cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Instrument of Military Power: The Development and Evolution of Japanese Martial Law in Occupied Territories, 1894–1945
Creators: name: Maddox, Kelly
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Japanese Martial Law
subject: Occupied Territories
subject: Military Power
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::950 Geschichte Asiens::952 Geschichte Japans

description: The Imperial Japanese Army imposed martial law (gunritsu) in areas occupied during each of the full-scale conflicts it fought between 1894 and 1945. This article traces changes and continuities in the purpose, function, and content of martial law during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Asia-Pacific War to advance our historical knowledge of a much-understudied aspect of Japanese warfare. In so doing, it details the development and evolution of martial law as an instrument of military power showing how regulations were also influenced by and, therefore, tended to reflect the different wartime priorities and macro-level policies of the (military) leadership. It also highlights that the character of martial law remained largely unchanged and reveals that many of the legal practices utilized during the Asia-Pacific War were rooted in earlier conflicts. It ultimately argues, however, that wartime context and immediate military objectives took precedence over any longer-term political ambitions in Asia and, more crucially, over the welfare of civilians under occupation.
Facilitators and Barriers to Assistance Dog Puppy Raisers’ Engagement in Recommended Raising Practices
Creators: name: Mai, Jimmy
name: Howell, Tiffani
name: Benton, Pree
name: Lewis, Virginia
name: Evans, Lynette
name: Bennett, Pauleen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 3003
subject: Animal production
classificationCode: 3009
subject: Veterinary sciences
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3109
subject: Zoology

