cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How can creative museum-based learning activities improve children’s wellbeing in the Chinese context?
Creators: name: Jiang, Yanrong
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis has two main objectives: first, to reveal the impacts of museums’ creative learning programmes on children’s wellbeing and explore the underpinning reasons for these impacts; and second, to offer recommendations for how creative learning could be used within Chinese museums to support children’s wellbeing. To achieve the first objective, this research involved two key groups of research participants: children aged 6 to 12 (namely children of primary school age in China, n=193) and museum practitioners (n=15) in China. To evaluate the impact of museums’ creative learning programmes on children’s wellbeing, pre- and post-session quantitative methods and end-session focus group discussions were employed. Moreover, this research was inspired by ‘children’s museology’, a growing research area that involves children in the production of museum content and programming. Thus, children were provided with appropriate ethical considerations, and their museum experiences were accessed in such a way as to prioritise their own perspectives. Interviews with museum practitioners in China authentically revealed their motivations, preconceptions and understandings of museum learning, children and wellbeing, which shaped their museum programming with children. A four-domain wellbeing framework was developed, encompassing social, emotional, physical, and personal development, to enhance children’s museum experience and care for their wellbeing. This interdisciplinary research seeks to strengthen museums’ awareness of their role in promoting wellbeing, encouraging museum practitioners to develop museums as assets for promoting wellbeing for wider populations, and helping children express their wellbeing rights and capabilities.
Closed form path integral based approximate solutions of stochastic differential equations
Creators: name: ANTONIOS MEIMARIS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10406 Stochastic Analysis and Modelling
subject: 10399 Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: 10205 Financial Mathematics

description: Models incorporating randomness, by allowing for disturbances or random variations over time, are commonly used in a wide range of scientific disciplines. However, the existing numerical methodologies in many cases can be computationally prohibitive. Thus, in this thesis a novel computationally efficient method is developed for approximating the solutions of various models, under a range of conditions, in a closed-form manner.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 50
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berichtigung der Einschreibungsordnung der Universität Dortmund in Nr. 48 der Amtlichen Mitteilungen
description: Veröffentlichung der vorläufigen Studienordnung der Abteilung Chemie der Universität Dortmund für die Studiengänge der Lehrämter für die Sekundarstufe I und II mit den Fächern Chemie und Physikalische Chemie
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 50
(200653) Eleanor Dorothea Edwards
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.
Overview of policy landscape
Creators: name: Clazinus Veijer
name: Van Asselt, Thea
name: Van Hulst, René
name: Postma, Maarten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Health Technology Assessment
COVID-19
Health economic evaluation

description: The deliverable explores relevant policies in the process of reimbursement and payment of new interventions to be used in a hospital setting and identifies differences and similarities across national methodological guidelines for the conduct of Health economic evaluations (HEEs). The scope of the deliverable is narrowed to countries that take part in the clinical study of the COVend project. Furthermore, since FX06 only tends to be used in a hospital setting, the focus was on policies and regulations that apply to pharmaceuticals for inpatient use.
The Economics of Female Sex Work in Bangladesh
Creators: name: HONGQI TAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis consists of three papers on the economics of female sex work in Bangladesh. Sex workers have been identified as one of the high risk groups in the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In Bangladesh, additional risk factors such as female sex workers (FSWs) regularly entering India to sell sex puts Bangladesh at risk of a HIV epidemic. It is, therefore, important to understand the drivers that motivate FSWs to engage in unprotected sex, while highlighting to them the importance of safe sex practices in order to reduce the transmission of STIs/HIV in Bangladesh.
Essays on Economic Development
Creators: name: Miethy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This thesis comprises of three empirical studies on economic development with primary focus on economic history and development statistics. Further contributions have been made to the research literature concerning institutional effects, colonial history, migration, crowding out theory, alternative data, GDP measure. machine learning and the underlying problems that persist in developing countries. Policy implication of this thesis aims to address fundamental factors attributing to economic development.
CNO behaviour in planet-harbouring stars. II. Carbon abundances in stars with and without planets using the CH band
Creators: name: Suárez-Andrés, L.
name: Israelian, G.
name: Hernández, J. I. González
name: Adibekyan, V. Zh.
name: Mena, E. Delgado
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Sousa, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen (CNO) are key elements in stellar formation and evolution, and their abundances should also have a significant impact on planetary formation and evolution. Aims. We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 1110 solar-type stars, 143 of which are known to have planetary companions. We have determined the carbon abundances of these stars and investigate a possible connection between C and the presence of planetary companions. Methods. We used the HARPS spectrograph to obtain high-resolution optical spectra of our targets. Spectral synthesis of the CH band at 4300Åwas performed with the spectral synthesis codes MOOG and FITTING. Results. We have studied carbon in several reliable spectral windows and have obtained abundances and distributions that show that planet host stars are carbon rich when compared to single stars, a signature caused by the known metal-rich nature of stars with planets. We find no different behaviour when separating the stars by the mass of the planetary companion. Conclusions. We conclude that reliable carbon abundances can be derived for solar-type stars from the CH band at 4300Å. We confirm two different slope trends for [C/Fe] with [Fe/H] because the behaviour is opposite for stars above and below solar values. We observe a flat distribution of the [C/Fe] ratio for all planetary masses, a finding that apparently excludes any clear connection between the [C/Fe] abundance ratio and planetary mass.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to A&A
Larval taxonomy of some Australian stonefly species (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae)
Creators: name: Mynott, Julia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga.

Thesis with publications.

This thesis explores the taxonomy of the Family Gripopterygidae in Australia with focus on the taxonomy of the larval life-stage. A large disparity exists in the knowledge of larval forms when compared to the adult taxonomy with 51% of gripopterygid species having undescribed larva. The importance of stoneflies (Plecoptera) as an indicator group for monitoring aquatic ecosystems means knowledge of the larval taxonomy and the ability to identify species is essential. This thesis explored using morphological and molecular methods for species delimitation within the Family Gripopterygidae which is the largest family of stoneflies in Australia. These studies focussed on the association of life-stages and in particular increasing our knowledge of larval morphology which meant a descriptive approach was necessary. The combined use of morphology, geography, reverse taxonomy and molecular data showed a robust biological and ecological basis for the definition of species as presented in this thesis. The results highlighted that when using molecular data, in particular a distance-based sequence divergence, for species delimitations there is often a large intra-specific variation shown within the COI gene. This affects the ability to use a strict COI barcode species concept which is important to understand as advancements are made towards molecular based environmental monitoring that often relies on an arbitrary cut-off for specific naming. The combination of molecular and morphological methods enabled the larval morphology to be reassessed and has led to the following outcomes: two new genera (Oedemaperla and Odontoperla with 3 new combinations) and 5 new species (Newmanoperla theischingeri, Leptoperla tsyrlini, Dinotoperla aryballoi, Dinotoperla tasmaniensis and Oedemaperla shackletoni); the first formal generic larval description for Newmanoperla; updated descriptions for larvae of 37 species; and a dichotomous key to larvae for Newmanoperla, Dinotoperla, Oedemaperla and Odontoperla. This comprises a reassessment of 30% of the Australian Gripopterygidae fauna.
(200654) Frances Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Costs of the Information Advantage of Financial Intermediaries
Creators: name: TIM KOOIJMANS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As delegated monitors on behalf of investors, financial intermediaries minimize the cost of monitoring, which helps to resolve incentive problems between borrowers and lenders. However, the resulting information advantage of the intermediary creates new challenges. This thesis empirically investigates adverse effects of the information advantage of financial intermediaries, by combining finance research with historical research.
Three Essays on Socially Responsible Investments: Doing Well While Doing Good
Creators: name: LIN WANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance

description: This thesis examines the effect of incorporating socially responsible investing goals on the behaviour of fund managers and the operations of U.S. mutual funds. It identifies the added value of these goals for investors and support the notion that mutual funds can do well while doing good.
Spectral measure at zero for self-similar tilings
Creators: name: Emme, Jordan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The goal of this paper is to study the action of the group of translations over self-similar tilings in the euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^d$. It investigates the behaviour near zero for spectral measures for such dynamical systems. Namely the paper gives a Hölder asymptotic expansion near zero for these spectral measures. It is a generalization to higher dimension of a result by Bufetov and Solomyak who studied self similar-suspension flows for substitutions. The study of such asymptotics mostly involves the understanding of the deviations of some ergodic averages.
An empirical investigation of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Saudi Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Creators: name: Algamdi, Khalid Omair
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Many researchers and scholars have noted that the literature on human resource development (HRD) focuses predominantly on large organizations and multinational companies, at the expense of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, much of the available research on HRD in SMEs has come from North America, Europe and Australia. Very little is known about the extent of HRD practices and activities in emerging and developing countries. Saudi Arabia is an emerging economy that has significant natural and human resources, including 25% of the world’s oil reserves and with over 41.6% of its population being aged less than 30 years. Saudi SMEs comprise over 99% of the private sector and will play an increasingly important role in the Saudi economy in the 21st century. This study looks specifically at the Saudi context and investigates the nature, extent and implementation of current HRD activities and practices in SMEs in Saudi Arabia. It also aims to identify factors that may hinder or drive HRD activities in SMEs in Saudi Arabia. A mixed methods approach has been adopted for this study. A survey and face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from owners, managers or persons responsible for HRD in SMEs. A purposive sampling technique was used in this research. In total, 17 interviewees and 258 SMEs participated in this study. The findings revealed that the majority of Saudi SMEs use and prefer informal HRD activities and practices over formal activities and practices. HRD activities tend to be conducted on an informal, reactive basis with a short-term horizon instead of being planned and more sophisticated. Medium enterprises are more likely to adopt a systematic approach toward HRD practices and less likely to be influenced by HRD barriers compared to small enterprises. SMEs were hindered from becoming involved in more formal HRD activities by many barriers. A lack of suitable training programs, the availability of cheap skilled and semi-skilled foreign workers, the cost involved in training and lack of management experience are among the major HRD barriers in the Saudi SME context. This study suggests some future directions that can improve HRD practices in SMEs in Saudi Arabia. The most important suggestions for the long-term improvement of HRD practices in Saudi SMEs are to reform current Saudi educational and vocational systems to meet the needs of SMEs and to modify policies regarding the importation and recruitment of foreign workers.
High-dimensional statistical learning for nonlinear time series
Creators: name: XIAOMENG YAO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis studies nonlinear time series data segmentation through high-dimensional statistical learning. In terms of time series segmentation, a procedure based on the sparse group Lasso jointly with clustering analysis and forward selection is developed to simultaneously locate and estimate structural break points in the autoregressive coefficients of piecewise autoregressive processes. In terms of the field of general high-dimensional statistical learning, I establish new properties under a general high-dimensional sparse regression framework, focusing on feature selection methods for highly correlated variables.
NFDI4Microbiota Foundational Guidelines
Creators: name: Thölken, Clemens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: These Guidelines shall act as basis for specific policies of all NFDI4Mircobiota projects and services NFDI partners and other consortia are encouraged to use and adapt these guidelines according to their pecific needs under the CC-BY license for their own purpose. NFDI4Microbiota associated partners
Sharp global estimates for local and nonlocal porous medium-type equations in bounded domains
Creators: name: Bonforte, Matteo
name: Figalli, Alessio
name: Vazquez, Juan Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B45, 35B65, 35K55, 35K65

description: This paper provides a quantitative study of nonnegative solutions to nonlinear diffusion equations of porous medium-type of the form $\partial_t u + {\mathcal L}u^m=0$, $m>1$, where the operator ${\mathcal L}$ belongs to a general class of linear operators, and the equation is posed in a bounded domain $Ω\subset{\mathbb R}^N$. As possible operators we include the three most common definitions of the fractional Laplacian in a bounded domain with zero Dirichlet conditions, and also a number of other nonlocal versions. In particular, ${\mathcal L}$ can be a power of a uniformly elliptic operator with $C^1$ coefficients. Since the nonlinearity is given by $u^m$ with $m>1$, the equation is degenerate parabolic. The basic well-posedness theory for this class of equations has been recently developed in [14,15]. Here we address the regularity theory: decay and positivity, boundary behavior, Harnack inequalities, interior and boundary regularity, and asymptotic behavior. All this is done in a quantitative way, based on sharp a priori estimates. Although our focus is on the fractional models, our results cover also the local case when ${\mathcal L}$ is a uniformly elliptic operator, and provide new estimates even in this setting. A surprising aspect discovered in this paper is the possible presence of non-matching powers for the long-time boundary behavior. More precisely, when ${\mathcal L}=(-Δ)^s$ is a spectral power of the {Dirichlet} Laplacian inside a smooth domain, we can prove that: - when $2s> 1-1/m$, for large times all solutions behave as ${\rm dist}^{1/m}$ near the boundary; - when $2s\le 1-1/m$, different solutions may exhibit different boundary behavior. This unexpected phenomenon is a completely new feature of the nonlocal nonlinear structure of this model, and it is not present in the semilinear elliptic equation ${\mathcal L}u^m=u$.
description: 36 pages, 3 figures (6 images). This is a much improved version of the older manuscripts, thanks to the suggestions of the anonymous referees. To appear in Analysis & PDE (2017)
(200655) Catherine Beatrice Edwards
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.
An Analysis of the Operation of Concessions and Exemptions Available Within Australia’s Capital Gain Tax Regime from a Tax Complexity Perspective
Creators: name: BARNALI BANERJEE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140215 Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis examines the complexities within the Australian Capital Gains Tax (CGT) regime and its impact on taxpayers, tax practitioners and the revenue authority regarding compliance, implementation and administration of the CGT provisions. It applied a tax complexity model to identify complexities within CGT grandfathering provisions and small business CGT concessions and emphasised the need to enhance the management of the complexity of Australian CGT concessions and exemptions; so that, these provisions are easier to comprehend, comply and administer.
Metamaterial bricks and quantization of meta-surfaces
Creators: name: Memoli, Gianluca
name: Caleap, Mihai
name: Asakawa, Michihiro
name: Sahoo, Deepak R.
name: Drinkwater, Bruce W.
name: Subramanian, Sriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling acoustic fields is crucial in diverse applications such as loudspeaker design, ultrasound imaging and therapy, or acoustic particle manipulation. The current approaches use fixed lenses or expensive phased arrays. Here, using a process of analogue-to-digital conversion and wavelet decomposition, we develop the notion of quantal meta-surfaces. The quanta here are small, pre-manufactured three-dimensional units - which we call metamaterial bricks - each encoding a specific phase delay. These bricks can be assembled into meta-surfaces to generate any diffraction-limited acoustic field. We apply this methodology to show experimental examples of acoustic focusing, steering and, after stacking single meta-surfaces into layers, the more complex field of an acoustic tractor beam. We demonstrate experimentally single-sided air-borne acoustic levitation using meta-layers at various bit-rates: from a 4-bit uniform to 3-bit non-uniform quantization in phase. This powerful methodology dramatically simplifies the design of acoustic devices and provides a key-step towards realising spatial sound modulators.
description: This has been withdrawn by the submitter because not all authors agreed to submitting to arXiv
EMdb: yet another db for the stratigraphic record.
Creators: name: Emanuel, Demetrescu
name: Filippo, Sala
name: Cristina, Gonzalez Esteban
name: Daniele, Bursich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The collection of stratigraphic data has been done for years with offline tools like the Microsoft Access software, which is considered an extremely user-friendly tool with the ability to print standardized forms (like the Italian ministerial US forms) directly and “without” any computer or data modeling expertise. It is well known to the scientific community the limitation inherent in this type of approach: the data is not shared online and is not easy to be collaboratively edited; the data is locked within a proprietary format with repercussions on medium- to long-term preservation; and the data is not immediately integrable with other projects because it lacks a precise reference standard. Despite these issues, this approach has remained viable in a whole range of situations where it is necessary to have a fast and easy-to-manage database. This contribution starts from the hypothesis that an off-line tool, provided it is standardized and encapsulated in an open format (such as SQLite, LibreOffice Base or MySQL) and editable with open software, can offer itself as an additional tool because of its ease of use and dissemination in the form of a free, downloadable template. EMdb aims to collect and manage not only stratigraphic data but also reconstructive unit sheets to cover the needs to analyze, interpret and validate scientific hypothesis in the field.
Year 6 Australian students’ intentions to continue learning Mandarin in year 7
Creators: name: Liang, Chong
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Approximately one third of students of Mandarin in Australia discontinued learning it between Grade 6 and Year 7 (Liu and Lo Bianco, 2007). Most studies have explored this issue retrospectively. This innovative study offers insights into what influences Grade 6 students’ intentions to continue learning Mandarin in Year 7. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), the study describes how students’ social and psychological backgrounds influence their intentions to continue learning Mandarin in Year 7. The study is the first to extend TPB into additional language learning and to work with primary school students. For younger learners’ in this institutional context, Mandarin is a fundamentally shared resource. In contrast to adults’ health behaviours, the individual child is not solely responsible for the decision making. Their decision making is associated with others, families and institutions. In order to address this issue, this study needed to extend the TPB and investigate whether such an extension would work. The first part of the research surveyed 218 Grade 6 students. Three major positive influences on students’ intentions to continue learning Mandarin in Year 7 were: 1) students who perceived that they had greater capacities to learn Mandarin perceived more opportunities to continue learning; 2) students who perceived greater usefulness in learning Mandarin had more positive attitudes towards learning; 3) students who had more positive attitudes from their family members perceived more social pressure to continue learning. These influences were successfully modelled using TPB. The study also showed that intentions were not everything. In the second part of the study, nine of the surveyed, Grade 6 students were interviewed in Year 7. The qualitative study explored how the predictors influenced intentions as well as providing perspectives to understand certain discontinuities between Grade 6 students’ intentions and their choices in Year 7. Keywords: TPB (Theory of Planned Behaviour), intentions, beliefs, attitudes.
Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Huppenkothen, D.
name: Heil, L. M.
name: Hogg, D. W.
name: Müller, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the population of known galactic black hole X-ray binaries, GRS 1915+105 stands out in multiple ways. It has been in continuous outburst since 1992, and has shown a wide range of different states that can be distinguished by their timing and spectral properties. These states, also observed in IGR J17091-3624, have in the past been linked to accretion dynamics. Here, we present the first comprehensive study into the long-term evolution of GRS 1915+105, using the entire data set observed with RXTE over its sixteen-year lifetime. We develop a set of descriptive features allowing for automatic separation of states, and show that supervised machine learning in the form of logistic regression and random forests can be used to efficiently classify the entire data set. For the first time, we explore the duty cycle and time evolution of states over the entire sixteen-year time span, and find that the temporal distribution of states has significantly changed over the span of the observations. We connect the machine classification with physical interpretations of the phenomenology in terms of chaotic and stochastic processes.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures; published in MNRAS; associated code and data at https://github.com/dhuppenkothen/BlackHoleML ; we welcome comments
Resonant Transport in Nb/GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures
Creators: name: Beltram, Fabio
name: Giazotto, Francesco
name: Lazzarino, Marco
name: Orani, Daniela
name: Pingue, Pasqualantonio
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The Effects of Social Class on Green Consumption
Creators: name: LI YAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As many environmental issues are caused by human activities, promoting green ‎consumption could help ameliorate the situation. My thesis research examines how ‎consumers’ self-perceptions of social class influence their propensity for buying green ‎products. Across seven experiments, I found that middle-class consumers had greater ‎propensity for green ‎consumption compared to lower- and upper-class consumers. This ‎curvilinear effect of social class was driven by the opposing forces of social acceptance ‎‎(positive) and essentialism (negative). ‎Furthermore, the curvilinear effect was stronger ‎among consumers with a low (vs. high) belief in a ‎just world. These novel findings make ‎significant theoretical and practical contributions.‎
Three Essays on Health Economics Applications of Panel Data Models
Creators: name: MING KONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis applies advanced panel data methodologies to the analysis of three health economic problems: clinical and non-clinical factors and cross hospital comparison for elective surgery waiting times in Victorian public hospitals, the determinants of health care expenditure and trend analysis of OECD countries, and socio-economic factors and common trends of suicide rates in OECD countries. Novel modelling features such as non-parametric techniques, factor structure, heterogeneous effects, endogeneity and cross sectional dependence are shown to have significant impacts on key results for policy relevant questions in these three research areas.
Factorization of differential expansion for antiparallel double-braid knots
Creators: name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Continuing the quest for exclusive Racah matrices, which are needed for evaluation of colored arborescent-knot polynomials in Chern-Simons theory, we suggest to extract them from a new kind of a double-evolution -- that of the antiparallel double-braids, which is a simple two-parametric family of two-bridge knots, generalizing the one-parametric family of twist knots. In the case of rectangular representations $R=[r^s]$ we found an evidence that the corresponding differential expansion miraculously factorizes and can be obtained from that for the twist knots. This reduces the problem of rectangular exclusive Racah to constructing the answers for just a few twist knots. We develop a recent conjecture on the structure of differential expansion for the simplest members of this family (the trefoil and the figure-eight knot) and provide the exhaustive answer for the first unknown case of $R=[33]$. The answer includes HOMFLY of arbitrary twist and double-braid knots and Racah matrices $\bar S$ and $S$ -- what allows to calculate $[33]$-colored polynomials for arbitrary arborescent (double-fat) knots. For generic rectangular representations described in detail are only the contributions of the single- and two-floor pyramids, the way to proceed is explicitly illustrated by the examples of $R=[44]$ and $R=[55]$. This solves the difficult part of the problem, but the last tedious step towards explicit formulas for generic exclusive rectangular Racah matrices still remains to be made.
description: 32 pages
Toward an Evidence-Based Cognitive Profile of Adolescents With Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Mungkhetklang, Chantanee
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Human neutrophil elastase phenotyping: classifying neutrophils by function with novel imaging agents
Creators: name: Campbell, Thane Allardyce
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: neutrophil
neutrophil elastase
probe
fibred confocal endomicroscopy
machine learning

description: This thesis describes approaches taken to classify the functionally diverse neutrophil by its different functions in a live-cell imaging tool. Human neutrophil elastase (HNE) cleaves over 30 substrates, its release is controlled with varying extents of degranulation and its activity is subject to complex modulation. HNE regulation is necessary for the maintenance of health via HNE’s multiplicity of functions. Although neutrophils are routinely quantified in assessments of chronic inflammation, we do not have a clinically translatable, integrated tool for measuring HNE in human tissues. Two novel probes have been characterised and multiplexed to form the basis of an imaging technique for understanding the functional implications of neutrophil activity in human tissues, in real-time. Neutrophil Activation Probe (NAP) and VE200 are novel probes for HNE activity and presence. These probes are characterised in vitro as sensitive and HNE-specific imaging agents for live-cell imaging and image cytometry. Multiplexed NAP and HNE are detect neutrophil activation, apoptosis and necrosis. These imaging agents can inform deep profiling techniques to separate neutrophils into untreated, primed, activated and primed-activated states and endogenous vs. exogenous stimulus sub-states. Finally, sections of adenocarcinomatous human lung and whole human lungs, ventilated ex vivo, demonstrate the applicability of HNEbased, multiparametric profiling and neutrophil activation detection to clinically relevant platforms.
title: Precise Half-Life Measurement for the Superallowed 0+-->0+ beta Emitter 74Rb
title: First Results from the New Radioactive Beam Facility (ISAC) at TRIUMF
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ball, G. C.
name: Behr, J. A.
name: Bishop, S.
name: Boisvert, G. C.
name: Bricault, P.
name: Cerny, J.
name: D'Auria, J. M.
name: Dombsky, M.
name: Hardy, J. C.
name: Iacob, V.
name: Leslie, J. R.
name: Lindner, T.
name: Macdonald, J. A.
name: Mak, H.-B.
name: Moltz, D. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
(200658) Mary Edwards
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.
Correlations of consumption patterns in social-economic networks
Creators: name: Leo, Yannick
name: Karsai, Márton
name: Sarraute, Carlos
name: Fleury, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.4; H.2.8

description: We analyze a coupled anonymized dataset collecting the mobile phone communication and bank transactions history of a large number of individuals. After mapping the social structure and introducing indicators of socioeconomic status, demographic features, and purchasing habits of individuals we show that typical consumption patterns are strongly correlated with identified socioeconomic classes leading to patterns of stratification in the social structure. In addition we measure correlations between merchant categories and introduce a correlation network, which emerges with a meaningful community structure. We detect multivariate relations between merchant categories and show correlations in purchasing habits of individuals. Our work provides novel and detailed insight into the relations between social and consuming behaviour with potential applications in recommendation system design.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
D5.1 Analysis of Visualisation and Interaction Tools
Creators: name: Corsini, Massimiliano
name: Scopigno, Roberto
name: Calori, Luigi
name: Graf, Holger
name: Pletinckx, Daniel
name: Pescarin, Sofia
name: Baldassari, Guido Lucci
name: Demetrescu, Emanuel
name: Ferdani, Daniele
name: Reuter, Patrick
name: Granier, Xavier
name: Wallergård, Mattias
name: Eriksson, Joakim
name: Baker, Drew
name: Denard, Hugh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: This document provides an in-depth analysis of visualization and interaction tools employed in the context of Virtual Museum. This analysis is required to identify and design the tools and the different components that will be part of the Common Implementation Framework (CIF). The CIF will be the base of the web-based services and tools to support the development of Virtual Museums with particular attention to online Virtual Museum. The main goal is to provide to the stakeholders and developers an useful platform to support and help them in the development of their projects, despite the nature of the project itself. The design of the Common Implementation Framework (CIF) is based on an analysis of the typical workflow of the V-MUST partners and their perceived limitations of current technologies. This document is based also on the results of the V-MUST technical questionnaire (presented in Deliverable 4.1). Based on these two sources of information, we have selected some important tools (mainly visualization tools) and services and we elaborate some first guidelines and ideas for the design and development of the CIF, that shall provide a technological foundation for the V-MUST Platform, together with the V-MUST repository/repositories and the additional services defined in the WP4. Two state-of-the-art reports, one about user interface design and another one about visualization technologies have been also provided in this document.
The Crisis Paradigm: the concept of "crisis" and its limits in Lukacs, Koselleck, Arendt and Habermas
Creators: name: Gilbert, Andrew Simon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

“Crisis” has been a recurrent paradigm of political and social discourse since the late 18th century. Recently, crisis-talk has again become almost ubiquitous in the aftermath of the “Global Financial Crisis”, as well as a host of other proclaimed crises (such as the Eurozone crisis, refugee crises, the climate crisis, and so on) affecting the world today. Contemporary academic treatments of crisis can be divided into two broad categories: first, diagnostic and prescriptive interventions which formulate accounts of crisis that mobilize the rhetorical and normative force of crisis semantics in order to further political agendas or social projects, and second, critical interrogations of the concept of crisis itself, its role in social and political discourse, its rhetorical effects and its semantic associations. This thesis falls into the latter category. I examine the paradigm of crisis as it appears in the work of four thinkers—Georg Lukacs, Reinhart Koselleck, Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas; each chosen because they demonstrate an exemplary level of critical reflexivity towards the way crisis is used both within their own work and in the work of others. Through examining these thinkers individually over four chapters, I reconstruct the crisis paradigm as an intellectual and political tradition which operates by disclosing a world wherein there is the possibility of failure. This paradigm is able to put the considerable semantic connotations and cultural resources of crisis to use in coming to diverse insights and placing various demands upon the political and social life of modernity. While this thesis illustrates the aporias and limitations of the crisis paradigm, as well as its potential utility for social control and ideological manipulation, I conclude that despite its shortcomings the crisis paradigm remains a potentially fruitful means for furthering theoretical innovation and facilitating democratic politics.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Magnetoresistance and robust resistivity plateau in MoAs2
Creators: name: Wang, Jialu
name: Li, Lin
name: You, Wei
name: Wang, Tingting
name: Cao, Chao
name: Dai, Jianhui
name: Li, Yuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have grown the MoAs$_2$ single crystal which crystallizes in a monoclinic structure with C2/m space group. Transport measurements show that MoAs$_2$ displays a metallic behavior at zero field and undergoes a metal-to-semiconductor crossover at low temperatures when the applied magnetic field is over 5 T. A robust resistivity plateau appears below 18 K and persists for the field up to 9 T. A large positive magnetoresistance (MR), reaching about 2600\% at 2 K and 9 T, is observed when the field is perpendicular to the current.The MR becomes negative below 40 K when the field is rotated to be parallel to the current. The Hall resistivity shows the non-linear field-dependence below 70 K. The analysis using two-band model indicates a compensated electron-hole carrier density at low temperatures. A combination of the breakdown of Kohler's rule, the abnormal drop and the cross point in Hall data implies that a possible Lifshitz transition has occurred between 30 K and 60 K, likely driving the compensated electron-hole density, the large MR as well as the metal-semiconductor transition in MoAs$_2$. Our results indicate that the family of centrosymmetric transition-metal dipnictides has rich transport behavior which can in general exhibit variable metallic and topological features.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Experiences of transferring soft skills training in Malaysia
Creators: name: MICHELLE RU HUI NG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This hermeneutic phenomenology study aims to understand the experiences of working adults in transferring soft skills training, especially in Malaysia. Unstructured interviews with one main question, “What is your experience like transferring soft skills training?” were conducted with 18 participants of various age, gender, education, and occupation selected from West and East Malaysia. Interviews ranging from one hour to one hour forty-five minutes were transcribed and analysed, resulting in two emerging themes: explicit transfer and advancing transfer.
Integration of community decision making into planning practice: Five case sites on understanding community coping behaviour in response to rapid socio-economic change and natural disaster, Hambantota Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Rasanjalee Gunawardhana, Medha
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 College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Enquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Pairing Interactions and Gibbs Adsorption at the Liquid Bi-In Surface
title: A Resonant X-Ray Reflectivity Study
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Berman, L. E.
name: Deutsch, M.
name: DiMasi, E.
name: Huber, P.
name: Ocko, B. M.
name: Pershan, P. S.
name: Shpyrko, O. G.
name: Tostmann, H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Profitability landscapes for competitive photovoltaic self-consumption
Creators: name: Lopez Prol, Javier
name: Paul, Arijit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Photovoltaic self-consumption, decarbonization, competitiveness, retail electricity market, energy transition.

description: Photovoltaic self-consumption (PVSC) is a central element of the energy transition. However, retail electricity tariffs have not adapted to the emerging phenomenon of demand-side generation. We introduce the concept of profitability landscapes to evaluate the effects of a cost-reflective retail tariff and a competitive PVSC regulation on prosumers’ returns depending on system costs and self-consumption share. The trade-off between these two elements reveals the value of demand flexibility. We find that PVSC would be profitable in most European countries when external costs are internalized, confirm the diminishing marginal returns on demand flexibility and quantify the effects of prices, insolation and profitability on the value of demand flexibility.Photovoltaic self-consumption (PVSC) is a central element of the energy transition. However, retail electricity tariffs have not adapted to the emerging phenomenon of demand-side generation. We introduce the concept of profitability landscapes to evaluate the effects of a cost-reflective retail tariff and a competitive PVSC regulation on prosumers’ returns depending on system costs and self-consumption share. The trade-off between these two elements reveals the value of demand flexibility. We find that PVSC would be profitable in most European countries when external costs are internalized, confirm the diminishing marginal returns on demand flexibility and quantify the effects of prices, insolation and profitability on the value of demand flexibility.