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War and the concept of a new social order: Melbourne 1914-1915
Creators: name: Smart, Judith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between the experience of total war and early twentieth century Australian aspirations for social renewal and change. Its focus is close rather than broad and sweeping. Specifically, it explores the hopes and illusions of prominent individuals and organisations in Melbourne as they were affected by the first two years of the Great War and as they in turn affected the way the war was experienced and understood in the community at large. The two broad themes into which the analysis and argument are divided are: concepts of political liberty and economic justice on the one hand, and concepts of social order and justice on the other. Melbourne, as both the capital of Victoria and the national capital, is particularly well suited to this close examination since the headquarters for the major employer organisations as well as much labour and pacifist activity were to be found there. The first seventeen months of the war period did not produce the violent clashes of the later years but the parameters of conflict and the terms of the discourse about war and social change were formulated during 1914 and 1915 and changed but little thereafter. The principal argument of this thesis is that the impact of total war on social ideals was destructive and that the optimism evident in many circles before the war broke out had disappeared by the end of 1915, to be replaced, in most cases, by a bleak pessimism about the nation's future. War brought about retrenchment, restrictions on civil liberty and, of course, loss of life. Where hopes were sustained, they frequently assumed a millenarian and extremist character as the political middle-ground disappeared. Where reform continued, it was of a morally coercive and regulatory kind directed towards discipline and an instrumental efficiency rather than individual freedom and expansion of opportunity. Only the most conservative members of the comnunity could draw any solace from the experience of war on the hotnefront in Melbourne and that was because their vision of the possible was a consciously limited one.
Business versus ethics? Thoughts on the future of business ethics
Creators: name: Dacin, M. Tina
name: Harrison, Jeffrey S.
name: Hess, David
name: KILLIAN, SHEILA
name: Roloff, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Financial accounting

description: To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme Business versus Ethics? (inspired by the title of the commentary by Jefrey Harrison). The authors of these commentaries seek to transcend the age-old separation fallacy (Freeman in Bus Ethics Q 4(4):409–421, 1994) that juxtaposes business and ethics/society, posing a forced choice or trade of. Providing a contemporary take on the classical question “if it’s legal is it ethical?”, David Hess explores the role of the law in promoting or hindering stakeholder-oriented purpose and governance structure. Jefrey Harrison encourages scholars to move beyond the presupposition that businesses are either strategic or ethical and explore important questions at the intersection of strategy and ethics. The proposition that business models might be inherently ethical or inherently unethical in their design is developed by Sheila Killian, who examines business systems, their morality, and who they serve. However, the conundrum that entrepreneurs are either lauded for their self-belief and risk-taking, or loathed for their self-belief and risk-taking, is discussed by M. Tina Dacin and Julia Rolof using the metaphor of taboos and totems. These commentaries seek to explore positions that advocate multiplicity and tensions in which business ethics is not either/or but both.
On the distribution of the van der Corput sequence in arbitrary base
Creators: name: Borda, Bence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11K31, 11K38 (Primary), 60F05, 60F10 (Secondary)

description: A central limit theorem with explicit error bound, and a large deviation result are proved for a sequence of weakly dependent random variables of a special form. As a corollary, under certain conditions on the function $f: [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ a central limit theorem and a large deviation result are obtained for the sum $\sum_{n=0}^{N-1} f(x_n)$, where $x_n$ is the base $b$ van der Corput sequence for an arbitrary integer $b \ge 2$. Similar results are also proved for the $L^p$ discrepancy of the same sequence for $1 \le p < \infty$. The main methods used in the proofs are the Berry-Esseen theorem and Fourier analysis.
description: 26 pages, minor changes
Verbal Paired Associate Memory and Learning in Older Adults
Creators: name: Muliadi, Fenny
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Clinical Neuropsychology to the School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The associative deficit hypothesis proposes that memory decline in older adults arises from their difficulty in forming novel associations to bind various pieces of information. This deficit, however, does not appear to affect memory for information with previously established associations. Using verbal paired associate learning paradigm, two studies were conducted to demonstrate that (1) the strength of the pre-established association impacts older adults’ verbal learning and memory, and (2) stronger associations between words can be trained. A community sample of 197 healthy older adults were administered a verbal paired associate learning task consisting of categorical (e.g., apple – orange), integrative relational (e.g., wine – box) and unrelated word-pairs (e.g., anchor – ceiling). Results showed that older adults demonstrated better cued recall of the more strongly associated categorical word-pairs than integrative relational wordpairs, and in turn, better cued recall of integrative relational word-pairs than unrelated word-pairs. In a follow-up study, a subset of these participants were randomly allocated to either a group practising semantic elaboration with feedback or a group practising their preferred strategies with no feedback. Results showed that older adults practising semantic elaboration with feedback demonstrated better learning and cued recall of the more weakly associated integrative relational and unrelated word-pairs relative to the group practising their preferred strategies with no feedback. These findings, based on the verbal paired associate paradigm, are likely to generalise to associations between other item information, such as face – name, and a list of activities or things to do. If so, they give hope to the idea that memory in older adults can be improved by training that strengthens the associations between the to-be-remembered items.
Διαχρονική μελέτη των μορφολογικών μεταβολών της κάτω γνάθου στο πλαίσιο της εξέλιξης του ανατομικά σύγχρονου ανθρώπου
Creators: name: Αραμπατζής, Μιχαήλ Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Μορφολογία γνάθου
Οδοντοφυΐα
Ανθρώπινο είδος
Jaw morphology
Dentition
Human species

description: Στόχος της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η παρουσίαση των μορφολογικών αλλαγών, οι οποίες αφορούν την κάτω γνάθο των ανατομικά σύγχρονων ανθρώπων, καθώς επίσης και η ανάλυση των παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν τις εν λόγω μεταβολές. Πιο αναλυτικά, κατά την εξελικτική πορεία του ανθρωπίνου είδους, παρατηρείται μία προσαρμογή των χαρακτηριστικών, του μεγέθους και της ευρωστίας της γνάθου, αλλά και της οδοντοφυΐας, η οποία είναι ανάλογη των περιβαλλοντικών, κλιματολογικών και διατροφικών συνθηκών με τις οποίες το ανθρώπινο είδος έρχεται αντιμέτωπο, ανά πάσα στιγμή και σε κάθε στάδιο της εξέλιξής του. Επίσης, η αλλαγή των μορφολογικών χαρακτηριστικών της γνάθου του ανθρώπου μπορεί να επηρεάζεται και από γενετικούς παράγοντες, συνδυαστικά με τους ανωτέρω αναφερόμενους. Είναι πιθανόν αν και όχι απολύτως αποδεδειγμένο ότι καθώς το ανθρώπινο είδος εξελίσσεται στο βάθος των ετών μειώνεται καθώς έχουν αλλάξει οι διατροφικές και περιβαλλοντικές απαιτήσεις στις οποίες καλείται να ανταπεξέλθει. Όμως το μειωμένο μέγεθος της ανθρώπινης γνάθου μπορεί να επιφέρει μία σειρά επιπλοκών και δυσλειτουργιών, που αφορούν την ευθυγράμμιση και χωρητικότητα των δοντιών, την σωστή ανάπτυξη των γομφίων, την ομιλία, την κατάποση και το μάσημα, όπως επίσης και την αναπνοή.
description: The aim of this dissertation was the presentation of the morphological changes, which concern the lower jaw in anatomically modern humans, as well as the analysis of the factors that influence these changes. In more detail, during the evolutionary course of the human species, an adaptation of the characteristics, size, and robustness of the jaw, but also of the dentition, is observed, which is proportional to the environmental, climatic and nutritional conditions with which the human species is confronted, at any time and at every stage of its development. Also, the change in the morphological characteristics of the human jaw can also be influenced by genetic factors, in combination with those mentioned above. In general, as the human species evolves over the years, the smaller its jaw becomes, as the nutritional and environmental demands it has to cope with decrease. But the reduced size of the human jaw can bring about a series of complications and dysfunctions, concerning the alignment and capacity of the teeth, the proper development of the wisdom teeth, speech, swallowing and chewing, as well as breathing.
title: Les martyrs de la Veuve : Romantisme et peine de mort 1820-1848
Creators: name: Guyon, Loïc Pierre
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Between 1820 and 1848 French literature was permeated with the theme of the death penalty. Condemned characters, guillotines and execution scenes suddenly invaded novels, plays and poetry. This phenomenon was linked in the first instance with the historical context, contemporaries of the Restoration having had their memory and imagination filled with the images of the beheaded figures of the Revolution and the period that followed. Among these, one in particular captured their attention: Louis XVI. This obsession is indicative of an authentic psychological trauma that was both collective and intimate, the revolutionary regicide having been generally perceived as the worst of all imaginable crimes, that of parricide. It is naturally to art and more specifically to literature, then conceived as "the expression of society", that the task fell to rid society of this guilty conscience. However the emergence of this theme in literature during the 1820's would not have been possible if it had not in the meantime corresponded to the rise of Romanticism. The literary topos of the death penalty indeed offered Romantic authors a challenge to meet, an artistic cause to defend, and brought about the invention of new means of expression suited to render all the violence and all the horror of the executions, an approach that itself implies an aesthetic liberation and a thematic and formal renewal. Finally the death penalty offered romantic artists a historical cause to fight for, that of the abolition of a punishment they found barbaric and which completely contradicted their ideal of social progress. The omnipresence of this theme in romantic literature is also inseparable from the resurgence of the debate on the question of the abolition of the death penalty that grew from 1820 on, thereby adding to the discussion all of the emotional and suggestive power of artistic representation.
Place tectonics in Austral/Asia: hybridity and identity drift in southeast Australian women's literature
Creators: name: Giffard-Foret, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis looks at the various ways in which fiction and poetry by Southeast Asian Australian women authors have contributed to reorienting the Australian literary canon and challenging how Australia perceives itself and the Southeast Asian region more specifically. Drawing from the academic writings of Asian Australian scholars on the subject, as well as from postcolonial studies, I seek to demonstrate how these authors articulate what Homi Bhabha calls the 'third space' of hybridity through deconstructing lingering historical binaries across linguistic, racialised gendered, class-based and aesthetic lines. The first chapter focuses on language and Filipina Australian author Merlinda Bobis' bilingual poetry. I argue how her poetry provides a framework for (re)thinking multilingualism in Australia. In chapter 2, I analyse the fiction of Simone Lazaroo and Hsu-Ming Teo and the way these two authors playfully draw but also depart from, and ultimately subvert, traditional Orientalist tales of Asia in/by the West, imbuing the signifier of 'Asianness' with new meanings. In chapter 3, I look at the strategic use of magical realism in Beth Yahp's, Hoa Pham's and Lau Siew Mei's fiction as a means through which these authors are able to recover Southeast Asian mythology and folklore while also functioning as a social critique of Western imperialism. In the final analysis, I examine how Southeast Asian Australian women's literature, while retaining a concern for cultural representation in the Australian context, has increasingly moved beyond the precincts of the diasporic to address worldly issues and experiment with the abstract of style, thereby raising a fundamental question: Is literature, and in particular 'ethnic' literature, just about place?
Lifetime of Feshbach dimers in a Fermi-Fermi mixture of $^6$Li and $^{40}$K
Creators: name: Jag, Michael
name: Cetina, Marko
name: Lous, Rianne S.
name: Grimm, Rudolf
name: Levinsen, Jesper
name: Petrov, Dmitry S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a joint experimental and theoretical investigation of the lifetime of weakly bound dimers formed near narrow interspecies Feshbach resonances in mass-imbalanced Fermi-Fermi systems, considering the specific example of a mixture of $^6$Li and $^{40}$K atoms. Our work addresses the central question of the increase in the stability of the dimers resulting from Pauli suppression of collisional losses, which is a well-known effect in mass-balanced fermionic systems near broad resonances. We present measurements of the spontaneous dissociation of dimers in dilute samples, and of the collisional losses in dense samples arising from both dimer-dimer processes and from atom-dimer processes. We find that all loss processes are suppressed close to the Feshbach resonance. Our general theoretical approach for fermionic mixtures near narrow Feshbach resonances provides predictions for the suppression of collisional decay as a function of the detuning from resonance, and we find excellent agreement with the experimental benchmarks provided by our $^6$Li-$^{40}$K system. We finally present model calculations for other Feshbach-resonant Fermi-Fermi systems, which are of interest for experiments in the near future.
(200930) Dendy Napper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
REACH Story of Change: Progress to deliver safe drinking water services to 100 million rural people by 2030
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024

description: REACH research is informing the development of results-based funding to improve rural water services and make progress towards SDG 6.1. In 2021, a global diagnostic survey identified rural water service providers in 68 countries with interest or existing experience in results based funding. From small service providers to national and sub-national governments, over 460,000 handpumps and some 2.6 million piped connections were documented.
Further screening of the data indicated up to 68 service providers in 28 countries could potentially provide results-based services to 5 million rural people in the near term. Four conditions are proposed to guide prioritising on-going country engagement: a) policy alignment, b) public finance, c) verifiable data, and d) professional services. Supported by this diagnostic study, the Uptime Catalyst Facility has expanded results-based contracts for reliable water services serving 1.5 million rural people in 7 countries in 2022 to over 5 million people in 17 countries, including Latin America and India in 2024.
The contemporary Saudi novel in english translation: four case studies
Creators: name: Al-Ghamedi, Najiah Abdulkarim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the contemporary Saudi novel in English translation. Three Saudi authors whose novels have been translated into English are offered as case studies to explore various issues related to the process of transferring the novels from their originating culture to English-speaking readers. The Saudi authors: Turki Al-Hamad, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed and Raja Al-Sanea are characterised as liberal authors in the Saudi literary scene. Their novels were banned in Saudi Arabia because they do not conform to the dominant social discourse. Yet, their novels were translated into English thus gaining wider readership in different cultures. The novels are translated by four translators who come from various professional backgrounds, which are described as “academic” and “professional” respectively. This thesis argues that translators with academic background and experience in teaching translation are more inclined to explain and add to the translation in order to make the translated novels clearer to target readers. On the other hand, translators with a professional background who translate for commercial publishers are more inclined to domesticate and to comply with target culture literary conventions in order to make the translated novel appear as if it is written originally in the target language; thus offering an easy and entertaining read for target readers. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus is utilised to investigate the different roles translators assume as they approach their translation projects. The analysis of translations is divided into two levels: macro and micro. The macro level involves analysis of paratextual features such as covers, blurbs and reviews. The microlevel comprises the textual analysis of translation strategies employed to render intertextual features such as religious allusions and quotations, in addition to cultural intertexts in names and proverbs. The mediation of place and the different ways in which notions of place are rendered from Arabic into English are also explored.
Climate effects on ant-Hemiptera-plant interactions, ant richness and morphology
Creators: name: Sagata, Katayo
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(Un)wanted people in Hong Kong: how global cities force migrants to cope with illegality
Creators: name: Vecchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hong Kong with a large sample of ethnically diverse asylum seekers to advance understanding of the nature of their experiences in the global city and the extent to which these experiences are impacted by both structural and individual agency factors. The aim is to tackle the lack of detailed knowledge that affects asylum debates in Hong Kong, by providing well-documented, unbiased accounts of the circumstances surrounding asylum seekers’ decision-making, the factors that at various levels enable or constrain their livelihoods and the contribution they make in contexts of increasing border securitisation and social inequality between legal and illegal populations in Hong Kong. This study is framed around the notion of social polarisation and growing informalisation of labour markets in the ‘global city’ (Sassen, 2001). On one level, findings pertain to policy-oriented research in the field of forced migration and urban studies, while developing conceptual and theoretical ground from a criminological perspective. The current body of knowledge is advanced in relation to the changing geographies of arrival for increasing numbers of travellers whose movement is constrained by border controls in countries of the Global North. In this regard, it is argued that ‘global’ Hong Kong provides a core alternative destination to coveted Western countries; and in doing so, the social networks of asylum seeking are changed, impacting travellers’ vulnerability. On another level, processes of illegalisation of some migrant flows are revealed as being advantageous for specific economic sectors. An argument is made that the legal exclusion of certain categories of traveller relates to the agency that these people exert within the spaces that confine them. As asylum seekers are denied legal and economic rights by government authorities that use asylum as a tool of migration control, asylum seekers are consequently limited to procuring capital in specific areas of the host society, and in so doing they plausibly turn into instruments to benefit specific strata of the local resident population.
REACH Story of Change: Improving water security through a Science-Practitioner Partnership with UNICEF
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024

description: UNICEF has been a global, regional and national partner with REACH since 2015. A science-practitioner partnership was one of three foundations informing REACH’s work to improve water security for millions of poor people in Africa and Asia. The partnership aimed to develop and apply a risk-based framework in long-term observatories in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya. Through consultation and dialogue with UNICEF’s HQ team, regional and country offices and national governments, the focus has contributed to four areas aligning with UNICEF’s global strategy (2016-30): climate resilience, affordability (inequalities), water quality and sustainable services. The partnership has been founded on creating new knowledge and working collaboratively to deliver sustainable results.
(Re)translating Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo
Creators: name: Glennan, Patrick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There are two main sections to this thesis. A considerable part of the work consists of a new English translation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel Il Gattopardo, intended as an alternative to what to date is the only published English translation of the novel (by Archibald Colquhoun, first published in 1960). Accompanying the translation is a critical analysis of both the process of translating the novel, as well as of the final product itself. The first chapter of this critical analysis focuses on the author Lampedusa, his place in the cultural milieu of his day, and the novel and its history. As well as broader themes, I consider the centrality of history to an understanding of the novel, and to what degree it might be seen to conform to the modes of the more traditional historical novel. The cultural and historical contexts that I explore are seen as essential determining factors not only for a general understanding of the novel, but also with regard to its translation. In the second chapter I consider different theoretical aspects of translation. I discuss the question of retranslation, and offer both general arguments in support of it, as well as specific reasons for a new translation of Il Gattopardo. I also address the matter of the seeming diversity of theory within the discipline of Translation Studies, and how one might go about choosing the appropriate theoretical approach for a translation project such as this one. I give an account of my own experience of practice as it relates to the translation of Il Gattopardo, which involved an exploration of the way that a kind of theory naturally develops out of practice. I also outline the effect of my more direct engagement with theory, and how that in turn impacted upon my practice. Chapter 3 is concerned with the actual translation of Il Gattopardo. Bearing in mind some of the theoretical challenges discussed in Chapter 2 (which include the idea that texts are not imbued with definitive meaning and absolutely definable qualities, the theoretical impossibility of translation, and certain difficulties around the idea of equivalence and whether or not it can even be said to exist), I attempt to establish criteria for talking about the text and for guiding the transition from source to translation. I use a source text discourse analysis which takes into account factors that lie beyond the text itself, as well as specific characteristics and features of the text (such things as lexicon, syntax, the use of quotations, layers of meaning, sentence length, punctuation, etc.) that together contribute to an overall sense of “literariness”. However, in considering the question of style, and how to define it, I also allow for the possibility that it cannot necessarily be reduced to a series of attributes, but rather is constituted by something that is unique to every individual and essentially irreducible in its features and differences.
On the Schertz conjecture
Creators: name: Koo, Ja Kyung
name: Yoon, Dong Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R37 (primary), 11G16 (secondary)

description: Schertz conjectured that every finite abelian extension of imaginary quadratic fields can be generated by the norm of the Siegel-Ramachandra invariants. We shall present a conditional proof of his conjecture by means of the characters on class groups and the second Kronecker limit formula.
description: 9 pages
Forschendes Lernen im Dortmunder Logistikstudium
Creators: name: Jungmann, Thorsten
name: Schneider, Ralf
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 20. Jahrgang 2009 Heft 2
Leading a symbembodied life: a phenomenological investigation of second life
Creators: name: Veerapen, Maeva Pillay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores the structure of the experience of participating in the virtual world Second Life, or as commonly termed by users, of being inworld. I use Second Life as a specific case of a phenomenon which will doubtless change in the future as a result of technological progress. The focus is on the elements of the experience that elicit a sensorial, emotional and affective response to the inworld experience through the body of a user. I examine the structure of a user’s perception of and interaction with the virtual environment and its contents as mediated by and through technology. My original contribution to the field of knowledge is the thorough examination of the relations a user forms during the inworld experience, especially with her avatar, places and other avatars. I adopt an approach that privileges embodiment and lived experience to examine concepts commonly discussed in relation to virtual worlds such as human-computer interaction and telepresence. I have undertaken two and a half years of ethnographic participant observation in Second Life. After each inworld session, I recorded my experiences and observations in the form of fieldwork notes. I regularly read blogs maintained by Second Life users to preserve the intersubjective quality of the research. Phenomenology has informed the analysis of the collected data by providing both an approach to thinking about them and a framework of analysis in the theories of Merleau-Ponty, Leder and other phenomenologists. The findings of the study reveal that the inworld experience consists of a Gestalt figure-ground structure in which various elements are continually foregrounded and backgrounded. Multiple relations – between user and physical surroundings, user and computer, user and avatar, user and other avatar via her own avatar, etc. – are formed and re-formed for the duration of an inworld session. One or more relations recede to the background of a user’s experiential realm while others are foregrounded. The backgrounded relations never cease as long as a user is still participating in the virtual world. A specific form of embodiment emerges during the inworld experience. Due to the mediated nature of the experience, a physical body must work in symbiosis with a computer and an avatar in order for the inworld experience to exist. Consequently, I introduce the term symbembodiment to describe the structure of the embodiment operating during the inworld session. I also discuss the implications of these findings for future research.
Dual addition formulas associated with dual product formulas
Creators: name: Koornwinder, Tom H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45, 33-03, 01A55

description: We observe that the linearization coefficients for ultraspherical polynomials are the orthogonality weights for Racah polynomials with special parameters. Then it turns out that the linearization sum with such a Racah polynomial as extra factor inserted, can also be evaluated. The corresponding Fourier--Racah expansion is an addition type formula which is dual to the well-known addition formula for ultraspherical polynomials. The limit to the case of Hermite polynomials of this dual addition formula is also considered. Similar results as for ultraspherical polynomials, although only formal, are given by taking the Ruijsenaars--Hallnäs dual product formula for Gegenbauer functions as a starting point and by working with Wilson polynomials.
description: v5: 16 pages, formula (5.8) corrected, two references added, some further minor adaptations
Short Paper: What Peer Announcements Tell Us About the Size of the Bitcoin P2P Network
Creators: name: Grundmann, Matthias
name: Amberg, Hedwig
name: Baumstark, Max
name: Hartenstein, Hannes
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Bitcoin is based on a P2P network of which only a few quantities are publicly known. While the number of peers that disseminate transactions and blocks is relevant for the robustness of the network, only the number of reachable peers is so far being measured. However, there exists an unknown number of unreachable peers in the network, that is, peers that do not accept incoming connections but typically also disseminate transactions and blocks. We propose the Passive Announcement Listening (PAL) method that gives an estimate of the number of unreachable peers by observing peer announcements in addr messages. We use the PAL method to analyze data from a long-term measurement of the Bitcoin P2P network from 2015 to 2022. The PAL estimate shows that since 2018 the number of unreachable peers is at least three times higher than the number of reachable peers. An empirical validation indicates that about 76 % of all unreachable peers announce their address and the PAL approach finds about 94 % of these unreachable peers. Thus, we estimate the total number of unreachable peers in May 2022 to be around 34,000. We also report on a spam wave of addr messages that shows that peer announcements ‘leak’ even more information than the size of the network.
(200932) Fanny Elizabeth Fudger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Power of paradox: holisitc foundations for impossible communications
Creators: name: Locker, Markus
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The study The Power of Paradox avers that truths claims are necessarily singular. For that reason, the conversation of truths cannot take place unmediated. Truths are not communicable, yet seek to be communicated. What all truth claims have in common is sets of truths that cannot be fully explained within their system of origin. These are paradoxes— truths standing on the head. Paradoxes point to an original unity behind all opposing truths. It is suggested that the conversation of truths—as intended in the dialogue between religions, and science and faith—must take recourse to paradox. In communicating paradoxes, otherwise incommunicable truth claims can communicate. The route to paradox is systems epistemology and imagination. A systems view of reality offers complementary viewpoints that, taken together, surpass insights provided by conventional observation. A systems perspective creates a holistic image of reality that is grounded in paradoxes. The capacity to represent this paradoxical image is found in the imagination. The productive imagination conceives of subliminal forms of paradoxical representations. As models of paradoxes, these images perform a transcendental analysis that communicates their paradoxical nature. The language for the communication of paradoxes is the language of poetization, found in the structures of humour and art. Imagination and imaginative language embody and communicate paradoxes. The embodiment of paradoxes creates an environment in which truths are not oppressive, but allow for form of life sustained by the paradoxical qualities of freedom, peace and happiness. Paradoxical truths speak in metaphors. The communication of these metaphors and their structure establishes the communication of opposing truths. Science and religion share in the God-metaphor whose communicative extension guarantees the ongoing dialogue between these disciplines. Religions that feature paradoxical structures share in a theology of humour—the folly of faith is their common subject. Realizing the power of paradox for uniting opposing truths through conversation and dialogue offers new possibilities for the successful communication of academic disciplines, cultures, societies and religions. This however necessitates that new ways of imagination and creativity for successfully coping with paradoxes have to be introduced to well-established forms of knowing. Admitting to opposing truths does not limit human knowing but, on the contrary, allows for a life rooted in a multiplicity of truths. These truths do not compromise the truth we necessarily believe in, but ground our lives in the unity of truths.
title: Single user diversity receivers for frequency selective WCDMA channels
Creators: name: Litchfield, Charan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) forward links are susceptible to performance degradation incurred by multiple access interference (MAI) when the radio channel is frequency selective. This places a tight limit on die channel capacity of die cellular downlink since computationally efficient receiver technologies such as die 2D Rake receiver do not yield significant attenuation of die interference floor for high data rates. The application of optimum spatial processing employing two or more antenna elements is a topic of some interest since an optimum beamformer is one where the desired signal is decoupled into a matched filter while interfering signals are spatially nulled or filtered. However, for realistic radio environments and low number of sensors, array overloading prevents optimum information retrieval (and die required target bit error floor to be met) from a doubly selective spatial radio channel. The work undertaken in the first part of this thesis investigates adaptive two element array receiver structures to enhance die downlink performance. In addition to per-path adaptive beamforming, oversampling can form several technologies utilizing this basic structure. In particular, an oversampled receiver with additional linger assignment (not necessarily matched to the channel delay spectra) forms die basis of a channel equalizer. This thesis extends upon this criterion by developing adaptive dual antenna interference suppressing receivers that jointly optimize die spatial and temporal multipath channel signatures at chip or symbol level. In particular, a chip-level optimization (forming a 2D chip equalizer) can decorrelate die multipath channel spectra allowing interference suppression with a chip-matched filter. This receiver is a generalized broadband antenna beamformer, where die resultant improvement in performance over die 2D Rake receiver is significant with only moderately increased complexity. Optimum spatio-temporal diversity receivers require dial die multipath delay spectra are known and the channel phase/attenuation parameters perfectly reproducible with negligible error. However, matched filtering applying estimation of the channel parameters is unlikely to be error free, nor devoid of die effects of quantization. The second part of this diesis investigates the effect of quantization and logarithmic arithmetic on die 2D Rake receiver and 2D Chip equalizer. Logarithmic arithmetic was found to augment many useful properties such as reducing receiver filter inner products into trivial additions by transforming a linear algorithm into die logarithmic domain using the logarithmic number system. This method was found to offer superior error performance even when utilizing very simple codecs. This makes it a promising technique for integrating an adaptive WCDMA receiver onto low power multiplierless programmable hardware devices.
Numerical study of magnetization plateaux in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the checkerboard lattice
Creators: name: Capponi, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical evidence that the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional checkerboard lattice exhibits several magnetization plateaux for m=0, 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4, where m is the magnetization normalized by its saturation value. These incompressible states correspond to somehow similar valence-bond crystal phases that break lattice symmetries, though they are different from the already established plaquette phase for m=0. Our results are based on Exact Diagonalization as well as Density Matrix Renormalization Group large-scale simulations, and interpreted in terms of simple trial wavefunctions.
description: published version
Communicating climate change to rural Nigeria: challenges and prospects
Creators: name: Meribe, nnaEmeka Chidiebere
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Science, College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis explores climate change communication in a rural Nigerian setting. Using a qualitative, multi-method case study approach, the study examines rural people’s understanding of climate change and the potential of formal and informal communication channels in better engaging rural communities in adapting to changing weather patterns. The research design integrates a case study of a rural community in eastern Nigeria and a supplementary study of media coverage of climate change at present. Rural people observe changes in the climatic conditions but lack the sophisticated knowledge required to understand the changes they are experiencing, instead drawing on existing local knowledge frameworks in seeking to understand changing circumstances. In exploring the possibilities for improving communication of climate change at the village level, this study found access to mainstream media very limited, with the rural people interviewed preferring face-to-face, informal or traditional communication via local networks. Drawing on the notion of the two-step/multi-step flow, the supplementary media study nevertheless invokes the relevance of media coverage of climate change at the village level, via the capacity for key influential community leaders, and other individuals who are also active media consumers, to remediate climate change messages. The thesis conclusion discusses how these various communication channels, including Indigenous African Communications systems (IACS) and the new media, might be better managed to achieve a more holistic and effective communication system that will better serve the needs of rural people in adapting to climate change in the future.
title: Vom Text zum Wissen
title: Das Projekt "Text_Lab Wissenschaftliches Schreiben in Studium undLehre"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bauschke-Urban, Carola
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 20. Jahrgang 2009 Heft 1
Translating Australia : the case of Australian contemporary fiction in Italian translation
Creators: name: Formica, Denise Maree
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis sets out to investigate a number of issues related to the translation of Australian fiction in Italy. The main focus is how Australianness is perceived in the target culture and this has involved both an analysis of translated Australian fiction titles and the role of the agents of translation in the intercultural transfer of texts. My study of the external forces regulating the translation process initially discusses the notion of polysystems which positions translated literature as part of a wider literary system. Subsequently, I consider a descriptive translation studies/normative approach which describes the translation product in terms of a specific culture’s expectations of how a translated text should function within that culture. I develop my argument by examining the relationship between national communities and national literary production prior to discussing theoretical approaches regarding the movement of national literatures into the international literary market, the criteria that enable such access and the contemporary translation practices that facilitate these transfers. Drawing on research by Pierre Bourdieu, I then argue that Australian literary production is a bearer of notions of Australianness enabled by a complex system of institutions, individuals, practices and values and that similar agencies within the Italian literary field mediate the processes of selection, translation and reception. In the final chapters of this thesis, I shift the focus of my argument from the extra-textual to the textual level. I present three case studies in which I attempt to foreground how the prioritisation of translation strategies by individual translators provides an indication of the inter-relatedness of textual structures and the external social framework in which the translated text emerges. I argue furthermore that the translator as agent represents the material space in which the tensions arising from external expectations and the internal dispositions which are unique to every individual habitus converge and are resolved. My objectives are to offer empirical support for a field theory approach to future translation studies research into the tensions characterising the relationship between the external social world and the internal structure of the text.
(200927) Walter Edwin Napper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.