cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating Word Order Processing Using Pupillometry and Event-Related Potentials
Creators: name: Fernandez, Leigh Breakell
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis focuses on the processing costs associated with understanding spoken sentences with diﬀerent word orders and grammatical constructions. These types of constructions are investigated using a psychophysiological (i.e. the physiological measures that underlie psychological processing) measure known as pupillometry, and the last study employs electroencephalography (EEG). Although the unifying goal of the thesis is to examine processing costs using psychophysical measures, the scope of the thesis is quite broad, investigating the processing of several diﬀerent syntactic constructions and across diﬀerent populations - children, native speakers of German, native speakers of English, and highly proﬁcient second language speakers (L2) of English. The ﬁrst empirical chapter (Chapter 2) focuses on ﬁller gap dependences and how native speakers of English and skilled second language speakers of English process these diﬃcult syntactic constructions. It reports an empirical study that uses pupillometry to test whether second language speakers are able to process a type of ﬁller gap dependency, known as an intermediate gap, in the same way as native speakers, and in doing so tests the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (Clahsen and Felser, 2006).1.6.2 Chapter 3 & 4The third and fourth chapters focus on the processing costs associated with diﬀerent word orders in German sentences, as well as the processing costs that can arise as a result of the inherent ambiguity of some of these word orders. The empirical studies examine the processing of these constructions using pupillometry with adults (Chapter 3) and children (Chapter 4) aiming to test competing theories and to validate pupillometry as an eﬀective method for testing the processing of word order in both adults and children.1.6.3 Chapter 5Chapter 5 focuses on subject and object relative clauses and the role that animacy plays in processing these constructions in English; the empirical study uses electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the processing of these constructions. EEG measures brain activity through electrodes on the scalp, and in Chapter 5 these measurements are averaged together (and the random noise averaged out) giving us event related potentials (ERP), which provide information about brain activity in response to a stimulus (in this case object relative clause constructions). There seems to be a link between brain activity and pupil response (see for example, Aston-Jones & Cohen, 2005), and more research is needed investigating pupil change in relation to brain activity. Chapter 5 aims to test competing processing theories of object relative constructions while manipulating animacy with the aim of a future study that will correlate ERP and pupillometry.
Kerivoula sniithi Thomas 1880
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula sniithi

description: Kerivoula sniithi Thomas, 1880. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 6: 166. TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Calabar. DISTRIBUTION: Nigeria; Cameroun; N. and E. Zaire; Kenya. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029021001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Silanes and Silicones with Distinct Hydrophilic and Oleophobic Substitution
Creators: name: Pan, Youlin
name: Arkles, Barry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Organosilicon Chemistry
Hydrophobicity
Hydrophilicity
Surface Modification

description: The invention relates to silicon compounds having formula (I): (RfCH.sub.2CH.sub.2).sub.2-n[R(OCH.sub.2CHR').sub.mOR''].sub.nSiX.sub.2 (I). In formula (I), Rf is a linear or branched perfluorinated hydrocarbon having 4 or more carbon atoms, R is a methyl or ethyl group, R' is H or CH.sub.3, m is an integer of 1 to about 24, R'' is a hydrocarbon bridge having 1 to about 11 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 0 to 2, and X is H, Cl or an alkoxy group. The inventive materials may be used to produce siloxanes or silicones by hydrolytic condensation and have utility in surface modification.
Stress Transfer Mechanisms at the Submicron Level for Graphene/Polymer Systems
Creators: name: Anagnostopoulos, George
name: Androulidakis, Charalampos
name: Koukaras, Emmanuel N.
name: Tsoukleri, Georgia
name: Polyzos, Ioannis
name: Parthenios, John
name: Papagelis, Konstantinos
name: Galiotis, Costas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stress transfer mechanism from a polymer substrate to a nano-inclusion, such as a graphene flake, is of extreme interest for the production of effective nanocomposites. Previous work conducted mainly at the micron scale has shown that the intrinsic mechanism of stress transfer is shear at the interface. However, since the interfacial shear takes its maximum value at the very edge of the nano-inclusion it is of extreme interest to assess the effect of edge integrity upon axial stress transfer at the submicron scale. Here, we conduct a detailed Raman line mapping near the edges of a monolayer graphene flake which is simply supported onto an epoxy based photoresist (SU8)/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix at steps as small as 100 nm. We show for the first time that, the distribution of axial strain (stress) along the flake deviates somewhat from the classical shear-lag prediction for a region of about 2 um from the edge. This behavior is mainly attributed to the presence of residual stresses, unintentional doping and/or edge effects (deviation from the equilibrium values of bond lengths and angles, as well as different edge chiralities). By considering a simple balance of shear-to-normal stresses at the interface we are able to directly convert the strain (stress) gradient to values of interfacial shear stress for all the applied tensile levels without assuming classical shear-lag behavior. For large flakes a maximum value of interfacial shear stress (ISS) of 0.4 MPa is obtained prior to flake slipping.
Functional data analysis with applications in biostatistics
Creators: name: Ratcliffe, Sarah Jane
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Functional data analysis is concerned with the analysis of data for which the observed responses for each subject are continuous curves. In practice measurements are taken at discrete time points but estimates are required over the entire time interval. Traditional techniques for analysis of multiple curves such as longitudinal data analysis or time series methods are unsuitable for this type of data since there are generally more measurements per subject than subjects and stationarity assumptions do not necessarily hold. With a technology induced growth in data of this kind research into techniques for functional data analysis has become an emerging area in recent years. This thesis aims to develop new techniques for functional data analysis focusing on three problems: logistic regression with a functional regressor, linear and logistic regression for a repeatedly stimulated functional regressor, and a functional mixed-effects type model for joint mean and covariance modelling. For each of the problems, we develop solutions using a basis function approach, that is, expressing the data for each subject as a linear combination of known basis functions. Using this approach we are able to overcome singularity problems associated with having more measurements than subjects. As well as calculating maximum likelihood or least squares parameter estimates model diagnostic and smoothing parameter selection issues are addressed. The techniques developed in this thesis are applied to novel biostatistical data sets electroencephalographic data and fetal heart rate data. Of main interest is the fetal heart rate data which motivated the development of the regression techniques for a repeatedly stimulated functional parameter. It was found that the stimulated fetal heart rates could be used to predict an infant's risk category at birth and psychomotor development at 18 months of age. Most of the material presented in the thesis is my own work. The exception is: the work described in Section 6.3 is partly due to Victor Solo.
An automatically generated code for relativistic inhomogeneous cosmologies
Creators: name: Bentivegna, Eloisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The applications of numerical relativity to cosmology are on the rise, contributing insight into such cosmological problems as structure formation, primordial phase transitions, gravitational-wave generation, and inflation. In this paper, I present the infrastructure for the computation of inhomogeneous dust cosmologies which was used recently to measure the effect of nonlinear inhomogeneity on the cosmic expansion rate. I illustrate the code's architecture, provide evidence for its correctness in a number of familiar cosmological settings, and evaluate its parallel performance for grids of up to several billion points. The code, which is available as free software, is based on the Einstein Toolkit infrastructure, and in particular leverages the automated-code-generation capabilities provided by its component Kranc.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
The saga of the Twilighter's Campaign, 1881-1931 : perseverance and patient pursuit in the face of indecision and injustice
Creators: name: Griffin, Cheryl .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Towards establishing a treaty relationship in Australia
Creators: name: Bradfield, Stuart James
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Australia is unique among settler societies in the extent to which it has denied the rights of Indigenous peoples who lived here for millennia before European colonisation. The original inhabitants, or 'First Peoples', were not deemed worthy of a status whereby they would be participants in negotiated settlements, or treaties. In Australia, ancient 'discourses of domination' were employed to entrench an inequitable relationship between peoples, the basis of which has yet to be disturbed. This thesis argues for treaty, or treatylike agreements, as the mechanism capable of establishing a just relationship between peoples in Australia. The inherent flexibility of treaty allows for a truly bilateral process where the legitimate status of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples is mutually reinforced. Important lessons can be learnt from the conception, practice and difficulties of British Columbia's modern-day treaty process. There, centuries of denial have been replaced by a commitment to negotiate a new future. In Australia, recognition of native title has promoted an encouraging new culture of agreement-making between peoples. However, archaic perceptions continue, casting doubt on the fundamental nature of change to the relationship. Indigenous leaders, therefore, continue historic demands for recognition of their distinct status via the establishment of a treaty relationship.
The MOSDEF Survey: Detection of [OIII]$λ$4363 and the direct-method oxygen abundance of a star-forming galaxy at z=3.08
Creators: name: Sanders, Ryan L.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Reddy, Naveen A.
name: Freeman, William R.
name: Coil, Alison L.
name: Siana, Brian
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Shivaei, Irene
name: Price, Sedona H.
name: de Groot, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the electron-temperature based oxygen abundance for a highly star-forming galaxy at z=3.08, COSMOS-1908. This is the highest redshift at which [OIII]$λ$4363 has been detected, and the first time that this line has been measured at z>2. We estimate an oxygen abundance of 12+log(O/H)$=8.00^{+0.13}_{-0.14}$. This galaxy is a low-mass ($10^{9.3}$ M$_{\odot}$), highly star-forming ($\sim50$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$) system that hosts a young stellar population ($\sim160$ Myr). We investigate the physical conditions of the ionized gas in COSMOS-1908 and find that this galaxy has a high ionization parameter, little nebular reddening ($E(B-V)_{\rm gas}<0.14$), and a high electron density ($n_e\sim500$ cm$^{-3}$). We compare the ratios of strong oxygen, neon, and hydrogen lines to the direct-method oxygen abundance for COSMOS-1908 and additional star-forming galaxies at z=0-1.8 with [OIII]$λ$4363 measurements, and show that galaxies at z$\sim$1-3 follow the same strong-line correlations as galaxies in the local universe. This agreement suggests that the relationship between ionization parameter and O/H is similar for z$\sim$0 and high-redshift galaxies. These results imply that metallicity calibrations based on lines of oxygen, neon, and hydrogen do not strongly evolve with redshift and can reliably estimate abundances out to z$\sim$3, paving the way for robust measurements of the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation to high redshift.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ Letters
Laephotis angolensis Monard 1935
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Laephotis
Laephotis angolensis

