cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Η επίδραση του οξειδωτικού στρες στην λειτουργία του ωοθυλακικού υγρού και την γονιμότητα
title: The effect of oxidative stress on follicular fluid function and fertility
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Λαγοπαναγιωτοπούλου, Βαρβάρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Οξειδωτικό στρες
Ωοθυλακικό υγρό
Υπογονιμότητα
Ωοθυλάκιο
Ωάριο

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας πτυχιακής εργασίας είναι να διερευνήσει τον ρόλο του οξειδωτικού στρες στο ωοθυλακικό υγρό (FF) και πώς αυτό επηρεάζει τη γονιμότητα και την αναπαραγωγική υγεία, με τη σύνθεση βιβλιογραφικών δεδομένων. Η υπερβολική παραγωγή των δραστικών μορφών οξυγόνου (ROS) μπορεί να υπερβαίνει τις δυνατότητες των κυτταρικών αντιοξειδωτικών μηχανισμών, προκαλώντας οξειδωτικό στρες και οδηγώντας σε βλάβες κυτταρικών δομών όπως πρωτεΐνες, DNA και λιπίδια. Αυτό συνδέεται με διάφορες ασθένειες, όπως καρκίνο, καρδιαγγειακές παθήσεις, και νευροεκφυλιστικές νόσους. Στο γυναικείο αναπαραγωγικό σύστημα, τα ROS παίζουν σημαντικό ρόλο, με τις δράσεις τους να περιλαμβάνουν την ωοθυλακιογένεση, τη λειτουργία του ωχρού σωματίου και την ωορρηξία. Εντούτοις, η αυξημένη παραγωγή ROS μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε παθολογικές καταστάσεις όπως υπογονιμότητα και αποβολές. Παθολογικές καταστάσεις όπως η υδροσάλπιγγα, η ενδομητρίωση, το σύνδρομο πολυκυστικών ωοθηκών (ΣΠΩ) και η ιδιοπαθής υπογονιμότητα συνδέονται με την ανισορροπία μεταξύ ROS και αντιοξειδωτικών, επηρεάζοντας τη γονιμότητα. Ειδικότερα, στην υδροσάλπιγγα, τα αυξημένα επίπεδα ROS στο υγρό που περιέχεται στη σάλπιγγα συνδέονται με την εμβρυοτοξικότητα και τη βλάβη στο DNA των ωαρίων. Στην ενδομητρίωση, η παρουσία φλεγμονής και οξειδωτικού στρες μπορεί να επιδεινώσει τη νόσο, ενώ η ανισορροπία των αντιοξειδωτικών ενζύμων και βιταμινών επηρεάζει αρνητικά την αντιοξειδωτική ικανότητα του οργανισμού. Το οξειδωτικό στρες έχει σημαντικό ρόλο στην ιδιοπαθή υπογονιμότητα, με μελέτες να δείχνουν αυξημένα επίπεδα ROS και μειωμένη αντιοξειδωτική ικανότητα στις γυναίκες που πάσχουν από αυτή την πάθηση. Παράλληλα, στο ΣΠΩ, το οξειδωτικό στρες προκαλεί σημαντικές διαταραχές στην ορμονική λειτουργία, επιδεινώνοντας τις αναπαραγωγικές επιπλοκές. Το οξειδωτικό στρες στο ωοθυλακικό υγρό έχει πολύπλευρες επιπτώσεις στη γονιμότητα και την αναπαραγωγική υγεία.. Η ισορροπία μεταξύ του οξειδωτικού στρες και των αντιοξειδωτικών είναι κρίσιμη για τη διατήρηση της υγείας των ωαρίων και τη βέλτιστη εμβρυϊκή ανάπτυξη, κάτι που επισημαίνεται από πολυάριθμες μελέτες. Η κατανόηση των μηχανισμών που ρυθμίζουν το οξειδωτικό στρες στο FF μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε νέες θεραπευτικές προσεγγίσεις για τη βελτίωση της γονιμότητας και την αύξηση των πιθανοτήτων επιτυχούς εγκυμοσύνης.
Generalized Zeta Functions and One-loop Corrections to Quantum Kink Masses
Creators: name: Izquierdo, A. Alonso
name: Fuertes, W. Garcia
name: Leon, M. A. Gonzalez
name: Guilarte, J. Mateos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for describing the quantum kink states in the semi-classical limit of several (1+1)-dimensional field theoretical models is developed. We use the generalized zeta function regularization method to compute the one-loop quantum correction to the masses of the kink in the sine-Gordon and cubic sinh-Gordon models and another two ${\rm P}(ϕ)_2$ systems with polynomial self-interactions.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures; version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Electromagnetic form factors of the baryon octet in the perturbative chiral quark model
Creators: name: Cheedket, S.
name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Pumsa-ard, K.
name: Yan, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the perturbative chiral quark model at one loop to analyze the electromagnetic form factors of the baryon octet. The analytic expressions for baryon form factors, which are given in terms of fundamental parameters of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, axial nucleon coupling, strong pion-nucleon form factor), and the numerical results for baryon magnetic moments, charge and magnetic radii are presented. Our results are in good agreement with experimental data.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. A
A Question of Characterisation: Can the Commonwealth Facilitate the Imposition of Religious Observances? Hoxton Park Residents Action Group Inc v Liverpool City Council
Creators: name: Beck, Luke
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Parkinson's Disease Recognition Using SPECT Image and Interpretable AI: A Tutorial
Creators: name: Pianpanit, Theerasarn
name: Lolak, Sermkiat
name: Sawangjai, Phattarapong
name: Sudhawiyangkul, Thapanun
name: Wilaiprasitporn, Theerawit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the past few years, there are several researches on Parkinson's disease (PD) recognition using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images with deep learning (DL) approach. However, the DL model's complexity usually results in difficult model interpretation when used in clinical. Even though there are multiple interpretation methods available for the DL model, there is no evidence of which method is suitable for PD recognition application. This tutorial aims to demonstrate the procedure to choose a suitable interpretation method for the PD recognition model. We exhibit four DCNN architectures as an example and introduce six well-known interpretation methods. Finally, we propose an evaluation method to measure the interpretation performance and a method to use the interpreted feedback for assisting in model selection. The evaluation demonstrates that the guided backpropagation and SHAP interpretation methods are suitable for PD recognition methods in different aspects. Guided backpropagation has the best ability to show fine-grained importance, which is proven by the highest Dice coefficient and lowest mean square error. On the other hand, SHAP can generate a better quality heatmap at the uptake depletion location, which outperforms other methods in discriminating the difference between PD and NC subjects. Shortly, the introduced interpretation methods can contribute to not only the PD recognition application but also to sensor data processing in an AI Era (interpretable-AI) as feedback in constructing well-suited deep learning architectures for specific applications.
MEMRISTOR BASED ROIC FOR INFRARED SPECTRUM FOREST FIRE DETECTION
Creators: name: Kamalesh Singh, Karthik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: read out integrated circuit (ROIC)
memristor
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
focal plane array (FPA)
diode

description: Recently, image processing became an essential part of many portable devices such as cellphones, laptop and tablets. Besides capturing pictures and videos, now they are becoming smarter by detecting faces, red-eye detection, smile, low light exposure and many more. Even though most of these this analysis is done using software, however, now most of the portable devices are equipped with DSP based image processing chip. The extra chip required to process the images many times are not energy efficient. Many techniques are being used in the past to make these image processors more energy efficient. Instead of processing each pixel in a frame, we will be treating only those pixels that are changing compared to previously processed frame. This technique will lead significant reduction in the power consumption where there is minor movement in the subject. However, this technique requires storing the previously processed frame in the local memory. However, this can lead to reduction in the speed of image processing since reading from memory can be time consuming. By using a separate sample and hold circuit for each pixel can reduce the time consumption in reading, and writing. Though, this can increase the area of each pixel unit cells in the CMOS based imager. Hence, in this research work, we are presenting a novel read out integrated circuit (ROIC). The use of the memristor will greatly enhance the features offered by ROIC for different applications.
A New Noncommutative Product on the Fuzzy Two-Sphere Corresponding to the Unitary Representation of SU(2) and the Seiberg-Witten Map
Creators: name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Nakayama, R.
name: Takaya, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a new explicit expression for the noncommutative (star) product on the fuzzy two-sphere which yields a unitary representation. This is done by constructing a star product, $\star_λ$, for an arbitrary representation of SU(2) which depends on a continuous parameter $λ$ and searching for the values of $λ$ which give unitary representations. We will find two series of values: $λ= λ^{(A)}_j=1/(2j)$ and $λ=λ^{(B)}_j =-1/(2j+2)$, where j is the spin of the representation of SU(2). At $λ= λ^{(A)}_j$ the new star product $\star_λ$ has poles. To avoid the singularity the functions on the sphere must be spherical harmonics of order $\ell \leq 2j$ and then $\star_λ$ reduces to the star product $\star$ obtained by Preusnajder. The star product at $λ=λ^{(B)}_j$, to be denoted by $\bullet$, is new. In this case the functions on the fuzzy sphere do not need to be spherical harmonics of order $\ell \leq 2j$. Because in this case there is no cutoff on the order of spherical harmonics, the degrees of freedom of the gauge fields on the fuzzy sphere coincide with those on the commutative sphere. Therefore, although the field theory on the fuzzy sphere is a system with finite degrees of freedom, we can expect the existence of the Seiberg-Witten map between the noncommutative and commutative descriptions of the gauge theory on the sphere. We will derive the first few terms of the Seiberg-Witten map for the U(1) gauge theory on the fuzzy sphere by using power expansion around the commutative point $λ=0$.
description: 15 pages, typos corrected, references added, a note added
Band edge localization beyond regular Floquet eigenvalues
Creators: name: Seelmann, Albrecht
name: Täufer, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B80 (Primary) 35J10, 35R60, 81Q15, 82B44 (Secondary)

description: We prove that localization near band edges of multi-dimensional ergodic random Schrödinger operators with periodic background potential in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ is universal. By this we mean that localization in its strongest dynamical form holds without extra assumptions on the random variables and independently of regularity or degeneracy of the Floquet eigenvalues of the background operator. The main novelty is an initial scale estimate the proof of which avoids Floquet theory altogether and uses instead an interplay between quantitative unique continuation and large deviation estimates. Furthermore, our reasoning is sufficiently flexible to prove this initial scale estimate in a non-ergodic setting, which promises to be an ingredient for understanding band edge localization also in these situations.
description: 13 pages; now the stronger dynamical localization in the short range case is formulated, a few references have beed added, minor editorial changes
Some aspects of quasi-pseudo principally injective modules
Creators: name: Dutta, Hemen
name: Hoque, Azizul
name: Saeed, Samer M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16D10, 16D50

description: In this paper, the notion of quasi-pseudo injectivity relative to a class of submodules, namely, quasi-pseudo principally injective has been studied. This notion is closed under direct summands. Several properties and characterizations have been given. In particular, we characterize Noetherian Rings and Dedekind Domains by quasi-pseudo principally injectivity.
description: 6 pages
VLT spectroscopy of XTE J2123-058 during quiescence
Creators: name: Casares, J.
name: Dubus, G.
name: Shahbaz, T.
name: Zurita, C.
name: Charles, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present VLT low resolution spectroscopy of the neutron star X-ray transient XTE J2123-058 during its quiescent state. Our data reveal the presence of a K7V companion which contributes 77 % to the total flux at 6300 A and orbits the neutron star at K_2 = 287 +/- 12 km/s. Contrary to other soft X-ray transients (SXTs), the Halpha emission is almost exactly in antiphase with the velocity curve of the optical companion. Using the light-center technique we obtain K_1 = 140 +/- 27 km/s and hence q=K_1/K_2=M_2/M_1= 0.49 +/- 0.10. This, combined with a previous determination of the inclination angle (i=73 +/- 4) yields M_1 = 1.55 +/- 0.31 Msun and M_2 = 0.76 +/- 0.22 Msun. M_2 agrees well with the observed spectral type. Doppler tomography of the Halpha emission shows a non-symmetric accretion disc distribution mimicking that seen in SW Sex stars. Although we find a large systemic velocity of -110 +/- 8 km/s this value is consistent with the galactic rotation velocity at the position of J2123-058, and hence a halo origin. The formation scenario of J2123-058 is still unresolved.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS with very minor changes
The use of a scaffolding model to increase interaction and
Creators: name: Olsen, Carsten Smith
name: Monty, Anita
name: Olsen, Carsten Smith
name: Monty, Anita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: teaching
subject: e-learning
subject: student participation
subject: tropical forestry

description: In recent years, KVL has been involved in developing and implementing distance learning in its tropical forestry teaching programme. This paper reports on experiences with using Gilly Salmon’s five-stage scaffolding model with the particular aim of increasing student participation in computer mediated conferencing in order to promote joint knowledge construction and increase learning. The model is briefly introduced as are the two courses used as a case. Emphasis is on describing considerations behind the move from theory to practice, the experiences gained at each stage of the model, student behaviour, and the changed role of the teacher. It is concluded that teaching based on the model did result in high degrees of student participation and interaction with indications of higher than usual student grades.
Gravitational Radiation from Black Hole Binaries in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Benacquista, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A populations of stellar mass black hole binaries may exist in globular clusters. The dynamics of globular cluster evolution imply that there may be at most one black hole binary is a globular cluster. The population of binaries are expected to have orbital periods greater than a few hours and to have a thermal distribution of eccentricities. In the LISA band, the gravitational wave signal from these binaries will consist of several of the higher harmonics of the orbital frequency. A Monte Carlo simulation of the galactic globular cluster system indicates that LISA will detect binaries in 10 % of the clusters with an angular resolution sufficient to identify the host cluster of the binary.
description: 7 pages, 2 eps figures, uses iopart style
Ischnocoelia fulva subsp. major Meade-Waldo 1914
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia fulva
Fulva major meade-Waldo

description: fulva major Meade-Waldo
Ischnocoelia integra var. major Meade-Waldo 1914: 459, female, male—“S.W. AUSTRALIA:Yallingup” (lectotype male London, type no. 18.130a).— Bequaert 1928b: 151 (holotype is female from Yallingup, S. W.Australia).— Giordani Soika 1969: 81 (designation of lectotype),
Ischnocoelia major; Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (examined).
Ischnocoelia fulva major; Giordani Soika 1969: 81, fig. 44 (W. A.: Bunbury).— Cardale 1985: 178 (cat.).— Borsato 2003: 519 (W. A.: “ 12 km WNW Harvey”).
gregoryensis Borsato
Ischnocoelia gregoryensis Borsato 2003: 511, 519, fig. 12—“ Northern Territory, Gregory N. P., Victoria River” (holotype male Canberra); “morph a” from W. A.: (15.38S.— 125.15E) 4 km W of King Cascade.”
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Preliminary analysis of South Asian medicinal plant markets: can
Creators: name: Olsen, Carsten Smith
name: Helles, Finn
name: Olsen, Carsten Smith
name: Helles, Finn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Non-timber forest products
subject: trade
subject: validity
subject: Nepal
subject: Himalaya

description: There is a huge trade in medicinal plants in South Asia. This paper investigates whether it is possible to talk to medicinal plant harvesters and traders involved in the medicinal plant market in Nepal and India in order to be able to conduct a net marketing margin analysis. Using a marketing chain approach, data was collected through open-ended questionnaires administered to harvesters (n = 639) and traders (n = 166) in 15 districts in Nepal, central wholesalers (n = 90) throughout the country, and regional wholesalers (n = 53) in India. Basic distributional statistics indicate that actors’ own-reported data is consistent and thus useful for further analysis. Net marketing margin analysis indicated pricing inefficiency in the market, with local traders operating with very low net margins.
Defining ‘Discrimination’ in UK and Australian Age Discrimination Law
Creators: name: Blackham, Alysia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Population ageing is a challenge facing governments across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In a bid to increase employment rates for older workers, extend working lives and acknowledge the inherent dignity of workers of all ages, governments have introduced age discrimination laws, to make differential treatment on the basis of age largely unlawful. While the core ideas and rationales of age discrimination laws are similar in the UK and Australia, the countries differ in the way in which the notion of ‘discrimination’ has been developed in the case law. Drawing on employment age discrimination cases in the UK and Australia, I argue that the Australian cases have conceived of age discrimination in a far narrower way than those in the UK, possibly due to the inability to justify direct age discrimination in Australia. This has resulted in a restricted jurisprudence in Australia, which potentially undermines the development of the law and effectiveness of legal protection in this area.
The role of Islamic feminists in Moroccan legal reform : a case study of the 2018 law on violence against women
Creators: name: Brooks, Rachel Christine
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Islamic feminism
Morocco
Violence against women

description: This report focuses on some of the women's rights activists and organizations that have been central to issues of gender equality in Morocco, specifically Nadia Yassine of the Islamist movement Jamaat al-Adl wa al-Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality Association - JSA), Bassima Hakkaoui, current Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family, and Social Development, and secular organization Mobilising for Rights Associates (MRA), or Imra’a (“Woman” in Arabic), This study focuses on the specific strategies and rhetoric used by Yassine, Hakkaoui, and MRA to achieve increased rights for women in Morocco, as well as the creation of Law 103-13 and Morocco’s eventual codification of domestic violence as a crime. Despite the contributions of Hakkaoui and MRA to Law 103-13, the law did not meet all of the demands of Moroccan activists or international organizations, and there are criticisms of the law requiring future legislation and amendments. This study reviews both the law’s strengths and shortcomings.
On the multifractal dimensions and statistical properties of critical ensembles characterized by the three classical Wigner-Dyson symmetry classes
Creators: name: Carrera-Núñez, M.
name: Martínez-Argüello, A. M.
name: Méndez-Bermúdez, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a power-law banded random matrix model for the third of the three classical Wigner-Dyson ensembles, i.e., the symplectic ensemble. A detailed analysis of the statistical properties of its eigenvectors and eigenvalues, at criticality, is presented. This ensemble is relevant for time-reversal symmetric systems with strong spin-orbit interaction. For the sake of completeness, we also review the statistical properties of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the power-law random banded matrix model for the corresponding systems in the presence and absence of time reversal invariance, previously considered in the literature. Our results show a good agreement with heuristic relations for the eigenstate and eigenenergy statistics at criticality, proposed in previous studies. With this, we provide a full picture of the power-law random banded matrix model corresponding to the three classical Wigner-Dyson ensembles.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Joint Trials and Prejudice: A Review and Critique of the Report to the Royal Commission Into Institutional Child Sex Abuse
Creators: name: Robinson, Peter M
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: One of the lesser known tasks of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was to investigate responses within the legal system to allegations of such abuse, including the procedural and evidentiary rules surrounding joinder of complaints by multiple complainants against the same defendant. The Commission itself commissioned an empirical study and a report on the effects of joinder of charges on jury reasoning and decision making, which, at over 370 pages in length is quite demanding to digest, and, we would argue, open to criticism on methodological and interpretive grounds. This article reviews and critiques the report’s methodology and findings, and argues for interpretations and conclusions contrary to those contained in the report, to the effect that the study did provide significant evidence supporting the prejudicial effect of joinder and failed to adequately controvert theories of prejudice through character bias, accumulation prejudice and inter-case conflation of evidence.
On the biparametric quantum deformation of GL(2) x GL(1)
Creators: name: Parashar, Deepak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R50; 17B37

description: We study the biparametric quantum deformation of GL(2) x GL(1) and exhibit its cross-product structure. We derive explictly the associated dual algebra, i.e., the quantised universal enveloping algebra employing the R-matrix procedure. This facilitates construction of a bicovariant differential calculus which is also shown to have a cross-product structure. Finally, a Jordanian analogue of the deformation is presented as a cross-product algebra.
description: 16 pages LaTeX, published in JMP
Evaluating the Pedagogic Value of Mooting and ‘Nooting’ at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Cth)
Creators: name: Billings, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article explains and evaluates how the National Administrative Appeals Tribunal Moot Competition, and its younger sibling, the Negotiating Outcomes on Time (‘NOOT’) Competition, afford law students an important and unique opportunity to develop; distinctive advocacy skills, superior analytical skills directed to resolving complex questions of fact and law, enhanced knowledge and understanding of public law, and an appreciation of relevant professional standards. The article reveals how the competitions can challenge students to think beyond the ‘doing’ and the ‘knowing’, to deeply and critically reflect on administrative law and administrative justice principles, practices and procedures. It is argued that the two AAT competitions are highly effective vehicles for student learning that do not suffer from the deficiencies associated with traditional moots based on appellate court proceedings. Therefore, the article demonstrates that the AAT competitions are realistic and highly relevant for future lawyers.
Advances in Research on Modern Agricultural Development in Grain Production Core Area of China
Creators: name: LIU, Yan
name: LIU, Yan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Characteristics of core area
subject: Modern agriculture
subject: Mode of modern agriculture

description: Grain production core area is key region of modern agricultural development in China. Through summarizing related literature about grain production area and modern agricultural development researches both at home and abroad, it obtained characteristics and existing problems in the modern agricultural development of the grain production core area. It is found that there are many research perspectives in modern agricultural development of the grain production core area. On the basis of analyzing the grain production core area and connotation, mode and evaluation of the modern agricultural development, it is concluded that further study should be carried out for adopting which development mode and how to make evaluation, so as to provide theoretical guidance for balanced development of modern agriculture in grain production core area of different regions.
Ischnocoelia integra subsp. carnowi Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia integra
Integra carnowi giordani soika

description: integra carnowi Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia integra carnowi Giordani Soika 1969: 87, female—“ S. Australia: Mt. Lofty Rgs” (Adelaide).— Cardale 1985: 178 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 80 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Simple model for large CP violation in charm decays, B-physics anomalies, muon g-2, and Dark Matter
Creators: name: Calibbi, Lorenzo
name: Li, Tianjun
name: Li, Ying
name: Zhu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a minimal extension of the Standard Model that can simultaneously account for the anomalies in semi-leptonic B meson decays and the muon g-2, give large CP violation in charm decays (up to the value recently measured by LHCb), and provide thermal-relic dark matter, while evading all constraints set by other flavour observables, LHC searches, and dark matter experiments. This is achieved by introducing only four new fields: a vectorlike quark, a vectorlike lepton, and two scalar fields (a singlet and a doublet) that mix due to the electroweak symmetry breaking and provide the dark matter candidate. The singlet-doublet mixing induces chirally-enhanced dipole transitions, which are crucial for the explanation of the muon g-2 discrepancy and the large charm CP violation, and allows to achieve the observed dark matter density in wide regions of the parameter space.
description: 22 pages plus appendices, 10 figures; v2: references added, discussion improved; v3: discussions on Landau poles and EWPOs added, conclusions unchanged, version to appear in JHEP
Clean Bioprinting – Fabrication of 3D Organ Models Devoid of Animal Components
Creators: name: Berg, Johanna
name: Kurreck, Jens
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: additive manufacturing
subject: bioink
subject: fetal bovin serum
subject: Matrigel
subject: organ models
subject: FBS

description: Bioprinting is a rapidly developing technology that enables the exact positioning of living cells embedded in bio-materials in precise spatial arrangements to fabricate engineered tissues and organs. While the ultimate goal of bio­printing approaches is to produce organs for transplantation purposes, bioprinted organ models also hold great potential for research purposes to serve as alternatives to animal experiments. By using human cells, humanized organ models can be generated that may produce more relevant results for human (patho-)physiology than animal models. However, standard bioprinting procedures currently use numerous hidden animal components. Virtually all studies published in the field to date make use of cells grown in media with fetal bovine serum (FBS). In addition, Matrigel, the extracellular matrix (ECM) harvested from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm sarcoma grown in mice, is widely employed to cultivate stem cells and 3D organ models. Finally, most bioinks currently in use contain gelatin or comparable animal components to improve cell viability and adhesion. The present review will give an introduction to the potential of bioprinting to fabricate 3D models that may be substituted for animal experiments and will go on to describe strategies to replace animal components cur­rently included in standard procedures of bioprinting. These approaches comprise the adaptation of cells to FBS-free media, the use of bioinks composed of synthetic or plant material, and the replacement of animal ingredients by materials of human origin. We propose denoting bioprinting strategies devoid of animal components as clean bioprinting.
Adverse Action Protections Under the Fair Work Act: Fashioning the Fashionable
Creators: name: Jessup, Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Comparing access to sexual and reproductive health services among sexual minority youths and their peers: findings from a national survey in China
Creators: name: Peng, Chunxiao
name: Li, Chunyan
name: Liang, Yun
name: Cao, Wenzhen
name: Tang, Kun
name: Hee, Jiayi
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Background Little is known about the access to measures of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services among sexual minority communities in China, where sexuality-related stigma and discrimination remains high. The aim of this study is to investigate access to measures of SRH services among Chinese sexual minority youths (SMY) aged 17 to 24 years old. Methods This cross-sectional study utilizes data on 54,580 youths from the 2019–2020 National College Student Survey on Sexual and Reproductive Health, conducted across 31 provinces in mainland China. Multivariable logistic regression modelling was utilized to assess the access to SRH services among Chinese youth with different self-reported sexual orientation. Results The majority of respondents identified as heterosexual (77.6%). The remaining respondents identified as bisexual (9.0%), lesbian or gay (2.8%), others (3.02%), or unknown (7.51%). Gay men reported greater access to free contraceptives at health centers (OR 1.62, 95% CI: 1.32–1.99) and were more likely to have receive medical treatment for sexual and reproductive issues (OR 1.83, 95% CI: 1.26–2.63) compared to heterosexual men. Gay and bisexual men were also more likely to use condom at first sexual intercourse compared to heterosexual men (gay men: OR 1.38, 95% CI: 1.13–1.68; bisexual men: OR 1.33, 95% CI: 1.03–1.71). However, the associations were reversed among women (lesbians: OR 0.05, 95% CI: 0.03 to 0.08; bisexuals: 0.75, 95% CI: 0.65 to 0.86). Conclusions Although SMY reported higher utilization of SRH services compared to their heterosexual counterparts, access to SRH services remains low among Chinese youths. Greater focus should be placed on improving access to SMY-friendly SRH services among Chinese youths.
From Andreev to Majorana bound states in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires
Creators: name: Prada, Elsa
name: San-Jose, Pablo
name: de Moor, Michiel W. A.
name: Geresdi, Attila
name: Lee, Eduardo J. H.
name: Klinovaja, Jelena
name: Loss, Daniel
name: Nygård, Jesper
name: Aguado, Ramón
name: Kouwenhoven, Leo P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic excitations above the ground state must overcome an energy gap in superconductors with spatially-homogeneous s-wave pairing. In contrast, inhomogeneous superconductors such as those with magnetic impurities or weak links, or heterojunctions containing normal metals or quantum dots, can host subgap electronic excitations that are generically known as Andreev bound states (ABSs). With the advent of topological superconductivity, a new kind of ABS with exotic qualities, known as Majorana bound state (MBS), has been discovered. We review the main properties of ABSs and MBSs, and the state-of-the-art techniques for their detection. We focus on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires, possibly coupled to quantum dots, as one of the most flexible and promising experimental platforms. We discuss how the combined effect of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field in these wires triggers the transition from ABSs into MBSs. We show theoretical progress beyond minimal models in understanding experiments, including the possibility of different types of robust zero modes that may emerge without a band-topological transition. We examine the role of spatial non-locality, a special property of MBS wavefunctions that, together with non-Abelian braiding, is the key to realizing topological quantum computation.
description: Review. 23 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Shareable published version by Springer Nature at https://rdcu.be/b7DWT (free to read but not to download)
Facilitating Access to Published Works for Persons with a Print Disability: Amending Australian Copyright Laws to Ensure Compliance with the Marrakesh Treaty
Creators: name: Jingyi Li;Niloufer Selvadurai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled was ratified by Australia in December 2015 and came into force in September 2016. On 15 June 2017, Australia enacted the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Act 2017 (Cth) (‘Amending Act’) to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty by creating new exceptions to copyright to support access to published works by persons with a print disability. The objective of this article is to precisely identify areas of divergence between the Marrakesh Treaty and the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and analyse the operation of the Amending Act in order to determine whether the proposed reforms will enable Australia to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty. The article suggests that whilst the Amending Act addresses certain critical concerns, further reforms need to be undertaken in order to ensure full compliance with the Treaty. Specifically, the article recommends that the Amending Act be amended to remove the commercial availability test in the new fair use mechanism, retain the print disability radio licence, introduce an extended exception for the circumvention of technological protection measures, and establish a mechanism for free cross-border exchange in order to enhance the value of the Treaty to the print disabled.
Unification in 5D SO(10)
Creators: name: Kim, Hyung Do
name: Raby, Stuart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge unification in a five dimensional supersymmetric SO(10) model compactified on an orbifold $S^1/(Z_2 \times Z_2^{\prime})$ is studied. One orbifolding reduces N=2 supersymmetry to N=1, and the other breaks SO(10) to the Pati-Salam gauge group $\ps$. Further breaking to the standard model gauge group is made through the Higgs mechanism on one of the branes. The differences of the three gauge couplings run logarithmically even in five dimensions and we can keep the predictability for unification as in four dimensional gauge theories. We obtain an excellent prediction for gauge coupling unification with a cutoff scale $M_* \sim 3 \times 10^{17}$ GeV and a compactification scale $M_c \sim 1.5 \times 10^{14}$ GeV. Finally, although proton decay due to dimension 5 operators may be completely eliminated, the proton decay rate in these models is sensitive to the placement of matter multiplets in the 5th dimension, as well as to the unknown physics above the cutoff scale.
description: 33 pages, one reference added and fig. 3 caption corrected
The Distribution of Benefits for Players in Agricultural Industrial Chain
Creators: name: LI, Wanming
name: SUN, Huibo
name: LI, Wanming
name: SUN, Huibo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural industrial chain
subject: Players
subject: Distribution of benefits
subject: Shapley value method
subject: Correction model

description: Players of the agricultural industrial chain pursue their own profit maximization, which can lead to conflicts of interest and affect the stability of the industrial chain. Therefore, fair and reasonable profit allocation mechanism is the key to guaranteeing the development and strengthening the strategic alliance relationship between participate members. Shapley model is an effective method to solve the profit distribution in cooperative relations. But it does not consider the three factors: risks faced by players during the operation of the agricultural industrial chain, technology innovation ability, and the degree of participating in the cooperation. So, correction factors are introduced to modify the Shapley value model, in order to make the distribution of benefits more equitable and reasonable, and effectively guide practice.
Are Australia’s Cities Outgrowing Its Construction Legislation?
Creators: name: Bell, Matthew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article examines the way in which legislative regulation seeks to enhance consumer protection in relation to the procurement of residential construction work. Its focus is upon reforms to the statutory regime for such protection in Victoria which were enacted during 2016–17. These reforms are primarily directed towards reducing the incidence of defective work through the tightening of ‘quality assurance’ provisions, such as ensuring that work is carried out by qualified practitioners, and of ‘safety net’ measures such as conciliation processes to avoid the escalation of disputes. The article analyses these reforms by reference to identified problems relating to defective residential construction work. These range from high-profile incidents such as the 2014 cladding-related fire at the Lacrosse Apartments in Melbourne (and the fire, with similar causes yet tragically more disastrous consequences, at the Grenfell Tower in London in 2017), through to more mundane — yet, frequently occurring — problems such as poor workmanship and behaviours. The article concludes that the Victorian reforms are clearly directed towards many of these identified problems. It cautions, however, that the success of the reforms in contributing to an effective consumer protection regime may be limited because other factors contributing to the widespread incidence of defects remain unaddressed. These factors include gaps such as the non-prescriptive nature of many of the regulatory requirements, and the limited capacity of project participants to assimilate the detailed requirements of the regime, and for regulators to enforce it.
Overview of Rural Tourism Development in China
Creators: name: XIE, Tianhui
name: XIE, Tianhui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural tourism
subject: Overview
subject: Influence factor
subject: Development mode

description: Rural tourism is a form of tourism relying on rural environment, with rural unique natural scene and cultural characteristics (production pattern, life style, folk customs, and rural culture) as object, and integrating sightseeing, vacation, recreation and shopping. Rural tourism provides recreation products for urban residents, promotes national and local economy, promotes rural employment, keeps traditional culture, improves rural ecological environment, and promotes urban and rural exchange. From concept and characteristics of rural tourism, this paper made a brief overview of development background, realistic significance, influence factors, development mode, and existing problems, in the hope of providing favorable references for grasping development situation of rural tourism in China.
The contribution of galaxies to the UV ionising background and the evolution of the Lyman forest
Creators: name: Bianchi, Simone
name: Cristiani, Stefano
name: Kim, Tae-Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have modelled the evolution of the number of Ly_alpha absorbers with redshift, resulting from the evolution of the ionising background and the Hubble expansion. The contribution of quasars (QSOs) and galaxies to the HI-ionising UV background has been estimated. The QSOs emissivity is derived from recent fits of their luminosity function. The galaxy emissivity is computed using a stellar population synthesis model, with a star-formation history scaled on observations of faint galaxies at lambda <= 1500 A. We allow for three values of the fraction of ionising photons that can escape the interstellar medium, f_esc=0.05, 0.1 and 0.4. The Intergalactic Medium is modelled as made of purely-absorbing clouds with the distribution in redshift and column density obtained from QSOs absorption lines. For the adopted values of f_esc, the contribution of galaxies to the ionising UV background is comparable or greater than that of QSOs. Accounting for the contribution of clouds to the UV emission, all models with f_esc
description: 9 pages, A&A accepted
Lectures on Branes in Curved Backgrounds
Creators: name: Schomerus, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures provide an introduction to the microscopic description of branes in curved backgrounds. After a brief reminder of the flat space theory, the basic principles and techniques of (rational) boundary conformal field theory are presented in the second lecture. The general formalism is then illustrated through a detailed discussion of branes on compact group manifolds. In the final lecture, many more recent developments are reviewed, including some results for non-compact target spaces.
description: 109 pages, 11 figures, Lectures presented at the third RTN school on `The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions', Utrecht, January 2002
Ischnocoelia integra subsp. integra
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia integra
Integra integra (von schulthess)

description: integra integra (von Schulthess)
Stenolabus integer von Schulthess 1910: 191, figs. 3 and 5 [recte 4], male, female—“N. S. Wales ” (lectotype female Venezia).— Giordani Soika 1969: 87 (designation of lectotype).
Ischnocoelia integra; Meade-Waldo 1914: 459.— Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (male holotype examined).— Giordani Soika 1969: 71 (key), 85, figs. 42, 50 (Qld.: Brisbane, Stradbroke I.).— Cardale 1985: 178 (cat.).
Ischnocoelia integra integra; Borsato 2003: 523 (Qld.: “(15.03S.— 145.09E) 3 km NE Mt. Weeb,” “(15.03S.– 145.15E) 4 km SW of Casuarina HiIl,” “ 27 km SE Bundanberg,” “Childers road near Bundaberg,” “Woodgate via Childer,” “Mt. Malsh 2200 Ft via Biggenden,” Biggenden, “Biggenden W. Bluff Range,” “(25.36S. 152.03E) Bluff Range,” “Isis Distrect near Childers” [District], “Pilliga scrub, 25 km West of Narrabri”; N. S. W.: Wardell).— Piekarski et al. 2018: fig. 2 (phylogenetic relationships).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Image reduction pipeline for the detection of variable sources in highly crowded fields
Creators: name: Goessl, Claus A.
name: Riffeser, Arno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a reduction pipeline for CCD (charge-coupled device) images which was built to search for variable sources in highly crowded fields like the M31 bulge and to handle extensive databases due to large time series. We describe all steps of the standard reduction in detail with emphasis on the realisation of per pixel error propagation: Bias correction, treatment of bad pixels, flatfielding, and filtering of cosmic rays. The problems of conservation of PSF (point spread function) and error propagation in our image alignment procedure as well as the detection algorithm for variable sources are discussed: We build difference images via image convolution with a technique called OIS (Alard & Lupton, 1998), proceed with an automatic detection of variable sources in noise dominated images and finally apply a PSF-fitting, relative photometry to the sources found. For the WeCAPP project (Riffeser et al., 2001) we achieve 3 sigma detections for variable sources with an apparent brightness of e.g. m = 24.9 mag at their minimum and a variation of dm = 2.4 mag (or m = 21.9 mag brightness minimum and a variation of dm = 0.6 mag) on a background signal of 18.1 mag/arcsec^2 based on a 500 s exposure with 1.5 arcsec seeing at a 1.2 m telescope. The complete per pixel error propagation allows us to give accurate errors for each measurement.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted by A&A