle non-Gaussianity in simulated high-resolution CMB maps
Creators: name: Bernui, A.
name: Reboucas, M. J.
name: Teixeira, A. F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detection or nondetection of primordial non-Gaussianity by using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) offers a way of discriminating inflationary scenarios and testing alternative models of the early universe. This has motivated the considerable effort that has recently gone into the study of theoretical features of primordial non-Gaussianity and its detection in CMB data. Among such attempts to detect non-Gaussianity, there is a procedure that is based upon two indicators constructed from the skewness and kurtosis of large-angle patches of CMB maps, which have been proposed and used to study deviation from Gaussianity in the WMAP data. Simulated CMB maps equipped with realistic primordial non-Gaussianity are essential tools to test the viability of non-Gaussian indicators in practice, and also to understand the effect of systematics, foregrounds and other contaminants. In this work we extend and complement the results of our previous works by performing an analysis of non-Gaussianity of the high-angular resolution simulated CMB temperature maps endowed with non-Gaussianity of the local type, for which the level of non-Gaussianity is characterized by the dimensionless parameter $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm local}$
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Origin of the Pseudogap in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors
Creators: name: Tahir-Kheli, Jamil
name: Goddard, William A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cuprate high-temperature superconductors exhibit a pseudogap in the normal state that decreases monotonically with increasing hole doping and closes at x \approx 0.19 holes per planar CuO2 while the superconducting doping range is 0.05 < x < 0.27 with optimal Tc at x \approx 0.16. Using ab initio quantum calculations at the level that leads to accurate band gaps, we found that four-Cu-site plaquettes are created in the vicinity of dopants. At x \approx 0.05 the plaquettes percolate, so that the Cu dx2y2/O pσ orbitals inside the plaquettes now form a band of states along the percolating swath. This leads to metallic conductivity and below Tc to superconductivity. Plaquettes disconnected from the percolating swath are found to have degenerate states at the Fermi level that split and lead to the pseudogap. The pseudogap can be calculated by simply counting the spatial distribution of isolated plaquettes, leading to an excellent fit to experiment. This provides strong evidence in favor of inhomogeneous plaquettes in cuprates.
description: 24 pages (4 pages main text plus 20 pages supplement)
Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of GRB 110625A
Creators: name: Tam, P. H. Thomas
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that emit photons at GeV energies form a small but significant population of GRBs. However, the number of GRBs whose GeV-emitting period is simultaneously observed in X-rays remains small. We report gamma-ray observations of GRB 110625A using Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the energy range 100 MeV to 20 GeV. Gamma-ray emission at these energies was clearly detected using data taken between 180s and 580s after the burst, an epoch after the prompt emission phase. The GeV light curve differs from a simple power-law decay, and probably consists of two emission periods. Simultaneous Swift/XRT observations did not show flaring behaviors as in the case of GRB 100728A. We discuss the possibility that the GeV emission is the synchrotron self-Compton radiation of underlying ultraviolet flares.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in the ApJ on May 31, 2012
Narratives of Risk and Pleasure Among Participants Engaged in a Nurse-Led PrEP Service
Creators: name: Halligan, Colton
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: condom usage
pleasure
PrEP
risk
risk taking
sexually transmitted infections
stigma

description: This research analyzed themes relating to the concepts of risk, risk taking, and pleasure by completing a secondary analysis of participant transcripts collected from the PrEP-RN study conducted by Dr. O'Byrne at the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Ottawa Public Health. Analysis was completed to relate risk, risk taking and pleasure in the context of PrEP-RN, but also identify areas for educational improvement in relation to the selected concepts. The research question sought explanation on the relationship that risk has with risk reduction and risk taking, including analysis of condom usage, risk conversation with partners and general sexual health practices while on PrEP. Additionally, the research sought to answer if PrEP-RN participation had any impact on sexual pleasure, analyzing subthemes of stereotyping, security and desire relating to pleasure. Transcript analysis identified that a reduction in condom usage, improved frequency of sexually transmitted infection testing, promotion of conversations with partners surrounding PrEP and sexual health, and a reduction in sexual fear and anxiety with partners were major themes stemming from PrEP-RN participation. A need to increase education surrounding continued condom usage while on PrEP and identify ways to reduce stigmatization of PrEP were identified as ways to improve the PrEP-RN program.
China in Japan's National Security
Creators: name: Takahashi, Toshiya
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015
Subjects: national security
Japan
China
capability
domestic credibility
public support
public justification
value conflict
defence policy
defense policy
political attitudes
alliance politics
national pride
subjective security
moral norms in national security
Japan's prewar security policy
Japan's postwar security policy
China particularism
fear
distrust
stability

description: Capability and domestic credibility are two essential components of national security, though little has been examined as to the latter. Domestic credibility is a feeling of safety by the public, which is created or damaged by policy process in relation to national government. Japan’s national security policy from the 2000s showed a confrontational posture in relation to China, but its policy of domestic credibility has not been well managed in terms stabilizing relations with China. Postwar Japan adopted a pacifist national security policy in which capability and domestic credibility were harmonized under the 1947 pacifist constitution. Japan had a special relationship with China which was respected under the policy of “China particularism”. Japanese leaders adopted a concessional attitude towards China, making concessions to facilitate friendship diplomacy in the 1970s-80s. In the face of a rising China, this postwar China policy gradually changed and was discredited from the 2000s. Japan’s defence policy came to define China as its object. Pacifist constraints on defence planning and military deployments were weakened and “territorial defence” of the south-west island chain became the leading concept in the 2010s. Japanese neo-conservative political elites adopted non-concessional attitudes over history and the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, and allowed political and security issues to escalate with China. In the U.S-Japan alliance, Japan began to insist on deterrence against China, which was a completely different posture compared to the 1990s when Japan attempted to mitigate the impact of the alliance on China. In view of these changes in capability and external postures, domestic credibility was gradually transformed, but was not stable. Japan increased its defence capability against China, but it only resulted in China’s counter-measures. Japanese neo-conservative non-concessional attitudes resulted in a deterioration of relations with China. Japan’s resort to deterrence through the US alliance was not endorsed by the United States, it was basically domestic language for the Japanese public who believed that the alliance was almighty for Japan’s national security. Japan’s emerging national security was distorted by the inclusion of national pride and did not allow for the stabilization of relations with China. This confrontational policy employed a one-sided public justification and resulted in a polarization of opinion in the Japanese public. National security requires domestic credibility, and without it there may be tensions. How to manage domestic credibility by public justification is the key to the achievement of national security.
Treatment of oil sands industry waste water using reverse osmosis membranes
Creators: name: Banerjee, Abhijit, 1958-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: TD 899 P4 B37 1986
subject: Petroleum waste
subject: Oil sands industry
subject: Water - Purification - Reverse osmosis process
subject: Reverse osmosis

description: Bibliography: p. 141-143.
Spherical non-linear absorption of cosmological scalar fields onto a black hole
Creators: name: Guzman, F. S.
name: Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we track the non-linear spherical evolution of a massless scalar field onto a Schwarzschild black hole space-time as a first approximation to the accretion of cosmologically motivated classical scalar fields. We perform an analysis related to wave packets described by wave number and width. We study various values of the wave number k, and found that for k = 0 and width packets bigger than the Schwarzschild radius, the absorption is not total. In the cases we studied for k > 0, the black hole absorbs the total amount of energy density of the scalar field moving toward the horizon. Our results indicate that assuming spherical symmetry, in the non-linear regime, there are cases for which scalar fields are allowed to survive outside black holes and may eventually have life-times consistent with cosmological time scales.
