cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(200641) Fern Dene
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.
Saturating The Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy Bound With Initial Data Sets For Gravitational Collapse
Creators: name: Bahrami, Sina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is possible to find initial states for gravitational collapse whose entropy approximately saturates the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the final black hole. The prototypical example of such a state is that envisaged by Zurek and Thorne, and also by Susskind: for a black hole of mass $\sim M$ , a number $\sim M^2$ of quanta with energies of order $1/M$ are accreted on a timescale of order $\sim M^3$, an approximate time-reverse of Hawking evaporation. There is lore that all initial states which saturate the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy must involve a formation timescale of this order, $M^3$ , and not the much shorter dynamical timescale $M$ . Counterexamples to this lore have been found by Sorkin, Wald and Zhang, and also by Hsu and Reeb, in the form of semiclassical initial data sets. However the spacetimes that correspond to these counterexamples possess white holes in the past, as well as black holes in the future, which casts doubt on their physical relevance. We modify the counterexamples to eliminate the white holes, yielding formation timescales of order $M^2$ , and argue that the lore is unfounded.
La Covid-19 dans un Ehpad : une gestion de la crise par anticipation
Creators: name: Miquel, Christelle
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022

description: 1er janvier 2020, nous venons de nous souhaiter la bonne année mais moi, infirmière hygiéniste dans un établissement d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpad) de Dordogne où j’ai la mission de l’encadrement de l’équipe de soin et d’hôtellerie, j’ai en tête les cas du SARS-CoV-2 issus de Wuhan. Je pense au SRAS, au MERS et je m’interroge sur l’avenir du SARS-CoV-2… Demain, nous sommes le 2 janvier et je vais accueillir mon nouveau directeur, sortant fraîchement de l’École des hautes études en santé publique (Ehesp). Comment allons-nous nous entendre devant cette crise que je pressens ?
Teachers’ Wage Determination in China: Decentralisation, the Knowledge Economy, and Participation
Creators: name: YI LONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis examines the Chinese government’s effort to construct a teacher wage determination system that will raise the quality of teachers’ work to a level suited to a knowledge-intensive economy. It provides evidence to demonstrate an intentional crowd-out of market influences on teachers’ wages by the state that has left some flexibility for local governments and individual schools. It argues that the state has reregulated teachers’ wages and sought to construct a participatory wage determination regime that can balance the relationship between national needs and local contingencies, and between employee wage security and organisational flexibility and efficiency.
Novel Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy: Infrared-Infrared-Visible Sum-Frequency Generation
Creators: name: Bakker, Huib J.
name: Bonn, Mischa
name: Cho, Minhaeng
name: Heinz, Tony F.
name: Hess, Christian
name: Miners, James H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Four Essays on the Economics of Mental Health
Creators: name: CLARYN SHU-JI KUNG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In light of the large global burden of poor mental health, including the direct and indirect costs to individuals, families and societies, this thesis provides empirical evidence for some of its causes and consequences on economic behaviour and outcomes. Results from econometric models reveal sizeable links between mental health and socioeconomic conditions, not only during adulthood or working ages, but also in childhood and old age. This thesis overviews and advances four unique literatures, spanning from how childhood mental health predicts mental health and economic prosperity across adulthood, to how mental health affects how one responds to financial incentives.
Responsibility, accountability and sustainable development: a critical discourse analysis of web-based narrative accounting disclosures in the Australian mining and extractive industries
Creators: name: Davianti, Arthik
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Accounting, La Trobe Business School College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Measurement of linear response functions in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Creators: name: Xin, Tao
name: Pedernales, Julen S.
name: Lamata, Lucas
name: Solano, Enrique
name: Long, Gui-Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure multi-time correlation functions of a set of Pauli operators on a two-level system, which can be used to retrieve its associated linear response functions. The two-level system is an effective spin constructed from the nuclear spins of $^{1}$H atoms in a solution of $^{13}$C-labeled chloroform. Response functions characterize the linear response of the system to a family of perturbations, allowing us to compute physical quantities such as the magnetic susceptibility of the effective spin. We use techniques exported from quantum information to measure time correlations on the two-level system. This approach requires the use of an ancillary qubit encoded in the nuclear spins of the $^{13}$C atoms and a sequence of controlled operations. Moreover, we demonstrate the ability of such a quantum platform to compute time-correlation functions of arbitrary order, which relate to higher-order corrections of perturbative methods. Particularly, we show three-time correlation functions for arbitrary times, and we also measure time correlation functions at fixed times up to tenth order.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Baltic universities fostering citizen engagement through social actions for Ukrainian refugees
Creators: name: Katerina, Zourou
name: Stefania, Oikonomou
name: Stavros, Samiotis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen engagement, Ukraine, Baltics, Universities

