cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Holographic superconductor in a deformed four-dimensional STU model
Creators: name: Pourhassan, B.
name: Bagheri-Mohagheghi, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider deformed STU model in four dimensions including both electric and magnetic charges. Using AdS/CFT correspondence, we study holographic superconductor and obtain transport properties like electrical and thermal conductivities. We obtain transport properties in terms of the black hole magnetic charge and interpret it as magnetic monopole of dual field theory. We find that presence of magnetic charge is necessary to have maximum conductivities, and existence of magnetic monopole with a critical charge (137 e) to reach the maximum superconductivity is important. Also, we show that thermal conductivity increases with increasing of magnetic charge. It may be concluded that the origin of superconductivity is magnetic monopole.
description: 19 pages, 8 Figures. Accepted for publication in EPJC
A Giant Dentigerous Cyst in a Pediatric Patient
Creators: name: Nagaveni NB
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: The present article emphasizes importance of regular radiographic evaluation in pediatric patients noticed with retained primary teeth, delayed eruption of permanent teeth and other suspicious conditions encountered during routine dental check-up. A huge dentigerous cyst was observed following a radiographic examination taken for some other purpose in a 5-year-old Indian male patient. The cyst was asymptomatic constituting permanent teeth buds. In this paper, presence of an asymptomatic huge dentigerous cyst is described which occurred in the maxillary arch which is rarely reported in the literature.
Generalization of the Wiener-Ikehara theorem
Creators: name: Debruyne, Gregory
name: Vindas, Jasson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M45, 40E05

description: We study the Wiener-Ikehara theorem under the so-called log-linearly slowly decreasing condition. Moreover, we clarify the connection between two different hypotheses on the Laplace transform occurring in exact forms of the Wiener-Ikehara theorem, that is, in "if and only if" versions of this theorem.
description: 10 pages
(200806) Selina Hadaway
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.
WHAT IS ACADEMIC SUCCESS FOR INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS? A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF STUDENT AND STAFF PERSPECTIVES AT A MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar
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 Business, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis presents an exploratory study of the nature of academic success for postgraduate international students in the context of one Malaysian research university, based on the perspectives of postgraduate international students, academic staff and professional staff members. Existing literature on international students predominately emanates from Western settings and offers rich insights into international students’ adjustment experiences. However, the literature has failed to fully explore the meaning of academic success, typically conflating it with grades and/or timely completion of studies. This study fills that gap in the literature, investigating the nature of, and key factors/challenges to, academic success, and thus seeks to contribute to scholarship on international student development. It adopts a qualitative and hermeneutic phenomenological approach and is based on 55 semi-structured interviews, analysed thematically. The study demonstrates that academic success is a multi-dimensional phenomenon, subject to multiple and interdependent factors and challenges, with important implications that extend Astin’s I-E-O model.
On corrected formula for graphene quantum conductivity
Creators: name: Firsova, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating periodic electric field in terahertz range is considered. The corrected formula for the graphene quantum conductivity is found. The obtained formula gives complex conjugate results when radiation polarization direction is clockwise or it is opposite clockwise. The found formula allows us to see that the graphene membrane is an oscillating contour. Its eigen frequency coincides with a singularity point of the conductivity and depends on the electrons concentration. So the graphene membrane could be used as an antenna or a transistor and its eigen frequency could be tuned by doping in a large terahertz-infrared frequency range. The obtained formula allows us also to calculate the graphene membrane quantum inductivity and capacitance. The found dependence on electrons concentration is consistent with experiments. The method of the proof is based on the study of the time-dependent density matrix. The exact solution of the von Neumann equation for density matrix is found for our case in linear approximation on the external field. On this basis the induced current is studied and then the formula for quantum conductivity as a function of external field frequency and temperature is obtained. The method of the proof suggested in this paper could be used to study other problems. The found formula for quantum conductivity can be used to correct the SPPs Dispersion Relation and for the description of radiation process. It would be useful to take the obtained results into account when constructing devices containing graphene membrane nanoantenna. Such project could make it possible to create wireless communications among nanosystems. This would be promising research area of energy harvesting applications.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1511.05379
A Cultural History of Fatherhood in Australia, 1920-1980
Creators: name: Bell, Johnny
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is an exploration of different narratives of Australian fatherhood throughout the twentieth century. It is a study of the cultural representations of fathers, and of the expectations of what fathers should be, but it is also a study which examines the experiences of fathering and of being fathered. From a diversity of sources – childrearing manuals, the case files of a children’s protection society, women’s magazines, Australian life writing, royal commissions, and medical literature – comes a diversity of perspectives on Australian fatherhood, and from this the thesis makes two primary arguments. The first, put simply, is that ideas and images of Australian fatherhood have undergone considerable change over the decades from the 1920s to 1980. While the breadwinning model was the dominant ideal of Australian fatherhood for most of this period, even in the 1920s there were calls for men to attend to the emotional life of their children, and to their moral wellbeing. By the 1950s there were hopes that fathers might share in the more mundane, day-to-day demands of childrearing, even before the gender revolution of the 1960s and 1970s declared that the breadwinning model of fatherhood was not just inadequate, but also unjust. The often- overlooked story of Australian fatherhood, then, is revealed as dynamic, shifting, and always contested. The other argument of this thesis, though, is that Australian fatherhood in the twentieth century has been marked by continuities as much as change. In this, it will be seen that the different narratives of Australian fatherhood have often been curbed, resisted, or muted by ‘traditional’ ideas of how children should be raised. An important part of this resistance came from that vision of Australian masculinity which has always eschewed the humdrum and ‘feminising’ demands of the home, and the relationship between masculine identity and fatherhood is an important theme of this work. But this work also takes care to locate Australian fatherhood in the broader context of gender relations, and in doing so it will be seen that the sternest resistance to a ‘new fatherhood’ often came from the enduring mythologies of an omnipotent and naturally nurturing mother.
(200807) Thomas Glaisyer
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.
Observation of the X-Ray Magneto-Optical Voigt Effect
Creators: name: Abramsohn, D.
name: Gaupp, A.
name: Kunes, J.
name: Mertins, H.-Ch.
name: Oppeneer, P. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Physiological insights into Suramin interactions with excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle
Creators: name: Williams, Dane Woodgate
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 Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Suramin has long been used in the treatment of various human diseases. Intravenous infusions of Suramin are commonly administered to patients over extended periods of time but there are a number of significant contraindications with peripheral muscle weakness being one of the most frequently reported. Previous work has shown that even after a single infusion (300 mg per kg) Suramin remains in skeletal muscle in effective concentrations (11.6 µg per ml; 84 days) for prolonged periods. These observations provide a strong rationale for investigation of the specific effects of Suramin on skeletal muscle function. We hypothesised that Suramin can alter skeletal muscle contractile functions, providing possible explanations for the reported muscle weakness in patients. Single, mechanically skinned fibres from the EDL muscle of Long Evans Rats provided an experimental preparation with exquisite direct access to and potential control of the excitation, Ca2+ handling and contractile machinery of the muscle fibre. Various Suramin concentrations (2 µM - 500 µM) were used in these studies, reflecting the full range of concentrations that may be evident in human treatment regimes. We identified a number of significant Suramininduced effects on muscle function. At high doses (100 µM, 500 µM) Suramin was able to remove the regulatory complex Troponin from the contractile proteins. Furthermore, at all concentrations Suramin inhibited myosin ATPase activity, resulting in significant reductions in total muscle force. Suramin also affected the function of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) by directly activating the release of Ca2+ from the SR and by antagonising the CaM RYR1 interactions involved in Ca2+ release and the pump activity (SERCA) underpinning Ca2+ uptake. Finally, the coupling between DHPR RYR, essential for coupling of membrane excitation to contraction, was affected by Suramin (10 µM) through a reversible inhibition of the T-tubular sodium potassium ATPase. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to their potential to contribute to the contraindications of muscle weakness in clinical applications.
