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THE RATIONALISATION OF DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES FOR PIG HOUSING
Creators: name: BARBER, JOHN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1992

description: This study consisted of a series of experiments which investigated the water use of growing/finishing pigs (25-90 kg), newly weaned pigs (5- 12 kg) and gestating sows. Drinker type was found to affect water use in growing pigs. For example significantly more water (28 %) was used from Mono-flo nipple drinkers than Arato bite drinkers (P<0.01). For all classes of pigs studied water use was significantly increased by increasing the water delivery rate. The percent increase in water use over the extremes of water delivery rate tested in individual trials were respectively: ration fed growing pigs, 105 % (300-900 cm³ /min P<0.001); ad libitum fed growing pigs, 52% (200-1100 cm³/min P<0.01); gestating sows, 25% (500-2500 cm³/min P<0:01); and newly weaned pigs 109% (175-700 cm³ /min P<0.001). In newly weaned piglets, increasing the water delivery rate from 175 to 700 cm³/min resulted in a significant increase in feed intake (44 g/piglet/day, P<0.001) and growth rate (37 g/piglet/day, P<0.01). For growing pigs (27-55 kg), a relationship was established between water intake, feed intake and liveweight, from which it could be hypothesised that the pig had a limit to daily volumetric intake. This was found to be 12.0 ±1.2 % of liveweight. When feed intake was restricted, water intake increased to maintain the 12% volumetric limit. This hypothesis was validated from other published work extending the weight range to 105 kg. Evidence was produced indicating that newly weaned pigs also have a constant volumetric daily limit. It is suggested that in cases where feed intake needs to be restricted, water intake could be manipulated in order to limit feed intake. This would permit the wider use of ad lib feeding systems and the welfare benefits these allow. The water use of a grower/finisher unit was modelled according to a 12 % volumetric limit and the factors affecting water intake and wastage. The water intake of grower/finisher pigs was predicted using this model. This enabled the percentage of water wasted by different drinker types and delivery rates to be estimated. For wet fed pigs, increasing the water to feed ratio from 1.63:1 to 3. 25: 1 significantly increased feed digestibility (P<0. 05). As many experiments conducted to evaluate the digestible energy of feeds may have used low feed to water ratios (generally around 2:1) it is suggested that many of these studies have attributed incorrect nutritional values to raw materials used in diets for pigs.
(201262) Charles Frederick Dusart
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.
Oral tract fluctuations in clarinet and saxophone performance : an acoustical analysis
Creators: name: Clinch, Peter G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The density of dark matter haloes of early-type galaxies in low-density environments
Creators: name: Corsini, E. M.
name: Wegner, G. A.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Saglia, R. P.
name: Bender, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New photometric and long-slit spectroscopic observations are presented for NGC 7113, PGC 1852, and PGC 67207 which are three bright galaxies residing in low-density environments. The surface-brightness distribution is analysed from the K_S-band images taken with adaptive optics at the Gemini North Telescope and the ugriz-band images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey while the line-of-sight stellar velocity distribution and line-strength Lick indices inside the effective radius are measured along several position angles. The age, metallicity, and alpha-element abundance of the galaxies are estimated from single stellar-population models. In spite of the available morphological classification, images show that PGC 1852 is a barred spiral which we do not further consider for mass modelling. The structural parameters of the two early-type galaxies NGC 7113 and PGC 67207 are obtained from a two-dimensional photometric decomposition and the mass-to-light ratio of all the (luminous and dark) mass that follows the light is derived from orbit-based axisymmetric dynamical modelling together with the mass density of the dark matter halo. The dynamically derived mass that follows the light is about a factor of 2 larger than the stellar mass derived using stellar-population models with Kroupa initial mass function. Both galaxies have a lower content of halo dark matter with respect to early-type galaxies in high-density environments and in agreement with the predictions of semi-analytical models of galaxy formation.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS in press, corrected proofs
(201263) Ellen Smith
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.
(201264) Sarah Isabella Dusart
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.