description: The publication showcases citizen engagement actions by Baltic universities to tackle the effects of the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis in the region. This collection was produced as part of Work Package 2 of the EU-funded project Baltics4UA: “Supporting Ukraine through citizen engagement at Baltic Universities'' (https://baltics4ua.eu/, Project Number 2022-2-EE01-KA220-HED-000096422). The authors of this study would like to thank all of Baltics4UA’ partner organisations for their input into the research and resource-gathering stage of this project, as well as during the review of the guide. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This deliverable reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
title: Dissecting wheat above-ground architecture for enhanced water use efficiency and grain yield in the subtropics
Creators: name: Hakeem, Sadia
name: Ali, Zulfiqar
name: Saddique, Muhammad Abu Bakar
name: Habib-Ur-Rahman, Muhammad
name: Wiehle, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: drought
subject: heat stress
subject: leaf morphologys
subject: Triticale
subject: Triticum durum
subject: Triticum aestivum
subject: scanning electron microscopy
subject: 580
subject: 630
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Dürre
subject: Hitzestress
subject: Blatt
subject: Morphologie
subject: Triticale
subject: Hartweizen
subject: Weizen
subject: Rasterelektronenmikroskopie

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
title: A Saxon state : Anglo-Saxonism and the English nation, 1703-1805
Creators: name: Frazier, Dustin McKinley
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2013

description: For the past century, medievalism studies generally and Anglo-Saxonism studies in particular have largely dismissed the eighteenth century as a dark period in English interest in the Anglo-Saxons. Recent scholarship has tended to elide Anglo-Saxon studies with Old English studies and consequently has overlooked contributions from fields such as archaeology, art history and political philosophy. This thesis provides the first re-examination of scholarly, antiquarian and popular Anglo-Saxonism in eighteenth-century England and argues that, far from disappearing, interest in Anglo-Saxon culture and history permeated British culture and made significant contributions to contemporary formulations and expressions of Englishness and English national, legal and cultural identities. Each chapter examines a different category of Anglo-Saxonist production or activity, as those categories would be distributed across current scholarship, in order to explore the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons were understood and deployed in the construction of contemporary cultural- historiographical narratives. The first three chapters contain, respectively, a review of the achievements of the ‘Oxford school’ of Saxonists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; antiquarian Anglo-Saxon studies by members of the Society of Antiquaries of London and their correspondents; and historiographical presentations of the Anglo-Saxons in local, county and national histories. Chapters four and five examine the appearance of the Anglo-Saxons in visual and dramatic art, and the role of Anglo-Saxonist legal and juridical language in eighteenth-century politics, with reference to discoveries resulting from the academic and antiquarian research outlined in chapters one to three. It is my contention that Anglo-Saxonism came to serve as a unifying ideology of origins for English citizens concerned with national history, and political and social institutions. As a popular as well as scholarly ideology, Anglo-Saxonism also came to define English national character and values, an English identity recognised and celebrated as such both at home and abroad.
MAX_824143 D10.6 Final report on MAX in the European, national, international HPC ecosystems
Creators: name: Bartolacelli, Maria
name: Neri, Luisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: materials modelling software
HCP
exascale

