cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Living in a “human zoo”? Kayan in a tourist village in Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Creators: name: Ismail, Jinranai
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 Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(200978) James Knight
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.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 16/88
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Fachbereichsordnung des Fachbereichs Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte vom 20. Oktober 1988
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Historischen Instituts im Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte der Universität Dortmund vom 20. Oktober 1988
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Instituts für Anglistik und Amerikanistik im Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte der Universität Dortmund vom 20. Oktober 1988
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur im Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte der Universität Dortmund vom 20. Oktober 1988
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 16, 1988
The Global Higgs as a Signal for Compositeness at the LHC
Creators: name: Fichet, Sylvain
name: von Gersdorff, Gero
name: Ponton, Eduardo
name: Rosenfeld, Rogerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radial excitation of the global symmetry-breaking vacuum in composite Higgs models, called the "global Higgs", has been recently a focus of investigation. In this paper we study the prospects for detecting this composite scalar at the 13 TeV LHC. We compute the global Higgs production rates and estimate the discovery potential of a global Higgs decaying into top quark pairs and into Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons with subsequent hadronic decays. The global Higgs may also decay into fermion resonances such as top partners, providing a new window into compositeness. We show that top partner jets can be effectively unresolved in some regions of the parameter space. Such "boosted top partner" signatures would deserve the development of dedicated substructure analyses.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures. v2: Comments added. Matches JHEP version
UniSAFE D3.2 Report on the European Policy Baseline
Creators: name: Fajmonová, Veronika
name: Huck, Averil
name: Andreska, Zuzana
name: Dvořáčková, Jana
name: Linková, Marcela
name: Struzińska, Katarzyna
name: Strid, Sofia
name: Hearn, Jeff
name: Husu, Liisa
name: Allori, Agostina
name: Wuiame, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gender-based violence
policy framework
legal framework
#metoo

description: The objective of this report is to establish a European baseline of policies in place to combat Gender-Based Violence (GBV) at the legal, policy level and the level of research funding organisations (RFO), as a fixed point of reference for future comparisons, by assessing existing laws and policies at the national and RFO levels in 27 countries in the EU. This is accompanied by analyses of four Associated Countries (Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, UK) and two Third Countries (Canada, USA) that were selected for comparison and as examples of existing practices. The analysis focuses specifically on dedicated legal and policy frameworks focused specifically on universities and research organisations, in order to map the special efforts made by national and regional authorities and RFOs to combat GBV at these specific institutions beyond generic anti-discrimination legislation and labour law protections.
Flavonoids of Piper sarmentosum and its cytoprotective effects against oxidative stress
Creators: name: Hui, Chua Kien
name: Mahdy, Zaleha Abdullah
name: Nordin, Nor Anita Megat Mohd
name: Ugusman, Azizah
name: Zakaria, Zaiton
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: flavonoid
subject: human umbilical vein endothelial cells
subject: oxidative stress
subject: Piper sarmentosum
subject: rutin
subject: vitexin
subject: 610

description: Abnormalities in endothelial cell structure and function may lead to diseases such as thrombosis and atherosclerosis. Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of various cardiovascular diseases including atherosclerosis. Previous studies have shown a relationship between a diet rich in flavonoid and a reduced incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Piper sarmentosum (PS) is a plant with high flavonoid content and it possesses antioxidant and anti-atherosclerotic activities. Therefore this study aimed to investigate the flavonoids present in aqueous extract of PS (AEPS) and its cytoprotective effects in oxidative stress-induced human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). AEPS contained high total phenolic content (91.02 ± 0.02 mg QE/g DM) and total flavonoid content (48.57 ± 0.03 mg GAE/g DM). Screening using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique showed the presence of rutin and vitexin as the main flavonoids in AEPS. HUVEC were exposed to 180 μM H2O2 and treated with various concentrations of rutin or vitexin (10 to 400 μM) for 24 hours. Both rutin and vitexin at the concentration of 150-400 μM significantly increased the viability of H2O2-induced HUVEC as denoted by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Therefore rutin and vitexin as the main flavonoids present in PS may be involved in the protective effects of PS against oxidative stress.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 11, 2012
Supplemental materials for "Differences in HDL-related Coronary Heart Disease Risk between Individuals with and without Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study"
Creators: name: Chen, Jun-Xiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Endocrinology

description: This is an Online Supplemental Material of the article entitled “Differences in HDL-related Coronary Heart Disease Risk between Individuals with and without Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study”.
REACH Story of Change: Improving water security through Sustainable Land Management
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: This Story of Change describes the REACH programme’s work in understanding the role of Sustainable Land Management activities in securing water for livelihoods and household use. Sustainable Land Management techniques can improve water security and agricultural productivity in rural areas, with water availability and reliability appropriate measurable outcomes of SLM success. Increased groundwater development without consideration of water quality can increase consumption of unsafe water. Women face more barriers to uptake of SLM than men, including access to information, time and energy constraints. Consideration of gendered barriers to SLM and access to clean water and sanitation have been integrated into SLM in a new project which will benefit up to 65,000 people in the Kunzila region of Ethiopia.
Domestic animals: a photographic exploration of the dependence between pets and their owners within the domestic domain
Creators: name: Hanifin, Danielle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: An exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Master of Visual Art by Research by creative work to the Art Institute, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Domestic Animals is a Masters of Visual Art project that focuses on the intimate and complex interdependence between pets and their owners within the domestic domain. While investigating divisions between species, I also discover an intriguing sense of equality between pets and their owners. This research is conducted through photography and presented as a series of digital colour prints for exhibition and the publication of a photobook. The following exegesis contextualises the photographic thesis in art historical, philosophical and socio-cultural terms. The photographic thesis visually and contextually explores the anthropomorphic qualities that people assign to their pets under the aegis of play, obedience and nurturing. Within this visual exploration, aspects of human nature are reflected through people’s animals and vice-versa. The medium of photography has allowed me to enter a large number of homes where a very personal interaction, the established relationship between pet and pet owner is directly and indirectly communicated to me and I am able to capture the junctures of each relationship. These intrinsically personal relationships are deliberately depicted within the pet and pet owner’s domain – a space that is common and mundane – where such relationships occur privately and are not normally expected or seen by the public. The questions that inspired this project and others discovered throughout my practice-based research are: despite the evolution of the human species distinguishing itself from all other species on the planet, why have we retained the basic instinctual, psychological and perhaps carnal need to be with or around animals? And how can the pet-human relationships that are established as a result of these needs be conveyed, translated and better understood through contemporary photography? The outcome of my research and photography has revealed intriguing conceptual and artistic results and as such, has made visible the unseen, often quirky and intimate connections that people have with their pets. Even though there remains a division between species, their roles and sometimes indistinct hierarchies within the domestic domain, this is rarely the division between beings that might be expected.
Normal form for second order differential equations
Creators: name: Kossovskiy, Ilya
name: Zaitsev, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We solve the local equivalence problem for second order (smooth or analytic) ordinary differential equations. We do so by presenting a {\em complete convergent normal form} for this class of ODEs. The normal form is optimal in the sense that it is defined up to the automorphism group of the model (flat) ODE $y"=0$. For a generic ODE, we also provide a unique normal form. By doing so, we give a solution to a problem which remained unsolved since the work of Arnold. The method can be immediately applied to important classes of second order ODEs, in particular, the Painlevé equations. As another application of the convergent normal form, we discover distinguished curves associated with a differential equation that we call {\em chains}.
UniSAFE D3.1 Theoretical and conceptual framework
Creators: name: Strid, Sofia
name: Humbert, Anne Laure
name: Hearn, Jeff
name: Bondestam, Fredrik
name: Husu, Liisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gender-based violence
Feminist theory
7P model
Intersectionality
gender+

description: There are different understandings of both gender and gender-based violence in different national and organisational contexts. While recognising the potential conflicts and tensions emanating from different strands of epistemology, ontology and contexts, UniSAFE is primarily informed by a feminist understanding of both gender and violence. The aim of the UniSAFE theoretical and conceptual framework is to frame the overall study – including data collection and analysis on micro, meso and macro levels and their interrelations – and to highlight key debates and contestations in the research field of gender-based violence in RPOs (Research Performing Organisations, including universities). The framework is developed in order to contribute to the data collection and analysis of gender-based violence in academic environments and research workplaces in Europe. The underlying approach is multi-level and holistic, and informed by gender theory, intersectionality, and feminist violence studies: these are applied to both the collection and analysis of evidence, and to its operationalisation into tools and dissemination. Such an approach, in turn, requires approaching gender equality and gender-based violence in institutions from an organisational violence perspective, rather than approaching gender-based violence only from a gender equality perspective, or indeed an individualist perspective. To these ends, the UniSAFE theoretical and conceptual framework outlines the key concepts used in the project and proposes forms of gender-based violence to cover and the definitions for these forms, with the whole project anchored in feminist violence studies. It introduces the 7P model at the heart of the project, defining each of its elements in turn. How these concepts relate to each other are then provided, as well as an operationalisation in terms of different strands of data collection. This informs the work in the following work packages and assists in the systematisation of data collection and analysis.
Intelligent Control Strategies for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Creators: name: Craven, Paul Jason
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: The dynamic characteristics of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) present a control problem that classical methods cannot often accommodate easily. Fundamentally, AUV dynamics are highly non-linear, and the relative similarity between the linear and angular velocities about each degree of freedom means that control schemes employed within other flight vehicles are not always applicable. In such instances, intelligent control strategies offer a more sophisticated approach to the design of the control algorithm. Neurofuzzy control is one such technique, which fuses the beneficial properties of neural networks and fuzzy logic in a hybrid control architecture. Such an approach is highly suited to development of an autopilot for an AUV. Specifically, the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is discussed in Chapter 4 as an effective new approach for neurally tuning course-changing fuzzy autopilots. However, the limitation of this technique is that it cannot be used for developing multivariable fuzzy structures. Consequently, the co-active ANFIS (CANFIS) architecture is developed and employed as a novel multi variable AUV autopilot within Chapter 5, whereby simultaneous control of the AUV yaw and roll channels is achieved. Moreover, this structure is flexible in that it is extended in Chapter 6 to perform on-line control of the AUV leading to a novel autopilot design that can accommodate changing vehicle pay loads and environmental disturbances. Whilst the typical ANFIS and CANFIS structures prove effective for AUV control system design, the well known properties of radial basis function networks (RBFN) offer a more flexible controller architecture. Chapter 7 presents a new approach to fuzzy modelling and employs both ANFIS and CANFIS structures with non-linear consequent functions of composite Gaussian form. This merger of CANFIS and a RBFN lends itself naturally to tuning with an extended form of the hybrid learning rule, and provides a very effective approach to intelligent controller development.
A classification of polynomial functions satisfying the Jacobi identity over integral domains
Creators: name: Marichal, Jean-Luc
name: Mathonet, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39B72, 13B25, 17B99

description: The Jacobi identity is one of the properties that are used to define the concept of Lie algebra and in this context is closely related to associativity. In this paper we provide a complete description of all bivariate polynomials that satisfy the Jacobi identity over infinite integral domains. Although this description depends on the characteristic of the domain, it turns out that all these polynomials are of degree at most one in each indeterminate.
(200976) Walter Eaton
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.
Bidirectional effects of serum TNF alpha level and spinal P38MAPK phosphorylation on hyperalgesia variation during CFA-induced arthritis
Creators: name: Akthari, Zeinab
name: Eidi, Akram
name: Manaheji, Homa
name: Tekieh, Elaheh
name: Zaringhalam, Jalal
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: hyperalgesia
subject: inflammation
subject: mu opioid receptor
subject: p38 MAPK
subject: TNFα
subject: 610

description: Regarding the role of TNFα in the induction of hyperalgesia, the dual suggested roles of the Pp38 MAPK intracellular pathway in the emergence of symptomatic inflammation, we aimed to investigate the bidirectional effects of serum TNFα level and p38 MAPK phosphorylation on hyperalgesia variation during different stages of adjuvant-induced arthritis. Hyperalgesia and edema were assessed at 0, 3, 7, 14, and 21 days of study after arthritis induction by CFA. Anti-TNFα and Pp38 inhibitor were administered during the 21 days of study. Receptor and intra-cellular enzyme expression were detected by western blotting. Anti-TNFα administration in the AA group decreased paw volume and hyperalgesia until the 14th day of study; on the 21st day, those symptoms increased. Daily administration of anti-TNFα antibody caused significant decrease in spinal mOR protein and Pp38/p38 MAPK enzyme level expression on the 14th and 21st days compared to the AA control group. Our data suggested that phosphorylation of spinal p38 MAPK enzyme played an important role in bidirectional effects of serum TNFα on inflammatory symptoms via spinal mOR expression variation.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 11, 2012
Formation des intervenants non soignants auprès des patients à la prévention de la transmission croisée du SARS-CoV-2 dans un CHU
Creators: name: Caltot, Stéphanie
name: Marini, Hélène
name: Lottin, Marion
name: Cottalorda, Agnès
name: Cailleux, Isabelle
name: Thierry, Anne
name: Buno, Caroline
name: Merle, Véronique
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Association de patients
SARS-CoV-2
Transmission croisée
Programme de prévention
Formation

description: Contexte et objectif. Les intervenants non soignants (INS) de l’établissement bénéficient d’une formation d’une heure et demie aux « précautions standard en période Covid ». Notre objectif était de mesurer leur satisfaction concernant cette formation et d’évaluer son effet sur leurs connaissances. Méthodes. La satisfaction de tous les INS formés depuis septembre 2020 et les connaissances avant et après les sessions de décembre 2021 et janvier 2022 ont été évaluées. Les questionnaires, anonymes, étaient complétés en ligne pour l’évaluation de la satisfaction (sur une échelle de 1 à 10), ou lors des formations pour l’évaluation des connaissances (10 questions sur la transmission croisée). Résultats. De septembre 2020 à janvier 2022, parmi 325 INS formés (42 sessions), 91 ont répondu au questionnaire de satisfaction, avec un score moyen de satisfaction globale à 8,7 et des commentaires libres témoignant de l’intérêt trouvé à la formation et d’une modification de la perception du risque. Le score moyen de connaissances des 37 INS évalués est passé de 5,9 sur 10 avant la formation à 8,6 sur 10 après (p<0,001). L’amélioration des connaissances était variable (solutions hydro-alcooliques inadaptées pour entretenir les surfaces : 57% avant et 89% après (p<0,01) ; port du masque à la fois pour le patient et le visiteur : 100% avant et après formation). Conclusion. La formation est bien acceptée des INS et améliore leurs connaissances. Son impact sur les pratiques et sur la contamination des patients n’a pas été évalué. Elle rassure les professionnels et semble utile aux INS dans leur vie privée. Ces éléments nous incitent à poursuivre cette formation systématique des INS au-delà de l’épidémie de Covid-19.
Discriminating between long-range dependence and non-stationarity
Creators: name: Preuß, Philip
name: Vetter, Mathias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: bootstrap
subject: empirical spectral measure
subject: goodness-of-fit test
subject: integrated periodogram
subject: locally stationary process
subject: long memory
subject: non stationary process
subject: spectral density
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This paper is devoted to the discrimination between a stationary long-range dependent model and a non stationary process. We develop a nonparametric test for stationarity in the framework of locally stationary long memory processes which is based on a Kolmogorov-Smirnov type distance between the time varying spectral density and its best approximation through a stationary spectral density. We show that the test statistic converges to the same limit as in the short memory case if the (possibly time varying) long memory parameter is smaller than 1=4 and justify why the limiting distribution is different if the long memory parameter exceeds this boundary. Concerning the latter case the novel FARI(1) bootstrap is introduced which provides a bootstrap-based test for stationarity that only requires the long memory parameter to be smaller than 1=2 which is the usual restriction in the framework of long-range dependent time series. We investigate the finite sample properties of our approach in a comprehensive simulation study and apply the new test to a data set containing log returns of the S&P 500.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;38/2012
See it at a festival near you: the film festival as exhibition practice in Melbourne, 1952-2012
Creators: name: Stevens, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis charts the development and operation of film festivals within Melbourne from 1952 to 2012. While film festival studies is expanding rapidly as a field of academic enquiry, the specificities of the Australian film festival experience have thus far received little critical attention. This thesis seeks to address the lack of an Australian perspective on film festival development and operation, taking the experience of film festivals in Melbourne as a case study for exploring the extent to which local contexts influence the tenor, function and evolution of cultural celebrations. Engaging with current research on film festivals, as well as archival and contemporary material, this thesis argues that film festivals in Melbourne have evolved along different lines to international celebrations generally and those in Europe – as the leading source of existing literature – in particular. By scrutinising the particular nature of Melbourne festivals with an emphasis on the city’s leading event, the Melbourne International Film Festival, this thesis argues that festivals in Melbourne act primarily as sites of film exhibition, with events presented first and foremost for the benefit and pleasure of audiences. Through examining the way in which film festivals have developed and prospered in Melbourne over the last sixty years, their tenor and the unique local factors that have influenced their operation, this thesis challenges the Eurocentric understanding of international film festival development that has thus far dominated the study of such events. This thesis constructs its study of Melbourne’s involvement with the film festival format in three parts that examine the city’s festival history, event practice and possible avenues for future development. More specifically, this study identifies five major areas of discussion: the initial development of film festivals in Melbourne (1949-1979); the expansion and consolidation of the format in the city (1980-2000); the use of a rhetoric of taste in film festival advertising as a means establishing cultural legitimacy; the multifaceted nature of festival success and its relation to local environments; and the potential future development of festivals as the premiere source of non-mainstream film within Melbourne. The conclusion reached by this study is that film festivals in Melbourne developed first and foremost as a response to local conditions rather than international trends in film festival operation. Informed by the time, place and circumstance in which each of the city’s festivals emerged, the Melbourne festival movement evolved primarily as a practice in film exhibition and, as a result, charted a different historical path to that established by international events and existing festival scholarship.
(200973) Ida Vyse Millard
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.
Finite-time degeneration of hyperbolicity without blowup for quasilinear wave equations
Creators: name: Speck, Jared
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L80 (Primary), 35L05, 35L72 (Secondary)

description: In three spatial dimensions, we study the Cauchy problem for the model wave equation $- \partial_t^2 Ψ+ (1 + Ψ)^P ΔΨ= 0$ for $P \in \lbrace 1,2 \rbrace$. We exhibit a stable form of finite-time Tricomi-type degeneracy formation that has not previously been studied for quasilinear wave equations. Specifically, using only energy methods and ODE-type techniques, we exhibit an open (in an appropriate Sobolev topology) set of data such that $Ψ$ is initially near $0$ while $1 + Ψ$ vanishes in finite time. In fact, generic data profiles, when appropriately rescaled, lead to the vanishing of $1 + Ψ$ in finite time. The solution remains regular up to the degeneracy in the following sense: there is a high-order energy, featuring degenerate weights only at the top order, that remains bounded up to the time of first vanishing. When $P=1$, we show that any $C^1$ extension of $Ψ$ to the future of a point where $1 + Ψ= 0$ must exit the regime of hyperbolicity. Moreover, the Kretschmann scalar (which is a curvature invariant) of the Lorentzian metric corresponding to the wave equation blows up at those points. In particular, our results show that curvature blowup for the metric of a quasilinear wave equation does not always coincide with singularity formation in the solution variable. Similar phenomena occur when $P=2$, but in this case, the vanishing of $1 + Ψ$ corresponds only to a breakdown in the strict hyperbolicity of the equation.
RAISE Science Webinar: a transparent way of sharing and processing data
Creators: name: Petsani, Despoina
name: Konstantinidis, Evdokimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science, Data Processing

description: RAISE and Open Science RAISE's mission is to provide an infrastructure that facilitates a decentralized system for processing data through crowdsourcing. This involves transitioning from utilizing open data to enabling open access data for processing. Instead of sending the data to the algorithm, RAISE enables the algorithm to be sent to the dataset. In this workshop, stakeholders will be introduced to an initial mock-up of RAISE’s unique approach that brings the processing algorithm (small in size) directly to the dataset (large in size), instead of requiring the dataset to be downloaded to the computer where the algorithm is located. An initial demonstration using wireframes will be done. The current mock-up is an interactive version that demonstrates the basic functionalities of the Research Analysis Identifier System. The navigation through basic features will help the participants understand better the system and, also, provide valuable insights for the improvement of user experience. The goal is to appreciate the value of not only accessing data, but also processing it conveniently: RAISE minimizes the time required to obtain results and enhances overall productivity, while simultaneously promoting transparency in sharing and processing data, as well as empowering researchers to publish their work with authenticated data analysis. Additionally, it ensures that their work receives proper accreditation. The mock-up presentation will be followed by a discussion to navigate stakeholders needs and requirements in processing data. You can find the link to the recording of the session here: https://youtu.be/33oLnSA1t-M Please make sure to provide us with your feedback on the RAISE mock up by filling in this questionnaire: https://forms.office.com/e/5WprrFwwrV
Spans of cospans
Creators: name: Cicala, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss the notion of a span of cospans and define, for them, horizonal and vertical composition. These compositions satisfy the interchange law if working in a topos $\mathbf{C}$ and if the span legs are monic. A bicategory is then constructed from $\mathbf{C}$-objects, $\mathbf{C}$-cospans, and doubly monic spans of $\mathbf{C}$-cospans. The primary motivation for this construction is an application to graph rewriting.
(200974) Charles John King
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.
Imagined Natures: the Gippsland Lakes, Australia: 1860 - 1900
Creators: name: Harris, David Arthur
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 Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
How a single particle modifies the physical reality of two distant others simultaneously: a quantum nonlocality and weak value study
Creators: name: Bernardo, Bertúlio de Lima
name: Canabarro, Askery
name: Azevedo, Sérgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of wave-particle duality, which is a key element of quantum theory, has been remarkably found to manifest itself in several experimental realizations as in the famous double-slit experiment. In this specific case, a single particle seems to travel through two separated slits simultaneously. Nevertheless, it is never possible to measure it in both slits, which naturally appears as a manifestation of the collapse postulate. In this respect, one could as well ask if it is possible to "perceive" the presence of the particle at the two slits simultaneously, once its collapse could be avoided. In this article, we use the recently proposed entanglement mediation protocol to provide a positive answer to this question. It is shown that a photon which behaves like a wave, i.e., which seems to be present in two distant locations at the same time, can modify two existing physical realities in these locations. Calculations of the "weak trace" left by such photon also enforce the validity of the present argumentation.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Wrestling with the bones: truth, transitions and transformations in family history writing
Creators: name: Suda, Elizabeth Marie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis enlarges on studies of truth-telling in life writing, to focus on the elusive nature of truth in the history of a family that has experienced the ruptures of war and migration. The unreliability of memory, the capriciousness of individual subjectivities and the complexity of intergenerational familial relationships can produce contradictory accounts in narratives of this kind. The process of constructing narratives about the past from individual accounts and historical research is problematised within a reflexive theoretical process that has explored the potential for arriving at a truth through such analysis. The thesis concludes that while the full reality of a family’s past is necessarily unknowable, the process of critically examining that past can transform the presumed identities of the subjects. The dialectical relationship between theory and practice is reflected in the structure of the thesis, where the family stories are interwoven with reflexive analytical chapters that inform and echo each other. A number of themes are explored in this search for a truth, including: methodological and ethical issues in life writing; qualitative changes in identity throughout life that might obscure the truth, the way images can inform and challenge the pursuit of truth; the problems inherent in the truth of any historical account; the significance of place to life memories; and the impenetrability of individual psyches when seeking to understand the actions and motivations of the subjects. The pursuit of the truth fades in this mélange of perspectives, contributing to the effect of truth in the subjects’ minds and the redevelopment of present tense narrative identities. The transitions and transformations experienced by the subjects demonstrate the potential benefits of life writing, the inherent need for some kind of truth, and the importance of individual, collective and relational experiences to a more multifaceted view of cultural memory and the construction of identity.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
On American VIX options under the generalized 3/2 and 1/2 models
Creators: name: Detemple, Jerome
name: Kitapbayev, Yerkin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we extend the 3/2-model for VIX studied by Goard and Mazur (2013) and introduce the generalized 3/2 and 1/2 classes of volatility processes. Under these models, we study the pricing of European and American VIX options and, for the latter, we obtain an early exercise premium representation using a free-boundary approach and local time-space calculus. The optimal exercise boundary for the volatility is obtained as the unique solution to an integral equation of Volterra type. We also consider a model mixing these two classes and formulate the corresponding optimal stopping problem in terms of the observed factor process. The price of an American VIX call is then represented by an early exercise premium formula. We show the existence of a pair of optimal exercise boundaries for the factor process and characterize them as the unique solution to a system of integral equations.
Recognizing Detailed Human Context In-the-Wild from Smartphones and Smartwatches
Creators: name: Vaizman, Yonatan
name: Ellis, Katherine
name: Lanckriet, Gert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to automatically recognize a person's behavioral context can contribute to health monitoring, aging care and many other domains. Validating context recognition in-the-wild is crucial to promote practical applications that work in real-life settings. We collected over 300k minutes of sensor data with context labels from 60 subjects. Unlike previous studies, our subjects used their own personal phone, in any way that was convenient to them, and engaged in their routine in their natural environments. Unscripted behavior and unconstrained phone usage resulted in situations that are harder to recognize. We demonstrate how fusion of multi-modal sensors is important for resolving such cases. We present a baseline system, and encourage researchers to use our public dataset to compare methods and improve context recognition in-the-wild.
description: This paper was accepted and is to appear in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 16, no. 4, October-December 2017, pp. 62-74
Tricksters of today contemporary picaresque fiction in English and Italian (1991-2009): a comparative approach
Creators: name: Gussago, Luigi
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 Languages, Histories and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Non-negative versus positive scalar curvature
Creators: name: Schick, Thomas
name: Wraith, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C20

description: We show that results about spaces or moduli spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics proved using index theory can typically be extended to non-negative scalar curvature metrics. We illustrate this by providing explicit generalizations of some classical results concerning moduli spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics.
description: A problem in the proof of Proposition 3.5 has been fixed, requiring a re-formulation of Proposition 3.6. Some general revision has also been carried out
Structural and functional genomics of perennial ryegrass-derived fungal endophytes
Creators: name: Hettiarachchige, Inoka Kumari
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 Applied Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Perennial ryegrass is often associated with clavicipitaceous fungal endophytes that include Epichloë and Neotyphodium isolates. The research described in this thesis was focused on assessment of genetic diversity of ryegrass-derived endophytes, generation and characterisation of reporter gene-containing endophytes, evaluation of the capacity to introduce multiple endophytes into a single host and up-regulation of the biosynthetic pathway associated with peramine production. Genetic diversity of 20 selected ryegrassderived endophyte strains was evaluated based on 7 full-length gene sequences derived from whole genome sequence data. In addition to the well-characterised taxa (N. lolii and LpTG-2), two other novel taxa were identified in this study, which were designated as LpTG-3 and LpTG-4. Three endophyte strains were selected on the basis of taxonomic category, bioactivity profile, anti-fungal activity and mating type variation to generate derivatives containing the reporter genes gfp and DsRed. Binary vectors constructed for the constitutive expression of GFP (green fluorescent protein) and DsRed were successfully transformed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated technology. Expression of GFP and DsRed was obtained in all three endophyte strains, as detected by fluorescence microscopy and further comprehensive characterisation of transformants was achieved through use of multiple molecular and bioinformatic tools. Reporter genecontaining endophyte strains were used to exploit a novel in-house artificial seed-based inoculation system in order to evaluate the capacity to introduce multiple endophytes into a single host based on complementary reporter gene signals. Subsequently, a detailed characterisation of the perA gene from 20 ryegrass-derived endophyte strains was performed. Presence of the entire perA gene was identified in peramine-producing strains, and a partially deleted perA gene associated with miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) and premature stop codons was observed in peramine non-producing genotypes. A functional copy of the perA gene was introduced by A. tumefaciens-mediated transformation into endophyte strains with different genetic backgrounds in order to introduce and enhance insect feeding deterrence. The results obtained in this study will provide the basis for detailed understanding of both endophyteendophyte and endophyte-host interactions, and for enhancing the bio-protective properties of the symbiotum.
title: Transatlantic Archives and Transatlantic Literary Studies
Creators: name: Sommer, Tim
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 820 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
subject: 830 German literature and literatures of related languages

description: Der Beitrag beschreibt schlaglichtartig die historische Entwicklung sowie die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Archivierung literarischer Handschriften im globalen Kontext. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Wechselwirkungen zwischen der Institution Literaturarchiv einerseits und der transatlantischen Literaturwissenschaft und -geschichte andererseits. Durch ihre konkreten historischen und geographischen Entstehungszusammenhänge und ihre materielle Unikalität sind Manuskripte in nicht unerheblichem Maß lokal determiniert und an nationalkulturelle Narrative gekoppelt, werden aber als Resultat von Entwicklungen des 20. Jahrhunderts (wie z.B. der Exilierung und Vertreibung von Autor:innen im Kontext europäischer Totalitarismen oder der Herausbildung eines internationalen Markts für schriftstellerische Papiere in der zweiten Hälfte des Jahrhunderts) zunehmend disloziert und als von universalem Wert beschrieben. Der Beitrag spürt diesen Themen unter anderem am Beispiel Thomas Manns und seiner amerikanischen Archivgeschichte nach. Den Abschluss bilden einige Überlegungen zu (Literatur-)Archiven und Digitalisierung, insbesondere im Kontext der Corona-Pandemie.
description: The contribution describes aspects of the historical development of, and the contemporary challenges faced by, the archiving of literary manuscripts in a global context. It focuses more specifically on the relationship between the literary archive as an institution, on the one hand, and transatlantic literary studies and literary history, on the other. Manuscripts are to a significant extent marked as local and described as national in terms of their historical and geographical genesis and their material uniqueness, but they have increasingly come to be seen as deterritorialized and universal as the result of twentieth-century developments (phenomena which include the exile and enforced migration of authors in the context of European totalitarian regimes or the rise of an international marketplace for literary papers over the course of the second half of the century). One of the key examples through which the contribution traces these themes is Thomas Mann and the history of his American archiving. The conclusion offers reflections on (literary) archives and digitization, in particular in the context of the global pandemic.
(200975) Emma Eaton
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.
Johannes Häne, 1862-1931
Creators: name: Largiadèr, Anton
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Zürcher Volkszeitung
Year: 1933
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Häne, Johannes
subject: Zürich

description: Separatabdruck aus dem Zürcher Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1933.
On the Higher-Spin Spectrum in Large N Chern-Simons Vector Models
Creators: name: Giombi, S.
name: Gurucharan, V.
name: Kirilin, V.
name: Prakash, S.
name: Skvortsov, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chern-Simons gauge theories coupled to massless fundamental scalars or fermions define interesting non-supersymmetric 3d CFTs that possess approximate higher-spin symmetries at large N. In this paper, we compute the scaling dimensions of the higher-spin operators in these models, to leading order in the 1/N expansion and exactly in the 't Hooft coupling. We obtain these results in two independent ways: by using conformal symmetry and the classical equations of motion to fix the structure of the current non-conservation, and by a direct Feynman diagram calculation. The full dependence on the 't Hooft coupling can be restored by using results that follow from the weakly broken higher-spin symmetry. This analysis also allows us to obtain some explicit results for the non-conserved, parity-breaking structures that appear in planar three-point functions of the higher-spin operators. At large spin, we find that the anomalous dimensions grow logarithmically with the spin, in agreement with general expectations. This logarithmic behavior disappears in the strong coupling limit, where the anomalous dimensions turn into those of the critical O(N) or Gross-Neveu models, in agreement with the conjectured 3d bosonization duality.
description: 52 pages, 7 figures. v3: Minor corrections