cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Comparative cytogenomics between chicken and duck: Wider insights into genome evolution and organisation
Creators: name: Skinner, Benjamin Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Genome organisation can be considered at a number of levels from the karyotype to gene order, copy number variation and the organisation of chromosome territories and loci within the interphase nucleus (nuclear organisation). Detailed studies of these areas in birds however are limited. As the only bird with a published genome sequence, and for its importance in areas such as agriculture, developmental biology and evolutionary studies, the chicken (Gallus gallus) is the most studied bird. Comparative genomics provides a powerful method for transferring information from the chicken to other, less well studied species. An obvious target for comparative genomic studies in birds is the Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos), for its agricultural significance, resistance to avian influenza, and evolutionary relationship to chicken. This thesis reports comparative genomic studies in duck and other birds. A method for easy assignment of physical markers to chromosomes was established through the measurement of relative sizes of chicken, duck and turkey chromosomes. Physical mapping in the duck revealed previously undescribed chromosomal rearrangements, provides further evidence for conserved synteny among avian microchromosomes and yields an improved definition of the duck karyotype. A detailed study of nuclear organisation was carried out in chicken fibroblasts; this baseline was used to investigate patterns of nuclear organisation in turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and duck fibroblasts, and in activated chicken and duck macrophages. Finally, microarray based comparative genomic hybridisation studies of copy number variation (CNV) were conducted in 10 bird species to complement the lower resolution cytogenetic mapping. These suggest that CNVs are less frequent in birds than in mammals, yet more commonly associated with genes. This work improves our understanding of avian genomics and evolution.
(200909) Mary Ann Huckerby
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.
Language and Normativity
Creators: name: TANTER, JAMES KAI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis studies both the meaning and logic of different expressions and sentence types. For example, names (“Spud”), predicates (“is a cat”), imperative sentences (“Shut the door!”), deontic modals (“Must”, “May”), meaning claims (“Triangle means three-sided shape”) and knowledge attributions (“Spud knows you’re home”). It does this from a perspective that understands meaning in terms of norms of language use. In most chapters of the thesis these norms are formalised in proof-systems but some parts are non-formal (non-mathematical). For many of these topics, there hasn’t been work done on them previously from this perspective.
Electromagnetic Forming and Joining for Automotive Applications
Creators: name: Golovashchenko, S.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: forming
subject: joining
subject: springback
subject: tooling
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: In this paper some options of how electromagnetic forming (EMF) can assist to expand the capabilities of conventional forming and joining technologies are discussed. Three different areas where EMF has the potential for a significant expansion of capabilities of traditional technologies are reviewed: 1) restrike operation to fill sharp corners of automotive panels; 2) low energy method of springback calibration; 3) joining of closed frames with an openable coil. Each of these applications was demonstrated in laboratory conditions and the description of the tooling is provided in the paper. Suggested design of a flat concentrator collecting induced electric currents from a flat coil was demonstrated for a corner filling operation and a springback calibration. An efficient technique of fabricating the flat coil from a flat plate by using water jetting technology enables a cost effective coil design, which can be reinforced by a system of non-conductive bars. The insulation of the coil is produced from the flat sheet of insulation material. Suggested design allows the coil to be repaired if a shortcut or fracture of insulation strips happens. A technology of low-energy calibration of stamped parts provides an option of working with a wider variety of materials including aluminum alloys, mild steels, and advanced high-strength steels. This technology is demonstrated for calibration of U-channels.
Talent & Tagging in Harmony: A Study of Graffiti Art as Subculture and Aesthetic Expression of Urbanization in Malaysia
Creators: name: Poon, Stephen T. F.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Evolution of Graffiti
Graffiti Art
Malaysian Graffiti Artists
Subculture
Urbanization

description: Journal of Urban Culture Research, 26, -, 5-28
Vector-like deformations of relativistic quantum phase-space and relativistic kinematics
Creators: name: Loret, Niccoló
name: Meljanac, Stjepan
name: Mercati, Flavio
name: Pikutić, Danijel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a family of noncommutative spacetimes constructed by one four-vector. The large set of coordinate commutation relations described in this way includes many cases that are widely studied in the literature. The Hopf-algebra symmetries of these noncommutative spacetimes, as well as the structures of star product and twist, are introduced and considered at first order in the deformation, described by four parameters. We also study the deformations to relativistic kinematics implied by this framework, and calculate the most general expression for the momentum dependence of the Lorentz transformations on momenta, which is an effect that is required by consistency. At the end of the paper we analyse the phenomenological consequences of this large family of vector-like deformations on particles propagation in spacetime. This leads to a set of characteristic phenomenological effects.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Fully-coupled 3D Simulation of Electromagnetic Forming
Creators: name: Blum, H.