description: This “Final report on MAX in the European, national, international HPC ecosystems” offers an overview of the activity of MAX European Centre of Excellence (CoE) as an actor of the HPC European and international ecosystem at different levels. All the activities are aimed at addressing technical and policy issues of pan-European relevance, promoting synergies and helping to overcome the fragmentation of European HPC activities on applications. This report focuses on the period June 2020 - September 2022, and first describes MAX interactions and joint initiatives with the main European HPC actors, especially the CoEs ecosystem –including the other CoEs and their coordination instruments HPC3 and FocusCoE–, and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking as a whole, as well as the main European organisations and projects in the field of HPC infrastructures, data and technologies –including EOSC, ETP4HPC, EPI, and PRACE–. Beside general coordination actions, we held dedicated meetings with representatives of the relevant HPC Consortia in order to best take advantage of the new EuroHPC supercomputers –especially the pre-exascale machines– since their very beginning. MAX plays a leading role in its specific domain of materials research, and has strengthened its long-established collaboration with the relevant stakeholders. We report on the activities with the Psi-K network, CECAM, EMMC, the Battery2030+ and BIG-MAP initiatives, OptiMaDe, as well as some other relevant initiatives at national and international level. The richness of these interactions has required significant effort from the management and all MAX partners. We believe that this investment has contributed to a more coherent, effective and friendly ecosystem in Europe, and to positioning MAX at the front of the European and global landscape in the HPC materials research.
The Drivers of Location Decision of International Business Firms within a Country: The Role of Place, Space and Organisation
Creators: name: Rasel, Sharif
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150308 International Business
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study combines concepts from international business and economic geography to provide a holistic framework for understanding firm-location interplay in within-country location decisions. It examines both capability and internalisation motivations as firm-level heterogeneity that moderates the effects of locational factors on location choice. This study finds that a firm’s capability does not diminish the importance of inter-firm connectedness, but rather, capability reduces the importance of inherent characteristics of a location and thereby negatively moderates the firm’s likelihood of selecting a cluster. Internalisation advantages increase the importance of inter-firm connectedness and positively moderates its likelihood of selecting a cluster.
Universal Form of Stochastic Evolution for Slow Variables in Equilibrium Systems
Creators: name: Itami, Masato
name: Sasa, Shin-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear, multiplicative Langevin equations for a complete set of slow variables in equilibrium systems are generally derived on the basis of the separation of time scales. The form of the equations is universal and equivalent to that obtained by Green. An equation with a nonlinear friction term for Brownian motion turns out to be an example of the general results. A key method in our derivation is to use different discretization schemes in a path integral formulation and the corresponding Langevin equation, which also leads to a consistent understanding of apparently different expressions for the path integral in previous studies.
description: 17 pages
Dragon Wars - Relating signal structure and habitat characteristics in Australian Agamid lizards
Creators: name: Ramos, Jose
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Was sind lehrreiche Votingfragen für Mathematikstudenten in Erstsemestervorlesungen? – eine Studentenbewertung
Creators: name: Hoppenbrock, Axel
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Hat sich ein Dozent dazu entschieden, zum ersten Mal Votingfragen in die Veranstaltung zu integrieren, so fragt er sich sicherlich, welche Arten von Fragen geeignet sind, wie gute Fragen entwickelt bzw. formuliert und auf welche Art und Weise sie in die Veranstaltung integriert werden können. Die Literatur liefert hier allgemeine Hinweise so z.B., dass sie leicht und schnell verständlich (Uhari, Renko, & Soini, 2003) sein und einen mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad (Duncan, 2008) aufweisen sollen. Es gibt aber kaum mathematikspezifische Hinweise, insbesondere für Veranstaltungen auf dem Niveau einer Analysis I Vorlesung. Diese Studie versucht daher hier einen ersten Schritt zu machen.
(200632) John Gosling Paine
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.
The Effects of Financial Access to Small Business and Households
Creators: name: FILDA CITRA YUSGIANTORO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
subject: 150314 Small Business Management
subject: 160301 Family and Household Studies
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation contains three essays on small business and household access to finance in Indonesia following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. We find that in financial markets with larger banks, there are less loans available for small businesses. We also find that the probability that households borrow from informal institutions varies greatly, depending on their organisational structure. Lastly, we find that households run down assets and savings to finance consumption after health shocks. Increasing informal borrowing can also finance consumption, but it depends on the duration, and severity, of illness.
Bad after bad is good: previous trial disfluency reduces interference promoted by incongruence
Creators: name: De Oliveira, Gonçalo Aires
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023

description: Raw data for Oliveira, G.A., Remondes, M. & Garcia-Marques, T. Bad after bad is good: previous trial disfluency reduces interference promoted by incongruence. Psychological Research 86, 2215–2224 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01626-y
Exact solutions for scalar field cosmology in f(R) gravity
Creators: name: Maharaj, S. D.
name: Goswami, R.
name: Chervon, S. V.
name: Nikolaev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We look for exact solutions in scalar field cosmology. To achieve this we use $f(R)$ modified gravity with a scalar field and do not specify the the form of the $f(R)$ function. In particular, we study Friedmann universe assuming that acceleration of the scalar curvature is negligible. We first present solutions for special cases and then the general solution. Using initial conditions which represent the universe at the present epoch, we evaluated the constants of integration. This allows for the comparison of the scale factor in the new solutions with that of the $ΛCDM$ solution, thereby affecting the age of the universe in $f(R)$ gravity.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, Revised version submitted for publication with additional references and minor additions
Promoting effectiveness of democracy protection institutions: A study on the national human rights commission of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Saber
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the various ways in which international norms find purchase at the domestic level in the particular context of Bangladesh, and the relative balance between local, endogenous advocacy (the ‘pull’ driven by legal entrepreneurs) and external transmission and persuasion. It also assesses the initial operations of the National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh (NHRC) and identifies measures in relation to those operations. The NHRC emerged in a context that was not particularly hospitable. The process of installing the commission began with an attempt by the UN, as part of its global aspirations, to establish NHRIs for every country in the world under the somewhat optimistic assumption that their creation would promote and protect human rights. The various competing demands of the government, the HRNGOs and civil society, and the UN, were involved in this procedure. Successive governments were not interested in setting up the commission and the UN eventually convinced the military-backed caretaker government to initiate the process. The disastrous initial operations of the NHRC were nothing but a vivid example to substantiate the disinclination of consecutive governments. The operations of the commission were frustrating as it has been generally unsuccessful in ensuring an effective human rights remedy for its citizens. However, the commission, in a perverse way, did fulfil its purpose – as a measure of improving the government’s public image and diminishing the risk of major international pressure without posing any significant threat to the powerful. While the outcomes of the NHRC have not been those expected by the UN, it has done something else that was in itself useful and could turn it into a kind of all-purpose Good Samaritan that does small, virtuous things. Nevertheless, it was a paradox that encouraging a national commission has produced an institution that appears to do little more than paper over the problems and fulfil procedural demands. The NHRC of Bangladesh was far away from the accomplishment of its desired objectives, considering the repercussions of actors and factors, such as the government’s lack of political will, personality politics among the commissioners, disengaged deputation staff, the selective engagement of the HRNGOs and the great dependency on the UNDP and donors.

