cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Islamic resurgence: why Bangladesh is a case apart
Creators: name: Khan, Moinul
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: From 1999 to 2005 Bangladesh, the world’s third largest Muslim country, was swept by a wave of Islamic militancy that triggered an outpouring of media and academic analysis that Bangladesh would likely soon fall prey to Islamists. This thesis argues that the Islamist extremism that Bangladesh experienced during those years was largely the result of an ideology and tactics brought back to Bangladesh by some returnees of the Afghan war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and by a few individuals and groups in Bangladesh who surfaced in response to very specific issues and circumstances. The former believed that the radical ideology they encountered (and imbibed) in Afghanistan could be transplanted to the Muslim community of Bangladesh. But the relative ease by which the Bangladesh Government’s anti-terrorism campaign contained the outbreak of that militancy demonstrated how seriously the radical groups had misunderstood Islam in the Bengali context, a context in which Islam is intimately woven with deeper traditions of tolerance and secularism in Bengali culture, nationalism and identity. Secondly, and further in this vein, the thesis argues that there was no direct linkage between that outbreak of Islamic militancy and the higher profile of Islam in the Bengali polity from 1975 to 1990 or that that development was a manifestation of the Islamic revival in the context of Bangladesh. A third argument of this thesis is that factors which have contributed to the Islamic resurgence elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia, including the national character of Islam, the role of nationalism and identity, culture and modernization, and the role of religion in contemporary politics, have, in the case of Bangladesh, produced a quite different outcome, which prompts the central question that frames this thesis: What is the explanation for the ‘Bangladesh paradox’ – i.e. that while an Islamic agenda has become more apparent or prominent elsewhere in the region, not only has a more conservative Islamic agenda not taken root in Bangladesh but, on the contrary, the secular state and civil society has retained its strength and resilience vis-à-vis Islam-based politics? Broadly, the research provides an insight in that regard in reconstructing perceptions of Islam and Muslim countries, particularly Bangladesh.
Toward the intrinsic limit of topological insulator Bi2Se3
Creators: name: Dai, Jixia
name: West, Damien
name: Wang, Xueyun
name: Wang, Yazong
name: Kwok, Daniel
name: Cheong, S-W.
name: Zhang, S. B.
name: Wu, Weida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and first principle calculations, we identified the major native defects, in particular the Se vacancies and Se interstitial defects that are responsible for the bulk conduction and nanoscale potential fluctuation in single crystals of archetypal topological insulator Bi2Se3. Here it is established that the defect concentrations in Bi2Se3 are far above the thermodynamic limit, and that the growth kinetics dominate the observed defect concentrations. Furthermore, through careful control of the synthesis, our tunneling spectroscopy suggests that our best samples are approaching the intrinsic limit with the Fermi level inside the band gap without introducing extrinsic dopants.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Murina fusca Sowerby 1922
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina fusca

description: Murina fusca Sowerby, 1922. J. Mammal., 3:46. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Manchuria, Kirin, Imienpo area. DISTRIBUTION: Manchuria. COMMENT: Listed as a subspecies of leucogaster by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:185; and Corbet, 1978:62; but see Wallin, 1969, Zool. Bidr. Upps., 37:355.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Wallin, L. 1969. The Japanese bat fauna. Zoologiska Bidrage Fran Uppsala, 37: 223 - 440."]}
Lattices from tight equiangular frames
Creators: name: Boettcher, Albrecht
name: Fukshansky, Lenny
name: Garcia, Stephan Ramon
name: Maharaj, Hiren
name: Needell, Deanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15B35, 05B30, 11H06, 42C15, 52C07

description: We consider the set of all linear combinations with integer coefficients of the vectors of a unit tight equiangular $(k,n)$ frame and are interested in the question whether this set is a lattice, that is, a discrete additive subgroup of the $k$-dimensional Euclidean space. We show that this is not the case if the cosine of the angle of the frame is irrational. We also prove that the set is a lattice for $n = k+1$ and that there are infinitely many $k$ such that a lattice emerges for $n = 2k$. We dispose of all cases in dimensions $k$ at most $9$. In particular, we show that a $(7,28)$ frame generates a strongly eutactic lattice and give an alternative proof of Roland Bacher's recent observation that this lattice is perfect.
description: 25 pages
Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki 1970
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina tenebrosa

description: Murina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970. Bull. Nat. Sei. Mus. Tokyo, 13: 195. TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Tsushima Isis., Kamishima Isl., Sago. DISTRIBUTION: Tsushima Isis, (between Japan and Korea). COMMENT: Known only from the holotype (NS). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Myotis Kaup 1829
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis

description: Myotis Kaup, 1829. Skizz. Europ. Thierwelt, 1:106. REVIEWED BY: A. Parkinson (AP)(Western Hemisphere); E. Vernier (EV)(Europe); B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR)(Mexico). COMMENT: Includes Pizonyx, Cistugo, and Anamygdon; see Findley, 1972, Syst. Zool., 21:43, Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2: 33, and Phillips and Birney, 1968, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 81:495. Neotropical species revised by LaVal, 1973, Sei. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Ang. Cty., 15:1 -54. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014014000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Findley, J. S. 1972. Phenetic relationships among bats of the genus Myotis. Systematic Zoology, 21: 31 - 52.", "Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Phillips, C. J., and E. C. Birney. 1968. Taxonomic status of the vespertilionid genus Anamygdon (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 81: 491 - 498."]}
The changing role of war correspondents in Australian news and current affairs coverage of two conflicts, Vietnam (1966-1975) and Iraq (2003)
Creators: name: Maniaty, Tony
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores how war reporting on Australian television has been dramatically reshaped over the last 40 years, particularly by new technologies. Specifically, it seeks to answer these questions: 1. How did differing cultural, social, political and professional contexts, available technology and battlefield experience affect the attitudes, editorial content and narrative forms of two generations of television correspondents - in Vietnam and Iraq respectively? 2. How did technological and other industry changes over the 30 years between Vietnam and Iraq reshape the power relationship between the war correspondent in the field and his news producers and managers? What impact did these changes have on the resulting screened coverage? What are the longer-term implications for journalism and for audiences?
Murina huttoni
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina huttoni

description: Murina huttoni (Peters, 1872). Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 257. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Uttar Pradesh, Dehra Dun. DISTRIBUTION: Tibet; N. W. India to Indochina; Fukien (China); Thailand; Malaya. SW doubts Tibetan record. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028007001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
An obstruction to lifting to characteristic 0
Creators: name: Esnault, Hélène
name: Srinivas, Vasudevan
name: Stix, Jakob
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: lifting to characteristic 0
subject: finite presentation
subject: fundamental group
subject: supersingular curve
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: We introduce a new obstruction to lifting smooth proper varieties from characteristic p > 0 to characteristic 0. It is based on Grothendieck's specialization homomorphism and the resulting discrete finiteness properties of etale fundamental groups.
Quantifying the eddy-jet feedback strength of the annular mode in an idealized GCM and reanalysis data
Creators: name: Ma, Ding
name: Hassanzadeh, Pedram
name: Kuang, Zhiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A linear response function (LRF) that relates the temporal tendency of zonal mean temperature and zonal wind to their anomalies and external forcing is used to accurately quantify the strength of the eddy-jet feedback associated with the annular mode in an idealized GCM. Following a simple feedback model, the results confirm the presence of a positive eddy-jet feedback in the annular mode dynamics, with a feedback strength of 0.137 day$^{-1}$ in the idealized GCM. Statistical methods proposed by earlier studies to quantify the feedback strength are evaluated against results from the LRF. It is argued that the mean-state-independent eddy forcing reduces the accuracy of these statistical methods because of the quasi-oscillatory nature of the eddy forcing. A new method is proposed to approximate the feedback strength as the regression coefficient of low-pass filtered eddy forcing onto low-pass filtered annular mode index, which converges to the value produced by the LRF when timescales longer than 200 days are used for the low-pass filtering. Applying the new low-pass filtering method to the reanalysis data, the feedback strength in the Southern annular mode is found to be 0.121 day$^{-1}$, which is presented as an improvement over previous estimates. This work also highlights the importance of using sub-daily data in the analysis by showing the significant contribution of medium-scale waves of periods less than 2 days to the annular mode dynamics, which was under-appreciated in most of previous research. The present study provides a framework to quantify the eddy-jet feedback strength in models and reanalysis data.
description: revision submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Murina leucogaster Milne-Edwards 1872
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina leucogaster

description: Murina leucogaster Milne-Edwards, 1872. Rech. Hist. Nat. Mamm., p. 252. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin. DISTRIBUTION: E. Himalayas; Shensi; Szechwan, Fukien (China); Upper Yenesei; Altai; Inner Mongolia; Korea; Ussuri region; Sakhalin; Honshu, Kyushu (Japan). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028008001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Optical spectroscopic observations of $γ$-ray blazar candidates VI. Further observations from TNG, WHT, OAN, SOAR and Magellan telescopes
Creators: name: Crespo, N. Álvarez
name: Massaro, F.
name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Chavushyan, V.
name: Patiño-Álvarez, V.
name: Masetti, N.
name: Jiménez-Bailón, E.
name: Strader, J.
name: Chomiuk, L.
name: Katagiri, H.
name: Kagaya, M.
name: Cheung, C. C.
name: Paggi, A.
name: D'Abrusco, R.
name: Ricci, F.
name: La Franca, F.
name: Smith, Howard A.
name: Tosti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blazars, one of the most extreme class of active galaxies, constitute so far the largest known population of $γ$-ray sources and their number is continuously growing in the Fermi catalogs. However in the latest release of the Fermi catalog there is still a large fraction of sources that are classified as blazar candidate of uncertain type (BCUs) for which optical spectroscopic observations are necessary to confirm their nature and their associations. In addition about 1/3 of the $γ$-ray point sources listed in the Third Fermi-LAT Source Catalog (3FGL) are still unassociated and lacking an assigned lower energy counterpart. Since 2012 we have been carrying out an optical spectroscopic campaign to observe blazar candidates to confirm their nature. In this paper, the sixth of the series, we present optical spectroscopic observations for 30 $γ$-ray blazar candidates from different observing programs we carried out with the TNG, WHT, OAN, SOAR and Magellan telescopes. We found that 21 out of 30 sources investigated are BL Lac objects while the remaining targets are classified as flat spectrum radio quasars showing the typical broad emission lines of normal quasi stellar objects. We conclude that our selection of $γ$-ray blazars candidates based on their multifrequency properties continues to be a successful way to discover potential low-energy counterparts of the FermiUnidentified Gamma-ray Sources (UGSs) and to confirm the nature of BCUs.
Investigating casual conversation: a systemic functional linguistic and social network model of analysing social reality
Creators: name: McAndrew, Paula
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research is concerned with the study of language and the social order. Working within the systemic functional theory of language, and utilising the concept of a social network to model the social order, the primary aim is to put on display the relationship between the linguistic system and social order, between language and culture. Systemic functional grammar (Halliday, 1995; Halliday and Hasasn, 1985/9; Halliday and Matthiesen, 1997; Eggins and Slade 1997), with its emphasis on language as a social semiotic, is used to analyse the language used by a group of four women engaged in casual conversation in a small Australian island community. Here the analysis reveals how the women negotiate their social reality when speaking to each other. It shows how their social relations are shaped within a text (Hasan, 1996), and explores the notion that, despite the seemingly trivial, unconscious nature of casual interactions, power and solidarity are continually being negotiated by the participants (Halliday, 1994; Eggins and Slade, 1997). More specifically, this research examines the notion that through lexico-grammatical and semantic selections participants are able to negotiate dominant positions in interaction. Social Network analysis has been used to examine the relationship between the individual and the group. It offers a quantifiable analytical tool for describing the character of an individual's everyday social relationships (Milroy, 1987). A social network analysis is used in the present study to map the social relationships in the tight-knit network, or speech fellowship, of these women (creating a map of the context of situation in SFL terminology). Change in the social relationships and language choices is modeled by revisiting the participants 15 months later in a contextually similar environment and re-analysing the network and linguistic options. Systemic functional linguistics is then used to highlight the interdependency of language and social order. Through systematic accounts of language and the context in which it is embedded this reciprocal nature is displayed and language and social order can be seen, not as two distinct entities, but rather as one phenomena seen from two different perspectives (Halliday, 1978; Mathiessen, 1993).
The Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Object Recognition for Natural Images and Line Drawings
Creators: name: Singer, Johannes J. D.
name: Cichy, Radoslaw M.
name: Hebart, Martin N.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: decoding
subject: fMRI
subject: line drawings
subject: MEG
subject: object recognition
subject: representational similarity analysis
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Drawings offer a simple and efficient way to communicate meaning. While line drawings capture only coarsely how objects look in reality, we still perceive them as resembling real-world objects. Previous work has shown that this perceived similarity is mirrored by shared neural representations for drawings and natural images, which suggests that similar mechanisms underlie the recognition of both. However, other work has proposed that representations of drawings and natural images become similar only after substantial processing has taken place, suggesting distinct mechanisms. To arbitrate between those alternatives, we measured brain responses resolved in space and time using fMRI and MEG, respectively, while human participants (female and male) viewed images of objects depicted as photographs, line drawings, or sketch-like drawings. Using multivariate decoding, we demonstrate that object category information emerged similarly fast and across overlapping regions in occipital, ventral-temporal, and posterior parietal cortex for all types of depiction, yet with smaller effects at higher levels of visual abstraction. In addition, cross-decoding between depiction types revealed strong generalization of object category information from early processing stages on. Finally, by combining fMRI and MEG data using representational similarity analysis, we found that visual information traversed similar processing stages for all types of depiction, yet with an overall stronger representation for photographs. Together, our results demonstrate broad commonalities in the neural dynamics of object recognition across types of depiction, thus providing clear evidence for shared neural mechanisms underlying recognition of natural object images and abstract drawings.
La Posguerra en la narrativa breve de Carmen Laforet (1952-1956): el aislamiento y sus demonios
Creators: name: Rossi, Maura
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2022

description: Este ensayo pretende ahondar en el retrato de la Posguerra española que protagoniza la producción narrativa breve de Carmen Laforet, publicada en su mayoría en la década de los Cincuenta y, al tratarse de escritura de encargo, peculiarmente caracterizada por una elaboración rápida y comprimida. A través del análisis de las siete novelas cortas y los varios relatos de la autora, el objetivo es apreciar la amplia gama de colores empleados para recrear una sociedad variamente traumatizada, en un contexto de control y censura capilares de la cultura y de supresión puntual de toda instancia anti-triunfalista.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, V. 14 N. 2 (2022): Fughe del/dal queer in Iberoamerica: estetica, narrativa, immaginazione politica della dissidenza sessogenerica
Security and belonging: reconceptualising Aboriginal spatial mobilities in Yamatji country, Western Australia
Creators: name: Prout, Sarah
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation explores contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices in Yamatji country, Western Australia, within the context of rural service provision by the State government. The central themes with which it engages are a) historical and contemporary conceptualisations of Aboriginal spatialities; b) the lived experiences of Aboriginal mobilities in the region; and c) the dialectical, and often contentious, relationship between Aboriginal spatial practices and public health, housing, and education services. Drawing primarily on a range of field interviews, the thesis opens up a discursive space for examining the cultural content and hidden assumptions in constructions of 'appropriate' models of spatial mobility. In taking a policy-oriented focus, it argues that the appropriate provision of basic government services requires a shift away from overly simplistic assumptions and discourses of Aboriginal mobility. Until the often subtle practices of rendering particular Aboriginal mobilities as irrational, deviant, and/or mysterious are challenged and replaced, deep-colonising practices in rural and remote Australia will persist. --The thesis reconceptualises contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices in Yamatji country based upon an examination of dynamics and circumstances that undergird Aboriginal mobilities in the region. With this empirical focus, it argues that Aboriginal spatial practices are fashioned by the processes of procuring, cultivating and contesting a sense of security and belonging. Case study material presented suggests that two primary considerations inform these processes. A post-settlement history of contested alienation from family and country (both sources from which belonging and security were traditionally derived), and a changing engagement with mainstream social and economic institutions, have produced a context in which security and belonging are iteratively derived from a number of sources. Contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices therefore take a complex variety of forms. The thesis concludes that adopting the framework of security and belonging for interpreting contemporary Aboriginal mobilities provides a starting point for engaging more effectively and intentionally with dynamic Aboriginal spatial practices in service delivery policy and practice.
Structure and dynamics of H$_2^+$ near the dissociation threshold: a combined experimental and computational investigation
Creators: name: Beyer, Maximilian
name: Merkt, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pulsed-field-ionization zero-kinetic-energy photoelectron spectrum of H$_2$ has been recorded in the vicinity of the dissociative-ionization threshold following three-photon excitation via selected rotational levels of the B $^1Σ_u^+$ ($v=19$) and $\bar{\rm H}$ $^1Σ_g^+$ ($v=11$) intermediate states. The spectra consist of transitions to bound levels of the X$^+$ $^2Σ_g^+$ state of H$_2^+$ with $v^+$ in the range 14-19 and $N^+$ in the range 0-9, of the A$^+$ $^2Σ_u^+$ state with $v^+=0$ and $N^+=0-2$, and of shape resonances corresponding to the X$^+\ (v^+=17,N^+=7)$ and X$^+\ (v^+=18,N^+=4)$ quasibound levels. Calculations of the level structure of H$_2^+$ have been carried out and the influence of adiabatic, nonadiabatic, relativistic and radiative corrections on the positions of these levels, and in the case of the shape resonances also on their widths, has been investigated. Different methods of calculating the widths and profiles of the shape resonances have been tested for comparison with the experimental observations. Slow oscillations of the dissociative-ionization yield have been observed and reflect, in first approximation, the Franck-Condon factors of the $\bar{\text H}$ $\rightarrow$ X$^+$, A$^+$ bound - free transitions.
Transient magneto-optical spectrum of photoexcited electrons in the van der Waals ferromagnet Cr2Ge2Te6
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Erica
name: Sun, Xingjian
name: Verzhbitskiy, Ivan
name: Griepe, Theodor
name: Atxitia, Unai
name: Eda, Goki
name: Santos, Elton J. G.
name: Johansson, J. Olof
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Demagnetization
subject: Magnetization dynamics
subject: Spin dynamics
subject: Ultrafast magnetic effects
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: Femtosecond optical control of magnetic materials shows promise for future ultrafast data storage devices. To date, most studies in this area have relied on quasimonochromatic light in magneto-optical pump-probe experiments, which limited their ability to probe semiconducting and molecule-based materials with structured optical spectra. Here, we demonstrate the possibility of extracting the magneto-optical spectrum of the electrons in the conduction band in the two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnet Cr2Ge2Te6 (CGT), which is made possible due to broadband probing in the visible spectrum. The magneto-optical signal is a sum of contributions from electrons in the conduction and valence bands, which are of opposite sign for CGT. Depending on the probe wavelength used, this difference could lead to an erroneous interpretation that the magnetization direction is reversed after excitation, which has important consequences for understanding spin toggle switching phenomena.
Measurement of the ratio h/e with a photomultiplier tube and a set of LEDs
Creators: name: Loparco, F.
name: Malagoli, M. S.
name: Rainò, S.
name: Spinelli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a laboratory experience aimed at undergraduate physics students to understand the main features of the photoelectric effect and to perform a measurement of the ratio h/e, where h is the Planck's constant and e is the electron charge. The experience is based on the method developed by Millikan for his measurements on the photoelectric effect in the years from 1912 to 1915. The experimental setup consists of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) equipped with a voltage divider properly modified to set variable retarding potentials between the photocathode and the first dynode, and a set of LEDs emitting at different wavelengths. The photocathode is illuminated with the various LEDs and, for each wavelength of the incident light, the output anode current is measured as a function of the retarding potential applied between the cathode and the first dynode. From each measurement, a value of the stopping potential for the anode current is derived. Finally, the stopping potentials are plotted as a function of the frequency of the incident light, and a linear fit is performed. The slope and the intercept of the line allow respectively to evaluate the ratio h/e and the ratio W/e, where W is the work function of the photocathode.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Educational responsibility for deaf children in Victoria from 1859 to 1945 : from private to charity, then government-charity partnership
Creators: name: Carlos, Gwendoline.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Omission responses in local field potentials in rat auditory cortex
Creators: name: Auksztulewicz, Ryszard
name: Rajendran, Vani Gurusamy
name: Peng, Fei
name: Schnupp, Jan Wilbert Hendrik
name: Harper, Nicol Spencer
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Predictive processing
subject: Auditory processing
subject: Omission responses
subject: Electrophysiology
subject: Auditory cortex
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Background Non-invasive recordings of gross neural activity in humans often show responses to omitted stimuli in steady trains of identical stimuli. This has been taken as evidence for the neural coding of prediction or prediction error. However, evidence for such omission responses from invasive recordings of cellular-scale responses in animal models is scarce. Here, we sought to characterise omission responses using extracellular recordings in the auditory cortex of anaesthetised rats. We profiled omission responses across local field potentials (LFP), analogue multiunit activity (AMUA), and single/multi-unit spiking activity, using stimuli that were fixed-rate trains of acoustic noise bursts where 5% of bursts were randomly omitted. Results Significant omission responses were observed in LFP and AMUA signals, but not in spiking activity. These omission responses had a lower amplitude and longer latency than burst-evoked sensory responses, and omission response amplitude increased as a function of the number of preceding bursts. Conclusions Together, our findings show that omission responses are most robustly observed in LFP and AMUA signals (relative to spiking activity). This has implications for models of cortical processing that require many neurons to encode prediction errors in their spike output.
The oldest and most metal poor stars in the APOSTLE Local Group simulations
Creators: name: Starkenburg, Else
name: Oman, Kyle A.
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Fattahi, Azadeh
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Sawala, Till
name: Schaye, Joop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the spatial distribution of the oldest and most metal poor stellar populations of Milky Way-sized galaxies using the APOSTLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group. In agreement with earlier work, we find strong radial gradients in the fraction of the oldest (tform < 0.8 Gyr) and most metal poor ([Fe/H]< -2.5) stars, both of which increase outwards. The most metal poor stars form over an extended period of time; half of them form after z = 5.3, and the last 10% after z = 2.8. The age of the metal poor stellar population also shows significant variation with environment; a high fraction of them are old in the galaxy's central regions and an even higher fraction in some individual dwarf galaxies, with substantial scatter from dwarf to dwarf. Overall, over half of the stars that belong to both the oldest and most metal-poor population are found outside the solar circle. Somewhat counter-intuitively, we find that dwarf galaxies with a large fraction of metal poor stars that are very old are systems where metal poor stars are relatively rare, but where a substantial old population is present. Our results provide guidance for interpreting the results of surveys designed to hunt for the earliest and most pristine stellar component of our Milky Way.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS, revised after referee comments
Defying the inverse energy gap law: a vacuum-evaporable Fe(ii) low-spin complex with a long-lived LIESST state
Creators: name: Grunwald, Jan
name: Torres, Jorge
name: Buchholz, Axel
name: Näther, Christian
name: Kämmerer, Lea
name: Gruber, Manuel
name: Rohlf, Sebastian
name: Thakur, Sangeeta
name: Wende, Heiko
name: Kuch, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: vacuum-evaporable Fe(ii) low-spin complex
subject: synthesis
subject: analysis
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The novel vacuum-evaporable complex [Fe(pypypyr)2] (pypypyr = bipyridyl pyrrolide) was synthesised and analysed as bulk material and as a thin film. In both cases, the compound is in its low-spin state up to temperatures of at least 510 K. Thus, it is conventionally considered a pure low-spin compound. According to the inverse energy gap law, the half time of the light-induced excited high-spin state of such compounds at temperatures approaching 0 K is expected to be in the regime of micro- or nanoseconds. In contrast to these expectations, the light-induced high-spin state of the title compound has a half time of several hours. We attribute this behaviour to a large structural difference between the two spin states along with four distinct distortion coordinates associated with the spin transition. This leads to a breakdown of single-mode behaviour and thus drastically decreases the relaxation rate of the metastable high-spin state. These unprecedented properties open up new strategies for the development of compounds showing light-induced excited spin state trapping (LIESST) at high temperatures, potentially around room temperature, which is relevant for applications in molecular spintronics, sensors, displays and the like.
How the interbank market becomes systemically dangerous: an agent-based network model of financial distress propagation
Creators: name: Serri, Matteo
name: Caldarelli, Guido
name: Cimini, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assessing the stability of economic systems is a fundamental research focus in economics, that has become increasingly interdisciplinary in the currently troubled economic situation. In particular, much attention has been devoted to the interbank lending market as an important diffusion channel for financial distress during the recent crisis. In this work we study the stability of the interbank market to exogenous shocks using an agent-based network framework. Our model encompasses several ingredients that have been recognized in the literature as pro-cyclical triggers of financial distress in the banking system: credit and liquidity shocks through bilateral exposures, liquidity hoarding due to counterparty creditworthiness deterioration, target leveraging policies and fire-sales spillovers. But we exclude the possibility of central authorities intervention. We implement this framework on a dataset of 183 European banks that were publicly traded between 2004 and 2013. We document the extreme fragility of the interbank lending market up to 2008, when a systemic crisis leads to total depletion of market equity with an increasing speed of market collapse. After the crisis instead the system is more resilient to systemic events in terms of residual market equity. However, the speed at which the crisis breaks out reaches a new maximum in 2011, and never goes back to values observed before 2007. Our analysis points to the key role of the crisis outbreak speed, which sets the maximum delay for central authorities intervention to be effective.
Murina ussuriensis Ognev 1913
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina ussuriensis

description: Murina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913. Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sei. St. Petersb., 18:402. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Primorsky Krai, Kreis Imansky. DISTRIBUTION: Ussuri region, Kurile Isis., and Sakhalin (U.S. S.R.); Korea; Hokkaido, Honshu, Tsushima and Yaku Isis. (Japan). COMMENT: Formerly included in aurata; see Maeda, 1980, Mammalia, 44: 547.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Maeda, K. 1980. Review on the classification of little tube-nosed bats, Murina aurata group. Mammalia, 44: 531 - 551."]}
Social acceptance of green hydrogen in Germany: building trust through responsible innovation
Creators: name: Häußermann, Johann Jakob
name: Maier, Moritz J.
name: Kirsch, Thea C.
name: Kaiser, Simone
name: Schraudner, Martina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Green hydrogen
subject: Social acceptance
subject: Responsible innovation
subject: Participation
subject: Trust
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Background Social acceptance presents a major challenge for Germany’s transition to green energy. As a power-to-x technology, green hydrogen is set to become a key component of a future sustainable energy system. With a view to averting conflicts like those surrounding wind energy, we have investigated social acceptance of green hydrogen at an early stage in its implementation, before wider rollout. Our study uses a mixed-method approach, wherein semi-structured interviews (n = 24) and two participatory workshops (n = 51) in a selected region in central Germany serve alongside a representative survey (n = 2054) as the basis for both understanding social attitudes and reaching generalisable conclusions. Results Overall, it is possible to observe both a marked lack of knowledge and a large degree of openness towards green hydrogen and its local use, along with high expectations regarding environmental and climate protection. We reach three key conclusions. First, acceptance of green hydrogen relies on trust in science, government, the media, and institutions that uphold distributive justice, with consideration for regional values playing a vital role in establishing said trust. Second, methodologically sound participatory processes can promote acceptance, and active support in particular. Third, recurrent positive participatory experiences can effectively foster trust. Conclusions Accordingly, we argue that trust should be strengthened on a structural level, and that green hydrogen acceptance should be understood as a matter of responsible innovation. As the first empirical investigation into social acceptance of green hydrogen, and by conceptually interlinking acceptance research and responsible innovation, this study constitutes an important contribution to existing research.
The Victorian State primary school curriculum 1900-1914 : some political, economic and educational influences on its development
Creators: name: McInnes, Ian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Water and sediment pollution of intensively used surface waters during a drought period — a case study in Central Northern Namibia
Creators: name: Faulstich, Leona
name: Arendt, Robert
name: Reinhardt-Imjela, Christian
name: Schulte, Achim
name: Lengricht, Joachim
name: Johannes, Petrina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Water quality
subject: Pollution
subject: Sediment
subject: Aluminum
subject: Iishana system
subject: Namibia
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Semiarid regions are often affected by water scarcity and poor water quality. Seasonal changes in precipitation and drought events increase the pressure of use on water bodies and their pollution. In Central Northern Namibia, a high seasonal intra- and inter-annual variability of precipitation caused a 5-year lasting drought period. In the semiarid region, ephemeral channels and water pans represent the main water source, besides the institutionalized water supply. No systematic analysis of its quality has been conducted so far. The states of the surface waters at the end of the dry season in 2017 and the end of the rainy seasons in 2018 and 2019 were characterized by the analysis of physical–chemical parameters, focusing on usability. The first results show coarse contamination of the waters, which results in high turbidity values. Salt concentrations, such as Ca2+ and Na+, greatly increased due to evaporation. Al is present in high concentrations in solid and liquid phases, which indicates direct anthropogenic pollution. Spatial differences are evident in the study area and based on the precipitation gradient, land use, and population density. The waters cannot be used as drinking water without prior treatment.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Papua1 Province: An Increase in Case Numbers and the Challenges Ahead
Creators: name: Farneubun, Petrus K.
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Though some provinces in Indonesia have seen a decline in new COVID-19 cases or begun to show signs of stabilisation, others’ numbers continue to increase. Papua Province is experiencing a daily increase in positive cases of COVID-19. As of 24 May 2020, the number of reported positive cases in Papua Province had reached 629, making Papua one of the provinces with the highest recorded number of cases in Indonesia.2 This In Brief focuses on Papua Province with an emphasis on Jayapura and Mimika, the epicentres of COVID-19 in the province. It discusses factors contributing to the increase in cases and how the provincial government has endeavoured to contain transmission.
Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM): Elements to Advance Its Study and Assessment
Creators: name: Sandoval, Vicente
name: Voss, Martin
name: Flörchinger, Verena
name: Lorenz, Stephan
name: Jafari, Parisa
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Integrated disaster risk management
subject: Literature review
subject: Proto-indicators
subject: Sustainable development
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::350 Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft::350 Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft

description: This study analyzed the international key literature on integrated disaster risk management (IDRM), considering it a dynamic sociocultural process subjected to the historical process of social formation, offering a closer look at the concept while exploring conceptual elements and ideas to advance IDRM in both national and international contexts. Methodologically, the study adopted a literature review strategy, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach, combined with qualitative content analysis. This article examines the history of IDRM, discusses current challenges for implementation, looks at some experiences, and proposes avenues for further research. Some findings point out the lack of an overarching IDRM approach, which is characterized by a rather disperse set of ideas and experiences concerning what IDRM is and how it should be operationalized, thereby revealing the need for a more comprehensive theory and methodologies to further advance it. Other findings highlight that IDRM encompasses different kinds and levels of “integrations” that go from internal (that is, disaster risk reduction and management domains) to external (that is, all societal processes such as sustainable development), including temporal and spatial integrations. Hence, we are talking about a multidimensional integration of disaster risk management. In this regard, the article proposes four dimensions for integration: sectoral, spatial/hierarchical, temporal, and externally with other cross-cutting societal challenges, especially climate change and sustainable development. These dimensions cover 29 ideas for indicators or “proto-indicators” to guide the discussion, exploration, and analysis of IDRM in specific contexts.
Myotis aelleni Baud 1979
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis aelleni

description: Myotis aelleni Baud, 1979. Rev. Suisse Zool., 86:268. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Chubut, El Hoyo de Epuyen. DISTRIBUTION: S.W. Argentina.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Ideal charge density wave order in the high-field state of superconducting YBCO
Creators: name: Jang, H.
name: Lee, W. -S.
name: Nojiri, H.
name: Matsuzawa, S.
name: Yasumura, H.
name: Nie, L.
name: Maharaj, A. V.
name: Gerber, S.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Mehta, A.
name: Bonn, D. A.
name: Liang, R.
name: Hardy, W. N.
name: Burns, C. A.
name: Islam, Z.
name: Song, S.
name: Hastings, J.
name: Devereaux, T. P.
name: Shen, Z. -X.
name: Kivelson, S. A.
name: Kao, C. -C.
name: Zhu, D.
name: Lee, J. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of charge density wave (CDW) correlations in cuprate superconductors has now been established. However, the nature of the ground state order has remained uncertain because disorder and the presence of superconductivity typically limit the CDW correlation lengths to a dozen unit cells or less. Here we explore the CDW correlations in YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) ortho-II and ortho-VIII crystals, which belong to the cleanest available cuprate family, at magnetic fields in excess of the resistive upper critical field (Hc2) where the superconductivity is heavily suppressed. We find an incommensurate, unidirectional CDW with a well-defined onset at a critical field strength that is proportional to Hc2. It is related to but distinct from the short-range bidirectional CDW that exists at zero magnetic field. The unidirectional CDW possesses a long inplane correlation length as well as significant correlations between neighboring CuO2 planes, yielding a correlation volume that is at least 2 - 3 orders of magnitude larger than that of the zero-field CDW. This is by far the largest CDW correlation volume observed in any cuprate crystal and so is presumably representative of the high-field ground-state of an "ideal" disorder-free cuprate.