name: Stiemer, M.
name: Svendsen, B.
name: Unger, J.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: electromagnetic metal forming
subject: modeling,
subject: viscoplasticity,
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Electromagnetic metal forming is a contact-free high-speed forming process in which strain rates of more than 103 s^(-1) are achieved. The deformation of the workpiece is driven by a material body force, the Lorentz force, that results from the interaction of a pulsed magnetic field with eddy currents induced in the workpiece by the magnetic field itself. The purpose of this work is to present a fully-coupled 3D simulation of the process. For the mechanical structure a thermoelastic, viscoplastic, electromagnetic material model is relevant, which is incorporated in a large-deformation dynamic formulation. The evolution of the electromagnetic fields is governed by Maxwell s equations under quasistatic conditions. Their numerical solution in 3D requires particular arrangements due to a reduced regularity at material interfaces. Hence, Nédélec elements are employed. Coupling between the thermomechanical and electromagnetic subsystems takes the form of the Lorentz force, the electromotive intensity, and the current geometry of the workpiece. A staggered scheme based on a Lagrangian mesh for the workpiece and an ALE formulation for the electromagnetic field is utilized to solve the coupled system, guaranteeing the efficiency and accuracy of the data transfer between the two meshes.
Coming (out) to the city: Lived experiences of rural to urban migration amongst LGBTIQ+ youth in Vietnam
Creators: name: HA, HOANG YEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents experiences of the LGBTIQ+ youth in Vietnam in their migration journey from rural areas to the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This is explored through 27 interviews and two focus groups. Overall, while the participants moved to urban spaces for both internal and external reasons, and strong kin relations and gender expectations in participants’ hometowns often meant still leading a dual life, the migration process and the city itself had a significant impact on the development and negotiation of their LGBTIQ+ identity in terms of self-acceptance, confidence, and greater openness about their sexual identity.
Rôles de genre dans l'activité physique et les activités quotidiennes chez les adolescents du Grand Tunis
Creators: name: Ben Gharbia, H
name: El Ati, J
name: Sassi, S
name: Delpeuch, F
name: Traissac, P
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: "Rôles de genre dans l’activité physique et les activités quotidiennes chez les adolescents du Grand Tunis" Poster présenté lors du 6éme Congrès International de Nutrition de l'ATSN (Association Tunisienne des Sciences de la Nutrition) 28-30 octobre 2022, Hammamet, Tunisie http://www.atsn.tn/2022/08/6eme-congres-international-de-nutrition.html
Resonance fluorescence from an asymmetric quantum dot dressed by a bichromatic electromagnetic field
Creators: name: Kryuchkyan, G. Yu.
name: Shahnazaryan, V.
name: Kibis, O. V.
name: Shelykh, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the theory of resonance fluorescence from an asymmetric quantum dot driven by a two-component electromagnetic field with two different frequencies, polarizations and amplitudes (bichromatic field) in the regime of strong light-matter coupling. It follows from the elaborated theory that the broken inversion symmetry of the driven quantum system and the bichromatic structure of the driving field result in unexpected features of the resonance fluorescence, including the infinite set of Mollow triplets, the quench of fluorescence peaks induced by the dressing field, and the oscillating behavior of the fluorescence intensity as a function of the dressing field amplitude. These quantum phenomena are of general physical nature and, therefore, can take place in various double-driven quantum systems with broken inversion symmetry.
description: Published version
(200905) William Alfred Clark
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.
Low growth equational complexity
Creators: name: Jackson, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 08B05, 20M07, 20D99

description: The equational complexity function $β_\mathscr{V}:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ of an equational class of algebras $\mathscr{V}$ bounds the size of equation required to determine membership of $n$-element algebras in $\mathscr{V}$. Known examples of finitely generated varieties $\mathscr{V}$ with unbounded equational complexity have growth in $Ω(n^c)$, usually for $c\geq \frac{1}{2}$. We show that much slower growth is possible, exhibiting $O(\log_2^3(n))$ growth amongst varieties of semilattice ordered inverse semigroups and additive idempotent semirings. We also examine a quasivariety analogue of equational complexity, and show that a finite group has polylogarithmic quasi-equational complexity function, bounded if and only if all Sylow subgroups are abelian.
A Production-oriented Approach in Electromagnetic Forming of Metal Sheets
Creators: name: Koch, T.
name: Laux, G.
name: Löschmann, F.
name: Neugebauer, R.
name: Putz, M.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: electrical discharge machining
subject: forming technology
subject: production engineering
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: parts per unit. Especially demands of modern lightweight design seem to be hard to satisfy by stretching conventional production methods. Thus, it is necessary to find new approaches. Adapting electromagnetic forming technology for the automotive industry would gain additional benefits like - less surface damaging owing to contact-less forming, - the possibility of achieving smaller radii, - focusing on low volume production through minimizing investment costs, and - more manufacturing flexibility. An approach to start qualifying this technology under the aspect of production engineering has been attempted by establishing a high speed forming project. The Volkswagen AG, Siemens AG, H&T ProduktionsTechnologie GmbH together with Fraunhofer Institute of Machine Tools and Forming Technology started activities focusing on - clarifying the fields of research and development which are not resolved to date, - developing necessary equipment, and - a systematic research on the according technology. The analysis of available equipments brought up a number of questions with respect to production engineering requirements. It resulted in a 100 kJ pulse power generator. One of the core components to define the quality of the forming process of flat parts is the flat coil. A coil design is selected to transfer a maximum of stored energy into the sheet metal. A selection of basic and applied experiments had the aim to know the limits of the technique. The paper introduces some representative results of the project. It touches the challenges related to the process of bringing this technology to production
(200903) Lilian Mary Tedcastle
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.
(200906) Harold Hillyard Wakeford
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.
Division durch Null
Creators: name: Fahse, Christian
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Eine fragebogenbasierte Studie an vier Jahrgangsstufen eines Gymnasiums ermöglicht es, quasi-längsschnittlich die Entwicklung der Schülervorstellungen zur Division durch Null zu verfolgen. Eine Einteilung dieser (Fehl-)Vorstellungen wird vorgeschlagen und der Einfluss der Grundschule wird diskutiert. Hieraus ergeben sich knappe Empfehlungen zur Behandlung des Themas in der Primar- wie in der Sekundarstufe.
title: Public opinion, ideology and the welfare state: A study of citizen attitudes to and intellectual theorizing about the welfare state in the UK from 1979 to 1983
Creators: name: Taylor-Gooby, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis seeks to give an account of the development of popular ideas and social administration theories about the welfare state in recent years. A number of writers suggest that in the late 1970s and the early 1980s governments have been able to restructure or undermine the state welfare system because popular sentiment has shifted away from support for the welfare state. This view is reinforced by a reading of the post-war politics of welfare as a passage from Butskellism to the new right, from consensus to ideological conflict. It is argued that recent developments in welfare are often seen as of exaggerated importance. The major spending services have in fact sustained little damage. Public opinion has always been ambivalent, favouring some areas of welfare spending and viewing others with suspicion. Private welfare provision has always been warmly supported by many people who also regard state services as desirable. The current situation may be interpreted as readily as the continued expression of these ambivalences as it may in terms of reversal. The problems of welfare are due in large part to the continuity of family and work ethic policies under changing circumstances. The thesis also discusses recent academic theorising in the subject area of social administration. Here continuity is again evident behind a facade of change. Feminist, marxist and new right approaches challenge the dominant tradition in the subject, which stresses state interventionism in a patriarchal, capitalist society as a royal road to welfare. The argument traces the way in which these intellectual challenges have been restructured in reformist terms, so that they no longer represent a threat to the central paradigm in the subject. An explanation of the continuities in ideas about the role of the state in welfare among both intellectuals and the public at large is sought in marxist theories of ideology, based on the notion of commodity fetishism. General patterns of ideas in our society are heavily influenced by our everyday experience of market and patriarchy.
Studies of the sorption of myo-inositol hexaphosphate, cadmium and humic acid to gibbsite and kaolinite
Creators: name: Ruyter-Hooley, Maika
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 Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Organic phosphorus compounds account for up to 80 % of total phosphorus in soils, with myo-inositol hexaphosphate (IP6) an important source. Cycling of inositol phosphates represents a substantial gap in our understanding of the global phosphorus cycle. This thesis describes binary and ternary sorption systems involving IP6, cadmium (Cd(II)), humic acid (HA) and the soil minerals gibbsite and kaolinite. These systems were investigated using sorption experiments, solid-state 31P NMR measurements and surface complexation modelling. IP6 sorption to gibbsite decreased with increasing pH while with increasing temperature sorption increased at pH 6 and decreased at pH 10. 31P NMR information indicated sorption involved a combination of outer and inner-sphere complexation and surface precipitation. IP6 sorption to kaolinite generally decreased with increasing pH and the effect of temperature was relatively small. Using an Extended Constant Capacitance Model IP6 sorption was modelled on both minerals using a similar set of surface reactions. IP6 influenced Cd(II) sorption to both gibbsite and kaolinite. On gibbsite, Cd(II) sorption increased in the presence of IP6 with the increase more pronounced at higher concentrations. Only small differences were observed in 31P NMR spectra of binary and ternary systems. On kaolinite, IP6 increased Cd(II) sorption between pH 4-8 but supressed it at higher pH. Surface complexation modelling of both mineral systems suggested the formation of ternary surface complexes. For IP6 and HA systems, the presence of IP6 decreased HA sorption to both minerals. The influence of HA on IP6 sorption was more complex, with both the addition sequence and pH altering the changes found. Where HA was bound to the surface at lower pH before the addition of IP6, less IP6 was sorbed. At pH 6 and 10 there was relatively little desorption of IP6 from gibbsite. HA increased desorption somewhat at pH 6, but not at pH 10.
On the possibility of teaching elements of Lobachevski Geometry at School
Creators: name: Atanasyan, Sergey
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: It is useful to teach elements of Lobachevsky geometry at school because the study of non-Euclidean geometry makes good impact on the understanding of logical structure of school geometry, on the comprehension of the role and place of the axiom of parallelism. We propose and describe here the program of such course. It includes history of attempts of the proof of Euclid s fifth postulate, Lobachevsky s axiom of parallelism and some properties of figures on Lobachevsky plane.
title: The poetry of physical labour 1730-1800: the Duckian tradition
Creators: name: Van-Hagen, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The thesis argues that poets throughout the eighteenth-century (initially from the labouring classes and latterly from other backgrounds) poeticised labouring experiences and even mimetically evoked them in verse. It is argued that this experiential, narrative mode results from a growing awareness that there was a rural subject matter emerging unavailable in pastoral (or georgic) verse, and that a crucial early manifestation of this ‘new’ way of writing about labour is found in Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour (1730). It is argued that this poem functioned as a catalyst, encouraging others to poeticise their own labouring experiences, and that numerous of the works in which this poetic medium initially appeared allowed labourers to claim poetic identities for themselves as labourers and to represent their experiences and those of their workmates as worthy of respect and dignity. Exploring the ways in which the poets of labour are influenced by, but also simultaneously react to canonical models of the age, the thesis then examines the work of subsequent poets throughout the century compelled by the same or similar impulses to aestheticise labour, focusing on the techniques employed to mingle labouring experiences with existing verse conventions, up to and including Robert Bloomfield and James Woodhouse. Alongside the above considerations, the thesis conceptualises the simultaneous co-existence of complicity and critique in the work of labouring poets by applying both Zizek’s work on individual collusion with ideology and Nietzsche’s work on religion to the poets whose work it discusses. It subsequently argues for the recurrent presence of a levelling theology in the beliefs and works of a number of poets considered that both licenses a belief in greater social and political equality yet that, because of its adherence to what Nietzsche would later term ‘slave morality’, also precludes the overt taking of this greater equality by force. It then plots the evolution of this levelling theology throughout the century, culminating in its sponsorship of radical (though not revolutionary) political beliefs in Woodhouse’s work.
Understanding Islam in the Modern World: A comparative analysis of Bernard Lewis and John Esposito
Creators: name: ABOUZEID, HAYBATULLAH MOHAMED
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Religious studies not elsewhere classified
Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: Utilising the work of Bernard Lewis and John Esposito, this research is a comparative theoretical study of Islam in the 21st century. The study of Islam is often approached from two sides. The first, as explored in Lewis’ writing, polarises society through the fear garnered by terror threats in the name of Islam and prohibits the integration of religious practice in the public domain. By contrast, Esposito offers an apologetic approach to the social and mystical practice of Islam that promotes tolerance. Both perspectives, however, filter public understanding of Islam through a predominantly Western lens, failing to identify the ground shared by these opposing sides. This research offers a new avenue into the position of Islam in the 21st century, where a balanced approach to the study of Islam is prioritised.
Some Novel Features in 2D Non-Abelian Theory: BRST Approach
Creators: name: Srinivas, N.
name: Kumar, S.
name: Kureel, B. K.
name: Malik, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism, we discuss some novel features of a two (1+1)-dimensional (2D) non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory (without any interaction with matter fields). Besides the usual off-shell nilpotent and absolutely anticommutating (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations, we discuss the off-shell nilpotent and absolutely anticommutating (anti-)co-BRST symmetry transformations. Particularly, we lay emphasis on the existence of the coupled (but equivalent) Lagrangian densities of the 2D non-Abelian theory in view of the presence of (anti-)co-BRST symmetry transformations where we pin-point some novel features associated with the Curci-Ferrari (CF) type restrictions. We demonstrate that these CF-type restrictions can be incorporated into the (anti-)co-BRST invariant Lagrangian densities through the fermionic Lagrange multipliers which carry specific ghost numbers. The modified versions of the Lagrangian densities (where we get rid of the new CF-type restrictions) respect some precise symmetries as well as a couple of symmetries with CF-type constraints. These observations are completely novel as far as the BRST formalism, with proper (anti-)co-BRST symmetries, is concerned.
description: LaTeX file, 14 pages, journal version
Diskursive Aushandlung mathematischer Strittigkeiten in Kleingruppengesprächen
Creators: name: Gellert, Andrea
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Die unterrichtliche Entwicklung mathematischen Wissens erfordert ein Zusammenspiel von Diskursform und Diskursinhalt der Mathematik. Die Lehrperson und mathematische Strittigkeiten haben eine zentrale Bedeutung für das Lernen der Kinder. Das Projekt "Erprobung und Evaluation fokussierender Lehrstrategien im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule (ErfoLG)" erforscht die Funktion der Lehrerrolle für fundamentales (dialogisches) Lernen.
QUALIA User Manual
Creators: name: University Of Twente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document describes the user manual for interacting with the Virtual Interview Assistant – QUALIA. The key principles for developing QUALIA user interface were: user friendly UI, simplicity, progressive enhancements. The virtual assistant is designed as a web interface and consists of two main sections: (end) user section and admin section.
Mathematische Anforderungen in Schulbüchern und in der PISA Studie
Creators: name: Glasnovic Gracin, Dubravka
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Der Vortrag umfasst die Anforderungen in kroatischen Mathematik-Schulbüchern und die Anforderungen der PISA Studie im Hinblick auf mathematical literacy. Basis für Forschungsinstrumentarium ist ist aus Österreichischen Standards für Mathematik am Ende der 8. Schulstufe genommen. Die PISA-Anforderungen beziehen sich auf die mathematischen Aufgaben aus der PISA Studie 2009. Die Anforderungen von Mathematik-Schulbüchern und PISA-Studie werden mit den Lehrplananforderungen in Kroatien verglichen.
Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Matter of Modernity: Art, Aesthetics, Materiality
Creators: name: TAN, STEPHANIE LI HSIA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
Art history, theory and criticism not elsewhere classified

description: Prompted by the sustained interest in material culture within the humanities and social sciences, this thesis represents an effort to track the fascination with a world of objects in the modernist literature and art of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. This study encompasses the literary, visual, and plastic arts, focusing on individual works that disclose the force of inanimate objects within human experience. Engaging in a wide-ranging discussion of fiction and painting, photography and interior design, this study aims to provoke a renewed and revigorated understanding of the affinities between early twentieth century art and aesthetics and the material object world.
The influence of corporate social responsibility on consumers’ purchasing intentions in Thailand
Creators: name: Mohprasit, Nalinee
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 La Trobe Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This research examines how young adult consumers differentiate between the CSR activities of organizations and in particular how CSR activities influence purchase intentions. In doing so it attempts to explore how different CSR activities offer different types of value and affect consumers’ purchasing intentions in Thailand. To explain CSR in this study, Stakeholder, Legitimacy, Institutional and Resource based theories are referred to. In addition, the Theory of Planned Behavior plays an important part in testing consumers’ purchase intentions. Data were obtained using a mixed methodology: firstly, using qualitative methods, 11 in-depth personal interviews with management personnel in Thai organizations were conducted; secondly, using quantitative research methods, 897 Thai young adult consumers were surveyed; and thirdly, using a field experiment in a retail store environment, 101 consumer surveys were completed comparing how consumers choose between products based on their CSR attributes. The results showed CSR activities explained 8.9% of the variation in respondents’ purchase intentions. However, when consumer value was considered, the variation in respondents’ purchase intentions rose to 21.2%. This means consumer value intervenes in the relationship between CSR and respondents’ purchase intentions. With reference to CSR implementation in Thai organizations, the question of how they implement activities and turn their conceptual plans into strategies was investigated. Two major concepts emerged in this thesis, namely, Capability development and Stakeholder engagement. The results from the in-store experiment xv indicated that respondents supported products with a CSR label and claimed they were willing to pay a premium price for such goods. Most respondents stated that people who are important to them can influence their buying behavior regarding CSR-related products. Consequently, even though the CSR activities may have the broader society in mind, unless they provide individual value through either functional value or peer approval such activities will not affect respondents’ purchase intentions. The research findings can help organizations develop guidelines to implement CSR, and they also provide insights into consumers’ purchase priorities. Finally, the results enable us to have a better understanding of the relationship between CSR and consumers’ purchasing intentions in Thailand.
Symmetry protected topological phases of 1D interacting fermions with spin-charge separation
Creators: name: Montorsi, Arianna
name: Dolcini, Fabrizio
name: Iotti, Rita
name: Rossi, Fausto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low energy behavior of a huge variety of one-dimensional interacting spinful fermionic systems exhibits spin-charge separation, described in the continuum limit by two sine-Gordon models decoupled in the charge and spin channels. Interaction is known to induce, besides the gapless Luttinger liquid phase, eight possible gapped phases, among which are the Mott, Haldane, charge-/spin-density, and bond-ordered wave insulators, and the Luther Emery liquid. Here we prove that some of these physically distinct phases have nontrivial topological properties, notably the presence of degenerate protected edge modes with fractionalized charge/spin. Moreover, we show that the eight gapped phases are in one-to-one correspondence with the symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases classified by group cohomology theory in the presence of particle-hole symmetry P. The latter result is also exploited to characterize SPT phases by measurable nonlocal order parameters which follow the system evolution to the quantum phase transition. The implications on the appearance of exotic orders in the class of microscopic Hubbard Hamiltonians, possibly without P symmetry at higher energies, are discussed.
description: latest version: 8 pages, 1 Table
(200901) Mary Elizabeth Leslie
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.
title: The low frequency structure of Cassiopeia
Creators: name: Walczowski, L.T.
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The general structure of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is described, with particular reference to the optical jet of fast moving knots, the low frequency anomaly and previous VLBI results. The implementation of a three station interferometer system, measuring the visibility function of the nebula at 38MHz along a mean position angle of 83°, is described; both the closure results and the reconstructed visibility function are presented, from which a significant asymmetry in the source structure is evident. The results are interpreted by Fourier transforming the weighted visibility data, regu­larly gridded by interpolation of the reconstructed visibility function. The resultant, convolved brightness distribution of the nebula is compared with distributions synthesized to the same resolution, from the results of Jennison and Latham, and Matheson. A model fitting procedure is described, based on a two component, four parameter model, from which it is concluded that the results are consistent with a symmetri­cal nebula of radius 135±3 arcsec. with a jet, of indeter­minate width, containing between 4% to 6% of the total flux at a distance of 200±20 arcsec. east of the source phase centre. The remarkable coincidence of the point source solutions of the model fitting procedure with some of Hutton et. al.'s results at slightly higher frequencies is pointed out, and the likelihood of a relationship between the new asymmetrical component and the optical and X-ray jet is commented on. A brief discussion of the astrophysical consequences of the asymmetrical component follows, with reference to a possible association between the jet and the low frequency anomaly.
title: An investigation of feedforward neural networks with respect to the detection of spurious patterns
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, Germano Crispim
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1995

description: This thesis investigates feedforward neural networks in the context of classification tasks with respect to the detection of patterns that do not belong to the same categories of patterns used to train the network. This refers to the problem of the detection and/or rejection of spurious or novel patterns. In particular, the multilayer perceptron network (MLP) trained with the backpropagation algorithm is examined in this respect and different strategies for improving its performance in the detection of spurious patterns are considered. The problem is investigated from different points of view that vary from the modification of the multilayer perceptron network with different configurations that make it more intrinsically able to detect spurious information, to the introduction of novel auxiliary mechanisms which, when integrated with the MLP network, can provide an overall enhancement in the system’s rejection capabilities. These different network configurations are examined with respect to the characteristics of the decision regions constructed by the networks in 2-D classification problems, and the implications of these constructions for general pattern rejection are discussed. The technique of inversion in multilayer networks through gradient descent is used to observe the degree of visual correlation between the input patterns recognised as valid by the networks and training class prototypes. Practical experiments on the classification of handwritten characters are employed as a test environment for the different approaches described. Radial basis function networks (RBFs) are also examined in the same context and an experimental comparison is made between RBFs and the different MLP configurations studied.
Thai Government's Promotion of National Culture that Affected Thai Traditional Music Research During 1982-2012
Creators: name: Puchadapirom, Patarawdee
Publisher: name: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Thai Culture
Thai Government
Thai National Culture
Thai Traditional Music
Thailand

description: Journal of Urban Culture Research, 26, -, 29-42
Lerntagebücher als Interventionsinstrument in der Studieneingangsphase
Creators: name: Griese, Birgit
name: Glasmachers, Eva
name: Kallweit, Michael
name: Roesken, Bettina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das Projekt MP² (Mathe/Plus/Praxis) der Ruhr-Universität Bochum soll frühen Studienabbruch in den Ingenieurwissenschaften verhindern. Es basiert auf der Annahme, dass Studierende häufig aufgrund mangelnder Lern- und Arbeitstechniken scheitern (Mathe/Plus), oder weil sie keinen ausreichenden Praxisbezug erkennen können (Mathe/Praxis). Eine der Maßnahmen von Mathe/Plus ist das Führen eines Lerntagebuchs, das zum Nachdenken über das eigene Lernverhalten und zu dessen Regulation anregt.
Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration: An Examination of Domestic Work and Domestic Workers' Experiences in Singapore and Hong Kong
Creators: name: TAN, SHIH JOO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified
Gender studies not elsewhere classified
Migration

description: This thesis examines the experiences of female migrant domestic workers and employers in Singapore and Hong Kong. It identifies how emotional work and affective relations (rather than criminal or labour law) are central to employment experiences and negotiation of safe work for domestic workers.
title: Geraden, Kreise und Dreiecke
title: Vorschläge zur Orientierung, Manifestierung und Erkundung (in) einer elementargeometrischen Landschaft
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Götz, Stefan
name: Hofbauer, Franz
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass eine geschickte Wahl des Koordinatensystems einen fruchtbaren Weg eröffnet, elementargeometrische Aussagen abseits des schulischen Mainstreams neu zu verstehen, in dem sie mit Methoden der analytischen Geometrie untersucht werden. Die daraus resultierenden algebraischen Beweise werden präsentiert, wobei ein CAS unterstützend wirken kann. Mit Hilfe einer DGS können die vorgestellten Resultate bei entsprechender Fragestellung motiviert bzw. gefunden werden.
Walk-Through Total Body PET: A Novel Scanner Design for Efficient Patient Throughput and Detector Usage
Creators: name: Muller, Florence Marie
name: Maebe, Jens
name: Abi Akl, Maya
name: Dadgar, Meysam
name: Withhofs, Nadia
name: Vanhove, Christian
name: Vandenberghe, Stefaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Current Total Body Positron Emission Tomography (TB-PET) scanners come at high acquisition and installation costs which limits their implementation into more clinical use. Patient population and clinical needs see gradual changes on-going and expected in the future; and PET imaging will play a role not only for detection but also for therapy prediction and follow-up. To accommodate for the increasing number of patients and repeat scans, PET scanners should evolve towards: (i) lower dose imaging, (ii) faster imaging, (iii) lower cost (including system and procedure cost), and (iv) less personnel per scan. Furthermore, although current TB-PET systems have become so sensitive that 30-seconds body acquisitions seem feasible, practical patient throughput is limited by patient positioning on the bed.

 Our group proposes a novel design concept for TB-PET to go towards fast and lower dose imaging with higher patient throughput for lower component cost: a new flat panel high-resolution Walk Through (WT) TB-PET design with patients standing in upright position between two flat panels. Patient sizes measured from 40 random PET-CT scans defined the flat panel dimensions: 70 cm wide, 105 cm high and 50 cm gap. The footprint of the WT-TB-PET system is very small (about 2 m2) compared to the large installation space of current PET-CTs (30-40 m2).

 To investigate the extent of patient motion a WT-TB-PET mock-up was built. Motion analyses compared the impact of free-breathing vs breath-hold induced body motion in the WT-TB-PET. One further benefit of the design is the use of monolithic detectors: they offer high intrinsic spatial resolution (2 mm over the whole field-of-view), thereby outperforming classical pixelated detectors by a factor 2-3. Combined with the use of BGO (at 3x lower cost compared to current L(Y)SO), the estimated component cost is about 1.3 MEuro (comparable to the cost of a standard PET-CT).
Long-range transverse Ising model built with dipolar condensates in two-well arrays
Creators: name: Li, Yongyao
name: Pang, Wei
name: Xu, Jun
name: Lee, Chaohong
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Santos, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in an array of double-well potentials realize an effective transverse Ising model with peculiar inter-layer interactions, that may result under proper conditions in an anomalous first-order ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition, and nontrivial phases due to frustration. The considered setup as well allows the study of Kibble-Zurek defect formation, whose kink statistics follows that expected from the universality class of the mean-field transverse Ising model in 1D. Furthermore, random occupation of each layer of the stack leads to random effective Ising interactions and generation of local transverse fields, thus allowing the study of Anderson-like localization of imbalance perturbations in the two-well stack under controllable conditions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, and 37 references; New Journal Physics, in press
Walk-Through Total Body PET: Very Efficient Patient Throughput and Detector Usage With Low-Cost Monolithic High-Resolution Flat Panel Detectors
Creators: name: Muller, Florence Marie
name: Maebe, Jens
name: Abi Akl, Maya
name: Dadgar, Meysam
name: Withhofs, Nadia
name: Vanhove, Christian
name: Vandenberghe, Stefaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Current Total Body Positron Emission Tomography (TB-PET) scanners come at high acquisition and installation costs which limits their implementation into more clinical use. Patient population and clinical needs see gradual changes on-going and expected in the future; and PET imaging will play a role not only for detection but also for therapy prediction and follow-up. To accommodate for the increasing number of patients and repeat scans, PET scanners should evolve towards: (i) lower dose imaging, (ii) faster imaging, (iii) lower cost (including system and procedure cost), and (iv) less personnel per scan. Furthermore, although current TB-PET systems have become so sensitive that 30-seconds body acquisitions seem feasible, practical patient throughput is limited by patient positioning on the bed.

 Our group proposes a novel design concept for TB-PET to go towards fast and lower dose imaging with higher patient throughput for lower component cost: a new flat panel high-resolution Walk Through (WT) TB-PET design with patients standing in upright position between two flat panels. Patient sizes measured from 40 random PET-CT scans defined the flat panel dimensions: 70 cm wide, 105 cm high and 50 cm gap. The footprint of the WT-TB-PET system is very small (about 2 m2) compared to the large installation space of current PET-CTs (30-40 m2).

 To investigate the extent of patient motion a WT-TB-PET mock-up was built. Motion analyses compared the impact of free-breathing vs breath-hold induced body motion in the WT-TB-PET. One further benefit of the design is the use of monolithic detectors: they offer high intrinsic spatial resolution (2 mm over the whole field-of-view), thereby outperforming classical pixelated detectors by a factor 2-3. Combined with the use of BGO (at 3x lower cost compared to current L(Y)SO), the estimated component cost is about 1.3 MEuro (comparable to the cost of a standard PET-CT).
Philippine Gabaldon Heritage School Buildings in the New Normal: Safety, Sustainability and Human Development Perspectives
Creators: name: Ancho, Inero
Publisher: name: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Heritage
Gabaldon School Buildings
New Normal
COVID-19
Sustainability
Philippines

description: Journal of Urban Culture Research, 26, -, 43-56