cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Channel Estimation for Diffusive MIMO Molecular Communications
Creators: name: Rouzegar, S. Mohammadreza
name: Spagnolini, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In diffusion-based communication, as for molecular systems, the achievable data rate is very low due to the slow nature of diffusion and the existence of severe inter-symbol interference (ISI). Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique can be used to improve the data rate. Knowledge of channel impulse response (CIR) is essential for equalization and detection in MIMO systems. This paper presents a training-based CIR estimation for diffusive MIMO (D-MIMO) channels. Maximum likelihood and least-squares estimators are derived, and the training sequences are designed to minimize the corresponding Cramér-Rao bound. Sub-optimal estimators are compared to Cramér-Rao bound to validate their performance.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, EuCNC 2017
(501633) Elizabeth Ann Gibb
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.
title: Climatic embodiment : a visual exploration of climate change as expressed by the human body
Creators: name: Nilssen, EL
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: This research project seeks to find a visual language that addresses and responds to the states of mind such as guilt, avoidance and ambivalence that are experienced in relation to the ongoing global crisis of climate change. In contemporary discourse there is an acknowledgement that human culture is not changing quickly enough to respond adequately to the threat of catastrophic climate disruption. This lack of responsiveness is linked to the difficulty most people have in connecting the distant and threatening idea of climate change with the everyday reality of their own lives. I have chosen to bring the climate crisis within reach by using my own body in the setting of my domestic environment, as a vehicle to explore the complex and difficult emotions it arouses. The research questions my work addresses are: • How can my emotional responses to the crisis of climate change find visual expression through my body? • How can this resonate with the experience of others? • How can an exploration of guilt, avoidance, and ambivalence about climate action give voice to the emotional burden of the crisis and clarify some of the barriers people feel towards mitigating against catastrophic climate change? My approach is informed by the feminist thought of Karen Barad concerning the nature of reality as a performative engagement composed of interactions. Ideas about the way humans need to connect with non-human realities from Deborah Bird Rose, Elizabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray, Val Plumwood, and Donna Haraway, also influence the project. My work occupies a place in the field of contemporary visual art which uses the body as a focus for addressing environmental issues including artists such as Jill Orr, Mary Mattingly, and Roni Horn. The works in this submission are comprised of woven forms made from domestic waste plastic and my own body, as well as video performances involving my encounter with the damaging aspects of climate change in my domestic environment. They are generated through strategies which employ closeness, rawness, laboriousness, discomfort, humour, and material agency as a means to give voice to an intimate and personal experience of the climate crisis. The contribution my work makes to the field is to provide a visual means of bridging the distance we often experience when confronted with the enormity of the crisis of climate change. By using my own body as a focus and locating it within a domestic setting, I give a voice to the experience of many people who, while insulated from the worse effects of climate change, are aware of the environmental damage their ordinary activities cause. Through the flawed and ambiguous nature of my own engagement with the climate, I hope to provide the viewer with an opportunity to reassess the nature of their own role in climate change, in a way that is playful and free from moral condemnation.
Arithmetic statistics of modular symbols
Creators: name: Petridis, Yiannis N.
name: Risager, Morten S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11F67, Secondary 11E45, 11M36

description: Mazur, Rubin, and Stein have recently formulated a series of conjectures about statistical properties of modular symbols in order to understand central values of twists of elliptic curve $L$-functions. Two of these conjectures relate to the asymptotic growth of the first and second moments of the modular symbols. We prove these on average by using analytic properties of Eisenstein series twisted by modular symbols. Another of their conjectures predicts the Gaussian distribution of normalized modular symbols ordered according to the size of the denominator of the cusps. We prove this conjecture in a refined version that also allows restrictions on the location of the cusps.
description: 44 pages. Various corrections following referees suggestions. Accepted for publication in Inventiones Mathematicae
Long-range big quantum-data transmission
Creators: name: Zwerger, M.
name: Pirker, A.
name: Dunjko, V.
name: Briegel, H. J.
name: Dür, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an alternative type of quantum repeater for long-range quantum communication with improved scaling with the distance. We show that by employing hashing, a deterministic entanglement distillation protocol with one-way communication, one obtains a scalable scheme that allows one to reach arbitrary distances, with constant overhead in resources per repeater station, and ultrahigh rates. In practical terms, we show that also with moderate resources of a few hundred qubits at each repeater station, one can reach intercontinental distances. At the same time, a measurement-based implementation allows one to tolerate high loss, but also operational and memory errors of the order of several percent per qubit. This opens the way for long-distance communication of big quantum data.
description: revised manuscript including new results
(501634) Anna Maria Gibb
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.
Pharmacokinetics of drugs in liver disease
Creators: name: Choo, Edna F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On Integrable Ermakov-Painlevé IV Systems
Creators: name: Rogers, Colin
name: Bassom, Andrew P.
name: Clarkson, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel hybrid Ermakov-Painlevé IV systems are introduced and an associated Ermakov invariant is used in establishing their integrability. Bäcklund transformations are then employed to generate classes of exact solutions via the linked canonical Painlevé IV equation.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
On the resolution of fan algebras of principal ideals over a Noetherian ring
Creators: name: Benitez, Teresa Cortadellas
name: D'Andrea, Carlos
name: Enescu, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13A30, 05E40, 13P10, 13P20

description: We construct explicitly a resolution of a fan algebra of principal ideals over a Noetherian ring for the case when the fan is a proper rational cone in the plane. Under some mild conditions on the initial data, we show that this resolution is minimal.
description: 33 pages, no figures, amsart, revised version accepted for publication at Journal of Algebra
The Antidepressants, amitriptyline and mianserin: a comparative investigation at the muscarinic M[subscript 1] and M[subscript 2] receptor subtypes
Creators: name: Choi, Amy Frances Wing Han
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(501635) William Gibb
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.
Comparative study of 5-HT₃ receptors in the intestinal tract
Creators: name: Chetty, Navinisha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Averages of eigenfunctions over hypersurfaces
Creators: name: Canzani, Yaiza
name: Galkowski, Jeffrey
name: Toth, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $(M,g)$ be a compact, smooth, Riemannian manifold and $\{ ϕ_h \}$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions with defect measure $μ$. Let $H$ be a smooth hypersurface. Our main result says that when $μ$ is $\textit{not}$ concentrated conormally to $H$, the eigenfunction restrictions to $H$ and the restrictions of their normal derivatives to $H$ have integrals converging to 0 as $h \to 0^+$.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
title: Application of the eco-viability approach for the management of mixed fisheries under output control
Creators: name: Briton, FSMM
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: There is now wide acknowledgement that traditional single-species approaches are not adapted to the management of mixed fisheries as they lack the systemic view required to adequately address the ecological, economic and social dimensions of sustainability. The thesis aims to advance the development of more integrated approaches to advise Total Allowable Catch (TAC) decisions in mixed fisheries by: (1) accounting for technical, but also economic interactions among jointly harvested species, and (2) addressing the variety of sustainability requirements faced in such fisheries. The developed methodology calling on the eco-viability approach has been applied to two mixed fisheries operating in different management contexts: the French demersal fishery in the Bay of Biscay (BoB) and the Australian Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF). Explicitly representing the technical and economic interactions structuring mixed fisheries, the ecological-economic simulation model IAM is used to assess the ecological, economic and social impacts of alternative harvest control rules in these fisheries. The thesis notably contributes to improving the representation of human dynamics in the type of models used to advise TAC decisions in mixed fisheries. It particularly discusses the implications in terms of provided advice of accounting for dynamics in the allocation of fishing effort, the trading of individual quotas and fish markets. The thesis also focuses on how the multiple dimensions of sustainability can be considered in the provision of fisheries management advice. The eco-viability approach is used here to identify future paths maintaining a fishery within ecologically, economically and socially acceptable bounds. Specifically, biological sustainability pertains to maintaining harvested stocks above a limit biomass threshold. Economic sustainability refers to the ability of fleets or vessels to ensure the remuneration of both physical and human forms of capital. Finally, an upper limit on the price of fish is considered to ensure that fish remains affordable to the consumer. Regarding modelling developments, the thesis presents a process-based model of ITQ (Individual Tradable Quotas) markets in mixed fisheries that captures the economic incentives that ITQ markets provide in a multi-species context, notably those to redirect fishing effort towards species not under quota or the TAC of which is not constraining. Numerical simulations in the SESSF also show the flexibility that exists in the fishery to adjust fishing practices to quota availability, thereby highlighting the importance of accounting for fishing dynamics when advising TAC decisions in mixed fisheries. Finally, eco-viability analyses carried out in both fisheries highlight trade-offs between conservation and economic objectives but also trade-offs pertaining to the distribution of benefits between capital owners, crews, and consumers.
title: Back to the Agora! : Ancient light on modern failure to address climate change
Creators: name: Clarke, DA
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: In 416 BCE, Athens subjected the people of Melos to an act of genocide. All Melian men were executed and all its women and children were enslaved. None of this was unexpected. Melos's oligarchs had been told what would happen if they defied Athens. The Athenians had been perfectly clear that Melos had no alternative. Nonetheless, the oligarchs chose to resist. It was a decision characterised by folly, poor risk assessment, refusal to accept reality, irrational emotional attachment, and breakdown of dialogue. Melos's fate has disturbing parallels with our reluctance or inability to address climate change. We know what causes climate change, we have been warned about it for half a century, we know that its consequences will be ruinous, and we know what to do, so why don't we address it? Our collective failure to act seems to defy explanation; consequently, the problems of climate change appear intractable. Both suppositions are wrong, but they expose deep-seated flaws in how we deal with existential threat. By exploring the origins of our intellectual inheritance, and applying research in fields such as neuropsychology and social theory, we can throw light on our failure, but no monograph has hitherto combined these strands. This study employs historical criticism to investigate the ancient origins of folly, decision theory to show our deficiencies in assessing risk, neuropsychology to understand the importance of our emotional brain, and social identity theory to understand the New Testament roots of some modern attitudes to climate change. The major part of this study examines failure of dialogue. The hermeneutic concept of fusing ancient and modern horizons is discussed and applied to the Melian genocide and, in particular, to the dialogues of Plato – the foundation documents of our dialogic tradition. A broad selection of dialogues is examined to demonstrate the critical importance of Plato's dramatic settings and characterisations. The result is a list of characteristics by which Plato portrays the value, methods, pitfalls and dynamics of dialogue. Some of these points are used to illustrate and augment recent research on climate change communication. One major, and unexpected, finding was that Plato's dialogues signify a retreat from the agora – the political and commercial heart of society. I conclude it is time to reclaim the agora.
MPEC 2023-R165 : 2018 RZ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
(501636) Mary Gibb
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.
Analytical techniques for the assessment of the bioavailability of agents affecting pigmentation of the skin
Creators: name: Charman, William N.A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rack invariants of links in $L(p,1)$
Creators: name: Horvat, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57M05 (primary), 57M25 (secondary)

description: We describe a presentation for the augmented fundamental rack of a link in the lens space $L(p,1)$. Using this presentation, the (enhanced) counting rack invariants that have been defined for the classical links are applied to the links in $L(p,1)$. In this case, the counting rack invariants also include the information about the action of $π_{1}(L(p,1))$ on the augmented fundamental rack of a link.
title: Long-term suprapubic catheter-related care requirements when living at home : the development of a best practice guide
Creators: name: Sweeney, AD
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: Whenever possible, indwelling urinary catheter use is restricted because of multiple adverse effects. However, there are numerous health conditions that lead to people requiring the indefinite use of a urinary catheter. In the absence of available or acceptable alternate treatment options, a suprapubic catheter offers an invaluable means of maintaining urinary drainage. However, well-focused, robust evidence-based practice guidance is limited for suprapubic catheter-related care. This study was undertaken to ascertain best practice specific to the healthcare needs of adults living at home with a long-term suprapubic catheter. Guided by the theory of social constructionism, a mixed-methods, two-phased study enabled the integration of experiences and opinions from two groups of experts for the development of a best practice guideline. The first group of experts comprised 10 people living with a suprapubic catheter at home. This group participated in individual semi-structured in-depth interviews. Six overarching themes were generated, each representing an area of healthcare need. The themes provided the question framework for the second phase of the study, a three-round Delphi survey. Twenty-three expert nurses who had provided care to people living with a suprapubic catheter at home participated in the Delphi. The first round elicited the respondents’ opinions on specific aspects of suprapubic catheter-related care. Using qualitative content analysis, practice statements were generated and used in subsequent survey rounds. The respondents rated their level of agreement to each statement. The guideline comprises the statements that achieved a consensus of agreement. Through social processes, a comprehensive holistic best practice guideline was developed that strongly promotes self-efficacy. The six elements of the guideline comprise psychological support needs, cystostomy site care, suprapubic catheter replacement, drainage equipment practices, complication avoidance and management, and planning ahead. This thesis contributes a substantial and considerate resource to guide health professionals, promoting standardised care for the optimal wellbeing of people living with a suprapubic catheter at home.
(501637) Tom Gibb
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.
NMR studies of CNS active drugs
Creators: name: Casarotto, Marco Giovanni
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A resource theory of superposition
Creators: name: Theurer, T.
name: Killoran, N.
name: Egloff, D.
name: Plenio, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superposition principle lies at the heart of many non-classical properties of quantum mechanics. Motivated by this, we introduce a rigorous resource theory framework for the quantification of superposition of a finite number of linear independent states. This theory is a generalization of resource theories of coherence. We determine the general structure of operations which do not create superposition, find an elementary connection to unambiguous state discrimination, and propose several general quantitative superposition measures. We show that several main results from resource theories of coherence still hold in our more general setting. Of special importance are two results about the free completion of trace decreasing operations and the free probabilistic transformation between pure states that are also valid for the special case of coherence.
description: Close to published version. Connection to entanglement theory added. 5+16 pages
title: Methodology for the application of the IMO polar code to vessels operating in Antarctic waters
Creators: name: Daboos, MOM
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2021

description: The Antarctic and the Southern Ocean region are well known for environmental fragility and harshness, which may pose unprecedented risks to shipping traffic. However, novel and innovative technologies continue to prepare vessels better than ever to cope with harsh polar conditions. The Antarctic and the Southern Ocean are also coupled with the abundance of marine resources and possibilities for economic activity, which has led to considerable international attention and the implementation of rules and guidelines in an effort to conserve and protect both human life and the polar ecosystem. Most prominent amongst these is the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters, adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), in order to better regulate the operation of vessels within the Antarctic region. This thesis considers the winterisation process of the MV-Bluefin’s, a research vessel, in the context of the vital seawater (SW) cooling system, which transfers waste heat away from the operating systems to better assist the vessel in withstanding the harsh climatic conditions. Calculated for a grid of two-dimensional weather vectors - SW temperature as the first coordinate and air temperature as the second - the MV-Bluefin’s power demand may exceed the generators’ available power supply as a direct result of the extreme temperature fluctuations. The aforementioned failure probability is added to the vessel’s standard failure risk. Two models have been developed as part of this thesis for assessing such risk. The first model distributes the extreme weather vector according to a truncated bi-normal distribution. The power risk is analytically derived as the integration of the probability density function (PDF) over the critical region, identified as the weather vector area where the power failure is expected to occur. Conversely, the second model divides the vessel’s mission into an arbitrary number of segments. Each segment consists of several days with the daily weather vector distributed according to a segmented truncated bi-normal distribution. Thus, the power risk is derived through a computer simulation of 10,000 pseudo-missions and is only considered successful if all weather vectors fall outside the critical region. The power risk is calculated for both models as a function of ambient temperatures. It estimates the level of risk according to the specific vessel dynamics, human factors within a confined space, and a variety of operational and environmental factors, thus providing an early warning for vessel operators and being used to assist in real-time decisions throughout vessel missions. In the case of the MV-Bluefin, the simulation observed the probability of the system indicating a warning which increased concurrently with the likelihood of the vessel experiencing a power risk, thus allowing for appropriate preventative and mitigative measures to be taken.
On Centers and Central Lines of Triangles in the Elliptic Plane
Creators: name: Evers, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We determine barycentric coordinates of triangle centers in the elliptic plane. The main focus is put on centers that lie on lines whose euclidean limit (triangle excess --> 0) is the Euler line or the Brocard line. We also investigate curves which can serve in elliptic geometry as substitutes for the euclidean nine-point-circle, the first Lemoine circle or the apollonian circles.
description: 29 pages / 5 figures - A conjecture of Vigara is confirmed; a contrary statement to this in the previous versions is wrong. Additionally, some minor errors are corrected and some more calculations are added. -
Limit theory for random walks in degenerate time-dependent random environments
Creators: name: Biskup, Marek
name: Rodriguez, Pierre-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K37, 60F17, 82C41, 35K65, 74Q10

description: We study continuous-time (variable speed) random walks in random environments on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge2$, where, at time $t$, the walk at $x$ jumps across edge $(x,y)$ at time-dependent rate $a_t(x,y)$. The rates, which we assume stationary and ergodic with respect to space-time shifts, are symmetric and bounded but possibly degenerate in the sense that the total jump rate from a vertex may vanish over finite intervals of time. We formulate conditions on the environment under which the law of diffusively-scaled random walk path tends to Brownian motion for almost every sample of the rates. The proofs invoke Moser iteration to prove sublinearity of the corrector in pointwise sense; a key additional input is a conversion of certain weighted energy norms to ordinary ones. Our conclusions apply to random walks on dynamical bond percolation and interacting particle systems as well as to random walks arising from the Helffer-Sjöstrand representation of gradient models with certain non-strictly convex potentials.
description: 56 pages, to appear in Journal of Functional Analysis
(501638) Robert Gibb
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.
Structural studies of the sugar metabolizing enzymes aldehyde reductase and dimeric dihydrodiol dehydrogenase
Creators: name: Carbone, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of clozapine analogues for the treatment of schizophrenia
Creators: name: Capuano, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The N2HDM under Theoretical and Experimental Scrutiny
Creators: name: Muhlleitner, Margarete
name: Sampaio, Marco O. P.
name: Santos, Rui
name: Wittbrodt, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N2HDM is based on the CP-conserving 2HDM extended by a real scalar singlet field. Its enlarged parameter space and its fewer symmetry conditions as compared to supersymmetric models allow for an interesting phenomenology compatible with current experimental constraints, while adding to the 2HDM sector the possibility of Higgs-to-Higgs decays with three different Higgs bosons. In this paper the N2HDM is subjected to detailed scrutiny. Regarding the theoretical constraints we implement tests of tree-level perturbativity and vacuum stability. Moreover, we present, for the first time, a thorough analysis of the global minimum of the N2HDM. The model and the theoretical constraints have been implemented in ScannerS, and we provide N2HDECAY, a code based on HDECAY, for the computation of the N2HDM branching ratios and total widths including the state-of-the-art higher order QCD corrections and off-shell decays. We then perform an extensive parameter scan in the N2HDM parameter space, with all theoretical and experimental constraints applied, and analyse its allowed regions. We find that large singlet admixtures are still compatible with the Higgs data and investigate which observables will allow to restrict the singlet nature most effectively in the next runs of the LHC. Similarly to the 2HDM, the N2HDM exhibits a wrong-sign parameter regime, which will be constrained by future Higgs precision measurements.
description: 36 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables. The N2HDECAY code and documentation can be found at https://gitlab.com/jonaswittbrodt/N2HDECAY . The N2HDM scan model implementation in ScannerS can be found at http://scanners.hepforge.org/ . Fixed typos in the conditions for boundedness and perturbative unitarity
Optical trapping based on microring resonators with transverse slot structure
Creators: name: Li, Zheng
name: Cheng, Yi
name: Liu, Jin
name: Peng, Guanju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the past few decades, optical manipulation has emerged as a highly successful tool in various fields, such as biology, micro/nanorobotics, and physics. Among the different techniques, the transverse slot optical waveguide has shown remarkable potential in enhancing the field and significantly improving optical trapping capabilities. Additionally, microring resonators have demonstrated the ability to enhance the field at specific resonance wavelengths, enabling the manipulation and capture of particles. In this study, we investigated the impact of the structure on nanoparticle capture by introducing a 50 nm transverse slot in a 5 μm microring resonator. Through the integration of a transverse slot in the microring resonator, we observed a substantial increase in the maximum bound optical power for a nanosphere with a refractive index of 1.6 and a diameter of 50 nm, reaching 3988.8 pN/W. This value is 2292 times higher than the maximum optical force in a straight waveguide and 2.266 times higher than the maximum optical force in a microring resonator. The proposed structure significantly enhances the optical trapping capabilities for nanoscale particles, thus paving the way for the development of advanced micro/nanomanipulation techniques.
(501639) Charles Percy
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.
Investigation of the cardiovascular effects of IGF-IR knockdown following systemic delivery of antisense oligonucleotides and small interfering RNA
Creators: name: Cao, Nga
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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On the Performance of Multi-Instrument Solar Flare Observations During Solar Cycle 24
Creators: name: Milligan, Ryan O.
name: Ireland, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current fleet of space-based solar observatories offers us a wealth of opportunities to study solar flares over a range of wavelengths. Significant advances in our understanding of flare physics often come from coordinated observations between multiple instruments. Consequently, considerable efforts have been, and continue to be made to coordinate observations among instruments (e.g. through the Max Millennium Program of Solar Flare Research). However, there has been no study to date that quantifies how many flares have been observed by combinations of various instruments. Here we describe a technique that retrospectively searches archival databases for flares jointly observed by RHESSI, SDO/EVE (MEGS-A and -B), Hinode/(EIS, SOT, and XRT), and IRIS. Out of the 6953 flares of GOES magnitude C1 or greater that we consider over the 6.5 years after the launch of SDO, 40 have been observed by six or more instruments simultaneously. Using each instrument's individual rate of success in observing flares, we show that the numbers of flares co-observed by three or more instruments are higher than the number expected under the assumption that the instruments operated independently of one another. In particular, the number of flares observed by larger numbers of instruments is much higher than expected. Our study illustrates that these missions often acted in cooperation, or at least had aligned goals. We also provide details on an interactive widget now available in SSWIDL that allows a user to search for flaring events that have been observed by a chosen set of instruments. This provides access to a broader range of events in order to answer specific science questions. The difficulty in scheduling coordinated observations for solar-flare research is discussed with respect to instruments projected to begin operations during Solar Cycle 25, such as DKIST, Solar Orbiter, and Parker Solar Probe.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Good-looking but Lacking Faithfulness: Understanding Local Explanation Methods through Trend-based Testing
Creators: name: He, Jinwen
name: Chen, Kai
name: Meng, Guozhu
name: Zhang, Jiangshan
name: Li, Congyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While enjoying the great achievements brought by deep learning (DL), people are also worried about the decision made by DL models, since the high degree of non-linearity of DL models makes the decision extremely difficult to understand. Consequently, attacks such as adversarial attacks are easy to carry out, but difficult to detect and explain, which has led to a boom in the research on local explanation methods for explaining model decisions. In this paper, we evaluate the faithfulness of explanation methods and find that traditional tests on faithfulness encounter the random dominance problem, \ie, the random selection performs the best, especially for complex data. To further solve this problem, we propose three trend-based faithfulness tests and empirically demonstrate that the new trend tests can better assess faithfulness than traditional tests on image, natural language and security tasks. We implement the assessment system and evaluate ten popular explanation methods. Benefiting from the trend tests, we successfully assess the explanation methods on complex data for the first time, bringing unprecedented discoveries and inspiring future research. Downstream tasks also greatly benefit from the tests. For example, model debugging equipped with faithful explanation methods performs much better for detecting and correcting accuracy and security problems.
(501640) Julia Fletcher
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.
PABA synthase : from putative intermediate to potential inhibitor
Creators: name: Campbell, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Classical Emergence of Intrinsic Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light at the Nanoscale
Creators: name: Vázquez-Lozano, J. Enrique
name: Martínez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditionally, in macroscopic geometrical optics intrinsic polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of light can be treated independently. However, at the subwavelength scale these properties appear to be coupled together, giving rise to the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light. In this work we address theoretically the classical emergence of the optical SOI at the nanoscale. By means of a full-vector analysis involving spherical vector waves we show that the spin-orbit factorizability condition, accounting the mutual influence between the amplitude (spin) and phase (orbit), is fulfilled only in the far-field limit. On the other side, in the near-field region, an additional relative phase introduces an extra term that hinders the factorization and reveals an intricate dynamical behavior according to the SOI regime. As a result, we find a suitable theoretical framework able to capture analytically the main features of intrinsic SOI of light. Besides allowing for a better understanding into the mechanism leading to its classical emergence at the nanoscale, our approach may be useful in order to design experimental setups that enhance the response of SOI-based effects.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
(501641) Robert Fletcher
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.
Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry
Creators: name: Öberg, Karin I.
name: Facchini, Stefano
name: Anderson, Dana E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planets form in disks of gas and dust around young stars. The disk molecular reservoirs and their chemical evolution affect all aspects of planet formation, from the coagulation of dust grains into pebbles, to the elemental and molecular compositions of the mature planet. Disk chemistry also enables unique probes of disk structures and dynamics, including those directly linked to ongoing planet formation. Here we review the protoplanetary disk chemistry of the volatile elements HOCNSP, the associated observational and theoretical methods, and the links between disk and planet chemical compositions. Three takeaways from this review are: (1) The disk chemical composition, including the organic reservoirs, is set by both inheritance and in situ chemistry. (2) Disk gas and solid O/C/N/H elemental ratios often deviate from stellar values due to a combination of condensation of molecular carriers, chemistry, and dynamics. (3) Chemical, physical, and dynamical processes in disks are closely linked, which complicates disk chemistry modeling, but these links also present an opportunity to develop chemical probes of different aspects of disk evolution and planet formation.
description: Invited review published in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics; 44 pages, 12 figures
Weyl and Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensional Solids
Creators: name: Armitage, N. P.
name: Mele, E. J.
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep connections exist with particle physics models of relativistic chiral fermions, and -- despite their gaplessness -- to solid-state topological and Chern insulators. Their characteristic electronic properties lead to protected surface states and novel responses to applied electric and magnetic fields. Here we review the theoretical foundations of these phases, their proposed realizations in solid state systems, recent experiments on candidate materials, as well as their relation to other states of matter.
description: 63 pages, 38 figures; Comprehensive review on Weyl and Dirac Semimetals first submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics December 2016; Accepted July 5th, 2017; Minor corrections and additions in this version