Submission note: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Archaeology and History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, Latrobe University, Bundoora.
(200635) William Dunkley Paine
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.
Fermion-induced quantum critical points in two-dimensional Dirac semimetals
Creators: name: Jian, Shao-Kai
name: Yao, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the nature of quantum phase transitions between two-dimensional Dirac semimetals and $Z_3$-ordered phases (e.g. Kekule valence-bond solid), where cubic terms of the order parameter are allowed in the quantum Landau-Ginzberg theory and the transitions are putatively first-order. From large-$N$ renormalization group (RG) analysis, we find that fermion-induced quantum critical points (FIQCPs) [Z.-X. Li et al., Nature Communications 8, 314 (2017)] occur when $N$ (the number of flavors of four-component Dirac fermions) is larger than a critical value $N_c$. Remarkably, from the knowledge of spacetime supersymmetry, we obtain an exact lower bound for $N_c$, i.e., $N_c>1/2$. (Here the "1/2" flavor of four-component Dirac fermions is equivalent to one flavor of four-component Majorana fermions). Moreover, we show that the emergence of two length scales is a typical phenomenon of FIQCPs and obtain two different critical exponents, i.e., $ν$$\neq$$ν'$, by large-$N$ RG calculations. We further give a brief discussion on possible experimental realizations of FIQCPs.
description: 7.6 pages, 6 figures, published version
Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Ecotourism: A Study of Business Intention, Start-up and Operation
Creators: name: CHRISTOPHER DAVID SWAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160513 Tourism Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Ecotourism is a recognised positive development tool for fragile or sensitive natural areas. However, little is known as to how and why ecotourism business start-up occurs. This includes a limited understanding as to the role of the entrepreneur in facilitating ecotourism business development. This study aimed to address this research gap through development of a motivational process model for ecotourism entrepreneurship. This model was tested using a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal research design that collected data from two discrete samples; ecotourism students (representing nascent ecotourism entrepreneurs) and ecotourism operators (representing established entrepreneurs).
Johann Peter Frank : un visionnaire et le précurseur de l’hygiène moderne et de la santé publique
Creators: name: Hartemann, Philippe
name: Exner, Martin
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022

description: Même si depuis l’Antiquité, des notions d’hygiène à visée préventive des maladies infectieuses et du maintien en bonne santé avaient été diffusées, puis améliorées durant le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, Johann Peter Frank est certainement celui qui, imprégné par la pensée du siècle des Lumières, a fondé les bases de la médecine sociale et de la Santé publique dans son œuvre magistrale System einer vollständigen medizinischen Polizey achevée à Vienne peu avant son décès en 1821. Une traduction littérale de ce titre allemand est « Système d’une politique médicale complète » mais en français moderne on dirait « Traité de santé publique ». Auparavant il a eu un parcours remarquable que nous allons rapidement retracer ; celui-ci en fait un acteur incontournable de l’administration de la médecine en Europe et un précurseur de la santé publique.
Compendium of extracellular vesicles, optimization of extracellular vesicle isolation methods and the role of extracellular vesicles in Wnt signaling
Creators: name: Kalra, Hina
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Growth, form and function in problematic Cambrian paraconodonts
Creators: name: Crabbe, William J. E.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Paraconodonts represent the earliest candidate vertebrate feeding structures in the fossil record. However, critical questions regarding individual element growth and function, and apparatus structure remain unconstrained. To address these questions, large assemblages of elements from the Deadwood Formation, Canada and Alum Shale Formation, Sweden were examined. The new assemblage of SCFs from the Deadwood Formation has yielded over 1800 paraconodont elements, including 536 Westergaardodina spanning six species, two of which are new. Biological taxonomy based upon ontogenetic development of elements has been presented in Westergaardodina for the first time. Taphonomic examination reveals that elements were flattened and partially demineralised during preservation. Histological examination of phosphatic coniform paraconodont elements using tomographic imaging has revealed four distinct internal grades of basal accretion that are highly variable among genera, supporting a polyphyletic Euconodonta. Observations under transmitted light, scanning electron, and tomographic microscopy reveal that Westergaardodina elements grew through at least two distinct modes of morphogenesis. The first is modified basal accretion with distinct lateral allometry, and the second involves the incorporation of distinct units into a united element superstructure. This mode of development is observed in derived euconodont elements and other basal vertebrates but is the earliest known example of this in vertebrate feeding structures. Finally, quantitative functional analyses of damage patterns and sharpness of Westergaardodina preclude it from an external body function and indicate it was used directly in food processing as a slicing surface. The apparatus structure of Westergaardodina remains unknown but is clearly separate from those currently known in conodonts, further adding to the known diversity of the earliest vertebrates. The combined results of this work have highlighted the hitherto underappreciated diversity present within the skeletons of the earliest conodonts and vertebrates extending to both their growth, and function. Paraconodonts were clearly a key component of late Cambrian ecosystems.
(200636) Alfred Gwilt
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.
Agricultural subsidies and farm income distribution: a case study of the Australian dairy industry
Creators: name: Vogt, Carol Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian dairy industry has been the recipient of large amounts of government assistance for many years. Despite the concern the government has shown for the welfare of dairy farmers the industry contains large numbers of producers who earn very low incomes. In particular, the manufacturing sector of the industry - comprising farmers who produce milk exclusively for manufacturing purposes (butter, cheese and processed milk products) - has many marginal producers and as a result this sector is assisted by a comprehensive set of protective measures. In this study only one of these measures is considered in detail: the annual Commonwealth Bounty on butterfat utilised in the manufacture of butter and cheese. The bounty has been in operation since 1942 and during that time has resulted in a transfer of $793 million from Australian taxpayers to farmers whose milk is used to produce butter and cheese. The dairy industry bounty has therefore been of considerable monetary benefit to the industry.