description: Laephotis angolensis Monard, 1935. Archos. Mus. Bocage, 6:45. TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Tyihumbwe, 15 km W. Dala. DISTRIBUTION: Angola; Zaire.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Ante o Anti-tridentini? Matrimoni irregolari nel Persiles
Creators: name: Basso, Carlo
Publisher: name: Artifara
Year: 2020

description: Nonostante il Persiles sia stato interpretato come un romanzo espressione del clima della Controriforma, esso presenta dieci matrimoni celebrati senza rispettare i canoni del Concilio di Trento. Tra questi sono incluse le nozze dei due protagonisti, pellegrini in viaggio verso Roma per affinare la conoscenza della religione Cattolica. Questa situazione rende abbastanza convincente l'ipotesi di una distanza da parte di Cervantes dalla Chiesa Riformata.
description: Artifara, N. 20 (2020)
Continuous Time Quantum Walks in finite Dimensions
Creators: name: Li, Shanshan
name: Boettcher, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum search problem with a continuous time quantum walk for networks of finite spectral dimension d_{s} of the network Laplacian. For general networks of fractal (integer or non-integer) dimension d_{f}, for which in general d_{f}\not=d_{s}, it suggests that d_{s} is the scaling exponent that determines the computational complexity of the search. Our results are consistent with those of Childs and Goldstone [Phys. Rev. A 70 (2004), 022314] for lattices of integer dimension, where d=d_{f}=d_{s}. For general fractals, we find that the Grover limit of quantum search can be obtained whenever d_{s}>4. This complements the recent discussion of mean-field (i.e., d_{s}\to\infty) networks by Chakraborty et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016), 100501] showing that for all those networks spatial search by quantum walk is optimal.
description: 5 pages, 2 fitures
Chaining, Interpolation, and Convexity II: The contraction principle
Creators: name: van Handel, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60B11, 60G15, 41A46, 46B20, 46B70

description: The generic chaining method provides a sharp description of the suprema of many random processes in terms of the geometry of their index sets. The chaining functionals that arise in this theory are however notoriously difficult to control in any given situation. In the first paper in this series, we introduced a particularly simple method for producing the requisite multi scale geometry by means of real interpolation. This method is easy to use, but does not always yield sharp bounds on chaining functionals. In the present paper, we show that a refinement of the interpolation method provides a canonical mechanism for controlling chaining functionals. The key innovation is a simple but powerful contraction principle that makes it possible to efficiently exploit interpolation. We illustrate the utility of this approach by developing new dimension-free bounds on the norms of random matrices and on chaining functionals in Banach lattices. As another application, we give a remarkably short interpolation proof of the majorizing measure theorem that entirely avoids the greedy construction that lies at the heart of earlier proofs.
description: 33 pages; the first paper in the series can be found at arXiv:1508.05906
Bibliotecas ‘en abismo’: Mutis y Maqroll en el espejo (o de cómo sobrevivir a la postmodernidad flotando sobre libros)
Creators: name: Bizzarri, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Artifara
Year: 2020

description: Este artículo se propone estudiar en paralelo la biblioteca de Álvaro Mutis –su privado canon de lecturas selectas– y la biblioteca ficcional mediante la cual el escritor colombiano decide completar la fisionomía de su héroe de aventuras Maqroll el Gaviero. Los vertiginosos torbellinos barrocos que cabrá asociar con un recurso que tiende a contaminar la escritura con la sospecha de lo vicario y la amenaza de la falta de autonomía nos servirán para vislumbrar algunos aspectos clave de la poética de Mutis, muy especialmente, el peso decisivo de la tradición y la incumbencia castradora de las fuentes. My intention with this article is to study, in parallel, Álvaro Mutis real library –his private canon of selected readings– and the fictional one by which the Colombian author decides to complete the physiognomy of his adventure hero, Maqroll el Gaviero. The dizzying Baroque whirlwinds that can be associated with a resource that tends to contaminate the writing with a suspicion of vicariousness and the threat of the lack of autonomy will serve to highlight some key aspects of Mutis’ poetics, especially the decisive weight of tradition and the emasculating lingering of the sources.
description: Artifara, N. 20 (2020)
Laephotis namibensis Setzer 1971
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Laephotis
Laephotis namibensis

description: Laephotis namibensis Setzer, 1971. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 84:259. TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia, Gobabeb, Kuiseb River. DISTRIBUTION: Namibia. Probably S.W. Cape Province (South Africa); reported as L. wintoni by Rautenbach and Nel, 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32:111.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Von den Römern zu den Etruskern: Was kann eine Grube in Molino San Vincenzo erzählen?
Creators: name: Hagmann, Dominik
name: Schörner, Günther
name: Schörner, Hadwiga
name: Kirchengast, Nisa Iduna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: archaeology
subject: Roman archaeology
subject: Etruscan archaeology
subject: additive archaeology
subject: digital archaeology
subject: virtual archaeology
subject: 3d printing
subject: 3d photogrammetry
subject: synthetic material culture
subject: image-based modeling
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300054328

description: In 2018 and 2019, a pit was discovered in the area of the Roman farmhouse of Molino San Vincenzo (Tuscany), the contents of which opened up an entirely new aspect in the history of the use of this site, since the artifacts found were exclusively from the much older Etruscan period. A focus of the lecture is the presentation of the first results in the field of virtual and findings processing as well as reproductions of ancient finds using 3D printing methods.
description: The pre-COVID-19 in-presence talk in Vienna (Austria) was held together with G. Schörner, H. Schörner, and N. Kirchengast, and each presenter focused on a particular topic. The part on digital archaeology by the presenter was held virtually from Chicago, Il (USA).
description: {"references": ["Hagmann, D. (2020). Molino San Vincenzo: A Roman Rural Site in the Pesa Valley. In G. Sch\u00f6rner (Ed.), The Vienna Orme and Pesa Valley Project: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Vienna, June 22\u201323, 2018 (Vol. 1, pp. 25\u201350). Projektinitiative Roman Rural Landscapes am Institut f\u00fcr Klassische Arch\u00e4ologie der Universit\u00e4t Wien. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.239_03"]}
Spectral decomposition method of dialog state tracking via collective matrix factorization
Creators: name: Perez, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The task of dialog management is commonly decomposed into two sequential subtasks: dialog state tracking and dialog policy learning. In an end-to-end dialog system, the aim of dialog state tracking is to accurately estimate the true dialog state from noisy observations produced by the speech recognition and the natural language understanding modules. The state tracking task is primarily meant to support a dialog policy. From a probabilistic perspective, this is achieved by maintaining a posterior distribution over hidden dialog states composed of a set of context dependent variables. Once a dialog policy is learned, it strives to select an optimal dialog act given the estimated dialog state and a defined reward function. This paper introduces a novel method of dialog state tracking based on a bilinear algebric decomposition model that provides an efficient inference schema through collective matrix factorization. We evaluate the proposed approach on the second Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC-2) dataset and we show that the proposed tracker gives encouraging results compared to the state-of-the-art trackers that participated in this standard benchmark. Finally, we show that the prediction schema is computationally efficient in comparison to the previous approaches.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 Table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1606.04052
Online acquisition of Cairene Arabic word stress patterns over time
Creators: name: Schembri, Tamara
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Adult learners often experience difficulty in attaining fluency in all aspects of a second language (L2). The L2 acquisition of main word stress is especially challenging, and incorrect production may lead to significant miscommunication. Yet, relatively little research on L2 prosodic acquisition has been conducted. Additionally, most of this research focuses on English and other European languages, limiting our understanding of the acquisition of other stress systems.These studies contribute to this understanding by studying the L2 acquisition of the Cairene Arabic stress system. Artificial Language Learning research methodology was combined with real Cairene Arabic input. Adult American English speakers with no previous experience of any other Semitic language were taught the Cairene Arabic stress system. In Chapter 3, patterns of acquisition similar to prior studies were observed, such as L1 transfer and overgeneralization, confirming that this is a viable method for studying beginning L2 acquisition. The experiment in Chapter 4 aimed to test the 'less is more' hypothesis in the domain of prosodic acquisition. The results in this experiment demonstrated that participants performed better when presented with random stimuli, as compared to initially limited stimuli which gradually increased in complexity. This showed that the 'less is more' hypothesis does not hold for the narrow domain of main stress acquisition. These experiments were made possible by the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), allowing a large number of participants to be tested quickly and cheaply. The studies in this thesis were conducted over the course of 4 days. However, online longitudinal experiments are difficult to conduct. While designing the above studies, a software solution called Longi was developed (Chapter 2), which simplifies the process significantly. It is hoped that the development of this software will enable more online longitudinal studies to be conducted.
Monte Carlo simulations of soft proton flares: testing the physics with XMM-Newton
Creators: name: Fioretti, Valentina
name: Bulgarelli, Andrea
name: Malaguti, Giuseppe
name: Spiga, Daniele
name: Tiengo, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low energy protons (<100-300 keV) in the Van Allen belt and the outer regions can enter the field of view of X-ray focusing telescopes, interact with the Wolter-I optics, and reach the focal plane. The use of special filters protects the XMM-Newton focal plane below an altitude of 70000 km, but above this limit the effect of soft protons is still present in the form of sudden flares in the count rate of the EPIC instruments, causing the loss of large amounts of observing time. We try to characterize the input proton population and the physics interaction by simulating, using the BoGEMMS framework, the proton interaction with a simplified model of the X-ray mirror module and the focal plane, and comparing the result with a real observation. The analysis of ten orbits of observations of the EPIC/pn instrument show that the detection of flares in regions far outside the radiation belt is largely influenced by the different orientation of the Earth's magnetosphere respect with XMM-Newton's orbit, confirming the solar origin of the soft proton population. The Equator-S proton spectrum at 70000 km altitude is used for the proton population entering the optics, where a combined multiple and Firsov scattering is used as physics interaction. If the thick filter is used, the soft protons in the 30-70 keV energy range are the main contributors to the simulated spectrum below 10 keV. We are able to reproduce the proton vignetting observed in real data-sets, with a 50\% decrease from the inner to the outer region, but a maximum flux of 0.01 counts cm-2 s-1 keV-1 is obtained below 10 keV, about 5 times lower than the EPIC/MOS detection and 100 times lower than the EPIC/pn one. Given the high variability of the flare intensity, we conclude that an average spectrum, based on the analysis of a full season of soft proton events is required to compare Monte Carlo simulations with real events.
Structured Random Matrices
Creators: name: van Handel, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Random matrix theory is a well-developed area of probability theory that has numerous connections with other areas of mathematics and its applications. Much of the literature in this area is concerned with matrices that possess many exact or approximate symmetries, such as matrices with i.i.d. entries, for which precise analytic results and limit theorems are available. Much less well understood are matrices that are endowed with an arbitrary structure, such as sparse Wigner matrices or matrices whose entries possess a given variance pattern. The challenge in investigating such structured random matrices is to understand how the given structure of the matrix is reflected in its spectral properties. This chapter reviews a number of recent results, methods, and open problems in this direction, with a particular emphasis on sharp spectral norm inequalities for Gaussian random matrices.
description: 46 pages; to appear in IMA Volume "Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications" (Springer)
Investigation of attitudes to identity, culture and language in a Coptic school community
Creators: name: Mansour, Shenouda
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: While there has been a substantial growth in Coptic communities in Australia, there has been limited research on these communities. The aim of this thesis is two-fold. It hopes to contribute to educators’ knowledge of student development in Coptic schools, pastoral care and curriculum considerations. The second goal is to contribute to the as yet limited study of the Coptic diaspora community. To this end, the thesis examines construction of identity in school students in a Coptic school in Sydney, Australia. The thesis asked these three research questions: 1. What are the characteristics of students, and their perceptions of the school? 2. What are students’ perceptions of their identity? 3. How do students negotiate their identity in 21st Century Australian society? To achieve this, a mixed methods approach has been taken to access both measurable attitudes and deeper perceptions, using quantitative and qualitative research designs. The quantitative survey was constructed from three established instruments, which measure ethnicity, acculturation, and level of religiosity. There were 326 participants from Year 5 to Year 12 who completed the quantitative survey and 31 parents volunteered to complete the quantitative survey. Qualitative data were collected in focus group discussions and interviews. Participants were 41 students who voluntarily participated in the qualitative focus group discussion, and 10 parents participated in one-on-one interviews. In the data, students appear to be involved with diverse multiple identity development, moving between cultures and languages, and between different environments and social activities without difficulty. The analysis also explores contradictions and ambivalence in some student data. The thesis acknowledges the role of the school in both the setting of the research, and its formative influence on students. A picture emerges of the students within their school context as the immediate research setting, but placed within supportive circles of influence which are the church, family, and community. The thesis offers an illustration of identity construction which may be of value across other diaspora groups. The thesis offers insights into student development, valuable to educational authorities towards the design of relevant quality curriculum. The thesis may inform government understanding of youth education within immigrant groups.
Kerivoula minuta Miller 1898
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula minuta

description: Kerivoula minuta Miller, 1898. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 321. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand, Trang Province. DISTRIBUTION: Malaya; S. Thailand. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 178, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Conceptions of quality learning in physics
Creators: name: Brass, Catherine B. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Multistable switching dynamical system with the location of symmetric equilibria
Creators: name: Ontanon-Garcia, L. J.
name: Campos-Canton, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A switching dynamical system by means of piecewise linear systems in R^3 that presents multistability is presented. The flow of the system displays multiple scroll attractors due to the unstable hyperbolic focus-saddle equilibria with stability index of type I, i.e., a negative real eigenvalue and a pair of complex conjugated eigenvalues with positive real part. This class of systems is constructed by a discrete control mode changing the equilibrium point regarding the location of their states. The scrolls are generated when the stable and unstable eigenspaces of each adjacent equilibrium point generate the stretching and folding mechanisms to generate chaos, i.e., the unstable manifold in the first subsystem carry the trajectory towards the stable manifold of the immediate adjacent subsystem.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
Long term stability and reproducibility of magnetic colloids are key issues for steady values of Specific Power Absorption through time
Creators: name: Sanz, B.
name: Calatayud, M. P.
name: Cassinelli, N.
name: Ibarra, M. R.
name: Goya, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Virtually all clinical applications of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) require the formulation of biocompatible, water-based magnetic colloids. For magnetic hyperthermia, the requirements also include a high colloidal stability against precipitation and agglomeration of the constituent MNPs, in order to keep the heating efficiency of the ferrofluid in the long term. The specific power absorption (SPA) of single-domain MNPs depends critically on the average particle size and size distribution width, therefore first-rate reproducibility among different batches regarding these parameters are also needed. We have studied the evolution of the SPA of highly reproducible and stable water-based colloid composed of polymer coated $Fe_{3}O_{4}$ magnetic nanoparticles. By measuring the specific power absorption (SPA) values along one year as a function of field amplitude and frequencies ($H \leq 24 kA/m$; $260 \leq f \leq 830 kHz$), we demonstrated that SPA in these samples can be made reproducible between successive synthesis, and stable along several months, due to the in situ polymer coating that provides colloidal stability and keeps dipolar interactions negligible.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Kerivoula phalaena Thomas 1912
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula phalaena

description: Kerivoula phalaena Thomas, 1912. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10:281. TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Bibianaha. DISTRIBUTION: Ghana; Cameroun; Liberia; Congo Republic; Zaire. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029017001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Kerivoula myrella Thomas 1914
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula myrella

description: Kerivoula myrella Thomas, 1914. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 13: 438. REVIEWED BY: A. C. Ziegler (ACZ). TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Isis., Manus Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Bismarck Arch. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029013001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas 1894
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula whiteheadi

description: Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14:460. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Luzon, Isabella. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines; Borneo; S. Thailand; Malaya. COMMENT: Includes pusilia and bicolor; see Hill, 1965, Mammalia, 29:532- 533. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029022001 as K. whiteheadi. 5301405014029019001 as K. pusilia.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hill, J. E. 1965. Asiatic bats of the genera Kerivoula and Phoniscus (Vespertilionidae), with a note on Kerivoula aerosa Tomes. Mammalia, 29: 524 - 556."]}
Maximal operators and Hilbert transforms along variable non-flat homogeneous curves
Creators: name: Guo, Shaoming
name: Hickman, Jonathan
name: Lie, Victor
name: Roos, Joris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B20, 42B25, 44A12

description: We prove that the maximal operator associated with variable homogeneous planar curves $(t, u t^α)_{t\in \mathbb{R}}$, $α\not=1$ positive, is bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for each $p>1$, under the assumption that $u:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ is a Lipschitz function. Furthermore, we prove that the Hilbert transform associated with $(t, ut^α)_{t\in \mathbb{R}}$, $α\not=1$ positive, is bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for each $p>1$, under the assumption that $u:\mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}$ is a measurable function and is constant in the second variable. Our proofs rely on stationary phase methods, $TT^*$ arguments, local smoothing estimates and a pointwise estimate for taking averages along curves.
description: 38 pages
Kerivoula papillosa
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula papillosa

description: Kerivoula papillosa (Temminck, 1840). Monogr. Mamm., 2:220. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java, Bantam. DISTRIBUTION: N.E. India; Indochina; Malaya; Java; Sumatra; Borneo. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014029014001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Closeness Centralization Measure for Two-mode Data of Prescribed Sizes
Creators: name: Krnc, Matjaž
name: Sereni, Jean-Sébastien
name: Škrekovski, Riste
name: Yilma, Zelealem B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D99, 05C99

description: We confirm a conjecture by Everett, Sinclair, and Dankelmann~[Some Centrality results new and old, J. Math. Sociology 28 (2004), 215--227] regarding the problem of maximizing closeness centralization in two-mode data, where the number of data of each type is fixed. Intuitively, our result states that among all networks obtainable via two-mode data, the largest closeness is achieved by simply locally maximizing the closeness of a node. Mathematically, our study concerns bipartite graphs with fixed size bipartitions, and we show that the extremal configuration is a rooted tree of depth~$2$, where neighbors of the root have an equal or almost equal number of children.
description: Network Science, available on CJO2016. doi:10.1017/nws.2016.14
Laephotis Thomas 1901
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Laephotis

description: Laephotis Thomas, 1901. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7:460. COMMENT: Considered monotypic by Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2:49; but see Hill, 1974, Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 27:73-82. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014010000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Exploring issues in lexical acquisition using Bayesian modelling
Creators: name: Börschinger, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis addresses questions about early lexical acquisition. Four case studies provide concrete examples of how Bayesian computational modelling can be used to study assumptions about inductive biases, properties of the input data and possible limitations of the learning algorithm.
Non-cognitive factors that affect success in the first year of an undergraduate computing degree
Creators: name: Ellis, Ainslie E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Laephotis botswanae Setzer 1971
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Laephotis
Laephotis botswanae

description: Laephotis botswanae Setzer, 1971. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 84: 260, 263. TYPE LOCALITY: Botswana, 50 mi. (80 km) W. and 12 mi. (19 km) S. Shakawe. DISTRIBUTION: Zaire; Zambia; Botswana.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Amplitude of solar wind density turbulence from 10--45 $R_{\odot}$
Creators: name: Raja, K. Sasikumar
name: Ingale, Madhusudan
name: Ramesh, R.
name: Subramanian, Prasad
name: Manoharan, P. K.
name: Janardhan, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the amplitude of the density turbulence spectrum ($C_{N}^{2}$) and the density modulation index ($δN/N$) in the solar wind between $10$ and $45 R_{\odot}$. We derive these quantities using a structure function that is observationally constrained by occultation observations of the Crab nebula made in 2011 and 2013 and similar observations published earlier. We use the most general form of the structure function, together with currently used prescriptions for the inner/dissipation scale of the turbulence spectrum. Our work yields a comprehensive picture of a) the manner in which $C_{N}^{2}$ and $δN/N$ vary with heliocentric distance in the solar wind and b) of the solar cycle dependence of these quantities.
description: Accepted for publication in the J. Geophysical Research
Ethical situations in physiotherapy internationally: A focus on the European WCPT region
Creators: name: Sturm, Andrea
name: Fryer, Caroline Elizabeth
name: Roth, Roswith
name: Edwards, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physiotherapy
Professional ethics
Rehabilitation
Higher education

description: One column of individual professional ethics teachings is the World Physiotherapy’s Code of Ethics, which the practitioners of all member countries are expected to comply with. An understanding of ethical practice internationally and its challenges for physiotherapists to translate it into their daily work is needed to inform how all physiotherapists can best be equipped to be moral agents in the context of their practice and society. In this project we aimed to understand the type and frequency of ethical situations encountered by physiotherapists from all World Physiotherapy regions, and what participant factors predict the frequency of experiencing ethical issues in different contexts. We investigated all five World Physiotherapy regions. In this presentation we will focus on the results for the European region.