cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Making Sense of Complex Carbon and Metal/Carbon Systems by Secondary Electron Hyperspectral Imaging
Creators: name: Abrams, Kerry J.
name: Dapor, Maurizio
name: Stehling, Nicola
name: Azzolini, Martina
name: Kyle, Stephan J.
name: Schäfer, Jan
name: Quade, Antje
name: Mika, Filip
name: Kratky, Stanislav
name: Pokorna, Zuzana
name: Konvalina, Ivo
name: Mehta, Danielle
name: Black, Kate
name: Rodenburg, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: carbon orientations
subject: carbon surface analysis
subject: characterization
subject: modeling
subject: secondary electron emission
subject: secondary electron hyperspectral imaging
subject: secondary electron spectroscopy
subject: 500
subject: 600
subject: 624

description: Carbon and carbon/metal systems with a multitude of functionalities are ubiquitous in new technologies but understanding on the nanoscale remains elusive due to their affinity for interaction with their environment and limitations in available characterization techniques. This paper introduces a spectroscopic technique and demonstrates its capacity to reveal chemical variations of carbon. The effectiveness of this approach is validated experimentally through spatially averaging spectroscopic techniques and using Monte Carlo modeling. Characteristic spectra shapes and peak positions for varying contributions of sp2-like or sp3-like bond types and amorphous hydrogenated carbon are reported under circumstances which might be observed on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surfaces as a result of air or electron beam exposure. The spectral features identified above are then used to identify the different forms of carbon present within the metallic films deposited from reactive organometallic inks. While spectra for metals is obtained in dedicated surface science instrumentation, the complex relations between carbon and metal species is only revealed by secondary electron (SE) spectroscopy and SE hyperspectral imaging obtained in a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM). This work reveals the inhomogeneous incorporation of carbon on the nanoscale but also uncovers a link between local orientation of metallic components and carbon form.
(201469) Christina Anne Pope
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.
Post-impression correction in British books printed during the eighteenth century
Creators: name: Gerrard, B.N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Self-consistent approach to many-body localization and subdiffusion
Creators: name: Prelovšek, P.
name: Herbrych, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical theory, based on the perturbative treatment of the disorder and extended into a self-consistent set of equations for the dynamical density correlations, is developed and applied to the prototype one-dimensional model of many-body localization. Results show a qualitative agreement with numerically obtained dynamical structure factor in the whole range of frequencies and wavevectors, as well as across the transition to the nonergodic behavior. The theory reveals the singular nature of the one-dimensional problem, whereby on the ergodic side the dynamics is subdiffusive with dynamical conductivity $σ(ω) \propto |ω|^α$, i.e., with vanishing d.c. limit $σ_0=0$ and $α<1$ varying with disorder, while we get $α>1$ in the localized phase.
Medical Gas Plasma Jet Technology Targets Murine Melanoma in an Immunogenic Fashion
Creators: name: Bekeschus, Sander
name: Clemen, Ramona
name: Nießner, Felix
name: Sagwal, Sanjeev Kumar
name: Freund, Eric
name: Schmidt, Anke
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: B16F10
subject: kINPen
subject: plasma medicine
subject: reactive nitrogen species
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: 500
subject: 600
subject: 624

description: Medical technologies from physics are imperative in the diagnosis and therapy of many types of diseases. In 2013, a novel cold physical plasma treatment concept was accredited for clinical therapy. This gas plasma jet technology generates large amounts of different reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS). Using a melanoma model, gas plasma technology is tested as a novel anticancer agent. Plasma technology derived ROS diminish tumor growth in vitro and in vivo. Varying the feed gas mixture modifies the composition of ROS. Conditions rich in atomic oxygen correlate with killing activity and elevate intratumoral immune-infiltrates of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells and dendritic cells. T-cells from secondary lymphoid organs of these mice stimulated with B16 melanoma cells ex vivo show higher activation levels as well. This correlates with immunogenic cancer cell death and higher calreticulin and heat-shock protein 90 expressions induced by gas plasma treatment in melanoma cells. To test the immunogenicity of gas plasma treated melanoma cells, 50% of mice vaccinated with these cells are protected from tumor growth compared to 1/6 and 5/6 mice negative control (mitomycin C) and positive control (mitoxantrone), respectively. Gas plasma jet technology is concluded to provide immunoprotection against malignant melanoma both in vitro and in vivo.
