cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Turning the Tide: Piracy and State Transformation in Somalia
Creators: name: STEPHANIE LOUISE CARVER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis asks: to what extent has piracy shaped the political order in Somalia? It examines how pirate activity along the Somali coast has become a mechanism for effecting change in the hybrid political conditions the coastal regions between 2005-2015. Through a focus on the collective action of the pirates, the thesis examines how pirates shape their encounters with other actors, where these interactions take place, and what the outcome of these interactions produce in terms of political order. It argues that through these negotiations, piracy has gradually become a means of political reordering, recasting pirates as political actors.
(200880) Sarah Grace Goodyear
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Uncovering an Author's Regional Background through High-Resolution Authorship Profiling Using Social Media Data
Creators: name: Roemling, Dana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: forensic linguistics
authorship analysis
authorship profiling

description: In an international online world it is easy to disguise one’s identity. Methods in forensic linguistics and stylometry work well to uncover authors from a set of candidates, but break down when no candidates are available for comparison. However, writing carries information that can be used to gather intelligence about an author: We can employ methods of authorship profiling, the assessment of linguistic features to infer author characteristics like age or gender. This knowledge can be used, for example, to filter a list of suspects or assess the veracity of authors’ claims about their identity. Profiling the regional background of authors has received limited attention in the literature, especially in a forensic context. Thus, in this talk I present the state of the art in high-resolution regional profiling in the German-speaking area. The data in this study consists of 21 million social media posts from the platform Jodel. First, I will demonstrate that the corpus can be used to map and identify regional patterns using lexis. This information can then be leveraged to help identify the regional backgrounds of authors. In light of these results I will also consider a more general application of the proposed method and tools.
The Performer-Arranger: A Clarinettist’s Perspective on Building Repertoire for Clarinet, Cello and Piano Trio
Creators: name: DAVID WILLIAM GRIFFITHS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Using arrangements and performances of works by Gabriel Fauré, Bedrich Smetana, Astor Piazzolla, Percy Grainger and Igor Frolov, this practice-led research portfolio explores the approaches I have taken as arranger and clarinettist with Ensemble Liaison to investigate the extent to which they have influenced the arrangement and performance outcomes.
Modelling soil δ13C across the Tibetan Plateau using deep-learning
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Lai, yunsen
name: Yang, Zhihan
name: Shi, Yuehong
name: Luo, Xinrui
name: Liu, Liang
name: Yu, Peng
name: Chen, Guo
name: Cai, Chunju
name: Chen, Shaohui
name: Lu, Houyuan
name: Li, Shaoda
name: Tang, Xiaolu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
Deep learning

description: In this study, we compiled a database of topsoil δ13C with 198 observations from published literatures. We applied a modified multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network algorithm – a deep learning approach, to predict the spatial pattern of topsoil δ13C and β (indicating the decomposition rate of soil organic carbon (SOC), calculated by δ13C divided by logarithmically converted SOC) at a fine spatial resolution of 500 m across the TP. The files with ".R" mean the R code used to produce TP δ13C and further analysis. “C13_3cm.csv” is the dataset of field observations of δ13C in TP terrestrial ecosystems, which were collected from published literatures. *Xiaolu Tang, corresponding author at College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China. Email: lxtt2010@163.com.
Attending to patient expectations in the early stages of the therapy process: an investigation of general medical practitioners’ perspectives of referral discussions and whether observed therapist attention to expectations predicts therapeutic alliance and therapy outcomes
Creators: name: Kellis, Elke
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Clinical practice and empirical research inform each other in this piece of research that explores how general medical practitioners (GPs) and therapists work with patient expectations. The present body of research consisted of three studies. The first study explored GPs` attitudes towards psychological treatment and their perspectives on their discussions with patients when making referrals for psychological treatment. The focus was on how GPs attend to patient expectations of therapy. A sample of 43 GPs from Victoria, Australia provided both quantitative and qualitative data, describing their views of how they work with patient expectations during the referral discussion. Findings suggested that many GPs in this sample do attend to patient expectations when making referrals. Qualitative analyses suggested that expectations related to outcomes, roles and therapy processes were each mentioned as important by a proportion of the GPs surveyed. It was argued that GPs may offer a possible pathway for shaping patient expectations before therapy even commences. The second study involved the development of a new observational measure of therapists` attention to patient expectations, the first of its kind. This measure, which assessed attention to several types of expectations, was then used in the third and final study where it was applied to 43 audio recordings of first therapy sessions that were part of the Jacobson et al. (1996) component analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for depression. The third study explored how therapists work with patient expectations in the first therapy session and sought to answer the question of whether more attention to patient expectations in the first session enhances therapeutic alliance and improves therapy outcome. Contrary to the hypotheses, ratings of the therapists’ attention to patient expectations in the first session were not associated with higher observations of working alliance with the patient or with outcomes in terms of depression scores. The implications for both theory and clinical practice, and future research are discussed.
(200882) Frederick William Biddle
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Television and contraceptive use in Indonesia - A weak signal?
Creators: name: Peters, Jörg
name: Strupat, Christoph
name: Vance, Colin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: contraceptive use
subject: rural development
subject: technology adoption
subject: fertility
subject: television
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for influencing behaviour, including reproductive decisions. After replicating Westhoff and Koffman’s (2011) finding of a positive correlation between television ownership and contraception using pooled Indonesian data, we proceed to estimate a fixed-effects model. The coefficient on television loses its significance while other policy relevant variables retain theirs. We conclude that the growing corpus of cross-sectional evidence on a link between television and contraception should be interpreted cautiously.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;20/2014
Phenomenological Review on Quark-Gluon Plasma: Concepts vs. Observations
Creators: name: Pasechnik, Roman
name: Šumbera, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review, we present an up-to-date phenomenological summary of research developments in the physics of the Quark--Gluon Plasma (QGP). A short historical perspective and theoretical motivation for this rapidly developing field of contemporary particle physics is provided. In addition, we introduce and discuss the role of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) ground state, non-perturbative and lattice QCD results on the QGP properties, as well as the transport models used to make a connection between theory and experiment. The experimental part presents the selected results on bulk observables, hard and penetrating probes obtained in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion experiments carried out at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (BNL RHIC) and CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerators. We also give a brief overview of new developments related to the ongoing searches of the QCD critical point and to the collectivity in small ($p+p$ and $p+A$) systems.
description: 64 pages, 29 figures; a new subsection 4.4.2 and a few references have been added; minor changes; published version
Continuous Certificate of Discharge, second cook and messman
Creators: name: Canada. Department Of Transport
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Spreitz, Karl, 1927-2016
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2013151
subject: Cargo ships
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/847405
subject: Discharge of contracts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/894834
subject: Food service
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/931080

description: Small booklet opened to pages 5 and 6. Certificate records contracts aboard ships, including the following information: name of ship and official number and tonnage; date and place of engagement and discharge; rating; description of voyage; report of character for ability and for general conduct; and signature of (1) Master, and of (2) Officer and official stamp. Date of engagements range from March 24, 1952, to August 1955. Spreitz was employed as Night Cook, 2nd Cook, and Messman. His voyages covered http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1240563 and Rivers. He was rated Very Good almost exclusively.
Capital market integration of ASEAN countries
Creators: name: Do, Hung Quang
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Capital market integration and relating issues are fascinating topics that have been studied intensively in the literature. The integration and/or segmentation of a capital market might imply the existence of an investment diversification benefit to investors. The countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have undergone dramatic economic and social changes in recent decades. However, there are significant gaps in the literature in relation to the development of capital markets in ASEAN countries. Therefore, this thesis focuses on investigating the history, institutions, and integration of the capital markets and industries of six selected ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (hereafter, 'ASEAN6'). The purpose of this thesis is to suggest opportunities for investment diversification among the ASEAN6. The analysis is conducted using time series and panel data modelling of stock returns from the US, Asia and the ASEAN6 markets. This is done by employing multivariate data analysis methods including static and systematic forward rolling regression models, Vector Autoregression (VAR), Vector Autoregression Moving Average Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Mean-Asymmetric Baba-Engle-Kraft-Kroner (VARMA-MGARCH-ABEKK) models. This study significantly contributes to the international finance literature in various ways. Firstly, it synthesizes and compares the development of the ASEAN6 capital markets to help investors understanding these markets before making their investment decisions. Second, it investigates the static and dynamic integration/segmentation of these ASEAN6 stock market returns and the channels of influence between the local and international markets using multivariate time series regressions and VAR models. Based on this information, it infers desirable choices of countries should investors invest to diversify their portfolios. Third, the thesis goes further by investigating the integration/segmentation of ASEAN6 stock industry returns and their volatilities in a VARMA-MGARCH-ABEKK model to select the best choice of industries within the ASEAN6 bloc for portfolio diversification. Finally, it analyses the relationships between some specific investment funds and ASEAN markets and their industries in panel data models to suggest some investment choices to investors.
DEVELOPMENT OF A TRACER TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDY OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT DYNAMICS IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS
Creators: name: MARSH, JONATHAN K.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1995

description: The development and field testing of a particle tracing technique for the prediction and monitoring of cohesive sediment transport is described. Natural, chemical and water soluble dye tracers have been used for many years to determine water circulation in order to predict sediment transport. Radioactive and fluorescent particles have been used widely to predict sediment particle transport, but have been restricted mainly to non-cohesive sand and gravel transport studies due to the difficulties of preparation, handling, disassociation of the label from the particle and labour-intensive analysis. The development of a fine cohesive tracing technique therefore offered a significant advancement for the understanding and prediction of fine cohesive sediment and pollutant dynamics in aquatic environments if a sediment analogue could be developed. The physical properties, including size, surface charge, fiuorescence and settling velocity of natural fine cohesive sediment were analysed in order to passively and actively adsorb organic fluorescent dyes onto the sediment surface; the tests were largely unsuccessful. The physical properties of artificial fluorescent particles as sediment analogues were examined and found to have a close correlation to natural sediment. Analysis of the fluorescent particles in mud suspensions on an Analytical Flow Cytometer offered an automated and accurate method of tracer concentration determination at low dilutions. A preliminary field study was carried out in a small pool with encouraging results. A study in a shallow freshwater lake was carried out to determine the sediment dynamics in the lake. A depth-averaged model of the wind-driven circulation within the lake was used to interpret the distribution of tracer. Secondary transport and deposition clearly led to an accumulation of sediment and internal loading in the lake driven by hydrodynamical forcing. A study of the particle residence time and deposition-resuspension processes in the turbidity maximum of a macro-tidal estuary. Fluorescent particles were released into the turbidity maximum and were advected down-estuary on the ebb tide and up-esiuary on the flood tide. The residual mass budgets indicated a significant deposition of the particles in the upper estuary at slack high water. The particles were detected in estuarine surface waters 1 week after release. The fluorescent particles behaved in a similar way to the suspended sediment in both the lacustrine and estuarine study and were considered as sutiable tracers for cohesive sediment.
Accurate and efficient numerical calculation of stable densities via optimized quadrature and asymptotics
Creators: name: Ament, Sebastian
name: O'Neil, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stable distributions are an important class of infinitely-divisible probability distributions, of which two special cases are the Cauchy distribution and the normal distribution. Aside from a few special cases, the density function for stable distributions has no known analytic form, and is expressible only through the variate's characteristic function or other integral forms. In this paper we present numerical schemes for evaluating the density function for stable distributions, its gradient, and distribution function in various parameter regimes of interest, some of which had no pre-existing efficient method for their computation. The novel evaluation schemes consist of optimized generalized Gaussian quadrature rules for integral representations of the density function, complemented by various asymptotic expansions near various values of the shape and argument parameters. We report several numerical examples illustrating the efficiency of our methods. The resulting code has been made available online.
Employment, mothering and family in Brunei: Patterns of continuity and change
Creators: name: AZRINAH BINTI HAJI ABD RAHMAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Gender studies

description: This thesis is an exploration of the lived experiences of employed mothers with young children in Brunei as the emerging career aspirations of these women intersect with their traditional roles as mothers and wives in dual-income families. This thesis contributes to knowledge of family, gender roles, mothering, childcare and paid employment in Brunei and Southeast Asia by exploring the challenges employed mothers face in navigating their family life in a landscape in which culture, religion and gender are intersecting forces shaping their everyday experiences.
Reverse mathematics of the finite downwards closed subsets of $\mathbb{N}^k$ ordered by inclusion and adjacent Ramsey for fixed dimension
Creators: name: Pelupessy, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B30 (Primary), 03F15, 06A06 (Secondary)

description: We show that the well-partial orderedness of the finite downwards closed subsets of $\mathbb{N}^k$ ,ordered by inclusion, is equivalent to the well-foundedness of the ordinal $ω^{ω^ω}$. This was conjectured to be the case by Hatzikiriakou and Simpson. Since we use Friedman's adjacent Ramsey theorem for fixed dimensions in the upper bound, we also give a treatment of the reverse mathematical status of that theorem.
description: This is a pre-peer-reviewed version of a paper which has been accepted for publication at Mathematical Logic Quarterly
Modelling soil δ13C across the Tibetan Plateau using deep-learning
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Lai, Yunsen
name: Yang, Zhihan
name: Shi, Yuehong
name: Luo, Xinrui
name: Liu, Liang
name: Yu, Peng
name: Chen, Guo
name: Cai, Chunju
name: Chen, Shaohui
name: Lu, Houyuan
name: Li, Shaoda
name: Tang, Xiaolu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
Deep learning

description: These are topsoil δ13C and β product (indicating the decomposition rate of soil organic carbon (SOC), calculated by δ13C divided by logarithmically converted SOC) based on field observations and environmental variables using a modified multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network algorithm (a deep learning approach). The topsoil δ13C and β product have a fine spatial resolution of 500 m across the Tibetan Plateau. The files with ".R" mean the R code used to produce TP δ13C and further analysis. “C13_3cm.csv” is the dataset of field observations of δ13C in TP terrestrial ecosystems, which were collected from published literatures. *Xiaolu Tang, corresponding author at College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China. Email: lxtt2010@163.com.
Nuclear Polarization of Hydrogen Molecules from Recombination of Polarized Atoms
Creators: name: Haeberli, W.
name: Lorentz, B.
name: Quin, P. A.
name: Rathmann, F.
name: Wise, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Phase-driven charge manipulation in Hybrid Single-Electron Transistor
Creators: name: Enrico, Emanuele
name: Strambini, Elia
name: Giazotto, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase-tunable hybrid devices, built upon nanostructures combining normal metal and superconductors, have been the subject of intense studies due to their numerous combinations of different charge and heat transport configurations. They exhibit solid applications in quantum metrology and coherent caloritronics. Here we propose and realize a new kind of hybrid device with potential application in single charge manipulation and quantized current generation. We show that by tuning superconductivity on two proximized nanowires, coupled via a Coulombic normal metal island, we are able to control its charge state configuration. This device supports a one-control-parameter-cycle being actuated by the sole magnetic flux. In a voltage biased regime, the phase-tunable superconducting gaps can act as energy barriers for charge quanta leading to an additional degree of freedom in single electronics. The resulting configuration is fully electrostatic and the current across the device is governed by the quasiparticle populations in the source and drain leads. Notably, the proposed device can be realized using standard nanotechniques opening the possibility to a straightforward coupling with the nowadays well developed superconducting electronics.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
The economics of environmental water management
Creators: name: Hone, Simon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

In this thesis, I investigate the economics of environmental water management by considering two related approaches to increasing the efficiency of environmental water management. The first approach is to identify specific strategies that improve environmental water management. For example, what volume of water should be released for the Barmah-Millewa forests this month? Environmental water management problems are typically characterised by numerous variables, unusual functions, dynamics, irreversibility, interactions and uncertainty. I develop a model that demonstrates that economic optimisation can take these complexities into account and provide evidence on a number of practical management issues. The second approach involves identifying institutions (ways of managing environmental water) that lead to better environmental water management. For example, should environmental water management be a local or federal responsibility? I develop a game theoretic model to examine the relative efficiency of decentralised and centralised environmental water management. I show that in many cases there are no differences, and that some differences that arise in practice are due to other characteristics that typically accompany decentralised and centralised systems (such as who bears the cost of environmental water). In general, the relative efficiency of decentralised and centralised environmental water management is theoretically ambiguous. I use a numerical version of the model to highlight the influence of various physical and institutional factors. I also examine the extent to which local agents are able to coordinate within a decentralised system, which is a key determinant of relative efficiency.
E-BOOK SAÚDE DA MULHER NA GESTAÇÃO
Creators: name: Sales, Juliana Lavareda
name: Pereira, Camilo Eduardo Almeida
name: Emmi, Danielle Tupinambá
name: Caldas, Cezar Augusto Muniz
name: Reis, Aline Gobbo
name: Casseb, Tamiris Faro
name: Reis, Adryane de Paula Barbosa
name: Pantoja, Amanda Vitória Gomes
name: Melo, Andréia Di Paula Costa
name: Miranda, Ayanne Castro de
name: Lima, Caroliny Heloisy Dias
name: Silva, Débora Rafaela Vilhena da
name: Victor, Delana Alana de Miranda
name: Guerra, Evelyn Letícia Neves
name: Beltrão, Irayane da Silva
name: Marques, John Lucas da Costa
name: Veloso, Laura da Silva
name: Santos, Luana do Carmo Maciel dos
name: Brito, Lucas Alves de
name: Pantoja, Valdinei Maués
name: Oliveira, Yann Lucas Pita de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Trata-se de um e-book desenvolvido mediante a parceria da secretaria municipal de saúde de belém com o programa PET-Saúde voltado para a saúde da mulher na gestação.
A Window onto Japanese Society: Translating Hierarchy in Yokoyama Hideo’s The Third Deadline
Creators: name: LOLA MEGUMI SUNDIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Fiction translation from Japanese into English is a challenging enterprise, especially regarding the translation of socio-cultural features represented in the literary works. One such area deserving further attention due to its complexity is the issue of hierarchy in Japanese society, which is represented through socio-linguistic features in the character interactions. Through a case study of crime fiction translation, this thesis proposes a guideline to enable the transfer of hierarchical nuances prevalent in Japanese crime fiction into English in order to provide potential target readers a more complex understanding of how hierarchy functions in Japanese society.
Theory of dual fermion superconductivity in hole-doped cuprates
Creators: name: Chang, Jun
name: Zhao, Jize
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the discovery of the cuprate high-temperature superconductivity in 1986, a universal phase diagram has been constructed experimentally and numerous theoretical models have been proposed. However, there remains no consensus on the underlying physics thus far. Here, we theoretically investigate the phase diagram of hole-doped cuprates based on an itinerant-localized dual fermion model, with the charge carriers doped on the oxygen sites and localized holes on the copper $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ orbitals. We analytically demonstrate that the puzzling anomalous normal state or the strange metal could simply stem from a free Fermi gas of carriers bathing in copper antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. The short-range high-energy spin excitations also act as the `magnetic glue' of carrier Cooper pairs and induce $d$-wave superconductivity from the underdoped to overdoped regime, distinctly diffrent from the conventional low-frequency magnetic fluctuation mechanism. We further sketch out the characteristic dome-shaped critical temperature $T_c$ versus doping level. The emergence of the pseudogap is ascribed to the localization of partial carriers coupled to the local copper moments or a crossover from the strange metal to a nodal Kondo-like insulator. Our work provides a consistent theoretical framework to understand the typical phase diagram of hole-doped cuprates and paves a distinct way to the studies of both non-Fermi liquid and unconventional superconductivity in strongly correlated systems.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Making Sense of Reality TV in China: A Study of Issues of Production, Consumption and Online Discussion
Creators: name: YUNING ZHANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160502 Arts and Cultural Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: China’s highly successful commercial media industry is a major development out of the country’s process of Reform and Opening-up since 1978. Within that industry, reality TV, or zhenren xiu (真人秀) has become arguably one of the most profitable forms of TV entertainment since 2012. In this thesis, I explore the production, consumption and online discussion of reality TV in China, so as to find out Chinese people’s opinions, values and interests regarding reality TV in the highly-regulated social environment of 21st century mainland China.
Zwischen Ethnografie und praxisorientierter Entwicklungsarbeit
Creators: name: Schweitzer, Julia
Publisher: name: PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung. Zeitschrift für Schul- und Professionsentwicklung. (PFLB)
Year: 2023

description: Den Ausgangspunkt dieses Beitrags bilden die besonderen Bedingungen von Hochschulforschung. Da Forschende ihre eigene Lebenswelt studieren, müssen sie zwischen ihrer Forschung und ihrer Mitgliedschaft in der Organisation changieren, was Auswirkungen auf die sich daraus konstituierende spezifische Form der Subjektivität hat. In diesem Beitrag nehme ich die in Schweitzer (2022) entwickelten Reflexionsfragen zur rollenbedingten Involviertheit zum Anlass, um mein eigenes Dissertationsprojekt aus der Forschung zur universitären Lehrer*innenbildung zu beleuchten. Zum einen möchte ich dadurch eine Transparenz hinsichtlich meiner eigenen Verstrickungen im Rahmen meines Forschungsprojektes herstellen. So zeige ich entlang von Einträgen meines Forschungstagebuchs u.a. auf, dass mein Wunsch nach Rollentrennung den Chancen von Subjektivität als Erkenntnisfenster entgegenstand. Zum anderen dient der Beitrag im Allgemeinen zur forschungspraktischen Illustrierung der andernorts auf Grundlage der Diskussionen um Forscher*innensubjektivität im Kontext von (Eigen-)Ethnografie und Hochschulforschung theoretisch entwickelten Reflexionsfragen.
description: PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung. Zeitschrift für Schul- und Professionsentwicklung. (PFLB), Bd. 5 Nr. 1 (2023): PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung – Ausgabe 5
Personhood and conceptual restructuring in the bilingual mind: Exploration of Vietnamese-English bilinguals’ conceptualisations of person address and reference
Creators: name: Le, Ngoc Lan Anh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

This study investigates relationships between language use and perception using a combined conceptual framework grounded in Pavlenko’s conceptual restructuring framework, Slobin’s “thinking for speaking” and Grosjean’s bilingual mode model. Using this combined conceptual framework, my exploratory study of the perceptual restructuring of Vietnamese-English international students in Australia employs a semi-structured interview and a language task that is comprised of a set of conversations and responses to a computerised morphing perception scale to draw out different aspects of personhood. The findings about perception and language use show complex patterns of positioning and interaction among the participants without clear influences of any single individual or interactional variable: Participants are spread through complex clusters, and variables such as age, gender and length of residence are not significant. The qualitative data, mostly from the interviews, take into consideration the presence and interaction of different forces in the thinking processes that relate to certain decisions about language use among the participants. On the basis of the findings, I propose a plurilingual forces framework to understand the “thinking” component in Slobin’s “thinking for speaking” framework. The forces are (i) personhood, i.e. how a person positions themselves with the systems in their communicative repertoires and with their interlocutors in different communicative situations, (ii) the extent to which the person views those systems in their repertoires as distinctive or co-operating, and (iii) the extent to which the person is more systemoriented or more person-oriented in their communicative decision making. These forces interact, creating complex and dynamic processes that operate as the preparation stages for individual language decisions observed in an individual’s communication.
Effective models of quantum gravity induced by Planck scale modifications in the covariant quantum algebra
Creators: name: de Brito, G. P.
name: Caneda, P. I. C.
name: Gomes, Y. M. P.
name: Junior, J. T. Guaitolini
name: Nikoofard, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we introduce a modified covariant quantum algebra based in the so-called Quesne-Tkachuk algebra. By means of a deformation procedure we arrive at a class of higher derivative models of gravity. The study of the particle spectra of these models reveals an equivalence with the physical content of the well-known renormalizable and super-renormalizable higher derivative gravities. The particle spectrum exhibits the presence of spurious complex ghosts and, in light of this problem, we suggest an interesting interpretation in the context of minimal length theories. Also, a discussion regarding the non-relativistic potential energy is proposed.
description: Small corrections were made; improved figures; results unchanged; published version
Optimal quantum state identification with qudit-encoded unknown states
Creators: name: Herzog, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of optimally identifying the state of a probe qudit, prepared with given prior probability in a pure state belonging to a finite set of possible states which together span a D-dimensional subspace of the d-dimensional Hilbert space the qudit is defined in.It is assumed that we do not know some or all of the states in the set, but for each unknown state we are given a reference qudit into which this state is encoded. We show that from the measurement for optimal state identification with d=D one can readily determine the optimal figure of merit for qudits with d>D, without solving a new optimization problem. This result is applied to the minimum-error identification and to the optimal unambiguous identification of two qudit states with d > 2, where either one or both of the states are unknown, and also to the optimal unambiguous identification of N equiprobable linearly independent unknown pure qudit states with d > N. In all cases the optimal figure of merit, averaged over the unknown states, increases with growing dimensionality d of the qudits.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, final version
(200875) Ada Louisa Betts
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Public Religions and Politics in Ukraine, 1991-2018: The Discursive Aspect
Creators: name: DENYS SHESTOPALETS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Religious Studies

description: This thesis is devoted to the study of the interplay between religion and politics in Ukraine in the period 1991-2018. It focuses primarily on the discursive aspects of the involvement of religious organisations in the political process and, conversely, the influence of political actors on religious affairs. The thesis demonstrates that the initial tendency toward the politicisation of religion in Ukraine, which emerged during the early 1990s in the context of post-Soviet transformations, peaked after the Euromaidan, reaching a point where the constitutional principles of secularity were no longer seen as taken-for-granted norms of the Ukrainian political order.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 52
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Richtlinien für die Gewährung einer Beihilfe zu den Druckkosten von Dissertationen und anderen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 52
Wechselwirkungen einer multifunktionalen Flexibilitätsbewirtschaftung mit der Betriebsplanung proaktiver Verteilnetze
Creators: name: Erlemeyer, Fabian
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sektorenkopplung
subject: Verteilnetz
subject: Flexibilität
subject: Modellierung
subject: Simulation
subject: 620
subject: Sektorkopplung
subject: Verteilungsnetz

description: Der Einsatz von Flexibilität dient im elektrischen Energieversorgungssystem zum Ausgleich zwischen der Stromerzeugung und dem –verbrauch. Dies geschieht sowohl für den planbaren Anteil als auch für den kurzfristigen Bedarf im Rahmen der Leistungsfrequenz-Regelung. Im Rahmen des Engpassmanagements wird zusätzlich Flexibilität für die Vermeidung von Grenzwertverletzungen im elektrischen Übertragungs- und Verteilnetz verwendet. Da sich im Zuge der Energiewende weitreichende Veränderungen sowohl in der Erzeuger- als auch in der Verbraucherstruktur ergeben, wird die zuvor beschrieben Flexibilität zukünftig von anderen, größtenteils im Verteilnetz angeschlossenen, technischen Anlagen erbracht. Durch die Verlagerung in das Verteilnetz nimmt die Komplexität und Heterogenität des Flexibilitätseinsatzes zu. In dieser Arbeit wird vor diesem Hintergrund ein Simulationsmodell zur Untersuchung des Flexibilitätseinsatzes in Wechselwirkung mit der Betriebsplanung elektrischer Verteilnetze erstellt. Die Funktionsfähigkeit wird zunächst anhand einer Simulation überprüft. Um die getroffenen Annahmen bezüglich der Verfügbarkeit und des Verhaltens der technischen Anlage überprüfen zu können, wird das erstellte Modell mit realen Anlagen kombiniert und betrieben. Aus dem Betrieb werden schließlich Annahmen zur Ausgestaltung zukünftiger Prozesse abgeleitet.
Ionization Balance in Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums
Creators: name: Fournier, K. B.
name: Glenzer, S. H.
name: Lee, R. W.
name: Suter, L. J.
name: Wilson, B. G.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
How to use the functional empirical process for deriving asymptotic laws for functions of the sample
Creators: name: Lo, Gane Samb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62E20, 62F05

description: The functional empirical process is a very powerful tool for deriving asymptotic laws for almost any kind of statistics whenever we know how to express them into functions of the sample. Since this method seems to be applied more and more in the very recent future, this paper is intended to provide a complete but short description and justification of the method and to illustrate it with a non-trivial example using bivariate data. It may also serve for citation without repeating the arguments.
description: 11 pages
Love Teams in 1970s Philippine Cinema
Creators: name: Chrishandra Sebastiampillai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: My research examines film couples in 1970s Philippine cinema which are called ‘love teams’. The era is particularly interesting because of the imposition of Martial Law in 1972, with singing teenagers and dictatorship characterizing the early 1970s and drawing large crowds for very different reasons. It examines love teams as a distinct category of stardom in the Philippines that privileges a couple's collaborative partnership rather than the celebration of the individual that usually characterizes star studies in Hollywood. I also explore the love teams' genre of the teenage jukebox musical, in which the young couples sing versions of popular American songs in plots that closely resemble their real lives. It interrogates notions of ethnicity, religion, courtship, marriage and youth in Philippine society in the 1970s.
(200877) Robert Wye Betts
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Campaigning for Justice in Dark Times:Politkovskaya's Network and the Lapin Case
Creators: name: Jackman, Danielle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is a study of the Russian journalist and human rights campaigner, Anna Politkovskaya. As a reporter in Chechnya, she chronicled a litany of abuses committed by Russian forces and their local collaborators during the invasion of 1999 and the ensuing subjugation of the region. She also became a loud advocate of criminal accountability for the perpetrators of abuses. Her frequent appeals to Western opinion and her collaboration with Western NGOs earned her vilification in the Kremlin-aligned media as a traitor to her country. In the West, she was widely celebrated as a solitary voice of defiance against the Putin regime. The thesis is intended to serve as a corrective to both the anathemas and the hagiography that surrounds Politkovskaya’s name. Employing over 100 interviews with civic activists in Russia and abroad, it illuminates the social context to Politkovskaya’s activism by demonstrating that her crusade was sustained by a network of activists, which stretched from the war zones of Chechnya to prominent intellectuals and NGOs in the West. The thesis revolves around a detailed analysis of the Lapin case (2001-2005), which resulted in the first conviction of a Russian police officer for the torture and disappearance of a Chechen civilian. It shows how this case was both provoked and driven by the publicity, investigations and international pressure brought to bear by Politkovskaya’s network. On a broader level, this thesis is a contribution to the burgeoning field of scholarship on transnational human rights networks. Much of this scholarship is dominated by celebratory accounts of the contribution of these networks to successful norm diffusion and democratic transitions. This thesis explores an issue that has received less attention: the impact of transnational networks under the increasingly repressive conditions of an entrenched authoritarian regime.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
The Haar system as a Schauder basis in spaces of Hardy-Sobolev type
Creators: name: Garrigós, Gustavo
name: Seeger, Andreas
name: Ullrich, Tino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46E35, 46B15, 42C40

description: We show that, for suitable enumerations, the multivariate Haar system is a Schauder basis in the classical Sobolev spaces on $\mathbb R^d$ with integrability $1
description: The revised version covers the multivariate case. A section on sharpness is added
title: Digitalizing Building’s End-of-Life
Creators: name: Sibenik, Goran
name: Schützenhofer, Stefan
name: Sreckovic, Marijana
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: end-of-life
building
digitalization
framework
physical assets
digital assets
BIM

description: The end-of-life phase of buildings’ life-cycles is still missing a structured approach that could align digitalization with research and practice in a single flow of topics of interest, within and beyond the phase. Performed processes are often not understood in a larger context. They are not related to each other, despite the growing interest in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, and regulatory bodies aiming to address sustainability. With this research, a framework that can contextualize existing digitalization approaches is provided. Therefore, an overview of tasks performed by three project partners is used to propose a framework. It is conceptualized with lanes describing the actors, processes, and assets, and further divided into two parallel lanes dealing with physical and digital assets; the framework is verified with business models, research papers, projects, and regulations. It encompasses existing processes and provides a structured, high-level overview. This research serves as a base for defining relevant factors for each step of the end-of-life phase, required to determine the influence matrix needed for clarification of existing and future business models concerning both physical and digital assets in the phase of interest. The provided structured overview will be used to determine obstacles and potentials in the end-of-life phase, and overreaching influence on domains like circular economy, building planning or ecological performance.