cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implementing caseload midwifery: exploring the views and experiences of midwives and key stakeholders
Creators: name: Newton, Michelle Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Capital City Farm: modeling a way forward
Creators: name: Fallon-Senechal, Ellen H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This thesis uses an investigation into Capital City Farm, a two-acre urban farm established in 2015 in the City of Trenton, New Jersey to explore the multifaceted challenges urban agriculture faces in urban post-industrial spaces and communities. Despite 2019 being its most successful year in terms of production and programming, the project struggles with sustainable funding, staffing and community engagement. Part One contextualizes Capital City Farm with the concepts of sustainability; resilience; urban issues such as redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification; environmental justice; citizen participation; and urban agriculture in order to understand how urban agriculture may be a means to address the environmental, social, economic, and justice issues in communities like East Trenton.Part two interrogates Capital City Farm’s recent past and current situation according to Land, Labor, Liquidity, and Leadership strategies. Interviews with Farm stakeholders, regular visits to the Farm property, and a visit to the Trentoniana collection at the Trenton Free Public Library provide the material for this investigation. This section finishes with an evaluation of Capital City Farm and the recent Garden State Agrihood proposal for the community that frames the Farm as in a new community development model. This analysis suggests that, while many facets of the concept of the Farm and the Agrihood are valuable and worth pursuing, the Farm is unsustainable without an adjustment of the Agrihood Board’s commitment to address participation, maintenance, and management.The final section projects different organizational models the Farm could take: Garden State Agrihood managed cooperative, Garden State Agrihood managed Farm, Non-Profit managed agriculture program, Mercer County managed agriculture park, or just city managed open space. It concludes with a discussion of what could be possible with more study and general lessons learned throughout the investigation that can be applied to the practice of landscape architecture and design of public spaces. Best practices like good communication, community participation, multiple site visits, and intention are even more crucial in communities such as East Trenton. Otherwise, landscape architects and other design professionals risk perpetuating the injustices of the past.
(201316) Eli Thomas Silvester
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.
Stabilizing Embedology: Geometry-Preserving Delay-Coordinate Maps
Creators: name: Eftekhari, Armin
name: Yap, Han Lun
name: Wakin, Michael B.
name: Rozell, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Delay-coordinate mapping is an effective and widely used technique for reconstructing and analyzing the dynamics of a nonlinear system based on time-series outputs. The efficacy of delay-coordinate mapping has long been supported by Takens' embedding theorem, which guarantees that delay-coordinate maps use the time-series output to provide a reconstruction of the hidden state space that is a one-to-one embedding of the system's attractor. While this topological guarantee ensures that distinct points in the reconstruction correspond to distinct points in the original state space, it does not characterize the quality of this embedding or illuminate how the specific parameters affect the reconstruction. In this paper, we extend Takens' result by establishing conditions under which delay-coordinate mapping is guaranteed to provide a stable embedding of a system's attractor. Beyond only preserving the attractor topology, a stable embedding preserves the attractor geometry by ensuring that distances between points in the state space are approximately preserved. In particular, we find that delay-coordinate mapping stably embeds an attractor of a dynamical system if the stable rank of the system is large enough to be proportional to the dimension of the attractor. The stable rank reflects the relation between the sampling interval and the number of delays in delay-coordinate mapping. Our theoretical findings give guidance to choosing system parameters, echoing the trade-off between irrelevancy and redundancy that has been heuristically investigated in the literature. Our initial result is stated for attractors that are smooth submanifolds of Euclidean space, with extensions provided for the case of strange attractors.
Finite temperature description of Fermi gases with in-medium effective mass
Creators: name: Dutra, Mariana
name: Lourenço, Odilon
name: Margueron, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Fermi gases at finite temperature for which the in-medium effective mass may not be constant as a function of the density, the temperature, or the chemical potential. We suggest a formalism that separates the terms for which the mass is constant from the terms which explicitly treat the correction due to the in-medium effective mass. We employ the ensemble equivalence in infinite matter in order to treat these different terms. Our formalism is applied in nuclear matter and we show its goodness by comparing it to an exact treatment based on the numerical calculation of the Fermi integrals.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
The "German" novels of Henry Handel Richardson ; a study of the revisions of Maurice Guest and the sources, notebooks and manuscripts of the young Cosima
Creators: name: Mann, Maureen C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Generalized Josephson plasmons in bilayer superconductors
Creators: name: Sellati, Niccolò
name: Gabriele, Francesco
name: Castellani, Claudio
name: Benfatto, Lara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Layered superconductors like High-Tc cuprates display out-of-plane plasma oscillations between layers sustained by the weak Josephson coupling among the superconducting sheets, the so-called Josephson plasmons. Bilayer cuprates hosts two of such modes, but due to the anisotropy of the electronic response their description at generic wavevector cannot be separated from that of the in-plane oscillations. In this paper we provide an analytical theoretical framework able to describe the dispersions and the polarizations of the generalized plasma modes of such systems, that has been only partly addressed by previous work in the literature. We then employ it to explain the peculiar characteristics of their linear optical response, by providing a fully microscopic explanation for the appearance of a finite-frequency peak in the real part of the optical conductivity. On a wider perspective, the complete characterization of the Josephson plasma modes provided by our approach represents a groundwork to address open issues raised by recent experiments with strong THz pulses, able to drive them beyond the linear-response regime.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
(201311) Hannah [Reynolds]
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.
An energy-based interaction model for population opinion dynamics with topic coupling
Creators: name: Noorazar, Hossein
name: Sottile, Matthew J.
name: Vixie, Kevin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new, and quite general variational model for opinion dynamics based on pairwise interaction potentials and a range of opinion evolution protocols ranging from random interactions to global synchronous flows in the opinion state space. The model supports the concept of topic "coupling", allowing opinions held by individuals to be changed via indirect interaction with others on different subjects. Interaction topology is governed by a graph that determines interactions. Our model, which is really a family of variational models, has, as special cases, many of the previously established models for the opinion dynamics. After introducing the model, we study the dynamics of the special case in which the potential is either a tent function or a constructed bell-like curve. We find that even in these relatively simple potential function examples there emerges interesting behavior. We also present results of preliminary numerical explorations of the behavior of the model to motivate questions that can be explored analytically.
Trust and betrayal in the physician-patient relationship
Creators: name: Macintosh, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Designing optimal loop, saddle, and ellipse-based magnetic coils by spherical harmonic mapping
Creators: name: Hobson, Peter James
name: Hardwicke, Noah Louis
name: Davis, Alister
name: Smith, Thomas
name: Morley, Chris
name: Packer, Michael
name: Holmes, Niall
name: Weil, Max Alain
name: Brookes, Matthew
name: Bowtell, Richard
name: Fromhold, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adaptable, low-cost, coils designed by carefully selecting the arrangements and geometries of simple primitive units are used to generate magnetic fields for diverse applications. These extend from magnetic resonance and fundamental physics experiments to active shielding of quantum devices including magnetometers, interferometers, clocks, and computers. However, finding optimal arrangements and geometries of multiple primitive structures is time-intensive and it is challenging to account for additional constraints, e.g. optical access, during the design process. Here, we demonstrate a general method to find these optimal arrangements. We encode specific symmetries into sets of loops, saddles, and cylindrical ellipses and then solve exactly for the magnetic field harmonics generated by each set. By combining these analytic solutions using computer algebra, we can use numerical techniques to efficiently map the landscape of parameters and geometries which the coils must satisfy. Sets of solutions may be found which generate desired target fields accurately while accounting for complexity and size restrictions. We demonstrate this approach by employing simple configurations of loops, saddles, and cylindrical ellipses to design target linear field gradients and compare their performance with designs obtained using conventional methods. A case study is presented where three optimized arrangements of loops, designed to generate a uniform axial field, a linear axial field gradient, and a quadratic axial field gradient, respectively, are hand-wound around a low-cost, 3D-printed coil former. These coils are used to null the background in a typical laboratory environment, reducing the magnitude of the axial field along the central half of the former's axis from $\left(7.8\pm0.3\right)$ $μ$T (mean $\pm$ st. dev.) to $\left(0.11\pm0.04\right)$ $μ$T.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables
Ultra Violet Escape Fractions from Giant Molecular Clouds During Early Cluster Formation
Creators: name: Howard, Corey S.
name: Pudritz, Ralph E.
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The UV photon escape fraction from molecular clouds is a key parameter for understanding the ionization of the Interstellar Medium (ISM), and extragalactic processes, such as cosmic reionization. We present the ionizing photon flux and the corresponding photon escape fraction (f$_{esc}$) arising as a consequence of star cluster formation in a turbulent, 10$^6$ M$_{\odot}$ GMC, simulated using the code FLASH. We make use of sink particles to represent young, star-forming clusters coupled with a radiative transfer scheme to calculate the emergent UV flux. We find that the ionizing photon flux across the cloud boundary is highly variable in time and space due to the turbulent nature of the intervening gas. The escaping photon fraction remains at $\sim$5% for the first 2.5 Myr, followed by two pronounced peaks at 3.25 and 3.8 Myr with a maximum f$_{esc}$ of 30% and 37%, respectively. These peaks are due to the formation of large HII regions, that expand into regions of lower density and some of which reach the cloud surface. However, these phases are short lived and f$_{esc}$ drops sharply as the HII regions are quenched by the central cluster passing through high-density material due to the turbulent nature of the cloud. We find an average f$_{esc}$ of 15% with factor of two variations over 1 Myr timescales. Our results suggest that assuming a single value for f$_{esc}$ from a molecular cloud is in general a poor approximation, and that the dynamical evolution of the system leads to large temporal variation.
description: ApJ, Volume 834, Issue 1, article id. 40. 10 pages, 5 figures
Stability of Charged Global AdS$_4$ Spacetimes
Creators: name: Arias, Raúl
name: Mas, Javier
name: Serantes, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study linear and nonlinear stability of asymptotically AdS$_4$ solutions in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. After summarizing the set of static solutions we first examine thermodynamical stability in the grand canonical ensemble and the phase transitions that occur among them. In the second part of the paper we focus on nonlinear stability in the microcanonical ensemble by evolving radial perturbations numerically. We find hints of an instability corner for vanishingly small perturbations of the same kind as the ones present in the uncharged case. Collapses are avoided, instead, if the charge and mass of the perturbations come to close the line of solitons. Finally we examine the soliton solutions. The linear spectrum of normal modes is not resonant and instability turns on at extrema of the mass curve. Linear stability extends to nonlinear stability up to some threshold for the amplitude of the perturbation. Beyond that, the soliton is destroyed and collapses to a hairy black hole. The relative width of this stability band scales down with the charge Q, and does not survive the blow up limit to a planar geometry.
description: 43 pg, 22 fig. Published version. Appendix added
Imagining that one does : attaining ideal agency
Creators: name: Lotz, Marianne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Reconstructing black hole exteriors and interiors using entanglement and complexity
Creators: name: Xu, Wen-Bin
name: Wu, Shao-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study how to reconstruct bulk spacetime metrics by various quantum information measures on the boundary field theories, which include entanglement entropy, mutual information, entanglement of purification, and computational complexity according to the proposals of complexity=volume 2.0 and complexity=generalized volume. We present several reconstruction methods, all of which are free of UV divergence and most of which are driven by the derivatives of the measures with respect to the boundary scales. We illustrate that the exterior and interior of a black hole can be reconstructed using the measures of spatial entanglement and time-evolved complexity, respectively. We find that these measures always probe the spacetime in a local way: reconstructing the bulk metric in different radial positions requires the information at different boundary scales. We also show that the reconstruction method using complexity=volume 2.0 is the simplest and has a certain strong locality.
description: 26 pages, 18 figures, 1 table
(201310) Richard Reynolds
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.
Revisiting the nilpotent polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem
Creators: name: Johnson, John H.
name: Richter, Florian Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D10, 05C55, 20F18, 05B30

description: Answering a question posed by Bergelson and Leibman in [6], we establish a nilpotent version of the polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem that contains the main theorem in [6] as a special case. Important to the formulation and the proof of our main theorem is the notion of a relative syndetic set (relative with respect to a closed non-empty subsets of $β\mathbf{G}$) [25]. As a corollary of our main theorem we prove an extension of the restricted van der Waerden Theorem to nilpotent groups, which involves nilprogressions.
description: Added journal biblio and addendum to ancillary files; 20 pages, 2nd revised version
Identifying DNA splice sites using patterns statistical properties and fuzzy neural networks
Creators: name: Al-Daoud, Essam
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: DNA splice sites
subject: fuzzy inference system
subject: if-then rules
subject: preprocessing
subject: 610

description: This study introduces a new approach to recognize the boundaries between the parts of the DNA sequence retained after splicing and the parts of the DNA that are spliced out. The basic idea is to derive a new dataset from the original data to enhance the accuracy of the wellknown classification algorithms. The most accurate results are obtained by using a derived dataset that consists from the highest correlated features and the interesting statistical properties of the DNA sequences. On the other hand, using adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) with the derived dataset outperforms well-known classification algorithms. The classification rate that is achieved by using the new approach is 95.23 %, while the classification rates 92.12 %, 86.75 %, 83.13 % and 84.51 % are obtained by Levenberg- Marquardt, generalized regression neural networks, radial basis functions and learning vector quantization, respectively. Moreover, this approach can be used to represent the DNA splice sites problem in form if-then rules and hence provides an understanding about the properties of this problem.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 8, 2009
(201312) Amelia Silvester
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.
Quantum random number generation using an on-chip plasmonic beamsplitter
Creators: name: Francis, Jason
name: Zhang, Xia
name: Özdemir, Şahin K.
name: Tame, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experimental realisation of a quantum random number generator using a plasmonic beamsplitter. Free-space single photons are converted into propagating single surface plasmon polaritons on a gold stripe waveguide via a grating. The surface plasmons are then guided to a region where they are scattered into one of two possible outputs. The presence of a plasmonic excitation in a given output determines the value of a random bit generated from the quantum scattering process. Using a stream of single surface plasmons injected into the beamsplitter we achieve a quantum random number generation rate of 2.37 Mbits/s even in the presence of loss. We characterise the quality of the random number sequence generated, finding it to be comparable to sequences from other quantum photonic-based devices. The compact nature of our nanophotonic device makes it suitable for tight integration in on-chip applications, such as in quantum computing and communication schemes.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Development and evaluation of a measure of collaborative empiricism in cognitive therapy
Creators: name: Tee, John M.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Collaborative empiricism (CE) is a key CBT process, in which the client and therapist collaborate to empirically explore the client’s cognitions and cognitive processes. The aims of this study were to develop and psychometrically evaluate the first measure of CE in the literature, the Collaborative Empiricism Scale (CES), and use the measure to examine whether CE predicts reduction in depression severity in CBT for depression. The CES employs a novel design and rating methodology, allowing the rating of collaboration and empiricism at multiple levels, and at multiple times, within each therapy session. A theoretical model of CE is proposed that seeks to explain the motivational aspects of the construct, and integrate the collaborative and empirical elements of CE. Three studies are reported. In Study 1, 30 expert CBT researchers and practitioners evaluated the draft CES via an online feedback questionnaire, in a process consistent with the Delphi method. Experts rated the CES very highly for content validity, ecological validity, and ability to capture variance in CE, and highly for clarity. Study 2 reports on pilot testing of the scale. In Study 3, psychometrics of the CES are reported, and CE is examined as a predictor of depression severity in a sample of 44 adults, at three time points, with a total of 3548 ratings of empiricism and collaboration across 132 therapy sessions. Reliability of the CES was high, and concurrent validity demonstrated with the Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale. Collaborative empiricism was found to predict reduction in depression severity at termination, after controlling for pre-therapy depression, the working alliance, and therapist competence. A medium effect size of CE on depression was obtained (R2 equals .088), larger than that reported in the literature for the working alliance or therapist competence. This effect was maintained at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-therapy.
Thai-Burmese institutions in the nineteenth century
Creators: name: Kyaw, Aye
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Identification of protein types in Bambara nut seeds: perspectives for dietary protein supply in developing countries
Creators: name: Ogbunugafor, H.A.
name: Okafor, U.
name: Okpuzor, J.
name: Sofidiya, M.O.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: LC-MALDI TOF-TOF mass spectrometry
subject: malted seed
subject: MudPit
subject: peptides
subject: Vigna species
subject: Voandzeia subterranea L. Verdc.
subject: 610

description: This study aims to identify the types of proteins in malted and dry Bambara groundnut seeds and through a comparative analysis, identify similarities and their known uses. Dry viable bambara seed was stored for five days to malt. The proteins in the dry and malted seed were subsequently extracted in potassium phosphate buffer pH 7.0 and precipitated with saturated ammonium sulphate. MudPit (multidimensional protein identification technology) and LC-MALDI TOF-TOF (liquid chromatography - matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization tandem time-of-flight) mass spectrometry were thereafter used to identify the different types of proteins. A total of ten and twelve different types of proteins present in other legume species were identified in the malted and dry seeds respectively from the 214 peptides isolated after searching 586 proteins of the genus Vigna. Seed storage protein B and vicilin were observed to be the major proteins common to both malted and dry seeds and are similar to Vigna luteola. Some of the other proteins observed showed amino acid sequence homology with Vigna radiata and Vigna unguiculata species. The following proteins BV1, Heat shock and Bowman-Birk Inhibitor (a protease), were observed only in the malted state. This information may enhance the appreciation of the nutritional and health benefits of the seed.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 9, 2010
Relative K-stability and Extremal Sasaki metrics
Creators: name: Boyer, Charles P.
name: van Coevering, Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25 primary, 32W20 secondary

description: We define K-stability of a polarized Sasakian manifold relative to a maximal torus of automorphisms. The existence of a Sasaki-extremal metric in the polarization is shown to imply that the polarization is K-semistable. Computing this invariant for the deformation to the normal cone gives an extention of the Lichnerowicz obstruction, due to Gauntlett, Martelli, Sparks, and Yau, to an obstruction of Sasaki-extremal metrics. We use this to give a list of examples of Sasakian manifolds whose Sasaki cone contains no extremal representatives. These give the first examples of Sasaki cones of dimension greater than one that contain no extremal Sasaki metrics whatsoever. In the process we compute the unreduced Sasaki cone for an arbitrary smooth link of a weighted homogeneous polynomial.
description: 18 pages, some proofs were clarified and expanded
Changes in Victorian government schools : schools of the future or schools of the Führer?
Creators: name: Jennings, Jeanette
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201309) Esther [Pepper]
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.
A Decade of Research in Fog computing: Relevance, Challenges, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Srirama, Satish Narayana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time applications, have led to the unprecedented growth in the connected devices and their generated data. Traditionally, this sensor data is transferred and processed at the cloud, and the control signals are sent back to the relevant actuators, as part of the IoT applications. This cloud-centric IoT model, resulted in increased latencies and network load, and compromised privacy. To address these problems, Fog Computing was coined by Cisco in 2012, a decade ago, which utilizes proximal computational resources for processing the sensor data. Ever since its proposal, fog computing has attracted significant attention and the research fraternity focused at addressing different challenges such as fog frameworks, simulators, resource management, placement strategies, quality of service aspects, fog economics etc. However, after a decade of research, we still do not see large-scale deployments of public/private fog networks, which can be utilized in realizing interesting IoT applications. In the literature, we only see pilot case studies and small-scale testbeds, and utilization of simulators for demonstrating scale of the specified models addressing the respective technical challenges. There are several reasons for this, and most importantly, fog computing did not present a clear business case for the companies and participating individuals yet. This paper summarizes the technical, non-functional and economic challenges, which have been posing hurdles in adopting fog computing, by consolidating them across different clusters. The paper also summarizes the relevant academic and industrial contributions in addressing these challenges and provides future research directions in realizing real-time fog computing applications, also considering the emerging trends such as federated learning and quantum computing.
description: Accepted for publication at Wiley Software: Practice and Experience journal
“She’s been involved in everything as far as I can see”: Supporting the active participation of people with intellectual disabilities in community groups
Creators: name: Craig, Diane Jane
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 theSchool of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Formulas for Generalized Two-Qubit Separability Probabilities
Creators: name: Slater, Paul B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P45, 33C20, 65Q10, 62E17, 62E20

description: To begin, we find certain formulas $Q(k,α)= G_1^k(α) G_2^k(α)$, for $k = -1, 0, 1,...,9$. These yield that part of the total separability probability, $P(k,α)$, for generalized (real, complex, quaternionic,\ldots) two-qubit states endowed with random induced measure, for which the determinantal inequality $|ρ^{PT}| >|ρ|$ holds. Here $ρ$ denotes a $4 \times 4$ density matrix, obtained by tracing over the pure states in $4 \times (4 +k)$-dimensions, and $ρ^{PT}$, its partial transpose. Further, $α$ is a Dyson-index-like parameter with $α= 1$ for the standard (15-dimensional) convex set of (complex) two-qubit states. For $k=0$, we obtain the previously reported Hilbert-Schmidt formulas, with (the real case) $Q(0,\frac{1}{2}) = \frac{29}{128}$, (the standard complex case) $Q(0,1)=\frac{4}{33}$, and (the quaternionic case) $Q(0,2)= \frac{13}{323}$---the three simply equalling $ P(0,α)/2$. The factors $G_2^k(α)$ are sums of polynomial-weighted generalized hypergeometric functions $_{p}F_{p-1}$, $p \geq 7$, all with argument $z=\frac{27}{64} =(\frac{3}{4})^3$. We find number-theoretic-based formulas for the upper ($u_{ik}$) and lower ($b_{ik}$) parameter sets of these functions and, then, equivalently express $G_2^k(α)$ in terms of first-order difference equations. Applications of Zeilberger's algorithm yield "concise" forms, parallel to the one obtained previously for $P(0,α) =2 Q(0,α)$. For nonnegative half-integer and integer values of $α$, $Q(k,α)$ has descending roots starting at $k=-α-1$. Then, we (C. Dunkl and I) construct a remarkably compact (hypergeometric) form for $Q(k,α)$ itself. The possibility of an analogous "master" formula for $P(k,α)$ is, then, investigated, and a number of interesting results found.
description: 78 pages, 5 figures, 15 appendices, to appear in Adv. Math. Phys--verification in arXiv:1701.01973 of 8/33-two-qubit Hilbert-Schmidt separability probability conjecture noted
Kebun Kacang : an oral history of a poor inner-city community in Jakarta from the 1930s to the 1980s
Creators: name: Jellinek, Lea Olga
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Testing the Blazar Sequence with Spectra of Recently Discovered Dim Blazars from the Fermi Unassociated Catalog
Creators: name: Kerby, Stephen
name: Falcone, Abraham D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent works have developed samples of blazars from among the Fermi-LAT unassociated sources via machine learning comparisons with known blazar samples. Continued analysis of these new blazars tests the predictions of the blazar sequence and enables more flux-complete samples of blazars as a population. Using Fermi, Swift, WISE, and archival radio data, we construct broadband spectral energy distributions for 106 recently identified blazars. Drawn from the unassociated 4FGL source sample, this new sample has a lower median flux than the overall sample of gamma-ray blazars. By measuring the synchrotron peak frequency, we compare our sample of new blazars with known blazars from the 4LAC catalog. We find that the bulk of the new blazars are similar to High-Synchrotron Peak (HSP) BL Lac objects, with a higher median synchrotron peak; the sample has a median $ log( ν_{syn} /Hz ) = 15.5 $ via BLaST peak estimation, compared to $ log( ν_{syn} /Hz ) = 14.2 $ for the 4LAC BL Lacs. Finally, we conduct synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) leptonic modeling, comparing fitted physical and phenomenological properties to brighter blazars. We find that the new blazars have smaller characteristic Lorentz factors $γ_{boost}$ and fitted magnetic fields $B$, in agreement with blazar sequence predictions. The new blazars have slightly higher Compton dominance ratios than expected, which may point to alternative emission models for these dim blazars. Our results extend the predictions of the blazar sequence to a sample of dimmer blazars, confirming the broad predictions of that theory.
description: 13 pages main body with 10 figures. 8 pages of data tables
The emergence of the nature paradigm : landscape as "nature" in German lyric poetry, 1740-1775
Creators: name: Jeffries, Stephen John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Role of $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$ in the $B^- \to π^- K^+ K^- $ and $B^- \to π^- K^0 \bar K^0 $ reactions
Creators: name: Abreu, Luciano M.
name: Ikeno, Natsumi
name: Oset, Eulogio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the role of the $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$ resonances in the low $ K ^{+} K^{-} $ and $K^0 \bar K^0 $ invariant-mass region of the $B^- \to π^- K^+ K^- $ and $B^- \to π^- K^0 \bar K^0 $ reactions. The amplitudes are calculated by using the chiral unitary $\rm SU(3)$ formalism, in which these two resonances are dynamically generated from the unitary pseudocalar-pseudoscalar coupled-channel approach. The amplitudes are then used as input in the evaluation of the mass distributions with respect to the $ K^{+}K^{-} $ and $ K^{0}\bar K^{0} $ invariant-masses, where the contributions coming from the $I=0$ and $I=1$ components are explicitly assessed. Furthermore, the contribution of the $ K^{\ast }(892)^0 K^- $ production and its influence on the $ π^{-} K^+ $ and $ K^{+} K^- $ systems are also evaluated, showing that there is no significant strength for small $ K^{+} K^- $ invariant mass. Lastly, the final distributions of $ M_{\rm inv}^2( K^{\pm}K^{\mp} ) $ for the $B^{\mp} \to π^{\mp} K^{\pm}K^{\mp} $ reactions are estimated and compared with the LHCb data. Our results indicate that the $I=0$ component tied to the $f_0(980)$ excitation generates the dominant contribution in the range of low $ K ^{+} K^{-} $ invariant-mass.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
title: Hypoglossal nerve palsy caused by craniocervical junction juxtaarticular cyst
Creators: name: Plascak, Jasmina
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 79-year-old female patient indicated that she felt a lump in her throat and visible swelling on the left side of her tongue. Right-sided deviation of the tongue occurred during protrusion.

description: 79 years, female
(201306) John Joseph Pepper
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.
Duality and Conditional Expectations in the Nakajima-Mori-Zwanzig Formulation
Creators: name: Dominy, Jason M.
name: Venturi, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a new operator algebraic formulation of the Nakajima-Mori-Zwanzig (NMZ) method of projections. The new theory is built upon rigorous mathematical foundations, and it can be applied to both classical and quantum systems. We show that a duality principle between the NMZ formulation in the space of observables and in the state space can be established, analogous to the Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures in quantum mechanics. Based on this duality we prove that, under natural assumptions, the projection operators appearing in the NMZ equation must be conditional expectations. The proposed formulation is illustrated in various examples.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures
Strong light-matter coupling in the presence of lasing
Creators: name: Gies, Christopher
name: Gericke, Fabian
name: Gartner, Paul
name: Holzinger, Steffen
name: Hopfmann, Caspar
name: Heindel, Tobias
name: Wolters, Janik
name: Schneider, Christian
name: Florian, Matthias
name: Jahnke, Frank
name: Höfling, Sven.
name: Kamp, Martin
name: Reitzenstein, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The regime of strong light-matter coupling is typically associated with weak excitation. With current realizations of cavity-QED systems, strong coupling may persevere even at elevated excitation levels sufficient to cross the threshold to lasing. In the presence of stimulated emission, the vacuum-Rabi doublet in the emission spectrum is modified and the established criterion for strong coupling no longer applies. We provide a generalized criterion for strong coupling and the corresponding emission spectrum, which includes the influence of higher Jaynes-Cummings states. The applicability is demonstrated in a theory-experiment comparison of a few-emitter quantum-dot--micropillar laser as a particular realization of the driven dissipative Jaynes-Cummings model. Furthermore, we address the question if and for which parameters true single-emitter lasing can be achieved, and provide evidence for the coexistence of strong coupling and lasing in our system in the presence of background emitter contributions.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimator for the growth rate for a jump-type CIR process based on continuous time observations
Creators: name: Barczy, Matyas
name: Alaya, Mohamed Ben
name: Kebaier, Ahmed
name: Pap, Gyula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 60H10, 91G70, 60F05, 62F12

description: We consider a jump-type Cox--Ingersoll--Ross (CIR) process driven by a standard Wiener process and a subordinator, and we study asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for its growth rate. We distinguish three cases: subcritical, critical and supercritical. In the subcritical case we prove weak consistency and asymptotic normality, and, under an additional moment assumption, strong consistency as well. In the supercritical case, we prove strong consistency and mixed normal (but non-normal) asymptotic behavior, while in the critical case, weak consistency and non-standard asymptotic behavior are described. We specialize our results to so-called basic affine jump-diffusions as well. Concerning the asymptotic behavior of the MLE in the supercritical case, we derive a stochastic representation of the limiting mixed normal distribution, where the almost sure limit of an appropriately scaled jump-type supercritical CIR process comes into play. This is a new phenomenon, compared to the critical case, where a diffusion-type critical CIR process plays a role.
description: 36 pages. In Appendices we recall some notions and statements from arXiv:1509.08869
Weyl-Majorana solenoid
Creators: name: Baireuther, P.
name: Tworzydło, J.
name: Breitkreiz, M.
name: Adagideli, I.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Weyl semimetal wire with an axial magnetization has metallic surface states (Fermi arcs) winding along its perimeter, connecting bulk Weyl cones of opposite topological charge (Berry curvature). We investigate what happens to this "Weyl solenoid" if the wire is covered with a superconductor, by determining the dispersion relation of the surface modes propagating along the wire. Coupling to the superconductor breaks up the Fermi arc into a pair of Majorana modes, separated by an energy gap. Upon variation of the coupling strength along the wire there is a gap inversion that traps the Majorana fermions.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures; V2: added discussion of charge operator, updated figures; V3: added a section on analytical mode-matching calculations, an appendix, and three new figures. To be published in the Focus Issue on "Topological semimetals" of New Journal of Physics