cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Greek neighbourhoods of sixteenth century Venice, 1948-1600 : daily life of an immigrant community
Creators: name: Burke, Ersie C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines community and identity within the context of immigration. The sixteenth century saw a great deal of movement within the Venetian Empire as people left their homes in search of work and other opportunities. In most cases, their destination was Venice, the imperial capital and a city which was very much in need of skilled tradesmen and mariners. At the same time, the western advance of Ottoman power meant the conquest of lands previously under Venetian control and the dispossession of a large number of people who became refugees. As a result, Venice experienced a high rate of immigration of refugees as well as those voluntary migrants from her remaining Greek colonies who came looking for work. Invariably, when people leave their homelands to go elsewhere, they have to make adjustments, to create new networks and, eventually, to become a part of the host society. This work traces changes in identity through the experience of immigration. Its focus is on the Greek community of early modern Venice. It analyses the ways which Greeks from a variety of homelands with a variety of customs, history and traditions, were able to create a community which included all Greek speakers, and forged a new identity which reflected the characteristics of their homelands while at the same time incorporating the customs and attitudes of their new home. Through an analysis of public and private sources, this thesis examines the various meanings of identity and community. It establishes how Greeks settled and integrated into their new environment and the contributions they made to it.
Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inclusive jet spectra from pp and PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, are presented. Jets are reconstructed with three different distance parameters (R = 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4) for transverse momentum (pT) greater than 70 GeV and pseudorapidity abs(eta) < 2. Next-to-leading-order quantum chromodynamic calculations with non-perturbative corrections are found to over-predict jet production cross sections in pp for small distance parameters. The jet nuclear modification factors for PbPb compared to pp collisions, show a steady decrease from peripheral to central events, along with a weak dependence on the jet pT. They are found to be independent of the distance parameter in the measured kinematic range.
description: Replaced with the published version. All the figures and tables, including an additional supplemental figure, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIN-13-005/index.html (CMS Public Pages)
On the Quantisation of Complex Higher Derivative Theories and Avoiding the Ostrogradsky Ghost
Creators: name: Raidal, Martti
name: Veermäe, Hardi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generic higher derivative theories are believed to be fundamentally unphysical because they contain Ostrogradsky ghosts. We show that within complex classical mechanics it is possible to construct higher derivative theories that circumvent the Ostrogradsky theorem and have a real energy spectrum that is bounded from below. The complex theory can be canonically quantised. The resulting quantum theory does not suffer from the kinetic instability and maintains the usual probabilistic interpretation without violating the correspondence principle. As a proof of concept, we construct a class of stable interacting complex higher derivative theories. This consistent and canonical framework allows us to analyse previous attempts to avoid the ghosts that use non-canonical quantisation schemes, such as the Lee-Wick theories, Dirac-Pauli quantisation or PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. The key to understand the would-be ghosts in any kinetically stable higher derivative theory is to accept the complex system behind it.
description: 23 pages, extended discussion and updated references. Accepted for publication in Nucl.Phys.B
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in sub-Saharan Africa: no room for complacency
Creators: name: Matthews, Philippa C
name: Kramvis, Anna
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: No description supplied
Leadership opportunities in the school setting: A scoping study on staff perceptions
Creators: name: Hannan, Robert
name: Lafferty, Niamh
name: MANNIX-MC NAMARA, PATRICIA
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education

description: The focus of this study was to explore teachers’ and middle school leaders’ perspectives of promotional policies and practices within the schools where they work. As this was an initial scoping study, a qualitative approach was adopted. Fifteen teachers and/or middle school leaders participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was employed for data analysis. Themes that emerged from the data included a mix of perceptions, in that promotions were sometimes perceived to be based on appropriate measures of merit such as experience, but at other times were perceived to be unfair or based on cronyism, with female staff perceived to be at a disadvantage. Reasons for seeking out promotion were identified as predominantly being for personal ambition and increased salary. A dark side of promotions also emerged, and this referred to the breakdown of relationships with co-workers following promotions and implications for turnover. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.
