cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Bronze Age Ditch and Iron Age Settlement at Elms Far, Humberstone, Leicestershire pp
Creators: name: Mair Charles, Bethan
name: Parkinson, Andrew
name: Foreman, Stuart
name: Allen, Carol S M
name: Allen, Leigh
name: Beavan, Nancy
name: Blinkhorn, Paul W
name: Boyle, Angela
name: Brown, Kayt
name: Keys, Lynne
name: Lamdin-Whymark, Hugo
name: Northover, Peter
name: Roe, Fiona E S
name: Marsden, Pat
name: Pelling, Ruth
name: Powell, Adrianne
name: Scott, Ian G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 74, 113-120
description: Excavations in 1997 and 1998 on the site of a proposed Tesco Store at Hamilton, Leicester, revealed a rectangular Bronze Age ditch and a complex of mid to late Iron Age structures and enclosures. Both types of site are unusual in the prehistoric landscape of Leicestershire. The Iron Age settlement consisted of three phases, each comprising a round house with a number of enclosures adjacent, of varying nature and function, and some four-post structures. An area of iron production was identified to the west of the site, and a substantial assemblage of pottery including scored ware was found. Radio-carbon dates from the site range between 415 and 46 Cal BC. Widespread trading links within the midlands were seen and two Roman Republican silver coins were also found.
Bayesian modelling of uncertainties of Monte Carlo radiative-transfer simulations
Creators: name: Beaujean, Frederik
name: Eggers, Hans C.
name: Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the big challenges in astrophysics is the comparison of complex simulations to observations. As many codes do not directly generate observables (e.g. hydrodynamic simulations), the last step in the modelling process is often a radiative-transfer treatment. For this step, the community relies increasingly on Monte Carlo radiative transfer due to the ease of implementation and scalability with computing power. We consider simulations in which the number of photon packets is Poisson distributed, while the weight assigned to a single photon packet follows any distribution of choice. We show how to estimate the statistical uncertainty of the sum of weights in each bin from the output of a single radiative-transfer simulation. Our Bayesian approach produces a posterior distribution that is valid for any number of packets in a bin, even zero packets, and is easy to implement in practice. Our analytic results for large number of packets show that we generalise existing methods that are valid only in limiting cases. The statistical problem considered here appears in identical form in a wide range of Monte Carlo simulations including particle physics and importance sampling. It is particularly powerful in extracting information when the available data are sparse or quantities are small.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Match affiliations and abstract with journal version
Prehistoric Multiple Linear Ditches and Pit Alignments on the route of the Oakham Bypass, Rutland
Creators: name: Mellor, Vicky
name: Allen, Carol S M
name: Bishop, Barry John
name: Hall, Rachael
name: Hogg, Alan G
name: Kitch, Jennifer
name: Precious, Barbara
name: Taylor, Gary
name: Taylor, Maisie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 81, 1-33
description: A multiple boundary ditch and double pit alignment were located on the route of the Oakham bypass construction which provided the opportunity for the investigation of these remains. These were extensively excavated in an attempt to clarify the function, significance and dating of the features. The results of the excavations are described and evidence for the dating, form, function and landscape setting of the monuments is discussed.
John Buck
Creators: name: Alliot, Malcolm
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 64, 57-61
description: No other document brought more fundamental changes to life in the Victorian towns than Edwin Chadwick's report of 1842 into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population. Its immediate impact in legislative terms was relatively slight. No new machinery was created to put into effect the gospel of sanitary reform. This was partly due to a widespread dislike of the sort of bureaucratic control that Chadwick had imprinted on the administration of the New Poor Law, eight years earlier. A central body of three commissioners with Chadwick as their secretary was responsible for seeing that the harsh, deterrent philosophy of the Act of 1834 was put into effect. At the local level elected Guardians of the Poor were obliged to enforce its ruthless logic upon those unfortunate enough to be destitute.
Structure of the Roper Resonance from Lattice QCD Constraints
Creators: name: Wu, Jia-jun
name: Leinweber, Derek B.
name: Liu, Zhan-wei
name: Thomas, Anthony W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two different descriptions of the existing pion-nucleon scattering data in the region of the Roper resonance are constructed. Both descriptions fit the experimental data very well. In one scenario the resonance is the result of strong rescattering between coupled meson-baryon channels, while in the other scenario, the resonance has a large bare-baryon (or quark-model like) component. The predictions of these two scenarios are compared with the latest lattice QCD simulation results in this channel. Consideration of the finite volume spectra, the manner in which the states are excited from the vacuum in lattice QCD and the composition of the states in Hamiltonian effective field theory enable a discrimination of these two different descriptions. We find the second scenario is not consistent with lattice QCD results whereas the first agrees with the lattice QCD constraints. In this scenario, the mass of the quark-model like state is approximately 2 GeV and in the finite volume of the lattice is dressed to place the first radial excitation of the nucleon at 1.9 GeV. Within this description, the infinite-volume Roper resonance is best described as a resonance generated dynamically through strongly coupled meson-baryon channels.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
A Stone 'Celtic' Human Head from Harby, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Cram, Leslie
name: Henig, Martin
name: Ambrose, Keith
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 79, 91-98
description: The Harby stone human head was found by Betty Holyland in 1984 in a garden in Harby, Leicestershire, on the southwest edge of the village, NGR SK 7449 3085. It was lying face down on the ground in a rockery when discovered. The previous owners of the house have no knowledge of the head. The land had been a field before the house was built in the 1930s. The head is crudely made in the local ironstone and is roughly ovoid in shape. The back is slightly rounded and, although not carved, displays chisel marks; in addition a hole has been bored diagonally into the back to a depth of 7 mm with diameter of 2.9 mm. This is weathered to the same extent as the rest of the head, contrasting with the recently cut surface on the left side of the mouth, thus suggesting that it dates back to the original manufacture of the head (illus. 1). This hole opens upwards so if it were used to hang the head on a nail or wooden peg a plug would have been needed. The sides are squared off with no features apart from rough chisel marks (illus. 2). The face on the front has ovoid, hollowed out eyes separated by a long flat nose, slightly raised above the level of the rest of the face. The mouth is likewise hollowed into the stone, and is slightly curved upward, apparently set in a grim smile.
Selection and implementation of integrated systems in Victorian public libraries
Creators: name: Silva, Marie Jacintha.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A late Roman coin hoard and burials, Garley's Field, Ketton, Rutland
Creators: name: Carlyle, S.
name: Anderson, Trevor
name: Curteis, Mark E
name: Friendship-Taylor, Roy
name: Hylton, Tora
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 82, 79-112
description: In March 2002, a Late Roman coin hoard and human remains were discovered during the mechanical excavation of an agricultural drainage sump in Garley's Field, Ketton, Rutland. Following an initial examination and assessment of the site by Northamptonshire Archaeology and officers of the Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service, funding was sought from English Heritage to carry out an archaeological investigation to excavate fully the disturbed burials and to examine the surrounding area for evidence of further archaeological remains. The programme of work, which was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology between August 2002 and January 2003, comprised remedial excavation and metal detecting, geophysical and fieldwalking surveys.
Biological and thermodynamic stabilization of lipid-based delivery systems through natural biopolymers; controlled release and molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Laein, Sara Safaeian
name: Katouzian, Iman
name: Mozafari, M. R.