Highway 31 revisited : metaphysics and the disunity of scientific knowledge
Creators: name: Clarke, Steve
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The shoulder function index (SFInX): a clinician-observed outcome measure for people recovering from a proximal humeral fracture
Creators: name: van de Water, Alexander Theodorus Maria
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 Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis describes the development of a new outcome measure for ‘shoulder function’, the Shoulder Function IndeX (SFInX), for people with a proximal humeral fracture. A systematic review identified seventeen existing shoulder outcome measures used in this population, four of which had undergone limited psychometric evaluation. Subsequently, content and psychometric properties of five measures were evaluated. All measures included items from multiple domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, which might limit their ability to measure a single dimension such as ‘shoulder function’, the ability to perform daily tasks and activities in which the shoulder is involved. Also, relatively low absolute agreement between repeated measurements using the same tool (up to 23 percent of available score range) might limit their use as outcome measures in individuals. Concerns about content, psychometric properties and measurement methods of existing measures motivated the development of a unidimensional outcome measure for ‘shoulder function’ that is psychometrically sound and easy to administer. The SFInX is a 13-item clinician-observed outcome measure. Patients are asked to perform tasks, and completion of tasks is judged by a clinician as ‘able’, ‘partially able’ or ‘unable’. The SFInX has been developed with involvement of patients and clinicians, has undergone Rasch analysis and has been evaluated psychometrically using data from 92 people recovering from a proximal humeral fracture. Psychometric evaluation included intra-rater reliability, inter-rater reliability and measurement error; convergent, discriminant and known-groups validity; longitudinal validity (responsiveness); and minimal clinically important differences, floor and ceiling effects. The SFInX is a promising outcome measure to monitor ‘shoulder function’ of people with a proximal humeral fracture for rehabilitation and research purposes. It has content relevant to patients and clinicians, is feasible for testing in clinical and home settings, is a unidimensional measure of ‘shoulder function’ and has sound psychometric properties in this population.
(201259) Ann [Cowdery]
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.
Hausdorff dimension of the set approximated by irrational rotations
Creators: name: Kim, Dong Han
name: Rams, Michał
name: Wang, Baowei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11K55, 11J71, 28A80

description: Let $θ$ be an irrational number and $φ: {\mathbb N} \to {\mathbb R}^{+}$ be a monotone decreasing function tending to zero. Let $$E_φ(θ) =\Big\{y \in \mathbb R: \|nθ- y\|
description: 15pages
title: Prozessbezogene Kundenzufriedenheitsanalysen im internationalen Maschinen- und Anlagenbau
title: empirische Emic-Etic-Studien in drei internationalen Märkten
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sträter, Dirk
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Kundenzufriedenheit
subject: China
subject: USA
subject: Australien
subject: Kulturunterschiede
subject: Unternehmenskultur
subject: B2B
subject: Maschinenbau
subject: Emic-Etic-Problematik
subject: 330

description: Kundenzufriedenheit ist notwendige Bedingung zur Erklärung von Wiederkaufprozessen. Dennoch existieren im B2B, in dem bestehende Kundenbeziehungen eine besondere Bedeutung für den Unternehmenserfolg haben, nur wenige internationale Studien zur Kundenzufriedenheit. Die vorliegende Studie ist im internationalen B2B-Sektor angesiedelt. Im Unterschied zu existierenden Analysen wird Kundenzufriedenheit über den gesamten Liefer- und Leistungsprozess eines Anbieters hinweg konzeptionalisiert und gemessen und die Emic-Etic-Problematik berücksichtigt. Nationale Rahmenbedingungen der betrachteten Länder USA, Australien und China werden ebenso wie Unterschiede in der National- und Unternehmens-kultur herangezogen, um ihren Einfluss auf Kundenzufriedenheits-, Vertrauens und Loyalitätsunterschiede zwischen den drei Ländern zu untersuchen. Die Studie zeigt, dass sich Kundenzufriedenheit prozessbezogen im B2B über den gesamten Liefer- und Leistungsprozess eines Anbieters hinweg auch im internationalen Kontext messen und vergleichen lässt. Sie bestätigt die Existenz eine Langfristkomponente, die neben der Gesamtzufriedenheit einen Einfluss auf die Kundenloyalität ausübt. Die für die Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse erforderlichen Äquivalenzbedingungen konnten erfüllt werden. Die Emic-Etic-Problematik gilt es dazu bereits in der Konzeptionsphase internationaler Zufriedenheitsstudien zu berücksichtigen. Für die landläufig verbreitete Vermutung des Einflusses der Nationalkultur auf Zufriedenheit konnte in dieser Studie keine Bestätigung gefunden werden.
Identification and characterisation of physiological substrates of the N-end rule protein degradation pathway in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Ninnis, Robert
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 Biochemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The N-end rule pathway is conserved from bacteria to humans and determines the half-life of a protein based on its N-terminal amino acid. In Escherichia coli, model substrates bearing a destabilising N-terminal amino acid (N-degron) are degraded by ClpAP in an ATP-dependent manner. The degradation of these substrates is controlled by the adaptor protein ClpS, which is directly responsible for recognition of the N-degron and its delivery to the ClpAP protease. Previous to this thesis there were no known substrates of the N-end rule pathway in prokaryotes. To investigate the N-end rule in bacteria a pull down approach using recombinant ClpS was developed and applied to a proteomic wide search for ClpS substrates. This thesis describes the identification of 23 ClpS interacting proteins isolated from E. coli. Two of these proteins, DNA protection during starvation protein (Dps) and putrescine aminotransferase (PATase), are post-translationally modified to generate an N-degron. In the first example, the N-degron of Dps appears to result from an endoproteolytic cleavage by an unknown protease. In contrast, the N-degron of PATase is generated by the addition of primary destabilising residues to the N-terminus of the protein by the enzyme leucyl/phenylalanyl-tRNA-protein transferase (LFTR). Thus LFTR determines the stability of the protein in vivo. Independent of the type of post-translational modification, both N-end rule substrates are degraded by ClpAP in a ClpS dependent manner. An investigation into other LFTR dependent substrates lead to the partial characterization of two other putative ClpAPS substrates, the beta subunit of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase (AccD) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (AldB), both of which contain N-degrons. The characterization of the first bacterial N-end rule substrates has provided insight into the role of the prokaryotic N-end rule pathway in E. coli, linking it to stress pathways and metabolic homeostasis.
A study of the pronunciation of Chinese by Australian beginners
Creators: name: Chiang, Thomas Hsiang-hsi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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REACTIVE GASES IN ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMISATION ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY
Creators: name: FISHER, ANDREW SIMON
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1991

description: A variety of gases and vapours of organic compounds have been used as matrix modifiers in electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy (ETAAS). Oxidising gases such as air or nitrous-oxide, introduced during the charring stage, both thermally stabilised analytes such as lead, and improved the efficiency of pyrolysis by converting the normal charring into an ashing step. A number of interferences eg. magnesium chloride on lead determinations and non-specific absorbance interferences, decreased when air was introduced. Hydrocarbon gases (< 5% v/v) introduced during charring improved sensitivity (up to 89%) for certain refractory analytes (eg. Al, Ca, Mg, Si and V), prolonged tube life and improved precision.
A critique of continental anti-realism
Creators: name: Sebold, Richard
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 School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

A common stereotype of continental philosophers among their analytic counterparts is that the former are largely committed to some form of idealism wherein the everyday world around us depends upon our own minds for its characteristics. In other words, the way we talk and think about the world is itself responsible for how the world is. This stereotype seems to be reinforced by the secondary literature as many commentators identify similarities between arguments and lines of thought found within continental philosophy and anti-realist discourses prevalent within contemporary analytic philosophy, in particular with work of Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. If these interpreters are right, then this would pose a serious obstacle for the philosophical relevancy of continental thinkers since there are compelling reasons why such a metaphysically idealist/anti-realist position is fatally flawed. Therefore, any position that directly propounds idealism or depends upon it would equally be worthy of repudiation. In this work, I set out to assess whether or not such a conception of the endemic idealism within continental philosophy has any merit. I accomplish this by identifying competing interpretive strands of various philosophers and determine whether they are consistent with a belief in metaphysical realism, the idea that the world and its properties exist mind-independently. In particular, I discuss the possible idealism/anti-realism of four philosophers who are not only influential figures within the tradition but are also representative of ways a continental philosopher might succumb to metaphysical antirealism. They are Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl. Whenever an interpretation clashes with realism, I provide reasons why it is unsatisfactory from a philosophical perspective. More positively, I also provide possible realist readings of prima facie idealist commitments. In the end, I try to motivate a shifting of the debate onto a matter that often gets confused with the issue of realism, as it is presently understood, since the historical contexts have changed. Specifically, the issue of strong scientific reductive naturalism was often the referent of the term ‘realism’ in past discussions, and once it is disassociated with the debate surrounding metaphysical realism, the hope is that it will become a point of fruitful dialogue between analytic and continental philosophers, replacing the impediment of anti-realism.