On being adaptable : transformative lessons on adaptation through problem-orientation : a case of the tourism sector in Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Roman, Carolina Ester
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Climate change is gaining attention as a significant strategic issue for local regions that rely on tourism as a principal economic activity. Research seeks to characterise the vulnerability of tourism to the likely impacts of future climate change. Most of this research has used scenarios or ‘end-point’ approaches (Kelly and Adger, 2000). Whilst useful, there are few demonstrable case studies that complement such work with a ‘start-point’ approach that seeks to explore contextual vulnerability (O'Brien et al., 2007). This broader approach is inclusive of climate change as a process operating within a biophysical system and allows recognition of the complex interactions that occur in the coupled human environmental system. An interdisciplinary and problem-oriented approach was employed in Alpine Shire, in northeast Victoria Australia, to characterise the tourism sector’s contextual vulnerability and implications for adaptation to climate change. Using a policy sciences approach, the objective was to identify factors that influence existing vulnerabilities and that might consequently act as barriers to effective adaptation. Analyses of preliminary results, suggested that climate change is just one of many threats that compete for the resources, strategy and direction of local tourism management bodies. Many complex and interacting factors define the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of the Shire’s tourism sector to the challenges of climate change. Further analysis of trends looked at possible reasons for these conditions, consequently exploring options for maximising resilience and adaptive capacity.
Diffractive di-jet production at the LHC with a Reggeon contribution
Creators: name: Marquet, C.
name: Martins, D. E.
name: Pereira, A. V.
name: Rangel, M.
name: Royon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study hard diffractive scattering in hadron-hadron collisions including, on top of the standard Pomeron-initiated processes, contributions due to the exchange of Reggeons. Using a simple model to describe the parton content of the Reggeon, we compute di-jet production in single diffractive and central diffractive events. We show that Reggeon contributions can be sizable at the LHC, and even sometimes dominant, and we identify kinematic windows in which they could be experimentally studied. We argue that suitable measurements must be performed in order to properly constrain the model, and be able to correctly account for Reggeon exchanges in the analysis of the many hard diffractive observables to be measured at the LHC.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, version to be published in PLB
(200934) Audrey Beryl Huckerby
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Spatial multiplexing of atom-photon entanglement sources using feed-forward controls and switching networks
Creators: name: Tian, Long
name: Xu, Zhongxiao
name: Chen, Lirong
name: Ge, Wei
name: Yuan, Haoxiang
name: Wen, Yafei
name: Wang, Shengzhi
name: Li, Shujing
name: Wang, Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light-matter quantum interface that can create quantum-correlations or entanglement between a photon and one atomic collective excitation is a fundamental building block for a quantum repeater. The intrinsic limit is that the probability of preparing such non-classical atom-photon correlations has to be kept low in order to suppress multi-excitation. To enhance this probability without introducing multi-excitation errors, a promising scheme is to apply multimode memories into the interface. Significant progresses have been made in temporal, spectral, and spatial multiplexing memories, but the enhanced probability for generating the entangled atom-photon pair has not been experimentally realized. Here, by using 6 spin-wave-photon entanglement sources, a switching network and feed-forward control, we build a multiplexed light-matter interface and then demonstrate a ~6-fold (~4-fold) probability increase in generating entangled atom-photon (photon-photon) pairs. The measured compositive Bell parameter for the multiplexed interface is 2.49+-0.03 combined with a memory lifetime of up to ~60 microseconds.
REACH Story of Change: Open source tools and skills for climate information flows
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: Identifying barriers to sharing and making use of climate information is an important aspect of REACH programme research. In Ethiopia’s Awash Basin, REACH partners have worked together to build tools and skills to facilitate management, curation, validation, visualization and comparison of climate data from weather and streamflow gauging stations in the region. This long term capacity building interaction has involved weekly collaborative coding sessions with forecasters (EMI), practitioners (MOWE) and graduate students (WLRC). Outputs from these sessions include code to produce clear and readable local forecasts and support water allocation planning.
Erotic play and the sublime/horrific void: a somacentric exploration of Georges Bataille’s frame-cracking erotic space
Creators: name: Crees, Mark John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 300 le petit morts : An apoapsis 1 :: Utilising a poetic register, with attendant experimental writing that places the author, reader and thesis (body) at risk, this thesis explores a somacentric (body-centered) ‘inhabiting’ of Georges Bataille’s eroticism approached obliquely through an atheological nonknowledge and the breaches/tears that found(er) the space that opens through such an investigation, rooting the argument in bodies, expanding the erotic breach as a topos of play and refusing a thermospasmic entropic nihilism that freezes Bataille — interrupting the ‘rigorous critical analysis’ with disreputable thinly-veiled autobiography and other ‘fictions’ — in three Acts, I (yes I) :: open erotic space explore erotic space (Void) embody erotic space (somacentric life), : sex a ‘getting lost’ in ‘getting lost in pleasure,’ bodies conjoined; knowledge confounded; opening to … : This ‘play’ will begin with an exploration of eroticism throughout Bataille’s oeuvre before tarrying with a Hegelian negative with a le petit detour underneath Kafka’s untier (in Žižekean parallactic style) and then refusing closure, giving way to somacentric flows and intensities so that while blind, this text requires itself to be ‘written on the body’ as Jeanette Winterson might gesture, and that we all might enjoy a good fuck. : 1 An abstract is a ‘point of entry’ to a thesis (required by dictate not my design), hence this is my apoapsis, my point of entry :: and like astronomical space, this entry point is that at which the orbiting object is farthest away from the body it is orbiting —and—according to Kepler’s law of planetary motion, it is at this point that the object is at the lowest velocity :: so we slow down, almost stop, caught in the gravitational pull of the thesis proper (whatever that is) and attempt to ‘capture’ what is to come – but it is always already premature and we end up with cum-stained hands, Psyche’s tears notwithstanding.
(200936) Sheila Joan Sandy
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Join and slices for strict $\infty$-categories
Creators: name: Ara, Dimitri
name: Maltsiniotis, Georges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18A25, 18D05, 18D20, 18G30, 18G35, 18G55, 55U10, 55U15

description: The goal of this paper is to develop a theory of join and slices for strict $\infty$-categories. To any pair of strict $\infty$-categories, we associate a third one that we call their join. This operation is compatible with the usual join of categories up to truncation. We show that the join defines a monoidal category structure on the category of strict $\infty$-categories and that it respects connected inductive limits in each variable. In particular, we obtain the existence of some right adjoints; these adjoints define $\infty$-categorical slices, in a generalized sense. We state some conjectures about the functoriality of the join and the slices with respect to higher lax and oplax transformations and we prove some first results in this direction. These results are used in another paper to establish a Quillen Theorem A for strict $\infty$-categories. Finally, in an appendix, we revisit the Gray tensor product of strict $\infty$-categories. One of the main tools used in this paper is Steiner's theory of augmented directed complexes.
description: 227 pages, in French, v2: minor mistake corrected in Section 3 (see Example 3.4), very minor modifications in Sections 7 and A, new Section B.5, v3: old Section 5 removed, old Section 12 (now Section 11) rewritten, new Section B.6, number changes in several sections, new indexes of terminology and notation, exposition improved, v4: very minor modifications, final version
“Islam, properly understood” Mahathir Mohamad on religion, Malaysian society and politics
Creators: name: Schottmann, Sven Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis represents the first major study of the representations that Mahathir Mohamad made of Islam and of the role that Islam played in shaping his political vision and discourse. The longest serving Prime Minister of Malaysia, holding the post from 1981 to 2003, Mahathir was a remarkable politician by any measure. Most aspects of his leadership have been closely studied, but his articulation of Islam represents a long neglected but greatly needed perspective on both the man and the country that he sought to set onto the path of accelerated modernisation. Apart from identifying dominant themes in the evolving representations he made about Islam, this thesis also investigates the biographical, intellectual and theological influences that underlay his assertion that Islam was not an obstacle to the modernisation of Muslim societies. I put the case that the representations Mahathir made of religion can be conceived of as a relatively coherent discourse which might be called “Mahathir’s Islam.” Apart from rationalistic and pragmatist interpretations of the religion, these representations also contained Mahathir’s assessment of the socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing the contemporary Muslim world, and a “theology of progress,” or the range of solutions and corrective measures which he proposed Muslims should adopt. This thesis argues that “Mahathir’s Islam” inspired and informed much of the government’s ‘Islamisation’ policies of the 1980s and 1990s. This underscores Mahathir’s centrality in the development of Malaysia’s public Islam during these years of pivotal change. My analysis concludes that Mahathir’s religious discourse was marked by strong dualisms. The public representations he made of ‘correctly understood Islam,’ were themselves moulded by the competing forces of the circumstances he found himself in as well as his own understandings of religion. Similarly, while Mahathir emphasised the individualistic, egalitarian, pluralistic, democratic and dynamic qualities of Islam, his government concurrently enacted legislation that circumscribed religious freedoms. Conversely, while the representations which Mahathir made of Islam were fraught with contradictions and flaws, his insistence that every Muslim had the right to speak for Islam paradoxically seem to have strengthened the ground for the future democratisation of Malaysian politics.