Over the years that the bounty has operated it has been used to achieve a number of policy objectives, one major objective being to assist low-income producers. The effectiveness of the bounty as an aid to poor dairy farmers has, however, been severely criticised. Critics have claimed that the bounty is a failure as a welfare measure since the larger, higher-income producers who are least in need of assistance receive most the payments and very little of the bounty goes to low-income producers. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the dairy industry bounty on the distribution of income among farmers in the manufacturing sector of the Australian dairy industry. In particular, do high­-income dairy farmers receive the greatest benefit from the bounty program, or is the reverse the case? Does the bounty tend to widen or to reduce the inequality in the distribution of income? These are the questions which are considered here and the answers provide an indication of the effectiveness of the bounty as a welfare measure. [...]
The Brezis-Nirenberg problem for the curl-curl operator
Creators: name: Mederski, Jarosław
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We look for solutions $E:Ω\to\mathbb{R}^3$ of the problem $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} &\nabla\times(\nabla\times E) +λE = |E|^{p-2}E &&\quad \text{in }Ω&ν\times E = 0 &&\quad \text{on }\partialΩ\end{aligned} \right. $$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^3$, where $\nabla\times$ denotes the curl operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The equation describes the propagation of the time-harmonic electric field $\Re\{E(x)e^{iωt}\}$ in a nonlinear isotropic material $Ω$ with $λ=-μ\varepsilon ω^2\leq 0$, where $μ$ and $\varepsilon$ stand for the permeability and the linear part of the permittivity of the material. The nonlinear term $|E|^{p-2}E$ with $p>2$ is responsible for the nonlinear polarisation of $Ω$ and the boundary conditions are those for $Ω$ surrounded by a perfect conductor. The problem has a variational structure and we deal with the critical values $p$, for instance, in convex domains $Ω$ or in domains with $\mathcal{C}^{1,1}$ boundary $p=6=2^*$ is the Sobolev critical exponent and we get the quintic nonlinearity in the equation. We show that there exist a cylindrically symmetric ground state solution and a finite number of cylindrically symmetric bound states depending on $λ\leq 0$. We develop a new critical point theory which allows to solve the problem, and which enables us to treat more general anisotropic media as well as other variational problems.
description: to appear in J. Funct. Anal
Implications of taxation on specialisation, and introducing joint production to mesoeconomics
Creators: name: Filippelli, Tino
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis consists of two parts. We investigate implications of taxation on economic structure, and develop a model for the analysis of joint production in an industry characterised by imperfect competition.

