cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
“Their Need Was Great”: Émigrés and Anglo-American Intelligence Operations in the Early Cold War
Creators: name: Cacciatore, Francesco
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: Covert action during the Cold War has been the subject of much historiography. This research, however, is based for the most part on primary sources, specifically on the records declassified in the United States in 2007 as a consequence of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The majority of the historiography on this topic either predates or neglects these records. The study of covert operations inside the Iron Curtain during the early Cold War, sponsored by Western states using émigré agents, usually ends with the conclusion that these operations were a failure, both in operational terms and from the point of view of the intelligence gathered. I will challenge this conclusion, showing that not only the operations gathered a significant amount of intelligence, but also that the intelligence obtained was considered valuable by policymakers and had an impact in the planning and policymaking strategies of the early Cold War. The focus on primary sources also allowed a detailed description of the practical aspects of the operations, leading to a more coherent and solid analysis of their development and consequences. This study focuses on American operations, due to the abundance of records available. British operations have also been considered and assessed in the best way the author found possible. Two case studies have been selected, based on the nationality of the émigré agents used: White Russians and Ukrainians. The intelligence outcome from these operations has been carefully analysed, and their influence on policymaking assessed in the wider context of the Cold War. The conclusion is a complete re-evaluation of the importance and value of Western Human intelligence in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Moving the fences : chief executives in Victorian local government pre and post the 1994 amalgamation process
Creators: name: Sargent, Brian W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Correlations in Double Parton Distributions: Perturbative and Non-Perturbative effects
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Matteo
name: Scopetta, Sergio
name: Traini, Marco Claudio
name: Vento, Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correct description of Double Parton Scattering (DPS), which represents a background in several channels for the search of new Physics at the LHC, requires the knowledge of double parton distribution functions (dPDFs). These quantities represent also a novel tool for the study of the three-dimensional nucleon structure, complementary to the possibilities offered by electromagnetic probes. In this paper we analyze dPDFs using Poincaré covariant predictions obtained by using a Light-Front constituent quark model proposed in a recent paper, and QCD evolution. We study to what extent factorized expressions for dPDFs, which neglect, at least in part, two-parton correlations, can be used. We show that they fail in reproducing the calculated dPDFs, in particular in the valence region. Actually measurable processes at existing facilities occur at low longitudinal momenta of the interacting partons; to have contact with these processes we have analyzed correlations between pairs of partons of different kind, finding that, in some cases, they are strongly suppressed at low longitudinal momenta, while for other distributions they can be sizeable. For example, the effect of gluon-gluon correlations can be as large as 20 $\%$. We have shown that these behaviors can be understood in terms of a delicate interference of non-perturbative correlations, generated by the dynamics of the model, and perturbative ones, generated by the model independent evolution procedure. Our analysis shows that at LHC kinematics two-parton correlations can be relevant in DPS, and therefore we address the possibility to study them experimentally.
description: 34 pages, 20 figures
A Trojan dragon? CCTV news in English and the battle for global influence: 2014-16
Creators: name: Marsh, Vivien
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018
Subjects: news, journalism, global, China, CCTV, BBC, comparative, Africa

description: China’s official media are nearly a decade into a global expansion programme to challenge the dominance of Anglo-American news organisations and their framing of world events. This research tackles the questions of whether Chinese media abroad deserve to be dismissed as channels for Communist Party propaganda, whether their output has journalistic merit, and whether Chinese journalism has a different character from that of the Anglosphere. The focus is on CCTV-News in English, whose ‘hard news’ output is compared with that of BBC World News TV between 2014 and 2016: previous studies of the channel have concentrated on single regions or events, political strategy or current affairs. Comparative quantitative content analysis of five constructed weeks of news is followed by frame analysis of selected events with a framework adapted to accommodate Chinese political and cultural proclivities. Subconscious editorial judgements are made manifest through a pioneering experimental technique, ‘cross-editing’, in which journalists from Britain and China swap broadcast news scripts and re-edit them as if for output on their own channel. Topics of strategic importance to Beijing are the focus of the research: news about China, and coverage of Africa including China in Africa. The empirical analysis confirms that these politically sensitive areas are handled by CCTV-News mainly in ways that are alien to editorial principles in the Anglosphere, either through lack of journalistic rigour (partial reporting and ‘positive news’) or through differences in framing such as solution-focused reporting and aversion to conflict. The analysis demonstrates the uneven editorial imperatives across CCTV-News and the improvised nature of journalistic professionalism, including how far Chinese reporters dare push the boundaries of information control. In the BBC World News output, the comparative methods reveal weaknesses in the Corporation’s professed tenets of balance and impartiality, and highlight the difficulties of telling nuanced, non-pictorial stories from distant countries while shackled by Anglo-American television ‘grammar’. The research confirms the considerable impediments to credibility occasioned by political control over CCTV’s English news output: however, it also indicates that the journalism of the Anglosphere, in the form of BBC World News, is not the universal standard many believed it to be.
Electronic data interchange
Creators: name: Lam, Ashley Chow Hung.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Adiabatic Approach for Low-Power Passive Near Field Communication Systems
Creators: name: Maheshwari, Sachin
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: This thesis tackles the need of ultra-low power electronics in the power limited passive Near Field Communication (NFC) systems. One of the techniques that has proven the potential of delivering low power operation is the Adiabatic Logic Technique. However, the low power benefits of the adiabatic circuits come with the challenges due to the absence of single opinion on the most energy efficient adiabatic logic family which constitute appropriate trade-offs between computation time, area and complexity based on the circuit and the power-clocking schemes. Therefore, five energy efficient adiabatic logic families working in single-phase, 2-phase and 4-phase power-clocking schemes were chosen. Since flip-flops are the basic building blocks of any sequential circuit and the existing flip-flops are MUX-based (having more transistors) design, therefore a novel single-phase, 2-phase and 4-phase reset based flip-flops were proposed. The performance of the multi-phase adiabatic families was evaluated and compared based on the design examples such as 2-bit ring counter, 3-bit Up-Down counter and 16-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) circuit (benchmark circuit) based on ISO 14443-3A standard. Several trade-offs, design rules, and an appropriate range for the supply voltage scaling for multi-phase adiabatic logic are proposed. Furthermore, based on the NFC standard (ISO 14443-3A), data is frequently encoded using Manchester coding technique before transmitting it to the reader. Therefore, if Manchester encoding can be implemented using adiabatic logic technique, energy benefits are expected. However, adiabatic implementation of Manchester encoding presents a challenge. Therefore, a novel method for implementing Manchester encoding using adiabatic logic is proposed overcoming the challenges arising due to the AC power-clock. Other challenges that come with the dynamic nature of the adiabatic gates and the complexity of the 4-phase power-clocking scheme is in synchronizing the power-clock v phases and the time spent in designing, validation and debugging of errors. This requires a specific modelling approach to describe the adiabatic logic behaviour at the higher level of abstraction. However, describing adiabatic logic behaviour using Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) is a challenging problem due to the requirement of modelling the AC power-clock and the dual-rail inputs and outputs. Therefore, a VHDL-based modelling approach for the 4-phase adiabatic logic technique is developed for functional simulation, precise timing analysis and as an improvement over the previously described approaches.
title: Τηλεργασία σε καιρό πανδημίας - Συστηματική βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπιση
title: Teleworking during pandemic - Systematic literature review
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σίντου, Ελένη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19
Telework
Τηλεργασία
Εργασία από το σπίτι
Work from home
Pandemic

description: Η εποχή της πανδημίας COVID-19 ανέδειξε σειρά ζητημάτων σε διαφόρους τομείς της ανθρώπινης ζωής και δραστηριότητας. Οι επιδράσεις στην υγεία των ανθρώπων, οι πιέσεις στα συστήματα υγείας, η επιβράδυνση της οικονομίας και η μεταβολή του παραγωγικού και οικονομικού γίγνεσθαι επί τα χείρω ήταν ορισμένες από αυτές. Ωστόσο, σημαντική μεταβολή υπήρξε και στο τοπίο της εργασίας όπου η ανάγκες απομόνωσης και αποστασιοποίησης οδήγησαν στην ανάγκη αξιοποίησης της τηλεργασίας ως ρύθμιση, σε βαθμό που πρότερα δεν είχε καν εξεταστεί. Κατά συνέπεια, τόσο οι εργοδότες όσο και οι εργαζόμενοι, καθώς και τα υφιστάμενα ζητήματα, βρέθηκαν έξαφνα μπροστά σε μνημειώδη πρόκληση προσαρμογής σε ένα νέο εργασιακό περιβάλλον και ρύθμιση, και σε πολλές περιπτώσεις χωρίς καμία πρότερη προεργασία και ετοιμασία. Η τήλε-εργασία αποτελεί μια ιδιάζουσα ρύθμιση, η οποία φέρει σημαντικά θετικά στοιχεία όσο όμως και αναδεικνύει μια σειρά από σημαντικές προκλήσεις κατά την λειτουργία της. Τα θετικά της στοιχεία αφορούν στην ευελιξία στους χρόνους εργασίας καθώς και την διευκόλυνση, υπό προϋποθέσεις, μιας βέλτιστης σχέσης μεταξύ εργασιακής και προσωπικής/οικογενειακής ζωής. Οι προκλήσεις αφορούν στην βιούμενης και αντιληπτή απομόνωση από τους συναδέλφους στο χώρο εργασίας, την πιθανή απαίτηση για συνεχή σύνδεση καθ’ όλη την ημέρα με την εργασία, την «εισβολή» της εργασίας στο προσωπικό χώρο και χρόνο καθώς και την, πιθανή, εκμετάλλευση της ευελιξίας του ωραρίου για την αύξηση του χρονικού διαστήματος εργασίας. Κατά συνέπεια, πέραν των θετικών στοιχείων, η καταγραφή και αντιμετώπιση των προκλήσεων αυτών αποτελεί σημαντικό ζήτημα συζήτησης μεταξύ των νομοθετών και των σχεδιαστών ρυθμιστικών πλαισίων και πολιτικών παγκοσμίως. Η παρούσα εργασία, μέσω συστηματικής βιβλιογραφικής ανασκόπησης επιχειρεί την καταγραφή των προκλήσεων αλλά και των θετικών στοιχείων της τήλε-εργασίας και των αντίστοιχων προτάσεων για την αντιμετώπιση τους.
Η Γερμανία ως χώρα προέλευσης τουριστών στην Ελλάδα - Προβλέψεις αφίξεων
Creators: name: Παππάς, Χρήστος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Προβλέψεις αφίξεων
subject: Γερμανοί τουρίστες
subject: Ελλάδα

description: Η Ελλάδα είναι μια χώρα που ο τουρισμός της αποτελεί βασικό πυλώνα της ανάπτυξής της. Κάθε χρόνο την επισκέπτονται ολοένα και περισσότεροι τουρίστες, συμβάλλοντας έτσι στην αύξηση του ΑΕΠ, στην απασχόληση και στις επενδύσεις. Η παρούσα εργασία έχει ως σκοπό τη μελέτη των αφίξεων των Γερμανών τουριστών στην Ελλάδα, καθώς και τη σχέση που έχουν οι δυο αυτές χώρες. Επίσης, μελετώνται οι τάσεις και η συμπεριφορά των κατοίκων της Γερμανίας, καθώς και τα επιμέρους ταξιδιωτικά χαρακτηριστικά τους. Επιπλέον, χρησιμοποιήθηκε το πρόγραμμα Statgraphics προκειμένου να μπορέσει να γίνει πρόβλεψη των αφίξεων των Γερμανών στη χώρα μας για το χρονικό διάστημα Ιούλιος 2016 – Ιούνιος 2017. Το αποτέλεσμα που προκύπτει από τα στοιχεία που έχουν συλλεχθεί είναι πως θα υπάρξει αύξηση, ιδιαίτερα τους καλοκαιρινούς μήνες. Τέλος, να σημειωθεί πως οι αναφορές και η μέθοδος της πρόβλεψης πραγματοποιήθηκαν χωρίς να ληφθεί υπόψη η πανδημία του COVID-19, εξού και η βιβλιογραφία και η τουριστική μελέτη αποτελούνται από στοιχεία μέχρι και το 2019.
Evaluating electronic library resources : a multiple perspective approach
Creators: name: Handley, Antoinette M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Synthese und Reaktivität von trigonalen Imido-Komplexen der späten Übergangsmetalle
title: Synthesis and Reactivity of Imido Complexes of Late Transition Metals
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Reckziegel, Alexander
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemistry & allied sciences
Chemie
Imido
H Atom Transfer
Übergangsmetall

description: Im Rahmen dieser Doktorarbeit wurden die Synthese und das Reaktionsverhalten von niedrig koordinierten Imido-Komplexen des Cobalts und Nickels untersucht. Insgesamt konnte ich zeigen, dass lineare Metall(I)silylamide als vielseitige Komplexplattformen für die Darstellung von trigonalen Imido-Komplexen in höheren Spinzuständen geeignet sind. Diese erweisen sich als zum Teil hochreaktiv und erlauben tiefe Einblicke in die vielfältige Imido-Metall-Bindungssituation. Die dabei gewonnenen Erkenntnisse sind wegweisend für eine vollständiges Verständnis von Nitren-Transfer-Reaktionen.
WIPO Worldwide Symposium on the Intellectual Property Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Stanford (California), United States of America, March 25 to 27, 1991.
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organized a Worldwide Symposium on the Intellectual Property Aspects of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, from March 25 to 27, 1991. The Symposium examined the various categories of artificial intelligence and their main fields of application in the context of their possible intellectual property implications. Discussions focused on the form of protection that should apply to certain existing creations protected by intellectual property rights in respect of their inclusion in artificial intelligence systems (e.g., in expert systems), on what protection, if any, should be granted to artificial intelligence systems themselves, and on determining the appropriate intellectual property status of the outputs of such systems (such as computer-produced creations).$
An introduction to the tradition of Chinese bibliography for Westerners
Creators: name: Wang, Yi.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Tajik memoir collection
Creators: name: Multiple Authors
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: tajik memoirs

description: Selected memoirs from the collection at https://islamperspectives.org/rpi/collections/show/18. Tajik and Russia language. Emphasis on works related to Gulag. Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era Project Coordinators: Artemy Kalinovsky and Isaac Scarborough

 This project was also made possible through the organizational and financial support provided by the Central Asian Program at George Washington University. Contributor(s) Artemy Kalinovsky (Temple University) Isaac Scarborough (Liverpool John Moores University) Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) Vadim Staklo (George Mason University) Rights Note on copyright: The memoirs collected and digitized in this online database were, for the most part, self-published or published in very small print runs; all are in practice out of print. We have done our best to contact copyright holders to receive explicit permission for the memoirs to be digitized and uploaded online. At the same time, if you are the author, publisher, or legal inheritor of copyright of one of the memoirs or other documents uploaded in this collection and feel that the copyright of this work has not been handled appropriately, please do not hesitate to write us to express your concerns.
Extended relativistic configuration interaction and many-body perturbation calculations of spectroscopic data for the $n \leq 6$ configurationsin ne-like ions between Cr XV and Kr XXVII
Creators: name: Wang, Kai
name: Chen, Zhan Bin
name: Si, Ran
name: Jönsson, Per
name: Ekman, Jörgen
name: Guo, Xue Lin
name: Li, Shuang
name: Long, Fei Yun
name: Dang, Wei
name: Zhao, Xiao Hui
name: Hutton, Roger
name: Chen, Chong Yang
name: Yan, Jun
name: Yang, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Level energies, wavelengths, electric dipole, magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole, and magnetic quadrupole transition rates, oscillator strengths, and line strengths from combined relativistic configuration interaction and many-body perturbation calculations are reported for the 201 fine-structure states of the $2s^2 2p^6$, $2s^2 2p^5 3l$, $2s 2p^6 3l$, $2s^2 2p^5 4l$, $2s 2p^6 4l$, $2s^2 2p^5 5l$, and $2s^2 2p^5 6l$ configurations in all Ne-like ions between Cr XV and Kr XXVII. Calculated level energies and transition data are compared with experiments from the NIST and CHIANTI databases, and other recent benchmark calculations. The mean energy difference with the NIST experiments is only 0.05%. The present calculations significantly increase the amount of accurate spectroscopic data for the $n >3$ states in a number of Ne-like ions of astrophysics interest. A complete dataset should be helpful in analyzing new observations from the solar and other astrophysical sources, and is also likely to be useful for modeling and diagnosing a variety of plasmas including astronomical and fusion plasma.
title: Identifizierung autoreaktiver T-Zellen bei Patienten mit Pemphigus Vulgaris mittels MHC-II-Dextramere
title: Identification of autoreactive T cells in patients with pemphigus vulgaris using MHC-II dextramers
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Scarsella, Luca
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: PBMC
Durchflusszytometrie
Identifikation Dsg3 spezifischer T-Zellen
T Zellen
Pemphigus vulgaris
Identification of Dsg3 specific T cells
Dextramere
Medical sciences Medicine
Medizin

description: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) gehört zur Gruppe der bullösen Autoimmunerkrankungen. Autoreaktive Dsg3 spezifische T-Zellen spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der PV Pathogenese durch die Anpassung der gegen Dsg3 gerichteten Antikörper-Produktion. Vor allem wird die Erhaltung der immunologischen Selbst-Toleranz von regulatorischen T-Zellen kontrolliert, deren Reduktion der Anzahl oder Funktionalität zu einer autoreaktiven Immunantwort führt. Der Fokus vorliegender Arbeit ist die Anwendung der Dextramer-Dsg3-Peptide-Färbung zur Detektion lebendig peripherer CD45 + CD19 - CD14 - CD3 - CD4 + Dsg3-Peptide-spezifischer T-Zellen. Nach der Stimulation mit rekombinantem Dsg3(aa1-566) von aus PV-Patienten und Probanden erworbenen PBMC wurde die Reaktivität der letztgenannten T-Zellen-Subpopulation gegen Dextramer-Dsg3-Peptide-Mix (Dsg3(aa190-204), Dsg3(aa206-220), Dsg3(aa254-268), Dsg3(aa378-392)) und gegen einzelne Dextramer-Dsg3-Peptide mittels durchflusszytometrischen Messung untersucht. Insgesamt gesehen ist das Ausmaß der Dextramer-Dsg3-Peptide-Reaktivität bei PV-Patienten höher als bei gesunden Probanden, man kann jedoch nur einen signifikanten Unterschied (*p=0,0263) zwischen diesen zwei Gruppen beobachten, wenn die Dextramer-Pool Färbung angewandt wird. Infolge der Stratifizierung nach Therapie ist die Reaktivität gegen Dextramer-Dsg3-Peptide-pool bei PV Patienten ohne Therapie nicht signifikant höher als bei Patienten unter Therapie. Der Vergleich zwischen aktiven PV Patienten und in Remission PV Patienten zeigt ebenfalls keinen signifikanten Unterschied. Interessanterweise zeigen PV Patienten eine höhere Reaktivität gegen„Class_II-associated invariant chain peptide“ (CLIP) als gesunde Kontrollen. Einerseits stellt die Dextramer-Färbung eine hervorragende Methode zur Detektion antigenspezifischer T-Zellen dar, andererseits ermöglicht die Dextramer-Technologie, spezifische HLA-restringierte Epitope zu untersuchen. Infolgedessen kann es zu einem vollständigeren Verständnis der Rolle von autoreaktiven CD4+ T-Zellen hinsichtlich der Pathogenese der Autoimmunantwort kommen und zusätzlich verfolgt werden, wie das Epitop-Spreading unterschiedliche Krankheitsstadien charakterisiert. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht die mittels Dextramer Antigen-Spezifizität-Bestimmung den Erhalt wichtiger Informationen hinsichtlich der T-Zellen Reaktivität, die für die Entwicklung der Immuntherapie mit regulatorischen T-Zellen verwendet werden könnte, wie z.B. Chimäre Antigenrezeptoren (CAR) Therapie.
title: Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Phosphazenyl Phosphines
title: Synthese, Charakterisierung und Anwendung von Phosphazenylphosphinen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wagner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Theoretische Chemie
Catalysis
Katalyse
Anorganische Chemie
Computational Chemistry
Superbases
Basizität
Ligands
Metallorganische Chemie
Synthesis
Superbasen
Organische Chemie
Synthese
Basicity
Organokatalyse
Liganden
Organocatalysis
Chemistry & allied sciences
Chemie

description: The field of uncharged phosphorus superbases was expanded to include several new mono- and bisphosphazenyl phosphines. These novel bases have been systematically analyzed according to their basicity, nucleophilicity, chemical stability, donor capabilities and coordination behavior. They complement the missing link between extremely basic trisphosphazenyl phosphines and traditional tertiary phosphines by combining the stability and steric properties of tertiary phosphines like PtBu3 with the extreme donor capabilities of phosphazenyl phosphines. The aforementioned parameters that were established during this work allow the easy classification of newly synthesized bases. Several applications of these bases were presented, as ligands in transition metal catalysis as well as organocatalysts in a variety of transformations.
Globular Cluster Abundances from High-Resolution, Integrated-Light Spectroscopy. II. Expanding the Metallicity Range for Old Clusters and Updated Analysis Techniques
Creators: name: Colucci, J. E.
name: Bernstein, R. A.
name: McWilliam, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present abundances of globular clusters in the Milky Way and Fornax from integrated light spectra. Our goal is to evaluate the consistency of the integrated light analysis relative to standard abundance analysis for individual stars in those same clusters. This sample includes an updated analysis of 7 clusters from our previous publications and results for 5 new clusters that expand the metallicity range over which our technique has been tested. We find that the [Fe/H] measured from integrated light spectra agrees to $\sim$0.1 dex for globular clusters with metallicities as high as [Fe/H]=$-0.3$, but the abundances measured for more metal rich clusters may be underestimated. In addition we systematically evaluate the accuracy of abundance ratios, [X/Fe], for Na I, Mg I, Al I, Si I, Ca I, Ti I, Ti II, Sc II, V I, Cr I, Mn I, Co I, Ni I, Cu I, Y II, Zr I, Ba II, La II, Nd II, and Eu II. The elements for which the integrated light analysis gives results that are most similar to analysis of individual stellar spectra are Fe I, Ca I, Si I, Ni I, and Ba II. The elements that show the greatest differences include Mg I and Zr I. Some elements show good agreement only over a limited range in metallicity. More stellar abundance data in these clusters would enable more complete evaluation of the integrated light results for other important elements.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 37 pages, 13 tables, 29 figures
Development of a Data Warehouse for the Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education and Venture Creation
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Papadopoulou, Kassandra A., Phillips, Robert A., Salder, Jacob, and Salehi, Fatemeh. (2022) Proceedings of the British Academy of Management.
 Measuring the success of entrepreneurship education is complex with several issues. Firstly, metrics used are varied, for example using self-efficacy and business creation. In addition, students may be from any school of the university and had varying interaction with entrepreneurship education making any meaningful tracking difficult. Following the careers of alumni having left the university also presents challenges. A data warehouse is proposed to collate information from a variety of internal and external sources in an organised manner to allow educators to identify effectiveness in different circumstances and therefore how entrepreneurship education may be measured.
title: The addictive experience: Freedom and dependency in Christian theology and practice and its relatedness to addictive behaviour
Creators: name: Jolly, Lynn W.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Clinical psychology, Theology.

description: This thesis explores the nature of the relationship between freedom and dependency, both in a theological sense and as part of the human experience. It uses the pattern of addictive behaviour, as experienced by someone who has a problem of alcohol dependency, to highlight some of the issues facing the contemporary church in the modem culture. It seeks to illustrate that many of the dilemmas facing Christian theology and practice in society are the results of a self-made pathology which finds many parallels in the very topical problem of addiction. Finally, it looks forward to a more creative, less compulsed theology and practice, more appropriate as a counter to an increasingly achievement driven and materialistic culture.
Association between idiosyncratic volatility and expected return
Creators: name: Bainbridge, Carla Mary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Magnetically self-regulated formation of early protoplanetary discs
Creators: name: Hennebelle, Patrick
name: Commercon, Benoit
name: Chabrier, Gilles
name: Marchand, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of protoplanetary discs during the collapse of molecular dense cores is significantly influenced by angular momentum transport, notably by the magnetic torque. In turn, the evolution of the magnetic field is determined by dynamical processes and non-ideal MHD effects such as ambipolar diffusion. Considering simple relations between various timescales characteristic of the magnetized collapse, we derive an expression for the early disc radius, $ r \simeq 18 \, {\rm AU} \, \left({η_{\rm AD} / 0.1 \, {\rm s}} \right)^{2/9} \left({B_z / 0.1\, {\rm G}} \right) ^{-4/9} \left({M / 0.1 \msol} \right) ^{1/3},$ where $M$ is the total disc plus protostar mass, $η_\mathrm{AD}$ is the ambipolar diffusion coefficient and $B_z$ is the magnetic field in the inner part of the core. This is about significantly smaller than the discs that would form if angular momentum was conserved. The analytical predictions are confronted against a large sample of 3D, non-ideal MHD collapse calculations covering variations of a factor 100 in core mass, a factor 10 in the level of turbulence, a factor 5 in rotation, and magnetic mass-to-flux over critical mass-to-flux ratios 2 and 5. The disc radius estimates are found to agree with the numerical simulations within less than a factor 2. A striking prediction of our analysis is the weak dependence of circumstellar disc radii upon the various relevant quantities, suggesting weak variations among class-0 disc sizes. In some cases, we note the onset of large spiral arms beyond this radius.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Attività di vigilanza, in prevenzione e repressione nel settore ferroviario. Individuazione delle figure di garanzia nelle aziende complesse
Creators: name: Deidda, Beniamino
Publisher: name: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro
Year: 2023

description: Il saggio analizza le problematiche della salute e della sicurezza sul lavoro in ámbito ferroviario, particolarmente sia dal punto di vista delle competenze in materia di vigilanza sia da quello delle responsabilità e delle relative posizioni di garanzia in capo ai vari attori.
description: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro, N. 1 (2023)
title: Steroidal oestrogens and the regulation of growth and development in Phaseolus vulgaris L
Creators: name: Hewitt, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Plant sciences, physiology.

description: In this thesis the effects of steroidal oestrogens (a group of sex hormones in animals) on various aspects of the physiology of the dwarf French bean plant, Phaseolus vulgaris, are investigated in an attempt to clarify the roles, if any, of these substances in higher plants. Chlorophyll levels of leaf discs senescing in darkness were not affected by solutions of oestrone and oestradiol (10.
Opto-Electronic Characterization of Three Dimensional Topological Insulators
Creators: name: Plank, Helene
name: Danilov, Sergey N.
name: Bel'kov, Vasily V.
name: Shalygin, Vadim A.
name: Kampmeier, Jörn
name: Lanius, Martin
name: Mussler, Gregor
name: Grützmacher, Detlev
name: Ganichev, Sergey D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the terahertz/infrared radiation induced photogalvanic effect, which is sensitive to the surface symmetry and scattering details, can be applied to study the high frequency conductivity of the surface states in (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 based three dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI). In particular, measuring the polarization dependence of the photogalvanic current and scanning with a micrometre sized beam spot across the sample, provides access to (i) topographical inhomogeneity's in the electronic properties of the surface states and (ii) the local domain orientation. An important advantage of the proposed method is that it can be applied to study TIs at room temperature and even in materials with a high electron density of bulk carriers.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title:   Small-Satellite Attitude Control Using Sinusoidal Actuator Motion
title: Experiments on the International Space Station
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lush, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: In this work, we design, build, and test two 1.25U CubeSats. These small satellites were deployed on the International Space Station to perform attitude control experiments in microgravity. These CubeSats use an oscillating-mass actuation system for attitude control as opposed to traditional flywheels. Each CubeSat uses 3 pairs of servomotors to oscillate masses about 3 orthogonal axes. The servomotors have strict rotational stroke limits. Thus, they cannot spin continually. To oscillate each pair of masses, the angle of each servomotor is commanded using signals that are continuous and piecewise sinusoidal with amplitudes that do not violate the servomotor stroke constraints. We present the open-loop and closed-loop attitude control results from experiments in microgravity onboard the International Space Station. The open-loop results demonstrate that this oscillating-mass actuation system can be used for attitude manipulation in microgravity. The closed-loop results demonstrate successful setpoint tracking.
description: © 2022 K. Ryan Lush
Low pH, high salinity: too much for Microbial Fuel Cells?
Creators: name: Jannelli, Nicole
name: Nastro, Rosa Anna
name: Cigolotti, Viviana
name: Minutillo, Mariagiovanna
name: Falcucci, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twelve single chambered, air-cathode Tubular Microbial Fuel Cells (TMFCs) have been filled up with fruit and vegetable residues. The anodes were realized by means of a carbon fiber brush, while the cathodes were realized through a graphite-based porous ceramic disk with Nafion membranes (117 Dupont). The performances in terms of polarization curves and power production were assessed according to different operating conditions: percentage of solid substrate water dilution, adoption of freshwater and a 35mg/L NaCl water solution and, finally, the effect of an initial potentiostatic growth. All TMFCs operated at low pH (pH$=3.0 \pm 0.5$), as no pH amendment was carried out. Despite the harsh environmental conditions, our TMFCs showed a Power Density (PD) ranging from 20 to 55~mW/m$^2 \cdot$kg$_{\text{waste}}$ and a maximum CD of 20~mA/m$^2 \cdot$kg$_{\text{waste}}$, referred to the cathodic surface. COD removal after a $28-$day period was about $45 \%$. The remarkably low pH values as well as the fouling of Nafion membrane very likely limited TMFC performances. However, a scale-up estimation of our reactors provides interesting values in terms of power production, compared to actual anaerobic digestion plants. These results encourage further studies to characterize the graphite-based porous ceramic cathodes and to optimize the global TMFC performances, as they may provide a valid and sustainable alternative to anaerobic digestion technologies.
description: 13 pages, 10 Figures
Collinearly improved JIMWLK evolution in Langevin form
Creators: name: Hatta, Yoshitaka
name: Iancu, Edmond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high-energy evolution of Wilson line operators, which at leading order is described by the Balitsky-JIMWLK equations, receives large radiative corrections enhanced by single and double collinear logarithms at next-to-leading order and beyond. We propose a method for resumming such logarithmic corrections to all orders, at the level of the Langevin formulation of the JIMWLK equation. The ensuing, collinearly-improved Langevin equation features generalized Wilson line operators, which depend not only upon rapidity (the logarithm of the longitudinal momentum), but also upon the transverse size of the color neutral projectile to which the Wilson lines belong. This additional scale dependence is built up during the evolution, via the condition that the successive emissions of soft gluons be ordered in time. The presence of this transverse scale in the Langevin equation furthermore allows for the resummation of the one-loop running coupling corrections.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure
Governance : an evaluation of the tea sector of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Ethugala, Chandika Vilashini.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Conditional asset pricing models in the conventional and downside frameworks
Creators: name: Nurjannah.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Práticas de pesquisa e desenvolvimento tecnológico na formação para inovação em enfermagem
Creators: name: Paz, Adriana Aparecida
name: Linch, Graciele Fernanda da Costa
name: Caregnato, Rita Catalina Aquino
name: Souza, Emiliane Nogueira de
name: Rabin, Eliane Goldberg
name: Lima, Ana Amélia Antunes
name: Silva, Filipe Santana da
name: Rosa, Vitória Silva da
name: Furtado, Kaihara Freitas
name: Borges, Raphaela de Matos
name: Anjos, Vitória Salete Munari dos
name: Lourenço, Aline da Silva
name: Silva, Caroline Engster da
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: pesquisa
inovação
produtos
processo
pós-graduação
graduação
grupo de pesquisa
tecnologia

description: Apresentação dos Grupos de Pesquisa articulado com o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da UFCSPA na produção de conhecimento por meio de produtos e processos inovadores e tecnológicos para a saúde e enfermagem.
Decay of photon with high as well as low energy
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Indranath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay of photon by the influence of magnetic field is considered. It is shown here that if the photon energy is grater than 1 MeV then photon can decay electron positron pair, but if it remains below 1 MeV then photon decays into neutrino antineutrino pair. The decay rates for both of the processes are calculated. All possible Feynman diagrams are taken into account to construct the matrix element for either of the processes. In the second process all three type of neutrinos are considered. The significance of these processes are discussed briefly.
description: 7 pages including 1 table and 2 figures
Inference for multivariate extreme value distributions : test of independence and estimation of tail dependence
Creators: name: Litvinova, Svetlana.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Testing modified gravity with dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Creators: name: Haghi, Hosein
name: Amiri, Vahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed velocity dispersion of the classical dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) requires the Newtonian stellar mass-to-light ($M_*/L$) ratios in the range of about 10 to more than 100 solar units that are well outside the acceptable limit predicted by stellar population synthesis models. Using Jeans analysis, we calculate the line-of-sight velocity dispersion ($σ_{\emph{los}}$) of stars in eight MW dSphs in the context of the modified gravity (MOG) theory of Moffat, assuming a constant $M_*/L$ ratio without invoking the exotic cold dark matter. First, we use the weak field approximation of MOG and assume the two parameters $ α$ and $ μ$ of the theory to be constant as has already been inferred from fitting to the observed rotational data of The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey catalogue of galaxies. We find that the derived $M_*/L$ ratios for almost all dSphs are too large to be explained by the stellar population values. In order to fit the line-of-sight velocity dispersions of the dSph with reasonable $M_*/L$ values, we must vary $α$ and $μ$ on a case by case basis. A common pair of values cannot be found for all dSphs. Comparing with the values found from rotation curve fitting, it appears that $μ$ correlates strongly with galaxy luminosity, shedding doubt on it as a universal constant.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Modified LLL algorithm with shifted start column
Creators: name: Ouni, Nizar
name: Bouallegue, Ridha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are playing an important role in the recent wireless communication. The complexity of the different systems models challenge different researches to get a good complexity to performance balance. Lattices Reduction Techniques and Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) algorithm bring more resources to investigate and can contribute to the complexity reduction purposes. In this paper, we are looking to modify the LLL algorithm to reduce the computation operations by exploiting the structure of the upper triangular matrix without big performance degradation. Basically, the first columns of the upper triangular matrix contain many zeroes, so the algorithm will perform several operations with very limited income. We are presenting a performance and complexity study and our proposal show that we can gain in term of complexity while the performance results remains almost the same.
Experimental validation of volume-based comparison for double-McCormick relaxations
Creators: name: Speakman, Emily
name: Yu, Han
name: Lee, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Volume is a natural geometric measure for comparing polyhedral relaxations of non-convex sets. Speakman and Lee gave volume formulae for comparing relaxations of trilinear monomials, quantifying the strength of various natural relaxations. Their work was motivated by the spatial branch-and-bound algorithm for factorable mathematical-programming formulations. They mathematically analyzed an important choice that needs to be made whenever three or more terms are multiplied in a formulation. We experimentally substantiate the relevance of their main results to the practice of global optimization, by applying it to difficult box cubic problems (boxcup). In doing so, we find that, using their volume formulae, we can accurately predict the quality of a relaxation for boxcups based on the (box) parameters defining the feasible region.
Nitrogen depletion in field red giants: mixing during the He flash?
Creators: name: Masseron, T.
name: Lagarde, N.
name: Miglio, A.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: Gilmore, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine simultaneous constraints on stellar evolutionary status from asteroseismology, and on nitrogen abundances derived from large spectroscopic surveys, to follow nitrogen surface abundances all along the evolution of a low-mass star, comparing model expectations with data. After testing and calibrating the observed yields from the APOGEE survey, we first show that nitrogen surface abundances follow the expected trend after the first dredge-up occurred, i.e. that the more massive is the star the more nitrogen is enhanced. Moreover, the behaviour of nitrogen data along the evolution confirms the existence of non-canonical extra-mixing on the RGB for all low-mass stars in the field. But more surprisingly, the data indicate that nitrogen has been depleted between the RGB tip and the red clump. This may suggest that some nitrogen has been burnt near or at the He flash episode.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
ÖRGÜTSEL UZUN VADELİ YÖNELİM ÖLÇEĞİNİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİNE YÖNELİK PİLOT ÇALIŞMA
Creators: name: AKSOY, EDA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organisation and management theory

description: Bu çalışmada temsil kuramından yola çıkılarak geliştirilen bir araç ile şirket yönetimlerinin ne kadar uzun vadeli stratejilerle yönetildiğinin ölçülebilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Pilot çalışma kapsamında toplam 13 şirketin üst seviye yöneticilerinden ve şirket çalışanlarından (N = 121) yazılı anket yöntemiyle çift kademeli veri toplanmıştır. Yapılan analizlerde geliştirilen aracın psikometrik özelliklerine işaret eden önemli bulgular elde edilmiştir. Ayrıca değişkenler arasında tespit edilen ilişkilerin temsil kuramının öngörülerini destekler şekilde olması, geliştirilen ölçeğin kurgusal geçerliliğinin yüksek olduğunu göstermektedir. Örneğin, şirketlerin uzun vadeli yönelimleri olmasının çalışan odaklı ve paydaş odaklı şirket stratetejileri, yüksek performanslı İK sistemlerinin kullanımı, klan ve girişimci tipli örgüt kültürü ve çalışan aidiyeti ile anlamlı şekilde pozitif ilişki olduğu görülmüştür.
Gender wage discrimination in rural and urban labour markets of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Ahmed, Salma.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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