description: 7 revtex pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Dritter Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
name: Voss, Hermann
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 4 Nr. 11 (1951): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Optimal free-will on one side in reproducing the singlet correlation
Creators: name: Banik, Manik
name: Gazi, MD Rajjak
name: Das, Subhadipa
name: Rai, Ashutosh
name: Kunkri, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell's theorem teaches us that there are quantum correlations that can not be simulated by just shared randomness (Local Hidden variable). There are some recent results which simulate singlet correlation by using either 1 cbit or a binary (no-signaling) correlation which violate Bell's inequality maximally. But there is one more possible way to simulate quantum correlation by relaxing the condition of independency of measurement on shared randomness. Recently, MJW Hall showed that the statistics of singlet state can be generated by sacrificing measurement independence where underlying distribution of hidden variables depend on measurement direction of both parties [Phys. Rev. Lett.105 250404 (2010)]. He also proved that for any model of singlet correlation, 86% measurement independence is optimal. In this paper, we show that 59% measurement independence is optimal for simulating singlet correlation when the underlying distribution of hidden variables depend only on measurements of one party. We also show that a distribution corresponding to this optimal lack of free will, already exists in literature which first appeared in the context of detection efficiency loophole.
description: 7 pages (single column), accepted in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor
Inhalt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 73 Nr. 3 (2020): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Why, How and When Do Employees Initiate Constructive Voice? An Exploration of Influence from Leaders and Organizations
Creators: name: Lin, Xiaoshuang
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: It has been shown that employee constructive voice (e.g., making constructive suggestions) has significant positive effects on team and organisational effectiveness; however, many employees are unwilling to speak up or voice their opinions. Understanding how to encourage employees to speak up has become increasingly important for today's organisations, especially from the perspectives of leaders and organisations. This thesis, which consists of two empirical studies, elaborates how, why and when employees express their voices, from the perspectives of two social actors: leaders (i.e., servant leaders) and organisations (i.e., psychological contract breach; PCB). Specifically, Study 1 examines whether engaging in servant leader behaviour affects leader and follower energy resources based on conservation of resource (COR) theory, and if so, whether such effects lead to greater follower constructive voice. It investigates a dual-centric energising process in which leaders' relational energy and followers' feelings of energy mediate the relationship between servant leadership and follower constructive voice; these relationships are strengthened when leaders have greater self-regulation. Study 2 investigates how PCB hampers employee constructive voice but leads to destructive voice. It develops and tests a moderated-mediation model in which relative deprivation is theorised as a unique mechanism contributing to why employees who perceive PCB are less likely to speak constructively but more likely to speak destructively; leader emotional support acts as a buffer in relationships between PCB and voice. A series of time-lagged supervisor-subordinate matched data was used to test the overall framework. Results confirm that followers' feelings of energy and leaders' relational energy mediated the relationship between servant leadership and follower voice, and leader self-regulation strengthened the positive relationships between servant leadership and both followers' feelings of energy and leaders' relational energy, as well as indirect relationships between servant leadership and follower voice. Finally, results support that argument that relative deprivation mediates relationships between PCB and employee destructive and constructive voice, as well as the buffering effect of leader emotional support. This thesis contributes to the voice literature, servant leadership and PCB literature by investigating new underlying psychological mechanisms of constructive voice, and building and testing boundary conditions of constructive voice. Theoretical and practical implications for practitioners are discussed.
From a rare syndrome to a pandemic: applied epidemiology of infectious diseases in Australia
Creators: name: Walker, Liz
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: In this thesis, I present four field research projects and a variety of epidemiological activities. I conducted this body of work at the Australian Government Department of Health, Office of Health Protection from April 2019 to October 2020 to meet the competencies required for the Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) at The Australian National University. I conducted an acute flaccid paralysis case-series review in children under 15 years of age in Australia from 2000 to 2018. I applied the new case definition for the newly termed acute flaccid myelitis and retrospectively identified 41 cases occurring most consistently from 2010 onwards. The review found that the Australian acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system was well-positioned to actively monitor this newly sustained, albeit rare syndrome in the future. I investigated an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 among Australian passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked in Yokohama, Japan. The outbreak showed how quickly SARS-CoV-2 could spread through a confined and susceptible population and the need for a rapid public health response to minimise onward transmission. In the post-COVID era, cruise ships will need enhanced public health planning and risk mitigation strategies to recommence operations. I evaluated COVID-19 notifications in the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System in Australia from 22 January to 9 June 2020. I conducted semi-structured interviews with a small selection of stakeholders and analysed data quality at two-week intervals. The evaluation found a high level of representativeness and acceptability to reporting de-identified COVID-19 cases to the surveillance system. However, two-way communication between the Australian Government Department of Health and jurisdictions needed improvement. An agreed minimum dataset for national COVID-19 reporting would reduce the data collection burden on states and territories. My epidemiological study used probabilistic linkage to assess the accuracy of enrolment details in the Australian Immunisation Register. The project explored the methodology behind probabilistic data linkage using a Fellegi-Sunter approach. I matched record pairs on 11 identifiers and incorporated inexact matching and weighting by frequency. The algorithm successfully linked 54% of non-Medicare enrolled infants' vaccination records to their Medicare enrolment record. The majority of non-Medicare enrolled infants, transitioned to Medicare, and within a timeframe that would accurately capture them in the immunisation coverage calculation for one-year-olds. Lastly, I described two teaching components conducted as part of the MAE program, including their teaching rational and my lessons learnt.