Part 1 is titled "New Classical Economics and Taxation". We extend the analysis of New Classical Economics by explicitly deriving (through numerical simulations), the level of transaction efficiency required for the emergence of division of labour, under alternative combinations of taxes. Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the framework by providing a historical overview of the focus of classical and neoclassical economics, and their relationship with New Classical Economics. Chapter 3 introduces advalorem taxes to a simple New Classical model, and numerically derives 'threshold levels of transaction efficiency'. Implications for economic analysis are then discussed.

Part 2 is titled "Introducing joint production to Mesoeconomics". Chapter 4 firstly presents a historical overview of economic literature on microfoundations of macroeconomics, which provides an appreciation of the context in which Ng's Mesoeconomics was developed. We then discuss the mesoeconomic framework. This is furthered with the presentation of a prototype mesoeconomic model. In Chapter 5, we extend the mesoeconomic framework by developing a short run model of an industry characterised by joint production, and deriving the associated comparative static results. The components of the comparative static equations are interpreted and signed in chapter 6. We then adopt a simplifying assumption to show how to increase the tractability of the derived model. Part 2 ends with concluding remarks.
(200638) George Applegath Gwilt
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.
Marketing research as a control medium in the new product marketing
Creators: name: King, Raymond Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is based on the Wynns winecask, a new product launched in December 1971 by Wynn Winegrowers Ltd.

 The product represents, at the present moment, the most advanced form of packaging still, "quaffing" wine in the world. Quaffing wine is a wine industry term applied to tablewine not intended for extended ageing in the bottle. It tends to be used for general wine drinking occasions, such as at the family meal table, rather than for special occasions.

 The winecask exercise involved the re-marketing of a packaging concept which had been first marketed by an opposition wine company, Penfolds Ltd., in 1967. This attempt had proven to be an apparent marketing success but a technical failure, causing a lot of damage to that company's goodwill in the eyes of the liquor trade and wine consumers alike. The product was removed from the market in 1968. Despite Penfolds Ltd. having removed the product from the market, its experience suggested the concept satisfied a real consumer need and highlighted a definite marketing opportunity area.

 As the primary purpose of marketing research is to assist in the decision making process there was little necessity to conduct extensive pre-introduction research once it was established the technical problem had been overcome. Moreover the Penfolds Ltd. experiment provided a practical basis on which strategy and objectives could be based for up to the first full twelve months. Nevertheless, it was also recognised, even if the first year Wynn strategy proved to be an apparent success, that the Penfolds Ltd.
results, on which the objectives had been based, may not have represented the optimum alternative available.

 It was therefore decided, prior to the introduction of the winecask, that marketing research should be used only in a decision situation arising out of the need for control. The use of research as a control technique is simply a restatement of one of the primary decision situations for which marketing research is used; "do we have a problem, and if so, what is it?" Any research done in connection with it is both an appraisal of current performance and a search for courses of action better than the one already in use.

 To this end, this thesis has been concerned with the use of marketing research as a control medium, in the appraisal of first year marketing performance, in the search for alternative courses of action and in the development of strategy for a future course of action.

 As the thesis developed it became evident that a marketing model could be constructed from the information available. By necessity, the model had to be kept as simple as possible because of lack of access to a computer. Nevertheless, the principle of the model supplied an encouraging insight into cause and effect relationships and even without added refinements, provided a valuable marketing tool on which the development of future strategy could be based.
MOSFIRE Spectroscopy of Quiescent Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 2.5. I - Evolution of Structural and Dynamical Properties
Creators: name: Belli, Sirio
name: Newman, Andrew B.
name: Ellis, Richard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep near-infrared spectra for a sample of 24 quiescent galaxies in the redshift range 1.5 < z < 2.5 obtained with the MOSFIRE spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory. In conjunction with a similar dataset we obtained in the range 1 < z < 1.5 with the LRIS spectrograph, we analyze the kinematic and structural properties for 80 quiescent galaxies, the largest homogeneously-selected sample to date spanning 3 Gyr of early cosmic history. Analysis of our Keck spectra together with measurements derived from associated HST images reveals increasingly larger stellar velocity dispersions and smaller sizes to redshifts beyond z~2. By classifying our sample according to Sersic indices, we find that among disk-like systems the flatter ones show a higher dynamical to stellar mass ratio compared to their rounder counterparts which we interpret as evidence for a significant contribution of rotational motion. For this subset of disk-like systems, we estimate that V/sigma, the ratio of the circular velocity to the intrinsic velocity dispersion, is a factor of two larger than for present-day disky quiescent galaxies. We use the velocity dispersion measurements also to explore the redshift evolution of the dynamical to stellar mass ratio, and to measure for the first time the physical size growth rate of individual systems over two distinct redshift ranges, finding a faster evolution at earlier times. We discuss the physical origin of this time-dependent growth in size in the context of the associated reduction of the systematic rotation.
description: Updated to match the published version
(200633) Samuel Paine
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.
Quantifying the effects of partially coherent wavefields in coherent diffractive imaging
Creators: name: Tran, Giang Nhan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Chemistry and Physics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
The Hoffmann-Jorgensen inequality in metric semigroups
Creators: name: Khare, Apoorva
name: Rajaratnam, Bala
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15 (primary), 60B15 (secondary)

description: We prove a refinement of the inequality by Hoffmann-Jorgensen that is significant for three reasons. First, our result improves on the state-of-the-art even for real-valued random variables. Second, the result unifies several versions in the Banach space literature, including those by Johnson and Schechtman [Ann. Probab. 17 (1989)], Klass and Nowicki [Ann. Probab. 28 (2000)], and Hitczenko and Montgomery-Smith [Ann. Probab. 29 (2001)]. Finally, we show that the Hoffmann-Jorgensen inequality (including our generalized version) holds not only in Banach spaces but more generally, in a very primitive mathematical framework required to state the inequality: a metric semigroup $\mathscr{G}$. This includes normed linear spaces as well as all compact, discrete, or (connected) abelian Lie groups.
description: 11 pages, published in the Annals of Probability. The Introduction section shares motivating examples with arXiv:1506.02605
The Effect of Cognitive Style and Balanced Scorecard Information on Managerial Learning and Performance
Creators: name: ANNA GERAKARIS-STAMATELATOS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150105 Management Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis investigates the influence of cognitive style (field dependent/field independent dimension) on managerial learning and performance when using a balanced scorecard. Given the design logic of the balanced scorecard, it is necessary for managers to use and process all causally linked performance measures to maximize their learning, and enable better decision making to improve performance. Prior research has shown that managers do not always use the balanced scorecard as intended. Hence, this thesis aims to gain a better understanding of how managers use balanced scorecard information as this can further the explanation why the balanced scorecard may not always achieve its potential.
Service Provider
Creators: name: Müller, Uwe
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 020

description: Das OAI-Protokoll, das seit Juni 2002 in der Version 2.0 vorliegt, definiert Data Provider und Service Provider. Während Data Provider auf entsprechende Anfragen hin Metadaten über ein Archiv und die darin enthaltenen Dokumente liefern, stellen Service Provider den eigentlichen Mehrwert bereit, der aus der Anwendung des OAI-Protokolls resultiert. Zu diesem Zweck muss ein Service Provider einerseits Anfragen an die Data Provider formulieren können und andererseits auch dazu in der Lage sein, die erhaltenen Antworten auszuwerten. Die Dienste, die ein Service Provider 'nach außen' zur Verfügung stellen kann, können sehr unterschiedlicher Natur sein. Im einfachsten Fall stellt er ein Web-Interface zu einem einzelnen Data Provider bereit, wie dies der so genannte Repository Explorer der Virginia Tech University tut (http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai). Andererseits können aber auch fächerübergreifende oder fachspezifische Suchmaschinen aufgesetzt werden, die eine qualifizierte und verteilte Recherche erlauben (http://www.dini.de/oaisuche/index.php, http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/query.php).