(200809) Arthur Glaisyer
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.
Cultural Specificity in Indonesian Film: Diversity in Unity
Creators: name: DAVID MAXWELL HANAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Performing Arts
subject: 200516 Indonesian Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 100509 Video Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Leading Indonesian filmmakers have often stated that it is important that their ‘culture’, or rather numerous cultures, get expression in their feature films. This thesis explores ways in which aspects of traditional cultures in regional areas have been incorporated into Indonesian feature films made since the establishment of the nation at the end of 1949. It also explores ways in which cultural dominants found across the Indonesian archipelago (for example the body languages of group oriented societies) are expressed visually in films. Also explored are some unique images of women, specifically related to their roles and status in the cultures.
Macroscopic superpositions as quantum ground states
Creators: name: Dakić, Borivoje
name: Radonjić, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the question of what kind of a macroscopic superposition can(not) naturally exist as a ground state of some gapped local many-body Hamiltonian. We derive an upper bound on the energy gap of an arbitrary physical Hamiltonian provided that its ground state is a superposition of two well-distinguishable macroscopic "semi-classical" states. For a large class of macroscopic superposition states we show that the gap vanishes in the macroscopic limit. This in turn shows that preparation of such states by simple cooling to the ground state is not experimentally feasible and requires different strategy. Our approach is very general and can be used to rule out a variety of quantum states, some of which do not even exhibit macroscopic quantum properties. Moreover, our methods and results can be used for addressing quantum marginal related problems.
description: 6+6 pages, 1+2 figures. Published version
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 17/88
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Ordnung des Instituts für Roboterforschung der Universität Dortmund vom 23. 11. 1988
description: Vorläufige Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Informatik
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 17, 1988
Legacies of Resistance: Australian Indigenous Resistance Leaders in Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature
Creators: name: MATTEO DUTTO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 190401 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 80601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: History

description: Indigenous resistance to colonisation is a key theme in Australian Indigenous frontier histories, although most knowledge on these events is drawn from non-indigenous sources of information and framed within Western historiographies that can mask continuities between past and present. This thesis develops a decolonising framework to look at how Indigenous cultural producers are redressing this rift through retellings of their stories of Indigenous resistance leaders like Pemulwuy (Bidjigal), Jandamarra (Bunuba) and Yagan (Noongar) across different media. It demonstrates how this multimodal approach constitutes a contemporary act of cultural resistance that reveals the ongoing Indigenous struggle for recognition of sovereignty.
Laufzeitoptimierung eines Software-Defined-Radio basierten DVB-T2-Messempfängers
Creators: name: Robert, Jörg
name: Rother, Daniel
name: Slimani, Mariem
name: Zöllner, Jan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Software Defined Radio (SDR) ist ein Ansatz zur Implementierung von Übertragungssystemen, der gegenüber dem klassischen Hardwareentwurf zahlreiche Vorteile, wie eine erhöhte Flexibilität, eine kürzere Entwicklungszeit und geringere Kosten aufweist. Der limitierende Faktor in einer reinen Software-Implementierug, d. h. ohne den zusätzlichen Einsatz von Spezialhardware wie Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) oder Grafikkarten für Teilbereiche der Decodierung, ist derzeit die Leistungsfähigkeit des Hauptprozessors, weshalb viele Implementierungen noch nicht echtzeitfähig sind. In dieser Arbeit soll am Beispiel eines am Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) der TU Braunschweig entwickelten SDR-DVB-T2-Messempfängers gezeigt werden, wie sich eine solche Implementierung optimieren lässt, so dass eine echtzeitfähige Decodierung auch für moderne, hochkomplexe Übertragungsstandards möglich wird.
Musicology and Mediation: an examination of the cultural materialisms of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in relation to the fields of contemporary music and musicology, with a case study of Arvo Part and ECM
Creators: name: Begbie, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2795 on 06.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: This thesis examines the usefulness of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams for discussions of material mediation in musicology. In part I, I focus on Bourdieu's discussions of cultural production as set out in The Rules of Art and "The Field of Cultural Production", and reconstruct the terms of Williams's late theoretical project. In establishing the terms of these projects, I draw a parallel between their attempts to materialize the categories of Marx's superstructure - noting in Williams's subsequent use of a revised Marxist production paradigm a proximity to the work of Adorno - before noting the differences imposed by the pressures and limits of their respective intellectual cultures. The tensions between these two models are therefore identified as the opportunity for dialogue between theoretical traditions. In part 2, these reflections are tested through a discussion of Arvo Pärt's music and the record label Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM). Using data from musical scores, CDs, reviews, critical essays, magazine articles, interviews, and so on, Part's emergent field position in the late 1970s and early 1980s is reconstructed and ECM's function as both institution and artistic formation is argued. These instances of musical practice remain rhetorically committed to the ideals of autonomy while spanning the opposition of autonomy and heteronomy. This ambiguity puts strain on Williams's and Bourdieu's readings of cultural production, allowing for a critical approach to this range of debate. In this sense, the method becomes part of the subject matter, and the discussions combine both theoretical and musical reflection.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 07/2000
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Informationstechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 27. April 1999
description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Raumplanung an der Universität Dortmund vom 26.02.1997
description: Dritte Satzung zur Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Statistik an der Universität Dortmund vom 25. Mai 2000
description: Erste Satzung zur Änderung der Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang Statistik an der Universität Dortmund vom 25. Mai 2000
description: Praktikumsordnung für den Diplomstudiengang Informationstechnik der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 7, 2000
Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild
Creators: name: Chung, Joon Son
name: Senior, Andrew
name: Vinyals, Oriol
name: Zisserman, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of this work is to recognise phrases and sentences being spoken by a talking face, with or without the audio. Unlike previous works that have focussed on recognising a limited number of words or phrases, we tackle lip reading as an open-world problem - unconstrained natural language sentences, and in the wild videos. Our key contributions are: (1) a 'Watch, Listen, Attend and Spell' (WLAS) network that learns to transcribe videos of mouth motion to characters; (2) a curriculum learning strategy to accelerate training and to reduce overfitting; (3) a 'Lip Reading Sentences' (LRS) dataset for visual speech recognition, consisting of over 100,000 natural sentences from British television. The WLAS model trained on the LRS dataset surpasses the performance of all previous work on standard lip reading benchmark datasets, often by a significant margin. This lip reading performance beats a professional lip reader on videos from BBC television, and we also demonstrate that visual information helps to improve speech recognition performance even when the audio is available.
Files, tutorial, and technical documents prepared for SWI 2023
Creators: name: Payez, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Stereo 3D Cloud Motion from Tandem Satellites Zipped archive of the public repository: https://gitlab.com/apayez/swi-challenge-2023-netcdf-tutorial (commit 8c3a7604, Jan 30th 2023). Contents - Technical description of the problem (KNMI, ESA, TUDelft): definitions, conventions, file contents, etc; - netCDF Python tutorial; - netCDF files specifically prepared for SWI 2023.
SVAR model of the Indonesian economy
Creators: name: Zulfadin, Rahadian
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, School of Business, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis consists of six related chapters on the application of Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) model to the Indonesian economy. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter, providing the background and the objectives of the thesis. Chapter 2 describes the evolution of the Indonesian economy since early 1980's. Together with the description on the monetary authority institution and its conduct in the Indonesian economy, the material in Chapter 2 provides the necessary background to the empirical analysis in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 3 serves as the modelling background to the empirical models in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 by providing a review on empirical macro-econometric modelling framework, especially VAR/SVAR model and its applications in Indonesia. This chapter also provides description on the data used in the empirical analysis in this thesis. Chapter 4 applies an SVAR model to the Indonesian economy to assess the dynamic impacts of external and internal shocks to the Indonesian economy. The overall result suggests that as a small open economy, the Indonesian economy is vulnerable to external shocks and that the domestic monetary policy alone is not sufficient to maintain domestic macroeconomic stability. Chapter 5 applies an SVAR model to investigate credit channel of monetary policy transmission in the Indonesia economy. The main result suggests a weak credit channel of monetary policy in the economy. Excess liquidity in the banking sector seems to be an important reason for the ineffectiveness of credit channel of monetary policy in the Indonesian economy. Chapter 6 concludes with a short summary of the thesis, general findings, possible policy implications and suggestions for further research.
Model for Age and Gender Prediction based on Wav2vec 2.0
Creators: name: Wagner, Johannes
name: Wierstorf, Hagen
name: Burkhardt, Felix
name: Eyben, Florian
name: Schuller, Björn W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Age prediction
Gender detection
Deep learning
wav2vec 2.0
Transformer model
ONNX

description: The model expects a raw audio signal as input and outputs an age score in range of 0...1 (0-100 years) and gender predictions (female, male, child). In addition, it also provides the pooled states of the last transformer layer. The model was created by fine-tuning a pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 model. As foundation we used wav2vec2-large-robust released by Facebook under Apache.2.0. We provide two models: one with all 24 transformer layers and a stripped-down version with six transformer layers. Both models were exported to ONNX format. For training we used aGender, Mozilla Common Voice, Timit and Voxceleb 2. For each database we provide file lists for the splits (train, dev, test) in audformat. The CSV files can be loaded as a pandas.DataFrame with audformat.utils.read_csv(). Further details are given in the associated paper (tba). For an introduction how to use the model, please visit our tutorial project.
The smooth Hom-stack of an orbifold
Creators: name: Roberts, David Michael
name: Vozzo, Raymond F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A22 (Primary), 57R18, 58B25, 58D15, 14A20, 18F99 (Secondary)

description: For a compact manifold M and a differentiable stack \cX presented by a Lie groupoid X, we show the Hom-stack Hom(M,\cX) is presented by a Fréchet-Lie groupoid Map(M,X) and so is an infinite-dimensional differentiable stack. We further show that if \cX is an orbifold, presented by a proper étale Lie groupoid, then Map(M,X) is proper étale and so presents an infinite-dimensional orbifold.
description: Added reference; final version. This is a slightly extended version of a research announcement accepted to appear in the proceedings of "Higher Structures:Advances" at the MATRIX institute, published in the 2016 MATRIX Annals (https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/2016-matrix-annals/), 6 pages, comments welcome
Access Denied: A Study of Suppression in Australian Literature
Creators: name: Cains, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Suppression of literature means that the book is not available to the reading public. This thesis documents for the first time that this phenomenon occurs in Australia and explores when and how it occurs. The appendix lists 172 cases in which suppression has occurred and provides an explanation for each entry
Precession Relaxation of Viscoelastic Oblate Rotators
Creators: name: Frouard, Julien
name: Efroimsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbations of all sorts destabilise the rotation of a small body and leave it in a non-principal spin state. In such a state, the body experiences alternating stresses generated by the inertial forces. This yields nutation relaxation, i.e., evolution of the spin towards the principal rotation about the maximal-inertia axis. Knowledge of the timescales needed to damp the nutation is crucial in studies of small bodies' dynamics. In the literature hitherto, nutation relaxation has always been described with aid of an empirical quality factor $\,Q\,$ introduced to parameterise the energy dissipation rate. Among the drawbacks of this approach was its inability to describe the dependence of the relaxation rate upon the current nutation angle. This inability stemmed from our lack of knowledge of the quality factor's dependence on the forcing frequency. In this article, we derive our description of nutation damping directly from the rheological law obeyed by the material. This renders us the nutation damping rate as a function of the current nutation angle, as well as of the shape and the rheological parameters of the body. In contradistinction from the approach based on an empirical $\,Q\,$-factor, our development gives a zero damping rate in the spherical-shape limit. Our method is generic and applicable to any shape and to any linear rheological law. However, to simplify the developments, here we consider a dynamically oblate rotator with a Maxwell rheology.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Real-life drug retention rate and safety of rituximab when treating rheumatic diseases: a single-centre Swiss retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Dumusc, Alexandre
name: Alromaih, Fahad
name: Perreau, Matthieu
name: Hügle, Thomas
name: Zufferey, Pascal
name: Dan, Diana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Number of rituximab cycles and infusions per year by rituximab indication for patients treated ≥ 1 year.
Early Dominican exempla collections: defining a method of ethical pedagogy
Creators: name: Holloway, Anne Michelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Founded in 1216 in the region of Toulouse, the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) are famous for their engagement in intellectual debates in the universities, for their involvement in the Inquisition of heretics in southern France, and their preaching and role in social reform during the Middle Ages. Arguably they constitute one half of the radical development of mendicancy as a new mode of religious life with the potential to speak to urban audiences and questions. As deeply embedded as they are within the history of the period, the question remains of how to unite the different facets of the Order and their vocation. In this thesis I hypothesise that instead of using the established modes of articulating their preaching, that the early Dominicans instead formulated a method that was suited to the task of developing an ars praedicandi. I take the exempla collections associated with the early Dominican Order and read them as tools of both theory and practice, arguing the exempla and their collections constituted the basis of a particular approach to preaching— what I have termed an ‘ethical pedagogy’ —manifesting the Order’s practical and theoretical engagement with the problems of teaching and preaching right belief and behaviour in the thirteenth century.
title: Design and optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for enhanced wireless communication systems
Creators: name: Lin, Xinyi
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been identified as a promising disruptive innovation to realize a faster, safer and more efficient communication system in the coming 6th generation (6G) era. The RIS is a meta-material composed surface comprising a large number of passive scattering unit cell (UC) elements. Each element independently controls incident signals by dynamically adjusting their amplitude and/or phase shifts. The reflected signals from all elements are coherently combined and directed towards specified directions, enabling selective electromagnetic (EM) properties. By densely deploying RISs and intelligently coordinating them within wireless propagation environments, it is possible to achieve reconfigurable and programmable end-to-end wireless channels. This innovation has the significant potential to revolutionize wireless communication by enhancing signal quality, coverage, and capacity in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner.

This thesis aims to systematically study the design of RIS to address potential challenges in its practical deployment for wireless communication enhancement. An overview of basic technologies that may be encountered in RIS-assisted systems has been first studied. To address the inaccurate and complex channel estimation and ensure sufficient and stable power gain, a RIS-aided broadbeam design is then proposed. The design proposed in this thesis will mainly include the RIS beamforming design of generating single and multiple flat beams to cover any arbitrary sector regions. Meanwhile, the thesis also tends to define cooperation modes of base stations (BSs) concerning whether they reach an agreement on collaboratively utilising RISs and sharing resources. The resource allocation scheme between cooperative and non-cooperative BSs will be investigated. Lastly, the thesis also aims to design a RIS codebook in the wideband system leveraging the beam squint effect. The design of a codebook can largely reduce computational complexity.

To conclude, the work presented in this thesis provides insight into the design of RIS for broadbeam design, which can be viewed as an initial step towards achieving channel estimation. The investigation of non-cooperative BSs and the design of RIS codebooks also provide guidance for further theoretical study and practical implementation of RIS for enhancing wireless communication systems.
Behavioural responses of psyllids (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) to olfactory and visual cues of their eucalypt hosts
Creators: name: Farnier, Kevin Roland Robert
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by published work to the Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, School of Life Sciences , College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.

Psyllids are small Hemiptera belonging to the suborder Sternorrhyncha. They are a diverse taxon (around 3,850 species) which includes a number of serious pest species. In natural ecosystems, nymphs of the majority of species develop on only one or a narrow range of hosts, i.e. they exhibit high host specificity. In this thesis, I consider the sensory modalities that mediate host specificity in four Eucalyptusfeeding psyllid species; they include Ctenarytaina bipartita Burckhardt et al., C. eucalypti (Maskell), Anoeconeossa bundoorensis Taylor et al. and Glycaspis brimblecombei Taylor (Aphalaridae: Spondyliaspidinae). Owing to the uniqueness of host plant volatiles (HPVs), olfactory cues are generally considered to provide the most reliable cues governing insect host specificity. Surprisingly therefore, the absence of positive chemotactic responses to host HPVs in Y-tube bioassays suggests that olfaction does not play a prominent role in host finding (Chapter I). In contrast, strong inter-specific preferences for colour stimuli suggests that psyllid visual systems have undergone adaptive “spectral tuning” to facilitate the location of host leaves and other modules of suitable age within host canopies. Intriguingly, attraction to “red” was observed despite the widely presumed absence of long wavelength receptors in Hemiptera (Chapter II). Behavioural and morphological measurements of eyes, to infer the visual acuity of different species, revealed trade-offs between spatial resolution and light sensitivity (Chapter III). Differences in host module (leaves versus stems) usage and microhabitat preferences for feeding and oviposition are suggested to have driven variable requirements for acute vision. Finally, bioassays with live host leaves sandwiched between glass (to prevent escape of HPVs) demonstrated that psyllids discriminated between leaves based on their age using visual cues only. Variation in the composition of free amino acids with leaf age, associated with changes in leaf colour, suggest that psyllid colour preferences are linked to their nutritional requirements (Chapter IV). My findings reveal that vision and, to a lesser extent olfaction, are involved in host selection rather than host finding. Visual cues are often considered to provide pre-alighting cues to insect herbivores (e.g. aphids) but my findings indicate they are functionally important for psyllids when in contact with the host.
(200802) George Herman Reinecker
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.
Chaos-assisted tunneling in the presence of Anderson localization
Creators: name: Doggen, Elmer V. H.
name: Georgeot, Bertrand
name: Lemarié, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tunneling between two classically disconnected regular regions can be strongly affected by the presence of a chaotic sea in between. This phenomenon, known as chaos-assisted tunneling, gives rise to large fluctuations of the tunneling rate. Here we study chaos-assisted tunneling in the presence of Anderson localization effects in the chaotic sea. Our results show that the standard tunneling rate distribution is strongly modified by localization, going from the known Cauchy distribution in the ergodic regime to a log-normal distribution in the strongly localized case. We develop an analytical single-parameter scaling theory which accurately describes the numerical data, for both a deterministic and a disordered model. Several possible experimental implementations using cold atoms, photonic lattices or microwave billiards are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome
Supplementary Material for "Associations between Paternal Obesity and Cardiometabolic Alterations in Offspring via Assisted Reproductive Technology
Creators: name: Zhang, Bingqian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321503
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: AbstractContext. Both assisted reproductive technology (ART) and obesity are associated with adverse cardiometabolic alterations in offspring. However, the combined effects of paternal obesity and ART on offspring cardiometabolic health are still unclear.Objective. To clarify cardiometabolic changes in offspring of obese fathers conceived using ART.Design. Retrospective cohort study conducted between June 2014 and October 2019.Setting：Center for reproductive medicine.Patients. A total of 2890 singleton visits aged 4–10 years were followed.Intervention(s). None.Main Outcome Measure(s). Age-and sex-specific z-score of body mass index(BMI), blood pressure, insulin resistance and lipid profile were examined.Results:We observed a strong association between paternal BMI categories and offspring BMI, blood pressure, and insulin resistance. Compared to offspring of fathers with normal weight, multivariable-adjusted mean difference for BMI z-score were 0.53 (95%CI: 0.37-0.68) for obese fathers, 0.17 (95%CI: 0.05-0.30) for overweight fathers, and -0.55 (95%CI: -0.95--0.15) for underweight fathers; corresponding values for systolic blood pressure z-score were 0.21(95%CI: 0.07-0.35), 0.10 (95%CI: -0.01-0.21), and -0.24 (95%CI: -0.59-0.11), and corresponding values for HOMA-IR z-score were 0.31(95%CI: 0.16-0.46), 0.09(95%CI: -0.02-0.21), and -0.11 (95%CI: -0.48-0.28), respectively. The mediation analyses suggested that 57.48% to 94.75% of the associations among paternal obesity and offspring cardiometabolic alterations might be mediated by offspring BMI.Conclusions. Paternal obesity was associated with an unfavourable cardiometabolic profile in ART-conceived offspring. Mediation analyses indicated that offspring BMI was a possible mediator of the association between paternal obesity and the offspring impaired metabolic changes.
Non-Markovian time evolution of an accelerated qubit
Creators: name: Moustos, Dimitris
name: Anastopoulos, Charis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for evaluating the response of a moving qubit detector interacting with a scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system, but we do not invoke the Markov approximation. The evolution equations for the qubit density matrix are valid at all times, for all qubit trajectories and they incorporate non-Markovian effects. We analyze in detail the case of uniform acceleration, providing a detailed characterization of all regimes where non-Markovian effects are significant. We argue that the most stable characterization of acceleration temperature refers to the late time behavior of the detector, because interaction with the field vacuum brings the qubit to a thermal state at the Unruh temperature. In contrast, the early-time transition rate, that is invoked in most discussions of acceleration temperature, does not exhibit a thermal behavior when non-Markovian effects are taken into account. Finally, we note that the non-Markovian evolution derived here also applies to the mathematically equivalent problem of a static qubit interacting with a thermal field bath.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures, minor typos corrected, journal reference added
Adultery and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Case of Gabriele D’Annunzio
Creators: name: MICHELA BARISONZI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200513 Literature in Italian
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Literature

description: This work examines D’Annunzio’s female protagonists, both as a response to the crisis of the bourgeois female role, and to the ascent of feminist and nationalist movements. This study reflects on D’Annunzio’s representation of women, with reference to the different female typologies he depicts in five selected novels (Il Piacere, L’Innocente, Il Trionfo della Morte, Le Vergini delle Rocce and Il Fuoco) and the psychological introspections he gives of these characters. This reading focuses on the medicalization of sexuality and its impact on class and gender divisions, through the themes of adultery and hysteria.
Optimal Finite-Length and Asymptotic Index Codes for Five or Fewer Receivers
Creators: name: Ong, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Index coding models broadcast networks in which a sender sends different messages to different receivers simultaneously, where each receiver may know some of the messages a priori. The aim is to find the minimum (normalised) index codelength that the sender sends. This paper considers unicast index coding, where each receiver requests exactly one message, and each message is requested by exactly one receiver. Each unicast index-coding instances can be fully described by a directed graph and vice versa, where each vertex corresponds to one receiver. For any directed graph representing a unicast index-coding instance, we show that if a maximum acyclic induced subgraph (MAIS) is obtained by removing two or fewer vertices from the graph, then the minimum index codelength equals the number of vertices in the MAIS, and linear codes are optimal for the corresponding index-coding instance. Using this result, we solved all unicast index-coding instances with up to five receivers, which correspond to all graphs with up to five vertices. For 9819 non-isomorphic graphs among all graphs up to five vertices, we obtained the minimum index codelength for all message alphabet sizes; for the remaining 28 graphs, we obtained the minimum index codelength if the message alphabet size is $k^2$ for any positive integer $k$. This work complements the result by Arbabjolfaei et al. (ISIT 2013), who solved all unicast index-coding instances with up to five receivers in the asymptotic regime, where the message alphabet size tends to infinity.
description: Author final manuscript
Biochemical characterization of NDUFA13, Bak and VDAC2: mitochondrial membrane proteins involved in complex I biogenesis and apoptosis
Creators: name: Reljić, Boris
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in full fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(200803) George Faulkner
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.