Enhanced response of the regular networks to local signals in presence of a fast impurity
Creators: name: Valizadeh, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an array of inductively coupled Josephson junctions with a fast impurity (a junction with a smaller value of critical current), and study the consequences of imposing a small amplitude periodic signal at some point in the array. We find that when external signal is imposed at the impurity, the response of the array is boosted and a small amplitude signal can be detected throughout the array. When the signal is imposed elsewhere, minor effects is seen on the dynamics of the array. The same results have been also seen in presence of a single fast spiking neuron in a chain of diffusively coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.4605
A superconvergent representation of the Gersten-Nitzan and Ford-Webber nonradiative rates
Creators: name: Moroz, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An alternative representation of the quasistatic nonradiative rates of Gersten and Nitzan [J. Chem. Phys. 1981, 75, 1139] and Ford and Weber [Phys. Rep. 1984, 113, 195] is derived for the respective parallel and perpendicular dipole orientations. Given the distance d of a dipole from a sphere surface of radius a, the representations comprise four elementary analytic functions and a modified multipole series taking into account residual multipole contributions. The analytic functions could be arranged hierarchically according to decreasing singularity at the short distance limit d ---> 0, ranging from d^{-3} over d^{-1} to ln (d/a). The alternative representations exhibit drastically improved convergence properties. On keeping mere residual dipole contribution of the modified multipole series, the representations agree with the converged rates on at least 99.9% for all distances, arbitrary particle sizes and emission wavelengths, and for a broad range of dielectric constants. The analytic terms of the representations reveal a complex distance dependence and could be used to interpolate between the familiar d^{-3} short-distance and d^{-6} long-distance behaviors with an unprecedented accuracy. Therefore, the representations could be especially useful for the qualitative and quantitative understanding of the distance behavior of nonradiative rates of fluorophores and semiconductor quantum dots involving nanometal surface energy transfer in the presence of metallic nanoparticles or nanoantennas. As a byproduct, a complete short-distance asymptotic of the quasistatic nonradiative rates is derived. The above results for the nonradiative rates translate straightforwardly to the so-called image enhancement factors Delta, which are of relevance for the surface-enhanced Raman scattering.
description: 30 pages including 6 figures
Communicable Diseases Control in the Hunter New England region and Australia
Creators: name: Jones, Belinda
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis details the projects I undertook during my placement as a Master of Applied Epidemiology scholar with the Health Protection Unit, Hunter New England Health, from February 2017 to August 2019. My projects included an investigation into an outbreak of norovirus at a large health function, an epidemiological study into the risk of transmission of Chlamydia psittaci from horses to humans, an analysis of variables associated with healthcare-seeking behaviour in Flutracking participants and an evaluation of the National Enhanced Listeriosis Surveillance System. This thesis also reports on teaching activities I was involved in during my placement including my 'Lesson from the field' on investigation of cancer clusters and my involvement in conducting outbreak workshops for University of Newcastle medical students and health protection staff at the Tamworth office.
Synchrotron radiation based beam diagnostics at the Fermilab Tevatron
Creators: name: Thurman-Keup, R.
name: Cheung, H. W. K.
name: Hahn, A.
name: Hurh, P.
name: Lorman, E.
name: Lundberg, C.
name: Meyer, T.
name: Miller, D.
name: Pordes, S.
name: Valishev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchrotron radiation has been used for many years as a beam diagnostic at electron accelerators. It is not normally associated with proton accelerators as the intensity of the radiation is too weak to make detection practical. However, if one utilizes the radiation originating near the edge of a bending magnet, or from a short magnet, the rapidly changing magnetic field serves to enhance the wavelengths shorter than the cutoff wavelength, which for more recent high energy proton accelerators such as Fermilab's Tevatron, tends to be visible light. This paper discusses the implementation at the Tevatron of two devices. A transverse beam profile monitor images the synchrotron radiation coming from the proton and antiproton beams separately and provides profile data for each bunch. A second monitor measures the low-level intensity of beam in the abort gaps which poses a danger to both the accelerator's superconducting magnets and the silicon detectors of the high energy physics experiments. Comparisons of measurements from the profile monitor to measurements from the flying wire profile systems are presented as are a number of examples of the application of the profile and abort gap intensity measurements to the modelling of Tevatron beam dynamics.
Symmetric Itinerary Sets
Creators: name: Barnsley, Michael F.
name: Mihalache, Nicolae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a one parameter family of dynamical systems W :[0, 1] -> [0, 1] constructed from a pair of monotone increasing diffeomorphisms Wsub(i), such that Wsub(i)(inverse): [0, 1] -> [0, 1], (i = 0, 1). We characterise the set of symbolic itineraries of W using an attractor of an iterated closed relation,in the terminology of McGehee, and prove that there is a member of the family for which is symmetrical.
Supplementary Information for "Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018"
Creators: name: Minocher, Riana
name: Atmaca, Silke
name: Bavero, Claudia
name: McElreath, Richard
name: Beheim, Bret
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Details on protocol, sample, statistical analyses, robustness checks and supplementary analyses
Covariance Eigenvector Sparsity for Compression and Denoising
Creators: name: Schizas, Ioannis D.
name: Giannakis, Georgios B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sparsity in the eigenvectors of signal covariance matrices is exploited in this paper for compression and denoising. Dimensionality reduction (DR) and quantization modules present in many practical compression schemes such as transform codecs, are designed to capitalize on this form of sparsity and achieve improved reconstruction performance compared to existing sparsity-agnostic codecs. Using training data that may be noisy a novel sparsity-aware linear DR scheme is developed to fully exploit sparsity in the covariance eigenvectors and form noise-resilient estimates of the principal covariance eigenbasis. Sparsity is effected via norm-one regularization, and the associated minimization problems are solved using computationally efficient coordinate descent iterations. The resulting eigenspace estimator is shown capable of identifying a subset of the unknown support of the eigenspace basis vectors even when the observation noise covariance matrix is unknown, as long as the noise power is sufficiently low. It is proved that the sparsity-aware estimator is asymptotically normal, and the probability to correctly identify the signal subspace basis support approaches one, as the number of training data grows large. Simulations using synthetic data and images, corroborate that the proposed algorithms achieve improved reconstruction quality relative to alternatives.
description: IEEE Transcations on Signal Processing, 2012 (to appear)
Light and darkness: the development of Ethel Wilson's protagonists
Creators: name: Baxter, Karen, 1957-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: PS 8545 I29 Z57 1986
subject: Wilson, Ethel Davis, 1888-1980
subject: Light and darkness in literature

description: Bibliography: p. 143-148.
description: The proliferation of light and dark descriptions in the novels and short stories of Ethel Wilson suggests their extreme importance to her purpose . On closer examination, we find these images closely connected to the development of almost all of her characters. Mrs . Wilson combines her keen interest in the quality of human experience with her belief that no person stands alone in life and that everyone has his or her own particular place within humanity. To illustrate this point of view, she employs shades of light and dark, for she believes as strongly in their purpose as she does in mankind. The suggestion is that life is a personal journey with both shadows and light, doubt and happiness. Mutations of light have the ability to tr a nsform that which is viewed and the manner in which anything - an object or a person - is perceived is simply a matter of falling light. When shadows are thrown on a subject, they prevent clarity of vision, so what is seen may actually be a false impression. An individual who experiences this darkness must get beyond this barrier i n order to progress in life. In Wilson's fiction, darkness is generally equated with ignorance or innocence. She develops her characters through the obstacles created by darkness to a point where they are prepared to accept knowledge. With this method, Wilson demonstrates that all existence is a combination of blotting-out and illumination. We must get beyond the moments of darkness and blotting-out to the moments of enlightenment and self-awareness, where our path through life lies clear. In using this technique, Wilson offers hope that it is within our ability to reach a point of self-discovery in which we know and understand ourselves, our goals and our world.
The Shadow of the Ripper: The Evolution of the Ripper Mythology
Creators: name: Thompson, Matthew Keith
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Jack the Ripper
Ripperology
serial killers
Neo-Victorian
Victorian
popular culture
Jekyll and Hyde
Dracula
Sherlock Holmes
Sweeney Todd
Victorian Values

description: Author Alan Moore, in his graphic novel From Hell, claimed that the Ripper “mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic”. It is this flexibility that has seen the figure of the Ripper elevated to something of a mythical status in the public eye, with his notoriety arguably outgrowing the very context from which he was born. However, while the Ripper figure has been acknowledged as an evolving and transformative figure in Neo-Victorian fiction, like Moore’s, little has been made of the connection between fictional portrayals of the Ripper and the community of non-fiction writers who speculate about the identity of the Ripper. Scholarship has distanced this community, better known by the label ‘Ripperology’, from fictional representations of the Ripper and Neo-Victorianism in general. The problem with this distancing is that it does not acknowledge the fact that Ripperology texts reimagine and reconstruct the Victorian age through the figure of their prospective Rippers. As a result, Ripperology can be classified under the umbrella of Neo-Victorian literature. By bringing together analysis of fictional and Ripperologist texts, the thesis examines how the community of Ripperology responds to and reflects contemporary anxieties,as do fictional representations of the Ripper. It also explores the symbiotic relationship between the fictional portrayals of the Ripper on one hand, and the community of Ripperologists who seek to bring him to some semblance of justice. This thesis therefore examines a range of Ripper texts as forms of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how they have contributed to the evolution of the Ripper figure, from the earliest reports of the crimes of 1888, to more recent texts in newer mediums and methodologies. By using this approach, the thesis will be able to show how the narratives surrounding the Ripper figure, which have been conjured in both Ripperology and fictional portrayals of the Ripper, have also shaped our understanding of the Victorian era.
Fun is social: (you cannot have fun by yourself)
Creators: name: Podilchak, Walter
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: BF 515 P625 1987
subject: Pleasure
subject: Interpersonal communication

description: Bibliography: p. 540-553.
description: Fun is involvement, continually used to describe various types of no systematic research has been undertaken though of the concept. It is generally implied that everyone knows what it means. Yet a closer examination suggests that fun is based in relationships. To empirically establish the social basis of fun, the arcade scene was studied. It contained activities that are generally identified activities as solitary experiences video games, and that are socially interactively dependent fooseball._x000D_ The arcade scene is a setting into which participants escape into for a temporary reestablishment of control. Video games have an absorbing quality which allows individuals to forget their general life concerns. Reestablishing some limited control in a game seems to reaffirm some self-perception that one is competitive. Arcade involvement seems to increase when individuals are generally in-between Life demands, or structurally dissafiliated. Yet the environment also provides a context for friendship development and fun. The fun in an arcade is doing an activity well and in of being control. Other persons are continually made explicit when fun is discussed. _x000D_ Fun is the creation of different social realities, in that the individual is emotionally interacting with another person. A process differentiating internalization and externalization is identified. It is more accurate to state that the internalization process is more reflective and self-evaluative, being more predictable in the parameters of experience and expected reward. It is more serious. Emotional experiences are developed through enjoyment, but emotionally in comparison to fun, the setting is not as emotionally intensive. Fun is the creation of a new, common experience, generally referred to as 'we,' in which the individual builds some experience with others by revealing biographical experiences and treating the other person in some equality perspective for the emergent social construction process. A new experience is understood by the participants of each other, as is concurrently some expansion of self-boundaries. Fun is emotionally expansive, while enjoyment is a process of self-refinement. They are processes which occur throughout forms of interaction. They are interactive processes within the social structural processes of leisure and work. Fun identifies a unique human process of human interaction, and that process is emotional.
Jewish Writer and a Yiddish Writer
Creators: name: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Authors, Yiddish
Jews, America
Authors
Jewish authors

description: Isaac Bashevis Singer often signed his journalistic fiction "Isaac Warshawsky" Typescript of Mirra Ginsburg's translation of Isaac Singer's essay, with corrections written in red ink.
Energy dependence of $K^-$-"$pp$" effective potential derived from coupled-channel Green's function
Creators: name: Koike, Takahisa
name: Harada, Toru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the energy dependence of a single-channel effective potential between the $K^-$ and the "$pp$"-core nucleus, which can be obtained as an $K^-$-"$pp$" equivalent local potential from a coupled-channel model for $\bar{K}(NN)$-$π(ΣN)$ systems. It turns out that the imaginary part of the resultant potential near the $πΣN$ decay threshold can well approximate the phase space suppression factor of $K^-pp \to πΣN$ decay modes. The effects on the pole position of the $π(ΣN)$ state in the $πΣN$ channel are also discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics (EXA2011), September 5-9, 2011, Wien, Austria, to appear in Hyperfine Interactions
Radio Pulsar Style Timing of Eclipsing Binary Stars from the ASAS Catalogue
Creators: name: Kozlowski, S. K.
name: Konacki, M.
name: Sybilski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Light-Time Effect (LTE) is observed whenever the distance between the observer and any kind of periodic event changes in time. The usual cause of this distance change is the reflex motion about the system's barycenter due to the gravitational influence of one or more additional bodies. We analyze 5032 eclipsing contact (EC) and detached (ED) binaries from the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue to detect variations in the times of eclipses which possible can be due to the LTE effect. To this end we use an approach known from the radio pulsar timing where a template radio pulse of a pulsar is used as a reference to measure the times of arrivals of the collected pulses. In our analysis as a template for a photometric time series from ASAS, we use a best-fitting trigonometric series representing the light curve of a given EC or ED. Subsequently, an O-C diagram is built by comparing the template light curve with light curves obtained from subsets of a given time series. Most of the variations we detected in O-Cs correspond to a linear period change. Three show evidence of more than one complete LTE-orbit. For these objects we obtained preliminary orbital solutions. Our results demonstrate that the timing analysis employed in radio pulsar timing can be effectively used to study large data sets from photometric surveys.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
An Adaptive Finite Element Splitting Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Creators: name: Selim, Kristoffer
name: Logg, Anders
name: Larson, Mats G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an adaptive finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a standard splitting scheme (the incremental pressure correction scheme). The presented method combines the efficiency and simplicity of a splitting method with the powerful framework offered by the finite element method for error analysis and adaptivity. An a posteriori error estimate is derived which expresses the error in a goal functional of interest as a sum of contributions from spatial discretization, time discretization and a term that measures the deviation of the splitting scheme from a pure Galerkin scheme (the computational error). Numerical examples are presented which demonstrate the performance of the adaptive algorithm and high quality efficiency indices. It is further demonstrated that the computational error of the Navier--Stokes momentum equation is linear in the size of the time step while the computational error of the continuity equation is quadratic in the size of the time step.
The Basics of Water Waves Theory for Analogue Gravity
Creators: name: Rousseaux, Germain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This chapter gives an introduction to the connection between the physics of water waves and analogue gravity. Only a basic knowledge of fluid mechanics is assumed as a prerequisite.
description: 36 pages. Lecture Notes for the IX SIGRAV School on "Analogue Gravity", Como (Italy), May 2011
Letter from David Dubinsky to William Lonsdale Taylor
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor unions
Labor leaders

description: David Dubinsky served as president of one of the most powerful American unions, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, between 1932 and 1966. In this letter, he accepts a position on the International Labor Organization Committee.