cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
News from strong interactions program of the NA61/SHINE experiment
Creators: name: Grebieszkow, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. This is performed by a two dimensional phase diagram ($T-μ_B$) scan of measurements of particle spectra and fluctuations in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and system size. In this contribution new NA61/SHINE results on negative pion production, as well as transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations in Ar+Sc collisions are presented. Moreover, the latest results on higher order moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution in p+p collisions are also discussed. The Ar+Sc results are compared to NA61 p+p and Be+Be data, as well as to NA49 $A+A$ results.
description: Presented at the Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 2016, Wroclaw, Poland, May 30th - June 4th, 2016 (v2: Fig. 2 - labels corrected, references updated)
Crystal engineering of flexible metal organic materials
Creators: name: Shivanna, Mohana
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Crystal engineering is the field of chemistry that studies the design, properties, and application of crystals. An aspect of crystal engineering is the design of coordination networks formed by the rational combination of metal nodes and organic linker ligands. Porous coordination networks, which are also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs), Metal Organic Materials (MOMs) or Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), have captured the interest of researchers worldwide because of their inherent modularity and amenability to crystal engineering principles. PCPs and porous MOMs have been classified into four generations: 1st generation materials collapse on guest removal and lose crystallinity; 2nd generation materials possess a rigid nature upon guest insertion/removal and exhibit a type I isotherm; 3rd generation materials alter their original structure and maintain overall framework connectivity when exposed to external stimuli such as guest incorporation/removal, pressure and heat; 4th generation materials can be fine-tuned via post synthetic modification (PSM), defects or solid solutions. 3 rd generation materials or porous flexible MOMs, have attracted attention owing to their potential applications in gas storage, separation, drug delivery and catalysis. These flexible MOMs tend to exhibit ‘stepped’ or ‘S-shaped’ isotherm profiles. Herein, we propose classification of such MOMs based on their gas sorption isotherm profiles as follows, i) type F-I (gradual change from open to more open, ii) type F-II (sudden change from open to more open sudden), iii) type F-III (gradual change from closed to open gradual), iv) type F-IV(sudden change from closed to open) and v) type F-V (shape-memory effect). This thesis also examines the three types of network topologies, primitive cubic unit (pcu), diamondiod (dia) and square lattice (sql) networks. The systematic studies we conducted herein offer design principles for future studies of porous flexible coordination networks in terms of understanding their structural transformations and improving the performance of gas storage/separation.
Outcomes of group exercise following hip or knee arthroplasty in an inpatient rehabilitation setting: a non-inferiority trial
Creators: name: Ching, Wai Ting Angel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: This thesis is submitted in total of the requirements for the Master of Applied Science (Research) to the School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

Delivering exercise therapy in a group format is a common strategy in the management of post-operative hip and knee arthroplasty rehabilitation. However, it is not clear whether patients may expect outcomes from rehabilitation inclusive of group exercise that are similar to those of exercise that is delivered only on an individual basis. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate whether replacing one of two daily one-to-one exercise sessions with group exercise is not inferior to two one-to-one exercise sessions in inpatient rehabilitation setting for patients with hip or knee arthroplasty. Chapter two outlines a systematic review that investigates whether exercise therapy that is delivered to a group of patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis or arthroplasty provides similar outcomes as exercise that is delivered one-to-one. Evidence of the effectiveness of group exercise therapy is limited in these populations but suggests that outcomes are similar for each delivery mode. In the main study of this thesis, 88 participants were allocated by block randomization to receive either two daily sessions of one-to-one exercise (IndEx) or replacement of one of these sessions with group-based exercise (GpEx) on admission to an inpatient rehabilitation facility following hip or knee arthroplasty. The primary outcome of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) was used to determine non-inferiority of the group exercise; secondary outcomes included quadriceps strength, Timed Up and Go, 10 Meter Walk Test, Six Minute Walk Test, cadence, velocity, stride length, hospital length of stay and patients’ satisfaction. Outcomes were assessed on admission, at discharge and at six months. Outcomes for GpEx participants were not inferior to IndEx on all outcomes. Replacing one of two daily one-to-one exercise sessions to group exercise does not lead to inferior clinical outcomes for patients at inpatient hospital discharge.
Comparing the anti-predator behaviour of Australian arid-zone birds with a model species, the zebra finch
Creators: name: Butler, Nicole
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 Ecology, Environment and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

Thesis with publications.

Alarm calls are vocalisations used to warn nearby conspecifics to the presence of a threat. Flee alarm calls encourage escape, whereas mobbing alarm calls recruit individuals to harass the predator. Alarm calling is a common anti-predator behaviour exhibited by a variety of taxa. The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a native Australian passerine and a model species, is an interesting case as, while much is known about their vocal repertoire, there is very little information about alarm calling in this species. I began my research by conducting a meta-analysis of alarm calling in Australian arid-zone birds and discovered that possessing a distinct alarm call to communicate to offspring but not to adult conspecifics is rare. Predictor variables indicated that zebra finches would be expected to possess an alarm call for warning flock-mates. I then conducted field work, in which I presented zebra finches and other arid-zone birds with a gliding model of a raptor and analysed their responses. The zebra finches reacted with flight, however, unlike other species tested, they did not emit an acoustically distinct alarm call in response to the glider. Following this finding, I undertook an experiment using captive-bred birds where I exposed groups of finches to an animated looming predator. The birds responded with escape behaviour but did not emit a distinct alarm call or alter their individually stereotyped distance call post-stimulus. The rate of calling also did not change. Finally, I used a playback experiment to analyse eavesdropping in captive zebra finches. It was found that playback of the heterospecific alarm calls did not cause a change in the calling or scanning behaviour of the finches. Thus, it is still unclear if and how this species uses vocal signals to communicate alarm, and I suggest further work concentrates on alarm calling in the presence of offspring, and communication among flocks.
MAX_824143 D10.2 Draft business plan: preliminary exploitation strategy
Creators: name: Narducci, Elisabetta
name: Neri, Luisa
name: Molinari, Elisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: materials modelling software
HCP
exascale

description: This report discusses a preliminary business plan to assess the sustainability of the activities of the MaX European Centre of Excellence beyond the current H2020 funding scheme. The first part summarizes the potential market segmentation and size for commercial exploitation of MaX results and of the related activities and competence of its partners, with reference to both the industrial and the academic and public sectors. The possible value components and the definition of services are analyzed on the basis of the current literature, as well as the experience and data collected during MaX operation. A set of commercial activities are identified, essentially based on consultancy and services at various different levels, that are compatible with the open-source nature of MaX codes and have a demonstrated success record in the activities of the CoE and its partners. The second part examines the legal instruments that could be adopted to set up MaX as a legal entity, taking into account the interests and expected constraints of MaX partner institutions, and presents a draft business plan on which the sustainability of the new legal entity can be assessed. Finally, an economic and financial plan is drafted for three-year development of the activities, which relies on a realistic estimate of revenue and cost streams based on data provided by MaX partners for the last two years. The main conclusion is that a MaX entity essentially based on commercial activities would be sustainable beyond the end of the current H2020 funding period. Further details, and the interest and role of the different MaX partners in this initiative, will have to be assessed in the next one to two years.
Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussian state space models with applications in financial econometrics
Creators: name: Strickland, Chris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Non-Guassian state space models have an important role to play in empirical finance. The primary aim of this thesis is to develop Bayesian methods for estimating such models. Initia focus is given to a particular non-Gaussian state space model used in the analysis of transactions data: the stochastic conditional duration (SCD) model. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are developed for the SCD model and used in an empirical analysis. Simulation experiments demonstrate that the finite sample performance of the Bayesian approac is superior, overall, to that of quasi-maximum likelihood (QML). The effect of parameterisation on the simulation effciency of the MCMC estimators of both the SCD and another non-Gaussian state space model, the stochastic volatility (SV) model, is examined. Four alternative parameterisations are considered and it is shown that large gains in simulation efficiency can be achieved through simple re-parameterisation of both models. Particle filtering methods are introduced and developed for the SCD and SV models. Initial attention is given to the case where the state is sequentially updated given each new observation and for fixed values of the parameters. These methods are extended to allow for the situation of the unknown parameters of both models and are evaluated using both simulated and empirical data sets.
Communication accessibility in healthcare settings
Creators: name: O'Halloran, Robyn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: People need to be able to communicate effectively with their healthcare providers and access information about their health condition/s in a range of different ways in order to participate in their own healthcare. People with communication disabilities are at risk of not being able to communicate with their healthcare providers or to access the information they need and this places them at greater risk of poorer health outcomes. Oneway speech pathologists and audiologists can support people with communication disabilities is by creating communicatively accessible healthcare environments. The articles in this issue of ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing indicate that creating communicatively accessible healthcare environments requires administrative support, ongoing research, personal commitment, and a long-term perspective.
Scale economies in the Australian general insurance industry
Creators: name: Wilson, Edward J. G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This work examines the measurement of economies of scale in financial institutions with particular emphasis on the workings of the non-life insurance industry. The first part of the work considers the theoretical conditions under which it is possible to measure scale economies and also at areas of operation in the industry that are possible sources of economies. Of particular importance in the first part of the work is the discussion of possible output variables in the insurance industry, claims and premium being the main contenders. On the balance of the arguments presented in the thesis it appears that claims is the preferred output proxy. The second part of the work is an empirical study of scale economies in the Australian general insurance industry. The study has a two fold purpose, firstly to try and determine the size of any economies of scale in the industry and secondly to test the hypothesis that using premium as the output variable consistently underestimates the extent of scale economies. The results suggest that significant scale economies are present and they also support the hypothesis that ecomomies of scale estimates are less significant when using premium as the measurement of output vis a vis claims. The final section of empirical work examines how robust the results are to different subsamples of the data.
An exploration of the density and genetics of Wolbachia in natural populations of Onchocerca volvulus – the causative agent of river blindness
Creators: name: Armoo, Samuel
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 Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.

Wolbachia are endosymbionts of Onchocerca volvulus and other parasitic nematodes that cause 150 million cases of filariases worldwide. These endosymbionts have become important drug targets, given that their removal by antibiotic treatment kills the worm. Wolbachia have also been implicated in the human host-induced immunopathologies that are associated with filariases. Crucial to understanding the role of Wolbachia in worm biology and to assessing the potential for the evolution of antibiotic resistance is an exploration of the abundance and genetic diversity of Wolbachia. This study sampled host adult O. volvulus worms from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Mali, and employed quantitative real-time PCR and next-generation sequencing approaches to determine Wolbachia copy number and genetic diversity respectively. Significant heterogeneity in Wolbachia copy number was observed between and within natural populations of O. volvulus. For the first time, multiple genetically distinct Wolbachia genomes were observed in a single worm. This study proposes that Wolbachia population structure is influenced by the severe population bottleneck that most likely occurs during the maternal transmission of Wolbachia to microfilariae and the accumulation of new mutations during the subsequent population expansion from the larval to adult stage and the long adult life span (up to 14 years). There was high proportion of non-synonymous mutations, a phenomenon observed in other bacteria, which presents the potential for functional diversity in Wolbachia between individual worms. Particularly noteworthy is nucleotide polymorphism within the 16S rDNA, which encodes the 16S rRNA that is targeted by doxycycline and other antibiotics. This may indicate the potential for evolution of resistance to doxycycline and suggests that the development of novel anti-Wolbachia drugs should incorporate investigation of the likely sustainability of a single antibiotic treatment. In addition, non-synonymous SNPs in the Wolbachia surface protein, which is reported to drive human host immunopathology, could give an indication for the observed diversity in disease presentation among human populations.
Parametric Landau damping of space charge modes
Creators: name: Macridin, Alexandru
name: Burov, Alexey
name: Stern, Eric
name: Amundson, James
name: Spentzouris, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Landau damping is the mechanism of plasma and beam stabilization; it arises through energy transfer from collective modes to the incoherent motion of resonant particles. Normally this resonance requires the resonant particle's frequency to match the collective mode frequency. We have identified an important new damping mechanism, {\it parametric Landau damping}, which is driven by the modulation of the mode-particle interaction. This reveals new possibilities for stability control through manipulation of both particle and mode-particle coupling spectra. We demonstrate the existence of parametric Landau damping in a simulation of transverse coherent modes of bunched accelerator beams with space charge.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures
Strongly Interacting p-wave Fermi Gas in Two-Dimensions: Universal Relations and Breathing Mode
Creators: name: Zhang, Yi-Cai
name: Zhang, Shizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contact is an important concept that characterizes the universal properties of a strongly interacting quantum gas. It appears in both thermodynamic (energy, pressure, etc.) and dynamic quantities (radio-frequency and Bragg spectroscopies, etc.) of the system. Very recently, the concept of contact has been extended to higher partial waves, in particular, the p-wave contacts have been experimentally probed in recent experiment. So far discussions on p-wave contacts have been limited to three-dimensions. In this paper, we generalize the p-wave contacts to two-dimensions and derive a series of universal relations, including the adiabatic relations, high momentum distribution, virial theorem and pressure relation. At high temperature and low density limit, we calculated the p-wave contacts explicitly using virial expansion. A formula which directly connects the shift of the breathing mode frequency and the p-wave contacts are given in a harmonically trapped system. Finally, we also derive the relationships between interaction parameters in three and two dimensional Fermi gas and discuss possible experimental realization of two dimensional Fermi gas with p-wave interactions.
description: 12 pages,4 figure
Seemingly unrelated regressions with heteroskedastic disturbances : some finite sample results
Creators: name: Low, Chan Kee
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis considers the seemingly unrelated regressions model with heteroskedastic disturbances. It is concerned primarily with a two-equation model in which the heteroskedasticity in the disturbancesarises as a result of the sample data being drawn from two separate populations with unequal variances. Particular attention is given to investigating the finite sample properties of some estimators of the coefficient vector. In Chapter I some instances in which the form of heteroskedasticity considered is appropriate are indicated. These serve to provide the motivation for considering this particular scheme of variance variation. To provide a setting for the subsequent chapters, Chapter II presents an up-to-date survey of the major developments on the estimation of the SUR model. In Chapter III, under the assumption of orthogonal regressors, a unified approach to deriving the exact finite sample second moment matrices of Zellner's restricted and unrestricted residuals variants of the SUR estimators, [...]
(200644) Thomas Clout
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.
Security provision by using detection and prevention methods to ensure trust in edge-based smart city networks
Creators: name: Iftikhar, Abeer
name: Qureshi, Kashif Naseer
name: A. Altalbe, Ali
name: Javeed, Khalid
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: The concept of smart cities is unique where the intelligent information technologies have used to form a heterogeneous with the help of edge and fog networks. Edge Computing (EC) has gained attention due to its distributive nature that brings computing resources closer to user devices for fast data communications. These networks are vulnerable to a variety of cyber threats due open network design and architecture and a lack of trusted computing resources. The Denial of Service (DoS) and Sybil attacks are common in these networks and cause of services degradation. Whereas in a Sybil attack, a node illegitimately claims multiple identities and escalate and launch more attacks in the networks. Identification and detection of malicious nodes and evaluating their trustworthiness is a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel Assertive Trust-based Efficient Technique (ATBET) for edge-based smart city networks by calculating the direct, indirect, penalized and cumulative trust. The trust is evaluated by using packet drop rate and the penalized over the transmission paths. The proposed solution detects the attacks and eliminates the malicious or selfish nodes from edge-based networks. The experiment results are conducted in simulation and compared proposed solution with state or the art solutions in terms of trustworthiness level, latency, packet delivery ratio, and network life span.
Non-normalities in returns on the all ordinaries index : implicit Bayesian inference using option prices
Creators: name: Flynn, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Black-Scholes model is the most common tool for pricing options, with one of its main addumptions being that returns on the underlying asset follow a normal distributin. In practice, the bulk of the empirical evidence shows most financial returns to be characterised by non-normalities, a feature which, in turn, is associated with mispricing of the Black-Scholes model. In view of this evidence an option price model is developed which allows for skewness and kurtosis in the underlying returns processs. Using Bayesdian methodology, inference about the process is conducted implicitly using observed option priced, with posterior distributions estimated for the parameters of the alternative models. To discriminate between models a number of selection criteria are used, includingimplicit model probabilities, out-of-sample fit and predictive performance and implied volatility smiles. In addition, Bayesian model averaging is invoked to produce a predictive density which has been aversaged across all model-specific predictives. The methodology is applied to option prices on the All Ordinaries Stock Index. The results favour the skewed normal model although no one model clearly dominates. The option price model evaluates the payoff function of the option directly by specifying a distribution for the underlying return over the life of the option. Using this method one can apply standsrd, one-dimendional numerical quadrature procedures to the expectation needed to compute the option price and avoid the use og Monte Carlo methods. Not only is this approach considerably faster computationally but it is also shown to be more accurate.
Establishing a human cell-based model system for macular degeneration
Creators: name: Neiteler, Almar
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2019
Subjects: C1QTNF5
AMD
macular degeneration
L-ORD
RPE
retinal degeneration
gene editing
stem cells
retina
eye
macula
induced pluripotent stem cells
CRISPR/Cas9
late-onset retinal degeneration
age-related macular degeneration
retinal pigment epithelium
oxidative stress
complement system
RNA-seq

description: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of visual loss amongst the elderly in developed countries. AMD is a complex disease with a highly variable phenotype, which makes generating reliable disease models difficult. In addition, lack of knowledge of the underlying pathological mechanisms makes development of an effective treatment difficult. To address the lack of knowledge of the molecular mechanisms affected in AMD a robust cell-based model system is needed. Late-onset retinal degeneration (L-ORD) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by a p.S163R, p.P188T, or p.G216C missense mutation in the C1q and tumor necrosis factor-related protein 5 (C1QTNF5) gene. L-ORD has a very similar phenotype to AMD, including sub-RPE deposit formation, the hallmark of AMD. Studying L-ORD could therefore potentially reveal common molecular pathways affected in macular degenerations. Here, I used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to correct the p.S163R mutation in C1QTNF5 in patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and generated C1QTNF5 null iPSCs. The iPSC lines were differentiated into retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the cell type that highly expresses C1QTNF5 and is severely affected in macular degenerations. RNA sequencing of L-ORD and control iPSC-RPE revealed that the extracellular matrix, complement system, lipid and general cell metabolism, and oxidative stress pathways are affected in L-ORD. C1QTNF5S163R in L-ORD iPSC-RPE was found to form less high molecular weight multimeric structures compared to its isogenic gene-corrected control. In addition, L-ORD iPSC-RPE were also found to phagocytose and possibly adhere differently compared to their isogenic controls. Both oxidative stress and the complement system play an important role in the pathology of macular degenerations. RPE were found to undergo regulated necrosis in response to oxidative stress and L-ORD iPSC-RPE were found to be more sensitive to UV light-induced oxidative stress. In addition, the terminal complement system complex C5b-9 was found to bind more frequently to L-ORD iPSC-RPE and colocalises with APOE in sub-RPE drusen-like deposits after human serum exposure. Together, the results in this thesis reveal that L-ORD iPSC-RPE have a molecular phenotype that could explain part of the clinical presentation of this disease and possibly of AMD. Further study of the affected molecular mechanisms could potentially lead to therapies for both L-ORD and AMD.
Slow quantum oscillations without fine-grained Fermi Surface Reconstruction in Cuprate Superconductors
Creators: name: Grigoriev, Pavel D.
name: Ziman, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fourier transform of the observed magnetic quantum oscillations (MQO) in YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6+δ}$ high-temperature superconductors has a prominent low-frequency peak with two smaller neighbouring peaks. The separation and positions of these three peaks are almost independent of doping. This pattern has been explained previously by rather special, exquisitely detailed, Fermi-surface reconstruction. We propose that these MQO have a different origin, and their frequencies are related to the bilayer and inter-bilayer electron hopping rather than directly to the areas of tiny Fermi-surface pockets. Such so-called "slow oscillations" explain more naturally many features of the observed oscillations and allow us to estimate the inter-layer transfer integrals and in-plane Fermi momentum.
description: 6 pages
Therapeutic interventions in interstitial lung disease: exercise training and supplemental oxygen
Creators: name: Dowman, Leona Marie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Discipline of Physiotherapy to the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.