TASO - Race Equality Gaps diff-in-diff (phase 2) - Kent - November 2021
Creators: name: The Centre For Transforming Access And Student Outcomes In Higher Education (TASO)
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Race and Ethnicity
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Inequality and Stratification
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This difference-in-differences design tests the impact of the University of Kent 'Diversity Mark' initiative (curriculum reform) on closing the attainment gap between White and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students.
title: Knowledge, truth and literature
Creators: name: Godden, B. P. G
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1981

description: Philosophers have largely dismissed literature as imaginary and fictitious, and necessarily unconnected with real-life experience; it could not communicate truth or be a source of knowledge because, according to traditional definitions, such could only be acquired from the factual world. This thesis considers this ancient problem in the light of recent epistemology. Part 1 discusses traditional notions of knowledge and truth and the definition of true, justified belief. Classical essentialism, as Wittgenstein shows, must be rejected. There is more to knowledge than factual information, the understanding of which involves concepts learned from heterogeneous examples embodied in language, and these may be imaginary, but applicable to life. Part 2 underlines the importance of language in the understanding of emotions, which cannot be private. Literature can enrich emotion concepts and verbalize emotional experiences. Truth and sincerity of emotions and the inchoate verbal relationship are analysed. Part 3 discusses the form/content dichotomy. In ordinary language this involves paraphrase, but in creative literature, where form and content amalgamate, this is illogical. "Pure" language is ruled out, the figurative is defended and can be true and meaningful. Part 4 focuses upon literature and truth, including the role of truth in critical theories. Literature does not involve a "different truth" from that of life. The same complex criteria apply in both dimensions. The relationship between truth and beauty is investigated and found to be indivisible; moral content cannot be excluded from literary evaluation; aestheticism is rejected. The problem of universals in literature is considered. Essentialism falsely depicts literature as a vehicle of information, but it is demonstrated that general truths cannot be abstracted from particular literary form in informational terms, though form is of crucial importance in conveying conceptual knowledge. Literary examples illustrate their contribution to conceptual development and enrichment. Critical reasoning is discussed in an appendix.
Formation of a Stable Decagonal Quasicrystalline Al-Pd-Mn Surface Layer
Creators: name: Naumović, D.
name: Aebi, P.
name: Schlapbach, L.
name: Beeli, C.
name: Kunze, K.
name: Lograsso, T. A.
name: Delaney, D. W.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Irreconcilable demands: friendship and the question of the political in Aristotle, Kant and Schmitt
Creators: name: McDonald, Blair
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis takes issue with the politics and ethics of friendship vis-à-vis the Western philosophic tradition, in particular, the work of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Carl Schmitt in the aftermath of Jacques Derrida’s study Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l’amitié). I consider the relation between philosophy, politics, ethics and friendship and ask in what ways we can use the topic of friendship as grounds for rethinking the demands of ethical responsibility and calls for new political structures of association. Each of the philosophers considered have a particular concern for friendship that is troubled by the reconciliation of politics and ethics. In different ways, each struggle to give friendship a proper place and meaning that could integrate the stakes of politics with that of ethics. As a result I examine what I suggest are the irreconcilable demands of political commonality and ethical responsibility that emerge in their discussions. For instance, in Aristotle, the irreconcilable demands of friendship are the result of his conception of virtue and self-sufficiency, in Kant, the discrepancy between duty and choice and in Carl Schmitt, the distinction between friends and enemies. The difficulty that troubles each of their concerns with friendship is the outcome of a number of aporias that make it difficult, if not altogether impossible, to resolve without admitting contradictions. Consequently I contend that what must be advanced within the history of friendship’s thought is that political belonging and ethical responsibility are founded upon irresolvable binds; binds that frustrate the possibility of founding a politics on or with friendship in any simple or instrumental manner. I conclude by suggesting that in order to play host to future speculations of the relation between friendship, ethics, politics and philosophy what must be understood are the ways in which these contradictions are fundamental to that very possibility. In this sense, I position the politics and ethics of friendship after Derrida within a ‘deconstructive’ framework. The only means by which we can live and imagine new political and ethical practises of friendship are by affirming these aporias as the conditions of possibility.
A SVAR model of the Thai economy
Creators: name: Ruckphaopunt, Rawisprapa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis comprises five related chapters on application of structured vector autoregression (structured VAR) model for the Thai economy. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the thesis. It describes the objectives of the thesis and expectations, and provides essential background of Thailand’s changing financial and economic landscape, recent domestic events and existing empirical Thai models. All together, they serve as necessary introduction to the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 discusses background and motivation for the thesis. It presents macroeconomic models used in policy analysis at central banks, their key usage and strength. It then zooms on New Keynesian dynamic stochastic (DSGE) models, which is applied to our model building, and the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework, which our model is founded on, followed by a discussion on identification of the SVAR models and their limitation. The chapter then discusses the hybrid DSGE-VAR model and the structured VAR model, each combines strength of the DSGE and SVAR models in attempt to give a specification that can be used for policy analysis as well as forecasting. Chapter 3 provides the description and analysis of the Thai data. It investigates time series properties of the data necessary for model building in the next chapter. The framework for testing unit root and stationarity in the presence of structural breaks are discussed, and the tests of unit root, stationarity and normality test are performed. Chapter 4 applies the structured VAR model to the Thai economy to investigate the effects of shocks to the Thai economy as well as to examine the credit channel of monetary transmission. The theory-driven core model is set up first, then augmented so as to move it towards data-oriented one and to make it a better representation of the Thai economy. The chapter then discusses the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition. The limited information estimation approach is employed, and the structured VAR model is estimated with instrumental variable (IV) using the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. Chapter 5 concludes. It provides a brief summary of the thesis and summarizes empirical findings from this research. Policy implications drawn from the structured VAR model are discussed and ideas for further work are made.
Anisotropic permeability in deterministic lateral displacement arrays
Creators: name: Vernekar, Rohan
name: Krüger, Timm
name: Loutherback, Kevin
name: Morton, Keith
name: Inglis, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We uncover anisotropic permeability in microfluidic deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) arrays. A DLD array can achieve high-resolution bimodal size-based separation of microparticles, including bioparticles, such as cells. For an application with a given separation size, correct device operation requires that the flow remains at a fixed angle to the obstacle array. We demonstrate via experiments and lattice-Boltzmann simulations that subtle array design features cause anisotropic permeability. Anisotropic permeability indicates the microfluidic array's intrinsic tendency to induce an undesired lateral pressure gradient. This can cause an inclined flow and therefore local changes in the critical separation size. Thus, particle trajectories can become unpredictable and the device useless for the desired separation task. Anisotropy becomes severe for arrays with unequal axial and lateral gaps between obstacle posts and highly asymmetric post shapes. Furthermore, of the two equivalent array layouts employed with the DLD, the rotated-square layout does not display intrinsic anisotropy. We therefore recommend this layout over the easier-to-implement parallelogram layout. We provide additional guidelines for avoiding adverse effects of anisotropy on the DLD.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, DLD, particle separation, microfluidics, anisotropic permeability
REACH Story of Change: Turkana Jet research unlocks new understanding of East African droughts
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: Understanding climate processes is a crucial task for climate scientists looking to improve seasonal forecasts in the Horn of Africa, a region affected by severe droughts. The strength of the Turkana Jet – a wind feature which carries water vapour from the Indian Ocean across East Africa to Central Africa – is underestimated in current weather and climate models. New observations of the jet by researchers from the Kenya Met Department, the University of Nairobi and the University of Oxford have been used as a benchmark for UK Met Office forecasting models for East Africa. This work is providing much-needed evidence to improve current modelling and predictions, which will support policy and practice for governments and donors in the region.
An Analytic Approach to Sunset Diagrams in Chiral Perturbation Theory: Theory and Practice
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Bijnens, Johan
name: Ghosh, Shayan
name: Hebbar, Aditya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the use of several code implementations of the Mellin-Barnes method available in the public domain to derive analytic expressions for the sunset diagrams that arise in the two-loop contribution to the pion mass and decay constant in three-flavoured chiral perturbation theory. We also provide results for all possible two-mass configurations of the sunset integral, and derive a new one-dimensional integral representation for the one mass sunset integral with arbitrary external momentum. Thoroughly annotated Mathematica notebooks are provided as ancillary files, which may serve as pedagogical supplements to the methods described in this paper.
description: 30 pages, plain latex, 3 figures; 7 mathematica notebooks provided as ancillary files; v2 is the version accepted and published in the European Physical Journal A in the Tools for Experiment and Theory Section; minor typos corrected; notation improved; bibliography extended; mathematica files submitted with this version are also supported on the journal web-site as supplementary materials
(200929) Louisa Napper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Experimental Evidence of One-Dimensional Plasma Modes in Superconducting Thin Wires
Creators: name: Balestro, F.
name: Buisson, O.
name: Camarota, B.
name: Delsing, P.
name: Parage, F.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The adaptation of Soviet Jews in Victoria : a study of adolescent immigrants and their parents
Creators: name: Steinkalk, Elka
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explored the adaptation patterns of Soviet Jewish immigrants in Victoria, and the psychosocial correlates of this process. Particular attention was paid to comparisons of adult and adolescent subjects to Australia. The group chosen for the investigation was adolescents (age 12 - 20 years) and their parents who arrived in Australia between 1975 and 1978. The sample consisted of 101 adolescents and their 154 parents. Ninety-four Jewish adolescents born in Australia served as a comparison group. Four instruments were administered: (1) an interview schedule; (2) a battery of personality measures; (3) a semantic differential; (4) a value survey. The measures were administered in either English or Russian, depending on the participants' preferences. The analysis of the adaptation process was based on a multi¬ dimensional model of adaptation consisting of four aspects: (1) satisfaction with life in Australia; (2) identification (with Australia, with the USSR, and with Jewishness); (3) culture competence (particularly focused on language); (4) role acculturation. These four aspects, some of which were themselves multidimensional, were each examined in detail and the salient problems of this group were analysed and discussed. One of the major themes which emerged was the relationship between Australian schools and the adaptation of the adolescents. The general conclusion of this study was that this particular immigrant group generally adapted satisfactorily to life in Australia despite some difficulties and dissatisfactions. Their motivations to migrate, their particular socio-economic and educational level, and their occupational status all facilitated their ability to cope in the new environment. No conclusive evidence was found to relate personality characteristics to adaptation across the board, although there was, for some of the parents, evidence of a relationship between empathy, self-esteem, faith in people and adaptation. Empathy, emotional stability and flexibility seem to influence the adaptation of the immigrant adolescents. It was found that the values of the adolescent and immigrant parents differed from those of the comparison group. Identification with both the host society and Jewishness was found to be a major aspect of the adaptation process. The implications of this study in terms of other migrant groups and of specific Australian institutions, such as schools, were outlined.
Conformational Changes of Single Molecules Induced by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Manipulation: A Route to Molecular Switching
Creators: name: Gourdon, André
name: Joachim, Christian
name: Meyer, Gerhard
name: Moresco, Francesca
name: Rieder, Karl-Heinz
name: Tang, Hao
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Nearby Lagrangian fibers and Whitney sphere links
Creators: name: Ekholm, Tobias
name: Smith, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D35

description: Let n>3, and let L be a Lagrangian embedding of an n-disk into the cotangent bundle of n-dimensional Euclidean space that agrees with the cotangent fiber over a non-zero point x outside a compact set. Assume that L is disjoint from the cotangent fiber at the origin. The projection of L to the base extends to a map of the n-sphere into the complement of the origin in Euclidean n-space . We show that this map is homotopically trivial, answering a question of Y. Eliashberg. We give a number of generalizations of this result, including homotopical constraints on embedded Lagrangian disks in the complement of another Lagrangian submanifold, and on two-component links of immersed Lagrangian spheres with one double point in 2n-dimensional space, under suitable dimension and Maslov index hypotheses. The proofs combine techniques from the authors' previous work, constructing bounding manifolds from moduli spaces of Floer-holomorphic disks, with symplectic field theory.
description: v2: 39 pages, 2 figures. Numerous minor corrections and clarifications to take account of referees' suggestions. This version to appear in Compositio
(200931) Frederick Napper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

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

description: This thesis uses the case of Breaker Morant to explore the relationship between myth and history, particularly in an Australian context. It argues that the Breaker occupies a quirky place in the Australian mythic pantheon: his story is well-known, and is significant to many people; at the same time he is not a classic Australian myth in the sense that Ned Kelly is. He is neither so widely known nor as enthusiastically supported as Kelly. The thesis examines Morant's biography -or what is known of it -as well as the legends that have clustered around his figure. It collects and analyses the ways in which Morant has been depicted in various media or genres (for instance, biography, fiction, history, theatre, poetry, film, and painting) and traces the development of his represented persona through the last hundred years, making distinctions where these are relevant between the mythic figure and the historical one. To place the Morant narrative in a theoretical framework, the thesis examines a number of studies in myth, and explores the ways in which they are relevant to an understanding of Morant's status. It also places Morant in a specifically Australian context, scrutinising two central myths -the Anzacs at Gallipoli, and Ned Kelly -to elucidate questions relating to nationalism, warfare, the ethics of killing, the acceptability (and under what circumstances) of killers as national icons, and the ways in which societies invent what they wish to believe. It also examines the extent to which it is relevant to speak of the Anzacs and ofNed Kelly as performers, and the ways in which their capacity to perform might influence their impact on history and myth. The argument locates the transformation of myth to history in the nexus provided by performance. It posits three different kinds of performance -that created by historical figures in the course of living, that which interprets history through deliberate performative techniques, and that which people employ to re-enact historical events. It distinguishes between these phenomena but draws attention to their similarities, and shows that performance plays a crucial part in creating myth from historical narratives. The thesis concludes that Australians have developed particular ways of observing war and lawlessness, and are prepared to admit certain kinds of violence to, and exclude others from, ideologies of national personae. It argues that Morant achieved a degree of mythic presence in Australian culture because of the manner in which he performed his own life, injecting it with continuous intrinsic theatricality, and making it accessible to being performed by others. The thesis argues also that Morant has never achieved a mythic status comparable with Ned Kelly or the Anzacs because his narrative contains elements which do not conform with Australian notions of national character and ethos, nor with an intuitive need for sacredness in mythic beliefs.