Pure E and B polarization maps via Wiener filtering
Creators: name: Bunn, Emory F.
name: Wandelt, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to draw scientific conclusions from observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, it is necessary to separate the contributions of the E and B components of the data. For data with incomplete sky coverage, there are ambiguous modes, which can be sourced by either E or B signals. Techniques exist for producing "pure" E and B maps, which are guaranteed to be free of cross-contamination, although the standard method, which involves constructing an eigenbasis, has a high computational cost. We show that such pure maps can be thought of as resulting from the application of a Wiener filter to the data. This perspective leads to far more efficient methods of producing pure maps. Moreover, by expressing the idea of purification in the general framework of Wiener filtering (i.e., maximization of a posterior probability), it leads to a variety of generalizations of the notion of pure E and B maps, e.g., accounting for noise or other contaminants in the data as well as correlations with temperature anisotropy.
description: Modified to include demonstrations of the method on the spherical sky. Matches version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
(201256) Mary Emily Hughes
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 meaning of caring and its implications for nursing and nursing education
Creators: name: Cheung, Jenny
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Diagnostics and genomic diversity of Erwinia amylovora
Creators: name: Mann, Rachel
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 Botany, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Fire blight is a destructive disease of plants in the family Rosaceae which has significant economic impacts on pear and apple production in countries where the disease is present. The causal agent, Erwinia amylovora, is not found in Australia and is a major biosecurity threat to the Australian pome fruit industry. Molecular diagnostics routinely used for detection of E. amylovora were unsuitable for use in a quarantine situation as they did not detect all strains of the species or gave false positive results for bacteria that were not E. amylovora. This project has taken a genomics approach to evaluation and design of tests for the detection of the pathogen, taking intra-species and inter-species genetic diversity into consideration when identifying molecular diagnostic targets. Intra-species genetic diversity of E. amylovora was determined using the genomes of 12 diverse strains to identify the pan-genome. The accessory genome, genes not shared by all strains, was analysed to identify potential host specificity factors, including variation in type III effector proteins, carbon utilisation pathways and a secondary metabolite pathway, that differed between the two host-specific groupings of E. amylovora, Spiraeoideae-infecting and Rubus-infecting strains. A genomics-based diagnostic target identification and development pipeline which utilised the core genome of E. amylovora (genes shared by all strains of the species), genomes of closely related species, and sequences housed in international databases, was developed to identify species-specific targets for E. amylovora. Putative targets were further analysed for their suitability for use in diagnostics and used to develop multiplex PCR diagnostic tests for E. amylovora and for the two host-specific groupings of the pathogen. This pipeline, and the holistic principles outlined in this project to develop and evaluate diagnostic tests, are applicable to diagnostic development for a wide variety of microbes.
(201257) Mary Anne Cowdery
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.
On the local monodromy of A-hypergeometric functions and some monodromy invariant subspaces
Creators: name: Fernández-Fernández, María-Cruz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32C38, 33C70, 32S40

description: We obtain an explicit formula for the characteristic polynomial of the local monodromy of $A$-hypergeometric functions with respect to small loops around a coordinate hyperplane $x_i =0$. This formula is similar to the one obtained by Ando, Esterov and Takeuchi for the local monodromy at infinity. Our proof is combinatorial and can be adapted to provide an alternative proof for the latter formula as well. On the other hand, we also prove that the solution space at a nonsingular point of certain irregular and irreducible $A$--hypergeometric $D$--modules has a nontrivial global monodromy invariant subspace.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. Section 5 changed since previous version contained a gap. Final version, accepted for publication in Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamericana
Design rules for additively-manufactured wrist splints
Creators: name: Kelly, Sarah
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Design not elsewhere classified

description: Currently patients with wrist ailments may be prescribed wrist splints to aid in their treatment regime. The traditional fabrication process of custom-made splints is skill dependent, time-consuming and the splints themselves pose numerous problems with regard to patient compliance. To overcome this, the use of Additive Manufacturing (AM also known as 3D Printing) has been proposed in recent years and there has been an increase in public awareness and exploration. Many of these developments have been as a result of the Maker-movement, the Internet-of-Things and development of more accessible technologies and infrastructures to enable production of AM builds; hobbyists, industry and academia are exploring the use of AM in creating splints, all with strengths and weaknesses. One of the main weaknesses of most developments is the lack of acknowledgement of whether the lattice type designs with cut-out patterns are strong enough. To address this lack of validation, this research aimed to generate and evaluate design rules that allow for the creation of safe and effective wrist splints through a digitised splinting process for production using AM. This research first investigated what variables of a lattice type design had a significant effect on the stiffness of a splint. This was done using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Design of Experiment (DoE) methods. Initial FEA results were verified using physical testing. These results were then brought into the next study where they were optimised to gain a better understanding of the effect the variables have on the displacement response. Finally, these results were applied to different regions of the splint to create unique rules for each region of the splint, with the aim of creating a splint that is optimised for material use versus stiffness. All results were collated and a set of design rules for AM splints produced using Laser Sintered PA 12 were created.
The plain language movement and legislation: does plain language work?
Creators: name: Barnes, Jeffrey Wilson
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 School of Law, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis investigates plain language legislation–legislation drafted with elements associated with the plain language movement. The objectives of participants in the movement vary greatly. In respect of lay users, an objective is that they are able to read and understand legislation directly, without the need for professional mediation. In respect of all users, including expert and other informed users, an objective is to improve the way the legal system operates. The thesis has two main purposes: to evaluate whether the various objectives have been achieved or can be achieved, and to determine the reasons for the achievement or non-achievement of those objectives. The thesis inquiry takes as its basic assumption the notion that, in its attempts to change the impact of the law, the plain language project can be usefully analysed from the perspective of the life cycle of legislation—the phases through which an Act is developed. The major phases are emergence, drafting, parliamentary consideration and enactment, implementation, and evaluation of its effects. Chapter 2 of the thesis analyses the debates about the utility of plain language legislation in terms of the life cycle of legislation. Chapter 3 investigates the emergence and drafting phases with a focus on the goal set by many participants in the plain language movement. Chapter 4 investigates the implementation of plain language legislation at the level of the courts. Chapter 5 investigates the implementation of plain language legislation at the level of the administration of the law. Chapter 6 investigates the effects of plain language legislation, as measured by empirical studies. The thesis concludes that, despite facing numerous potential obstacles in the life cycle of legislation, and despite not achieving its headline goal in the main, plain language legislation is not a mere professional writing initiative, but in a limited sense can improve the legal system and the democratic process.
Synthetic gauge field and pseudospin-orbit interaction in a stacked two-dimensional ring-network lattice
Creators: name: Ochiai, Tetsuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of a synthetic gauge field and pseudospin-orbit interaction in a stacked two-dimensional ring-network model. The model was introduced to simulate light propagation in the corresponding ring-resonator lattice, and is thus completely bosonic. Without these two items, the model exhibits Floquet-Weyl and Floquet-topological-insulator phases with topologically gapless and gapped band structures, respectively. The synthetic magnetic field implemented in the model results in a three-dimensional Hofstadter-butterfly-type spectrum in a photonic platform. The resulting gaps are characterization by the winding number of relevant S-matrices together with the Chern number of the bulk bands. The pseudospin-orbit interaction is defined as the mixing term between two pseudospin degrees of freedom in the rings, namely, the clockwise and counter-clockwise modes. It destroys the Floquet-topological-insulator phases, while the Floquet-Weyl phase with multiple Weyl points can be preserved by breaking the space-inversion symmetry. Implementing both the synthetic gauge field and pseudospin-orbit interaction requires a certain nonreciprocity.
description: added Fig. 8, some explanations and figures
Integrable deformations of T-dual $σ$ models
Creators: name: Borsato, Riccardo
name: Wulff, Linus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to deform (generically non-abelian) T duals of two-dimensional $σ$ models, which preserves classical integrability. The deformed models are identified by a linear operator $ω$ on the dualised subalgebra, which satisfies the 2-cocycle condition. We prove that the so-called homogeneous Yang-Baxter deformations are equivalent, via a field redefinition, to our deformed models when $ω$ is invertible. We explain the details for deformations of T duals of Principal Chiral Models, and present the corresponding generalisation to the case of supercoset models.
description: 5 pages. References added. Projector reinstated in eq. (3). Claims on DTD with degenerate cocycle corrected
(201260) Frederic Cowdery
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.
I vettori nell’insegnamento della matematica nella Scuola secondaria di II grado
Creators: name: Mazzanti, Giuliano
name: Roselli, Valter
name: Tomasi, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Questo lavoro si propone di valorizzare il calcolo vettoriale nell’insegnamento della matematica nella scuola secondaria di II grado, come sottolineato anche dalle recenti Indicazioni nazionali per i Licei del 2010. Si propone di non relegare questo tema al solo insegnamento della fisica, ma di evidenziare il vantaggio di un suo utilizzo nel prendere in esame diversi argomenti matematici. Particolarmente importante in un percorso didattico come quello suggerito, è l’introduzione di esempi e problemi che, a partire da quelli proposti, facciano apprezzare agli studenti la potenza del metodo vettoriale nell’affrontare, oltre le applicazioni, anche argomenti teorici. -------------------------------------------------------------- Vectors in the teaching of mathematics in senior secondary school This work proposes that the teaching of mathematics in senior secondary schools would be enhanced by inclusion of calculus vectors, as was recently suggested in the 2010 National Proposals for the Grammar School (Indicazioni nazionali per i Licei). It is believed that this theme should not be limited to the Physics curriculum, since it may be used to advantage as a possibility to highlight their various mathematical aspects. Of particular importance in a teaching sequence like the one suggested is the introduction of examples and problems which, starting from those proposed, allow the student to understand the potential of the vector method not only for practical applications but also when dealing with theoretical arguments.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 4, N° 4 (2012): Didattica e insegnamento della Matematica. Esperienze e proposte
Isolation and access in the interior of Sabah
Creators: name: N.Chandler, Glenys
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Differences in RDM Sustainability: Services, Infrastructure, Accountability, and Planning by Years of Service.
Creators: name: Griffin, Tina
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Information and computing sciences

description: This is the post-peer review manuscript accepted to portal:Libraries and the Academy (Spring 2023; anticipated publication Winter/Spring 2024).
 This is a survey research project that updates on the status of research data management services in libraries, particularly regarding service offerings, staffing and funding, and presents them according to years of service.
 This work also investigates additional facets of RDMS regarding service fulfillment, accountability in providing support, and planning strategies within the same institution sample.
Neoclassical flows in deuterium-helium plasma density pedestals
Creators: name: Buller, Stefan
name: Pusztai, Istvan
name: Newton, Sarah
name: Omotani, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In tokamak transport barriers, the radial scale of profile variations can be comparable to a typical ion orbit width, which makes the coupling of the distribution function across flux surfaces important in the collisional dynamics. We use the radially global steady-state neoclassical δf code Perfect to calculate poloidal and toroidal flows, and radial fluxes, in the pedestal. In particular, we have studied the changes in these quantities as the plasma composition is changed from a deuterium bulk species with a helium impurity to a helium bulk with a deuterium impurity, under specific profile similarity assumptions. The poloidally resolved radial fluxes are not divergence-free in isolation in the presence of sharp radial profile variations, which leads to the appearance of poloidal return-flows. These flows exhibit a complex radial-poloidal structure that extends several orbit widths into the core and is sensitive to abrupt radial changes in the ion temperature gradient. We find that a sizable neoclassical toroidal angular momentum transport can arise in the radially global theory, in contrast to the local.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures
Leave or Duty Ration Book - Leaf 03 [All in a Lifetime illustrated autobiography chapter Page 93]
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soldiers--Conduct of life
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125249
subject: Rationing
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1090287
subject: World War (1914-1918)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746
subject: Ration books
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1895176

description: Part of the Archie Wills illustrated autobiography. The third page of coupons from a leave or duty ration book with coupons for meat, tea, butter, sugar, lard, cheese and jam.
coxphMIC: An R Package for Sparse Estimation of Cox Proportional Hazards Models
Creators: name: Nabi, Razieh
name: Su, Xiaogang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62N02

description: In this paper, we describe an R package named coxphMIC, which implements the sparse estimation method for Cox proportional hazards models via approximated information criterion (Su et al., 2016 Biometrics). The developed methodology is named MIC which stands for "Minimizing approximated Information Criteria". A reparameterization step is introduced to enforce sparsity while at the same time keeping the objective function smooth. As a result, MIC is computationally fast with a superior performance in sparse estimation. Furthermore, the reparameterization tactic yields an additional advantage in terms of circumventing post-selection inference. The MIC method and its R implementation are introduced and illustrated with the PBC data.