Thesis with publications.

Exercise training and supplemental oxygen are two promising therapeutic interventions that may improve important health outcomes in people with interstitial lung disease (ILD), a disabling group of lung disorders with limited treatment options. However significant gaps exist in the scientific evidence. This thesis sought to establish the impact and timing of exercise training across the range of ILDs, to identify a clinically applicable and reliable instrument with which to assess skeletal muscle strength and to determine the precise benefit of supplemental oxygen in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the most common and debilitating ILD. Findings from the four studies undertaken to address these thesis aims were as follows: 1. A Cochrane review found pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in ILD, an intervention that includes exercise training, resulted in significant improvements in functional exercise capacity, dyspnoea and health-related quality of life, with comparable benefits evident in the subgroup with IPF. The overall quality of evidence was low to moderate and limited evidence was available to establish the long-term effects of PR. 2. A large multi-centre randomised controlled study (n=142) demonstrated exercise training is effective in producing clinically meaningful benefits across the range of ILDs, especially those individuals with asbestosis and IPF, with longer standing benefits in those with milder disease. 3. A reliability study (n=30) found the hand-held dynamometer is a useful and reliable clinical tool for measuring skeletal muscle strength, an important clinical outcome, in people with ILD. xii 4. A placebo controlled crossover trial (n=11) found that in IPF, breathing supplemental oxygen at rest is safe. Improvements in exercise tolerance, exercise induced hypoxaemia and exertional dyspnoea were associated with improved skeletal muscle metabolism. These studies indicated that exercise training and supplemental oxygen have beneficial effects on important clinical outcomes in people within ILD, providing robust evidence which can guide clinical management.
Die neue „Cambridge World History“
Creators: name: Borgolte, Michael
name: Schulz, Raimund
name: Stuchtey, Benedikt
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 909 Weltgeschichte

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
Redundancy and Tales Thereafter: An Australian Regional Perspective
Creators: name: MATHIN BISWAS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In the face of the 2017 Hazelwood power plant closure and ongoing debates about privatisation, especially in the power industry in Australia, this thesis tells the tales of twenty individual lives of former employees living in the Latrobe Valley region who were negatively affected by the corporatisation and privatisation of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) in the 1980s and 1990s. Their accounts demonstrate that receiving a redundancy package is not the end of the journey but the beginning for the employees as they had to create a life, work identity, and community connections after the redundancy event.
The role of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner: An ethnographic study
Creators: name: Tori, Kathleen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Submitted to La Trobe University, Bendigo, In total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the College of Science, Health and Engineering, Department of Rural Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University.
Riemannian $M$-spaces with homogeneous geodesics
Creators: name: Arvanitoyeorgos, Andreas
name: Wang, Yu
name: Zhao, Guosong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 53C30

description: We investigate homogeneous geodesics in a class of homogeneous spaces called $M$-spaces, which are defined as follows. Let $G/K$ be a generalized flag manifold with $K=C(S)=S\times K_1$, where $S$ is a torus in a compact simple Lie group $G$ and $K_1$ is the semisimple part of $K$. Then the {\it associated $M$-space} is the homogeneous space $G/K_1$. These spaces were introduced and studied by H.C. Wang in 1954. We prove that for various classes of $M$-spaces the only g.o. metric is the standard metric. For other classes of $M$-spaces we give either necessary, or necessary and sufficient conditions, so that a $G$-invariant metric on $G/K_1$ is a g.o. metric. The analysis is based on properties of the isotropy representation $\mathfrak{m}=\mathfrak{m}_1\oplus \cdots\oplus \mathfrak{m}_s$ of the flag manifold $G/K$ (as Ad$(K)$-modules) and corresponding decomposition $\mathfrak{n}=\mathfrak{s}\oplus\mathfrak{m}_1\oplus \cdots\oplus \mathfrak{m}_s$ of the tangent space of the $M$-space $G/K_1$ (as Ad$(K_1)$-modules).
description: 28 pages
(200637) Kezia Beckwith
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.
A Cross-National Examination of Workplace Bullying: Prevalence, Impact and Prevention
Creators: name: SAIMA AHMAD
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis presents a comparative study of workplace bullying in Australia and Pakistan to advance knowledge on sources of cross-cultural convergence and divergence for managing this issue in international contexts. To achieve this goal, views of 636 cross-national participants from equivalent work settings were analysed, and a culturally nuanced account of workplace bullying extracted. This thesis shows that, despite workplace bullying’s constant meaning across cultures, there are stark differences in employee perceptions, exposure and tolerance towards it. The thesis has identified cultural conditions under which the undesirable implications of workplace bullying may be mitigated in collectivist and high-power-distance societies.
An automatic on-line sorptive extraction platform for palladium determination in automobile exhaust catalysts based on a PTFE-turnings packed column, flow injection analysis and flame atomic absorption spectrometry
Creators: name: Anthemidis, Aristidis
name: Tzili, Antonia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A novel simple sensitive and effective on-line flow injection column preconcentration platform using poly-tetrafluoroethylene turnings as sorbent was developed prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometric (FAAS) determination of palladium in vehicle exhaust catalysts, hydrogenation catalysts and environmental water samples. The method is based on the sorption of palladium(II)-diethyldithiophosphate, which was found to be more effective than dithiocarbamate ones. Methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) was used as eluent prior atomisation and quantification. All parameters like pH, DDPA concentration, flow rates, preconcentration time that affect the sensitivity of the method as well as interferences of other metals were investigated in detail. The enhancement factor calculated as 114 for 60 s preconcentration time while the sampling frequency as 40 h−1. The detection limit was 0.9 μg L−1 and the relative standard deviation (RSD) was 2.8% at 20.0 μg L−1 concentration level. The accuracy of the proposed method was estimated by analysing certified reference material and spiked environmental samples. The analytical features of the method were compared with other on-line column preconcentration methods reported in the literature.
(200639) George Newport Gwilt
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.
Realizing topological surface states in a lower-dimensional flat band
Creators: name: Potter, Andrew C.
name: Wang, Chong
name: Metlitski, Max A.
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous surface states of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are usually thought to be only possible in conjunction with the higher dimensional topological bulk. However, it has recently been realized that a class of anomalous SPT surface states can be realized in the same dimension if symmetries are allowed to act in a nonlocal fashion. An example is the particle-hole symmetric half filled Landau level, which effectively realizes the anomalous surface state of a 3D chiral Topological Insulator (class AIII). A dual description in terms of Dirac composite fermions has also been discussed. Here we explore generalizations of these constructions to multicomponent quantum Hall states. Our results include a duality mapping of the bilayer case to composite bosons with Kramers degeneracy and the possibility of a particle hole symmetric integer quantum Hall state when the number of components is a multiple of eight. Next, we make a further extension by half filling other classes of topological bands and imposing particle hole symmetry. When applied to time-reversal invariant topological insulators we realize a different chiral class (CII) topological surface state. Notably, half-filling a 3D TI band allows for the realization of the surface of the otherwise inaccessible 4D topological insulator, which supports an anomalous 3D Dirac cone. Surface topological orders equivalent to the 3D Dirac cone (from the global anomaly standpoint) are constructed and connections to Witten's SU(2) anomaly are made. These observations may also be useful for numerical simulations of topological surface states and of Dirac fermions without fermion doubling.
description: 22 pages, 2 Figures, 3 Tables; published version
Sensorless control of switch reluctance motors
Creators: name: Stumpf, Alexander
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University.

This thesis presents a novel sensorless position technique for a Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM). The widespread use of SRMs has been relatively limited when compared to other popular motor technologies. Renewed interest has occurred in SRMs due to low cost, environmentally friendly materials and its wide torque operating region. One of the disadvantages affecting the wider use of an SRM, is the requirement for a rotor position sensor. This increases the cost and reduces the durability of the system. As a result, much research has been dedicated to making the motor `sensorless'. The proposed sensorless technique seeks to improve the operating range of currently available methods, with the advantage that there is no need for an offline calibration technique. To achieve sensorless operation, the proposed technique evaluates the inductance waveform on a per phase basis, to find the minimum and maximum inductance positions. These locations correspond to the unaligned and aligned rotor positions respectively. A sensorless rotor position is created via a novel digital phase locked loop (DPLL), which generates intermediate positions between these detected positions. To enhance sensorless tracking and accuracy a multiple model adaptive estimator Kalman filter is introduced. This improves the position estimates of the un-aligned and aligned rotor positions and improves the sensorless tracking output of the DPLL. Lastly, to ensure sensorless operation from zero speed to normal sensorless operation, a novel hesitation-free starting technique is presented. The performance of the proposed sensorless technique is evaluated using simulations and real-world testing utilising a three-phase test SRM. Novel methods have been developed to remove the effects of mutual coupling, flux-linkage term errors and magnetic hysteresis. These techniques ensure that accurate sensorless operation is achievable over a wide range of speeds and loads, without the need for an offline calibration technique. This results in improved durability and reduced cost of the SRM.
Examining mental health impacts of Instagram use: the roles of starting age, screen time, and motives
Creators: name: Lopez, Richard
name: Moughan, Emma
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: These preregistered analyses examine links between age (when one initially joined Instagram), motives, screen time, and mental health indicators. See linked file for additional details, including research questions, hypotheses, and planned analyses.
A test for the winner-loser anomaly in the Australian equity market: 1958-1987
Creators: name: Brailsford, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The winner-loser anomaly implies that investors can earn arbitrage profits by purchasing shares which have earned extreme negative returns, and selling short shares which have earned extreme positive returns. Previous U.S. evidence has shown that these companies undergo price reversals in periods following their extreme return behaviour. Such behaviour is anomalous in the sense that it appears inconsistent with market efficiency.
This thesis tests for the existence of the winner-loser anomaly in the Australian equity market, using monthly data for the period 1958 to 1987. It is found that extreme winners undergo price reversals, but extreme losers continue to earn negative abnormal returns. The difference between the loser and winner portfolios is not statistically significant, and hence it appears that the winner-loser anomaly is not present in the Australian market. These results are found to be robust with respect to variants of methodological procedure.
Statistical Physics Model of EBT Adsorption on Pb(II) doped Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Kinetics, Isotherm and Reuse Study
Creators: name: Fegade, Umesh
name: Jethave, Ganesh
name: Attarde, Sanjay
name: Kolate, Sachin
name: Inamuddin
name: Altalhi, Tariq
name: Kanchi, Suvardhan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Pb(II) doped zinc oxide nanoparticles (Pb-ZnONPs) was synthesised using the co-precipitation method. The average size distribution of the Pb-ZnONPs is 42.8 nm and further used as an adsorbent to remove Erichrome Black T (EBT) from wastewater. The adsorption of EBT onto the Pb-ZnONPs was best fitted for pseudo-second-order kinetics model, indicating that the adsorption phenomena depend on EBT and Pb-ZnONPs, showing chemisorption phenomenon. The maximum adsorption potential of Pb-ZnONPs (qmax = 200 mgg−1) for EBT is far better than that of the already available adsorbents. The high regression coefficient of freundlich shows that the adsorption can be shown by multi-layer process. The value of ΔG° is negative and temperature increases with an increase in the absolute value increases, suggesting the adsorption of dye onto the Pb-ZnONPs is spontaneous. The decrease in the concentration of adsorbed monolayer (Q0 = nNM) from 411 to 43.55 mg/g with the change in temperature revealed that the adsorption process is exothermic in nature. The Pb-ZnONPs have exhibited a variation of about 7–8% of adsorption compared to the fresh sample after 5th regeneration.
(200640) William James
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.