description: Many assistance dog providers use volunteer raisers to manage each puppy’s learning and daily experiences, which partly determines the puppy’s behavioural development. Therefore, it is important that raisers engage in recommended practices. Three common recommendations from the literature include frequent socialisation and consistent training for the puppies, and effective training for the raisers. However, what facilitates or hinders raisers’ engagement in these practices remains unclear. To understand this, we interviewed eight raisers (three men and five women) every month during their year-long puppy raising program, and pseudo-randomly selected 16 from 48 interviews for data analysis. Thematic analyses revealed several facilitating and/or hindering factors corresponding to each of the three recommended practices. Frequent socialisation was influenced by the raisers’ availability, sharing of puppy raising responsibility with others, support from their workplace, and the puppy’s behaviours (e.g., soiling indoors, jumping). Consistent training was challenged by the presence of everyday distractors, accessibility to timely advice, perceived judgement from others, and the puppy’s undesirable behaviours. Effective learning was facilitated by having information available in raisers’ preferred learning modality, opportunities for peer-learning, and willingness to seek help. Future research should examine these factors quantitatively, which will enable more robust evaluation of programs aimed at supporting puppy raisers.
Abelianized structures in spherically symmetric hypersurface deformations
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In canonical gravity, general covariance is implemented by hypersurface-deformation symmetries on phase space. The different versions of hypersurface deformations required for full covariance have complicated interplays with one another, governed by non-Abelian brackets with structure functions. For spherically symmetric space-times, it is possible to identify a certain Abelian substructure within general hypersurface deformations, which suggests a simplified realization as a Lie algebra. The generators of this substructure can be quantized more easily than full hypersurface deformations, but the symmetries they generate do not directly correspond to hypersurface deformations. The availability of consistent quantizations therefore does not guarantee general covariance or a meaningful quantum notion thereof. In addition to placing the Abelian substructure within the full context of spherically symmetric hypersurface deformation, this paper points out several subtleties relevant for attempted applications in quantized space-time structures. In particular, it follows that recent constructions by Gambini, Olmedo and Pullin in an Abelianized setting fail to address the covariance crisis of loop quantum gravity.
description: 14 pages, v2: title change and more focused on hypersurface deformations
Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis: A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures
Creators: name: Power, Séamus A.
name: Schaeffer, Merlin
name: Heisig, Jan P.
name: Udsen, Rebecca
name: Ordóñez-Bueso, Liisalotte
name: Morton, Thomas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Covid-19
subject: Denmark
subject: imagining
subject: future
subject: morality
subject: social change
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark (n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, people imagined getting through the pandemic on a myopic day-by-day basis; on a descriptive and collective level, people imagined changes to work and socializing. Their future was bound and curtailed by their immediate present. On a moral and individual level, respondents were less detailed in their reports, but some vowed to change their behaviors. On a moral and collective level, respondents reported what the world should be like and discussed changes to environmental behaviors such as traveling, commuting, and work. The model suggests the domain of individual moral imaginings is the most difficult domain for people to imagine beyond the practicalities of their everyday lives. The implications of this model for comprehending imaginations of the future are discussed.
Facilitators and Barriers to Assistance Dog Puppy Raisers’ Engagement in Recommended Raising Practices
Creators: name: Mai, Dac Loc
name: Howell, Tiffani
name: Pree Benton
name: Lewis, Virginia
name: Evans, Lynette
name: Bennett, Pauleen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Many assistance dog providers use volunteer raisers to manage each puppy’s learning and daily experiences, which partly determines the puppy’s behavioural development. Therefore, it is important that raisers engage in recommended practices. Three common recommendations from the literature include frequent socialisation and consistent training for the puppies, and effective training for the raisers. However, what facilitates or hinders raisers’ engagement in these practices remains unclear. To understand this, we interviewed eight raisers (three men and five women) every month during their year-long puppy raising program, and pseudo-randomly selected 16 from 48 interviews for data analysis. Thematic analyses revealed several facilitating and/or hindering factors corresponding to each of the three recommended practices. Frequent socialisation was influenced by the raisers’ availability, sharing of puppy raising responsibility with others, support from their workplace, and the puppy’s behaviours (e.g., soiling indoors, jumping). Consistent training was challenged by the presence of everyday distractors, accessibility to timely advice, perceived judgement from others, and the puppy’s undesirable behaviours. Effective learning was facilitated by having information available in raisers’ preferred learning modality, opportunities for peer-learning, and willingness to seek help. Future research should examine these factors quantitatively, which will enable more robust evaluation of programs aimed at supporting puppy raisers.
Thinking with complexity in evaluation: A case study review
Creators: name: Roche, Christopher
name: Brown, Graham
name: Clune, Samantha
name: Shields, Nora
name: Lewis, Virginia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Roche C, Brown G,
Clune S, Shields N, Lewis V. Thinking with complexity in evaluation: A case
study review. Evaluation Journal of Australasia. 2021;21(3):146-162. © The
Author(s) 2021
Bubble wall dynamics at the electroweak phase transition
Creators: name: De Curtis, Stefania
name: Rose, Luigi Delle
name: Guiggiani, Andrea
name: Muyor, Ángel Gil
name: Panico, Giuliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First order phase transitions could play a major role in the early universe, providing important phenomenological consequences, such as the production of gravitational waves and the generation of baryon asymmetry. An important aspect that determines the properties of the phase transition is the dynamics of the true-vacuum bubbles, which is controlled by the density perturbations in the hot plasma. We study this aspect presenting, for the first time, the full solution of the linearized Boltzmann equation for the top quark species coupled to the Higgs field during a first-order electroweak phase transition. Our approach, differently from the traditional one based on the fluid approximation, does not rely on any ansatz and can fully capture the density perturbations in the plasma. We find that our results significantly differ from the ones obtained in the fluid approximation (including its extensions and modifications), both at the qualitative and quantitative level. In particular sizable differences are found for the friction acting on the bubble wall.
description: 25 pages, 24 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Miss Hoo Shee, Mr. Chan Jun Wing, Mrs. Chan Jun Wing, Mary Chan, Wae Nam Chan, Lee Bark Sing, Wong Chew Lap, Jong Top, Chu May, Ng Jong Now, Wong Wah, Mark Oy Quon, Wong Yung Wah, Wong Yon Mee, Mrs. Lew Chee.
Thinking with complexity in evaluation: A case study review
Creators: name: Roche, Christopher
name: Brown, Graham
name: Clune, Samantha
name: Shields, Nora
name: Lewis, Virginia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Roche C, Brown G, Clune S, Shields N, Lewis V. Thinking with complexity in evaluation: A case study review. Evaluation Journal of Australasia. 2021;21(3):146-162. © The Author(s) 2021
VII SINFDA BIOLOGIYANI FIZIKA BILAN BOG'LAB O'QITISHDA MEDIATA'LIMNING O'RNI
Creators: name: G'aniyeva, Guliruxsor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada mediata’limga asoslangan o‘quv mashg‘ulotlarini media vositalari hamda kompyuter dasturlaridan foydalangan holda tashkil etish, o‘rganilayotgan materiallarni yanada aniqroq va tushunarliroq taqdim etishi ko‘nikmalarini shakllantirish haqida ma’lumotlar berilgan.
Supplementary document for Picometer-scale optical vortex interferometer using azimuthal complex spectrum analysis - 6403190.pdf
Creators: name: Dong, Jingtao
name: Zhang, Tengda
name: Zhang, Yuzhong
name: yang, lei
name: Lu, Rong-sheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
GPER: A Novel Target To Treat Cardiovascular Disease In A Sex‐Specific Manner?
Creators: name: Dinh, Quynh Nhu
name: Vinh, Antony
name: Arumugam, Thiruma
name: Drummond, Grant
name: Sobey, Christopher
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3214
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
classificationCode: 3215
subject: Reproductive medicine

description: As an agonist of the classical nuclear receptors, ERα and ERβ, estrogen has been understood to inhibit the development of cardiovascular disease in pre-menopausal women. Indeed, reduced levels of estrogen after menopause are believed to contribute to accelerated morbidity and mortality rates in women. However, estrogen replacement therapy has variable effects on cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women that include increased serious adverse events. Interestingly, pre-clinical studies have shown that selective activation of the novel membrane-associated G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1, GPER, can promote cardiovascular protection. These benefits are more evident in ovariectomised than intact females or in males. It is therefore possible that selective targeting of the GPER in post-menopausal women could provide cardiovascular protection with fewer adverse effects than are caused by conventional 'receptor non-specific' estrogen replacement therapy. This review describes new data regarding the merits of targeting GPER to treat cardiovascular disease with a focus on sex differences.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND QUALITY OF LIFE: A STUDY OF MENTALLY ILL SURVIVORS IN BUSHENYI, UGANDA
Creators: name: Peace, Rukia
name: Dr. Asuma, Mariita Nchaga
name: Dr. Mpairwe, Anthony
name: Dr. Thomas, Gisemba Onsarigo
Publisher: name: ASP Journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Mental Health, Quality of Life (QoL), Community Support, Mentally Ill Survivors, Bushenyi District, Uganda

description: Mental illness remains a pressing public health issue in Uganda, especially in Bushenyi District, where survivors face limited access to mental healthcare, stigma, poverty, and cultural misconceptions. These factors significantly affect their quality of life (QoL), highlighting the importance of community-based support strategies. This study aimed to examine the influence of community support activities on the quality of life among mentally ill survivors in Bushenyi District, Uganda. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative techniques. Data were collected using structured questionnaires, interview guides, and observational checklists from a sample of 107 participants, including mentally ill survivors, caregivers, mental health professionals, and community leaders. Validity and reliability of instruments were confirmed with a CVI of 0.876 and a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.842, respectively. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS v26.0, applying descriptive and inferential statistics, including multiple regression. Thematic analysis was used for qualitative data. The study revealed that while mentally ill survivors moderately participated in activities like savings groups and market days, their involvement in community gardening, clean-ups, and cooperative income-generating ventures was limited due to stigma and unequal community support. Regression analysis showed a weak and statistically insignificant relationship between community support activities and Quality of Life (QoL) (t = 1.273, p = 0.206), indicating that community support alone is not sufficient to improve QoL unless integrated with other strategies. Finally, Community support activities showed a moderate but non-significant contribution to the Quality of Life of mentally ill survivors. However, they remain essential components of holistic mental health interventions. The study recommends strengthening community support systems through partnerships, awareness campaigns, and inclusive programming. Integrated models combining peer mentoring and life skills training
GPER: A Novel Target To Treat Cardiovascular Disease In A Sex‐Specific Manner?
Creators: name: Dinh, Quynh Nhu
name: Vinh, Antony
name: Arumugam, Thiruma
name: Drummond, Grant R
name: Sobey, Christopher G
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As an agonist of the classical nuclear receptors, ERα and ERβ, estrogen has been understood to inhibit the development of cardiovascular disease in pre-menopausal women. Indeed, reduced levels of estrogen after menopause are believed to contribute to accelerated morbidity and mortality rates in women. However, estrogen replacement therapy has variable effects on cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women that include increased serious adverse events. Interestingly, pre-clinical studies have shown that selective activation of the novel membrane-associated G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1, GPER, can promote cardiovascular protection. These benefits are more evident in ovariectomised than intact females or in males. It is therefore possible that selective targeting of the GPER in post-menopausal women could provide cardiovascular protection with fewer adverse effects than are caused by conventional 'receptor non-specific' estrogen replacement therapy. This review describes new data regarding the merits of targeting GPER to treat cardiovascular disease with a focus on sex differences.
Broadening Understanding in Working Therapeutically With Sexual Minority Young People
Creators: name: Young, Paris
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024

description: Whilst identifying as sexual minorities does not automatically associate
 one with ill- health, sexual minority individuals, living within
 heteronormative social structures, continue to experience
 disproportionately poorer health outcomes compared to their heterosexual
 counterparts. Young people are particularly vulnerable due to various
 developmental and social factors. Given healthcare professionals’ role in
 mitigating health inequality, this thesis explores their personal
 experiences to broaden current understanding and capture nuances in
 providing health care to sexual minority young people.

 Section one presents a systematic literature review of six qualitative
 studies on the experience of healthcare professionals working with sexual
 minority youth. Four constructs, representing ‘the complexity of tasks’,
 were generated using thematic synthesis. They capture understanding young
 people’s needs, professionals’ personal conflicts, uncertainties, fear of
 ‘getting it wrong’, relationship complexities, and, most importantly,
 their desire to support sexual minority youth. The review advocates for
 prioritising therapeutic relationships over sexuality-specific knowledge
 and emphasises the need to support healthcare professionals.

 Section two is an empirical research paper that investigates the
 experience of psychological therapists working with sexual minority
 adolescents. Seven participants were interviewed, and their transcripts
 were analysed with thematic analysis, informed by critical realism. Two
 dispositional and seven inferential themes were generated, which
 highlighted the centrality of therapeutic skills in working with sexual
 minority adolescents, including managing therapists’ own assumptions,
 agendas, and pulls. The paper also captures socio- political influences
 within the increasingly politically polarised psychological profession and
 advocates for profession-wide change to enable open, constructive
 dialogues.

 Section three offers a critical appraisal of the author’s reflections on
 the research process, including its impacts on his personal and
 professional identity development as a researcher, a social agent, and a
 psychologist. Particular focus is placed on his reflections regarding the
 negotiation between personal agency and existing social power.
title: Clothing Will Be Sent as Soon as a Supply is Received
Creators: name: Hodgdon, Samuel
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: State of the boat
subject: Stores
subject: Full supply of clothing
subject: Secretary of War's Report
subject: Congress
subject: Isaac Craig; Samuel Hodgdon

description: Capt. Miller should understand why his detachment was not fully supplied with clothing since he had been ordered to march as light as possible.
Efficient high-harmonic generation in graphene with two-color laser field at orthogonal polarization
Creators: name: Avetissian, Hamlet K.
name: Mkrtchian, Garnik F.
name: Knorr, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated from the interband transitions are efficiently generated in the case of the orthogonally polarized two-color field. In this case, the generated high-harmonics are stronger than those obtained in the parallel polarization case by more than two orders of magnitude. This is in sharp contrast with the atomic and semiconductor systems, where parallel polarization case is more preferable. The physical origin of this enhancement is also deduced from the three-step semi-classical electron-hole collision model, extended to graphene with pseudo-relativistic energy dispersion. In particular, we discuss the influence of the many particle Coulomb interaction on the HHG process within dynamical Hartree-Fock approximation. Our analysis shows that in all cases we have an overall enhancement of the HHG signal compared with the free-charged carrier model due to the electron-hole attractive interaction.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Non-perfect propagation of information to noisy environment with self-evolution
Creators: name: Mironowicz, Piotr
name: Horodecki, Paweł
name: Horodecki, Ryszard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-perfect propagation of information to evolving low-dimensional environment that includes self-evolution as well as noisy initial states and analyze interrelations between the degree of objectivization and environment parameters. In particular, we consider an analytical model of three interacting qubits and derive its objectivity parameters. The numerical analysis shows that the quality of the spectrum broadcast structure formed during the interaction may exhibit non-monotonicity both in the speed of self-dynamics of the environment as well as its mixedness. The former effect is particularly strong, showing that -- considering part of the environment as a measurement apparatus -- an increase of the external magnetic field acting on the environment may turn the very vague measurement into close to ideal. The above effects suggest that quantum objectivity may appear after increasing the dynamics of the environment, although not with respect to the pointer basis, but some other one which we call generalized pointer or indicator basis. Furthermore, it seems also that when the objectivity is poor it may be improved, at least by some amount, by increasing thermal noise. We provide further evidence of that by analyzing the upper bounds on distance to the set of states representing perfect objectivity in the case of a higher number of qubits.
description: Significantly extended (notion of the indicator basis with further analysis added); version accepted in Special Issue of Entropy "Quantum Darwinism and Friends"
Factors associated with midwives’ job satisfaction and experience of work: a cross-sectional survey of midwives in a tertiary maternity hospital in Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Matthews, Robyn
name: Hyde, Rebecca
name: Llewelyn, F
name: Shafiei, Touran
name: Newton, Michelle
name: Forster, Della
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3215
subject: Reproductive medicine
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Significant factors affecting the Australian maternity care context include an ageing, predominantly part-time midwifery workforce, increasingly medicalised maternity care, and women with more complex health/social needs. This results in challenges for the maternity care system. There is a lack of understanding of midwives’ experiences and job satisfaction in this context. Aim: To explore factors affecting Australian midwives’ job satisfaction and experience of work. Methods: In 2017 an online cross-sectional questionnaire was used to survey midwives employed in a tertiary hospital. Data collected included characteristics, work roles, hours, midwives’ views and experiences of their job. The Midwifery Process Questionnaire was used to measure midwives’ satisfaction in four domains: Professional Satisfaction, Professional Support, Client Interaction and Professional Development. Data were analysed as a whole, then univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses conducted to explore any associations between each domain, participant characteristics and other relevant factors. Findings: The overall survey response rate was 73% (302/411), with 96% (255/266) of permanently employed midwives responding. About half (53%) had a negative attitude about their Professional Support and Client Interaction (49%), and 21% felt negatively about Professional Development. The majority felt positively regarding Professional Satisfaction (85%). The main factors that impacted midwives’ satisfaction was inadequate acknowledgment from the organisation and needing more support to fulfil their current role. Conclusion: Focus on leadership and mentorship around appropriate acknowledgement and support may impact positively on midwives’ satisfaction and experiences of work. A larger study could explore how widespread these findings are in the Australian maternity care setting.
ePatient education for knee osteoarthritis systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Goff, Anthony
name: De-Oliveira-Silva, Danilo
name: Merolli, M
name: Bell, Emily
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Barton, Christian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: No description supplied
Efficient optimization-based quadrature for variational discretization of nonlocal problems
Creators: name: Pasetto, Marco
name: Shen, Zhaoxiang
name: D'Elia, Marta
name: Tian, Xiaochuan
name: Trask, Nathaniel
name: Kamensky, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Casting nonlocal problems in variational form and discretizing them with the finite element (FE) method facilitates the use of nonlocal vector calculus to prove well-posedeness, convergence, and stability of such schemes. Employing an FE method also facilitates meshing of complicated domain geometries and coupling with FE methods for local problems. However, nonlocal weak problems involve the computation of a double-integral, which is computationally expensive and presents several challenges. In particular, the inner integral of the variational form associated with the stiffness matrix is defined over the intersections of FE mesh elements with a ball of radius $δ$, where $δ$ is the range of nonlocal interaction. Identifying and parameterizing these intersections is a nontrivial computational geometry problem. In this work, we propose a quadrature technique where the inner integration is performed using quadrature points distributed over the full ball, without regard for how it intersects elements, and weights are computed based on the generalized moving least squares method. Thus, as opposed to all previously employed methods, our technique does not require element-by-element integration and fully circumvents the computation of element-ball intersections. This paper considers one- and two-dimensional implementations of piecewise linear continuous FE approximations, focusing on the case where the element size h and the nonlocal radius $δ$ are proportional, as is typical of practical computations. When boundary conditions are treated carefully and the outer integral of the variational form is computed accurately, the proposed method is asymptotically compatible in the limit of $h \sim δ\to 0$, featuring at least first-order convergence in L^2 for all dimensions, using both uniform and nonuniform grids.
description: 59 pages, 21 figures
Does understanding what a test measures make a difference? On the relevance of the ability to identify criteria for situational judgment test performance
Creators: name: Reznik, Nomi
name: Krumm, Stefan
name: Freudenstein, Jan-Philipp
name: Heimann, Anna L.
name: Ingold, Pia
name: Schäpers, Philipp
name: Kleinmann, Martin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ability to identify criteria
subject: planned missingness
subject: situational judgment test
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are low-fidelity simulations that are often used in personnel selection. Previous research has provided evidence that the ability to identify criteria (ATIC)—individuals' capability to detect underlying constructs in nontransparent personnel selection procedures—is relevant in simulations in personnel selection, such as assessment centers and situational interviews. Building on recent theorizing about response processes in SJTs as well as on previous empirical results, we posit that ATIC predicts SJT performance. We tested this hypothesis across two preregistered studies. In Study 1, a between-subjects planned-missingness design (N = 391 panelists) was employed and 55 selected items from five different SJTs were administered. Mixed-effects-modeling revealed a small effect for ATIC in predicting SJT responses. Results were replicated in Study 2 (N = 491 panelists), in which a complete teamwork SJT was administered with a high- or a low-stakes instruction and showed either no or a small correlation with ATIC, respectively. We compare these findings with other studies, discuss implications for our understanding of response processes in SJTs, and derive avenues for future research.
ePatient education for knee osteoarthritis systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Goff, Anthony
name: De-Oliveira-Silva, Danilo
name: Merolli, M
name: Bell, Emily
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Barton, Christian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description supplied
Dynamical photon sphere and time evolving shadow around black holes with temporal accretion
Creators: name: Koga, Yasutaka
name: Asaka, Nobuyuki
name: Kimura, Masashi
name: Okabayashi, Kazumasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A photon sphere is known as the geometrical structure shaping a black hole shadow. The mechanism is well understood for static or stationary black hole spacetimes such as the Schwarzschild and the Kerr spacetimes. In this paper, we investigate and explicitly specify a photon sphere that shapes a black hole shadow in a dynamical spacetime while taking the global structure of the spacetime into account. We consider dynamical and eternal black hole cases of the Vaidya spacetime, which represents a spherically symmetric black hole with accreting null dust. First, we numerically show that there are the dynamical photon sphere and photon orbits corresponding to the shadow edge in a moderate accretion case. Second, the photon spheres are derived analytically in special cases. Finally, we discuss the relation between our photon sphere and the several notions defined as a photon sphere generalization.
description: 49 pages, 31 figures
Factors Associated with Self-Reported PTSD Diagnosis among Older Lesbian Women and Gay Men
Creators: name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Minichiello, Victor
name: Hughes, Mark
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen
name: Edmonds, Samantha
name: Savage, Teresa
name: Pepping, Christopher
name: Blanchard, Michelle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4409
subject: Social work

description: No description supplied
On the cozero-divisor graphs assosciated to rings
Creators: name: Mathil, Praveen
name: Kumar, Barkha Baloda Jitender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C25, 05C50

description: Let $R$ be a ring with unity. The cozero-divisor graph of a ring $R$, denoted by $Γ'(R)$, is an undirected simple graph whose vertices are the set of all non-zero and non-unit elements of $R$, and two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $x \notin Ry$ and $y \notin Rx$. In this paper, first we study the Laplacian spectrum of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$. We show that the graph $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_{pq})$ is Laplacian integral. Further, we obtain the Laplacian spectrum of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$ for $n = p^{n_1}q^{n_2}$, where $n_1, n_2 \in \mathbb{N}$ and $p, q$ are distinct primes. In order to study the Laplacian spectral radius and algebraic connectivity of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$, we characterized the values of $n$ for which the Laplacian spectral radius is equal to the order of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$. Moreover, the values of $n$ for which the algebraic connectivity and vertex connectivity of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$ coincide are also described. At the final part of this paper, we obtain the Wiener index of $Γ'(\mathbb{Z}_n)$ for arbitrary $n$.
description: 2 figures
Factors Associated with Self-Reported PTSD Diagnosis among Older Lesbian Women and Gay Men
Creators: name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Minichiello, Victor
name: Hughes, Mark
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen
name: Edmonds, Samantha
name: Savage, Teresa
name: Pepping, Christopher
name: Blanchard, Michelle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Lesbian women and gay men are at greater risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than heterosexual people, however few studies have examined PTSD in older lesbian women and gay men. This study examined predictors of having ever been diagnosed with PTSD, as well as relationships to current quality of life, among 756 lesbian women and gay men aged 60 years and older in Australia. Participants were surveyed on their sociodemographic characteristics, experiences of sexual orientation discrimination over their lifetime, whether they had ever been diagnosed with PTSD, whether they were currently receiving treatment for PTSD, and their current quality of life. After adjusting for sociodemographic variables, participants who reported having a PTSD diagnosis (11.2%) had significantly more frequent experiences of discrimination over their lifetime and were significantly less likely to currently be in a relationship. Older lesbian women were significantly more likely than older gay men to report ever having had a PTSD diagnosis. Additionally, having ever been diagnosed with PTSD significantly predicted current poorer quality of life. These findings suggest that a history of PTSD among older lesbian women and gay men is linked to experiences of discrimination and other factors, with associated links to current quality of life.
title: Predictability of the North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures in Observations and an Eddy-Resolving Coupled Climate Model
Creators: name: Martin, Jonathan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sea surface temperatures
subject: North Atlantic Ocean
subject: Linear inverse model
subject: Predictability
subject: Ocean resolution
subject: Observations

description: This study uses linear inverse modeling (LIM) to examine the predictability of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in both observations and simulations of an unforced coupled climate model. For observations, historical North Atlantic SSTs from 1919 to 2018, we assess how predictability is impacted by the way in which the climate change signal is removed from the basin across three different observed SST datasets. In the climate model simulations, which possess no externally forced signal, we examine the influence of increasing the ocean resolution to an eddy resolving scale (0.1 degrees Lon/Lat) on the predictability of North Atlantic SSTs. Analysis of the observations ndfis that 1) SSTs in the Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin have the highest predictability within the North Atlantic and 2) basin averaged SSTs are predictable at a time scale of 3-5 years. The modes calculated based on the LIM supports these predictability results: all of the least damped modes, regardless of detrending method or dataset, indicate memory storage around the Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin with a decay timescale of 4.5 to 5 years. Neither the 3-5 year range of basin-wide predictability nor the enhanced Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin predictability are present in the SSTs of the eddy-resolving climate model. Examining the LIM eigenmodes for this dataset shows that the low Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin predictbaility is primarily the result of variable subsurface heat storage and a shallow mixed layer in these regions. It is worth noting that climate model's external forcing ( i.e. greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations) is fixed and thus one possible caveat in comparing the results of the simulations to those of observations is that neither detrending method has completely removed the forced signal from observed SSTs. That said, the results of our study, regardless of detrending method, show the Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin to be highly predictable regions within the observed North Atlantic and the fact that this is not the case in the simulation is likely due to model inadequacies.
Declining drinking among adolescents: Are we seeing a denormalisation of drinking and a normalisation of non‐drinking?
Creators: name: Caluzzi, Gabriel
name: Livingston, Michael
name: Holmes, John
name: MacLean, Sarah
name: Vashishtha, Rakhi
name: Lubman, Dan
name: Dietze, Paul
name: Herring, Rachel
name: Pennay, Amy
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description supplied
Impact of noise transients on low latency gravitational-wave event localisation
Creators: name: Macas, Ronaldas
name: Pooley, Joshua
name: Nuttall, Laura K.
name: Davis, Derek
name: Dyer, Martin J.
name: Lecoeuche, Yannick
name: Lyman, Joseph D.
name: McIver, Jess
name: Rink, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational-wave (GW) data contains non-Gaussian noise transients called "glitches". During the third LIGO-Virgo observing run about 24% of all gravitational-wave candidates were in the vicinity of a glitch, while even more events could be affected in future observing runs due to increasing detector sensitivity. This poses a problem since glitches can affect the estimation of GW source parameters, including sky localisation, which is crucial to identify an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. In this paper we present a study that estimates how much sky localisation is affected by a nearby glitch in low latency. We injected binary black hole (BBH), binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) signals into data containing three different classes of glitches: blips, thunderstorms and fast scatterings. The impact of these glitches was assessed by estimating the number of tile pointings that a telescope would need to search over until the true sky location of an event is observed. We found that blip glitches affect the localisation of BBH mergers the most; in the most extreme cases a BBH event is completely missed even by a 20 deg$^2$ field-of-view (FOV) telescope. Thunderstorm glitches have the biggest impact on BBH and NSBH events, especially if there is no third interferometer, while BNS events appear to be not affected. Fast scattering glitches impact low latency localisation only for NSBH signals. For two-interferometer network small (FOV=1 deg$^2$) and large (FOV=20 deg$^2$) telescopes are affected, whereas three-interferometer localisation bias is small enough not to affect large (FOV=20 deg$^2$) telescopes.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Accepted to PRD
title: American Etiquette: How Time and Technology Have Changed Social Interaction
Creators: name: Broadbent, G Paige
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Etiquette
subject: American
subject: Technology
subject: Polite behavior

description: This thesis describes how over time technology has changed what Americans view as polite behavior and the ambiguity of the common conception that etiquette practices are outdated, yet awkward encounters are causing embarrassment because of the lack of knowledge of common etiquette. Starting with the Victorian Era this thesis looks at common etiquette practices of that time and why people were so interested in understanding how to behave in most social settings. Moving forward, this thesis examines the impact technology has had with how Americans interact on a daily basis, especially paying attention to the affects of modern technology such as: cell phones, Internet, television, and the media. Etiquette practices and conceptions from the Victorian Era are compared to etiquette practices today in order to show commonalities and differences among the times, but to exhibit the need for modern Americans to accept the need for a common agreement that a shared belief of what acceptable behaviors are what is necessary to avoid the feelings of aloneness and awkwardness many face in social settings.
How can Mental Health Practitioners Utilise the Therapeutic Relationship to Effectively Support People with a Psychosis Spectrum Condition?
Creators: name: Brown, Katrina
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Psychosis
Therapeutic Relationship
Mental Health Practitioner
Young People
Self-Concept Clarity
Early Intervention

description: This thesis explores how mental health practitioners (MHP) can the utilise
 therapeutic relationships (TR) to effectively support people with a
 psychosis spectrum condition.

 Section one documents a systematic literature review exploring how the TR
 can enhance self-concept clarity (SCC) for people with psychosis. Three
 themes emerged from a meta-ethnography of 22 papers: Coming into the TR,
 Initial Building of the TR, The Context of Safety in the TR. A fourth and
 final theme emerged from a final layer of synthesis: development of SCC in
 treatment and beyond. The resultant line of argument synthesis explained
 how the TR dynamically develops alongside development of aspects of the
 self, to enhance overall SCC. The discussion details strengths,
 limitations, the findings’ implications for MHPs’ practice, and
 recommended updates to the clinical guidelines that MHPs follow.

 Section two documents an empirical research study exploring the subjective
 experiences of young people experiencing early-onset psychosis (EOP), who
 engage in TRs with MHPs in early intervention services (EIS).
 Semi-structured interviews with four participants were analysed using
 Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three major themes emerged:
 Pacing the TR, Fostering Autonomy, A Personalised Approach. These themes
 highlighted what the participants wanted and needed from their MHPs, for
 their TR to benefit their overall recovery. Strengths and limitations are
 discussed, as are the findings’ clinical value for MHPs supporting young
 people across the EOP spectrum. Recommendations include future research to
 broaden the scope of this previously under-researched phenomenon, and
 consideration of updates to the

 clinical guidelines followed by MHPs supporting these young people through
 their recovery journey.

 Section three documents a critical appraisal detailing cross-cutting
 themes across the review and study, study participants’ views of EIS
 overall, limitations in participant diversity

 across the review and study with related recommendations for future
 research, and personal reflections on the study data analysis process.