name: Farnudiyan-Habibi, Amir
name: Akbarbaglu, Zahra
name: Shadan, Mohammad Reza
name: Sarabandi, Khashayar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Nowadays, the use of lipid-based nanocarriers for the targeted and controlled delivery of a variety of hydrophobic and hydrophilic bioactive-compounds and drugs has increased significantly. However, challenges such as thermodynamic instability, oxidation, and degradation of lipid membranes, as well as the unintended release of loaded compounds, have limited the use of these systems in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Therefore, the present study reviews the latest achievements in evaluating the characteristics, production methods, challenges, functional, and biological stabilization strategies of lipid-based carriers (including changes in formulation composition, structural modification, membrane-rigidity, and finally monolayer or multilayer coating with biopolymers) in different conditions, as well as molecular dynamics simulations. The scientists’ findings indicate the effect of natural biopolymers (such as chitosan, calcium alginate, pectin, dextran, xanthan, caseins, gelatin, whey-proteins, zein, and etc.) in modifying the external structure of lipid-based carriers, improving thermodynamic stability and resistance of membranes to physicochemical and mechanical tensions. However, depending on the type of bioactive compound as well as the design and production goals of the delivery-system, selecting the appropriate biopolymer has a significant impact on the stability of vesicles and maintaining the bioaccessibility of the loaded-compounds due to the stresses caused by the storage-conditions, formulation, processing and gastrointestinal tract.
A gentleman's club? : the role and function of the Victorian Parliamentary Library between 1851 and 1900
Creators: name: Sukkel, Lisa.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A Middle Iron Age Enclosure and a Romano-British Shrine Complex near Egleton, Rutland
Creators: name: Brown, Jim
name: Armitage, Philip L
name: Chapman, Andy
name: Chapman, Pat
name: Deighton, Karen
name: Hylton, Tora
name: Meadows, Ian
name: Timby, Jane
name: Wolframm-Murray, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 90, 67-102
description: Between May and July 2008, Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA Northampton) excavated two archaeological sites at Rutland Water prior to the construction of a new lagoon by Anglian Water, facilitating future wildlife conservation of the wetland habitat. The lagoon is located to the west of Rutland Water, near Egleton, Rutland. Site 1 was a large rectangular middle Iron Age enclosure of the fourth to first centuries BC, with a roundhouse located outside the eastern entrance. Site 2 was a Roman circular stone shrine constructed in the mid-second century AD within a rectangular enclosure. The building was partitioned inside, separating a ritual preparation area on one side from a hearth and votive pits in the central area. The shrine produced 218 coins, the crest from a bronze figurine helmet of the goddess Minerva or the god Mars, a lead curse tablet, pottery vessels and animal bone; all from floor and demolition deposits. At the end of the second century the outer enclosure was refurbished and a smaller enclosure containing a timber building was constructed to the north. The shrine was abandoned in the late fourth or early fifth centuries. Prior to its eventual collapse, the body of an adult male was buried at its core. The shrine was preserved beneath a former medieval headland at the edge of the open fields of Egleton.
Predicting Pulsar Scintillation from Refractive Plasma Sheets
Creators: name: Simard, Dana
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamic and secondary spectra of many pulsars show evidence for long-lived, aligned images of the pulsar that are stationary on a thin scattering sheet. One explanation for this phenomenon considers the effects of wave crests along sheets in the ionized interstellar medium, such as those due to Alfvén waves propagating along current sheets. If these sheets are closely aligned to our line-of-sight to the pulsar, high bending angles arise at the wave crests and a selection effect causes alignment of images produced at different crests, similar to grazing reflection off of a lake. Using geometric optics, we develop a simple parameterized model of these corrugated sheets that can be constrained with a single observation and that makes observable predictions for variations in the scintillation of the pulsar over time and frequency. This model reveals qualitative differences between lensing from overdense and underdense corrugated sheets: Only if the sheet is overdense compared to the surrounding interstellar medium can the lensed images be brighter than the line-of-sight image to the pulsar, and the faint lensed images are closer to the pulsar at higher frequencies if the sheet is underdense, but at lower frequencies if the sheet is overdense.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Visits to other places : a history of prison libraries in Victoria from 1836
Creators: name: Turnross, Norm.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Bosworth Crucifix
Creators: name: Ashdowne-Hill, John
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 78, 83-96
description: This article explores the provenance and transmission of the crucifix. In 1811 the first account was published of a fifteenth century gilt bronze crucifix, reportedly found in 1778 at the Bosworth battlefield site. However a footnote to this account speculated that the object might have been found near Husbands Bosworth rather than on the battlefield site. Subsequently the provenance of the Bosworth Crucifix has remained a matter of debate.
Causality inference in stochastic systems from neurons to currencies: Profiting from small sample size
Creators: name: Hoang, Danh-Tai
name: Song, Juyong
name: Periwal, Vipul
name: Jo, Junghyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Success in modeling complex phenomena such as human perception hinges critically on the availability of data and computational power. Significant progress has been made in modeling such phenomena using probabilistic methods, particularly in image analysis and speech recognition. Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) combined with Bayesian model selection is the basis of much of this progress, as MLE converges to the true model with copious data. In the sciences, large enough datasets are rarae aves, so alternatives to MLE must be developed for small sample size. We introduce a data-driven statistical physics approach to model inference based on minimizing a free energy of data and show superior model recovery for small sample sizes. We demonstrate coupling strength inference in non-equilibrium kinetic Ising models, including in the difficult large coupling variability regime, and show scaling to systems of arbitrary size. As applications, we infer a functional connectivity network in the salamander retina and a currency exchange rate network from time-series data of neuronal spiking and currency exchange rates, respectively. Accurate small sample size inference is critical for devising a profitable currency hedging strategy.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Videocassettes in public libraries in Melbourne : selection policies and maintenance procedures
Creators: name: Woodroffe, Debra.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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An Eighteenth Century Leicestershire Squarson
Creators: name: Aston, Nigel
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 60, 34-46
description: Whether the quaint expression squarson was first coined by Sydney Smith or (as seems less likely) bishop Samuel Wilberforce,' it strikingly emphasises the tight links which bound together landed society and the Anglican clergy of Georgian England. After 1700 the younger sons of peers and baronets entered the established Church in substantial numbers and were rewarded by generous preferment which made them financially independent of their elder brothers.
Imaging phase slip dynamics in micron-size superconducting rings
Creators: name: Polshyn, Hryhoriy
name: Naibert, Tyler R.
name: Budakian, Raffi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scanning probe technique for measuring the dynamics of individual fluxoid transitions in multiply connected superconducting structures. In these measurements, a small magnetic particle attached to the tip of a silicon cantilever is scanned over a micron-size superconducting ring fabricated from a thin aluminum film. We find that near the superconducting transition temperature of the aluminum, the dissipation and frequency of the cantilever changes significantly at particular locations where the tip-induced magnetic flux penetrating the ring causes the two lowest-energy fluxoid states to become nearly degenerate. In this regime, we show that changes in the cantilever frequency and dissipation are well-described by a stochastic resonance (SR) process, wherein small oscillations of the cantilever in the presence of thermally activated phase slips (TAPS) in the ring give rise to a dynamical force that modifies the mechanical properties of the cantilever. Using the SR model, we calculate the average fluctuation rate of the TAPS as a function of temperature over a 32-dB range in frequency, and we compare it to the Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin theory for TAPS in one-dimensional superconducting structures.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, version published in PRB
Yellow tea: more than turning green leaves to yellow
Creators: name: Feng, Xinyu
name: Yang, Shiyan
name: Pan, Yani
name: Zhou, Su
name: Ma, Shicheng
name: Ou, Cansong
name: Fan, Fangyuan
name: Gong, Shuying
name: Chen, Ping
name: Chu, Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Yellow tea (YT), a slightly-fermented tea originated from Ming Dynasty with distinctive “Three yellows,” mild-sweet smell, and mellow taste attributed to the unique yellowing process. Based on current literature and our previous work, we aim to comprehensively illustrate the key processing procedures, characteristic chemical compounds, health benefits and applications, as well as the interlocking relationships among them. Yellowing is the most vital procedure anchored on the organoleptic quality, characteristic chemical components, and bioactivities of YT, which is influenced by temperature, moisture content, duration, and ventilation conditions. Pheophorbides, carotenoids, thearubigins and theabrownins are the major pigments contributing to the “three yellows” appearance. Alcohols, such as terpinol and nerol, are attributed to the refreshing and sweet aroma of bud and small-leaf YT, while heterocyclics and aromatics forming during roasting result in the crispy rice-like large-leaf YT. Hygrothermal effects and enzymatic reactions during yellowing result in the decline of astringent substances. Meanwhile, multiple bioactive compounds such as catechins, ellagitannins, and vitexin, endow YT with antioxidant, anti-metabolic syndrome, anti-cancer, gut microbiota regulation, and organ injury protection effects. Future studies focusing on the standard yellowing process technology, quality evaluation system, and functional factors and mechanisms, possible orientations, and perspectives are guaranteed.
Multi-scale model for disordered hybrid perovskites: the concept of organic cation pair modes
Creators: name: Li, Jingrui
name: Järvi, Jari
name: Rinke, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the properties of the prototype hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^{}\text{PbI}_3^{}$ using relativistic density functional theory (DFT). For our analysis we introduce the concept of $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ "pair modes", that is, characteristic relative orientations of two neighboring $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cations. In our previous work [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{94}, 045201 (2016)] we identified two preferential orientations that a single $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cation adopts in a unit cell. The total number of relevant pairs can be reduced from the resulting 196 combinations to only 25 by applying symmetry operations. DFT results of several $2\!\times\!2\!\times\!2$ supercell models reveal the dependence of the total energy, band gap and band structure on the distribution of $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cations and the pair modes. We have then analyzed the pair-mode distribution of a series of $4\!\times\!4\!\times\!4$ supercell models with disordered $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cations. Our results show that diagonally-oriented $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cations are rare in optimized $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^{}\text{PbI}_3^{}$ supercell structures. In the prevailing pair modes, the $\text{C--N}$ bonds of the two neighboring $\text{CH}_3^{}\text{NH}_3^+$ cations are aligned approximately vertically. Furthermore, we fit the coefficients of a pair-mode expansion to our supercell DFT reference structures. The pair-mode model can then be used to quickly estimate the energies of disordered perovskite structures. Our pair-mode concept provides combined atomistic-statistical insight into disordered structures in bulk hybrid perovskite materials.
description: 23 pages (including a manuscript of 13 pages and a supplemental material of 10 pages); 11 figures and 5 tables in the manuscript; 4 figures in the supplemental material
A Middle to Late Saxon Cemetery at Rothley, The Grange
Creators: name: Upson-Smith, Tim
name: Atkins, Rob
name: Blinkhorn, Paul W
name: Chapman, Andy
name: Chapman, Pat
name: Deighton, Karen
name: Hylton, Tora
name: Inskip, Sarah
name: Lord-Hart, Wallis
name: Timby, Jane
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 90, 103-140
description: Archaeological excavation at Rothley, north of the present parish church and its churchyard, recovered the burials of up to 149 individuals at least partly in situ, along with further disarticulated remains. Standing remains of Roman buildings, probably part of a former villa complex, may have still been extant when burial commenced, perhaps as early as the late seventh century and certainly by the early to mid-eighth century - as established by radiocarbon dating. The cemetery had probably been attached to an undocumented minster, presumably the pre-cursor to the existing church. Many of the burials had been heavily disturbed, with extensive deposits of reburied and disarticulated bone. There was a single well-defined primary row of burials, further partial rows and a few outliers. The numerous gaps appear to be genuine and not solely a result of later disturbance. Burial in this area appears to have ceased by around the end of the tenth century, after which there has been little activity within the site.
Cultural activities for adults in Melbourne public libraries
Creators: name: Casamento, Jennifer N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Collections of Australian music recordings in Melbourne public libraries
Creators: name: Addison-Smith, Dorothy Jane.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Digging up the Past: Community Test-Pit Excavations with Charnwood Roots
Creators: name: Attard, Julie
name: Morris, Mathew G R
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 92, 147-182
description: Between 2014 and 2016, three community digs were carried out in Charnwood Forest as part of the Charnwood Roots Project to investigate the origins and development of the villages of Anstey, Whitwick and Rothley. Eighty-nine test-pits were excavated, with more than 450 volunteers taking part. The excavations uncovered datable artefacts from the Mesolithic to Modern periods. The recovery of artefacts suggests that the test-pitting methodology was an effective way of examining currently occupied rural settlements (CORS). However, there were notably fewer Saxo-Norman and medieval pottery finds than expected. A number of reasons for these anomalies are explored in this paper, the most compelling of which is that the settlements might have been more dispersed during the medieval period than had been thought previously, beginning perhaps as clusters of hamlets and later developing as bifocal villages. A comparison of the results of the test-pitting programme, with documentary evidence from which numbers of households in each village can be estimated, has allowed a more nuanced picture to be presented than would be possible from the archaeological evidence alone. The study highlights both the value of cross-disciplinary investigations of rural settlements and the need for more test-pitting, both within each of the villages and across the county, to help resolve some of the many new questions it raises.
The Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra in genus zero and the Kashiwara-Vergne problem
Creators: name: Alekseev, Anton
name: Kawazumi, Nariya
name: Kuno, Yusuke
name: Naef, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we describe a surprising link between the theory of the Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra on surfaces of genus zero and the Kashiwara-Vergne (KV) problem in Lie theory. Let $Σ$ be an oriented 2-dimensional manifold with non-empty boundary and $\mathbb{K}$ a field of characteristic zero. The Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra is defined by the Goldman bracket $\{ -,- \}$ and Turaev cobracket $δ$ on the $\mathbb{K}$-span of homotopy classes of free loops on $Σ$. Applying an expansion $θ: \mathbb{K}π\to \mathbb{K}\langle x_1, \dots, x_n \rangle$ yields an algebraic description of the operations $\{ -,- \}$ and $δ$ in terms of non-commutative variables $x_1, \dots, x_n$. If $Σ$ is a surface of genus $g=0$ the lowest degree parts $\{ -,- \}_{-1}$ and $δ_{-1}$ are canonically defined (and independent of $θ$). They define a Lie bialgebra structure on the space of cyclic words which was introduced and studied by T. Schedler. It was conjectured by the second and the third authors that one can define an expansion $θ$ such that $\{ -,- \}=\{ -,- \}_{-1}$ and $δ=δ_{-1}$. The main result of this paper states that for surfaces of genus zero constructing such an expansion is essentially equivalent to the KV problem. G. Massuyeau constructed such expansions using the Kontsevich integral. In order to prove this result, we show that the Turaev cobracket $δ$ can be constructed in terms of the double bracket (upgrading the Goldman bracket) and the non-commutative divergence cocycle which plays the central role in the KV theory. Among other things, this observation gives a new topological interpretation of the KV problem and allows to extend it to surfaces with arbitrary number of boundary components (and of arbitrary genus, see [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 355 (2017), 123--127]).
description: 49 pages, 4 figures
Post-war immigrants in Denmark and the public library response
Creators: name: Bird, Kirsten.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dynamics of an ultra-strongly-coupled system interacting with a driven nonlinear resonator
Creators: name: Endo, Suguru
name: Matsuzaki, Yuichiro
name: Kakuyanagi, Kosuke
name: Saito, Shiro
name: Lambert, Neill
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the ultra-strong coupling regime of a light-matter system, the ground state exhibits non-trivial entanglement between the atom and photons. For the purposes of exploring the measurement and control of this ground state, here we analyze the dynamics of such an ultra-strongly-coupled system interacting with a driven nonlinear resonator acting as a measurement apparatus. Interestingly, although the coupling between the atom and the nonlinear resonator is much smaller than the typical energy scales of the ultra-strongly-coupled system, we show that we can generate a strong correlation between the nonlinear resonator and the light-matter system. A subsequent coarse- grained measurement on the nonlinear resonator significantly affects the light-matter system, and the phase of the light changes depending on the measurement results. Also, we investigate the conditions for when the nonlinear resonator can be entangled with the ultra-strongly coupled system, which is the mechanism that allows us to project the ground state of the ultra-strongly coupled system into a non-energy eigenstate.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Probabilistic Mid- and Long-Term Electricity Price Forecasting
Creators: name: Ziel, Florian
name: Steinert, Rick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: I.5.1; J.4; J.2; J.1; I.2.6; I.6.3
subject: 62P05, 62P20, 62P12, 91G70, 62J07

description: The liberalization of electricity markets and the development of renewable energy sources has led to new challenges for decision makers. These challenges are accompanied by an increasing uncertainty about future electricity price movements. The increasing amount of papers, which aim to model and predict electricity prices for a short period of time provided new opportunities for market participants. However, the electricity price literature seem to be very scarce on the issue of medium- to long-term price forecasting, which is mandatory for investment and political decisions. Our paper closes this gap by introducing a new approach to simulate electricity prices with hourly resolution for several months up to three years. Considering the uncertainty of future events we are able to provide probabilistic forecasts which are able to detect probabilities for price spikes even in the long-run. As market we decided to use the EPEX day-ahead electricity market for Germany and Austria. Our model extends the X-Model which mainly utilizes the sale and purchase curve for electricity day-ahead auctions. By applying our procedure we are able to give probabilities for the due to the EEG practical relevant event of six consecutive hours of negative prices. We find that using the supply and demand curve based model in the long-run yields realistic patterns for the time series of electricity prices and leads to promising results considering common error measures.
description: accepted for: Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
The Old Town of Leicester
Creators: name: B McDonald, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 13, 1-72
description: The old Town Hall of Leicester, a quaint and composite building of various dates, stands a little to the west of St. Martin's church, in a narrow street called Town Hall Lane. The earliest part of it was erected by the Corpus Christi gild, an important social-religious fraternity which, from the middle of the fourteenth century until its dissolution, was closely, though never officially, connected with the local government of Leicester. Exactly what this association meant, and why the hall eventually came to be purchased by the town in a curiously roundabout way, cannot be understood without some knowledge of the borough constitution between the Norman Conquest and the Reformation. We therefore propose to give, as accurately as we can in a brief summary, such an account of the development of the chief municipal institutions, in the course of that long period, as will make the story of the old hall intelligible.
Saxon Burials in West Langton Parish, Leicestershire: A Time Team Investigation
Creators: name: Powell, Andrew
name: Schuster, J�Rn
name: McKinley, Jacqueline
name: Mepham, Lorraine
name: Perry, Gareth
name: Coller, Rob
name: James, S
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 92, 65-96
description: An archaeological evaluation on land between Foxton and West Langton, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire, located up to seven Anglo-Saxon inhumation graves, representing part of a larger cemetery of late fifth and sixth century date. Whilst little human bone survived, there was also evidence for cremation burial in the cemetery. The grave goods, which include beads, brooches and other pieces of metalwork, suggest that three of the graves contained female burials, and one contained a dual female and male burial, the male being buried with a shield. A further inhumation grave, within the area of a Roman villa complex about 500m to the north, contained a Roman coin, although the previous finding of Anglo-Saxon pottery and metalwork at this location could indicate a second Anglo-Saxon burial ground. This grave is, therefore, of uncertain date.
Public hospitals' inactive records : a resource at risk
Creators: name: Kearsey, Irene.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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King Richard's Grave in Leicester
Creators: name: Baldwin, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 60, 21-24
description: Unlike his brother and predecessor, King Edward IV, and his immediate successor, King Henry VII, whose magnificent sepulchres may still be seen in St George's Chapel, Windsor, and Westminster Abbey respectively, King Richard III is unique among later medieval English monarchs in lying in an unmarked and forgotten grave. Yet in spite of, or perhaps because of, his subsequent notoriety, the possibility of finding a physical link with the last of the Plantaganets has drawn generations of curious visitors to Leicester, the town from which he imperiously marched to Bosworth Field and to which his remains were afterwards ignominiously returned. The stories which surround the fate of the King's body, and of the tomb which enclosed it, are legion; and the quincentenary of the battle affords an opportunity to re-examine the available evidence, perhaps more fully than has been possible to date.
Richard III: Back to the Future
Creators: name: Baldwin, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 87, 7-8
description: David Baldwin in 1986 I wrote an article for this journal entitled 'King Richard's Grave in Leicester' (Transactions lX), in which I argued that he was still buried on the site of the Grey friary. I dismissed the story that his corpse had been disinterred and thrown into the River Soar at the dissolution, and expressed the hope that at some time in the twenty-first century an excavator may yet reveal the slight remains of this famous monarch. I thought then that any discovery would have to await the substantial redevelopment of the northern part of the Grey Friars area, but events have moved more rapidly than anyone could have anticipated. Only rarely is a long-standing historical mystery genuinely solved, and I am delighted to have contributed to this in some small way.
Quasi-Steady Model of a Pumping Kite Power System
Creators: name: van der Vlugt, Rolf
name: Bley, Anna
name: Noom, Michael
name: Schmehl, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The traction force of a kite can be used to drive a cyclic motion for extracting wind energy from the atmosphere. This paper presents a novel quasi-steady modelling framework for predicting the power generated over a full pumping cycle. The cycle is divided into traction, retraction and transition phases, each described by an individual set of analytic equations. The effect of gravity on the airborne system components is included in the framework. A trade-off is made between modelling accuracy and computation speed such that the model is specifically useful for system optimisation and scaling in economic feasibility studies. Simulation results are compared to experimental measurements of a 20 kW kite power system operated up to a tether length of 720 m. Simulation and experiment agree reasonably well, both for moderate and for strong wind conditions, indicating that the effect of gravity has to be taken into account for a predictive performance simulation.
Collection development in college and university libraries in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Pagolu, John Kasari.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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MPEC 2025-G126 : 2015 LH14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Rediscovery of Richard III - A Personal View
Creators: name: Baldwin, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 89, 0-0
description: It is now (August 2015) three years since Richard III's skeleton was found on the site of the Grey Friary in Leicester, and well over two since the memorable press conference at the University which confirmed that the remains were his. So many books have been written about the discovery that another summary of the dig and the subsequent analyses would be superfluous; but it may be worth stepping back for a moment to reassess our view of Richard and what has happened since those momentous days in 2012 and 2013.
High-order harmonic generation from highly-excited states in acetylene
Creators: name: Mulholland, Peter
name: Dundas, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned acetylene molecules interacting with mid infra-red (IR), linearly polarized laser pulses is studied theoretically using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are described using time-dependent density functional theory while the ions are treated classically. We find that for molecules aligned perpendicular to the laser polarization axis, HHG arises from the highest-occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) while for molecules aligned along the laser polarization axis, HHG is dominated by the HOMO-1. In the parallel orientation we observe a double plateau with an inner plateau that is produced by ionization from and recombination back to an autoionizing state. Two pieces of evidence support this idea. Firstly, by choosing a suitably tuned vacuum ultraviolet pump pulse that directly excites the autoionizing state we observe a dramatic enhancement of all harmonics in the inner plateau. Secondly, in certain circumstances, the position of the inner plateau cut-off does not agree with the classical three-step model. We show that this discrepancy can be understood in terms of a minimum in the dipole recombination matrix element from the continuum to the autoionizing state. As far as we are aware, this represents the first observation of harmonic enhancement over a wide range of frequencies arising from autoionizing states in molecules.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures; discussion extended on referees' recommendations, extra figures added, and explanation of cutoff position revised
The role of the library in the reading programme of the primary school
Creators: name: Bult, Anne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A policy of gradualness : Leigh Scott and the University of Melbourne Library 1926-1953
Creators: name: Edwards, Lucy.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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History of the Deserted Medieval Village of Whittington, Ratby
Creators: name: Ball, Michael
name: Harwood, Doug
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 84, 189-212
description: The timing and causes of the desertion of Whittington are still unknown, as is its precise location within the historic parish of Ratby. This paper considers the roles played in its apparent abandonment by fourteenth-century plagues and monastic land acquisition. It concludes that there may have been a small monastic grange in Whittington, owned by Ulverscroft Priory, from its association with the Priory at Charley. The final desertion probably occurred in the late sixteenth century as a result of the privatisation of its fields and the loss of manorial tenancy rights. The balance of evidence suggests that Whittington was a small hamlet probably located around the present site of Whittington Grange Farm.