cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RR Lyrae stars in NGC 6362
Creators: name: Smolec, R.
name: Moskalik, P.
name: Kaluzny, J.
name: Pych, W.
name: Rozyczka, M.
name: Thompson, I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of the top-quality photometry of RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster NGC 6362, gathered over 11 observing seasons by the CASE project. 16 stars are fundamental mode pulsators (RRab stars) and 16 are first overtone pulsators (RRc stars). In two stars, previously identified as RRab, V3 and V34, we detect additional periodicity identified as radial first overtone mode. Lower than usual period ratios (0.730 and 0.728), dominant pulsation in the radial fundamental mode and presence of a long-period modulation indicate, that these two variables are not classical RRd stars, but are new members of the recently identified class of anomalous RRd variables. In a significant fraction of RRc stars, 63 per cent, we detect additional shorter-period variability in the (0.60, 0.65)$P_1$ range. This form of double-periodic pulsation must be common in first overtone RR Lyr stars, as space observations indicate. The incidence rate we find in NGC 6362, is the highest in ground-based observations reported so far. We study the properties of these stars in detail; in particular we confirm that in the colour-magnitude diagram, this group is adjacent to the interface between RRab and RRc stars, as first reported in the analysis of M3 observations by Jurcsik et al. The incidence rate of the Blazhko effect is also very high: we observe it in 69 per cent of RRab stars and in 19 per cent of RRc stars. Rare, double-periodic modulation is reported in one RRab and in one RRc star. Finally we discuss V37 - a peculiar variable in which we detect two close high-amplitude periodicities and modulation. Its previous classification as RRc must be treated as tentative.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Three animations available as ancillary files
Size distributions reconsidered
Creators: name: Schluter, Christian
name: Trede, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We consider tests of the hypothesis that the tail of size distributions decays faster than any power function. These are based on a single parameter that emerges from the Fisher–Tippett limit theorem, and discriminate between leading laws considered in the literature without requiring fully parametric models/specifications. We study the proposed tests taking into account the higher order regular variation of the size distribution that can lead to catastrophic distortions. The theoretical bias corrections realign successfully nominal and empirical test behavior, and inform a sensitivity analysis for practical work. The methods are used in an examination of the size distribution of cities and firms.
Comparing Interface Layouts for the Presentation of Multimodal Search Results
Creators: name: Gritz, Wolfgang
name: Otto, Christian
name: Hoppe, Anett
name: Pardi, Georg
name: Kammerer, Yvonne
name: Ewerth, Ralph
Publisher: name: New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: scientific search engine
subject: search behavior
subject: SERP layouts
subject: web search
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 004

description: Today's search engines allow users to discover relevant information in different types of modalities or media, e.g., web pages, text documents, images, or videos. It is, however, a challenging task to present mixed-modality result lists in an effective and easy-to-skim form. The two most commonly used approaches are to present the modalities side-by-side, each in a separate column of the result page; or to separate the modalities into multiple tabs. However, the field lacks a structured investigation on how the column or tab layout influence the users' perception and usage of multimodal resources in an academic search task. In this paper, we present a user study (N=50) where the participants were asked to accomplish a search task for a fictive computer science seminar at the university. We evaluate the influence of the different layouts on (1) user search behavior (e.g., time until first resource is saved) and (2) the relevance of the selected resources for the task at hand. Finally, we discuss the results and possible implications for the design of multimodal search result presentation.
Acoustic streaming in 2D freely suspended smectic liquid crystal film
Creators: name: Yablonskii, S. V.
name: Kurbatov, N. M.
name: Parfenyev, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a horizontal streaming excited by means of a low frequency and intensity acoustic wave in 2D freely suspended film of thermotropic smectic liquid crystal. Acoustic pressure induces fast periodic transverse oscillations of the film, which produce in-plane stationary couples of vortices slowly rotating in opposite directions owing to hydrodynamic nonlinearity. The parameters of vortices are measured using a new method, based on tracking disk-shaped island defects. The horizontal motion occurs only when the amplitude of acoustic pressure exceeds threshold value, which can be explained by Bingham-like behavior of the smectic film. The measurements above threshold are in a good agreement with existing theoretical predictions. We have demonstrated experimentally that in-plane flow is well controlled by changing the acoustic pressure, excitation frequency and geometry of the film. The observations open a way to use the phenomenon in various applications.
Meetings and Mood-Related or Not? Insights from Student Software Projects
Creators: name: Klünder, Jil
name: Karras, Oliver
Publisher: name: New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: meeting
subject: mood
subject: sentiment analysis
subject: Software development teams
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 004

description: [Background:] Teamwork, coordination, and communication are a prerequisite for the timely completion of a software project. Meetings as a facilitator for coordination and communication are an established medium for information exchange. Analyses of meetings in software projects have shown that certain interactions in these meetings, such as proactive statements followed by supportive ones, influence the mood and motivation of a team, which in turn affects its productivity. So far, however, research has focused only on certain interactions at a detailed level, requiring a complex and fine-grained analysis of a meeting itself. [Aim:] In this paper, we investigate meetings from a more abstract perspective, focusing on the polarity of the statements, i.e., whether they appear to be positive, negative, or neutral. [Method:] We analyze the relationship between the polarity of statements in meetings and different social aspects, including conflicts as well as the mood before and after a meeting. [Results:] Our results emerge from 21 student software project meetings and show some interesting insights: (1) Positive mood before a meeting is both related to the amount of positive statements in the beginning, as well as throughout the whole meeting, (2) negative mood before the meeting only influences the amount of negative statements in the first quarter of the meeting, but not the whole meeting, and (3) the amount of positive and negative statements during the meeting has no influence on the mood afterwards. [Conclusions:] We conclude that the behaviour in meetings might rather influence short-term emotional states (feelings) than long-term emotional states (mood), which are more important for the project.
Scientific Outreach with Teegi, a Tangible EEG Interface to Talk about Neurotechnologies
Creators: name: Frey, Jérémy
name: Gervais, Renaud
name: Lainé, Thibault
name: Duluc, Maxime
name: Germain, Hugo
name: Fleck, Stéphanie
name: Lotte, Fabien
name: Hachet, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Teegi is an anthropomorphic and tangible avatar exposing a users' brain activity in real time. It is connected to a device sensing the brain by means of electroencephalog-raphy (EEG). Teegi moves its hands and feet and closes its eyes along with the person being monitored. It also displays on its scalp the associated EEG signals, thanks to a semi-spherical display made of LEDs. Attendees can interact directly with Teegi -- e.g. move its limbs -- to discover by themselves the underlying brain processes. Teegi can be used for scientific outreach to introduce neurotechnologies in general and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in particular.
title: An Investigation on the Use of Deep Generative Model in Urban Land Use Planning
Creators: name: LEUNG, Tze Ming
name: Lin, Minqi
name: Yu, Peiheng
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Land-use planning, Figure-ground diagrams, Artificial intelligence.

description: Land use planning is an important tool to ensure that the need of people can be met and the land resources can be used efficiently. It has even been suggested that land use planning is a key to sustainable development. On the other hand, there has been a recent trend to adopt the idea of deep generative models in the realm of design. Attempts have been made to investigate the feasibility to generate architectural design options by using deep generative models. It would also be of interest to extend this idea and examine how deep generative models could be adopted in urban planning tasks. In the current study, a computational workflow to adopt deep generative model for land use planning has been proposed. The land use in various tertiary planning units (TPUs) in Hong Kong was adopted as the training data. After the training process, hypothetical TPUs was fed into the model to generate options of land use planning for these planning units. Results from the current study should unfold a new dimension in the realm of land use planning, in the sense that the proposed workflow can generate options for planners for further planning development investigation.
Accretion-ejection morphology of the microquasar SS433 resolved at sub-au scale
Creators: name: GRAVITY Collaboration
name: Petrucci, P. -O.
name: Waisberg, I.
name: Bouquin, J. -B. Le
name: Dexter, J.
name: Dubus, G.
name: Perraut, K.
name: Kervella, P.
name: Abuter, R.
name: Amorim, A.
name: Anugu, N.
name: Berger, J. P.
name: Blind, N.
name: Bonnet, H.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Buron, A.
name: Choquet, É.
name: Clénet, Y.
name: de Wit, W.
name: Deen, C.
name: Eckart, A.
name: Eisenhauer, F.
name: Finger, G.
name: Garcia, P.
name: Lopez, R. Garcia
name: Gendron, E.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Gillessen, S.
name: Gonte, F.
name: Haubois, X.
name: Haug, M.
name: Haussmann, F.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Hippler, S.
name: Horrobin, M.
name: Hubert, Z.
name: Jochum, L.
name: Jocou, L.
name: Kok, Y.
name: Kolb, J.
name: Kulas, M.
name: Lacour, S.
name: Lazareff, B.
name: Lèna, P.
name: Lippa, M.
name: Mérand, A.
name: Müller, E.
name: Ott, T.
name: Panduro, J.
name: Paumard, T.
name: Perrin, G.
name: Pfuhl, O.
name: Ramos, J.
name: Rau, C.
name: Rohloff, R. -R.
name: Rousset, G.
name: Sanchez-Bermudez, J.
name: Scheithauer, S.
name: Schöller, M.
name: Straubmeier, C.
name: Sturm, E.
name: Vincent, F.
name: Wank, I.
name: Wieprecht, E.
name: Wiest, M.
name: Wiezorrek, E.
name: Wittkowski, M.
name: Woillez, J.
name: Yazici, S.
name: Zins, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first optical observation at sub-milliarcsecond (mas) scale of the microquasar SS 433 obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the VLT interferometer. The 3.5 hour exposure reveals a rich K-band spectrum dominated by hydrogen Br$γ $ and \ion{He}{i} lines, as well as (red-shifted) emission lines coming from the jets. The K-band continuum emitting region is dominated by a marginally resolved point source ($
description: Submitted for publication in A&A Letters, 4 pages + appendix, 4 figures. Comments welcome
Praktische und philosophische Implikationen des Begriffs „Informationskontrolle“
Creators: name: Schmidt, Anatole
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Informationskontrolle
subject: Zensur
subject: Informationskompetenz
subject: Boosting
subject: Nudging
subject: information control
subject: censorship
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften

description: In dieser Arbeit analysiere ich den Begriff der „Informationskontrolle“. Ihm ist in der Informationswissenschaft bisher nicht viel Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen, obwohl er im Informationszeitalter als Oberbegriff für informationelle Kontrollakte immer relevanter wird. Deshalb arbeite ich Arten und Facetten der Informationskontrolle heraus, stelle eine Definition auf und wende mein Modell auf den IFLA-Kodex an. Aus dieser Anwendung ziehe ich praktische Empfehlungen, die ich schließlich aufführe. Mit dieser Arbeit erhoffe ich mir, den Begriff „Informationskontrolle“ als nützlichen Oberbegriff in der Informationswissenschaft zu etablieren.
Effect of physical activity in lymphocytes senescence burden in COPD patients_Online Supplementary
Creators: name: Alfaro García, Enrique
name: Díaz-García, Elena
name: García-Tovar, Sara
name: Galera, Raúl
name: Casitas, Raquel
name: Martinez-Ceron, Elisabet
name: Torres-Vargas, María
name: Padilla, José
name: López-Fernández, Cristina
name: Pérez-Moreno, Paula
name: García Río, Francisco
name: Cubillos Zapata, Carolina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology
classificationCode: 420702
subject: Exercise physiology

description: Supplementary Table 1 to "Effect of physical activity in lymphocytes senescence burden in COPD patients" published in American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
Female-biased sexual size dimorphism and mate choice in Tarrkawarra (Notomys alexis)
Creators: name: Richards, Nansi Ngahere
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Female-biased sexual size dimorphism (FSSD) is an unusual phenomenon in mammals, which are typically male-biased sexually size dimorphic (SSD). Mammalian FSSD is also poorly accounted for by theory and, in particular, by sexual selection theory (Chapter 1). In this thesis I demonstrate that tarrkawarra (Notomys alexis or spinifex hopping mouse), is an excellent model system with which to investigate mammalian FSSD for the following reasons: Firstly, captive tarrkawarra and some field populations demonstrate a high level of FSSD relative to other FSSD mammals. Secondly, sexual size parity in other tarrkawarra populations, implies intra-specific variation in the degree of FSSD expressed. Studies of intra-specific variation have some advantages over inter-specific studies. Thirdly, tarrkawarra are small, easy to maintain in captivity and common in their natural habitat (the Australian arid zone). Based on the field data published, I determined that intra-specific variation in the degree of FSSD tracks the environmental fluctuations that increase tarrkawarra populations 40 to 100-fold between long ‘bust’ and short ‘boom’ periods (Chapter 2). Spatial distribution of resources and potential mates is usually a strong determinant of optimal mating system and flexibility in tarrkawarra social organisation therefore seems likely. Flexibility would also explain why attempts to categorise the mating system have never satisfactorily accounted for all observations of the animals’ reproductive physiology and behaviour. To test the flexibility of FSSD in tarrkawarra, I assessed developmental and environmental effects on the degree of FSSD in a captive tarrkawarra population. I found evidence for divergent male and female growth from birth, mitigated by both population density (Chapter 2) and by neonatal litter composition (Chapter 3). Specifically, litter sex-ratio effects on female growth and reproductive success suggest sex differentiated maternal investment. Litters sired by larger males were also found to have a higher sex ratio, suggesting that, despite low inter-male competition, sexual selection may still be important in this species via mating preferences. Studies of first female (Chapter 4), then male mate choice (Chapter 5) support there being a role for sexual selection in the mating system of tarrkawarra. Both sexes demonstrated large-partner preferences, although male preferences reflected their own sexual experience and phenotype more than female quality. Consequently, these results cannot explain FSSD in tarrkawarra by themselves. Whilst there is now evidence of fecundity and mate choice selection for larger female size, selection on smaller male size has yet to be adequately described.
Combined pharmacophore, virtual screening and molecular dynamics studies to identify Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Seethalakshmi Sakthivel
name: S.K.M. Habeeb
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Bruton’s tyrosine Kinase (BTK) is a cytoplasmic, non-receptor tyrosine kinase expressed in hematopoietic cells. BTK plays a critical role in many cellular signalling pathways making it a potential target to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer. BTK signalling is important for the production of arthritis associated antibodies, and inhibiting BTK will help the system to block the production of disease-associated antibodies. In this study, we have implemented ligand-based pharmacophore modeling and virtual screening against natural compounds followed by molecular docking, density functional theory and molecular dynamics studies for 50ns. Four compounds with high affinity towards BTK were identified, and it could be used as a potent lead molecule for designing BTK inhibitor.
A Model of the Muon
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A geometrical/mechanical model of the muon has been developed based on a previous detailed model of the electron and the fine structure constant. The anomalous magnetic moment and lifetime have been calculated in terms of muon component parts. Known features of the tauon have also been related to the muon.
CP-violating decays of the pseudoscalars eta and eta' and their connection to the electric dipole moment of the neutron
Creators: name: Gutsche, Thomas
name: Blin, Astrid N. Hiller
name: Kovalenko, Sergey
name: Kuleshov, Serguei
name: Lyubovitskij, Valery E.
name: Vacas, Manuel J. Vicente
name: Zhevlakov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the present upper bound on the neutron electric dipole moment, we give an estimate for the upper limit of the CP-violating couplings of the eta(eta') to the nucleon. Using this result, we then derive constraints on the CP-violating eta(eta')-pi-pi couplings, which define the two-pion CP-violating decays of the eta and eta' mesons. Our results are relevant for the running and planned measurements of rare decays of the eta and eta' mesons by the GlueX Collaboration at JLab and the LHCb Collaboration at CERN.
Thermodynamic scaling of vibrational dynamics and relaxation
Creators: name: Puosi, F.
name: Chulkin, O.
name: Bernini, S.
name: Capaccioli, S.
name: Leporini, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate by thorough Molecular Dynamics simulations the thermodynamic scaling (TS) of a polymer melt. Two distinct models, with strong and weak virial-energy correlations, are considered. Both evidence the joint TS with the same characteristic exponent $γ_{ts}$ of the fast mobility - the mean square amplitude of the picosecond rattling motion inside the cage -, and the much slower structural relaxation and chain reorientation. If the cage effect is appreciable, the TS master curves of the fast mobility are nearly linear, grouping in a bundle of approximately concurrent lines for different fragilities. An expression of the TS master curve of the structural relaxation with one adjustable parameter less than the available three-parameters alternatives is derived. The novel expression fits well with the experimental TS master curves of thirty-four glassformers and, in particular, their slope at the glass transition, i.e. the isochoric fragility. For the glassformer OTP the isochoric fragility allows to satisfactorily predict the TS master curve of the fast mobility with no adjustments.
Linear equations and multiplicative polynomial equations in infinitely many variables
Creators: name: Nathanson, Melvyn B.
name: Ross, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12D10, 12E12, 15A06, 40H05, 46A45, 54B10, 54C30

description: This paper describes infinite sets of polynomial equations in infinitely many variables with the property that the existence of a solution or even an approximate solution for every finite subset of the equations implies the existence of a solution for the infinite set of equations.
description: 17 pages
Assessing comprehension of International Sign lectures: linguistic and sociolinguistic factors
Creators: name: Whynot, Lori A.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The dissertation assesses the communicative effectiveness of International Sign, a contact sign language phenomenon. The study responds to a void in empirical inquiry into this signed language contact variety. It analyzes expository conference lectures created by diverse deaf, international signers. The research comprises two related studies. The first is a lexicalfrequency analysis of collected expository International Sign data created by deaf presenters.It identifies lexical signs, i.e., those recognizably sourced from several lexifier native signlanguages such American Sign Language and Auslan (Australian Sign Language), or from known international sign vocabularies promoted by the World Federation of the Deaf and/orfrom their 1975 Unification of Signs Commission “Gestuno” initiative. The frequency studyalso identifies other sign types, such as partly-lexical signs (e.g., classifier or depicting signs,and indexing or pointing signs), and non-lexical signs (e.g., gestures and enactments). Thedistribution of all these sign types is compared to similar studies on native sign languages.High-frequency signs and depictions are identified for inclusion in comprehension testing instudy two. The second study uses a subset of texts from the first study to assess the comprehension of International Sign by 32 deaf participants in 5 countries who use unrelated native sign languages. In order to conduct these tests a comprehension test is first created.Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the study determines which linguisticand non-linguistic factors are most strongly related to improved comprehension levels.Comprehension of expository International Sign is quite varied with comprehension demonstrably lower than that of similar texts presented to the test participants in their nativesign language. Comprehension of text information is shown to be better at a general andglobal level rather than at a lower more specific level dealing with detailed information.Findings have implications for the effectiveness of International Sign as a “system ofuniversal access” in the increasingly varied usage settings to which it has been recently recruited.
A Model of the Electron
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A geometrical/mechanical model of the electron has been developed based on the measured fine structure constant, anomalous magnetic moment, and a solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity applied to electromagnetism. Properties such as charge, mass and spin have been explained from a classical viewpoint, and then a and m calculated in agreement with experiment.
Effect of physical activity in lymphocytes senescence burden in COPD patients_Online Supplementary
Creators: name: Alfaro García, Enrique
name: Díaz-García, Elena
name: García-Tovar, Sara
name: Galera, Raúl
name: Casitas, Raquel
name: Martinez-Ceron, Elisabet
name: Torres-Vargas, María
name: Padilla, José
name: López-Fernández, Cristina
name: Pérez-Moreno, Paula
name: García Río, Francisco
name: Cubillos Zapata, Carolina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320404
subject: Cellular immunology
classificationCode: 420702
subject: Exercise physiology

description: Supplementary Material to "Effect of physical activity in lymphocytes senescence burden in COPD patients" published in American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
Changes in fear responses of urban birds
Creators: name: Smiley, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Wildlife will often modify their behaviour when disturbed by humans. The distance at which animals flee from humans (flight initiation distance (FID)) generally decreases along the rural-urban gradient and as a function of time since the species’ colonisation. However, no known studies have monitored the ongoing responses of birds to urbanisation. To see how urban birds have responded to increasing urbanisation and how this varied between sites, I undertook an FID study at sites where FID had been measured in 2000. I examined how FID, response intensity (proportion of birds that walked away), and delays in flight after detecting the walker differed between the two periods, focusing on four species with the most observations. I found that in 2018, silver gulls (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) had significantly reduced FID both overall, and at the high disturbance sites, although there was no difference in response intensity. As expected, silver gulls and the Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) also generally delayed flight more after detecting the walker in 2018 than in 2000. While species’ responses in the intervening years are unknown, these results suggest that these two species are responding to increasing urbanisation presence, while the masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) and pied oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) are not. The exploiter species (silver gulls and the Australian white ibis) were frequently encountered in situations where human-sourced food was available, and hence delaying flight would often have been beneficial, while it was less advantageous for the other two species to delay flight as they were generally utilising natural resources.
A Model of Charmonium
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A geometrical/mechanical model of charmonium has been developed, based on the logarithmic confinement potential. The quark and antiquark pair orbit around the centre of mass, with their gluon and colour fields contained within a torus structure of characteristic radius.
A Model of Baryons
Creators: name: RICHARD WAYTE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryons are considered to be intricate particles having real geometrical structure, based on our previous proton design. Inherent baryon spin is proportional to mass and radius. The well-known octets and decuplets fit into groups where mass-squared and quantised-action are related. Magnetic moments are described in terms of a positive spin-loop and orbiting temporary electron(s). Lifetime of a baryon is governed by action of guidewave coherence around these structures.
Crossing Over from Attractive to Repulsive Interactions in a Tunneling Bosonic Josephson Junction
Creators: name: Spagnolli, G.
name: Semeghini, G.
name: Masi, L.
name: Ferioli, G.
name: Trenkwalder, A.
name: Coop, S.
name: Landini, M.
name: Pezze', L.
name: Modugno, G.
name: Inguscio, M.
name: Smerzi, A.
name: Fattori, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the interplay between tunneling and interatomic interactions in the dynamics of a bosonic Josephson junction. We tune the scattering length of an atomic $^{39}$K Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a double-well trap to investigate regimes inaccessible to other superconducting or superfluid systems. In the limit of small-amplitude oscillations, we study the transition from Rabi to plasma oscillations by crossing over from attractive to repulsive interatomic interactions. We observe a critical slowing down in the oscillation frequency by increasing the strength of an attractive interaction up to the point of a quantum phase transition. With sufficiently large initial oscillation amplitude and repulsive interactions the system enters the macroscopic quantum self-trapping regime, where we observe coherent undamped oscillations with a self-sustained average imbalance of the relative well population. The exquisite agreement between theory and experiments enables the observation of a broad range of many body coherent dynamical regimes driven by tunable tunneling energy, interactions and external forces, with applications spanning from atomtronics to quantum metrology.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, supplemental materials are included
Darshan IO trace for QuantumESPRESSO (CP)
Creators: name: Laura Bellentani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This trace was collected as part of the HPC I/O Analysis Initiative, which aims to improve the understanding and optimization of I/O performance in high performance computing. This data set contains the Darshan profiling file and associated metadata for the QuantumESPRESSO (CP) application, which belongs to the Molecular Dynamics category. It captures the execution of the application with 512 processes completed in 3 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds. This data provides insight into I/O patterns and performance that can be used for optimization efforts in similar computing contexts. For more traces and detailed information, please visit our website at https://hpcioanalysis.zdv.uni-mainz.de .If you use this dataset as part of a publication, please citeNafiseh Moti, André Brinkmann, Marc-André Vef, Philippe Deniel, Jesús Carretero, Philip H. Carns, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Reza Salkhordeh: The I/O Trace Initiative: Building a Collaborative I/O Archive to Advance HPC. SC Workshops 2023: 1216-1222in addition to the DOI of this dataset.
A note on proper affine symmetry in Bianchi types VIII and IX space-times
Creators: name: Shabbir, Ghulam
name: Rafiq, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the most general form of Bianchi types VIII and IX space-times for studying proper affine symmetry by using holonomy and decomposability, the rank of the 6X6 Riemann matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper affine symmetry in the above space-times it is shown that there exists only one possibilty when the above space-times admit proper affine vector field.
description: 7pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1309.7464
Antibiotics potentiating potential of catharanthine against superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Gaurav Raj Dwivedi
name: Tyagi, Rekha
name: Sanchita
name: Shubhandra Tripathi
name: Sanghamitra Pati
name: Srivastava, Santosh K.
name: Darokar, Mahendra P.
name: Sharma, Ashok
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Multidrug resistance (MDR) put an alarming situation like preantibiotic era which compels us to invigorate the basic science of anti-infective chemotherapy. Hence, the drug resistant genes/proteins were explored as promising drug targets. Keeping this thing in mind, proteome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 was explored, which resulted in the identification of tripartite protein complexes (MexA, MexB, and OprM) as promising drug target for the screening of natural and synthetic inhibitors. The purpose of present investigation was to explore the drug resistance reversal potential mechanism of catharanthine isolated from the leaves of Catharanthus roseous. Hence, the test compound catharanthine was in silico screened using docking studies against the above receptors, which showed signiﬁcant binding affinity with these receptors. In order to validate the in silico findings, in vitro evaluation of the test compound was also carried out. In combination, catharanthine reduced the minimum inhibitory concentration MIC of tetracycline (TET) and streptomycin up to 16 and 8 folds, respectively. Further, in time kill assay, catharanthine in combination with TET reduced the cell viability in concentration dependent manner and was also able to reduce the mutation prevention concentration of TET. It was also deduced that drug resistance reversal potential of catharanthine was due to inhibition of the efflux pumps.
title: A cross-cultural study of childhood psychopathology and cognitive performance: Testing causality versus shared aetiological influences and moderation by resilience factors
Creators: name: Oginni, Olakunle
name: Tarnoki, David Laszlo
name: Kolawole Mosaku
name: Tarnoki, Adam Domokos
name: Rimfeld, Kaili
name: Fruhling Rijsdijk
name: Boladale Mapayi
name: Toseeb, Umar
name: Ayoyinka Ayorinde
name: Szabo, Helga
name: Zoldi, Luca
name: Adeyemi, Hassan Segun
name: Persely, Aliz
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023

description: The present project will investigate the mechanisms of the links between psychopathology (emotional, conduct/behavioural and hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms) and cognitive performance in adolescence using twin data from UK, Hungary and Nigeria.
From 1 to infinity: The log-correction for the maximum of variable-speed branching Brownian motion
Creators: name: Alban, Alexander
name: Bovier, Anton
name: Gros, Annabell
name: Hartung, Lisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60G70, 82B44

description: We study the extremes of variable speed branching Brownian motion (BBM) where the time-dependent "speed functions", which describe the time-inhomogeneous variance, converge to the identity function.
 We consider general speed functions lying strictly below their concave hull and piecewise linear, concave speed functions.
 In the first case, the log-correction for the order of the maximum depends only on the rate of convergence of the speed function near 0 and 1 and exhibits a smooth interpolation between the correction in the i.i.d. case, $\frac{1}{2\sqrt{2}} \ln t$, and that of standard BBM, $\frac{3}{2\sqrt{2}} \ln t$.
 In the second case, we describe the order of the maximum in dependence of the form of speed function and show that any log-correction larger than $\frac{3}{2\sqrt{2}} \ln t$ can be obtained.
 In both cases, we prove that the limiting law of the maximum and the extremal process essentially coincide with those of standard BBM, using a first and second moment method which relies on the localisation of extremal particles.
 This extends the results of Bovier and Hartung for two-speed BBM.
description: 45 pages, 2 figures
Making art and community: an ethnographic study of being an emerging artist in Sydney
Creators: name: Scott, David Jonathan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This is an ethnographic study of emerging artists as they develop their practice and become part of the artworld in Sydney, Australia. My fieldwork was conducted from 2014 to 2016, in three artist-run initiatives, where I volunteered and attended hundreds of exhibitions, artist talks and events in the emerging art community. Through this research, it became clear that being a contemporary artist is not merely a career but a way of being-in-the-world. This mode of existence is characterised by a state of heightened curiosity and perceptual environmental attunement, which is learnt at art schools, and refined and expanded in artistic practice. The artists' work is not so much an expression of their experience and interrogation of the world, as a continuation of it. The emerging contemporary artist is not only an artist when they are making art; they are never-not-an-artist. Artist-run initiatives (ARIs), as the hubs of emerging art practice, provide the platform for contemporary art to develop and evolve. These are places run by artists, showing art for artists.They form the bridge between the art school and the artworld. At the same time, ARIs are indispensable places in which artists of all levels of experience form bonds of solidarity and continually expand their view of contemporary art in its many guises. The ARI, therefore creates the structures for artistic and rhetorical discourse and the continuity of emerging art culture and community. This thesis demonstrates the inextricability and interdependence of artists, art practice and community in the emerging artworld in Sydney. These are not merely co-influencers of emerging art in Sydney, they are co-constituents: they inform, shape and produce the art that is made and shown as they celebrate and reaffirm a way of being-in-the-world.
Non-differentiable solutions for local fractional nonlinear Riccati differential equations
Creators: name: Yang, Xiao-Jun
name: Srivastava, H. M.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
name: Zhang, Yudong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate local fractional nonlinear Riccati differential equations (LFNRDE) by transforming them into local fractional linear ordinary differential equations. The case of LFNRDE with constant coefficients is considered and non-differentiable solutions for special cases obtained.
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is with Fundamenta Informaticae, ISSN 0169-2968 (P), ISSN 1875-8681 (E), available at [http://content.iospress.com/journals/fundamenta-informaticae]
A new approach to the social capital and the social networks of Australian families
Creators: name: Watkins, Sheila D.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The existence of families has long been seen as fundamental to the structure and health of a society. Nevertheless, current sociological thought sees family in terms of a 'haven', as a private, isolated unit, a place in which individual members can retreat from society. The reality of 'family' in today's Australian society does not fit this model, if it ever did. This thesis aims to provide a new approach to the family, one that sees family as active and engaged. It also argues that, as a result of its connected nature, this family is able to provide a type of value to its members. This value is conceived of as social capital. The ability of this family to generate social capital through its networks makes the family an interactive social entity, underpinning its position as part of the structure of society. -- However, some social networks are more able to supply benefits than others. By exploring types of participation in terms of social, community, civic and economic participation, as well as formal and informal engagement, the thesis argues that while active participation is essential in generating benefits there are factors which can impinge on such participation. The effects of 'place' or the embedded locations of networks is undoubtedly important in bonding people within communities and acting as a bridge to others, however, the thesis finds that communities of interest generate more social capital. The thesis also argues that attitudes toward family independence or autonomy may compromise network exchange. Variations in the meaning of the norm of independence either emphasize the interdependency of society or highlight a definitive responsibility of the individual and family. In the former, the interdependency of society is emphasized. In the latter, network exchange is compromised. Independence thus becomes an essential element in the measurement of social capital and a cultural dimension of why some social networks are better able to supply benefits.
Ultralow Energy Analog Straintronics Using Multiferroic Composites
Creators: name: Roy, Kuntal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric field-induced magnetization switching in multiferroics holds profound promise for ultra-low-energy computing in beyond Moore's law era. Bistable nanomagnets in the multiferroics are usually deemed to be suitable for storing a binary bit of information and switching between the two stable states allows us to process digital information. However, it requires to process continuous analog signals too for seamless integration of nanomagnetic devices in our future information processing systems. Here, we show that it is possible to harness the analog nature in the magnetostrictive nanomagnets, contrary to writing a digital bit of information. By solving stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of magnetization dynamics at room-temperature, we demonstrate such possibility and show that there exists a transistor-like high-gain region in the input-output characteristics of the magnetostrictive nanomagnets in strain-mediated multiferroic composites. This can be the basis of ultra-low-energy analog and mixed signal precessing in our future information processing systems and it eliminates the requirement of using charge-based transistors.
Direct evidence of hidden local spin polarization in a centrosymmetric superconductor LaO$_{0.55}$F$_{0.45}$BiS$_2$
Creators: name: Wu, Shi-Long
name: Sumida, Kazuki
name: Miyamoto, Koji
name: Taguchi, Kazuaki
name: Yoshikawa, Tomoki
name: Kimura, Akio
name: Ueda, Yoshifumi
name: Arita, Masashi
name: Nagao, Masanori
name: Watauchi, Satoshi
name: Tanaka, Isao
name: Okuda, Taichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional Rashba spin polarization is caused by the combination of strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and spatial inversion asymmetry. However, Rashba- and Dresselhaus-type spin-split states are predicted in LaOBiS$_2$ system by recent theory even though the crystal structure is centrosymmetric, which stem from the local inversion asymmetry of active BiS$_2$ layer. By performing high-resolution spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we have investigated the electronic band structure and spin texture of superconductor LaO$_{0.55}$F$_{0.45}$BiS$_2$. Our studies present direct spectroscopic evidence for the local spin polarization in the vicinity of X point of both valence band and conduction band. Especially the coexistence of Rashba-like and Dresselhaus-like spin textures has been observed in the conduction band for the first time. The finding is of key importance for fabrication of proposed dual-gated spin-field effect transistor (SFET). Moreover, the spin-split band leads to a spin-momentum locking Fermi surface from which novel superconductivity emerges. Our demonstration not only expands the scope of spintronic materials but also enhances the understanding of SOI related superconductivity.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Structure-function of N- and O-glycosylated human corticosteroid-binding globulin
Creators: name: Chernykh, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG), a heavily glycosylated liver-derived protein, is a principal carrier of anti-inflammatory cortisol in plasma. CBG impacts the cortisol bioavailability and facilitates tissue-specific and timely hormone delivery, and is, consequently, a recognised immunomodulatory glycoprotein with an untapped therapeutic potential. The intriguingly complex glycosylation covering the CBG surface is known to modulate its function, but the underpinning glycobiology remains incompletely understood. To this end, this thesis has employed advanced mass spectrometry-based glycan and glycopeptide profiling and functional assays to characterise the structure-function of two biologically-relevant forms of HEK293-produced recombinant human CBG (rhCBG) with a focus on documenting the glycosylation covering the functionally-important reactive centre loop (RCL). rhCBG exhibited strong site-specific N-glycosylation and occupancy differences across the six N-glycosylation sites. Key glyco-features for future therapeutic applications of rhCBG including mannose-6-phosphorylation, were identified. The RCL-localised Asn347 displayed very low N-glycan occupancy relative to the native counterpart. Excitingly, the proximal Thr345 was instead occupied by core 1/2-type O-glycosylation, a previously unknown feature of human CBG. Importantly, the novel Thr345-glycosylation was shown to strongly inhibit neutrophil elastase-mediated RCL proteolysis, thereby implying its involvement in the cortisol delivery mechanisms. This thesis has generated novel data that advances our knowledge of the fascinating CBG glycobiology -- abstract.