cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High Speed Forming of the Light-Weight Wrought Alloys
Creators: name: Abouridouane, M.
name: El-Magd, E.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: constitutive material law
subject: flow behaviour
subject: high strain rates
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: The deformation and fracture behaviour of the Al-alloy AA7075, Mg-alloy AZ80, and Tialloy Ti-6Al-4V were investigated in quasi-static and dynamic uniaxial compression and tension tests at strain rates in the range of 0.001 s^(-1) ≤ ε̇ ≤ 5000 s^(-1) and temperatures between 20°C and 500°C. Shear tests with hat shaped specimens of AZ80 were carried out by quasi-static and dynamic loading in the shear rate range of 0.01s^(-1) ≤ γ̇ ≤ 116000s^(-1) at a temperature of 20°C. For strain rates of ε̇ ≤ 10 s^(-1), the tests were carried out using a computer numerical controlled hydraulic testing machine. High strain rate experiments with ε̇ ≥ 1000 s^(-1) were performed on a Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar. Using the experimentally determined flow curves, the effect of strain rate and temperature on the compressive deformation at fracture was determined, showing that the forces required for forming as well as the limits of the possible deformation are controlled by strain rate und temperature. Under dynamic loading, both AA7075 and AZ80 show an increase of the deformation degree at fracture with increasing strain rate, whereas the Ti-6Al-4V shows a decrease of it. The investigated mechanical material behaviour (strain hardening, strain rate sensitivity, and thermal softening) and metallographic investigations of the deformed specimens in dynamic compression tests allow an explanation for character, formation, and evolution of damage in the deformed material. Constitutive material laws, whose parameters are determined from the experimental data, can be applied to describe the influence of strain rate and temperature on the mechanical material behaviour in compression, tension and shear tests. These material laws are to be implemented into the FE simulation, in order to determine the local state of stress and strain at time of the fracture. Through combination of experiment and simulation, a failure criterion for ductile fracture could be determined for AA7075 under quasi-static and dynamic tensile loading.
Envisioning the Italian migrant experience down under: the socio-historical and cultural framing of Giorgio Mangiamele's "minor" cinema
Creators: name: Lampugnani, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Giorgio Mangiamele is without doubt one of the most interesting and artistically gifted filmmakers in contemporary Australian cinema, even though often material and financial circumstances have not permitted him to develop his ideas in a technical sense; he is absolutely crucial as representative of the post-war Italian migration experience in Australia. His oeuvre has received considerable critical attention recently but a serious, organic, critical analysis has been hampered by misconceptions about his marginal position with respect to mainstream production and the typecasting of the author as a "migrant" cinematographer. This dissertation has sought to bridge the prejudicial divide between the diasporic context and the artistic value, talent and intentions of the filmmaker. Underpinning my argument with Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical framework of "minor" literatures, I suggest that Mangiamele's cinematic production did have an influence on mainstream cinema and society, in the sense that "minor no longer designates specific literatures but the revolutionary conditions for every literature within the heart of what is called great (or established) literature" (Kafka, 18). In order to elucidate Mangiamele's acuity, and cinematographic talent and human observational skills, I provide a socio-historical and cultural framing for his oeuvre which confirms the author's crucial importance for the post-war period, his highly individual style and work imbued with ethical and moral principles as well as compassion and humanistic concerns.
Contributing Factors to the Increased Formability Observed in Electromagnetically Formed Aluminum Alloy Sheet
Creators: name: Golovashchenko, S.
name: Imbert, J. M.
name: Worswick, M. J.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: AA5754
subject: aluminum alloy sheet
subject: electromagnetic sheet metal forming
subject: formability
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: This paper summarizes the results of an experimental and numerical program carried out to study the formability of aluminum alloy sheet formed using electromagnetic forming (EMF). Free-formed and conical samples of AA5754 aluminum alloy sheet were studied. The experiments showed significant increases in formability for the conical samples, but no significant increase for the free-formed parts. It was found that relatively little damage growth occurred and that the failure modes of the materials changed from those observed in quasi-static forming to those observed in high hydrostatic stress environments. Numerical simulations were performed using the explicit finite element code LS-DYNA with an analytical EM force distribution. The numerical models revealed that a complex stress state is generated when the sheet interacts with the tool, which is characterized by high hydrostatic stresses that create a stress state favourable to damage suppression increasing ductility. Shear stresses and strains are also produced at impact with the die which help the material achieve additional deformation. The predicted peak strain rates for the free formed parts were on the order of 1000 s^(-1) and for the conical parts the rates are on the order of 10,000 s^(-1). Although aluminum is typically considered to be strain-rate insensitive, the strain rates predicted could be playing a role in the increased formability. The predicted strain paths for the conical samples were highly non-linear. The results from this study indicate that there is an increase in formability for AA5754 when the alloy is formed into a die using EMF. This increase in formability is due to a combination of high hydrostatic stresses, shear stresses, high strain rates, and non-linear strain paths.
title: Drawing the line: Religion, Education, and the Establishment Clause, 1947-1997
Creators: name: Long, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: In 1947, in Everson v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court held for the first time that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. The Establishment Clause states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” and governs the institutional relationships between the churches and the state in the United States. With Everson began a controversial and long-running debate: what exactly does the Establishment Clause mean and what kinds of relationship between church and state are forbidden under its terms? As arbiter of the Constitution, the task of interpreting the Clause and its meaning in the modern United States fell to the Supreme Court. This thesis investigates the Court’s interpretation of the Establishment Clause between Everson in 1947 and Agostini v. Felton in 1997, when the Court overruled itself for the first time in this area of constitutional law. This thesis focuses on the Court’s decisions in the area of schools and education policy, such cases accounting for a majority of the Court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence. It considers school aid and the provision of government benefits to religious schools and their students, school prayer and other school-sponsored religious exercises on public school grounds, and equal access, the question of voluntary student-initiated religious activities on public school premises. In seeking to investigate the Court’s decisions, three main influences are considered: the opinions of the Court, the Justices’ private discussions and the alignment of Justices in each case, and the social and political context against which the cases arose and were decided. This thesis takes an historical approach to analysing these events and investigates influences on the Court beyond those of legal origin. In taking this approach, the thesis addresses how and why the Court made its decisions and rulings, the consequences of those rulings for the meaning of the Establishment Clause, and the effect of both on the relationship between the institutions of the churches and the state in the modern United States.
(200925) William Collins
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.
Advice speech-act in Persian as a first language and English as a second language: a study of Iranian students
Creators: name: Davoodifard, Mahshad
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic realizations of the advice speech act in Persian as a first language and English as a second language. More specifically, the study aimed at exploring the linguistic and pragmatic strategies used by Persian speakers when offering unsolicited advice in both their first and second language. Furthermore, the research project investigated the social and cultural norms and values that can affect the formulation of advice. The study based its argument on a corpus of data elicited by means of a Persian and an English version of a Discourse Completion Test and three Focus Group Discussions. In an effort to learn more about culture-specific patterns of advice in Persian language and culture, the Persian and English data were compared to data produced by a group of native speakers of Australian English, who mainly served as a reference group. The data were analyzed focusing on six major components of the advice speech act: (1) the use of advice speech act; (2) level of directness and advice strategies; (3) supportive move strategies; (4) internal modification strategies; (5) alerters and gambits and (6) level of formality. Moreover, the major themes and trends which emerged from the Focus Group Discussions were explored and analyzed qualitatively. The results of the study showed that the Persian speaking participants preferred a direct style and adhered closely to the social and cultural norms and assumptions of their native language and culture when offering advice in both their first and second language. The analysis of the data from the Australian English speakers revealed that these participants preferred to avoid advice giving or mitigated the force of their advice by means of a wide range of strategies. The findings of this study indicate that the formulation of advice is linked to the underpinning sociocultural views of the speakers, and cross-cultural differences in the use and interpretation of advice speech act are likely to result in miscommunication and misperception when people engage in communication in English as an international language. The results of the study contribute to a better understanding of the role of the culture-specific values which dominate advice giving behavior among Persian speakers. The study also presents a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the findings for the teaching and learning English in its global context.
Pfister involutions in characteristic two
Creators: name: Nokhodkar, A. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W10, 16K50, 11E39, 12F05

description: In characteristic two, it is shown that a central simple algebra of degree equal to a power of two with anisotropic orthogonal involution is totally decomposable, if it becomes either anisotropic or metabolic over all extensions of the ground field. A similar result is obtained for the case where this algebra with involution is Brauer-equivalent to a quaternion algebra and it becomes adjoint to a bilinear Pfister form over all splitting fields of the algebra.
(200926) Jane Collins
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.
Magnetic Fluctuations, Precursor Phenomena and Phase Transition in MnSi under Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Pappas, C.
name: Bannenberg, L. J.
name: Lelievre-Berna, E.
name: Qian, F.
name: Dewhurst, C.
name: Dalgliesh, R. M.
name: Schlagel, D. L.
name: Longrasso, T. A.
name: Falus, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reference chiral helimagnet MnSi is the first system where skyrmion lattice correlations have been reported. At zero magnetic field the transition at $T_C$ to the helimagnetic state is of first order. Above $T_C$, in a region dominated by precursor phenomena, neutron scattering shows the build up of strong chiral fluctuating correlations over the surface of a sphere with radius $2π/\ell$, where $\ell$ is the pitch of the helix. It has been suggested that these fluctuating correlations drive the helical transition to first order following a scenario proposed by Brazovskii for liquid crystals. We present a comprehensive neutron scattering study under magnetic fields, which provides evidence that this is not the case. The sharp first order transition persists for magnetic fields up to 0.4 T whereas the fluctuating correlations weaken and start to concentrate along the field direction already above 0.2 T. Our results thus disconnect the first order nature of the transition from the precursor fluctuating correlations. They also show no indication for a tricritical point, where the first order transition crosses over to second order with increasing magnetic field. In this light, the nature of the first order helical transition and the precursor phenomena above $T_C$, both of general relevance to chiral magnetism, remain an open question.
Cross section measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section for the production of single top quarks in the t channel is measured in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 inverse femtobarns. The event selection requires one muon and two jets where one of the jets is identified as originating from a bottom quark. Several kinematic variables are then combined into a multivariate discriminator to distinguish signal from background events. A fit to the distribution of the discriminating variable yields a total cross section of 238 +/- 13 (stat) +/- 29 (syst) pb and a ratio of top quark and top antiquark production of R[t-ch.] = 1.81 +/- 0.18 (stat) +/- 0.15 (syst). From the total cross section the absolute value of the CKM matrix element V[tb] is calculated to be 1.05 +/- 0.07 (exp) +/- 0.02 (theo). All results are in agreement with the standard model predictions.
description: Replaced with the published version. Small changes made to results from updated integrated luminosity measurement. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-16-003/index.html (CMS Public Pages)
Policy and practice recommendations on flood risk management in the Awash basin
Creators: name: Haile, Alemseged Tamiru
name: Taye, Meron Teferi
name: Likimyelesh, Nigussie
name: Bekele, Tilaye Worku
name: Dessalegn, Mengistu
name: Tekleab, Sirak
name: Nicol, Alan
name: Dyer, Ellen
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024

description: In the Awash basin flooding is a frequent occurrence during the main rainy season in July and August. The changing climate patterns are intensifying extreme rainfall conditions and causing floods in unexpected locations and seasons. Added to which, narrow channel width, land cover changes and land degradation can all exacerbate flood impacts. Recent exceptional wet extremes in 2020 caused massive flooding and severe damage to property in parts of the basin. A displacement of 144,000 persons and over 5 billion Birr damage was reported in Afar Regional State alone. With support from the REACH program, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) examined characteristics of extreme rainfall and associated drivers of flooding, comparing previous flood occurrences, and investigating non-climatic drivers including differential impacts on social groups. Key points emerging from this analysis are as follows:

-Unusual rainfall in terms of location, magnitude, and timing was the major cause of flooding in 2020

-The 2020 flood was characterized by early onset, delayed recession and larger extent of floods

-Although the initial trigger was extreme rainfall, many non-climate drivers contributed to and exacerbated flooding, as well as the range and intensity of impacts on communities

-The impacts of flooding vary across groups within communities-Variation in type of flooding and differential impacts requires contextualized interventions

Recommended action points for practitioners and policy makers:

-Institutional design to facilitate coordinated management and response to floods

-Collaboration on operational guidance and improvement in flood early warning

-Revision of studies on the Awash based on recent science and data

-Implement web-based systems for data and information sharing including “data-free-of-charge” policy for researchers and research-users

-Integration of indigenous knowledge into flood risk preparedness and research
-Gender-responsive interventions are critical-Inclusion and strengthening of Awash flood-related research themes in universities’ water-related programs
Immunomodulatory potential of a bioactive fraction from the leaves of Phyllostachys bambusoides (Bamboo) in Balb/c mice
Creators: name: Kumar, Sunil
name: Sharma, Gaurav
name: Sidiq, Tabasum
name: Khajuria, Anamika
name: Jain, Mahendra
name: Bhagwat, Deepak
name: Dhar, KL
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: haemagglutination antibody titre
subject: delayed type hypersensitivity reaction
subject: phagocytosis
subject: nitric oxide
subject: Candida albicans
subject: flow cytometry
subject: 610

description: In order to evaluate the role of ethyl acetate fraction (PB-EtAC) obtained from the Phyllostachys bambusoides leaves in the modulation of immune responses, detailed studies were carried out using a panel of in vivo assays. Oral administration of PB-EtAC (50–200 mg/Kg) stimulated the IgM and IgG titre expressed in the form of haemagglutination antibody (HA) titre. Further, it elicited a dose related increase in the delayed type hypersensitivity reaction (DTH) after 24 and 48 h in BALB/c mice. Besides augmenting the humoral and cell mediated immune response, the concentration of cytokines (IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-4) in serum with respect to T cell interactions also increased significantly. It also induced macrophage phagocytosis, and nitric oxide (NO) production which resulted in a high degree of protection against Candida albicans and carbon clearance. Moreover, the enhancement in CD4 and CD8 cell populations as revealed by flow cytometry. Taken together this in vivo and ex vivo preclinical data, our results suggested that PB-EtAC acts as an effective immunostimulator eliciting both Th1 and Th2 immune responses. We are reporting first time the immunostimulatory potential of P. bambusoides and it might be regarded as a biological response modifier.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
GUP parameter from quantum corrections to the Newtonian potential
Creators: name: Scardigli, Fabio
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Vagenas, Elias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a technique to compute the deformation parameter of the generalized uncertainty principle by using the leading quantum corrections to the Newtonian potential. We just assume General Relativity as theory of Gravitation, and the thermal nature of the GUP corrections to the Hawking spectrum. With these minimal assumptions our calculation gives, to first order, a specific numerical result. The physical meaning of this value is discussed, and compared with the previously obtained bounds on the generalized uncertainty principle deformation parameter.
description: v1: 6 pages, no figures; v2: minor corrections, physics unchanged, to appear in Phys. Lett. B. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.0113
Uncertainty avoidance and cost stickiness
Creators: name: Tse, Sui Cheung
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

A recent development in research on cost behaviour is the emergence of the concept of sticky cost behaviour. Anderson, Banker and Janakiraman (2003) present an alternative theory of cost behaviour, the sticky cost hypothesis. Cost behaviour is considered to be an outcome of deliberate managerial decisions on levels of committed resources rather than mechanical responses to changes in cost drivers (Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman, 2003; Banker and Byzalov, 2014). The decisions are made by managers in accordance with available information including direction, magnitude and duration of cost driver changes. As managers’ use of information in decision making can be influenced by human, organisational and institutional factors, these factors can also moderate managers’ decisions on levels of committed resources and consequently the stickiness of costs. The study presented in this thesis seeks to advance the understanding on antecedents and implications of sticky cost behaviour by examining two research questions. First, effects of human factors on the occurrence of cost stickiness are examined by testing the relationship between the cross-national differences in a human attribute, uncertainty avoidance, and stickiness of costs. Second, the implications of recognising sticky cost behaviour in developments of management accounting practices are examined by testing the application of a revised cost function that is developed in line with the sticky cost hypothesis in cost prediction practice. Findings of the study show that international differences in the degree of cost stickiness can be attributed to the degree of uncertainty avoidance and the legal system of a country. Under each legal system, countries with higher levels of uncertainty avoidance generally have higher degrees of cost stickiness. The application of a revised cost function in cost prediction generates results that are different from those based on the use of a traditional linear cost function. However, the differences in results are not always significant.
Dynamical evidence for a strong tidal interaction between the Milky Way and its satellite, Leo V
Creators: name: Collins, Michelle L. M.
name: Tollerud, Erik J.
name: Sand, David J.
name: Bonaca, Ana
name: Willman, Beth
name: Strader, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a chemodynamical analysis of the Leo~V dwarf galaxy, based on Keck II DEIMOS spectra of 8 member stars. We find a systemic velocity for the system of $\langle v_r\rangle = 170.9^{+ 2.1}_{-1.9}$kms$^{-1}$, and barely resolve a velocity dispersion for the system, with $σ_{vr} = 2.3^{+3.2}_{-1.6}$kms$^{-1}$, consistent with previous studies of Leo~V. The poorly resolved dispersion means we are unable to adequately constrain the dark matter content of Leo~V. We find an average metallicity for the dwarf of [Fe/H]$ = -2.48\pm0.21$, and measure a significant spread in the iron abundance of its member stars, with $-3.1\le$[Fe/H]$\le-1.9$ dex, which cleanly identifies Leo~V as a dwarf galaxy that has been able to self-enrich its stellar population through extended star formation. Owing to the tentative photometric evidence for tidal substructure around Leo~V, we also investigate whether there is any evidence for tidal stripping or shocking of the system within its dynamics. We measure a significant velocity gradient across the system, of $\frac{{\rm d}v}{{\rm d}χ} = -4.1^{+2.8}_{-2.6}$kms$^{-1}$ per arcmin (or $\frac{{\rm d}v}{{\rm d}χ} = -71.9^{+50.8}_{-45.6}$kms$^{-1}$~kpc$^{-1}$), which points almost directly toward the Galactic centre. We argue that Leo~V is likely a dwarf on the brink of dissolution, having just barely survived a past encounter with the centre of the Milky Way.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Updated to include minor revisions from referee process
On local smoothing problems and Stein's maximal spherical means
Creators: name: Miao, Changxing
name: Yang, Jianwei
name: Zheng, Jiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is proved that the local smoothing conjecture for wave equations implies certain improvements on Stein's analytic family of maximal spherical means. Some related problems are also discussed.
description: 16pages, 1figure
(200928) Edwin Napper
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.
Combating 'Ignorance... the greatest enemy of health': health education in Australia, 1945 – 1981.
Creators: name: Stylianou, Marianna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the second half of the twentieth century Australian state and federal governments became increasingly attracted to health education as a public health measure. This reflected the growing prevalence of lifestyle-related medical conditions during the period, whose onset and development were largely dependent on individuals' behaviour. How these health education policies and programs were implemented in post-war Australia has yet to receive sustained historical attention, and this thesis addresses this absence by examining government-implemented health education in the thirty-five years following World War Two. Three case studies were used to analyse governments' motives and methods for modifying citizens' health-related behaviour: school health education, the Australian Road Safety Council campaigns, and the 'Life. Be in it' program. Comparisons with health education programs that were developed outside of the stated time frame of the thesis were also made to highlight unique aspects of the case studies and to place them in their historical context. The underlying motivation of Australian governments was to increase citizens' economic productivity and to decrease health expenditure. However Australia's liberal democracy presented policymakers with an ethical dilemma of how to modify citizens' behaviour in a non-coercive manner. It was found that government-implemented health education programs endorsed the notion of self-responsibility to achieve this. By focusing on the responsibility of citizens, governments were also able to deflect attention away from areas where they could have made a greater investment or imposed stricter regulations on industry. Furthermore, the case studies demonstrated that health education policies and programs were shaped more by economic, cultural and political factors than by research or evidence-based practice. This was shown through the continued use of methods whose effectiveness had earlier been questioned or discredited. Health education's greatest contribution to public health during the period was raising awareness of health issues that facilitated the public's acceptance of more coercive government measures to modify behaviour. Through the exploration of policymakers' motives and methods, this study places post-war government-implemented health education in its historical context, which has thus far been neglected in accounts of Australian public health.
Minangkabau language: use and attitudes
Creators: name: Thamrin, Temmy
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

This study investigates the use of and attitudes towards Minangkabau language in the Minangkabau community of West Sumatra, Indonesia, which is a matrilineal society and is among the most Islamic areas in Indonesia. In this area there is bilingual diglossia with Indonesian as the high variety and Minangkabau as the low variety. This study documents language use in various different contexts and language attitudes among Minangkabau people. Nine domains of language use are observed: family, market, friendship, education/work, religion, government, public service, with outsiders, and personal expression. The data on language attitudes of Minangkabau people reflect the characteristics of Minangkabau society. The respondents in this study were two groups of Minangkabau people: 200 youths, 11-18 years old; and 200 adults, above 35 years old. Three cities were chosen from high language contact areas—Padang, Bukittinggi, and Payakumbuh—while the other three cities are in regencies in low language contact areas—Muaro Sinjunjung, Pulau Punjung, and Lubuk Sikaping. The data was collected by a questionnaire, participant observation, and interviews. The findings reveal that MIN is still used in the community, especially in the low language contact areas. However, intergenerational language transmission of Minangkabau is decreasing, especially in two high language contact areas where there is a large shift away from Minangkabau in the youth generation, and there is a consistent shift everywhere between the adult and youth generations. Various kinds of ambivalent language attitudes are reflected in the data and suggest that people in Minangkabau society have dualistic attitudes about language.
(200923) William George Arthur Collins
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.
Dynamic Pair Correlations and Superadiabatic Forces in a Dense Brownian Liquid
Creators: name: Schindler, Thomas
name: Schmidt, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C05

description: We study dynamic two-body correlation functions, i.e. the two-body density, the current-density correlator or van Hove current, and the current-current correlator in Brownian dynamics computer simulations of a dense Lennard-Jones bulk liquid. The dynamic decay of the correlation shells of the two-body density is examined in detail. Inner correlation shells decay faster than outer correlation shells, whereas outer correlation shells remain stable for increasing times. Within a dynamic test particle picture the mechanism is assumed to be triggered by the dislocation of the self particle, which releases the confinement of the surrounding correlation shells. We present a division of the van Hove current into an adiabatic and a superadiabatic contribution. The magnitude of the adiabatic van Hove current is found to exceed that of the total van Hove current, which is consistent with dynamic density functional theory overestimating the speed of the dynamics. The direction of the superadiabatic van Hove current opposes that of the total van Hove current. The current-current correlator reveals detailed insight in the collisions of the particles. We find a large static nearest-neighbor peak, which results from colliding particles and different dynamic peaks, that are attributed to consecutive collisions.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
From victim to survivor : the emergence and development of the Holocaust witness 1941-1949
Creators: name: Taft, Margaret Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-1949 This thesis explores the process whereby victims and survivors of the Holocaust sought to make sense of their experiences over an eight year period between 1941 and 1949. In doing so they contributed to a shared understanding of what it meant to be a victim during the onslaught of the Final Solution and what it meant to be a survivor in the immediate post war period. This thesis argues that the act of bearing witness by victims and survivors both during and immediately after the Holocaust was part of a developing discourse that initially sought to impart meaning to an experience not yet part of a collective public consciousness. Through a close reading of diaries, memoirs, reports and chronicles from this period, this thesis establishes that the witness underwent three distinct transitional stages. The first stage saw the victims struggle to know and comprehend the full implications of the Final Solution. The second stage concerned the way in which they dealt with the full realization of what had befallen them at a time when Europe was being liberated. The third stage saw victims reshape their identity into that of survivors in the immediate post war period. This thesis also argues that throughout this eight year period the Holocaust witness struggled against forces that deliberately sought to subvert his or her attempts to bear witness. Initially, the witness confronted both an unprecedented existential threat that they struggled to comprehend and a deliberate attempt by the Nazis to conceal it. Following liberation the witness encountered a climate of continued anti-Semitism, hostility and indifference both from the Allies and the world they had liberated. This thesis establishes that by holding firm to their belief in a moral and just world, victims and survivors made a meaningful and enduring contribution to their own communities at a time when few others showed interest in or an understanding of the Jewish experience of the Holocaust.
(200924) Walter Edwin Nicoll
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 Roman military presence in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Creators: name: Kucera, Paul Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study focuses on the Roman military presence in Egypt's western oases from the third to fifth centuries CE with particular emphasis on the late third and fourth centuries. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the evidence for the military with the aim of developing a better understanding of the reason for its presence in the Western Desert. The findings are considered in relation to other available data on the late Roman army and its roles as well as contemporary political developments and economic activities in Egypt. The thesis expands upon previous studies, but incorporates significant new data, especially in relation to fortifications. Both the archaeological remains of the forts and the documentary evidence are evaluated critically to refine our knowledge of the date that the forts were established, their geographic distribution in relation to one another, their role in relation to the deployment of auxiliary units, and the likely tasks that soldiers performed. It is argued that significant developments took place in the oases under Diocletian and were linked with his re-organisation of the military in Egypt towards the end of the third century. Forts were positioned in strategic locations with a focus upon major roads and access to and from the oases. The soldiers and units stationed in the Western Desert served primarily as a police force which conducted surveillance of the region, guarded roads, enforced the law and were probably involved in customs-related tasks and counter-smuggling activities. In their capacity as a police force, it is probable that the oasis-based military protected exploitative industries, such as the state-owned alum monopoly, which operated in the region. Recent discoveries of the location of alum mines in Dakhleh Oasis, and their proximity to a newly-identified fort at al-Qasr, lend support to this hypothesis. This assessment of the Roman military provides new insights into the overall military strategy that was adopted in the oases. It highlights not only the importance of the military presence in the region but also draws attention to the significance of the Western Desert in late antiquity, as part of Rome's North African territory.
Verstehen im Mathematikunterricht
Creators: name: Rothe, Frank
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Was macht Verstehen im Mathematikunterricht aus? Dieser Beitrag beschreibt eine mögliche Antwort, indem der Begriff des Verstehens aus zwei unterschiedlichen Konstituenten bestehend präzisiert wird. Konkrete Beispiele aus dem Mathematikunterricht verdeutlichen diesen Verstehensbegriff und seine didaktischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Gleichzeitig zeigt sich, dass diese Wesenszüge des Verstehens sich direkt auf den Begriff und die Praxis des Übens auswirken.
The effect of music on the level of cortisol, blood glucose and physiological variables in patients undergoing spinal anesthesia
Creators: name: Hajizadeh, Ebrahim
name: Lak, Marziyeh
name: Mottahedian Tabrizi, Elaheh
name: Movahhedi Rad, Saeid
name: Sahraei, Hedayat
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: blood glucose
subject: cortisol
subject: music therapy
subject: physiological variables
subject: spinal anesthesia
subject: 610

description: Surgical procedures performed using spinal anesthetic techniques present a special challenge to anesthesiologists, because patients are awake and are exposed to multiple anxiety provoking visual and auditory stimuli. Therefore, this study was carried out to define the effect of music on the level of cortisol, blood glucose and physiological variables in patients under spinal anesthesia. In this semi-experimental research, 90 men aging from 18-48 years with ASA (acetylsalicylic acid) class I, who underwent urological and abdominal surgery, were investigated. Patients were divided randomly into three groups of thirty subjects. Music group (headphone with music), Silence group (headphone without music) and the control group (without interference). The level of cortisol and blood sugar was measured half an hour before and after the operation. Moreover, the physiological indicators in each of these three groups were monitored and recorded from ten minutes before getting spinal anesthesia to ten minutes after the operation. The level of blood cortisol didn't have any increase in the music group after operation compared to the time before that. However, in the groups of silence and control this level had risen (p< 0.05). The level of blood glucose in music group had declined and in the other two groups it had increased. Our data showed that listening to music during surgery under regional anesthesia has effects on cortisol levels and some of the physiological variables. Therefore the researcher offers to be used music therapy as a complementary method in patients on the reduce anxiety.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 11, 2012
title: The art of David Lean : a textual analysis of audio visual structure
Creators: name: Moraitis, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The aim of the thesis is to place under scrutiny four of the formal/structural elements in eight of David Lean's films. These include the sound track (sound and music), and two aspects of the mise-en-scene (black-and-white cinematography and colour). It examines the ways in which they are used and manipulated within the narrative context as to promote the dramatic effect, how they interact with other formal and structural components and, finally, how they contribute to the understanding of the director's stylistic approach. The analyses do not contain themselves to the examination of narrative instances in isolation from the broader narrative framework in which they occur, but are mostly conducted in a manner that closely adheres to narrative order, as this method is believed to better elucidate the evolving and constantly altering function of the formal/structural devices under consideration. The approach to the analyses is not aimed at abiding by a particular theory or theories, since such a methodology would constrict the scope of investigation. Instead, it follows a flexible approach that accommodates the examination of a multiplicity of factors and issues that are considered as fundamental in the shaping of the artistic end product. Additionally, the thesis addresses issues of history and culture that provide the background against which the films were made and which, on many occasions, assist in better understanding the rationale behind the utilisation of the specific formal/structural elements within them.
(200921) Mary Standing
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.
Mahalanobis Distance for Class Averaging of Cryo-EM Images
Creators: name: Bhamre, Tejal
name: Zhao, Zhizhen
name: Singer, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is a technique in which the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its contrast transfer function (CTF) affected, noisy 2D projection images taken at unknown viewing directions. One of the main challenges in cryo-EM is the typically low signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the acquired images. 2D classification of images, followed by class averaging, improves the SNR of the resulting averages, and is used for selecting particles from micrographs and for inspecting the particle images. We introduce a new affinity measure, akin to the Mahalanobis distance, to compare cryo-EM images belonging to different defocus groups. The new similarity measure is employed to detect similar images, thereby leading to an improved algorithm for class averaging. We evaluate the performance of the proposed class averaging procedure on synthetic datasets, obtaining state of the art classification.
description: Final version accepted to the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017)
Perturbation Analysis of Singular Semidefinite Programs and Its Applications to Control Problems
Creators: name: Sekiguchi, Yoshiyuki
name: Waki, Hayato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C31, 90C22, 90C51, 93D15

description: We consider sensitivity of a semidefinite program under perturbations in the case that the primal problem is strictly feasible and the dual problem is weakly feasible. When the coefficient matrices are perturbed, the optimal values can change discontinuously as explained in concrete examples. We show that the optimal value of such a semidefinite program changes continuously under conditions involving the behavior of the minimal faces of the perturbed dual problems. In addition, we determine what kinds of perturbations keep the minimal faces invariant, by using the reducing certificates, which are produced in facial reduction. Our results allow us to classify the behavior of the minimal face of a semidefinite program obtained from a control problem.
description: 19 pages