Bielliptic quotient modular curves of $X_0(N)$
Creators: name: Bars, Francesc
name: Kamel, Mohamed
name: Schweizer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G18, 14H45

description: Let $N\geq 1$ be a non-square free integer and let $W_N$ be a non-trivial subgroup of the group of the Atkin-Lehner involutions of $X_0(N)$ such that the modular curve $X_0(N)/W_N$ has genus at least two. We determine all pairs $(N,W_N)$ such that $X_0(N)/W_N$ is a bielliptic curve and the pairs $(N,W_N)$ such that $X_0(N)/W_N$ has an infinite number of quadratic points over $\mathbb{Q}$.
description: Additional Mathematica and Magma programmes available at a github folder
(201471) William Middlebrook
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.
Heterotic sigma models on $T^8$ and the Borcherds automorphic form $Φ_{12}$
Creators: name: Harrison, Sarah M.
name: Kachru, Shamit
name: Paquette, Natalie M.
name: Volpato, Roberto
name: Zimet, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the spectrum of BPS states of the heterotic sigma model with $(0,8)$ supersymmetry and $T^8$ target, as well as its second-quantized counterpart. We show that the counting function for such states is intimately related to Borcherds' automorphic form $Φ_{12}$, a modular form which exhibits automorphy for $O(2,26;{\mathbb Z})$. We comment on possible implications for Umbral moonshine and theories of AdS$_3$ gravity.
description: 12 pages; v2 error (involving fermion zero modes) corrected
Body Pain(t): Tim Winton's women: self-harm, memory and femininity in Tim Winton’s novels
Creators: name: Schurholz, Hannah
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in the total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Colossal Effects in Transition Metal Oxides Caused by Intrinsic Inhomogeneities
Creators: name: Burgy, J.
name: Dagotto, E.
name: Martin-Mayor, V.
name: Mayr, M.
name: Moreo, A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Minimum rank and zero forcing number for butterfly networks
Creators: name: Ferrero, Daniela
name: Grigorious, Cyriac
name: Kalinowski, Thomas
name: Ryan, Joe
name: Stephen, Sudeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C96, 05C57, 94C15

description: The minimum rank of a simple graph $G$ is the smallest possible rank over all symmetric real matrices $A$ whose nonzero off-diagonal entries correspond to the edges of $G$. Using the zero forcing number, we prove that the minimum rank of the butterfly network is $\frac19\left[(3r+1)2^{r+1}-2(-1)^r\right]$ and that this is equal to the rank of its adjacency matrix.
Is right-handed current contribution to $\bar{B}\to X_ulν$ decays corrected by non-trivial vacuum in QCD?
Creators: name: Umeeda, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study violation of quark-hadron duality for $\bar{B}\to X_ulν$ and $D\to X_dlν$ decays in the presence of the right-handed current operator. For this case, we show that duality violation has some aspects different from the standard model due to the existence of an instanton. In particular, the fermionic zero mode of an intermediate light quark can give a nonvanishing contribution owing to its chirality structure. A duality-violating component that arises from a single instanton is then analytically extracted as a finite-distance singularity, leading to an oscillatory correction to the observable in Minkowski space. Finally, we show that the size of duality violation for the lepton energy distribution in $\bar{B}$ decays can be comparable to the chirally suppressed perturbative contribution although the absolute size depends on the detail of the QCD vacuum.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; v3: matches the version published in PRD
What neutrons can do for you:The single crystal neutron diffractometer BIODIFF at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) and a short excursion to Small-angle neutron diffraction
Creators: name: Schrader, Tobias Erich
name: Ostermann, Andreas
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: BioTrans 2023, LaRochelle, France, 26 Jun 2023 - 29 Jun 2023
End-to-End Comparative Attention Networks for Person Re-identification
Creators: name: Liu, Hao
name: Feng, Jiashi
name: Qi, Meibin
name: Jiang, Jianguo
name: Yan, Shuicheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Person re-identification across disjoint camera views has been widely applied in video surveillance yet it is still a challenging problem. One of the major challenges lies in the lack of spatial and temporal cues, which makes it difficult to deal with large variations of lighting conditions, viewing angles, body poses and occlusions. Recently, several deep learning based person re-identification approaches have been proposed and achieved remarkable performance. However, most of those approaches extract discriminative features from the whole frame at one glimpse without differentiating various parts of the persons to identify. It is essentially important to examine multiple highly discriminative local regions of the person images in details through multiple glimpses for dealing with the large appearance variance. In this paper, we propose a new soft attention based model, i.e., the end to-end Comparative Attention Network (CAN), specifically tailored for the task of person re-identification. The end-to-end CAN learns to selectively focus on parts of pairs of person images after taking a few glimpses of them and adaptively comparing their appearance. The CAN model is able to learn which parts of images are relevant for discerning persons and automatically integrates information from different parts to determine whether a pair of images belongs to the same person. In other words, our proposed CAN model simulates the human perception process to verify whether two images are from the same person. Extensive experiments on three benchmark person re-identification datasets, including CUHK01, CHUHK03 and Market-1501, clearly demonstrate that our proposed end-to-end CAN for person re-identification outperforms well established baselines significantly and offer new state-of-the-art performance.
The code-switching practices of teachers of French as a second language in Victorian secondary schools
Creators: name: Gearon, Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Near-Field Magnetophotoluminescence Spectroscopy of Composition Fluctuations in InGaAsN
Creators: name: Blagnov, P. A.
name: Kosel, T. H.
name: Merz, J. L.
name: Mintairov, A. M.
name: Vlasov, A. S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Isotope Shifts in Cadmium as a Sensitive Probe for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Ohayon, B.
name: Hofsäss, S.
name: Padilla-Castillo, J. E.
name: Wright, S. C.
name: Meijer, G.
name: Truppe, S.
name: Gibble, K.
name: Sahoo, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isotope shifts (ISs) in atomic energy levels are sensitive probes of nuclear structure and new physics beyond the Standard Model. We present an analysis of the ISs of the cadmium atom (Cd I) and singly charged cadmium ion (Cd II). ISs of the 229 nm, 326 nm, 361 nm and 480 nm lines of Cd I are measured with a variety of techniques; buffer-gas-cooled beam spectroscopy, capturing atoms in a magneto-optic-trap, and optical pumping. IS constants for the D1 and D2 lines of Cd II are calculated with high accuracy by employing analytical response relativistic coupled-cluster theory in the singles, doubles and triples approximations. Combining the calculations for Cd II with experiments, we infer IS constants for all low-lying transitions in Cd I. We benchmark these constants as calculated via different many-body methods. Our calculations for Cd II enable nuclear charge radii of Cd isotopes to be extracted with unprecedented accuracy. The combination of our precise calculations and measurements shows that King Plots for Cd I can improve the state-of-theart sensitivity to a new heavy boson by up to two orders of magnitude.
MPEC 2023-E101 : 2021 FP
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Electron Spin Relaxation Near a Micron-Size Ferromagnet
Creators: name: Kenny, T. W.
name: Mamin, H. J.
name: Stipe, B. C.
name: Stowe, T. D.
name: Yannoni, C. S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Transportation algorithms and their application in tender analysis
Creators: name: Gatt, Adam Albert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Scattering amplitudes over finite fields and multivariate functional reconstruction
Creators: name: Peraro, Tiziano
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: Several problems in computer algebra can be efficiently solved by reducing them to calculations over finite fields. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for the reconstruction of multivariate polynomials and rational functions from their evaluation over finite fields. Calculations over finite fields can in turn be efficiently performed using machine-size integers in statically-typed languages. We then discuss the application of the algorithm to several techniques related to the computation of scattering amplitudes, such as the four- and six-dimensional spinor-helicity formalism, tree-level recursion relations, and multi-loop integrand reduction via generalized unitarity. The method has good efficiency and scales well with the number of variables and the complexity of the problem. As an example combining these techniques, we present the calculation of full analytic expressions for the two-loop five-point on-shell integrands of the maximal cuts of the planar penta-box and the non-planar double-pentagon topologies in Yang-Mills theory, for a complete set of independent helicity configurations.
description: 44 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures, published version
The reciprocating joule cycle engine for micro combined heat and power applications
Creators: name: Allen, Robert William
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2008

description: Merged with duplicate record (10026.1/2683) on 03.01.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: Micro CHP has been identified as a means of reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from household energy consumption. Large scale field trials undertaken in the UK, with systems internal to a single dwelling and based on Stirling engines, were disappointing because of the low thermal efficiencies of such engines. Alternative engines/devices with higher thermal efficiencies are currently being evaluated in Japan but such systems are external to the dwelling. The reciprocating Joule cycle engine is proposed as an engine for a micro CHP system because of its potential to be more thermally efficient than a Stirling engine and at least as thermally efficient as an internal combustion engine. Such an engine has not previously been analysed in detail nor is there any information that such an engine has been built and operated, particularly at power output levels below 5 kW. Mathematical modelling of the RJC engine is used to determine power outputs and efficiencies taking into account frictional, thermal and pressure losses. Such modelling indicated an engine with a maximum thermal efficiency of 33% making it suitable for micro CHP applications. When the individual models are combined to model a CHP system, and using the engine exhaust heat to preheat the combustion air, an overall maximum system efficiency of 79% was indicated.
Dry launching of silica nanoparticles in vacuum
Creators: name: Khodaee, Ayub
name: Dare, Kahan
name: Johnson, Aisling
name: Delić, Uroš
name: Aspelmeyer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clean loading of silica nanoparticles with a radius as small as ~50 nm is required for experiments in levitated optomechanics that operate in ultra-high vacuum. We present a cheap and simple experimental method for dry launching of silica nanoparticles by shaking from a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surface. We report on the successful launching of single silica nanoparticles with a minimum radius of 43 nm, which is enabled by the low stiction to the launching surface. Nanoparticles with radii of 43 nm and 71.5 nm are launched with a high flux and small angular spread of $\sim \pm 10^\circ$, which allows for trapping in a tightly focused optical tweezer within a couple of minutes. The measured velocities are significantly smaller than 1 m/s. The demonstrated launching method allows for controlled loading of dry nanoparticles with radii as small as 43 nm into optical traps in (ultra-)high vacuum, although we anticipate that loading of smaller sizes is equally feasible.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Effect of 0.25 and 2.0 MeV He-ion irradiation on short-range ordering in model (EFDA) Fe-Cr alloys
Creators: name: Dubiel, S. M.
name: Zukrowski, J.
name: Serruys, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of He+ ion irradiation on a distribution of Cr atoms in model (EFDA) Fe(100-x)Cr(x) (x=5.8, 10.75, 15.15) was studied by means of conversion electrons Mossbauer spectroscopy. The alloys were irradiated to the dose of 1.2E16 ions per cm2 (7.5 dpa) with He+ of 0.25 and 2.0 MeV. The distribution of Cr atoms within the first two coordination shells around the probe Fe atoms was expressed in terms of the Warren-Cowley short-range order parameters alpha1 (first-neighbour shell, 1NN), alpha2 (second-neighbour shell, 2NN) and alpha12 (1NN+2NN. In non-irradiated alloys alpha1 was positive and alpha2 was negative for all three samples which indicates an ordering of Cr atoms. Yet, the value of alpha12 were close to zero, i.e. the distribution of Cr atoms averaged over the first two coordination shells around the probe Fe atoms, was random. The effect of the irradiation of the Fe5Cr sample is similar for the two energies of the He+ projectiles viz. increase of number of Cr atoms in the 1NN and decrease in the 2NN shell. Consequently, the degree of the ordering increased. For the other two samples, the effect of the irradiation depends on the composition, and it is stronger for the less energetic ions where, in the case of Fe10Cr, the disordering disappeared and some traces of Cr clustering (alpha12 weakly positive) can be seen. In the Fe15Cr sample the clustering is clear. In the samples irradiated with 2.0 MeV ions the ordering also survived in the samples with x=10.75 and 15.15, although its degree became smaller than in the Fe5Cr sample. Small changes in the magnetic texture were revealed.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 41 references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.5612
(201463) Lawrence Robert Dicksee
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.
The hypothetical soul : the self portrait in the nineteenth-century, 1840-1900.
Creators: name: Gaston, Vivien Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Light propagation in (2+1)-dimensional electrodynamics: the case of linear constitutive laws
Creators: name: Goulart, Érico
name: Bittencourt, Eduardo
name: Brandão, Elliton O. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we turn our attention to light propagation in three-dimensional electrodynamics. More specifically, we investigate the behavior of light rays in a continuous bi-dimensional hypothetical medium living in a three-dimensional ambient spacetime. Relying on a fully covariant approach, we assume that the medium is endowed with a local and linear response tensor which maps field strengths into excitations. In the geometric optics limit, we then obtain the corresponding Fresnel equation and, using well-known results from algebraic geometry, we derive the effective optical metric.
description: 12 pages, matching the published version
An Erdös--Révész type law of the iterated logarithm for order statistics of a stationary Gaussian process
Creators: name: Dębicki, K.
name: Kosiński, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15, 60G70 (Primary) 60G22 (Secondary)

description: Let $\{X(t):t\in\mathbb R_+\}$ be a stationary Gaussian process with almost surely (a.s.) continuous sample paths, $\mathbb E X(t) = 0$, $\mathbb E X^2(t) = 1$ and correlation function satisfying (i) $r(t) = 1 - C|t|^α + o(|t|^α)$ as $t\to 0$ for some $0\leα\le 2, C>0$, (ii) $\sup_{t\ge s}|r(t)|<1$ for each $s>0$ and (iii) $r(t) = O(t^{-λ})$ as $t\to\infty$ for some $λ>0$. For any $n\ge 1$, consider $n$ mutually independent copies of $X$ and denote by $\{X_{r:n}(t):t\ge 0\}$ the $r$th smallest order statistics process, $1\le r\le n$. We provide a tractable criterion for assessing whether, for any positive, non-decreasing function $f$, $\mathbb P(\mathscr E_f)=\mathbb P(X_{r:n}(t) > f(t)\, \text{i.o.})$ equals 0 or 1. Using this criterion we find that, for a family of functions $f_p(t)$, such that $z_p(t)=\mathbb P(\sup_{s\in[0,1]}X_{r:n}(s)>f_p(t))=\mathscr C(t\log^{1-p} t)^{-1}$, $\mathscr C>0$, $\mathbb P(\mathscr E_{f_p})= 1_{\{p\ge 0\}}$. Consequently, with $ξ_p (t) = \sup\{s:0\le s\le t, X_{r:n}(s)\ge f_p(s)\}$, for $p\ge 0$, $\lim_{t\to\infty}ξ_p(t)=\infty$ and $\limsup_{t\to\infty}(ξ_p(t)-t)=0$ a.s.. Complementary, we prove an Erdös-Révész type law of the iterated logarithm lower bound on $ξ_p(t)$, i.e., $\liminf_{t\to\infty}(ξ_p(t)-t)/h_p(t) = -1$ a.s., $p>1$, $\liminf_{t\to\infty}\log(ξ_p(t)/t)/(h_p(t)/t) = -1$ a.s., $p\in(0,1]$, where $h_p(t)=(1/z_p(t))p\log\log t$.
(201464) Thomas Mark Merriman
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.
Protection of all nondefective twofold degeneracies by anti-unitary symmetries in non-Hermitian systems
Creators: name: Sayyad, Sharareh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian degeneracies are classified as defective and nondefective exceptional points~(EP). While in defective EPs, both eigenvalues and eigenenergies coalesce, nondefective EPs are characterized merely by the occurrence of degeneracies in their eigenvalues. It is also known that all degeneracies are either symmetry-protected or accidental. In this paper, I prove that anti-unitary symmetries protect all nondefective twofold EPs. By developing a 2D non-Hermitian tight-binding model, I have demonstrated that these symmetries are composite of various symmetry operations such as discrete or spatial point-group symmetries and Wick's rotation in the non-Hermitian parameter space. Introducing these composite symmetries, I present the protection of nondefective EPs in various parameter regimes of my model. This work paves the way to stabilizing nondefective EPs and offers a new perspective on understanding non-Hermitian band crossings.
description: 4+6 pages, 2+9 figures
Additional energy-information relations in thermodynamics of small systems
Creators: name: Uzdin, Raam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Clausius inequality (CI) form of the second law of thermodynamics relates information changes (entropy) to changes in the first moment of the energy (heat and indirectly also work). Are there similar relations between other moments of the energy distribution, and other information measures, or is the Clausius inequality a one of a kind instance of the energy-information paradigm? If there are additional relations, can they be used to make predictions on measurable quantities? Changes in the energy distribution beyond the first moment (average heat or work) are especially important in small systems which are often very far from thermal equilibrium. The generalized Clausius inequalities (GCI's), here derived, provide positive answers to the two questions above and add another layer to the fundamental connection between energy and information. To illustrate the utility of the new GCI's, we find scenarios where the GCI's yield tighter constraints on performance (e.g. in thermal machines) compared to the second law. To obtain the GCI's we use the Bregman divergence - a mathematical tool found to be highly suitable for energy-information studies. The quantum version of the GCI's provides a thermodynamic meaning to various quantum coherence measures. It is intriguing to fully map the regime of validity of the GCI's and extend the present results to more general scenarios including continuous systems and particles exchange with the baths.
description: In V2 the quantum generalization was added. In addition, V2 contains better examples, and more detailed proofs for some claims
(201465) Thomas Hart
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.
Large scalar multiplet dark matter in the high-mass region
Creators: name: Logan, Heather E.
name: Pilkington, Terry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two models of scalar dark matter from "large" electroweak multiplets with isospin 5/2 (n=6 members) and 7/2 (n=8), whose scalar potentials preserve a $Z_2$ symmetry. Because of large annihilation cross sections due to electroweak interactions, these scalars can constitute all the dark matter only for masses in the multi-TeV range. For such high masses, Sommerfeld enhancement and co-annihilations play important roles in the dark matter relic abundance calculation, reducing the upper bound on the large multiplet's mass by almost a factor of two. We determine the allowed parameter ranges including both of these effects and show that these models are as yet unconstrained by dark matter direct detection experiments, but will be probed by currently-running and proposed future experiments. We also show that a Landau pole appears in these models at energy scales below $10^9$ GeV, indicating the presence of additional new physics below that scale.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures; v2: refs added, some improvements to text, version accepted by PRD; v3: minor typo fixes
Students' perceptions of health
Creators: name: Garrard, Janice Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The 2015 outburst of the accretion-powered pulsar IGR J00291+5934: INTEGRAL and Swift observations
Creators: name: De Falco, V.
name: Kuiper, L.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Galloway, D. K.
name: Poutanen, J.
name: Ferrigno, C.
name: Stella, L.
name: Falanga, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IGR J00291+5934 is the fastest-known accretion-powered X-ray pulsar, discovered during a transient outburst in 2004. In this paper, we report on Integral and Swift observations during the 2015 outburst, which lasts for $\sim25$ d. The source has not been observed in outburst since 2008, suggesting that the long-term accretion rate has decreased by a factor of two since discovery. The averaged broad-band (0.1 - 250 keV) persistent spectrum in 2015 is well described by a thermal Comptonization model with a column density of $N_{\rm H} \approx4\times10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$, a plasma temperature of $kT_{\rm e} \approx50$ keV, and a Thomson optical depth of $τ_{\rm T}\approx1$. Pulsations at the known spin period of the source are detected in the Integral data up to the $\sim150$ keV energy band. We also report on the discovery of the first thermonuclear burst observed from IGR J00291+5934, which lasts around 7 min and occurs at a persistent emission level corresponding to roughly $1.6\%$ of the Eddington accretion rate. The properties of the burst suggest it is powered primarily by helium ignited at a depth of $y_{\rm ign}\approx1.5\times10^9$ g cm$^{-2}$ following the exhaustion by steady burning of the accreted hydrogen. The Swift/BAT data from the first $\sim20$ s of the burst provide indications of a photospheric radius expansion phase. Assuming this is the case, we infer a source distance of $d = 4.2 \pm 0.3$ kpc.
description: 8 Pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication on 5 December 2016 by the Journal A&A
Hydrothermal Carbonization and Pyrolysis of Sewage Sludge: Effects on Lolium perenne Germination and Growth
Creators: name: Paneque, Marina
name: Knicker, Heike
name: Kern, Jürgen
name: De La Rosa, José María
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biosolids
subject: Fertilizer
subject: Greenhouse experiment
subject: Hydrochar
subject: Nitrogen
subject: Pyrochar
subject: 630
subject: 640

description: The pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of sewage sludge (SS) resulted in products free of pathogens, with the potential for being used as soil amendment. With this work, we evaluated the impact of dry pyrolysis-treated (600 °C, 1 h) and HTC-treated (200 °C, 260 °C; 0.5 h, 3 h) SS on the germination, survival, and growth of Lolium perenne during an 80 day greenhouse experiment. Therefore, the hydrochars and pyrochars were amended to a Calcic Cambisol at doses of 5 and 25 t ha−1. The addition of sludge pyrochars to the Cambisol did not affect Lolium germination, survival rates or plant yields. However, the use 25 t ha−1 of wood biochar reduced germination and survival rates, which may be related to the low N availability of this sample. In comparison to the control, higher or equal plant biomass was produced in the hydrochar-amended pots, even though some hydrochars decreased plant germination and survival rates. Among all the evaluated char properties, only the organic and inorganic N contents of the chars, along with their organic C values, positively correlated with total and shoot biomass production. Our work demonstrates the N fertilization potential of the hydrochar produced at low temperature, whereas the hydrochar produced at 260 °C and the pyrochars were less efficient with respect to plant yields.
(201466) William 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.
THE DETERMINATION OF TRACE METALS IN SEA WATER USING ICP-MS
Creators: name: BLOXHAM, MARTIN JOHN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1994

description: Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) offers exceptional sensitivity and multi-element capability for trace metal analysis but the formation of polyatomic ions (particularly below m/z = 80) can cause, serious interferences. Such species can be introduced via precursor atoms in atmospheric gases, the sample matrix or impurities in the argon support gas. This thesis describes the development of a portfolio of analytical methods coupled with ICP-MS detection for the determination of trace metals such as manganese, cobalt, copper, nickel, zinc, mercury and lead in complex matrices such as sea water. A literature review of coupled techniques is given in Chapter one. Chapter two discusses the effect of sea water on the analytical performance of ICP-MS. Initial studies were carried out using a single channel flow injection (FI) manifold and included an investigation of the addition of nitrogen to the nebulizer gas flow of the ICPMS for the reduction of the ArNa* polyatomic ion interference at m/z = 63 on the Cu signal. This was followed by a multivariate simplex optimisation for the suppression of the ArNa* polyatomic ion interference at m/z = 63 and non-spectroscopic interferences affecting other masses in sea water, for the determination of Cu, Cr, Mn, Ni, Co, Zn and Pb. In Chapter three an on-line FI-ICP-MS matrix elimination method for the determination of trace metals such as Mn, Co, Cu, Zn and Pb in sea water is discussed. The method involved chelation of the analytes onto Chelex-100 or MetPac CC-1 iminodiacetate (IDA) .resin, with the simultaneous removal of indirectly interfering matrix species, particularly Na and CI ions. Results showing how the effects of the interferences were overcome, together with validation of the method by the analysis of open ocean, coastal and estuarine certified reference materials are reported. s Chapter four compares FI approaches coupled with AFS, ICP-AES and ICP-MS detectors for the determination of total mercury. Initial studies compared figures of merit for FI (conventional pneumatic nebulization) and Fl-cold vapour generation (CVG) coupled with ICP-AES and ICP-MS. Detection limits for total Hg were improved by developing simple on- and off-line preconcentration procedures using a MetPac CC-1 micro-column incorporated in a FI manifold vAth conventional pneumatic nebulization. An AFS detector was then used in the development of a method for the determination of total mercury with an on-line bromide/bromate oxidation step. In chapter five an LC-ICP-MS method for the speciation of Hg in sea water samples is described. The method involved the separation of mercury(II) chloride, methylmercury chloride and ethylmercury chloride on a Cig ODS stationary phase with an ammonium acetate/acetonitriIe/2-mercaptoethanol mobile phase. In order to achieve the necessary detection limits required for the determination of mercury in real sea water samples (< 50 ng r^), an off-line preconcentration method using a dithiocarbamate resin was used.
Everybody speaks : Euripides' new agon for theatre and text : a study of the role of servants, slaves, messengers and 'others' in Euripidean tragedy
Creators: name: Gardiner, Greg
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Near Real-Time Biophysical Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Yield Estimation to Support Crop Insurance Implementation in India
Creators: name: Arumugam, Ponraj
name: Chemura, Abel
name: Schauberger, Bernhard
name: Gornott, Christoph
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Crop insurance
subject: Crop modeling
subject: DSSAT
subject: PMFBY
subject: Rice
subject: Yield anomalies
subject: 630
subject: 640

description: Immediate yield loss information is required to trigger crop insurance payouts, which are important to secure agricultural income stability for millions of smallholder farmers. Techniques for monitoring crop growth in real-time and at 5 km spatial resolution may also aid in designing price interventions or storage strategies for domestic production. In India, the current government-backed PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) insurance scheme is seeking such technologies to enable cost-efficient insurance premiums for Indian farmers. In this study, we used the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) to estimate yield and yield anomalies at 5 km spatial resolution for Kharif rice (Oryza sativa L.) over India between 2001 and 2017. We calibrated the model using publicly available data: namely, gridded weather data, nutrient applications, sowing dates, crop mask, irrigation information, and genetic coefficients of staple varieties. The model performance over the model calibration years (2001–2015) was exceptionally good, with 13 of 15 years achieving more than 0.7 correlation coefficient (r), and more than half of the years with above 0.75 correlation with observed yields. Around 52% (67%) of the districts obtained a relative Root Mean Square Error (rRMSE) of less than 20% (25%) after calibration in the major rice-growing districts (>25% area under cultivation). An out-of-sample validation of the calibrated model in Kharif seasons 2016 and 2017 resulted in differences between state-wise observed and simulated yield anomalies from –16% to 20%. Overall, the good ability of the model in the simulations of rice yield indicates that the model is applicable in selected states of India, and its outputs are useful as a yield loss assessment index for the crop insurance scheme PMFBY.
Rewriting Pigafetta's feast: nationalism, class and culture in Philippine cuisine
Creators: name: Salazar, Joseph
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Sociology and Anthropology Program, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Autofluorescence guided welding of heart tissue by laser pulse bursts at 1550 nm
Creators: name: Litvinova, Karina
name: Chernysheva, Maria
name: Stegemann, Berthold
name: Leyva, Francisco
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Optica
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fiber lasers
subject: Fluorescence
subject: Fluorescence spectroscopy
subject: High energy lasers
subject: Histology
subject: 530
subject: 610

description: Wound healing and other surgical technologies traditionally solved by suturing and stapling have recently been enhanced by the application of laser tissue welding. The usage of high energy laser radiation to anastomose tissues eliminates a foreign body reaction, reduces scar formation, and allows for the creation of watertight closure. In the current work, we show that an ultrafast pulsed fibre laser beam with 183 µJ·cm−2 energy fluence at 1550 nm provides successful welding of dissected chicken heart walls with the tensile strength of 1.03±0.12 kg·cm−2 equal to that of native tissue. The welding process was monitored employing fluorescence spectroscopy that detects the biochemical composition of tissues. We believe that fluorescence spectroscopy guided laser tissue welding is a promising approach for decreasing wound healing times and the avoiding risks of postoperative complications.
Experimental Characterization of the Electron Heat Transport in Low-Density ASDEX Upgrade Plasmas
Creators: name: Fahrbach, H.-U.
name: Imbeaux, F.
name: Leuterer, F.
name: Ryter, F.
name: Suttrop, W.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters