cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ageing well: An inquiry into older people's experiences of community-based organisations
Creators: name: MacKean, RM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates an under-researched area of older people's activities: the characteristics of the community-based organisations to which older people belong, the activities they pursue there, and the factors which encourage or deter their participation. It is now generally accepted that participation in mental, physical and social activities helps older people maintain their health and wellbeing. This study explores in depth ways in which participation in the leisure activities offered by self-help organisations benefit older people, by satisfying their desire to remain active, independent and involved. By giving older people a voice‚ÄövÑvp in describing their experiences, the research seeks to discover their motivations for participation, what benefits they saw as deriving from participation, and how participation affected their self-assessed quality of life. A phenomenological and modified Grounded Theory approach was adopted to elicit the lived experience of the participants and explore their reflections on their experiences. Twenty-five participants aged 65 to 82 (14 women and l1 men) were purposively selected from seven different community-based organisations with a range of size, structure and membership, and offering different activities. Through semi-structured interviews conducted by a researcher of similar age and experience, participants were able to voice their opinions freely without the constraint of ageism. Interview transcriptions provided rich descriptions; respondents' voices have been captured and used extensively in the study, allowing in-depth exploration of their attitudes and feelings. Interview data were coded and analysed using thematic analysis (Strauss & Corbin 1990; Charmaz, 2006). Using as a framework for analysis of respondents' experiences Toffler's (1981) concepts of community, structure and meaning‚ÄövÑvp, the study suggests that participation in community-based organisations helps older people maintain their wellbeing, independence and self-esteem and a sense of purpose and identity. Participation gives older people opportunities to make new friends, to use their knowledge and experience, to act reciprocally, and to continue learning in an informal, supportive setting. The study revealed that self-assessed wellbeing is affected less by people's age and state of health than by their social support networks, and that community-based organisations have an important role in providing the mental, physical and social activities that benefit older people. Groups run by older people for their peers were found to be particularly successful in providing older people with opportunities to share experiences and understandings, to cope with loss, and to observe and learn coping strategies for successful ageing.
Three mistakes about the senses
Creators: name: Vender, D
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Three widespread assumptions about the human senses are challenged. These are that we have five senses, that they function independently, and, for the purposes of theorising perception, that vision can serve as a typical sense. These assumptions underlie most philosophical treatments of the senses in epistemology and the philosophy of perception, but they are mistaken. Contemporary attempts to count senses generally use some combination of four criteria based on sensations, organs, stimulus and behaviour. I examine these criteria and show them to be separately insufficient and jointly incoherent. In particular, the pluralism of physical theory and difficulties with dividing primary from secondary qualities complicate counting according to stimulus, while the other criteria advise large but indefinite counts. I consider recent proposals defending the traditional count of five based on language use, proprioceptive awareness, and pragmatic utility, and reject them all. The traditional count is best explained on the basis of differences in sensory experience, coupled with easily identified organs, together with a mistaken tendency to separate the perceiver from the world. Rather than attempting a more critically informed count, I argue that attempts to count the senses are currently based on false presuppositions regarding the individuation of the senses. I show that the traditional sense modalities are complex and do not function separately. This is achieved by considering the sense of balance, whereby the perceiver participates in dynamical relations. Balance is implicit in all perceiving. Assumptions that cause difficulties in counting the senses are traced to a preoccupation with vision, which is usually treated as a single sense only instrumentally controlled by the perceiver. I point out that understanding seeing has historically been a misguided effort to explain what is seen on the basis of two-dimensional retinal images and a separation of perception from action. By noting the dependence of seeing on looking, I argue that seeing has been misrepresented in philosophical accounts of perception. What follows is that some of the important problems of epistemology have arisen from attempts to base theories of perception on a false picture of seeing. The philosophical views of Thomas Reid are used throughout to evaluate the modern debates and place them in a wider historical context.
Spectral linewidth vs. Front facet reflectivity of 780 nm DFB diode lasers at high optical output power
Creators: name: Nguyen, T.-P.
name: Wenzel, H.
name: Brox, O.
name: Bugge, F.
name: Ressel, P.
name: Schiemangk, M.
name: Wicht, A.
name: Tien, T.Q.
name: Tränkle, G.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Front facet reflectivity
subject: High power diode laser
subject: Narrow linewidth
subject: Semiconductor laser
subject: 530

description: The influence of the front facet reflectivity on the spectral linewidth of high power DFB (distributed feedback) diode lasers emitting at 780 nm has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. Characterization of lasers at various front facet reflections showed substantial reduction of the linewidth. This behavior is in reasonable agreement with simulation results. A minimum linewidth of 8 kHz was achieved at an output power of 85 mW with the laser featuring a front facet reflectivity of 30%. The device with a front facet reflectivity of 5% reached the same linewidth value at an output power of 290 mW.
Vibronic Dynamics of Photodissociating ICN from Simulations of Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Morzan, Uriel N.
name: Videla, Pablo E.
name: Soley, Micheline B.
name: Nibbering, Erik T.J.
name: Batista, Victor S.
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: ICN
subject: pump–probe spectroscopy
subject: quantum dynamics
subject: time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy
subject: ultrafast photochemistry
subject: 540

description: Ultrafast UV-pump/soft-X-ray-probe spectroscopy is a subject of great interest since it can provide detailed information about dynamical photochemical processes with ultrafast resolution and atomic specificity. Here, we focus on the photodissociation of ICN in the 1Π1 excited state, with emphasis on the transient response in the soft-X-ray spectral region as described by the ab initio spectral lineshape averaged over the nuclear wavepacket probability density. We find that the carbon K-edge spectral region reveals a rich transient response that provides direct insights into the dynamics of frontier orbitals during the I−CN bond cleavage process. The simulated UV-pump/soft-X-ray-probe spectra exhibit detailed dynamical information, including a time-domain signature for coherent vibration associated with the photogenerated CN fragment. © 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH GmbH
Mode identification in rapidly rotating stars
Creators: name: Reese, D. R.
name: Thompson, M. J.
name: MacGregor, K. B.
name: Jackson, S.
name: Skumanich, A.
name: Metcalfe, T. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Recent calculations of pulsation modes in rapidly rotating polytropic models and models based on the Self-Consistent Field method (MacGregor et al. 2007) have shown that the frequency spectrum of low degree pulsation modes can be described by an empirical formula similar to Tassoul's asymptotic formula (Tassoul 1980), provided that the underlying rotation profile is not too differential (Lignieres & Georgeot 2008, Reese et al. 2009). Aims: Given the simplicity of this asymptotic formula, we investigate whether it can provide a means by which to identify pulsation modes in rapidly rotating stars. Methods: We develop a new mode identification scheme which consists in scanning a multidimensional parameter space for the formula coefficients which yield the best-fitting asymptotic spectra. This mode identification scheme is then tested on artificial spectra based on the asymptotic formula, on random frequencies and on spectra based on full numerical eigenmode calculations for which the mode identification is known beforehand. We also investigate the effects of adding random frequencies to mimic the effects of chaotic modes which are also expected to show up in such stars (Lignieres & Georgeot 2008).
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables (tables and figures in wrong order due to difficulties with LaTeX). Proceedings from the First CoRoT symposium, accepted for publication in A&A
Gardening Australia:Substance and sustainability: The evolution of a national television phenomenon and gardening Celebrity
Creators: name: Smith, B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis study explores the television phenomenon, Gardening Australia, hereafter referred to as GA. The project narrative and analysis follows two core strands, that is the emergence of gardening on Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) television, from the program's early local beginnings, to the Tasmanian-based development of a sustainable national identity together with its widely acknowledged garden celebrity and long-standing host, Peter Cundall.
Regional effects of Canadian protectionism and its influence on the relative trade positions of British Columbia and Eastern Canada
Creators: name: George, Phillip Ashley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The tariff barrier protecting secondary manufacturing in Eastern Canada depresses the relative trade position of British Columbia. This situation arises, in part, from the industrial character in the latter region. The abundant natural resources and the production level well beyond Canadian demand guides the major portion of British Columbia products into foreign markets. These markets, therefore, are an important source of income for British Columbia. However, the archaic tariff system in Canada, along with the manufacturers' sales tax and various excise taxes, restricts the flow of foreign imports into British Columbia and, in turn, enhances the inflow of high-priced merchandise from Eastern Canada. In this way, the real income position of British Columbia residents is curtailed. By constructing the terms of trade for both regions from 1948-1965, it was possible to elucidate further effects of the tariff on British Columbia. For instance, the Net Barter Terms of Trade (export-import price ratio) was found to be more favorable for Eastern Canada when the Canadian dollar appreciated in the 1950's. This condition resulted from the superior buying power of the Eastern Canadian dollar relative to the British Columbian dollar, since the latter region was compelled by the tariff to continue purchasing secondaries in Eastern Canada where no direct exchange rate benefits could be realized. As a test of the relative buying powers of British Columbia and Eastern Canada, the Income Terms of Trade were constructed. This index, by combining import-export price movements with export volume changes, attempts to measure the regional import capacity. It was found to be more favorable for British Columbia over the 18 year period, but as an indicator of the real relative import capacity it was a poor index indeed. Because of the superior buying power of Eastern Canadian dollars in the 50's and the relatively low tariffs on primary manufacturers, the import quantity indexes turned out almost identical over the test period. On a positive note, the recent Kennedy Round of tariff reductions on machinery promises to lower costs in many British Columbia industries, whether or not this will increase the international competitiveness of her products remains to be seen, since they were selling well pre-Kennedy. Nevertheless, the duty reductions constitute a step in the right direction towards more liberal trade policies in Canada.
Valence holes as Luttinger spinor based qubits in quantum dots
Creators: name: Hsieh, Chang-Yu
name: Cheriton, Ross
name: Korkusinski, Marek
name: Hawrylak, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of valence holes as Luttinger spinor based qubits in p-doped self-assembled quantum dots within the 4-band $k\cdot p$ formalism. The two qubit levels are identified with the two chiralities of the doubly degenerate ground state. We show that single qubit operations can be implemented with static magnetic field applied along the $z$ and $x$ directions, acting analogously to the $\hatσ_z$ and $\hatσ_x$ operators in the qubit subspace respectively. The coupling of two dots and hence the double qubit operations are shown to be sensitive to the orientation of the two quantum dots. For vertical qubit arrays, there exists an optimal qubit separation suitable for the voltage control of qubit-qubit interactions.
Matching NLO QCD computations with PYTHIA using MC@NLO
Creators: name: Torrielli, Paolo
name: Frixione, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the matching between a next-to-leading order computation in QCD and the PYTHIA parton shower Monte Carlo, according to the MC@NLO formalism. We study the case of initial-state radiation, and consider in particular single vector boson hadroproduction.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. Several comments and two figures have been added
Evaluation of management information systems
Creators: name: Wilson, Stephen James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An emerging trend in corporate practices today is that of the development of specialized areas within the company which are devoted to studying its management information systems. Stimulated by the impact of the computer and the subsequent blurring of the distinction between specific systems such as those for marketing, finance, etc., this trend has been accompanied by much academic (and corporate) research in an attempt to provide a scientific approach to the analysis and design of these systems. Several such approaches abound in the literature: today, and it would seem that much is still yet to come. The "science" of information systems unfortunately remains scattered throughout the trade and academic journals, papers, and a very few textbooks. This thesis represents an attempt to tie the various areas of research together into a more comprehensive framework, to indicate their validity and limitations, and evaluation of to relate these areas to practical analysis and evaluation of MIS's.
After Copenhagen: climate change and global responsibility in the new media environment
Creators: name: Bryan, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was supposed to be a turning point in global action on climate change. Following such a crucial event, it is important to understand what impact it had on media coverage of the issue and how climate change is now being reported. Climate change is a global issue and the news media should represent it as such, but with the conference deemed a failure, news has reverted to parochial coverage that privileges national frames. Climate change news is subject to traditional news influences such as the competition for coverage and the impact of news values. Using such influences as a starting point, this thesis analyses frames and discourses in a two week sample of climate change coverage taken from two news websites. It argues blogs are an ideal forum for climate change coverage due to their tendency to present analytical reporting that is less restricted by journalistic traditions.
On properly integrating the electronic Raman and optical infra-red spectra of HTSC cuprate materials
Creators: name: Wilson, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New electronic Raman and I.R. spectroscopy results from optimally and overdoped high temperature superconducting (HTSC) cuprate systems are interpreted in terms of the negative-U, boson-fermion crossover model. Distinction is made between those features which follow the condensate gap, 2Delta(p), and those that are set by the local-pair binding energy, cursive U(p). The critical role of doping level psubc = 0.185 is highlighted in conjunction with the matter of developing quasiparticle incoherence, making connection here with recent transport and related results. E//c IR results in magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to c prove particularly illuminating. The general scheme developed continues to embrace all experimental data very satisfactorily.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
Tauutuutu White Paper: Executive Summary
Creators: name: Reid, John
name: Rout, Matthew
name: Whitehead, Jay
name: Katene, Te Puoho
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4512
subject: Ngā pūtaiao Māori (Māori sciences)

description: There is a new class of Māori agri-food enterprises operated by successful land trusts, incorporations, and iwi corporations that are becoming known nationally for their environmental leadership, social responsibility, innovation, and profitability. From a Western cultural perspective, these enterprises are thought to embrace a quadruple bottom line approach characterised by environmental stewardship, social responsibility, intergenerational wealth creation, and cultural revitalisation. While to some extent this is true, the indigenous values that these enterprises operate from are based on a deeper foundation, a foundation that also underpinned pre-European landmanagement patterns and economic systems of production. This white paper is a discussion of this deeper foundation, represented by the ethic and practice of Tauutuutu.
Tauutuutu is an indigenous way of thinking and acting that encourages communities and enterprises to make continual and growing investments, in terms of time and resources, into social and environmental relationships. Tauutuutu encourages returns from these investments to be distributed equitably, creating a virtuous circle, while at the same time motivating individual innovation and entrepreneurship. It also expands awareness of the connections and relationships between people and their environment, which encourages the adoption of new technologies and approaches for sustainable land management, productive activity, and enterprise formation.
It is contended that the broad extension of Tauutuutu thinking beyond Māori agri-food and forestry enterprises to our land-based industries in general would generate significant positive environmental, economic, and social impacts. The active extension of Tauutuutu as a national approach presents the opportunity of indigenising our land-based production sectors, creating an agro-economy built on mutually-beneficial relationships within farms, across catchments, with wider communities, and with the environments in which they operate. Think piece prepared for Our Land and Water
Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: II. Stellar Kinematics to Large Radii in NGC 147 and NGC 185
Creators: name: Geha, M.
name: van der Marel, R. P.
name: Guhathakurta, P.
name: Gilbert, K. M.
name: Kalirai, J.
name: Kirby, E. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present kinematic and metallicity profiles for the M31 dwarf elliptical (dE) satellite galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185. The profiles represent the most extensive spectroscopic radial coverage for any dE galaxy, extending to a projected distance of eight half-light radii (8 r_eff = 14'). We achieve this coverage via Keck/DEIMOS multislit spectroscopic observations of 520 and 442 member red giant branch stars in NGC 147 and NGC 185, respectively. In contrast to previous studies, we find that both dEs have significant internal rotation. We measure a maximum rotational velocity of 17+/-2 km/s for NGC 147 and 15+/-5 km/s for NGC 185. The velocity dispersions decrease gently with radius with an average dispersion of 16+/-1 km/s for NGC 147 and 24+/-1 km/s for NGC 185. Both dEs have internal metallicity dispersions of 0.5 dex, but show no evidence for a radial metallicity gradient. We construct two-integral axisymmetric dynamical models and find that the observed kinematical profiles cannot be explained without modest amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. We measure central mass-to-light ratios of ML_V = 4.2+/-0.6 and ML_V = 4.6+/-0.6 for NGC 147 and NGC 185, respectively. Both dE galaxies are consistent with being primarily flattened by their rotational motions, although some anisotropic velocity dispersion is needed to fully explain their observed shapes. The velocity profiles of all three Local Group dEs (NGC 147, NGC 185 and NGC 205) suggest that rotation is more prevalent in the dE galaxy class than previously assumed, but is often manifest only at several times the effective radius. Since all dEs outside the Local Group have been probed to only inside the effective radius, this opens the door for formation mechanisms in which dEs are transformed or stripped versions of gas-rich rotating progenitor galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. accepted to AJ
Textual Gamekeepers: The importance of fans in television revivals
Creators: name: Tumney, B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The involvement of fans in the revival of television shows is an increasing occurrence. This thesis will examine the process of the fan turned producer, known as the 'textual gamekeeper,' a termed used by fan theorist Matt Hills. I have selected three case studies to show this process at work. Chapter One provides an introduction and literary review and demonstrates the theory of the textual gamekeeper regarding the area of fan theory. Chapter Two covers Doctor Who and the fan takeover that has occurred regarding the new series that began in 2005. Chapter Three is a study of The Goodies, which was revived through a series of fan assisted live shows and finally Chapter Four covers Red Dwarf, which returned with new episodes in 2009 on cult digital channel 'Dave.' The thesis will conclude showing how this process is at work and has provided benefits for the medium of television and its fans.
Towards tellurium-free thermoelectric modules for power generation from low-grade heat
Creators: name: Ying, Pingjun
name: He, Ran
name: Mao, Jun
name: Zhang, Qihao
name: Reith, Heiko
name: Sui, Jiehe
name: Ren, Zhifeng
name: Nielsch, Kornelius
name: Schierning, Gabi
Publisher: name: London : Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Electronic properties and materials
subject: Thermoelectric devices and materials
subject: 333,7

description: Thermoelectric technology converts heat into electricity directly and is a promising source of clean electricity. Commercial thermoelectric modules have relied on Bi2Te3-based compounds because of their unparalleled thermoelectric properties at temperatures associated with low-grade heat (<550 K). However, the scarcity of elemental Te greatly limits the applicability of such modules. Here we report the performance of thermoelectric modules assembled from Bi2Te3-substitute compounds, including p-type MgAgSb and n-type Mg3(Sb,Bi)2, by using a simple, versatile, and thus scalable processing routine. For a temperature difference of ~250 K, whereas a single-stage module displayed a conversion efficiency of ~6.5%, a module using segmented n-type legs displayed a record efficiency of ~7.0% that is comparable to the state-of-the-art Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric modules. Our work demonstrates the feasibility and scalability of high-performance thermoelectric modules based on sustainable elements for recovering low-grade heat.
Multivalent poultry vaccine development using Protein Glycan Coupling Technology.
Creators: name: Mauri, Marta
name: Sannasiddappa, Thippeswamy H
name: Vohra, Prerna
name: Corona-Torres, Ricardo
name: Smith, Alexander A
name: Chintoan-Uta, Cosmin
name: Bremner, Abi
name: Terra, Vanessa S
name: Abouelhadid, Sherif
name: Stevens, Mark P
name: Grant, Andrew J
name: Cuccui, Jon
name: Wren, Brendan W
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Poultry
Vaccine
Campylobacter jejuni
Glycoconjugates
Glycoengineering
APEC
One Health
Netb
Live-attenuated
Pgct

description: BackgroundPoultry is the world's most popular animal-based food and global production has tripled in the past 20 years alone. Low-cost vaccines that can be combined to protect poultry against multiple infections are a current global imperative. Glycoconjugate vaccines, which consist of an immunogenic protein covalently coupled to glycan antigens of the targeted pathogen, have a proven track record in human vaccinology, but have yet to be used for livestock due to prohibitively high manufacturing costs. To overcome this, we use Protein Glycan Coupling Technology (PGCT), which enables the production of glycoconjugates in bacterial cells at considerably reduced costs, to generate a candidate glycan-based live vaccine intended to simultaneously protect against Campylobacter jejuni, avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) and Clostridium perfringens. Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning, whereas colibacillosis and necrotic enteritis are widespread and devastating infectious diseases in poultry.ResultsWe demonstrate the functional transfer of C. jejuni protein glycosylation (pgl) locus into the genome of APEC χ7122 serotype O78:H9. The integration caused mild attenuation of the χ7122 strain following oral inoculation of chickens without impairing its ability to colonise the respiratory tract. We exploit the χ7122 pgl integrant as bacterial vectors delivering a glycoprotein decorated with the C. jejuni heptasaccharide glycan antigen. To this end we engineered χ7122 pgl to express glycosylated NetB toxoid from C. perfringens and tested its ability to reduce caecal colonisation of chickens by C. jejuni and protect against intra-air sac challenge with the homologous APEC strain.ConclusionsWe generated a candidate glycan-based multivalent live vaccine with the potential to induce protection against key avian and zoonotic pathogens (C. jejuni, APEC, C. perfringens). The live vaccine failed to significantly reduce Campylobacter colonisation under the conditions tested but was protective against homologous APEC challenge. Nevertheless, we present a strategy towards the production of low-cost "live-attenuated multivalent vaccine factories" with the ability to express glycoconjugates in poultry.
Mesophases of soft-sphere aggregates
Creators: name: Shin, Homin
name: Grason, Gregory M.
name: Santangelo, Christian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft spheres interacting via a hard core and range of attractive and repulsive "soft-shoulder" potentials self-assemble into clusters forming a variety of mesophases. We combine a mean field theory developed from a lattice model with a level surface analysis of the periodic structures of soft-sphere aggregates to study stable morphologies for all clustering potentials. We develop a systematic approach to the thermodynamics of mesophase assembly in the low-temperature, strong-segregation and predict a generic sequence of phases including lamella, hexagonal-columnar and body-center cubic phases, as well as the associated inverse structures. We discuss the finite-temperature corrections to strong segregation theory in terms of Sommerfeld-like expansion and how these corrections affect the thermodynamic stability of bicontinuous mesophase structures, such as gyroid. Finally, we explore the opposite limit of weakly-segregated particles, and predict the generic stability of a bicontinuous cluster morphology within the mean-field phase diagram.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
A heuristic view point of rediscovering quantum rules based on space time
Creators: name: Wu, Long Cheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: quantum entanglement, wave-particle duality,black body radiation,wave mechanics,String theory

description: The Space-time Mapping Structure has been built based on Einstein's relativity theory,C.N.Yang's gauge theory and Schrödinger's wave mechanics in the progress of looking for the fundamental physics theory for the accelerated life test of the complex system. This structure make the space-time plays a fundamental rule in the microworld. The general relativity theory and quantum mechanics could talk to each other based on the same basis. The space-time mapping structure could be regarded as the further development of Einstein's thought of space quantization, it could build direct connection with the Electromagnetic theory , Quantum theory and Relativity theory.In the inspectation of the particle physics ,we find that there are more than three generations of neutrino and the strong force and weak force could be expressed in the same space-time mapping structure. A quite different opinion has been proposed that the particle which has different granularity exists in the different space-time. For example the electron and proton belongs to the different space-time and they doesn't appear in human's space-time. This is quite different to the String theory which believes that the string generate the particles. This opinion provide a new perspective to explain the wave-particle duality problem and it is the further development of Louis de Broglie's thought of pilot wave because it suggests that the particle could interact with space-time and the different layers of space-time has intrinsic mapping relationship. The electronic double slit experiment and quantum entanglement could explained in the same structure. The apparent difference of the four fundamental forces is the exterior appearance of the space-time mapping structure and we don't need to find the origination of the four forces in the genesis of the universe. The Big-Bang doesn't exist in the universe, the blackbody radiation and cosmos microwave background radiation indicate that there is an undiscovered space-time structure between the macro and micro world. The fundamental physics would realize the unification of micro and macro world.
Structure and metamorphic petrology of the Forth metamorphic complex
Creators: name: Lewis, Rob
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Forth Metamorphics outcrop in the lower reaches of the Forth River, Northern Tasmania and comprise a banded garnetiferous schist and quartzite, interlayered with sub-ordinate orthoamphibolites of tholeiitic MORB-type affinity. Geochemical and sedimentological constraints are consistent with a passive continental depositional environment and the sequence has been regionally metamorphosed during a two-phase tectono-metamorphic event. An early isoclinal fold phase (D1) produced a penetrative muscovite foliation but is largely overprinted by the dominant S2 schistosity. High temperature, relatively low strain quartz mylonites developed in narrow zones during west-directed D2 transport and are separated by domains of west vergent isoclinal F2 folds. Microprobe analyses of stable pelitic and metabasite assemblages have been used in conjunction with traditional/dataset thermobarometric methods and phase equilibrium constraints to estimate P-T conditions during D2. Peak conditions of 700¬¨‚àûC +/- 50¬¨‚àû C and 13 kb +/- 2 kb for kyanite-garnet-biotite schists in the Forth Valley are matched by independant estimates for garnet amphibole plagioclase assemblages and the latter preserve an early garnet-clinopyroxene-albite assemblage indicating conditions of 660¬¨‚àû C and 11 kb during core growth. These results are supported by semi-quantitative P-T modelling of local calcite-altered garnet clinopyroxene zoisite intetbands, which formed in a locally H20-poor environment during compression/heating from 675¬¨‚àû C 9-11 kb to peak conditions of 740¬¨‚àû C and 13- 15kb. Significant P-T zonation is indicated by the spatial distribution of pelitic assemblages and peak temperatures some 100¬¨‚àû C lower are inferred for staurolite-chloritoid bearing schists in the western half of the area. Paragonite and chloritoid textures in these units are consistent with breakdown of glaucophane, and may indicate an early high P-low T history. Late sphene and possibly albite developed during decompression but the preservation of substantially unretrogressed high grade assemblages indicates rapid late-D2 uplift and cooling. In the Forth Valley, garnet amphibolite assemblages preserve geochemical and textural evidence of late-D2 Kmetasomatism. The alteration is confined to a 300m wide local high strain zone along the contact with adjacent pelitic schists and thermometry results indicate post-peak conditions of around 600¬¨‚àû C. The P-T history of the Forth Metamorphics is similar to that of the Collingwood River eclogites and may have developed during Precambrian partial subduction of a passive continental margin. Serpentinite bodies, enclosed within the metamorphics have minor structures consistent with early west-directed emplacement. The structural setting and geometry of these bodies has been modified by an east-directed thrust event of probable Devonian age, which produced a spatially restricted crenulation cleavage and minor folds in the metamorphics.
Critical Behavior of Three-Dimensional Disordered Potts Models with Many States
Creators: name: Banos, R. Alvarez
name: Cruz, A.
name: Fernandez, L. A.
name: Gordillo-Guerrero, A.
name: Gil-Narvion, J. M.
name: Guidetti, M.
name: Maiorano, A.
name: Mantovani, F.
name: Marinari, E.
name: Martin-Mayor, V.
name: Monforte-Garcia, J.
name: Sudupe, A. Munoz
name: Navarro, D.
name: Parisi, G.
name: Perez-Gaviro, S.
name: Ruiz-Lorenzo, J. J.
name: Seoane, B.
name: Schifano, S. F.
name: Tarancon, A.
name: Tripiccione, R.
name: Yllanes, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the 3D Disordered Potts Model with p=5 and p=6. Our numerical simulations (that severely slow down for increasing p) detect a very clear spin glass phase transition. We evaluate the critical exponents and the critical value of the temperature, and we use known results at lower $p$ values to discuss how they evolve for increasing p. We do not find any sign of the presence of a transition to a ferromagnetic regime.
description: 9 pages and 9 Postscript figures. Final version published in J. Stat. Mech
Diffraction of Electromagnetic Waves
Creators: name: Brosa, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these representatives. The respective integrals are then evaluated using the method of stationary phase in two dimensions. Hitherto unknown formulae for the polarization appear as well as for imaging by diffraction. Ready-to-use formulae describing Fresnel diffraction behind a round stop are presented.
The geology of the Dundas-Pieman River area
Creators: name: Loftus-Hills, GD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Petrographic examination reveals that the Crimson Creek Formation and the Dundas Group are typical eugeosynclinal suites, although they represent different stages in the evolution of the Dundas Trough. They are only very mildly metamorphosed. Correlation between the Dundas Group and the Huskisson Group is not well defined, even on palaeontological grounds. The Rosebery Group to the west of Rosebery is proved to dip normally to the west, which complicates the structural interpretation. Part of it is tentatively correlated with the Success Creek and Carbine Groups, and the inferred structure between Rosebery and Renison Bell is thus a synclinorium, which is axially faulted. Lead, zinc and tin mineralization in the area follows NNW Tabberabberan fold crestal trace directions, and probably represents filling of tension faults caused by local flexing of the anticlines. Evidence for regional control of mineralization is not forthcoming.
Metrics Literacy: Educating Researchers and Research Support Staff Regarding Scholarly Metrics
Creators: name: Haustein, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Metrics literacy

description: The talk introduces the Metrics Literacy project, which aims improve the way in which researchers and research support staff (e.g., research managers, research librarians, science communicators and funding organizations) can be trained to ensure that scholarly metrics are applied and interpreted appropriately. It aims to reduce misuse of indicators, such as the impact factor and h-index, and the application of quantitative measurements in inapt contexts by developing online resources (so-called building blocks), which convey the meaning of various scholarly indicators in an easy-to-understand fashion. Building blocks are targeted at specific audiences (e.g., researchers or funders) and address one of five main questions and four fields of application (i.e., usage metrics, altmetrics, bibliometrics and technometrics) and will be distributed using the Software Carpentry framework. The project intends to improve metrics literacy in academia and inform current scientometric research about the use of scholarly metrics.
Strain in heterogeneous quantum devices with atomic layer deposition
Creators: name: Kennedy, Oscar W
name: O’Sullivan, James
name: Zollitsch, Christoph W
name: Thomas, Christopher N
name: Withington, Stafford
name: Morton, John J L
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paper
strain
ESR
quantum memory
atomic layer deposition

description: Abstract: We investigated the use of dielectric layers produced by atomic layer deposition (ALD) as an approach to strain mitigation in composite silicon/superconductor devices operating at cryogenic temperatures. We show that the addition of an ALD layer acts to reduce the strain of spins closest to silicon/superconductor interface where strain is highest. We show that appropriately biasing our devices at the hyperfine clock transition of bismuth donors in silicon, we can remove strain broadening and that the addition of ALD layers left T 2 (or temporal inhomogeneities) unchanged in these natural silicon devices.
Paleozoic crustal evolution and tectonic switching in the north Eastern Tianshan: insights from zircon Hf isotopes of granitoids
Creators: name: Du, Long
name: Zhu, Hongli
name: Yuan, Chao
name: Zhang, Yunying
name: Huang, Zongying
name: Li, Xu-Ping
name: Long, Xiaoping
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020

description: Table S1, S2, and analytical methods.
An analysis of the Canadian consumer credit market and of the competition facing sales finance companies
Creators: name: Frizzell, Dennis Lester
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A brief survey of the supply of and the demand for consumer credit in Canada discloses a dynamic situation. The increasing income of the Canadian population, among other factors, has brought about changing conditions in this market. One of the most significant changes may be the increased sensitivity of the consumer to finance rates and interest charges. This increase in consumer sensitivity to finance rates may explain the past changes in shares of the consumer credit market that are serviced by the various financial intermediaries. The most significant share of consumer credit market changes have been the gains by the chartered banks and credit unions and the loss experienced by the sales finance companies. This may represent a consumer borrower switch from a higher cost lender (the sales finance companies) to lower cost lenders (the chartered banks and credit unions). This switch may be explained by an increase in consumer sensitivity to finance rates. A model developed by F. Thomas Juster and Robert P. Shay, predicting increased consumer sensitivity to finance rates, is used to forecast future possible share of consumer credit market that may be serviced by sales finance companies. The results are a forecasted decline in the share of a particular segment of the consumer credit market that may be serviced by the sales finance companies. This forecast is the basis for a discussion of strategy and policy decisions that must be made by the management of sales finance companies. Some of the alternative strategies are explored. The conclusion reached is that the sales finance companies will have a difficult time forestalling a loss in share of the consumer credit market. Their most productive competition strategy may be to concentrate their resources in particular segments of the consumer credit market that are not immediately accessible to the lower cost lenders. Sales finance companies may also find that a strategy of diversification, within and without the consumer credit area, is productive.
Crystallization of nanoscaled colloids
Creators: name: Born, Philip
Publisher: name: Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nanopartikel
subject: Nanokomposit
subject: Nanostruktur
subject: Nanostrukturiertes Material
subject: Nanotechnologie
subject: Kristallisation
subject: Kristallinität
subject: Kristall-Engineering
subject: 530

description: Colloidal crystals can exhibit novel properties arising from the combination of particle properties and collective phenomena of particle packings. Particular colloidal crystals composed of nanoparticles are interesting, because of the unique properties of nanoscale objects, and because of the formation of three-dimensional structures on scales that can be manufactured using established methods only with great technical effort. The aim of this work was to develop appropriate ways to produce the crystals. Two approaches were chosen. In the first approach, colloid particles were deposited on surfaces in a process similar to dip coating. Large-area crystalline particle films with low defect density were obtained by an optimized deposition geometry. In the second approach attractive interactions between particles were used. Reducing the thermal energy induced agglomeration of the particles. This approach allowed production of a variety of particle structures. Besides the expected result, formation of hexagonal particle packings, unexpected results were obtained. In the first approach a superposition of two crystallization mechanisms ensured a robust formation of hexagonal particle packings. In the second approach crystallization among the particles was suppressed in a pure thermally induced agglomeration.
Genomic control of metastasis
Creators: name: Patel, Saroor A.
name: Rodrigues, Paulo
name: Wesolowski, Ludovic
name: Vanharanta, Sakari
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Review Article
/631/67/322
/631/67/68
review-article

description: Abstract: Metastasis remains the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality, and a detailed understanding of the metastatic process could suggest new therapeutic avenues. However, how metastatic phenotypes arise at the genomic level has remained a major open question in cancer biology. Comparative genetic studies of primary and metastatic cancers have revealed a complex picture of metastatic evolution with diverse temporal patterns and trajectories to dissemination. Whole-genome amplification is associated with metastatic cancer clones, but no metastasis-exclusive driver mutations have emerged. Instead, genetically activated oncogenic pathways that drive tumour initiation and early progression acquire metastatic traits by co-opting physiological programmes from stem cell, developmental and regenerative pathways. The functional consequences of oncogenic driver mutations therefore change via epigenetic mechanisms to promote metastasis. Increasing evidence is starting to uncover the molecular mechanisms that determine how specific oncogenic drivers interact with various physiological programmes, and what triggers their activation in support of metastasis. Detailed insight into the mechanisms that control metastasis is likely to reveal novel opportunities for intervention at different stages of metastatic progression.
Baseline predictors of remission, pain and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: the TITRATE trial
Creators: name: Lee, Sook Yan
name: Ibrahim, Fowzia
name: Tom, Brian D. M.
name: Nikiphorou, Elena
name: Williams, Frances M. K.
name: Lempp, Heidi
name: Scott, David L.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Article
Anxiety
Depression
Disease activity score
Fatigue
Intensive management
Obesity
Pain
Rheumatoid arthritis

description: Abstract: Background: Clinical trials show intensive treatment to induce remission is effective in patients with highly active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The TITRATE trial showed that the benefits of intensive treatment also extend to moderately active RA. However, many patients failed to achieve remission or show improvements in pain and fatigue. We investigated whether baseline predictors could identify treatment non-responders. Methods: The impact of obesity, depression, anxiety and illness perception on RA outcomes, including disease activity, remission, pain and fatigue were determined using a pre-planned secondary analysis of the TITRATE trial data. Results: Body mass index was associated with disease activity levels and remission: obese patients had a higher overall disease activity and fewer obese patients achieved remission. Intensive management was not associated with increased remission in these patients. Obesity was also associated with increased overall pain and fatigue. Anxiety, depression and health perceptions had no discernible impact on disease activity but were associated with high levels of pain and fatigue. There was a strong association between anxiety and high pain scores; and between depression and high fatigue scores; and health perception was strongly related to both. None of the predictors had an important impact on pain and fatigue reduction in cross-sectional analysis. Conclusions: Disease activity is higher in obese patients and they have fewer remissions over 12 months. Anxiety, depression and health perceptions were associated with higher pain and fatigue scores. Intensive management strategies need to account for these baseline features as they impact significantly on clinical and psychological outcomes. Trial registration: ISRCTN 70160382; date registered 16 January 2014