cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Confluence of climate, violence, disease, and cost shocks: vulnerability of and impacts on Nigerian Maize Traders
Creators: name: Vargas, Carolina M.
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Using unique primary survey data on 1100 Nigerian maize traders, we use probit models to estimate the probability of experiencing exogenous shocks and its relationship to trader characteristics (gender, size, and location), and traders vulnerability, measured as the probability of experiencing severe impacts. We study five types of exogenous shocks: climate, violence, price changes, spoilage, and COVID-19. We analyze the relationship among these shocks and the trader characteristics that make traders more vulnerable. We find traders are prone to experience more than one shock, which increases the intensity of the shocks. This is especially the case for price shocks, which are often accompanied by violence, climate, and COVID shocks. The poorer Northern region is disproportionately affected by shocks, with Northern traders experiencing more price shocks, and Southern traders more violence shocks but in their long supply chains from the North. Women are more prone to experience a violence shock and men, a severe climate event. A limitation is that the data only analyze the general degree of impact of a shock rather than quantify lost income. A key policy implication is the need for a differentiated response and prevention strategy based on the particular mix of shocks and types of traders and regions.
Chalinolobus variegatus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus variegatus

description: Chalinolobus variegatus (Tomes, 1861). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861:36. TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia, Otjoro. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Somalia, south to South Africa. COMMENT: Transferred from Glauconycteris; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:1-4. Includes machadoi; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:6. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003013001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Exploring the pragmatic competence of EFL learners in the production and judgement of formal written requests
Creators: name: Siu, Kwai Peng
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study sets out to examine the pragmatic competence of Cantonese adult learners of English possessing different levels of proficiency when performing the speech act of requesting for a formal purpose in writing. Pragmatic judgment - one of the two aspects of pragmatic competence - was examined by studying the most proficient group (i.e., native Cantonese-speaking EFL teachers at university), whereas pragmatic performance - the other aspect of pragmatic competence - was examined by studying the two weaker groups (i.e., university students at two language proficient levels). Both pragmatic judgment and pragmatic performance were examined by investigating the same four dependent variables (i.e., politeness, directness, formality and amount of information). Teacher data, collected through a Pragmatic Judgment Questionnaire completed and returned by sixteen EFL teachers (eight native Cantonese speakers and eight native English speakers) and by means of individual interviews, were analyzed quantitatively for responses to twelve questions and qualitatively for responses to an additional two questions. Student data, consisting of both experimental and authentic letters and e-mails, were analyzed quantitatively. -- Main research findings suggest: *It is possible for very proficient NNSs of English, (i.e., the EFL teachers in this study), to achieve native-like pragmatic judgments in most aspects, except for their views on several pragmatic considerations (i.e., "unnaturally polite" expressions, usefulness of "negative" words, supportive moves not to be used and writing plans preferred). *As the English proficiency of L2 learners improves from Grade E to Grade A/B (as determined by the Hong Kong A-level Examinations in the subject "Use of English"), their pragmatic performance shows improvement. -- For pedagogical reasons, a qualitative analysis was conducted for Questions 1 and 2 in order to generate examples of "unnaturally polite"/ "polite" / "impolite" expressions and to provide examples of inappropriate supportive moves in relation to three writing topics.
Elaboration on a permissible theme
Creators: name: Carter, Drew
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2009

description: The experience of being overwhelmed or speechless is very common, but it has insufficiently informed contemporary moral philosophy. My thesis seeks to redress this. Iris Murdoch wrote that 'art is the great clue to morals'. In tragic drama she saw a doomed but noble attempt to answer to the worst in life and in sublime experience an emblem of goodness: loving attention to the 'unutterably particular'. Form generally, artistic or intellectual, falters before both the awful (in tragic drama) and the wonderful (in the sublime), and these extremes reveal what might no less, but only less obviously, pertain in the everyday. Raimond Gaita acknowledges a mystery in the standard to which we are called both in remorse and in wonder at 'saintly love', but his allegiance to a particular view on the nature, operation and even, one might say, sovereignty of concepts in our inner lives (developed after Ludwig Wittgenstein) may limit his appreciation of the broader implications and possibility of this mystery. Christopher Cordner may better suggest them in, for one, his discussion of one's admiration for their beloved's beauty. Thus do I examine the philosophical work of Murdoch, Gaita and Cordner in connection with the themes of tragedy, the sublime and individuality. I then examine the view of concepts to which Gaita and Cordner generally subscribe.;I conclude with an extensive and philosophically alive reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. This constitutes both an extension and application of my thought. The novel presents paradoxes (or 'outward nonsense') in its portrayal of both the despair possible before great suffering in this world and the deliverance that can follow from a sense of personal responsibility and a gratitude for the beauty of all creation. Simone Weil sees in such paradoxes opportunities to transcend reason in view of spiritual elevation and attraction to a higher truth. In the practical consideration of lesser evils, much contemporary moral philosophy seems reduced to, in Dostoevsky's words, an 'eccentric question on an impermissible theme'. This thesis opposes that orientation, following Murdoch, Gaita and Cordner in returning love to the centre of discussion about morality.
Humans: the hyper-dense species
Creators: name: Burger, Joseph R.
name: Weinberger, Vanessa P.
name: Marquet, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Humans, like all organisms, are subject to fundamental biophysical laws. Van Valen predicted that, because of zero-sum dynamics, all populations of all species in a given environment flux the same amount of energy on average. Damuth's 'energetic equivalence rule' supported Van Valen's conjecture by showing a trade off between few big animals per area with high individual metabolic rates compared to abundant small species with low energy requirements. We use established metabolic scaling theory to compare variation in densities and individual energy use in human societies to other land mammals. We show that hunter-gatherers occurred at lower densities than a mammal of our size. Most modern humans, in contrast, concentrate in large cities at densities that are up to four orders of magnitude greater than hunter-gatherers yet cities consume up to two orders of magnitude greater energy per capita. Today, cities across the globe flux greater energy than net primary productivity on a per area basis. This is possible through enormous fluxes of energy and materials across urban boundaries to sustain hyper-dense, modern humans. The metabolic rift with nature created by hyper-dense cities supported by fossil fuel energy poses formidable challenges for establishing a sustainable relationship on a rapidly urbanizing, yet finite planet.
Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus

description: Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Nature, p. 2. REVIEWED BY: F. R. Allison (FRA)(Australia); J. Gaisler (JG) (Palearctic). COMMENT: Middle and South American species reviewed by Davis, 1965, J. Mammal., 46:229-240, and Davis, 1966, Southwest. Nat., 11:245-274. Australian species reviewed by McKean, et al., 1978, Aust. J. Zool., 26:529-537, and Carpenter et al., 1978, Aust. J. Zool., 26:629-638. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Blackfella business whitefella law: political struggle and competition in a South-East Arnhem Land Aboriginal community.
Creators: name: Bern, John Edward
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Chapter 1 outlines the political structure of Ngukurr and presents the methodological foundation of the analysis. I follow this with a discussion of the political organisation of traditional Aboriginal society and the place of Aboriginal and European modes of categorisation in the organisation of the Village. Chapter 2 outlines the ecological, and demographic background, the organisation of the Settlement economy, the main categories of kinship organisation, and the cycle of daily life. Chapters 3 and 4 present the history of Ngukurr, the contemporary Settlement structure of domination, and the categories of political organisation within the Village. Chapter 3 focuses on the developments in Australian society which have affected the indigenous population, while in Chapter 4 the changes occurring within the indigenous population are the centre of attention. The public arenas utilised to discuss the organisation of the Settlement and the Village are classified and analysed in Chapter 5. Chapters 6 and 7 present the the major events of political competition. Chapter 6 deals with the competition occurring in the context of traditional religion, which is classified on the bases of acquisition of property, maintenance of authority positions, and inter community relations. Chapter 7 deals with the competition occurring in relations between the Village and the Government and its local representatives. This competition is analysed as the actions of a subordinate category resisting and reacting to a situation of domination. Chapter 8 concludes the thesis with an examination of the contradiction inherent in Village political practice and its consequences for the formulation and pursuit of land rights.
Evaluation of a model for the professional development of teachers
Creators: name: Dusting, Rosemary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Lost in Translation: Text and Context in Economic versus Legal Concepts of the Contract
Creators: name: Haldar, Antara
name: Baquero, Pablo Marcello
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Relational Contract
Braided Contracts
Contracts for Innovation
Informal Contracts

description: We examine the epistemic disjunction between economic and legal scholarship with respect to the concept of the contract. While economics continues to tend to treat the “contract” as a single, unified concept, legal studies, increasingly, acknowledges wide institutional variation in contracts in different contexts. Based on extensive analysis of the empirical evidence on contracting practices, we take a radical step in the direction of challenging a unitary theory of contract. We propose that there exist patterns of contracting across three different sectors: the high, medium and low levels of sophistication of the market economy and tease out, so far unnoticed, similarities in the high and low ends of the spectrum, i.e., instances where uncertainty is particularly salient. We argue that economic theory would provide a more accurate analysis of contracting practices, and, indeed, contracts, if these different variations, and their implications, were foregrounded.
Stochastically forced dislocation density distribution in plastic deformation
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Amit K.
name: Aifantis, Elias C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical evolution of dislocations in plastically deformed metals is controlled by both deterministic factors arising out of applied loads and stochastic effects appearing due to fluctuations of internal stress. Such type of stochastic dislocation processes and the associated spatially inhomogeneous modes lead to randomness in the observed deformation structure. Previous studies have analyzed the role of randomness in such textural evolution but none of these models have considered the impact of a finite decay time (all previous models assumed instantaneous relaxation which is "unphysical") of the stochastic perturbations in the overall dynamics of the system. The present article bridges this knowledge gap by introducing a colored noise in the form of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise in the analysis of a class of linear and nonlinear Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes that these structural dislocation dynamics could be mapped on to. Based on an analysis of the relevant Fokker-Planck model, our results show that linear Wiener processes remain unaffected by the second time scale in the problem but all nonlinear processes, both Wiener type and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type, scale as a function of the noise decay time $τ$. The results are expected to ramify existing experimental observations and inspire new numerical and laboratory tests to gain further insight into the competition between deterministic and random effects in modeling plastically deformed samples.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; to appear in Physical Review E
It's a long way to the top: elite male leadership career trajectories and social status within Egypt's provinces during the Old Kingdom
Creators: name: Clarke, Thérèse
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: How did elite males progress through civil and temple leadership paths in the Old Kingdom? What titles identified that progression? How did their social status/seniority factor into their careers? Is it possible to measure that social status? This thesis examines the career trajectories of elite males with links to non-Memphite Egypt across the Old Kingdom to answer these questions. The approach adopted is one of cohort-based analysis of the career paths and social status of leaders involved in provincial administration across the Old Kingdom using the tools of prosopography. The study has applied a robust and systematic approach to analysing career trajectories via an examination of civil and temple leadership titles, as well as an innovative method for measuring social status through development of an index to convert honorifics, Residence-related titles and royal cult titles into a single measure: the Patronage Index. The analysis has demonstrated that those involved in the day to day administration of provinces or temples had very specialist careers when compared to individuals who advanced to higher office. Similarly, there was a significant difference in their seniority. As is the case today, 'highflyers' were less common than the 'typical', even though 'highflyers' are more likely to be visible in the record than the latter. The study rejects the use of terms such as nomarch or governor, instead proposing that Provincial Leadership is a spectrum that developed across the Old Kingdom, from locality chiefs through to the Great Overlords, which it collectively terms Provincial Leaders. It challenges existing scholarship regarding the classification of certain individuals as nomarchs or governors, noting a tendency to conflate high status with Provincial Leadership. It concludes that titles or roles should not be inferred when the evidence does not offer explicit support. It further suggests that social status can be estimated more effectively through the adoption of a single measure of the totality of links to court (the Patronage Index), than strings of honorifics -- abstract.
Four loop renormalization of the Gross-Neveu model
Creators: name: Gracey, J. A.
name: Luthe, T.
name: Schroder, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We renormalize the SU(N) Gross-Neveu model in the modified minimal subtraction (MSbar) scheme at four loops and determine the beta-function at this order. The theory ceases to be multiplicatively renormalizable when dimensionally regularized due to the generation of evanescent 4-fermi operators. The first of these appears at three loops and we correctly take their effect into account in deriving the renormalization group functions. We use the results to provide estimates of critical exponents relevant to phase transitions in graphene.
description: 26 latex pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Eptesicus bobrinskoi Kuzyakin 1935
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus bobrinskoi

description: Eptesicus bobrinskoi Kuzyakin, 1935. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, 44:435. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kazakhstan, 65 km E. Aralsk, Tyulek Wells in Aral-Kara-Kum desert. DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia (U.S. S.R.); N.W. Iran. COMMENT: Revised by Hanak and Gaisler, 1971, Vestn. Cs. Spol. Zool., 35 (1):11 —24. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hanak, V., and J. Gaisler. 1971. The status of Eptesicus ognevi Bobrinskii, 1918, and remarks on some other species of this genus (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Vestnik eskoslovenske Spole nosti Zoologicke, 35 (1): 11 - 24."]}
Hamiltonian Tomography of Photonic Lattices
Creators: name: Ma, Ruichao
name: Owens, Clai
name: LaChapelle, Aman
name: Schuster, David I.
name: Simon, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we introduce a novel approach to Hamiltonian tomography of non-interacting tight-binding photonic lattices. To begin with, we prove that the matrix element of the low-energy effective Hamiltonian between sites $i$ and $j$ may be obtained directly from $S_{ij}(ω)$, the (suitably normalized) two-port measurement between sites $i$ and $j$ at frequency $ω$. This general result enables complete characterization of both on-site energies and tunneling matrix elements in arbitrary lattice networks by spectroscopy, and suggests that coupling between lattice sites is actually a topological property of the two-port spectrum. We further provide extensions of this technique for measurement of band-projectors in finite, disordered systems with good flatness ratios, and apply the tool to direct real-space measurement of the Chern number. Our approach demonstrates the extraordinary potential of microwave quantum circuits for exploration of exotic synthetic materials, providing a clear path to characterization and control of single-particle properties of Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard lattices. More broadly, we provide a robust, unified method of spectroscopic characterization of linear networks from photonic crystals to microwave lattices and everything in-between.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Eptesicus bottae
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus bottae

description: Eptesicus bottae (Peters, 1869). Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 406. TYPE LOCALITY: Yemen. DISTRIBUTION: Turkey, Egypt, and Yemen, east to Kazakstan and Iran. COMMENT: Includes innesi, hingstoni, ognevi, and anatolicus; see Corbet, 1978:57; and DeBlase, 1971, Fieldiana Zool., 58:9- 14. Revised by Hanak and Gaisler, 1971, Vestn. Cs. Spol. Zool., 35 (l):ll-24. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["DeBlase, A. F. 1971. New distributional records of bats from Iran. Fieldiana: Zoology, 58: 9 - 14.", "Hanak, V., and J. Gaisler. 1971. The status of Eptesicus ognevi Bobrinskii, 1918, and remarks on some other species of this genus (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Vestnik eskoslovenske Spole nosti Zoologicke, 35 (1): 11 - 24."]}
Verification of the helioseismic Fourier-Legendre analysis for meridional flow measurements
Creators: name: Roth, Markus
name: Doerr, Hans-Peter
name: Hartlep, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring the Sun's internal meridional flow is one of the key issues of helioseismology. Using the Fourier-Legendre analysis is a technique for addressing this problem. We validate this technique with the help of artificial helioseismic data. The analysed data set was obtained by numerically simulating the effect of the meridional flow on the seismic wave field in the full volume of the Sun. In this way, a 51.2-hour long time series was generated. The resulting surface velocity field is then analyzed in various settings: Two $360^\circ \times 90^\circ$ halfspheres, two $120^\circ \times 60^\circ$ patches on the front and farside of the Sun (North and South, respectively) and two $120^\circ \times 60^\circ$ patches on the northern and southern frontside only. We compare two possible measurement setups: observations from Earth and from an additional spacecraft on the solar farside, and observations from Earth only, in which case the full information of the global solar oscillation wave field was available. We find that, with decreasing observing area, the accessible depth range decreases: the $360^\circ \times 90^\circ$ view allows us to probe the meridional flow almost to the bottom of the convection zone, while the $120^\circ \times 60^\circ$ view means only the outer layers can be probed. These results confirm the validity of the Fourier-Legendre analysis technique for helioseismology of the meridional flow. Furthermore these flows are of special interest for missions like Solar Orbiter that promises to complement standard helioseismic measurements from the solar nearside with farside observations.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Diurnal and Weekly Cycles in IPv6 Traffic
Creators: name: Strowes, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: IPv6 activity is commonly reported as a fraction of network traffic per day. Within this traffic, however, are daily and weekly characteristics, driven by non-uniform IPv6 deployment across ISPs and regions. This paper discusses some of the more apparent patterns we observe today.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures, short workshop paper, ACM, IRTF & ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2016
Portraits of Galicia: Guidebooks from the Late Habsburg Empire To Interwar Poland
Creators: name: Jin, Xueyi (Rhea)
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Habsburg empire
subject: interwar Poland
subject: guidebook
subject: local identity
subject: diversity
subject: nation-state
subject: imperialism

description: This thesis explores the portrayals of Galicia, a historical region with a particularly diverse population and complex local identity, through its geopolitical locations and historical narratives in the guidebooks of the late Habsburg empire and of interwar Poland. As a source that often endures multiple reeditions yet still maintains consistent information, guidebook is used to see how different states view and treat Galicia's diversity, fitting it into their mental landscape in relations to other regions and the rest of Europe. Its historical background is also utilized to emphasize certain aspects of the states. While Galicia is fit into the Austrian pursuit of a diverse empire, it stands out again in the Polish nation’s idealized homogeneity. In seeking to understand the implications of the imperial structure and of nation-state, Galicia's portraits reveal how its diversity is presented differently in the subtle recommendations of guidebooks. Instead of tracing the history of Galicia, this inquiry traces the history of the ideas of Galicia. While the history of Galicia reveals the changes in society, governance, and beyond, the history of its ideas uncovers changes in characterizations, frustrations, and dreams. People's and states' perceptions of Galicia are entangled with the dichotomy between East and West, which still continues to this day.
Eptesicus brasiliensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus brasiliensis

description: Eptesicus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819). Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Paris, 2nd ed., 35:478. REVIEWED BY: W. B. Davis (WBD); B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR). TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Goias. DISTRIBUTION: San Luis Potosi (Mexico), south to N. Argentina and Uruguay; Trinidad; Tobago. COMMENT: Includes chiriquinus, melanopterus, and andimis; see Koopman, 1978:19. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004004001 as E. brasiliensis. 5301405014004001001 as E. andimis. 5301405014004007001 as E. chiriquinus. 5301405014004017001 as E. melanopterus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Matching uncertainties in the prediction of the Higgs boson transverse momentum in the SM and beyond
Creators: name: Bagnaschi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of our recent study (arXiv:1510.08850) of the theoretical uncertainties that affect the predictions for the Higgs-boson transverse-momentum in gluon fusion when fixed- and all-order results are matched. Our investigation consists of a twofold analysis: first we present a detailed comparison of two recently introduced prescriptions for the determination of the matching scale (arXiv:1409.0531, arXiv:1505.00735), then we apply the results of these methods to three widely used matching frameworks, namely the aMC@NLO and POWHEG Monte Carlo approaches and analytic resummation. The results of our study are applied to the production of the SM Higgs boson and of the neutral Higgs bosons of the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model in a variety of scenarios.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of LHCP2016
Emerging challenges in inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Selvaratnam, Sriharan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Emerging challenges in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) include a dramatic rise in the disease burden of developing nations as well as an increase in complex disease behaviour. In order to meet these challenges, greater global understanding of IBD epidemiology is required, as well as the development of efficient strategies to manage complex disease phenotypes. A paucity of collective information about IBD in South America exists within the literature. Furthermore, the combination of endoscopic balloon dilation (EBD) and ustekinumab, a relatively new biological agent, has never been evaluated for the treatment of stricturing Crohn’s disease (CD). The work incorporated in this thesis aims to address these issues. Methods: Two studies were undertaken. A systematic review was conducted to report the epidemiology and disease characteristics of IBD within the South American continent. A retrospective cohort study was performed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of EBD with or without ustekinumab biological therapy for the treatment of stricturing CD. Results: Ulcerative colitis (UC) is more prevalent than CD within the South American continent (15.0-24.1 versus 2.4-14.1 per 100,000 individuals). The incidence and prevalence of both UC and CD has dramatically risen in Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. IBD was more common in urban centres whilst colonic CD and pancolonic UC represented the most commonly reported IBD phenotypes. Stricture resolution was significantly more likely in patients who received EBD with ustekinumab compared to EBD with non-ustekinumab biological agents (OR 6.60; 95% CI 1.45-34.05; p < 0.01), EBD with no-biological agent (OR 6.89; 95% CI 1.36-30.97, p = 0.01), or EBD and not-on ustekinumab therapy (OR 6.88; 95% CI 1.68-31.74; p < 0.01). Long-term success, defined as surgery-free survival for one year after EBD, was achieved in 100% (95% CI 76-100) of patients who received EBD with ustekinumab. None of the patients in this study required rescue surgical intervention for procedure-related complications. Conclusion: The IBD burden in South America is rapidly rising, thus mirroring the epidemiological shift seen in other developing nations. EBD with ustekinumab is a safe and effective therapeutic strategy for the management of stricturing CD. These findings help bridge current knowledge gaps and enhance our collective effort to address the emerging challenges in IBD.
Building workable lives : TAFE learning
Creators: name: Pardy, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Eptesicus brunneus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus brunneus

description: Eptesicus brunneus (Thomas, 1880). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 6: 165. TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Eastern region, Calabar. DISTRIBUTION: Nigeria; Cameroun; Zaire; Ivory Coast. COMMENT: Known only from one specimen which is in poor condition (NS). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004005001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Ab initio calculations to support accurate modelling of the rovibronic spectroscopy calculations of vanadium monoxide (VO)
Creators: name: McKemmish, Laura K.
name: Yurchenko, Sergei N.
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate knowledge of the rovibronic near-infrared and visible spectra of vanadium monoxide (VO) is very important for studies of cool stellar and hot planetary atmospheres. Here, the required ab initio dipole moment and spin-orbit coupling curves for VO are produced. This data forms the basis of a new VO line list considering 13 different electronic states and containing over 277 million transitions. Open shell transition, metal diatomics are challenging species to model through ab initio quantum mechanics due to the large number of low-lying electronic states, significant spin-orbit coupling and strong static and dynamic electron correlation. Multi-reference configuration interaction methodologies using orbitals from a complete active space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) calculation are the standard technique for these systems. We use different state-specific or minimal-state CASSCF orbitals for each electronic state to maximise the calculation accuracy. The off-diagonal dipole moment controls the intensity of electronic transitions. We test finite-field off-diagonal dipole moments, but found that (1) the accuracy of the excitation energies were not sufficient to allow accurate dipole moments to be evaluated and (2) computer time requirements for perpendicular transitions were prohibitive. The best off-diagonal dipole moments are calculated using wavefunctions with different CASSCF orbitals.
description: Molecular Physics, 2016
Multiple imputation of missing covariate values in multilevel models with random slopes: A cautionary note
Creators: name: Grund, Simon
name: Lüdtke, Oliver
name: Robitzsch, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple imputation (MI) has become one of the main procedures used to treat missing data, but the guidelines from the methodological literature are not easily transferred to multilevel research. For models including random slopes, proper MI can be difficult, especially when the covariate values are partially missing. In the present article, we discuss applications of MI in multilevel random-coefficient models, theoretical challenges posed by slope variation, and the current limitations of standard MI software. Our findings from three simulation studies suggest that (a) MI is able to recover most parameters, but is currently not well suited to capture slope variation entirely when covariate values are missing; (b) MI offers reasonable estimates for most parameters, even in smaller samples or when its assumptions are not met; and (c) listwise deletion can be an alternative worth considering when preserving the slope variance is particularly important.
Colloidal CuFeS2 Nanocrystals: Intermediate Fe d-Band Leads to High Photothermal Conversion Efficiency
Creators: name: Ghosh, S.
name: Avellini, T.
name: Petrelli, A.
name: Kriegel, I.
name: Gaspari, R.
name: Almeida, G.
name: Bertoni, G.
name: Cavalli, A.
name: Scotognella, F.
name: Pellegrino, T.
name: Manna, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the colloidal hot-injection synthesis of phase-pure nanocrystals (NCs) of a highly abundant mineral, chalcopyrite (CuFeS2). Absorption bands centered at around 480 and 950 nm, spanning almost the entire visible and near infrared regions, encompass their optical extinction characteristics. These peaks are ascribable to electronic transitions from the valence band (VB) to the empty intermediate band (IB), located in the fundamental gap and mainly composed of Fe 3d orbitals. Laser-irradiation (at 808 nm) of an aqueous suspension of CuFeS2 NCs exhibited significant heating, with a photothermal conversion efficiency of 49%. Such efficient heating is ascribable to the carrier relaxation within the broad IB band (owing to the indirect VB-IB gap), as corroborated by transient absorption measurements. The intense absorption and high photothermal transduction efficiency (PTE) of these NCs in the so-called biological window (650-900 nm) makes them suitable for photothermal therapy as demonstrated by tumor cell annihilation upon laser irradiation. The otherwise harmless nature of these NCs in dark conditions was confirmed by in vitro toxicity tests on two different cell lines. The presence of the deep Fe levels constituting the IB is the origin of such enhanced PTE, which can be used to design other high performing NC photothermal agents.
description: 12 pages, Chemistry of Materials, 31-May-2016
Holographic free energy and thermodynamic geometry
Creators: name: Ghorai, Debabrata
name: Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
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 analytically obtain the free energy and thermodynamic geometry of holographic superconductors in $2+1$-dimensions. The gravitational theory in the bulk dual to this $2+1$-dimensional strongly coupled theory lives in the $3+1$-dimensions and is that of a charged $AdS$ black hole together with a massive charged scalar field. The matching method is applied to obtain the nature of the fields near the horizon using which the holographic free energy is computed through the gauge/gravity duality. The critical temperature is obtained for a set of values of the matching point of the near horizon and the boundary behaviour of the fields. The thermodynamic geometry is then computed from the free energy of the boundary theory. From the divergence of the thermodynamic scalar curvature, the critical temperature is obtained once again. We then compare this result for the critical temperature with that obtained from the matching method.
description: 13 pages Latex
Eptesicus capensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus capensis

description: Eptesicus capensis (A. Smith, 1829). Zool. J., 4:435. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Province, Grahamstown. DISTRIBUTION: Guinea to Ethiopia, south to South Africa; Madagascar. COMMENT: Includes notius; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:405. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004006001 as E. capensis. 5301405014004022001 as E. notius.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444."]}
Eptesicus demissus Thomas 1916
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus demissus

description: Eptesicus demissus Thomas, 1916. J. Fed. Malay St. Mus., 7:1. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand, Surat Thani, Khao Nong. DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Thailand.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Eptesicus diminutus Osgood 1915
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus diminutus

description: Eptesicus diminutus Osgood, 1915. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. Ser. Zool., 10: 197. REVIEWED BY: W. B. Davis (WBD). TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Bahia, Rio Preto, Sao Marcello. DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela; Brazil; Paraguay; Uruguay; N. Argentina. COMMENT: Includes fidelis; see Williams, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47:380-382, and also for use of diminutus instead of dorianus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004008001 as E. diminutus. 5301405014004009001 as E. fidelis.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Eptesicus douglasi Kitchener 1976
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus douglasi

description: Eptesicus douglasi Kitchener, 1976. Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 4:295, 296. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley, Napier Ranges, Tunnel Creek. DISTRIBUTION: Kimberley (N. Western Australia).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
High-Temperature Annealing of TiO2 Nanotube Membranes for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Creators: name: Mohammadpour, Fatemeh
name: Altomare, Marco
name: So, Seulgi
name: Lee, Kiyoung
name: Mokhtar, Mohamed
name: Alshehri, Abdelmohsen
name: Al-Thabaiti, Shaeel A.
name: Schmuki, Patrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We fabricate photo-anodes by transferring anodic TiO2 nanotube membranes in tube-top-down configuration on FTO glass, and use them for constructing frontside illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells. Prior to solar cell construction, the tube-based photo-anodes are crystallized at different temperatures (400-800°C), and the effects of tube electron transport properties on the photovoltaic performance of the solar cells are investigated. We show that improved solar cell efficiencies (up to ca. 8.0%) can be reached by high-temperature treatment of the tube membranes. Consistently with electron transport time measurements, remarkably enhanced electron mobility is enabled when tube membranes are crystallized at 600°C.
description: Published 1 October 2015, 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Volume 31, Number 1
Popular culture, negotiation and communication : a self-study on the question of student engagement
Creators: name: Cook, Lauren.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Room-temperature formation of Pt$_3$Si/Pt$_2$Si films on poly-Si substrates
Creators: name: Dubkov, V. P.
name: Mironov, S. A.
name: Chizh, K. V.
name: Yuryev, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a way of formation of thin bilayer Pt$_3$Si/Pt$_2$Si films at room temperature on poly-Si substrates by Pt magnetron sputtering and wet etching, obtain such film, investigate its structure and phase composition and estimate the thickness of its layers. We verify by direct x-ray photoelectron-spectroscopic measurements our previous observation of the Pt$_2$Si layer formaton between Pt and poly-Si films as a result of Pt magnetron sputtering at room temperature. This layer likely appears due to high enough temperature of Pt ions in the magnetron plasma sufficient for chemical reaction of the silicide film formation on the Si surface. The Pt$_3$Si layer likely forms from the Pt--Pt$_3$Si layer (Pt$_{95}$Si$_5$), which arises under Pt film during the magnetron sputtering, as a result of Pt removal by wet etching.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
OpenData delle province siciliane
Creators: name: Drago, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Il file "ontologia.rdf" rappresenta dati aperti sulle province siciliane per un periodo di tre anni (dal 2019 al 2021).
 L'ontologia definisce diverse proprietà per descrivere le informazioni relative alle province, inclusi l'anno, il nome della provincia, il numero di residenti, il numero di migranti, il numero di stranieri, il numero di scuole, il numero di arrivi turistici, le variazioni degli arrivi turistici rispetto l'anno precedente, il numero di presenze turistiche e le variazioni delle presenze turistiche rispetto l'anno precedente. Le proprietà definite nell'ontologia hanno anche specificato il loro intervallo utilizzando i tipi di dati di RDF come XSD.gYear, XSD.string e XSD.integer.
 Inoltre, è presente un collegamento con DBpedia per ogni provincia siciliana, per ottenere un maggior numero di informazioni.
Eptesicus flavescens
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus flavescens

description: Eptesicus flavescens (Seabra, 1900). J. Sei. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2, 6:23. TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Galanga. DISTRIBUTION: Angola; Burundi.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 173, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990