New insights of seasoned equity offerings in Malaysia
Creators: name: Abdul Aziz, Nor Farradila
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

This dissertation consists of three papers on Malaysian seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) during the period 2002-2012. Using 129 rights offerings which consist of 85 units and 44 equity offerings, Paper 1 reports that the smaller and riskier firms with less earnings, less ownership concentration, less liquidity, smaller Bumiputera ownership and lower audit quality tend to choose units rather than equity via rights offerings. A negative price reaction is found for rights offerings around the announcement and subscription period. Paper 1 highlights the finding that firms with higher issue price discount have larger shareholder take-up and unit offerings have lower shareholder take-up. Paper 2 demonstrates a positive price reaction for the announcement of 149 private placements around announcement and price setting dates. Using the standard event study abnormal returns, it is found that the price reaction is more favourable for established and profitable firms, smaller relative size, smaller audit fee, lower leverage, less risk and smaller run-up around the price setting date. However, this study does not find any significant relationship between key financial characteristics and announcement period reaction. Additionally, this study shows that the discount-adjusted abnormal return is more favourable to established firms and less favourable for firms with higher relative size, higher audit fee, higher leverage, higher risk and larger run-up over the price setting period. Additionally, this study reports that established firms with higher market value, lower ownership and higher Bumiputera ownership experience favourable discount-adjusted abnormal returns around the announcement period, which is consistent with the information and monitoring hypothesis. Finally, employing the cross-sectional modified-Jones (1991) model developed by Dechow, Sloan and Sweeney (1995), Paper 3 shows that only unit offerings manage earnings prior to the SEO announcements. The study documents that equity via rights offerings and private placements do not manage earnings around the SEOs.
Beyond White Australia: Sri Lankan-born migration to Australia since 1947
Creators: name: Sherrard, Sharmini
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the history of Sri Lankan-born migration to Australia, which commenced in 1947 during the height of the White Australia policy. Its objective is to increase understanding of these immigrants. It examines the reasons for their departure, the impact of changes in intake policy on the ethnicity of the immigrants, and their settlement experiences. Intake policy has favoured people with occupational skills and English language proficiency. Skills and English language ability have indeed facilitated adjustment to Australian society, but it is argued that family links and community networks have also been of considerable significance.
REACH Story of Change: Building the next generation of water security leaders
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024

description: REACH’s ECRs provide a cohort of dynamic and motivated professionals, 50% of whom are women. They are leading in writing papers, representing over 60% of first authors in peer reviewed publications since 2015, and attracting funding from competitive grants. They are also taking on an active role in disseminating REACH’s work in international conferences and in stakeholder events with policy makers and practitioners.
Our ambition is that, whilst supporting REACH, these opportunities will contribute to developing their skills, advancing their career development and building the next generation of water security leaders. This Story of Change provides multiple examples of ECRs transitioning into leadership roles, through which they will continue to play a critical role in sustaining REACH programme impact by facilitating research uptake into their new policy and practice networks.
Electron-impact excitation of N$^{3+}$ using the B-spline R-matrix method: Importance of the target structure description and the size of the close-coupling expansion
Creators: name: Fernández-Menchero, L.
name: Zatsarinny, O.
name: Bartschat, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are major discrepancies between recent ICFT (Intermediate Coupling Frame Transformation) and DARC (Dirac Atomic R-matrix Code) calculations (Fernández-Menchero et al. 2014, Astron. Astroph. 566 A104, Aggarwal et al. 2016 Mon. Not. R Astr. Soc. 461 3997) regarding electron-impact excitation rates for transitions in several Be-like ions, as well as claims that the DARC calculations are much more accurate and the ICFT results might even be wrong. To identify possible reasons for these discrepancies and to estimate the accuracy of the various results, we carried out independent B-Spline R-Matrix (BSR) calculations for electron-impact excitation of the Be-like ion N$^{3+}$. Our close-coupling expansions contain the same target states (238 levels overall) as the previous ICFT and DARC calculations, but the representation of the target wave functions is completely different. We find close agreement among all calculations for the strong transitions between low-lying states, whereas there remain serious discrepancies for the weak transitions as well as for transitions to highly excited states. The differences in the final results for the collision strengths are mainly due to differences in the structure description, specifically the inclusion of correlation effects, rather than the treatment of relativistic effects or problems with the validity of the three methods to describe the collision. Hence there is no indication that one approach is superior to another, until the convergence of both the target configuration and the close-coupling expansions have been fully established.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables