cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The development, benefits, and survival, of cancer support groups, in rural and regional Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Dobson, Patricia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Health to the School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Curso de Ciencia de Datos con R SCEPS 2023
Creators: name: Leiva, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: R, Ciencia de Datos, Psicología Social

description: Este curso se ha pensado como un taller de tipo práctico en el que se introducirá a los participantes en la Ciencia de Datos mediante el software estadístico de libre distribución R. Puesto que se trata de un lenguaje de programación y su aprendizaje puede resultar costoso, se utilizarán numerosos ejemplos que faciliten el dominio de la sintaxis básica. A lo largo de las sesiones se capacitará a los participantes a ser autónomos en aquellas técnicas básicas relacionadas con la visualización de datos, la modelización estadística así como en la elaboración de informes técnicos con herramientas de R en combinación con programas como $\LaTeX$ o Markdown.
Evolution Of Massive Black Hole Binaries In Rotating Stellar Nuclei: Implications For Gravitational Wave Detection
Creators: name: Rasskazov, Alexander
name: Merritt, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the isotropic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei. In our model, massive binaries evolve at early times via gravitational-slingshot interaction with nearby stars, and at later times by the emission of GWs. Our expressions for the rate of binary hardening in the "stellar" regime are taken from the recent work of Vasiliev et al., who show that in the non-axisymmetric galaxies expected to form via mergers, stars are supplied to the center at high enough rates to ensure binary coalescence on Gyr timescales. We also include, for the first time, the extra degrees of freedom associated with evolution of the binary's orbital plane; in rotating nuclei, interaction with stars causes the orientation and the eccentricity of a massive binary to change in tandem, leading in some cases to very high eccentricities (e>0.9) before the binary enters the GW-dominated regime. We argue that previous studies have over-estimated the mean ratio of SBH mass to galaxy bulge mass by factors of 2 - 3. In the frequency regime currently accessible to pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), our assumptions imply a factor 2 - 3 reduction in the characteristic strain compared with the values computed in most recent studies, removing the tension that currently exists between model predictions and the non-detection of GWs.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
(201442) Charles E Rothwell
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.
Bilayer Splitting in the Electronic Structure of Heavily Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 + delta
Creators: name: Armitage, N. P.
name: Damascelli, A.
name: Feng, D. L.
name: Hu, J. P.
name: Lu, D. H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Time-Resolved Imaging of Negative Differential Resistance on the Atomic Scale
Creators: name: Rashidi, Mohammad
name: Taucer, Marco
name: Ozfidan, Isil
name: Lloyd, Erika
name: Koleini, Mohammad
name: Labidi, Hatem
name: Pitters, Jason L.
name: Maciejko, Joseph
name: Wolkow, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Negative differential resistance remains an attractive but elusive functionality, so far only finding niche applications. Atom scale entities have shown promising properties, but viability of device fabrication requires fuller understanding of electron dynamics than has been possible to date. Using an all-electronic time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy technique and a Green's function transport model, we study an isolated dangling bond on a hydrogen terminated silicon surface. A robust negative differential resistance feature is identified as a many body phenomenon related to occupation dependent electron capture by a single atomic level. We measure all the time constants involved in this process and present atomically resolved, nanosecond timescale images to simultaneously capture the spatial and temporal variation of the observed feature.
Electronic Supplementary Material from Urban birds become less fearful following COVID-19 reopenings
Creators: name: Diamant, Eleanor S.
name: MacGregor-Fors, Ian
name: Blumstein, Daniel T.
name: Yeh, Pamela J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary Text, Supplementary References, Table S1-S2, and Figures S1-S5
Non-bolometric bottleneck in electron-phonon relaxation in ultra-thin WSi film
Creators: name: Sidorova, M.
name: Kozorezov, A.
name: Semenov, A.
name: Korneev, A.
name: Chulkova, G.
name: Korneeva, Yu.
name: Mikhailov, M.
name: Devizenko, A.
name: Goltsman, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed the model of the internal phonon bottleneck to describe the energy exchange between the acoustically soft ultrathin metal film and acoustically rigid substrate. Discriminating phonons in the film into two groups, escaping and nonescaping, we show that electrons and nonescaping phonons may form a unified subsystem, which is cooled down only due to interactions with escaping phonons, either due to direct phonon conversion or indirect sequential interaction with an electronic system. Using an amplitude-modulated absorption of the sub-THz radiation technique, we studied electron-phonon relaxation in ultrathin disordered films of tungsten silicide. We found an experimental proof of the internal phonon bottleneck. The experiment and simulation based on the proposed model agree well, resulting in tau_{e-ph} = 140-190 ps at T_C = 3.4 K, supporting the results of earlier measurements by independent techniques.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
Utility of a Spanish version of Three Words-Three Shapes Test to detect memory impairment in primary progressive aphasia
Creators: name: Calandri, Ismael Luis
name: Crivelli, Lucia
name: Garcia, Florentina Morello
name: Allegri, Ricardo Francisco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Three Words-Three Shapes (3W3S) is a bedside test that assesses verbal and non-verbal memory and has proven useful in staging memory decline in amnestic disorders and primary progressive aphasia. Given its simple structure, the 3W3S can be easily adapted to other languages maintaining the original shapes and only modifying the words. We aim to validate a Spanish version of the 3W3S test and establish whether memory loss patterns present in amnesic disorders associated with Alzheimer's etiology and PPA were correctly characterized. The translation and adaptation of the 3W3S were performed according to standardized guidelines and applied to a cohort of patients with Dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT = 20), mild cognitive impairment (aMCI= 20), primary progressive aphasia (PPA = 20), and healthy controls (HC = 20). In verbal memory performance, PPA patients' score was lower than that of MCI and HC and similar to DAT's in the effortless encoding (p < 0.001), delayed recall (p < 0.001), and recognition (p < 0.012). For non-verbal performance, PPA patients performed better than DAT and similar to HC and MCI subjects (p < 0.001). Results show good applicability of 3W3S to determine memory function in PPA patients, independently from language ability. Visual and verbal components of memory are dissociated in PPA.
Rajput insurgency in Eastern Uttar Pradesh during the Indian Revolt of 1857-58
Creators: name: Downs, Troy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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(201437) Mary Jane Andrews
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.
An Economic Anaysis of The Impact of EU Accession Upon Crude Oil and Oil Production Policy in Lithuania
Creators: name: Pasukeviciute, Irma
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2003

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/1646 on 08.03.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: This thesis presents a two-stage economic and policy analysis of the impact of European Union (EU) accession upon crude oil production and transportation policy in Lithuania. The first stage provides the theoretical framework for the research. The analysis begins with the overview of the Russian oil industry, as for over 50 years Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union and thus its oil industry was largely controlled by Russian interests. Although Lithuania became independent in 1991, the dependency on Russia in terms of energy remains until today. The following chapters introduce Lithuania's development since its independence, outline the relationship with the EU and present Lithuania's intentions to become a member of the European Union. More specific issues discussed include the interdependence between Russia and the European Union in terms of crude oil and natural gas supplies and the impact of this phenomenon upon the Lithuanian oil industry. Particular emphasis is placed upon the political significance of oil in Lithuania including the ramifications of the sale of the state-owned oil transit and refining interest to USA investors and the consequences in terms of reaction from Russian crude oil suppliers. The second stage centers upon two techniques - content analysis and a scaling approach. The former was used to derive a set of the important issues within the Lithuanian oil industry, whilst the latter employed these issues in order to construct a scale for assessing the opinion of the industry's leading experts. The results of the Likert scale questionnaire were analyzed using a number of techniques and this identified a series of policies relating to crude oil and oil production in Lithuania. These policies take into account the experts' opinion, the process of EU accession and the politico-economic context of the research period, which places particular emphasis on relations between Lithuania and Russia. The final part of this thesis concludes the analysis, presents the implications as well as provides a number of suggestions for further research possibilities in this field.
Small-amplitude finite-depth Stokes waves are transversally unstable: validated numerics part
Creators: name: Jiao, Ziang
name: Rodrigues, Miguel
name: Sun, Changzhen
name: Yang, Zhao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A companion MATLAB file for the validated numerics part of the article "Small-amplitude finite-depth Stokes waves are transversally unstable".

INTLAB is required to start before running the code.
Graeme C. Gunn a critical art history 1961-1981
Creators: name: Trimble, Judith Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190102 Art History
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This thesis examines in detail the oeuvre of architect Graeme Gunn, from 1961 to l98l. During the early seventies Gunn was one of the leaders of architectural design in Australia. This study of his work, in the context of Australian and overseas developments, questions the view that Australian architecture of the sixties and seventies is derivative and outdated; or that national identity is a relevant pursuit. In the end, the particularity of Gunn's architectural values accounts for the effects of tradition, modernity and originality in an architecture of meaning.
Traversable asymptotically flat wormholes in Rastall gravity
Creators: name: Moradpour, H.
name: Sadeghnezhad, N.
name: Hendi, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are some gravitational theories in which the ordinary energy-momentum conservation law is not valid in the curved spacetime. Rastall gravity is one of the known theories in this regard which includes a non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter fields. Equipped with the basis of such theory, we study the properties of traversable wormholes with flat asymptotes. We investigate the possibility of exact solutions by a source with the baryonic matter state parameter. Our survey indicates that Rastall theory has considerable effects on the wormhole characteristics. In addition, we study various case studies and show that the weak energy condition may be met for some solutions. We also give a discussion regarding to traversability of such wormhole geometry with phantom sources.
Topics from Tokyo workshop "Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP"
Creators: name: Miuchi, Kentaro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: neutrinos
dark matter
WIMPs

description: Presentation at the 2019 Magnificent CEvNS workshop, sharing topics from Tokyo workshop "Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP".
How do department managers in A1 hospitals in Victoria make decisions on the work-life balance (WLB) issues of their staff?
Creators: name: Baker, Colin Stratford
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Health to the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Self-charging of identical grains in the absence of an external field
Creators: name: Yoshimatsu, Ryuta
name: Araújo, Nuno
name: Wurm, Gerhard
name: Herrmann, Hans
name: Shinbrot, Troy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electrostatic charging of an agitated bed of identical grains using simulations, mathematical modeling, and experiments. We simulate charging with a discrete-element model including electrical multipoles and find that infinitesimally small initial charges can grow exponentially rapidly. We propose a mathematical Turing model that defines conditions for exponential charging to occur and provides insights into the mechanisms involved. Finally, we confirm the predicted exponential growth in experiments using vibrated grains under microgravity, and we describe novel predicted spatiotemporal states that merit further study.
(201438) Mary Garrett
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.
Measuring the precise photometric period of the intermediate polar 1RXS J230645.0+550816 (1SWXRT J230642.7+550817) based on extensive photometry
Creators: name: Kozhevnikov, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2

description: Recently, Halpern et al. discovered an oscillation with a period of 464 s in the cataclysmic variable 1RXS J230645.0+550816. I conducted extensive photometric observations of this object to clarify the coherence of this oscillation and to measure the oscillation period with high precision. Observations were obtained over 22 nights in 2018 and 2019. The total duration of observations was 110 hr. The oscillation was revealed in each long night of observations and was coherent throughout all my observations covering 15 months. Due to the large coverage of observations, I determined the oscillation period with high precision, which was 464.45600+\-0.00010 s. The oscillation semi-amplitude was large and showed changes from 41.8+\-1.5 mmag in 2018 to 48.6+\-1.8 mmag in 2019. The oscillation pulse profile was symmetrical with a noticeably wider minimum compared to the maximum and showed no noticeable changes during 2018 and 2019. The high precision of the oscillation period allowed me to derive an oscillation ephemeris with a long validity of 70 years. This ephemeris can be used for future studies of oscillation period changes. Although short-period X-ray oscillations have not yet been detected in 1RXS J230645.0+550816, the intermediate polar nature of this object is very probable due to the high degree of coherence of the 464-s oscillation.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
The gap of Fredkin quantum spin chain is polynomially small
Creators: name: Movassagh, Ramis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a new result on the spectral gap and mixing time of a Markov chain with Glauber dynamics on the space of Dyck paths (i.e., Catalan paths) and their generalization, which we call colored Dyck paths. The proof uses the comparison theorem of Diaconis and Saloff-Coste and our previous results. Let $2n$ be the number of spins. We prove that the gap of the Fredkin quantum spin chain Hamiltonian [6, 20], is $Θ(n^{-c})$ with $c\ge2$. Our results on the spectral gap of the Markov chain are used to prove a lower bound of $O(n^{-15/2})$ on the energy of first excited state above the ground state of the Fredkin quantum spin chain. We prove an upper bound of $O(n^{-2})$ using the universality of Brownian motion and convergence of Dyck random walks to Brownian excursions. Lastly, the 'unbalanced' ground state energies are proved to be polynomially small in $n$ by mapping the Hamiltonian to an effective hopping Hamiltonian with next nearest neighbor interactions and analytically solving its ground state.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures
Arabic Handwritten Alphanumeric Character Recognition using Fuzzy Attributed Turning Functions
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Sabri
name: Parvez, Mohammad Tanvir
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Character Recognition
subject: Polygonal Approximation
subject: Turning Functions
subject: 004

description: In this paper, we present a novel method for recognition of unconstrained handwritten Arabic alphanumeric characters. The algorithm binarizes the character image, smoothes it and extracts its contour. A novel approach for polygonal approximation of handwritten character contours is applied. The directions and length features are extracted from the polygonal approximation. These features are used to build character models in the training phase. For the recognition purpose, we introduce Fuzzy Attributed Turning Functions (FATF) and define a dissimilarity measure based on FATF for comparing polygonal shapes. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm for recognition of handwritten Arabic characters. We have obtained around 98% accuracy for Arabic handwritten characters and more than 97% accuracy for handwritten Arabic numerals.
To dance with wolves? : environmental organisation involvement in the ecologically sustainable development process
Creators: name: Downes, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Das Diskrepanzprinzip in der nichtparametrischen Kurvenschätzung
Creators: name: Mildenberger, Thoralf
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematische Statistik
subject: Nichtparametrische Dichteschätzung
subject: Nichtparametrische Regression
subject: Glättungsparameterwahl
subject: Regularisierung
subject: 310

description: In dieser Dissertation wird das Diskrepanzprinzip, ein Verfahren zur Glättungsparameterwahl in der nichtparametrischen Kurvenschätzung, untersucht. Diese Methode stammt ursprünglich aus der Theorie der inversen Probleme, wo sie eine der bekanntesten Methoden zur Regularisierungsparameterwahl darstellt. Die Grundidee ist, maximal zu glätten unter einer Nebenbedingung an die Anpassung an die Daten. Obwohl sich dieses Prinzip auch auf die nichtparametrische Kurvenschätzung anwenden lässt, ist es in der Statistik relativ unbekannt. Für Kerndichteschätzer werden die bisher bekannten Resultate zum Verhalten der gewählten Bandbreite in einen gemeinsamen Rahmen eingeordnet und um neue ergänzt. Es wird auch gezeigt, dass die Bandbreitenwahl mit Hilfe des Diskrepanzprinzips für bestimmte Dichten zu inkonsistenten Schätzungen führen kann. Analoge Resultate werden für die Wahl der Binanzahl in regulären Histogrammen hergeleitet. In Simulationsstudien werden die einzelnen Varianten des Diskrepanzprinzips sowohl untereinander als auch mit Standardmethoden verglichen. Die bislang für die nichtparametrische Regression vorgeschlagenen Versionen des Diskrepanzprinzips basieren meist auf der Residuenquadratsumme oder dem sogenannten Multiresolutionskriterium. Letzteres wird in dieser Arbeit ausführlich untersucht, wobei gezeigt wird, dass sich das Kriterium über eine spezielle Norm des Residualvektors formulieren lässt. Es werden einige geometrische Eigenschaften dieser Norm hergeleitet. In einer weiteren Simulationsstudie wird die Verwendung des Diskrepanzprinzips für Nadaraya-Watson-Kernschätzer und kubische Glättungssplines untersucht.
Antiferromagnetic spintronics
Creators: name: Baltz, V.
name: Manchon, A.
name: Tsoi, M.
name: Moriyama, T.
name: Ono, T.
name: Tserkovnyak, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display ultrafast dynamics and are capable of generating large magneto-transport effects. Intense research efforts over the past decade have been invested in unraveling spin transport properties in antiferromagnetic materials. Whether spin transport can be used to drive the antiferromagnetic order and how subsequent variations can be detected are some of the thrilling challenges currently being addressed. Antiferromagnetic spintronics started out with studies on spin transfer, and has undergone a definite revival in the last few years with the publication of pioneering articles on the use of spin-orbit interactions in antiferromagnets. This paradigm shift offers possibilities for radically new concepts for spin manipulation in electronics. Central to these endeavors are the need for predictive models, relevant disruptive materials and new experimental designs. This paper reviews the most prominent spintronic effects described based on theoretical and experimental analysis of antiferromagnetic materials. It also details some of the remaining bottlenecks and suggests possible avenues for future research.
Equimatchable Claw-Free Graphs
Creators: name: Akbari, Saieed
name: Alizadeh, Hadi
name: Ekim, Tınaz
name: Gözüpek, Didem
name: Shalom, Mordechai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A graph is equimatchable if all of its maximal matchings have the same size. A graph is claw-free if it does not have a claw as an induced subgraph. In this paper, we provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first characterization of claw-free equimatchable graphs by identifying the equimatchable claw-free graph families. This characterization implies an efficient recognition algorithm.
(201435) William Sawyer
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.
Interpretation as a Historical Act: Women's and Nationhood Issues in Lesya Ukrainka and Her Readers
Creators: name: DZIUB, Nikol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Draft introduction to the SNF postdoctoral project “Gender and Nation in the Biographical Interpretations of Lesya Ukrainka’s Life and Works: Ukraine-Russian Empire-USSR, 1898-2022”
Fermionic WIMPs and Vacuum Stability in the Scotogenic Model
Creators: name: Lindner, Manfred
name: Merle, Alexander
name: Platscher, Moritz
name: Yaguna, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the condition of vacuum stability severely restricts scenarios with fermionic WIMP dark matter in the scotogenic model. The sizable Yukawa couplings that are required to satisfy the dark matter constraint via thermal freeze-out in these scenarios tend to destabilise the vacuum at scales below that of the heaviest singlet fermion, rendering the model inconsistent from a theoretical point of view. By means of a scan over the parameter space, we study the impact of these renormalisation group effects on the viable regions of this model. Our analysis shows that a fraction of more than 90% of the points compatible with all known experimental constraints - including neutrino masses, the dark matter density, and lepton flavour violation - is actually inconsistent.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; content matches published version
title: Wozu Kennzahlen in Bibliotheken?
title: Vom Sinn und Unsinn von Kennzahlensystemen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kreische, Joachim
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Controlling
subject: strategisches Controlling
subject: operatives Controlling
subject: Bibliothekswesen
subject: Kennzahlen
subject: 020
subject: Controlling
subject: Bibliothek
subject: Kennzahl

description: überarbeitete Fassung
(201439) John Sawyer
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A grammar of the Kadu (Asak) language
Creators: name: Sangdong, David
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 Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis is a grammatical description of Kadu–a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Katha district of Sagaing division, Myanmar. It contains eleven chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the language and its speakers. Chapter 2 is an outline of the phonological structure of Kadu. Chapter 3 looks at the word classes and word-forming processes. Chapters 4 to 6 look at nominal aspects of the grammar. Chapter 4 discusses the structure of the noun phrase, while the well-developed system of numeral classifiers in Kadu is discussed in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 looks at case marking postpositions. Chapter 7 looks at the elements that make up the verb complex in Kadu. It discusses postverbal modifiers such as auxiliary verbs, verbal particles, and modal auxiliaries. Clause final particles and aspectual particles are also looked at in this chapter. Chapter 8 looks at the general structure of the clause. The structures of interrogative and negative clauses are discussed in Chapters 9 and 10 respectively. Chapter 11 looks at complex structures. It covers topics such as subordination, coordination, and narrative structures.
An Existence Criterion for Low-Dimensional Materials
Creators: name: Chen, Jiapeng
name: Wang, Biao
name: Hu, Yangfan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of graphene and other two-dimensional (2-D) materials has stimulated a general interest in low-dimensional (low-D) materials. Whereas long time ago, Peierls and Landau's theoretical work demonstrated that any one- and two-dimensional materials could not exist in any finite temperature environment. Then, two basic issues became a central concern for many researchers: How can stable low-D materials exist? What kind of low-D materials are stable? Here, we establish an energy stability criterion for low-D materials, which seeks to provide a clear answer to these questions. For a certain kind of element, the stability of its specific low-D structure is determined by several derivatives of its interatomic potential. This atomistic-based approach is then applied to study any straight/planar, low-D, equal-bond-length elemental materials. We found that 1-D monatomic chains, 2-D honeycomb lattices, square lattices, and triangular lattices are the only four permissible structures, and the stability of these structures can only be understood by assuming multi-body interatomic potentials. Using this approach, the stable existence of graphene, silicene and germanene can be explained.
description: 39 pages (37 main text, 2 appendix), 6 figures(5 main text, 1 appendix)
Politics in New Caledonia 1945-1977 : an analysis of some key issues and developments with special reference to contemporary attitudes and opinions
Creators: name: Dornoy, Myrian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Proof of Swarm Based Ensemble Learning for Federated Learning Applications
Creators: name: Raza, Ali
name: Tran, Kim Phuc
name: Koehl, Ludovic
name: Li, Shujun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Ensemble learning combines results from multiple machine learning models in order to provide a better and optimised predictive model with reduced bias, variance and improved predictions. However, in federated learning it is not feasible to apply centralised ensemble learning directly due to privacy concerns. Hence, a mechanism is required to combine results of local models to produce a global model. Most distributed consensus algorithms, such as Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT), do not normally perform well in such applications. This is because, in such methods predictions of some of the peers are disregarded, so a majority of peers can win without even considering other peers' decisions. Additionally, the confidence score of the result of each peer is not normally taken into account, although it is an important feature to consider for ensemble learning. Moreover, the problem of a tie event is often left un-addressed by methods such as BFT. To fill these research gaps, we propose PoSw (Proof of Swarm), a novel distributed consensus algorithm for ensemble learning in a federated setting, which was inspired by particle swarm based algorithms for solving optimisation problems. The proposed algorithm is theoretically proved to always converge in a relatively small number of steps and has mechanisms to resolve tie events while trying to achieve sub-optimum solutions. We experimentally validated the performance of the proposed algorithm using ECG classification as an example application in healthcare, showing that the ensemble learning model outperformed all local models and even the FL-based global model. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed algorithm is the first attempt to make consensus over the output results of distributed models trained using federated learning.
description: This is the full edition of a 4-page poster paper published at the Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '23) which can be accessed via the following DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3578601
Uncharted waters: an outdoor environmental education rhizocurrere
Creators: name: Stewart, Alistair James
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: [A thesis] submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Education - Outdoor & Environmental Education, La Trobe University, Victoria.

During the past decade, a number of researchers in outdoor environmental education have questioned previously taken-for-granted universalist approaches and emphasised the significance of specific contexts and locations of practice. Complementary developments in outdoor education research have addressed the role of place in outdoor environmental education pedagogy and curriculum. This thesis is enacted as rhizocurrere, a term I have coined to name a concept of poststructuralist curriculum autobiography that maps my attempts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed. Rhizocurrere joins rhizome, a philosophical concept created by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, with currere, William Pinar’s autobiographical method for curriculum inquiry. Enmeshed with/in rhizocurrere are other Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts such as becoming, plateau, deterritorialisation and lines of flight, which have informed and illuminated my inquiries. Through rhizocurrere, I (re)consider the interrelated concepts, contexts and complex conversations (with colleagues, students and others) that have shaped my approach to curriculum, pedagogy and research during the past ten years. As rhizocurrere, this thesis enacts and assembles my thinking in eleven plateaus and six pauses between them. Four plateaus provide a context for the thesis and seven plateaus respond to different aspects of natural and cultural history and my efforts to develop a place-responsive pedagogy. The pauses between plateaus include contemplations of less public aspects of my life that have shaped my pedagogical endeavours. Determining conclusions is not the intent of this autobiographical curriculum inquiry. Rather, this thesis emphasises the complexity of developing curricula that engage, in a respectful and generative way, with the natural and cultural history of the Australian continent. My rhizocurrere enacts my attempts to think differently about the cultural, curricular and pedagogical understandings that inform the practice of Australian outdoor environmental educators.
Robust high-fidelity DFT study of the lithium-graphite phase diagram
Creators: name: Pande, Vikram
name: Viswanathan, Venkatasubramanian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphite is the most widely used and among the most widely-studied anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. With increasing demands on lithium batteries to operate at lower temperatures and higher currents, it is crucial to understand lithium intercalation in graphite due to issues associated with lithium plating. Lithium intercalation into graphite has been extensively studied theoretically using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, complemented by experimental studies through X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, optical imaging and other techniques. In this work, we present a first principles based model using DFT calculations, employing the BEEF-vdW as the exchange correlation functional, and Ising model to determine the phase transformations and subsequently, the thermodynamic intercalation potential diagram. We explore a configurational phase space of about 1 billion structures by accurately determining the important interactions for the Ising model. The BEEF-vdW exchange correlation functional employed accurately captures a range of interactions including vdW, covalent and ionic interactions. We incorporate phonon contributions at finite temperatures and configurational entropy to get high accuracy in free energy and potentials. We utilize the built-in error estimation capabilities of the BEEF-vdW exchange correlation functional and to develop a methodological framework for determining the uncertainty associated with DFT calculated phase diagrams and intercalation potentials. The framework also determines the confidence of each predicted stable phase. The confidence value of a phase can help us to identify regions of solid solutions and phase transformations accurately.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 5 pages of Supporting Information
High-temporal-resolution event-based vehicle detection and tracking
Creators: name: El-Shair, Zaid
name: Rawashdeh, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Event-based vision has been rapidly growing in recent years justified by the unique characteristics it presents such as its high temporal resolutions (~1us), high dynamic range (>120dB), and output latency of only a few microseconds. This work further explores a hybrid, multi-modal, approach for object detection and tracking that leverages state-of-the-art frame-based detectors complemented by hand-crafted event-based methods to improve the overall tracking performance with minimal computational overhead. The methods presented include event-based bounding box (BB) refinement that improves the precision of the resulting BBs, as well as a continuous event-based object detection method, to recover missed detections and generate inter-frame detections that enable a high-temporal-resolution tracking output. The advantages of these methods are quantitatively verified by an ablation study using the higher order tracking accuracy (HOTA) metric. Results show significant performance gains resembled by an improvement in the HOTA from 56.6%, using only frames, to 64.1% and 64.9%, for the event and edge-based mask configurations combined with the two methods proposed, at the baseline framerate of 24Hz. Likewise, incorporating these methods with the same configurations has improved HOTA from 52.5% to 63.1%, and from 51.3% to 60.2% at the high-temporal-resolution tracking rate of 384Hz. Finally, a validation experiment is conducted to analyze the real-world single-object tracking performance using high-speed LiDAR. Empirical evidence shows that our approaches provide significant advantages compared to using frame-based object detectors at the baseline framerate of 24Hz and higher tracking rates of up to 500Hz.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
(201433) Walter Robert Tidd
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.
Factorising the 3D Topologically Twisted Index
Creators: name: Cabo-Bizet, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the path integration -- upon the contour of hermitian (non-auxliary) field configurations -- of topologically twisted $\mathcal{N}=2$ Chern-Simons-matter theory (TTCSM) on $\mathbb{S}_2$ times a segment. In this way, we obtain the formula for the 3D topologically twisted index, first as a convolution of TTCSM on $\mathbb{S}_2$ times halves of $\mathbb{S}_1$, second as TTCSM on $\mathbb{S}_2$ times $\mathbb{S}_1$ -- with a puncture --, and third as TTCSM on $\mathbb{S}_2 \times \mathbb{S}_1$. In contradistinction to the first two cases, in the third case, the vector multiplet auxiliary field $D$ is constrained to be anti-hermitian.
description: v2:typos corrected and improved presentation of section 3; v3: matches the published version
(201436) Sarah Kingston
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.
Ethnic tourism and the Bidayuh of Sarawak, Malaysia: a case study of Annah Rais village
Creators: name: Samat, Tracy Peter
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Supersymmetry in 6d Dirac Action
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Yukihiro
name: Hasegawa, Kouhei
name: Nishiwaki, Kenji
name: Sakamoto, Makoto
name: Tatsumi, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a 6d Dirac fermion on a rectangle. It is found that the 4d spectrum is governed by $N=2$ supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Then we demonstrate that the supersymmetry is very useful for classifying all the allowed boundary conditions and to expand the 6d Dirac field in Kaluza-Klein modes. A striking feature of the model is that even though the 6d Dirac fermion has non-vanishing bulk mass, the 4d mass spectrum can contain degenerate massless chiral fermions, which may provide a hint to solve the problem of the generation of quarks and leptons. It is pointed out that zero-energy solutions are not affected by the presence of the boundaries, while the boundary conditions work well for determining the positive-energy solutions. We also provide a brief discussion on possible boundary conditions in the general case, especially those on polygons.
description: 38 page, 1 figures
"One parent-one language" : an interactional approach
Creators: name: Döpke, Susanne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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