cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mercury-T: A new code to study tidally evolving multi-planet systems. Applications to Kepler-62
Creators: name: Bolmont, Emeline
name: Raymond, Sean N.
name: Leconte, Jeremy
name: Hersant, Franck
name: Correia, Alexandre C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large proportion of observed planetary systems contain several planets in a compact orbital configuration, and often harbor at least one close-in object. These systems are then most likely tidally evolving. We investigate how the effects of planet-planet interactions influence the tidal evolution of planets. We introduce for that purpose a new open-source addition to the Mercury N-body code, Mercury-T, which takes into account tides, general relativity and the effect of rotation-induced flattening in order to simulate the dynamical and tidal evolution of multi-planet systems. It uses a standard equilibrium tidal model, the constant time lag model. Besides, the evolution of the radius of several host bodies has been implemented (brown dwarfs, M-dwarfs of mass $0.1~M_\odot$, Sun-like stars, Jupiter). We validate the new code by comparing its output for one-planet systems to the secular equations results. We find that this code does respect the conservation of total angular momentum. We applied this new tool to the planetary system Kepler-62. We find that tides influence the stability of the system in some cases. We also show that while the four inner planets of the systems are likely to have slow rotation rates and small obliquities, the fifth planet could have a fast rotation rate and a high obliquity. This means that the two habitable zone planets of this system, Kepler-62e ad f are likely to have very different climate features, and this of course would influence their potential at hosting surface liquid water.
description: A&A 583, A116 (2015). 15 pages, 13 figures... Code available at: http://www.emelinebolmont.com/
Atmospheric Thematic Services Release #1 (A1/A2/A3) software
Creators: name: Ntouskos, Makis
name: Karantzalos, Konstantinos
name: Chondros, Nikos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Software
Release

description: This deliverable presents the list of the thematic atmosheric services of WP3 released by NEANIAS project in its first release cycle, due in M12 of the project.
title: Speech given by Dr. G. Herzberg at dinner in his honour at Government House, Ottawa, Tuesday, 30 November, 1971
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Government of Canada
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: biography
subject: biographie

description: typed version of speech
description: version dactylographiée du discours
description: The Gerhard Herzberg fonds is held at the NRC Archives. Contact NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca for information about access.
description: Le fonds Gerhard Herzberg est conservé aux Archives du CNRC. Contactez NRC.DR-DN.CNRC@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca pour des informations sur l'accès.
Origins of Common Neural Inputs to Different Compartments of the Extensor Digitorum Communis Muscle
Creators: name: Hu, Xiaogang
name: Shin, Henry
name: Dai, Chenyun
name: Davis, Bradley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The extensor digitorum communis (EDC) is a multi-compartment muscle that allows dexterous extension of the four digits. However, the level of common input shared across different compartments of this muscle is not well understood. We seek to systematically characterize the common and independent neural input, originated from different levels of the central nervous system, to the different compartments. A motor unit (MU) coherence analysis was used to capture the different sources of common and independent input, by quantifying the coherence of MU discharge between different compartments. The MU activities were obtained from decomposition of surface electromyogram recordings. Our results showed that the MU coherence across different muscle compartments accounted for only a small proportion (<20%) of the total input in the alpha (5-12 Hz) and beta (15-30 Hz) bands, but was a major driver (>60%) in the delta (1-4 Hz) band. Additionally, cross-compartment coherence between the middle and ring-little fingers tended to be higher as compared with other finger combinations. Overall, the common input shared across different fingers are found to be at low to moderate levels, in comparison with the total input, which allows dexterous control of individual digits with some degree of coordinated control of multiple digits.
FAIRplus use case IMI EUbOPEN: Open by design saves time
Creators: name: Blackshaw, James
name: Boutsma, Erwin
name: Edfeldt, Kristina
name: Edwards, Aled
name: Emam, Ibrahim
name: Felix, Eloy
name: Ferreira, Lucas Martins
name: Gaulton, Anna
name: Giessmann, Robert
name: Hartley, Matthew
name: Juty, Nick
name: Knapp, Stefan
name: Leach, Andrew
name: Marsden, Brian
name: Mendez, David
name: Montel, Florian
name: Mueller-Knapp, Susanne
name: Reilly, Dorothy
name: Rocca-Serra, Philippe
name: Sarakans, Ugis
name: Tjaden, Amelie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIRplus
EUbOPEN
protein
Innovative Medicines Initiative
EFPIA
FAIRdata

description: EUbOPEN is an international consortium of 22 partners from academia and industry, funded by IMI/IHI. The goal of EUbOPEN is to create a library of compounds binding to 1,000 proteins. These ~5,000 compounds will be well characterized for their ability to interact with human proteins within their native environment, the cell. EUbOPEN is fully committed to Open Science and thus aims to publish all its generated data open and fully accessible to everyone. Therefore, the EUbOPEN project has been working with experts from the FAIRplus project from the start. The IMI FAIRplus project aims to develop tools and guidelines for making life science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). In the past year, the so-called ‘squad teams’ from FAIRplus, consisting of experts working in universities and pharmaceutical companies, have been actively working to FAIRify data sets from large IMI projects such as EUbOPEN, APPROACH, eTOX, and COMBINE. The developed tools and methods are subsequently added as ‘recipes’ to the FAIR Cookbook, enabling projects and companies with similar FAIR data challenges to apply this consolidated know-how to increase the FAIRness of their data.
Giant Gain Enhancement in Surface-Confined Resonant Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
Creators: name: Dostart, Nathan
name: Kim, Seunghwi
name: Bahl, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion that Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is primarily defined by bulk material properties has been overturned by recent work on nanoscale waveguides. It is now understood that boundary forces of radiation pressure and electrostriction appearing in such highly confined waveguides can make a significant contribution to the Brillouin gain. Here, this concept is extended to show that gain enhancement does not require nanoscale or subwavelength features, but generally appears where optical and acoustic fields are simultaneously confined near a free surface or material interface. This situation routinely occurs in whispering gallery resonators (WGRs), making gain enhancements much more accessible than previously thought. To illustrate this concept, the first full-vectorial analytic model for SBS in WGRs is developed, including optical boundary forces, and the SBS gain in common silica WGR geometries is computationally evaluated. These results predict that gains $10^4$ times greater than the predictions of scalar theory may appear in WGRs even in the 100 um size range. Further, trapezoidal cross-section microdisks can exhibit very large SBS gains approaching $10^2$ m$^{-1}$W$^{-1}$. With resonant amplification included, extreme gains on the order of $10^{12}$ m$^{-1}$W$^{-1}$ may be realized, which is $10^8$ times greater than the highest predicted gains in linear waveguide systems.
description: 31 pages, 12 figures
EXFOR-based simultaneous evaluation for fast neutron-induced fission cross section of thorium-232
Creators: name: Devi, Vidya
name: Otuka, Naohiko
name: Ganesan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $^{232}$Th neutron-induced fission cross section was evaluated from 500 keV to 200 MeV. The experimental $^{232}$Th fission cross sections and their ratios to the $^{235,238}$U fission cross sections in the EXFOR library were reviewed and analysed by the least-squares method. The newly published $^{232}$Th/$^{235}$U fission cross section ratios from the time-of-flight measurements at the CERN n_TOF and CSNS Back-n facilities were compiled in EXFOR. Additional simultaneous evaluation was performed by including the experimental $^{233,238}$U and $^{239,240,241}$Pu fission cross sections and their ratios. The new evaluation provides the $^{232}$Th fission cross section systematically lower than the JENDL-5 cross section. The reduction is 4% in the plateau region between 2 and 6 MeV and more significant in the subthreshold fission region. The present evaluation reduces the $^{232}$Th fission cross section averaged over the $^{252}$Cf spontaneous fission neutron spectrum from the JENDL-5 evaluation by 4%, which is closer to the other general purpose libraries but underestimates Grundl et al's measurement by 11%.
description: Submitted to Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Experimentation, Authority and Situation in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Creators: name: McNicol, Emma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In this thesis I read Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex through the lens of her early (and only recently published) writing on Claude Bernard’s experimental approach. In the 1924 essay “Analysis of Claude Bernard’s Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine,” Beauvoir endorses Bernard’s critique of “theoretical authority” and certain elements of his experimental approach. The Second Sex redeploys this early criticism of theoretical authority and valorisation of experimentation to produce a critique of patriarchal authority. Throughout The Second Sex, Beauvoir develops distinct experimental literary-philosophical strategies, namely a “proliferation” and “reintroduction” of perspectives, ideas and sources. She uses these strategies to expose the ways in which patriarchal traditions construct and maintain essentialist definitions of women. For Beauvoir, these traditions transmit oppressive definitions of women through two distinct though interrelated levels: (1) through “mythic” inscriptions of femininity in literary and philosophical canons; and (2) through essentialist determinations of women’s social role (women’s “situation”). In tracing this trajectory, this thesis contributes to contemporary scholarly attempts to excavate the distinctness of Beauvoir’s philosophical enterprise.
title: Hyperintense brain lesions on T1-weighted sequences in children
Creators: name: Adarve Castro, Antonio
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: We present the case of a newborn who presented multiple melanocytic nevi on his skin (scalp, trunk, and limbs) from birth. Given these findings, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and spine was performed during his first month of life.

description: 5 years, male
Note on star-triangle equivalence in conducting networks
Creators: name: Paal, E.
name: Umbleja, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the discrete Poisson equations the star-triangle (external) equivalence in conducting networks is considered and the Kennelly famous transformation formulae [Kennelly A E 1899 Electrical World and Engineer 34, 413] are explicitly restated.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX2e
Outcome of Sentinel Hospital-based and CDC-based ART Service Delivery: A Prospective Open Cohort of People Living with HIV in China
Creators: name: Smith, Kumi M.
name: McCann, Chase D.
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Zhao, Jinmin
name: Lan, Yun
name: Hu, Fengyu
name: Ning, Chuanyi
name: Cai, Weiping
name: Liang, Hao
name: Zhang, Fuchun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The primary objective of this study was to obtain insights into the outcomes of people living with HIV who accessed services through HIV/AIDS sentinel hospital-based and ART service delivery in China. Post-hoc analyses of an open cohort from an observational database of 22 qualified HIV/AIDS sentinel hospital-based and two CDC-based drug delivery facilities (DDFs) in Guangdong Province was completed. Linkage to care, mortality and survival rates were calculated according to WHO criteria. 12,966 individuals received ART from HIV/AIDS sentinel hospitals and 1,919 from DDFs, with linkage to care rates of 80.7% and 79.9%, respectively (P > 0.05). Retention rates were 94.1% and 84.0% in sentinel hospitals and DDFs, respectively (P < 0.01). Excess mortality was 1.4 deaths/100 person-years (95% CI: 1.1, 1.8) in DDFs compared to 0.4 deaths/100 person-years (95% CI: 0.3, 0.5) in hospitals (P < 0.01). A Cox-regression analysis revealed that mortality was much higher in patients receiving ART from the DDFs than sentinel hospitals, with an adjusted HR of 3.3 (95% CI: 2.3, 4.6). A crude HR of treatment termination in DDFs was 7.5 fold higher (95% CI: 6.3, 9.0) compared to sentinel hospitals. HIV/AIDS sentinel hospital had better retention, and substantially lower mortality compared to DDFs.
A Detailed Study of Bogomol'nyi Equations in Two-Dimensional Generalized Maxwell-Higgs Model Using \textit{On-Shell} Method
Creators: name: Atmaja, Ardian Nata
name: Ramadhan, Handhika Satrio
name: da Hora, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a recent {\it on-shell} Bogomol'nyi method, developed in~\cite{Atmaja:2014fha}, to construct Bogomol'nyi equations of the two-dimensional generalized Maxwell-Higgs model~\cite{Bazeia:2012uc}. The formalism can generate a large class of Bogomol'nyi equations parametrized by a constant $C_0$. The resulting equations are classified into two types, determined by $C_0=0$ and $C_0\neq0$. We identify that the ones obtained by Bazeia {\it et al}~\cite{Bazeia:2012uc} are of the type $C_0=0$. We also reveal, as in the case of ordinary vortex, that this theory does not admit Bogomol'nyi equations in the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield limit in its spectrum. However, when the vacuum energy is lifted up by adding some constant to the energy density then the existence of such equation is possible. Another possibility whose energy is equal to the vacuum is also discussed in brief. As a future of the \textit{on-shell} method, we find another new Bogomol'nyi equations, for $C_0\neq0$, which are related to a non-trivial function defined as a difference between energy density of potential term of the scalar field and kinetic term of the gauge field.
description: draft, 18 pages
Looking for Lola: Spanish women and historical memory
Creators: name: Baker, Sally Nena Hayward
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores the life and death of Dolores García-­Negrete (1886-­1940) and how she has been remembered. It seeks to explain her growth from a devout Catholic woman, wife and mother to the political activist for which she was arrested, tried and executed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The thesis situates her life within the context of the social and political transformations that impacted on women’s lives in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that the changes to acceptable social roles for women made possible her late, public transformation into a vociferous defender of the Second Spanish Republic. The thesis further argues that her execution was the result of her transgression of the regressive gender norms espoused by the victorious Franco regime (1939-­1975).
Work and utopia in the fiction of Martin Wickramasinghe and James Goonewardene
Creators: name: Senanayake, Chathurika Jeevani
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis analyses the relationship between work and utopia in a twofold manner: how fulfilment is achieved through work in a material sense and how happiness is attained in a spiritual sense as a result of the comparative absence of work. The city-village binary is a prominent factor here as the city is generally associated with the first kind of utopia while the village is associated with the latter. My focus is the Sri Lankan Sinhala Buddhist context and the primary texts under analysis are selected Sinhala novels of Martin Wickramasinghe and selected English fiction of James Goonewardene. Theories of the pastoral, Arcadia, utopia, the tourist gaze and works of postcolonial theorists such as Lyman Tower Sargent and Edward Said form the theoretical basis of this study. The two novelists under investigation are from different cultural and social backgrounds and have written in different languages. Such differences in subject position have affected their vision of utopia in relation to work and this disparity is expressed in their writing. The changing social, economic and political situation of Sri Lanka in which they wrote and which they depicted, in its development from a British colony to an independent nation, has also had a great impact on the vision of these authors. The changing social order from a feudal agrarian society in the village to a capitalist work system in the city is discussed in this thesis in relation to its depiction in the fiction of these authors. The portrayal of the feminist movement in Sri Lanka and its impact on the place of women in relation to work and utopia in these novels, too, is analysed in this study.
p32 heterozygosity protects against age- and diet-induced obesity by increasing energy expenditure
Creators: name: Liu, Yong
name: Zhang, Yanping
name: Jin, Aiwen
name: Itahana, Koji
name: Graves, Lee M.
name: Leslie, Patrick L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Obesity is increasing in prevalence and has become a global public health problem. The main cause of obesity is a perturbation in energy homeostasis, whereby energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. Although mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to the deregulation of energy homeostasis, the precise mechanism is poorly understood. Here, we identify mitochondrial p32 (also known as C1QBP) as an important regulator of lipid homeostasis that regulates both aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism. We show that while whole-body deletion of the p32 results in an embryonic lethal phenotype, mice heterozygous for p32 are resistant to age- and high-fat diet-induced ailments, including obesity, hyperglycemia, and hepatosteatosis. Notably, p32 +/- mice are apparently healthy, demonstrate an increased lean-to-fat ratio, and show dramatically improved insulin sensitivity despite prolonged high-fat diet feeding. The p32 +/- mice show increased oxygen consumption and heat production, indicating that they expend more energy. Our analysis revealed that haploinsufficiency for p32 impairs glucose oxidation, which results in a compensatory increase in fatty acid oxidation and glycolysis. These metabolic alterations increase both aerobic and anaerobic energy expenditure. Collectively, our data show that p32 plays a critical role in energy homeostasis and represents a potential novel target for the development of anti-obesity drugs.
Being moved: the transformative power of butoh: towards an articulation of an aesthetics of butoh
Creators: name: Smith, Helen Suzanne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis sets out to uncover the core elements that constitute butoh and identify the features that distinguish it from other forms of dance. It begins from the premise that underlying all butoh practice are the three elements of transformation, ‘being moved’, and the empty body. Transformation relates to the metamorphosis of the dancer’s body, as well as the transformation of the space and the transformation of the spectators’ experience, as a consequence of being co-present in the performance. ‘Being moved’ as it relates to butoh refers to the way in which the dancers are not moving of their own free will but are instead ‘danced’ by internal and external forces, driven by image. The empty body, one full of potential, is the starting point for dance. The work also aims to make a contribution to the field of ‘butoh as practice’. It focuses on a training methodology that evolved over the course of two years and a creative development leading to a self-devised butoh performance with an ensemble of Australian women. A significant part of this thesis is an analysis of the performance, incorporating written feedback from the spectators. Alongside this, I also refer to a book by Erika Fischer-Lichte (2008) who introduces a “new aesthetics of the performative”. Her articulation of performance as event provides a useful discourse for talking about butoh. The starting point of this body of work was a three-year period of study with several esteemed butoh artists in Tokyo, Japan from 2007 to 2010. To try to discover the commonalities amidst such diverse styles of teaching and performance was the initial impetus for this investigation.
Dvoretzky's Theorem and the Complexity of Entanglement Detection
Creators: name: Aubrun, Guillaume
name: Szarek, Stanislaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P40, 46B07

description: The well-known Horodecki criterion asserts that a state $ρ$ on $\mathbf{C}^d \otimes \mathbf{C}^d$ is entangled if and only if there exists a positive map $Φ: \mathsf{M}_d \to \mathsf{M}_d$ such that the operator $(Φ\otimes \mathrm{Id})(ρ)$ is not positive semi-definite. We show that the number of such maps needed to detect all the robustly entangled states (i.e., states $ρ$ which remain entangled even in the presence of substantial randomizing noise) exceeds $\exp(c d^3 / \log d)$. The proof is based on the 1977 inequality of Figiel--Lindenstrauss--Milman, which ultimately relies on Dvoretzky's theorem about almost spherical sections of convex bodies. We interpret that inequality as a statement about approximability of convex bodies by polytopes with few vertices or with few faces and apply it to the study of fine properties of the set of quantum states and that of separable states. Our results can be thought of as geometrical manifestations of the complexity of entanglement detection.
description: Accepted talk in QIP'16. V2: added a variant of the main theorem showing that very highly entangled states are already hard to detect. V3: published version; improved presentation, results unchanged
A performer’s analysis of Franko’s Cadenza to Mozart’s Violin concerto No.3 in G major, K.216, with specific reference to the classic ideals detailed in Türk’s treatise
Creators: name: White, Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This exegesis aims to establish a new set of criteria for the justifiable selection of a cadenza to be performed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (1775). Having not composed cadenzas for any of his five Violin Concertos, any performer of this work is required to select, improvise, or compose an appropriate cadenza, not written by Mozart himself, to implement into their performance. Having provided cadenzas for many of his piano concertos, this research will analyse these extant cadenzas to establish Mozart’s composition style. In conjunction with these analyses, and the available literature surrounding Mozart and his cadenzas, a new set of criteria will be established. Encompassing length, thematic treatment, integration, structure, virtuosity, and tempo, this selection criteria will be purposed to substantiate Sam Franko’s cadenza as a justifiable selection for its inclusion into the performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Establishing Franko’s cadenza as a justifiable selection, the study will determine the methods by which the performer can further enhance Franko’s composition, to better reflect the determined criteria. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Observation of Two-Dimensional Bulk Electronic States in a Superconducting Topological Insulator Heterostructure Cux(PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6: Implications for Unconventional Superconductivity
Creators: name: Nakayama, K.
name: Kimizuka, H.
name: Tanaka, Y.
name: Sato, T.
name: Souma, S.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Sasaki, Satoshi
name: Segawa, Kouji
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on Cux(PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6 (CPSBS; x = 1.47), a superconductor derived from a topological insulator heterostructure, to elucidate the electronic states relevant to the occurrence of possible unconventional superconductivity. Upon Cu intercalation into the parent compound (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6, we observed a distinct energy shift of the bulk conduction band due to electron doping. Photon-energy dependent ARPES measurements of CPSBS revealed that the observed bulk band forms a cylindrical electronlike Fermi surface at the Brillouin-zone center. The two-dimensional nature of the bulk electronic states suggests the occurrence of odd-parity Eu pairing or even-parity d-wave pairing, both of which may provide a platform of Majorana bound states in the superconducting state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Report on the Developed and Validated Atmospheric Thematic Services (Release #1)
Creators: name: Tibaldi, Alessandro
name: Rapsomanikis, Spyridon
name: Vitorino, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EOSC
Services
Atmospheric Research

description: This document reports on the 1st release of the Atmospheric Thematic services and the software underlying each service. This report, NEANIAS deliverable 3.4, comes out right after the first thematic atmospheric services release, deliverable D3.3.
 The A1 Service, named “ATMO-FLUD”, (for flux densities) provides a set of algorithms for the calculation of flux densities of Sensible Heat, Latent Heat, Turbulent Kinetic Energy and other scalars like GHGs. The input data to the service is user provided although test data are available for trial runs. Real data should be experimentally obtained by the user bearing in mind that the fundamental method employed in this service is the “Eddy Covariance”.
 The A2 Service comprises two services: one named “ATMO-STRESS” calculates the trajectories of tectonic stress based on a series of local data of stress and presents them as a map (stress field). The second service, named “ATMO-SEISM”, compares a series of parameters regarding the seismicity of a region and the variation of gas emission in the atmosphere, in order to find possible correlations.
 The A3 Service, named “ATMO-4CAST”, is responsible for Air quality estimation, monitoring and forecasting, providing users with the ability to obtain and visualise meteorological and air quality forecasts based on their own datasets through a central server. This is done by processing the incoming data, passing it through popular models such as WRF-ARW and CMAQ, and processing and creating visualisations based on their outputs.
 For each released service a point-of-access is provided, as well as interface through which it may interact with other services and documentation explaining how to use it. Documentation of all NEANIAS atmospheric services is organized under NEANIAS docs service.
 Services reported here have gone through the first release round, most services have been integrated to NEANIAS authentication system service, the documentation workflow, and integrated with GARR infrastructure services. As expected, this first milestone of services, uncovered some gaps in their deployment stack. Integration with other core and delivery services will be addressed for the next milestone and releases.
Martin Jackson and The Melbourne Jazz Cooperative; how they influenced the Melbourne modern jazz scene.
Creators: name: Delves, Benjamin David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis primarily investigates the Melbourne Jazz Cooperative (MJC) from the years 1982 to 1993. However, it begins by documenting the history of Martin Jackson, founder and chairman of the MJC, and ends with the history of the MJC from 1982 to 1993. This thesis presents a case study of how an individual functions in a modern arts organization and describes how the individual navigates, through interaction with funding bodies and artists, the beneficial outcomes that such organisations can provide and the problems they face in contemporary Australia. The study argues that acknowledging the benefits of the arts to society and of arts organizations themselves is more necessary than ever in contemporary Australia where public perception of the arts is conflicted and misunderstood and funding support for the arts is highly unstable. The thesis argues through the case study example, that the MJC made curatorial descisions that provided support and opportunities for Australian jazz musicians to meet each other, to meet international artists, and also how it provided avenues for cultural transmission and exchange that enabled an even greater number and range of performances for these musicians. The research component of the thesis employed unstructured interviews with Martin Jackson, along with historical method corresponding to Bruno Nettl’s ‘fifth stage’ of ethnomusicology (Nettl 2005). This research reveals, for example, that Martin Jackson had to sacrifice his own musical development and artistic career to fulfill specialized roles in the MJC because there was no funding available for expert assistance. This thesis concludes that, in order to fully benefit artists and the community at large, arts organizations must be supported by expertise of specialists in the fields of Arts Administration. Without this support, the artists themselves must contribute too much of their time to administrative work at the expense of their art.
Workers' control: aspects of Australian industrial relations in the 1970s
Creators: name: Oldham, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: From the late 1960s, Australian trade unions expanded their prerogatives to encroach upon the traditional concerns of employers and governments, in a tendency described as ‘workers’ control’. This thesis aims to reconstruct the history of workers’ control as it existed in the Australian metal trades, from the late 1960s, when it emerged amid social and labour unrest generally, to the late 1970s, when it was submerged beneath the weight of recession, mass unemployment, and a renewed employer offensive. It is observed that metal workers asserted growing levels of control over ‘hiring and firing’, industrial health and safety, the labour process, and social and political affairs beyond their individual enterprises. In isolated cases, metal workers took full control over their enterprises in fleeting moments of self-management. It is argued that workers’ control, in its emphasis on shop committees and direct action at the enterprise, aligns with older traditions of syndicalism and radical unionism. Workers’ control is largely neglected in existing labour historiography. Historians who have given it attention have tended to dismiss it as ‘faddish’, intrinsically limited, and ultimately unviable as a strategy for economic and social transformation. In reconstructing the history, this thesis aims to redeem workers’ control by suggesting that it did not fail as a result of inherent shortcomings, but due to a concerted attack on shop committees and trade unions by the organised employing class, among other forces imposed upon it. Workers’ control therefore maintains a core of viability for contemporary and future labour organising.
Is the baryon acoustic oscillation peak a cosmological standard ruler?
Creators: name: Roukema, Boudewijn F.
name: Buchert, Thomas
name: Fujii, Hirokazu
name: Ostrowski, Jan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard model of cosmology, the Universe is static in comoving coordinates; expansion occurs homogeneously and is represented by a global scale factor. The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak location is a statistical tracer that represents, in the standard model, a fixed comoving-length standard ruler. Recent gravitational collapse should modify the metric, rendering the effective scale factor, and thus the BAO standard ruler, spatially inhomogeneous. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we show to high significance (P < 0.001) that the spatial compression of the BAO peak location increases as the spatial paths' overlap with superclusters increases. Detailed observational and theoretical calibration of this BAO peak location environment dependence will be needed when interpreting the next decade's cosmological surveys.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Mapping Burned Areas with Multitemporal–Multispectral Data and Probabilistic Unsupervised Learning
Creators: name: Negri, Rogério G
name: Luz, Andréa EO
name: Frery, Alejandro
name: Casaca, Wallace
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90999 Geomatic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 20399 Classical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The occurrence of forest fires has increased significantly in recent years across the planet. Events of this nature have resulted in the leveraging of new automated methodologies to identify and map burned areas. In this paper, we introduce a unified data-driven framework capable of mapping areas damaged by fire by integrating time series of remotely sensed multispectral images, statistical modeling, and unsupervised classification. We collect and analyze multiple remote-sensing images acquired by the Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Terra satellites between August–October 2020, validating our proposal with three case studies in Brazil and Bolivia whose affected regions have suffered from recurrent forest fires. Besides providing less noisy mappings, our methodology outperforms other evaluated methods in terms of average scores of 90%, 0.71, and 0.65 for overall accuracy, F1-score, and kappa coefficient, respectively. The proposed method provides spatial-adherence mappings of the burned areas whose segments match the estimates reported by the MODIS Burn Area product.
G2-structures and octonion bundles
Creators: name: Grigorian, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C10 (Primary), 53C15, 53C27, 53C29, 53C43 (Secondary)

description: We use a G2-structure on a 7-dimensional Riemannian manifold with a fixed metric to define an octonion bundle with a fiberwise non-associative product. We then define a metric-compatible octonion covariant derivative on this bundle that is compatible with the octonion product. The torsion of the G2-structure is then shown to be an octonionic connection for this covariant derivative with curvature given by the component of the Riemann curvature that lies in the 7-dimensional representation of G2. We also interpret the choice of a particular G2-structure within the same metric class as a choice of gauge and show that under a change of this gauge, the torsion does transform as an octonion-valued connection 1-form. Finally, we also show an explicit relationship between the octonion bundle and the spinor bundle, define an octonionic Dirac operator and explore an energy functional for octonion sections. We then prove that critical points correspond to divergence-free torsion, which is shown to be an octonionic analog of the Coulomb gauge.
description: 48 pages (40 plus appendix), corrected typos, expanded some proofs
Patterns of transcriptional parallelism and variation in the developing olfactory system of Drosophila species
Creators: name: Barish, Scott
name: Soeder, Charles
name: Zhao, Songhui
name: Volkan, Pelin Cayirlioglu
name: Kanke, Matthew
name: Li, Qingyun
name: Wern Pan, Jia
name: Jones, Corbin D.
name: Okuwa, Sumie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Organisms have evolved strikingly parallel phenotypes in response to similar selection pressures suggesting that there may be shared constraints limiting the possible evolutionary trajectories. For example, the behavioral adaptation of specialist Drosophila species to specific host plants can exhibit parallel changes in their adult olfactory neuroanatomy. We investigated the genetic basis of these parallel changes by comparing gene expression during the development of the olfactory system of two specialist Drosophila species to that of four other generalist species. Our results suggest that the parallelism observed in the adult olfactory neuroanatomy of ecological specialists extends more broadly to their developmental antennal expression profiles, and to the transcription factor combinations specifying olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) fates. Additionally, comparing general patterns of variation for the antennal transcriptional profiles in the adult and developing olfactory system of the six species suggest the possibility that specific, non-random components of the developmental programs underlying the Drosophila olfactory system harbor a disproportionate amount of interspecies variation. Further examination of these developmental components may be able to inform a deeper understanding of how traits evolve.
Effects of system-bath entanglement on the performance of light-harvesting systems: A quantum heat engine perspective
Creators: name: Xu, Dazhi
name: Wang, Chen
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Cao, Jianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore energy transfer in a generic three-level system, which is coupled to three non-equilibrium baths. Built on the concept of quantum heat engine, our three-level model describes non-equilibrium quantum processes including light-harvesting energy transfer, nano-scale heat transfer, photo-induced isomerization, and photovoltaics in double quantum-dots. In the context of light-harvesting, the excitation energy is first pumped up by sunlight, then is transferred via two excited states which are coupled to a phonon bath, and finally decays to the ground state. The efficiency of this process is evaluated by steady state analysis via a polaron-transformed master equation; thus a wide range of the system-phonon coupling strength can be covered. We show that the coupling with the phonon bath not only modifies the steady state, resulting in population inversion, but also introduces a finite steady state coherence which optimizes the energy transfer flux and efficiency. In the strong coupling limit, the steady state coherence disappears and the efficiency approaches the heat engine limit given by Scovil and Schultz-Dubois in Phys. Rew. Lett. 2, 262 (1959).
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, all comments are welcome
The framing of Covid-19: A qualitative analysis of Op-Ed pages
Creators: name: Ashfaq, Muhammad
name: Ghazvavi, Qamar-Uddin Zia
name: Irfan, Muhammad
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2022
Subjects: Language, communication and culture

description: In content construction, media use specific frames in presenting information to its audience. The core focus of this study is to investigate the frames used by newspapers on their Op-Ed pages while covering Covid-19. Qualitative content analysis approach is deployed to analyze the 491 Op-Ed pieces collected from three newspapers; however, frequency of articles has also been presented in this paper. Coronavirus captures the world, and the role of media is considered to be very important. How media frame the coronavirus? Data is coded by applying Open Coding and Axial Coding procedures. Two major frames a) Socio-Economic Frames and b) Psychological Frames, emerged from the data.
pH is the primary determinant of the bacterial community structure in agricultural soils impacted by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution
Creators: name: Zeng, Jun
name: Lin, Xiangui
name: Zhu, Qinghe
name: Zhang, Zhenfa
name: Wu, Yucheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Acidification and pollution are two major threats to agricultural ecosystems; however, microbial community responses to co-existed soil acidification and pollution remain less explored. In this study, arable soils of broad pH (4.26–8.43) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) gradients (0.18–20.68 mg kg−1) were collected from vegetable farmlands. Bacterial community characteristics including abundance, diversity and composition were revealed by quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing. The bacterial 16S rRNA gene copies significantly correlated with soil carbon and nitrogen contents, suggesting the control of nutrients accessibility on bacterial abundance. The bacterial diversity was strongly related to soil pH, with higher diversity in neutral samples and lower in acidic samples. Soil pH was also identified by an ordination analysis as important factor shaping bacterial community composition. The relative abundances of some dominant phyla varied along the pH gradient, and the enrichment of a few phylotypes suggested their adaptation to low pH condition. In contrast, at the current pollution level, PAH showed marginal effects on soil bacterial community. Overall, these findings suggest pH was the primary determinant of bacterial community in these arable soils, indicative of a more substantial influence of acidification than PAH pollution on bacteria driven ecological processes.
Polydopamine-Laced Biomimetic Material Stimulation of Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Promote Osteogenic Effects
Creators: name: Zou, Rui
name: Lee, Dong Joon
name: Ko, Ching-Chang
name: Lee, Yan-Ting
name: Daniel, Renie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: A hydroxyapatite-collagen (HC) composite material can mimic composition and ultra-structures of natural bone and provide adequate bioactive material-tissue interactions. Incorporation of dopamine (DA) is one of keys in increasing the mechanical strength of the HC material to approaching that of cortical bone. In this study, the in vitro osteogenic effects of polydopamine-laced hydroxyapatite collagen calcium silicate (HCCS-PDA) were examined by culturing rat mesenchymal stem cells (rMSCs) on HCCS-PDA and HCCS coated plates. HCCS-PDA group demonstrated less cytotoxic from Live/Dead cytotoxic assay and displayed higher cell attachment, proliferation and mineralization than the HCCS group in vitro. For in vivo bone regeneration, HCCS-PDA or HCCS particulates with or without rMSC aggregates were implanted into rat critical-sized calvarial defects (CSD). After 12 weeks, calvarial bone regeneration was evaluated radiographically, histologically, and histomorphometrically. While the majority of new bone formation occurred around the HCCS-PDA particulates with rMSC aggregates, The HCCS-PDA particulates without rMSC aggregates showed limited osteoconductivity. HCCS with or without rMSC aggregates resulted in less bone formation, indicating a prominent role of DA in effective bone regeneration. Therefore, the HCCS-PDA biomaterial with the aid of rMSCs can be used to develop therapeutic strategies in bone tissue engineering with numerable clinical applications.
Shot noise of a quantum dot measured with GHz stub impedance matching
Creators: name: Hasler, T.
name: Jung, M.
name: Ranjan, V.
name: Puebla-Hellmann, G.
name: Wallraff, A.
name: Schönenberger, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The demand for a fast high-frequency read-out of high impedance devices, such as quantum dots, necessitates impedance matching. Here we use a resonant impedance matching circuit (a stub tuner) realized by on-chip superconducting transmission lines to measure the electronic shot noise of a carbon nanotube quantum dot at a frequency close to 3 GHz in an efficient way. As compared to wide-band detection without impedance matching, the signal to noise ratio can be enhanced by as much as a factor of 800 for a device with an impedance of 100 k$Ω$. The advantage of the stub resonator concept is the ease with which the response of the circuit can be predicted, designed and fabricated. We further demonstrate that all relevant matching circuit parameters can reliably be deduced from power reflectance measurements and then used to predict the power transmission function from the device through the circuit. The shot noise of the carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime shows an oscillating suppression below the Schottky value of $2eI$, as well an enhancement in specific regions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, supplementary