description: 10 pages and 3 figures
A comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist interval estimators that utilize uncertain prior information
Creators: name: Dharmarathne, Hetti Arachchige Sameera Gayan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (by Research) to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
The design and synthesis of novel thyroid hormone analogs
Creators: name: Chalmers, David Kenneth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The MYB80 transcription factors of Arabidopsis and cotton: comparative studies in function and their utilization for the development of a novel reversible male sterility system
Creators: name: Xu, Yue
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 Botany, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The Arabidopsis MYB80 transcription factor is required for normal pollen development. Inhibiting MYB80 expression results in complete male sterility and manipulating MYB80 expression provides a means to create hybrid vigour in crops such as cotton. Two highly similar MYB80 homologs were identified from cotton. Full length GhMYB80 driven by the AtMYB80 promoter rescued the atmyb80 mutant in Arabidopsis, restoring male fertility. When fused with the 32R (EAR) repressor motif, GhMYB80 (driven by its own promoter) resulted in male sterile Arabidopsis plants. Hence, GhMYB80 and AtMYB80 have similar functions in regulating pollen development. The GhMYB80 and AtMYB80 proteins possess four regions. Truncated constructs were used to determine which regions are required to rescue the atmyb80 mutant. Three highly conserved regions, namely the MYB domain, the adjacent 44-amino acid peptide and the C-terminus, when combined, were sufficient to restore male sterility. A novel EAR motif (N32R) was developed and shown to strongly interact with the TOPLESS corepressor in yeast. Complete male sterility of transgenic Arabidopsis plants was obtained by fusing AtMYB80 with the N32R motif. Using the yeast-two hybrid assay, the TPL N-terminus was shown to interact with EAR motifs. A novel fertility restorer was created using the TPL N-terminus as an anti-EAR domain together with the conserved AtMYB80 C-terminus. Fertility restoration occurred in the hybrid F1 plants. Finally, three AtMYB80 direct target genes, encoding a pectin methylesterase, a MYB transcription factor and a glyoxal oxidase (GLOX2), were identified using the chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-qPCR technique. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays confirmed that MYB80 bound to the MYB cis-elements in the GLOX2 promoter. The glox1glox2 double mutant was created and possessed a partially male sterile phenotype.
Hazelnut: A Bidirectionally Typed Structure Editor Calculus
Creators: name: Omar, Cyrus
name: Voysey, Ian
name: Hilton, Michael
name: Aldrich, Jonathan
name: Hammer, Matthew A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Structure editors allow programmers to edit the tree structure of a program directly. This can have cognitive benefits, particularly for novice and end-user programmers. It also simplifies matters for tool designers, because they do not need to contend with malformed program text. This paper defines Hazelnut, a structure editor based on a small bidirectionally typed lambda calculus extended with holes and a cursor. Hazelnut goes one step beyond syntactic well-formedness: its edit actions operate over statically meaningful incomplete terms. Naively, this would force the programmer to construct terms in a rigid "outside-in" manner. To avoid this problem, the action semantics automatically places terms assigned a type that is inconsistent with the expected type inside a hole. This safely defers the type consistency check until the term inside the hole is finished. Hazelnut is a foundational type-theoretic account of typed structure editing, rather than an end-user tool itself. To that end, we describe how Hazelnut's rich metatheory, which we have mechanized in Agda, guides the definition of an extension to the calculus. We also discuss various plausible evaluation strategies for terms with holes, and in so doing reveal connections with gradual typing and contextual modal type theory, the Curry-Howard interpretation of contextual modal logic. Finally, we discuss how Hazelnut's semantics lends itself to implementation as a functional reactive program. Our reference implementation is written using js_of_ocaml.
(201254) William Pearless
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.
Making a Case for a Design-Focused Foundation Year
Creators: name: Wilkens, Kimberlee
name: Seskauskas, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Article outlining the benefits of a design-centric approach to the Foundation curriculum. Included were case studies from UIC School of Design’s Foundation year. We suggest more emphasis on design-centric studies at the beginning of a design student’s career rather than exposure to the larger creative fields, resulting in strong designers better adapted to change.