cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(200649) Hester Magdalene Penelope Wilson
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.
Antecedents of Behavioural Intentions: Understanding Destination Marketing And Customer Experience
Creators: name: ESLAM ZAGHLOUL REYAD AFIFI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 140216 Tourism Economics
subject: Survey Results

description: This study integrates various streams of scholarly thought from tourism and marketing in an effort to study customers experience and their behavioral intentions to participate in Indigenous tourism. Using destination image theory, the study proposes that tourists’ behavioral intentions are dependent on a set of factors related to tourists’ motivations, Indigenous tourist attractions, destination image, and tourist experience. In doing so, this study addresses several gaps in the scholarly research and provide critical understanding customer journey within Indigenous tourism settings, with implications for both future research and industry practice.
title: Calculation of Quantum Tunneling for a Spatially Extended Defect
title: The Dislocation Kink in Copper Has a Low Effective Mass
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cheong, Siew-Ann
name: Jacobsen, K. W.
name: Myers, Christopher R.
name: Ralph, Daniel C.
name: Sethna, James P.
name: Vegge, Tejs
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Heat accumulation and all-optical switching by domain wall motion in Co/Pd superlattices
Creators: name: Hoveyda, F.
name: Hohenstein, E.
name: Smadici, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All-optical switching by domain wall motion has been observed in Co/Pd superlattices. Heat accumulation is part of the switching process for our experimental conditions. Numerical calculations point to a connection between domain wall motion and in-plane heat diffusion.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
(200650) Mary H 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.
Nothing Moves a Surface: Vacancy Mediated Surface Diffusion
Creators: name: Albada, S. B. Van
name: Frenken, J. W. M.
name: Gastel, R. Van
name: Saarloos, W. Van
name: Somfai, W.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Factor copula models and their applications
Creators: name: BAN KHENG TAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Factor copula models are useful for modeling high-dimensional data sets that typically exhibit complex dependence structures. However, the practical merits of factor copula models have not been fully explored from an estimation point of view. This thesis proposes a simple, yet useful framework for estimating factor copula models, which allows for a richer and more precise understanding of the underlying dependence in the data sets.
Metabolomic characterisation of Novel Perennial Ryegrass-Endophyte associations
Creators: name: Crowther, Antony
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Applied Systems Biology, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Statistics of Reconnection-Driven Turbulence
Creators: name: Kowal, Grzegorz
name: Falceta-Gonçalves, Diego A.
name: Lazarian, Alex
name: Vishniac, Ethan T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Within the standard Sweet-Parker model, this process would be too slow to explain observations (e.g. solar flares). In reality, the process must be ubiquitous as astrophysical fluids are magnetized and motions of fluid elements necessarily entail crossing of magnetic frozen-in field lines and magnetic reconnection. In the presence of turbulence, the reconnection is independent of microscopic plasma properties, and may be much faster than previously thought, as proposed in Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) and tested in Kowal et al. (2009, 2012). However, the considered turbulence in the Lazarian-Vishniac model was imposed externally. In this work we consider reconnection-driven magnetized turbulence in realistic three-dimensional geometry initiated by stochastic noise. We demonstrate through numerical simulations that the stochastic reconnection is able to self-generate turbulence through interactions between its outflows. We analyze the statistical properties of velocity fluctuations using power spectra and anisotropy scaling, which demonstrates that the reconnection produces Kolmogorov-like turbulence, compatible with Goldreich-Sridhar (1995) model. Anisotropy statistics are, however, strongly affected by the dynamics of reconnection outflows. Once the broad turbulent region is formed, the typical anisotropy scaling $l_\parallel \propto l_\perp^{2/3}$ is formed, especially for high resolution models, were the broader range of scales is available. The decay of reconnection outflows to turbulent-like fluctuations, characterized by different anisotropy scalings, strongly depends on $β$ plasma. Moreover, the estimated reconnection rates are weakly dependent on the resolution, suggesting that no external processes are required to make reconnection fast.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Essays on Energy and Macroeconomics
Creators: name: ABEBE LEWEGINEH HAILEMARIAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140212 Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Economics

description: This thesis is a collection of four self-contained, but related, chapters that examine the macroeconomic effects of economic inequality, volatility in energy prices and their implications for economic policy uncertainty. Specifically, Chapter 2 investigates the effect of fiscal equalization payments on the composition of subnational government spending and its implications for regional convergence in living standards. Chapter 3 examines the effect of income inequality on economic growth. Chapter 4 examines the effect of changes in oil prices on economic policy uncertainty. Chapter 5 investigates the primary drivers of natural gas price volatility.
(200651) George Arthur 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.
Marketisation of higher education in Vietnam: perspectives of public higher education institution (HEI) senior managers
Creators: name: Dinh, Truong Sinh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Vietnamese higher education has undergone significant transformation in response to the complex and diverse requirements of developing a socialist-oriented market economy. This transformation also involves the transition from an agricultural/industrial economy to a more advanced industrial, services and knowledge economy. Such change requires substantial growth in higher education graduates. Therefore, the problem that Vietnamese higher education institutions (HEIs) face is their need to grow access and provision, but with very limited increase to their budgets. Within the context of neoliberal global influences, the implementation of marketisation has emerged as a solution. Accordingly, this study documents and discusses the perceptions and experiences of Vietnamese higher education senior managers who work in Vietnamese public HEIs as they grapple with the introduction of a uniquely Vietnamese version of marketisation. The study involves the analysis of semi-structured interviews with ten Rectors and Vice-Rectors of public HEIs located in the South of Vietnam as they implement marketisation strategies. The study found that Vietnamese higher education managers understood the challenges this entailed. Some tended to view marketisation of higher education as socialisation aimed at increasing not only private investment but also the contributions of various other benefiting parties and users. The study also addressed public higher education institutions’ constraints in regard to funding, quality and quality assurance, competition, and institutional autonomy. The findings suggest that along with increasing marketisation there should be clear separation of power, roles and responsibilities among the key governing bodies within higher education institutions and that tuition fees should be determined by market forces. In higher education institutions, there needs to be rising awareness and understanding of institutional autonomy along with the development of an institutional culture that includes quality assurance. Further, higher education institutions should explore funding opportunities from other sources in addition to tuition fees.
title: Unverpackt 2.0 Standards zur professionellen Warenversorgung im Unverpackt-Handel
Creators: name: Schuricht, Marcel
name: Pape, Jens
Publisher: name: Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 68 Industrielle Fertigung für einzelne Verwendungszwecke

description: Dieses Whitepaper präsentiert, ausgehend von den Handelsbeziehungen von Unverpackt-Läden, Umsetzungsempfehlungen für die Prozesse der Warenversorgung des Unverpackt-Handels, um sie effizienter zu gestalten und eine nachhaltige Entwicklung des Unverpackt-Handels zu ermöglichen.
Ausgangspunkt sind die Ergebnisse des von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) geförderten Projekts „Unverpackt 2.0“, (AZ-35648/01) dessen Ziel es war, die Warenversorgung des Unverpackt-Handels mit Standards zu professionalisieren. 
Der Unverpackt-Handel ist in Deutschland eine noch junge Branche. Als Pioniere des Precyclings und „Change Agents“ gehen Unverpackt-Einzelhändler mit dem Verzicht auf Verpackungen bewusst neue Wege, die sich jedoch negativ auf die Kostenstrukturen auswirken und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Unternehmen belasten.
Im Lebensmittelhandel werden die Handels- und Geschäftsprozesse seit Jahrzehnten mit Hilfe von Digitalisierung unterstützt und teils vollständig automatisiert eine Anwendung der dort verwendeten Standards eignet sich auch für den Unverpackt-Handel. Diese Standards gilt es, auf die Warenversorgung des Unverpackt-Handels zu übertragen. Eine effiziente Warenversorgung des Unverpackt-Handels spart Ressourcen und steigert die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Perspektivisch weitet sich das Konzept und sein innovativer Charakter aus, so dass Verpackungen in höherem Umfang vermieden werden.
The Effects of Self-Construal on Propensity for Green Product Consumption: The Roles of Disengagement-Reengagement Tendency and Consideration of Future Consequences
Creators: name: AYSHA SIDDIQUA MOHAMMED YASSER ARAFAT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research is to apply self-construal theory to explain consumers’ propensity for green consumption. A series of studies show that interdependent (vs. independent) consumers are more likely to purchase green products and that this effect is mediated by differences in disengagement-reengagement tendency associated with the two self-construals. In addition, I show that the mediation effect of disengagement-reengagement tendency is moderated by consideration of future consequences.
Fearing the "changed" man: women’s experience of alcohol-related intimate partner violence, a constructivist grounded theory study
Creators: name: Wilson, Ingrid
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 Judith Lumley Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.

Thesis with publications.
MAX_824143 D9.4 MAX Impact Assessment Report, Final version
Creators: name: Muscella, Silvana
name: Osimanti, Francesco
name: Giuffrida, Rita
name: Bartolacelli, Maria
name: Neri, Luisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: materials modelling software
HCP
exascale

description: The deliverable D9.4 Impact Assessment Report, Final Version is the last dissemination and communication report developed by MAX and aims to present the main achievements and impact generated in terms of dissemination, communication and stakeholders engagement during the entire lifetime of the project. The report takes the legacy from the D9.2 “Impact Assessment Report, mid-term version” and D9.3 “MAX Communication and Dissemination Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement Plan, Final version” and presents the results of the strategies proposed in the previous two deliverables. The deliverable presents the main activities and plans necessary to build a strong MAX community. For this purpose, the report presents the MAX stakeholder groups and targeted engagement activities. Moreover, the report presents practical key assets necessary to ensure visibility of MAX as a research and innovation action aimed at underpinning the project’s sustainability path through its set of main outputs (flagship codes, workflows, services). In terms of impact and reporting, the deliverable shows the main achievements gained in terms of website evolution and visits, scientific publications, participation in conferences and events, collaboration with relevant initiatives in the HPC ecosystem, and the size of the community reached. A set of KPIs are presented to show the impact generated by each of these activities. This deliverable, initially planned to be released in M36, was postponed to M46, following the 10-month extension of the project. The project’s activities were hit by COVID-19 and the extension allowed the team to postpone the organisation and joining of events, such as the MAX training schools and the participation to the Psi-K conference, which turned out to be useful engagement activities for the project’s community.
Determination of advertising strategy: an investigation of the consumer response hierarchy models and their applicability in developing advertising strategy
Creators: name: Reed, Peter W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: To understand how advertising works is an almost timeless conundrum that even today remains largely unresolved. Historically, one school of thought evolved during the 1960's promised to offer new insights into this vexing issue. Labelled the 'hierarchy of effects', this concept was promulgated in 1961 by Colley in the advertising and marketing practitioner area and Lavidge and Steiner in the behavioral sciences. The aim of this thesis was to review the hierarchy of effects concepts and to develop a new model of this process that has implications for contemporary advertising. [...]
Loan Covenants in Private Debt Contracts
Creators: name: JESSLYN QIAN HUI LIM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This dissertation conducts an empirical exploration of covenants in private debt contracting. It provides evidence that covenant violations increase borrowing costs on subsequent loan contracts. The results indicate that lenders’ dual loan and equity ownership in the borrowing firm helps align interest, reduces the need to monitor via covenants, and relaxes loan contract terms. The analyses also suggest that corporate boards with a higher proportion of directors appointed after the CEO assumed office are associated with weaker internal monitoring hence tighter loan terms. The findings emphasise the importance of covenants as tools to protect lenders against borrowers’ moral hazard behaviour.
Human Resource Management in the Bangladesh Garment Industry: An Exploratory Investigation
Creators: name: MOHAMMAD JASIM UDDIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Despite considerable research and constant pressure from global media, the exploitation of workers has been a persistent problem in the Bangladesh garment industry. The industry’s working conditions are the subject of continuous inquiry, yet the root cause for the continuation of the exploitation and how it shapes individual experiences remain unexplored. The aim of this study was to explore the root cause of exploitation in the Bangladesh garment industry. This study found that pressures from powerful external and internal actors lead to the perpetuation of exploitation. The study provided recommendations on how to improve the situation by exerting pressures properly.
(200652) Charles Carteret 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.
Genre-ing mother: an investigation of the representation of mothers within contemporary Australian female-authored theatre and drama
Creators: name: Dalton, Emma
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

This thesis investigates the representation of mothers within contemporary Australian female authored theatre and drama. It does this through the use of feminist dramatic criticism and by engaging with significant ideas drawn from the field of Motherhood Studies. This thesis addresses the question, “what are the repercussions of genres for the representation of mothers in selected Australian theatre and drama?” This thesis argues that Australian female playwrights are writing complex mother characters which challenge commonly held beliefs about motherhood, but that genres can significantly impact upon the representation of mothers in theatre and drama. It presents a careful selection of genres and mother characters to demonstrate this contention. It finds that the mother characters staged in mainstream Australian theatre both reflect and skew the realities of maternal identity, maternal practices and the institution of motherhood. This thesis examines the relationship between genres and the representation of mothers in selected mainstream contemporary Australian female authored play-texts and live performances in the 2000s. It presents a two-pronged analytic approach which incorporates feminist dramatic criticism (Dolan 1988; Fensham and Varney 2005), genre studies (e.g. Wake 2010) and Motherhood Studies (Reimer and Sahagian 2015) as a fruitful combination of fields by which to analyse mother characters in theatre and drama, and particularly in an Australian context. The works selected for analysis have been staged at mainstream theatre venues within Australia and, in some cases, overseas. The mother characters in Australian theatre and drama comprise multiple contradictory figures. These figures reveal the multidimensional process of mothering. The character of the mother in analysis and theatre reception has often been overlooked or framed as a stereotype. By analysing Australian play-texts such as Jane Harrison’s Stolen, Hannie Rayson’s Inheritance, and Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Female of the Species and Pennsylvania Avenue motherhood can be understood in greater depth.
Lattice Surgery Translation for Quantum Computation
Creators: name: Herr, Daniel
name: Nori, Franco
name: Devitt, Simon J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we outline a method for a compiler to translate any non fault tolerant quantum circuit to the geometric representation of the lattice surgery error-correcting code using inherent merge and split operations. Since the efficiency of state distillation procedures has not yet been investigated in the lattice surgery model, their translation is given as an example using the proposed method. The resource requirements seem comparable to the defect-based state distillation process, but modularity and eventual implementability allow the lattice surgery model to be an interesting alternative to braiding.
description: code repository: https://github.com/herr-d/LS_translation
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 16/85
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Vorläufige Diplomprüfungsordnung der Abteilung Bauwesen
description: Vorläufige Fachbereichs-(Teil-)Satzung für den Fachbereich Informatik der Universität Dortmund vom 25. November 1985
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 16, 1985
CSR COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES: A MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: STEPHANIE GRACELYN RAHAMAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150106 Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: Ethnic Studies

description: The many corporate scandals have questioned companies’ responsibility towards multiple stakeholders. This has given rise to the burgeoning CSR communication literature. The research employs a constructivist grounded theory approach as methodology because CSR communication literature is at an embryonic stage. The research questions examine the types of CSR communication strategies implemented by companies in Malaysia and understands how external stakeholders such as NGOs, media firms and government agencies view CSR communication strategies implemented by companies. Overall findings suggest that companies ought to understand how these different external stakeholders construct meaning to form differing perceptions based on companies’ CSR communication strategies as these perceptions can extend to external stakeholder opinions about companies’ CSR image that may not reflect companies’ desired CSR image or intended CSR identity.
Novel vaccines for Fasciola hepatica
Creators: name: Rathinasamy, Vignesh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Fasciola hepatica infection in livestock is an increasing threat to the animal production industry and results in severe economic losses. Emergence of fluke drug resistance warrants an efficacious vaccine to combat the liver fluke infections. The tegument of the parasite is a target for antibody‐dependent cell‐ mediated cytotoxicity of juvenile parasites in vitro. Thus, we propose that tegument proteins of F. hepatica could serve as potential vaccine candidates. Proteomic analysis of the adult fluke tegument identified proteins with homology to annexins (Anx) and tetraspanins (TSP) of Schistosoma sp. Further, using bioinformatics analysis, we identified 9 Anx sequences (Anx 1‐9) and 33 TSP sequences (TSP 1‐33) in the F. hepatica genome. Differential transcript levels were observed for Anx 1‐9 and TSP 1‐33 in the life cycle stages of F. hepatica. Anx 1, 2, 3 and 8; and TSP 2, 3, 5 and 8 were predicted to be surface‐expressed based on their homology to known surface‐expressed orthologues from Schistosoma sp and Opisthorchis viverrini. We expressed the full length Anx 1, 2, 3 and 8 proteins and the extra cellular loop 2 of TSP 2, 3, 5 and 8 in Pichia pastoris. Immunolocalisation of the selected annexins and tetraspanins using specific rabbit antisera confirmed the surface expression of each antigen on juvenile flukes, suggesting the potential involvement of these proteins in the host‐ parasite interaction. Vaccination of rats with recombinant Anx 1 and 2; and TSP 2, 3, 5 and 8 followed by F. hepatica challenge infection resulted in the protection levels ranging from 0‐47%. We also tested the rAnx 1 and 2; and rTSP 2, 3, 5 and 8; along with two other tegument proteins CD 59.1 and CUB 2, as combination vaccines in cattle; vaccination with these proteins followed by F. hepatica challenge infection resulted in 0‐39.5% protection, confirming the potential of using certain tegument proteins as vaccine targets in cattle.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Discrete anomalies in supergravity and consistency of string backgrounds
Creators: name: Minasian, Ruben
name: Sasmal, Soumya
name: Savelli, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine SL(2, Z) anomalies in ten and eight-dimensional supergravities, the induced local counterterms and their realization in string theory. Composite connections play an important role in the cancellation mechanism. At the same time their global properties lead to novel non-trivial consistency constraints on compactifications.
description: 29 pages; Minor changes and clarifications. Version to apper in JHEP
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 08/2004
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Prüfungsordnung zum Bachelor im (6-semestrigen) Studiengang "Datenanalyse und Datenmanagement" an der Universität Dortmund vom 13. 10. 2004
description: Amtlicher Teil: Studienordnung Bachelorstudiengang "Datenanalyse und Datenmanagement" (Bachelor in "Data Analysis and Data Management") vom 13.10.2004
description: Amtlicher Teil: Prüfungsordnung zum Masterstudiengang "Datenwissenschaft" an der Universität Dortmund vom 15.10.2004
description: Amtlicher Teil: Studienordnung Masterstudiengang "Datenwissenschaft" an der Universität Dortmund vom 15.10.2004
description: Amtlicher Teil: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang "Statistik" an der Universität Dortmund vom 15.10.2004
description: Amtlicher Teil: Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang "Statistik" an der Universität Dortmund vom 15.10.2004
description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Verlust eines Dienstsiegels
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 8, 2004
Essays on Institutional Trading
Creators: name: KUANKUAN WANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)

description: Institutional investors, such as pension funds and mutual funds, play an essential role in the U.S. stock markets. This research explores the trading behaviors of institutional investors around two distinct corporate events: a stock’s addition to the S&P 500 index, and accounting restatement. Using proprietary institutional trading data from Abel Noser Solutions, this study investigates whether and how institutional investors use their superior resources and skills to predict the occurrence of the events, and anticipate the market reaction to the announcements. The findings suggest that institutional investors possess informational advantages while they exploit profits through heterogeneous trading strategies.
Exploring the Freedom of Being: Essays on the Relationship between Freedom and Subjective Well-Being
Creators: name: AMANINA BINTI ABDUR RAHMAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Economics

description: The thesis explores the relationship between freedom and subjective well-being within and across countries, in light of the global trajectory of development towards higher levels of freedom. In doing so, freedom is measured using measures of support for economic freedom, perceived freedom, and perceived corruption, where corruption represents a distortion to economic freedom. The results show that there is a positive association between freedom and subjective well-being, a pre-requisite of which is the attainment of physical and material security.
Occupational mobility in Australia a quantitative approach
Creators: name: Williams, Lynne Susanna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 10206 Operations Research
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Empirical evidence suggests that occupational mobility accounts for a large part of the annual redistribution of the Australian workforce: available survey data reveal that while immigrants and entrants from the education sector respectively add of the order of one per cent and three percent of employed people change their occupations within the same time period. The major aim of this study is to formulate and estimate a model to explain occupational mobility in Australia. Both the demand and supply sides of the labour market are affected by and affect this process. Any attempt to capture the factors determinng observed occupation changes, therefore, must be from a structural point of view. Currently the only information available on movements between occupations is from two surveys by the Australian Bureau of Statistics which yeild data for the twelve month periods prior to November 1972 and December 1975. Analysis consequently must rely largely on cross-sectional evidence. A brief investigation of the demographic characteristics of the data reveals that broadly similar patterns pertain in the behaviour of Australian job changers and that of their overseas counter-parts. The main hypotheses advanced in the development of the theoretical model are: (i) that occupational mobility varies with excess demand (or supply in the aggregate labour market; (ii) that segmentation occurs within individual markets for specific occupations; and (iii) that net labour mobility between occupations is responsive to changes in relative occupational wage rates after adjustment for differential risks of unemployment. The final form of the model to be estimated can be reduced to a recursive simultaneous system in 39 parameters. The most important of these is the elasticity of transformation between the various source/destination occupations. In this study the limited data base available leaves no alternative but to treat elasticity as a single constant for all pairs of occupations. A large part of this thesis is devoted to the development of a data base to enable estimation of the proposed model. The empirical results support the hypothesis that net mobility is a function of changes in relative occupational certainty equivalent wage rates. Further, the statistical properties of the estimates suggest that the structural approach can be highly successful in comparison to previous, less carefully specified, reduces form studies in this area.
Zusammenhänge innerhalb der professionellen Kompetenz von Mathematiklehramtsstudierenden
Creators: name: Schwarz, Björn
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Im Beitrag wird eine qualitative Studie zur Rekonstruktion von Zusammenhängen zwischen Komponenten professioneller Kompetenz bei Mathematiklehramtsstudierenden vorgestellt. Genauer werden dabei Zusammenhänge zwischen mathematischem und mathematikdidaktischem Wissen sowie mathematikbezogenen beliefs der Studierenden betrachtet, weiterhin wird deren Lehrerfahrung einbezogen. Der Beitrag skizziert dafür den theoretischen Rahmen, das methodische Vorgehen und einige zentrale Aspekte der Ergebnisse.
The moral reasoning of managers in local government organisations in Victoria: A study of gender differences in ethical decision-making
Creators: name: NICOLE EL HABER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis is a contribution to the debate on gender and ethical decision-making. The thesis examined gender differences in the moral judgment and reasoning of local government managers. The findings illustrated that ethical decision-making process is a complex interaction between managers’ own values and learned experiences, institutional codes of conduct, community pressures and the wider environment.
Pathways for Career Success: An Exploration of the Malaysian Context
Creators: name: ZUBEIDA ROSSENKHAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The thesis explored the different pathways of career success in the context of Malaysia. The different pathways reflect the investments individuals make towards their careers and the perceived outcomes of those specific investments. The research study aimed to elucidate the influence of structural and contextual elements in the social, economic and policy environment in Malaysian on the career success pathways. The research study also explored individual differences to further reveal levels of heterogeneity in the career success pathways.
Mermin pentagrams arising from Veldkamp lines for three qubits
Creators: name: Lévay, Péter
name: Szabó, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the geometry of the space of Mermin pentagrams, objects that are used to rule out the existence of noncontextual hidden variable theories as alternatives to quantum theory. It is shown that this space of 12096 possible pentagrams is organized into 1008 families, with each family containing a "double six" of pentagrams. The 1008 families are connected to a special set of Veldkamp lines in the Veldkamp space of three qubits an object well-known to finite geometers but has only been introduced to physics recently. Due to the transitive action of the symplectic group on this set of Veldkamp lines it is enough to study only one "canonical" double six configuration of pentagrams. We prove that the geometry of this double-six configuration is encapsulated in the weight diagram of the 20 dimensional irreducible representation of the group $SU(6)$. As an interesting by-product of our approach we show that Mermin pentagrams and a class of Mermin squares labelled by three qubit Pauli operators are inherently related. We conjecture that by studying the representation theoretic content of other Veldkamp lines of the Veldkamp space for $N$-qubits makes it possible to find new contextual configurations in a systematic manner.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures. Will be published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Volume 50, Number 9
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
Creators: name: Arvanitaki, Asimina
name: Dimopoulos, Savas
name: Gorbenko, Victor
name: Huang, Junwu
name: Van Tilburg, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a framework in which Weinberg's anthropic explanation of the cosmological constant problem also solves the hierarchy problem. The weak scale is selected by chiral dynamics that controls the stabilization of an extra dimension. When the Higgs vacuum expectation value is close to a fermion mass scale, the radius of an extra dimension becomes large, and develops an enhanced number of vacua available to scan the cosmological constant down to its observed value. At low energies, the radion necessarily appears as an unnaturally light scalar, in a range of masses and couplings accessible to fifth-force searches as well as scalar dark matter searches with atomic clocks and gravitational-wave detectors. The fermion sector that controls the size of the extra dimension consists of a pair of electroweak doublets and several singlets. These leptons satisfy approximate mass relations related to the weak scale and are accessible to the LHC and future colliders.
description: 58 pages, 16 figures
Training Material
Creators: name: Hernandez, Raquel
name: Dewulf, Jocelyne
name: Weynants, Cathy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Training material
Patients' safety
clinical guidelines
COVID-19

description: The main goal of the present deliverable D8.2 – Training Material is to describe which training material will be developed for local site initiation as part of the COVend study to inform and train the clinical staff involved on the COVend study, how to provide verification of the study data and ensure patients’ safety.
 The developed training material as well as the clinical guidelines will be made public, to facilitate clinical sites in the adoption, implementation and uptake of the new therapy and clinical guidelines on a national and European level.
Testing linear restrictions in static and dynamic linear simultaneous equations models
Creators: name: Sivagowry Sriananthakumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis considers the problem of testing linear restrictions on coefficients of a single equation which is part of a linear simultaneous equation system. In particular the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Instrumental Variables (IV) based F and t tests are considered for testing linear restrictions on structural coefficients. The problem here is that the OLS estimates of structural coefficients are biased and inconsistent. The 2SLS and IV estimates of structural coefficients are consistent but biased. Therefore, in finite samples, the OLS, 2SLS and IV based F and t tests may perform poorly in this case because the exact distributions of these test statistics under the null hypothesis are not known.In this thesis we use large sample and small disturbance asymptotic approximations to the exact distributions of the F and t statistics under the null to obtain appropriate critical values and compare the accuracy of these approximations in small and medium sized samples using Monte Carlo experiments. Also the power properties of the tests based on small disturbance and large sample critical values are compared. In addition we increased the degree of overidentification of the parameters from the equation of interest to see the effects that has on the asymptotic approximations.
Economic analysis of development policies with reference to large-scale water control infrastructures and rural intensification in the Mekong River Delta
Creators: name: Tong, Yen Dan
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 Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis examines the economic efficiency case for the intensification of agricultural and aquacultural activities in the Mekong River Delta (MD) accounting for effects on the marketed value of outputs sold and for effects on non-marketed fish outputs. It utilises comprehensive measures of input use including household-supplied labour and incorporates external environmental effects such as pesticide costs. The main means for intensification considered are flood control technologies using “high” rather than “low” dykes as well as other water control technologies. High dykes, by preventing flooding, provide the opportunity for cultivating three rather than two rice crops. Using a cost-benefit analysis (CBA), the study shows that dyke heightening does not seem to be a viable option for the MD from both social and private perspectives. Among four quantified costs, the CBA demonstrated the decrease in profit from the first and second crops was the main cost of dyke heightening. The second and third largest costs were the infrastructure cost of dykes and the forgone revenues from the floodplain fishery. The increase in pesticide-use external costs was the smallest cost and was not significant. The infrastructure costs which are straightforward and are well-recognised – are not, in fact, easy to determine. The other three costs are often ignored in official reports that discuss the case for high dykes. With regard to the perspectives of each local group, intensive cropping farmers receive only a very low positive net benefit from dyke heightening from cultivating the third crop. Meanwhile, fisher people, balanced crop farmers, and other local people are, in general, disadvantaged by dyke heightening. The disadvantages to these groups exceed the advantages to the intensive farmers. The CBA results hence create substantial doubts about the case for further heightening of dykes in the MD, a process that is, however, still in progress.
Estimating the Mass of the Local Group using Machine Learning Applied to Numerical Simulations
Creators: name: McLeod, Michael
name: Libeskind, Noam
name: Lahav, Ofer
name: Hoffman, Yehuda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the estimation of the combined mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31), which dominate the mass of the Local Group. We make use of an ensemble of 30,190 halo pairs from the Small MultiDark simulation, assuming a $Λ$CDM (Cosmological Constant with Cold Dark Matter) cosmology, to investigate the relationship between the bound mass and parameters characterising the orbit of the binary and their local environment with the aid of machine learning methods (artificial neural networks, ANN). Results from the ANN are most successful when information about the velocity shear is provided, which demonstrates the flexibility of machine learning to model physical phenomena and readily incorporate new information as it becomes available. The resulting estimate for the Local Group mass, when shear information is included, is $4.9 \times 10^{12} M_\odot$, with an error of $\pm0.8 \times 10^{12} M_\odot$ from the 68% uncertainty in observables, and a 68% confidence interval of $^{+1.3}_{-1.4} \times 10^{12}M_\odot$ from the intrinsic scatter from the differences between the model and simulation masses. We also consider a recently reported large transverse velocity of M31 relative to the Milky Way, and produce an alternative mass estimate of $3.6\pm0.3\pm1.4 \times 10^{12}M_\odot$. Although different methods predict similar values for the most likely mass of the LG, application of ANN compared to the Timing Argument reduces the scatter in the log mass by over half when tested on samples from the simulation.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables