cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Growth in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt during the Roman Period
Creators: name: BASSETT, BENJAMIN OWEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the question of whether the first three centuries CE (the 'Roman Period') were witness to a rapid expansion of settlements and other sites in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert. I accomplish this through an examination of the archaeological evidence from the Oasis, primarily pottery, but also buildings and other forms of material remains. I conclude that economic, and probably demographic, growth is probable based on this evidence.
Vier Seiten einer Medaille
Creators: name: Callies, Markus
name: Hanke, Erik
name: Klee, Andreas
name: Knipping, Christine
name: Quentel, Nils
name: Schansker, Daniela
name: Schröder, Hendrik
Publisher: name: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung
Year: 2023

description: Dieser Aufsatz basiert auf Ergebnissen aus dem Projekt Digi-Spotlights, in dem mittels der exemplarischen Entwicklung innovativer Lehrkonzepte fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Elemente in der universitären Lehrerbildung systematisch miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt und im Hinblick auf die Vernetzung der beiden Inhaltsbereiche bei Studierenden untersucht werden. Wesentlich ist dabei neben der Bezugnahme von Fachdidaktik und Fachwissenschaft auch der Austausch über Fachgrenzen hinweg. Im Vergleich der Modellprojekte in den Fächern Mathematik und Englisch und des später gestarteten Teilprojekts im Fach Politik zeigen sich sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten als auch fachliche Spezifika in den Zielsetzungen und Herausforderungen, Fachdidaktik und Fachwissenschaft zu verzahnen. Aus den Fachkulturen und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen ergeben sich begünstigende Faktoren, aber auch Hindernisse bei der wechselseitigen Bezugnahme. In diesem Beitrag werden sowohl gemeinsame als auch fachspezifische didaktisch-methodische Konsequenzen für die Lehrformate der universitären Lehrer:innenbildung, die sich aus den projektspezifischen Sichtweisen und ihrer Umsetzung ergeben, abgeleitet und zur Diskussion gestellt.
description: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung, Nr. 9 (2023): Transculturality in (Teacher) Education
Content free cognition: a path towards response-based intelligence
Creators: name: Alksnis, Nikolai
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 Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Can we account for our minds, our thoughts, feelings and actions without intentionality? Can we describe our intelligence purely in terms of elaborate responses to certain situations without invoking a mind that has states about other states (content)? This dissertation attempts to clear a path towards such an account, arguing that theories which rely on mental content are not only conceptually flawed but ultimately collapse into purely response-based accounts of intelligence. The argument that intelligence is free of mental content is three-fold. The first step is to show that content, as currently understood, is not amenable to naturalism (where naturalism is the doctrine that there exists only those entities and processes describable by science). The second step is to reject the cognitivist claim that a naturalistic cognitivist account, while not known at the moment will eventually be found. This is because cognitivist accounts (e.g. functionalist accounts) collapse into purely response-based descriptions of intelligence. The third and final step is to show that the problems associated with contentless cognition can be overcome. The focus here will be on how response-based accounts can distinguish between intelligent acts done on purpose and those done accidentally. By replacing intentional states with a notion of flexibility, such a distinction can be drawn without an appeal to content, clearing the way for a purely response-based account of intelligence.
(200830) Phoebe Janet Clayton
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.
Third Space
Creators: name: Bartsch, Constanze
name: Bönnighausen, Marion
Publisher: name: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung
Year: 2023

description: Nicht nur im Kontext von Heterogenität rückt das Thema der Kooperation gegenwärtig in das Zentrum bildungswissenschaftlicher und -politischer Debatten. Kooperationen, die sowohl Professionalisierungs-, als auch Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklungsprozesse anstoßen und Synergien bei Arbeitsprozessen erzeugen sollen, werden auch zunehmend als Ansatzpunkt verstanden, um durch die interinstitutionelle Zusammenarbeit zwischen Studierenden und schulischen Lehrkräften das traditionell binär gedachte Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis zu überwinden. Bisher liegen nur wenige einschlägige theoretische Konzeptualisierungen sowie operationalisierbare und transferfähige Begleitformate für hochschulisch-schulische Kooperationen vor, welche sowohl die Theorie-Praxis-Problematik als auch die Ziel- und Prozessebene der Kooperation gleichermaßen berücksichtigen. Das Konzept des Third Space nach dem Kulturtheoretiker Homi K. Bhabha ist in diesem Zusammenhang insbesondere in bildungs- bzw. professionswissenschaftlichen Kontexten zu einem vieldiskutierten zentralen Bezugspunkt geworden. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich vor dem Hintergrund von Erfahrungen mit einem Kooperationsprojekt von Studierenden und schulischen Lehrpersonen mit vorliegenden Modellierungen des Third Space auseinander und zeigt sowohl Inkongruenzen als auch Chancen auf.
description: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung, Nr. 9 (2023): Transculturality in (Teacher) Education
Profit over Peace: IFIs and women’s participation during war and transition in Ukraine
Creators: name: ELLIOT THOMAS DOLAN-EVANS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Gender studies
subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy

description: Women have been excluded from participation in formalised peace processes throughout the war in Donbass in Ukraine. This is despite the greater likelihood of sustainable peace when women are involved. This thesis investigates the political economy factors during conflict that affect women’s ability to participate in peace processes. It examines the case of Ukraine which has experienced three decades of economic restructuring promoted by international financial institutions. Feminist global political economy analysis identifies the direct and indirect gendered impacts of land, gas, and pension reforms on women’s meaningful participation that need to be addressed in any plan for sustainable peace.
Modelo de comunicación de El Cisne
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: comunicación
modelo
nacional
regulación
política
religión
Loja
Ecuador
economía

description: Publicación en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
The Pedagogical Promises and Possibilities of Nature as Teacher
Creators: name: Coulson, Jonthon
Publisher: name: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education
Year: 2023

description: This article extends Wergin's critique of transcultural and postcolonial scholarship, identifying in both a troublesome willingness to deagentify nature by interpolating people - often indigenous people - as its spokespeople, thus relegating nature to mere settings for human activity. Attention is given to examples of nature being allowed to teach, and to the pedagogical possibilities of learning from "living country." The article identifies several "tenets of transecological teaching" before concluding with four specific recommendations for teachers wishing to collaborate with nature-as-teacher and to invite nature to join their faculty.
description: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education, Nr. 9 (2023): Transculturality in (Teacher) Education
The Relationship between Family Strength, Social Support and Resilience, and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Children from Multicultural Families in South Korea
Creators: name: Juyeon, Kim
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

This research investigated how family strength, social support, and resilience are associated with the psychosocial adjustment of children in multicultural families in South Korea. The study also examined the potential mediating effect of resilience on psychosocial adjustment in these children. Three hundred and forty-six children from multicultural families (aged 10 to 13) and 1,298 similar aged children from non-multicultural families in three metropolitan areas, including Seoul, the capital of South Korea, were included in this research. All participants completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Children’s Depression Inventory 2: Self-report (CDI2:SR), the Family Strengths Scale (FSS), the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC 10 items). Children from multicultural families were found to be well adapted, with similar degrees of psychosocial adjustment as reported by children from non-multicultural families. When examining the differences within demographic variables and their relationships with psychosocial adjustment of participants from multicultural families, there were differences related to the mother’s nationality of origin and monthly household income. Children from multicultural families having a mother from an Asian country, and being in the low-income group, principally, reported lower levels of psychosocial adjustment. With respect to the relationships between family strength, social support, and resilience, and psychosocial adjustment, including the mediating effect of resilience, psychosocial adjustment was identified as being influenced by family strength, social support and resilience. In addition, there was evidence that resilience played a mediating role between social support, family strength, and the psychosocial adjustment of children from multicultural families in South Korea. The results from the current research can inform interventions to improve the adjustment of children in multicultural families through strengthening resilience related to the capability to cope with distress. Further, the findings in the present research could inform the provision of the needed support resources for children with school maladjustment and at risk of dropout.
Global warming: Temperature estimation in annealers
Creators: name: Raymond, Jack
name: Yarkoni, Sheir
name: Andriyash, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sampling from a Boltzmann distribution is NP-hard and so requires heuristic approaches. Quantum annealing is one promising candidate. The failure of annealing dynamics to equilibrate on practical time scales is a well understood limitation, but does not always prevent a heuristically useful distribution from being generated. In this paper we evaluate several methods for determining a useful operational temperature range for annealers. We show that, even where distributions deviate from the Boltzmann distribution due to ergodicity breaking, these estimates can be useful. We introduce the concepts of local and global temperatures that are captured by different estimation methods. We argue that for practical application it often makes sense to analyze annealers that are subject to post-processing in order to isolate the macroscopic distribution deviations that are a practical barrier to their application.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures ; supplementary materials 18 pages, 5 figures [v4: updated supplementary material file correcting broken references]
From Transculture to Transecology
Creators: name: Wergin, Carsten
Publisher: name: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education
Year: 2023

description: The global climate crisis demands of international politics to make planetary health and well-being an utmost priority. This essay introduces the concept of ‘transecology’ as a means to acknowledge this demand in teacher education. Severe biodiversity loss and environmental degradation profoundly challenge ethical and pedagogical standards. The text proposes a closer engagement with multispecies conviviality through which to make protection and preservation of a shared heritage, culture and ecology part of the curriculum.
description: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education, Nr. 9 (2023): Transculturality in (Teacher) Education
Chaotic universe model: Lotka-Volterra dynamics of the universe evolution
Creators: name: Aydiner, Ekrem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we consider nonlinear interactions between components such as dark energy, dark, matter and radiation in the Friedman-Robertson-Walker space-time framework and propose a simple interaction model based on time evolution of the densities of these components. By using this model we show that these interactions can be given by Lotka-Volterra equation for suitable equation of state parameters. We numerically solve these coupling equations and show that interaction dynamics between dark energy-dark matter-matter or dark energy-dark matter-matter-radiation has a strange attractor for $0>w_{de}>-1$, $w_{dm}\ge 0$, $w_{m}\ge 0$ and $w_{r}\ge 0$ values. These strange attractors with the positive Lyapunov exponent clearly show that chaotic dynamics appears in time evolution of the densities. These results imply that the time evolution of the universe is chaotic in the presence of interactions between these components. The present model may has potential to solve some cosmological problems such as the singularity, cosmic coincidence, crunch, big rip, horizon, oscillations, emergence of galaxies, and large scale organization of the universe. Model also connects between dynamics of the competing species in biological systems and dynamics of the time evolution of the universe, and offers a new perspective and a different scenario for the universe evolution unlike well known popular models.
description: 9 pages. Figures have been added into the tex
Exploring the phenomenon of expressing breast milk for healthy term infants
Creators: name: Johns, Helene M.
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 (by published work) to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Japanese Film Festivals and Cultural Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific
Creators: name: TECK FANN GOH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: In expanding our understanding of cultural diplomacy film festivals and their role in using cinema to promote national images, this thesis examines the historical and contemporary development of Japanese film festivals (JFFs) in the Asia-Pacific between the years 1990 to 2018. This thesis adopts qualitative and ethnographic research methods to explore the JFF developments in Thailand, Australia and Malaysia. These three festivals were developed during different phases of Japan’s cultural diplomacy efforts and invite us to consider new ways of thinking about the dynamics of film festival histories, practices and reception in a geopolitical frame beyond the dominant Euro-American and East Asian approaches in the field of film festival studies.
Do Arsenic Interstitials Really Exist in As-Rich GaAs?
Creators: name: Gebauer, J.
name: Krause-Rehberg, R.
name: Luysberg, M.
name: Nieminen, R. M.
name: Staab, T. E. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Effects of Stochastic Webs on Chaotic Electron Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices
Creators: name: Bujkiewicz, S.
name: Fromhold, T. M.
name: Krokhin, A. A.
name: Tench, C. R.
name: Wilkinson, P. B.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
(200831) Charles Laurence Clayton
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.
Does the “Grammar of Schooling” Need to Change?
Creators: name: Klopsch, Britta
name: Rivkin Haag, Renata
Publisher: name: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education
Year: 2023

description: The current “grammar” of schooling is in many ways still based on an industrial model of schooling going back to the 19th century. In the 21st century and especially during the pandemic, this way of organizing schools is massively challenged and reveals its limitation. Interestingly the challenges are not country-specific. Many countries around the world face similar issues. This article points out four aspects of schooling that are the main areas of change to support students in their learning processes: (1) teacher collaboration in professional learning communities; (2) formative over summative feedback (3) close and trusting partnerships between teachers and parents and (4) the switch to hybrid learning environments. The text argues that these innovations provide a historic opportunity for sustainable change, not only for one school system but for all systems to learn from each other. If the pandemic is perceived as an opportunity to change the current situation rather than a problem that needs to be overcome to go ‘back to normal’, we can abandon the industrial model of schooling in favor of a ‘school without walls’ suitable for the digital knowledge society.
description: heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisciplinary Studies on Teacher Education, Nr. 9 (2023): Transculturality in (Teacher) Education
In the Presence of Animals: Strategies of questioning the human-animal relationship in contemporary German fiction (2008-2018)
Creators: name: Barrett, Aimee Samantha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200512 Literature in German
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Literature

description: This thesis analyses contemporary German literary representations of animals and the human-animal relationship in light of the emergence and prevalence of the transdisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies.
Strong Damping of Phononic Heat Current by Magnetic Excitations in SrCu2(BO3)2
Creators: name: Hofmann, M.
name: Kierspel, H.
name: Lorenz, T.
name: Uhrig, G. S.
name: Zabara, O.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Viscous corrections of the Time Incremental Minimization Scheme and Visco-Energetic Solutions to Rate-Independent Evolution Problems
Creators: name: Minotti, Luca
name: Savaré, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A15, 49J45, 49Q20

description: We propose the new notion of Visco-Energetic solutions to rate-independent systems $(X,\mathcal E,\mathsf d)$ driven by a time dependent energy $\mathcal E$ and a dissipation quasi-distance $\mathsf d$ in a general metric-topological space $X$. As for the classic Energetic approach, solutions can be obtained by solving a modified time Incremental Minimization Scheme, where at each step the dissipation (quasi-)distance $\mathsf d$ is incremented by a viscous correction $δ$ (e.g.~proportional to the square of the distance $\mathsf d$), which penalizes far distance jumps by inducing a localized version of the stability condition. We prove a general convergence result and a typical characterization by Stability and Energy Balance in a setting comparable to the standard energetic one, thus capable to cover a wide range of applications. The new refined Energy Balance condition compensates the localized stability and provides a careful description of the jump behavior: at every jump the solution follows an optimal transition, which resembles in a suitable variational sense the discrete scheme that has been implemented for the whole construction.
description: 60 pages
Performing the Law: A Study of Performance in the Court of Law
Creators: name: Mulcahy, Sean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This thesis analyses what performance is and what it does in the court, drawing from theatrical performance. In it, I argue that performance plays a constitutive role in the court, that law and performance are intimately entwined and that law is reliant on performance for its production. In so doing, I consider whether theatre and performance studies research and practice can provide new insights into court proceedings. Central to my discussion of legal performance in court is the role of the audience, which becomes a guiding direction of the thesis and points to my interest in how the legal performance is perceived by the public gallery.
Analogisieren am Beispiel des Pythagoras
Creators: name: Hartmann, Mutfried
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Die Sensibilisierung für Phänomene, sowie die Fähigkeit zum Problemlösen stellen zentrale allgemeine Lernziele des Mathematikunterrichts dar. Die seit der Antike geschätzte und in der Mathematikdidaktik unter verschiedenen Aspekten, wie z.B. kreative Begriffsbildung (Weth 2000), Variation (Schupp 2002) oder Verallgemeinerung (Deschauer 1992) immer wieder aufgegriffene heuristische Methode des Analogisierens kann zu beidem einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten. Der Satz des Pythagoras erweist sich dabei als ideales Feld, um im Unterricht die Schlagkraft des Analogisierens in beeindruckender Weise zu vermitteln. Hier sollen zunächst räumliche Analogien des Satzes vorgestellt werden. Anschließend soll gezeigt werden, wie Schüler mittels des Analogisierens in die Lage versetzt werden können, selbständig erfolgreich Zerlegungsbeweise für den ursprünglichen Satz des Pythagoras zu entdecken.
title: Systematic evaluation of decision-making processes and safety perceptions for donation of electronic health record data in Austria
title: Health Data Donation Austria
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: A mixed-method study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mosor, Erika
name: Haumer, Raphaela
name: Stamm, Tanja
name: Donsa, Klaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: electronic health record
mixed-methods study
health data donation

description: Study Protocol for a mixed-methods analysis on the donation of electronic health record data in Austria. The study aims to explore various aspects of data donation of ELGA-standardized data from different perspectives. On the one hand, the needs, security concerns, expectations, and thoughts of citizens/patients play a crucial role. On the other hand, the desires and expectations of those who wish to use this data, e.g. researchers, are also important. This study will systematically examine the key factors for decision-making processes and security needs related to the donation of electronic health record data in Austria.
Donors in Ge as Qubits: Establishing Physical Attributes
Creators: name: Baena, A.
name: Saraiva, A. L.
name: Menezes, Marcos G.
name: Koiller, Belita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum electronic devices at the single impurity level demand an understanding of the physical attributes of dopants at an unprecedented accuracy. Germanium-based technologies have been developed recently, creating a necessity to adapt the latest theoretical tools to the unique electronic structure of this material. We investigate basic properties of donors in Ge which are not known experimentally, but are indispensable for qubit implementations. Our approach provides a description of the wavefunction at multiscale, associating microscopic information from Density Functional Theory and envelope functions from state of the art multivalley effective mass calculations, including a central cell correction designed to reproduce the energetics of all group V donor species (P, As, Sb and Bi). With this formalism, we predict the binding energies of negatively ionized donors (D- state). Furthermore, we investigate the signatures of buried donors to be expected from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). The naive assumption that attributes of donor electrons in other semiconductors may be extrapolated to Ge is shown to fail, similar to earlier attempts to recreate in Si qubits designed for GaAs. Our results suggest that the mature techniques available for qubit realizations may be adapted to germanium to some extent, but the peculiarities of the Ge band structure will demand new ideas for fabrication and control.
(200829) Charles Edward Clayton
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.
Strongly Interacting One-Dimensional Systems with Small Mass Imbalance
Creators: name: Volosniev, Artem G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a strongly interacting system of N identical bosons and one impurity in a one-dimensional trap. First, we assume that the particles have identical masses and analyze the corresponding set-up. After that, we study the influence of a small mass asymmetry on our analysis. In particular, we discuss how the structure of the wave function and the degeneracy in the impenetrable regime depend on the mass ratio and the shape of the trapping potential. To illustrate our findings, we consider a four-body system in a box and in an oscillator. We show that in the former case the system has the smallest energy when a heavy (light) impurity is close to the edge (center) of the trap. And we demonstrate that the opposite is true in the latter case.
description: Paper in connection with EFB23, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-12 August 2016 (v2 - Accepted Version)
Distinct Reaction Mechanisms in the Catalytic Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Rh(110): Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Density Functional Theory Studies
Creators: name: Castellarin Cudia, C.
name: Comelli, G.
name: Hammer, B.
name: Hla, Saw Wai
name: Sljivancanin, Z.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The Chinese Sub-national Governments (SNGs) in China-ASEAN Economic Cooperation: The Case of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR)
Creators: name: CHEE LEONG LEE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Utilising historical institutionalist (HI) theory as a theoretical method, this study tackles the puzzle of how Guangxi (China’s sub-national actor), given its disinterest and lack of capability for China-ASEAN economic cooperation prior to 2003, succeed in becoming a fast-tracked frontline actor within 21 months and go on to develop its influence within such bilateral cooperation. Overall, this study finds that the overarching institution established by formal rules within China’s domestic policy-making structure and the Guangxi leadership’s practice of building a functional coalition with Beijing, were what institutionalised Guangxi’s fast-tracked participation and cementing of its independent influence in China-ASEAN economic cooperation.
Non-Gaussian analytic option pricing: a closed formula for the Lévy-stable model
Creators: name: Aguilar, Jean-Philippe
name: Coste, Cyril
name: Korbel, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 91G20 (primary), 32A20 (secondary)

description: We establish an explicit pricing formula for the class of Lévy-stable models with maximal negative asymmetry (Log-Lévy model with finite moments and stability parameter $1
description: v2-2 (nov 17): theoretical details and other numerical tests added
Dynamic constraints for eXtensible Markup Language (XML) update and the validation
Creators: name: Wahid, Norfaradilla
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 Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

XML Update is a process to keep the data inside the database as well as the XML document structure in accordance to the latest requirements of user. To ensure that the new updates will not expose the database to any violation, we require validation processes to be conducted upon the update. There are many aspects that must be considered during the validation, including the location of the updated node, the update complexity, the validation type, etc. In the last decade we have witnessed various research works in update validation of XML documents. However, focus of the research only lies on the static constraint validations. This thesis focuses on the discovery of the dynamic constraints as another possible business constraint that should be well maintained during XML Update. Dynamic constraints are particularly different from the existing constraints as the mode of constraints is based on the time state and hard to be modelled or expressed in similar way like the static constraints. We use rule- based schema language to capture the dynamic constraints for XML where the schemas are to be added on top of the existing XML grammar-based schema, e.g. the XML Schema. The contributions of the thesis include (1) the modelling approach to convey the nature of dynamic constraint on XML data; (2) a proper approach to express the constraints into rule- based schema language; and (3) a methodology to preserve the dynamic constraints during XML Update. Our comprehensive evaluations show that our algorithms are safe to be used for the constraints checking at quite effective results.
Surrealist Poetics in Australian Poetry
Creators: name: GAVIN CHRISTIAN YATES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This dissertation is comprised of two components: a critical thesis and a creative response in the form of a poetry collection. The thesis seeks to identify and chart surrealism’s ongoing influence within Australian poetry and literary history: starting with Angry Penguins journal of the 1940s; followed by the radical renewal of style in selected figures of the Generation of ’68 of the seventies and eighties; and the close study of individual poets of the contemporary period. My own poetry manuscript, Ultraviolet, supplements this thesis and continues its traditions, as a contemporary example immersed in surrealist aesthetics and literary techniques.
High-Temperature Symmetry Breaking in the Electronic Band Structure of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Solid NbSe3
Creators: name: Blaha, P.
name: Claessen, R.
name: Kevan, S. D.
name: Rotenberg, Eli
name: Schäfer, J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Early first sexual intercourse: A critical examination of the relationships between age at first sexual intercourse and later sexual outcomes among Australian men and women
Creators: name: Heywood, Wendy
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 Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The assumption that early first sexual intercourse leads to adverse sexual outcomes has been used to justify interventions and policies aimed at delaying sexual initiation. There is, however, no consensus on what constitutes early first sexual intercourse. This study examined the relationships between early first sexual intercourse and four sexual outcomes by systematically reviewing current research and conducting secondary data analysis of the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships. The systematic review found varying measures of early first sex, and weak relationships with later sexual outcomes. Regression models were used to compare three common definitions of early first sexual intercourse (before the age of 16 years, early/late relative to age group and age at first sexual intercourse). Measures of diagnostic classification and model calibration explored which categorisation of early first sexual intercourse best predicted each of the sexual outcomes. Data analysis found early first sexual intercourse was associated with having more lifetime and recent sexual partners but not with sexual or relationship satisfaction. Findings were consistent across the three definitions of early first sexual intercourse for three out of four outcomes, yet each definition examined and conceptualised early first sexual intercourse differently. The categorisation of early first sexual intercourse that best predicts number of lifetime and recent sexual partners, according to measures of classification and calibration, was less than 18 years; later than common conceptualisations of early intercourse. Classification indices also found age at first sexual intercourse was poor at discriminating between those who experienced a sexual outcome and those who did not. The findings from this study are discussed with reference to implications for the measurement and conceptualisation of early first sexual intercourse, using early first intercourse as a marker for later sexual health, and the usefulness of programs aimed at delaying first intercourse.
A deep convolutional neural network using directional wavelets for low-dose X-ray CT reconstruction
Creators: name: Kang, Eunhee
name: Min, Junhong
name: Ye, Jong Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the potential risk of inducing cancers, radiation dose of X-ray CT should be reduced for routine patient scanning. However, in low-dose X-ray CT, severe artifacts usually occur due to photon starvation, beamhardening, etc, which decrease the reliability of diagnosis. Thus, high quality reconstruction from low-dose X-ray CT data has become one of the important research topics in CT community. Conventional model-based denoising approaches are, however, computationally very expensive, and image domain denoising approaches hardly deal with CT specific noise patterns. To address these issues, we propose an algorithm using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), which is applied to wavelet transform coefficients of low-dose CT images. Specifically, by using a directional wavelet transform for extracting directional component of artifacts and exploiting the intra- and inter-band correlations, our deep network can effectively suppress CT specific noises. Moreover, our CNN is designed to have various types of residual learning architecture for faster network training and better denoising. Experimental results confirm that the proposed algorithm effectively removes complex noise patterns of CT images, originated from the reduced X-ray dose. In addition, we show that wavelet domain CNN is efficient in removing the noises from low-dose CT compared to an image domain CNN. Our results were rigorously evaluated by several radiologists and won the second place award in 2016 AAPM Low-Dose CT Grand Challenge. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first deep learning architecture for low-dose CT reconstruction that has been rigorously evaluated and proven for its efficacy.
description: Will appear in Medical Physics (invited paper); 2016 AAPM low-dose CT Grand Challenge 2nd Place Award
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 20/2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berufungsordnung der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 24. Oktober 2012
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 20, 2012
Foucault and the Politics of Self-Government
Creators: name: Poz, Irene Dal
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis examines Foucault’s politics of self-government. Through an analysis of Foucault’s work on power and ethics, it demonstrates the multifaceted political dimensions of the ethical practices of the care of the self. Particularly, it identifies two possible meanings of the politics of the care of the self: self-fashioning as a form of voluntary servitude, and self-fashioning as a form of voluntary inservitude or resistance.
The impact of the state on M&A performance: an empirical study on Vietnam
Creators: name: Pham, Nga Le Thu
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 Finance, School of Business, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis addresses the call for fundamental research that examines the impacts of typical institutional features of emerging markets on mergers and acquisitions (M and A). Path dependence theory says that the corporate structures of an economy partly stem from the structures with which its economy started. Rooted from a centrally planned economy, the Vietnamese market is characterised by the heavy presence of the State via business ownership and regulatory control, which impact firms’ M and A decisions. The institutional influence also pervades the corporate governance structure of a Vietnamese firm. Vietnam’s former economic model and its current ideology of centralized power under a single ruling party contribute to the popularity of CEO duality structure, where the CEO is also the Chairman of the Board. This research, therefore, investigates the impacts of the institutionally shaped corporate ownership and governance structures on a firm’s M and A performance. Regarding the impact of state ownership, in light of agency theory and political theory on state firms, this thesis hypothesises and finds evidence to support the view that state-owned firms are less efficient than non-state owned firms in M and As, both in terms of shareholder wealth (measured by cumulative abnormal returns upon M and A announcement) and operating performance. This could be attributed to the potential agency costs and principal costs due to the principal – principal conflict between the state and other shareholders. This thesis also identifies some types of behaviour of the state shareholder that may contribute to principal costs. In addition, the results indicate that the State indirectly affects M and A via the level of industry regulatory control. The evidence suggests that Vietnamese listed firms in regulated industries underperform at M and A compared to those in unregulated industries. However, regulated firms that have the State as the largest shareholder bear less of such impact. In terms of corporate governance structure, CEO duality is positively related to acquirer returns, especially for firms with state capital. This finding indicates that CEO duality in firms with state capital could be effective given the institutionally constrained context of Vietnam as it potentially mitigates principal costs of the state shareholder and helps firms to leverage on leadership resources. The findings from Vietnam support the inclusion of institutional factors when investigating M and A in emerging markets.
Expanding Inclusivity: adapting from the margins
Creators: name: CHRISTOPHER JAMES AARON BRYANT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Expanding Inclusivity examines the power of radical adaptation to create inclusive versions of traditional plays. This thesis aims to further close the gap between radical and text-based theatre, and to invite marginalized communities into closed-off traditional theatre texts. By turn, this affords those locked out of theatre the chance to grow in their practice; creating an alternate canon of theatrical work for diverse theatre artists to find themselves in. In ‘Keywords for Disability Studies’, Victoria Ann Lewis writes that both queer and disabled artists “spin mainstream representations or practices to reveal dominant assumptions and exclusionary effects”. A disabled queer playwright, Bryant uses crip and queer theory to assess the ableism inherent in Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade, and adapt it from his particular lived experience. Through the subversion of established power dynamics, this project posits that we can instead begin to alter them.
Dangerous Delegations: Examining State Sponsorship of Foreign Fighters
Creators: name: SAMANTHA KRISTEN KRUBER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis examines the question: ‘does state support for foreign fighters constitute an effective means of pursuing state interests?’ Using a comparative case study approach, four instances of foreign fighter mobilisation are considered. Each case demonstrates that foreign fighters receive various forms of state support, and that states provide this support to pursue their own interests while mitigating some of the costs and risks associated with direct engagement. Engaging with the proxy warfare and principal-agent analysis literature, this thesis determines that although a range of transaction costs may arise, sponsoring foreign fighters often proves to be an effective strategy.
A combined FD-HB approximation method for steady-state vibrations in large dynamical systems with localised nonlinearities
Creators: name: Kappauf, Jonas
name: Bäuerle, Simon
name: Hetzler, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Harmonic Balance method
subject: Finite Difference method
subject: steady-state solution
subject: Non-linear oscillations
subject: Dynamic condensation
subject: 004
subject: 620
subject: Nichtlineares Phänomen
subject: Harmonische Balance
subject: Finite-Differenzen-Methode

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
ETIOLOGIA E PATOLOGIA DA ENTEROTOXEMIA E NECROSE FOCAL SIMÉTRICA EM RUMINANTES: BREVE REVISÃO
Creators: name: Marcos Vinicius Vidal Silva
name: Gildson Matheus Lavosier Oliveira
name: Josilânia Laurentino da Silva
name: Laura Beatriz Sousa Oliveira
name: Kamila Ellen da Silva
name: Francisco Abner dos Santos Barbosa
name: Júlio César dos Reis Silva
name: Aline Bittencourt de Souza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Tóxina épsilon
Clostridiose
Lesão encefálica

description: A enterotoxemia e a necrose focal simétrica representam condições de alta relevância para a saúde de ruminantes devido aos prejuízos econômicos e sanitários que acarretam. A enterotoxemia, causada por cepas toxigênicas de Clostridium perfringens, caracteriza-se pela produção de toxinas que causam lesões intestinais e sistêmicas graves. Já a necrose focal simétrica ocorre frequentemente como uma complicação neurológica resultante das mesmas toxinas, especialmente a toxina épsilon, que afeta áreas específicas do sistema nervoso central. Ambas as condições estão associadas a fatores predisponentes como alterações na dieta, manejo inadequado e imunossupressão, sendo importantes causas de mortalidade em rebanhos. Este trabalho tem como objetivo revisar a etiologia e a patologia dessas enfermidades, destacando os mecanismos envolvidos no processo infeccioso e os danos patológicos provocados pelas toxinas.