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The operation of strategic culture in the Russian campaign of the 1994-1996 Chechen war : culture and Clausewitz
Creators: name: Pender, Lachlan James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Strategic culture literature identifies political and military cultures’ important, enduring influence over an actor’s strategic behaviour. However, it has not provided an understanding of how these factors relate to an actor’s unique social dynamics, and how, in tandem, national identity, political culture and military culture interact during a conflict to influence an actor’s strategic behaviour. To address this gap in the literature, this dissertation examines strategic culture’s influence on Russia’s campaign during the 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War. Examining strategic behaviour within a conflict requires consideration of the complex influence of multiple variables. Any analysis is potentially distorted when these variables are considered in isolation. To address this matter, this thesis utilizes an original strategic culture model, inspired by Clausewitz’s Trinity of ‘passions’ (national identity), ‘chance’ (military culture) and ‘subordination’ (political culture). The model applies the Trinity’s operating characteristics to generate an understanding of how political, military and social structures interact and impart varying degrees of influence on an actor’s wartime behaviour. The thesis finds that both rational calculations and cultural factors influenced the Russian campaign’s ‘passions’, ‘chance’ and ‘subordination’. Furthermore, many of Russia’s supposedly rational calculations, such as the need to restore legality and maintain territorial integrity, were found to be underpinned by Russian cultural factors. This thesis argues that the post-Soviet transition’s uncertainty and disruption, particularly its impact on the conception of a stable, coherent Russian national identity greatly influenced Russian strategic culture in the First Chechen War. The resulting social upheaval, and fragmentation of nationality created ‘a disconnect’ between the model’s identity, and the political and military culture components. This ambiguous national identity produced dysfunctionality within Russian strategic culture. Without consensus on identity, neither Russian political nor military culture could function properly. As a result, the government failed to mobilise popular support, as it conducted an obsolete information campaign, and relied on an entrenched, but inappropriate, approach to military operations. These findings indicate that developing a more nuanced appreciation of the social, intangible factors that influence an actor’s strategic behaviour complements studies on strategic behaviour’s complexity, and provides a more enhanced, comprehensive understanding of an actor's strategic culture.
Pharmacological Insights into Halophyte Bioactive Extract Action on Anti-Inflammatory, Pain Relief and Antibiotics-Type Mechanisms
Creators: name: Giordano, Rocco
name: Saii, Zeinab
name: Fredsgaard, Malthe
name: Hulkko, Laura Sini Sofia
name: Poulsen, Thomas Bouet Guldbæk
name: Thomsen, Mikkel Eggert
name: Henneberg, Nanna
name: Zucolotto, Silvana Maria
name: Arendt-Nielsen, Lars
name: Papenbrock, Jutta
name: Thomsen, Mette Hedegaard
name: Stensballe, Allan
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Halophytes
subject: Hydroxycinnamic acid
subject: Inflammation
subject: Nutraceuticals
subject: Secondary metabolites
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: The pharmacological activities in bioactive plant extracts play an increasing role in sustainable resources for valorization and biomedical applications. Bioactive phytochemicals, including natural compounds, secondary metabolites and their derivatives, have attracted significant attention for use in both medicinal products and cosmetic products. Our review highlights the pharmacological mode-of-action and current biomedical applications of key bioactive compounds applied as anti-inflammatory, bactericidal with antibiotics effects, and pain relief purposes in controlled clinical studies or preclinical studies. In this systematic review, the availability of bioactive compounds from several salt-tolerant plant species, mainly focusing on the three promising species Aster tripolium, Crithmum maritimum and Salicornia europaea, are summarized and discussed. All three of them have been widely used in natural folk medicines and are now in the focus for future nutraceutical and pharmacological applications.
Tamil hip-hop in Malaysia : the history, politics, and sounds of diasporic identity
Creators: name: Manoharan, Pravina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines past and contemporary configurations of Tamil identity as expressed through the different religious folk and musical experiences of the minority diasporic community in Malaysia. It seeks to show how deeply felt experiences of the colonial past still influence contemporary expressions of identity by Tamil hip-hop musicians in the context of the popular music industry in post-colonial Malaysia. In doing so, what is revealed is how narratives of identity within the Tamil diaspora in Malaysia are located across multiple discourses of historical, geographical, socio-economic, and political realities. The ethnographic material gathered for this thesis was obtained through personal communications with senior members of the Malaysian Tamil community, members of the music industry, and contemporary hip-hop musicians to establish an understanding of how identity was and continues to be represented by and for the Tamil diasporic community particularly among Tamil hip-hop musicians. It is argued that throughout colonial rule, different religious, folk, and musical engagements became important avenues for the Tamil community to retain and reaffirm their cultural and religious identity, and to express themselves as a diasporic community against an imposed homogenised “British Indian identity”. Subsequently, in post-colonial Malaysia, the nation’s drive for more pro-Malay and pro-Islamic ideologies presents new challenges for the Tamil community to retain their diasporic identity, as the political ideologies of the nation have altered the way the Tamil image is represented within the nation’s social and cultural landscape. The appropriation of an Americanised genre to express the alterity of Tamil-ness within the narratives of Tamil contemporary music presents a rich layer of interaction and tension between the global association of hip-hop and the cultural narratives of the Tamil community. This new engagement with the globalising world has in turn influenced the way the diaspora engages with India, as there has been a rise in musical collaboration between local Malaysian Tamil hip-hop musicians with the South Indian cinema industry. This relationship between India and the diaspora presents an opportunity for Tamil hip-hop musicians to explore the possibilities of engaging with multiple identities that reflect both their local Malaysian and wider Indian identity. It is evident that the Tamil identity in Malaysia is negotiated across multiple discourses, and the conflicting realities that emerge from the intersection of these discourses create and simultaneously restrict the space for the reaffirmation of Tamil identities as well as the refashioning of alternative identities.
Becoming Heautonomous: Exercising Judgment
Creators: name: Gadris, Stelios
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – In this article I aim to show how the sensus communis grounds – with the use of its maxims – the possibility of reflection, endowing the subject with a duty, that of becoming human, where becoming human presupposes self-education. Self-education entails on one hand overcoming one’s self interest or private feelings – that is what an aesthetic judgment demands: To love something other than one-self; on the other hand, and more fundamentally, self-education entails to place one-self under the indeterminate idea of humanity. Like all ideas and ideals of reason, the idea of humanity places an unrealizable demand upon the subject, to become part of an idea, in this case, that of humanity; this demand can never be met. Nevertheless, it is the strive to meat such a demand that motivates the human being to become human. To do so the subject will need to reflect appropriating thus the world through the exercise of its judgment. Keywords – Kant, Reflection, Heautonomy, Sensus Communis, Self-cultivation, Judgment
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
Indicateur HAS ISO-ORTHO en chirurgie orthopédique : présentation et résultats 2019
Creators: name: Banaei-Bouchareb, Linda
name: Sitruck, Anaïs
name: Solomiac, Agnès
name: Morin, Sandrine
name: May-Michelangeli, Laetitia
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Indicateur qualité
Indicateur de résultats
Analyse des données
Hospitalisation
Infection site opératoire
Prothèse
Orthopédie
Amélioration de la qualité
Culture qualité
Gestion du risque

description: Depuis 2015, la Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) développe des indicateurs de qualité et de sécurité des soins (Iqss) de type résultats mesurés à partir des bases médico-administratives. Leur élaboration est réalisée avec les professionnels de santé, les médecins codeurs de l’information médicale et les patients. La HAS utilise une méthode robuste conçue pour l’amélioration de la qualité et de la sécurité des soins qui répond aux critères de validation internationaux publiés et qui conditionne la ou les utilisations de l’indicateur : amélioration de la qualité et de la gestion des risques, certification des établissements, diffusion publique, financement… Le développement et les résultats du deuxième indicateur HAS sur les complications en chirurgie orthopédique calculé à partir du programme de médicalisation des systèmes d’information (PMSI) sont décrits : l’indicateur ISO-ORTHO mesure les infections du site opératoire trois mois après la pose d’une prothèse de hanche (hors fracture) ou de genou.
Dancing with ghosts: the topic of the pastoral explored in a folio of music compositions
Creators: name: Hammond, Jane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this PhD I explore the cultural topic of the pastoral, one of the many ways humans have expressed their relationship with nature and place. Through the framework of semiotics and the associated theory of musical topics I have engaged with signifiers of the pastoral such as the music of shepherds, and other so-called folk music, the sound of bagpipes and the vocalizations of birds. I have also explored enduring themes of the pastoral such as nostalgia and lyricism. This investigation has led to a folio of nine original music compositions reflecting different aspects of my exploration of the pastoral. The critical commentary that accompanies these compositions provides the background to the philosophical and critical concepts that have informed this research, and describes some of the compositional approaches and techniques that I have employed in each of the works.
The formation and evolution of star clusters in interacting galaxies
Creators: name: Maji, Moupiya
name: Zhu, Qirong
name: Li, Yuexing
name: Charlton, Jane
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Knebe, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of globular clusters show that they have universal lognormal mass functions with a characteristic peak at $\sim 2\times 10^{5}\, {\rm{M_{\odot}}}$, but the origin of this peaked distribution is highly debated. Here we investigate the formation and evolution of star clusters in interacting galaxies using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations performed with two different codes in order to mitigate numerical artifacts. We find that massive star clusters in the range of $\sim 10^{5.5} - 10^{7.5}\, {\rm{M_{\odot}}}$ form preferentially in the highly-shocked regions produced by galaxy interactions. The nascent cluster-forming clouds have high gas pressures in the range of $P/k \sim 10^8 - 10^{12}\, \rm{K}\,\rm{cm^{-3}}$, which is $\sim 10^4 - 10^8$ times higher than the typical pressure of the interstellar medium but consistent with recent observations of a pre-super star cluster cloud in the Antennae Galaxies. Furthermore, these massive star clusters have quasi-lognormal initial mass functions with a peak around $\sim 10^{6}\, {\rm{M_{\odot}}}$. The number of clusters declines with time due to destructive processes, but the shape and the peak of the mass functions do not change significantly during the course of galaxy collisions. Our results suggest that gas-rich galaxy mergers may provide a favorable environment for the formation of massive star clusters such as globular clusters, and that the lognormal mass functions and the unique peak may originate from the extreme high-pressure conditions of the birth clouds and may survive the dynamical evolution.
description: Accepted in ApJ. 16 pages, 9 figures
Didattica della filosofia: una riflessione a partire da Kant e Hegel per analizzare l’intreccio tra conoscenze e competenze
Creators: name: Giarolo, Alice
name: Mancin, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – Starting from the perspectives of Kant and Hegel for what concerns the didactics of philosophy, we try to show that the gap between “teaching how to philosophise” and “teaching philosophy” conceals many consonances. Hence, Kant and Hegel pedagogical reflections are the common thread for an inquiry about contemporary didactics of philosophy. In particular, we try to reason through the concepts of “knowledge” and “skills”, which are actually unavoidable in didactics, underlying their mutual necessity in the process of learning/teaching philosophy. That is clear if we consider philosophy to be an art, whose training requires to “put your hands in the dough”, as with every other art or profession. If philosophy is an art and its learning/teaching process is a training, then there is the problem of its standard. The standard of philosophy turns out to be not a mere list of contents, but a twist of knowledge and skills. Riassunto – A partire dalla querelle che contrappone Kant e Hegel rispetto alla didattica della filosofia, abbiamo cercato di mostrare che la distanza fra “insegnare a filosofare” e “insegnare la filosofia” in realtà nasconda diverse consonanze. I due autori hanno fatto dunque da filo rosso per un’indagine sulla didattica della filosofia odierna. Nello specifico, abbiamo cercato di ragionare nei termini, attualmente imprescindibili, di conoscenze e competenze, sottolineando come esse siano elementi inscindibili nel processo di apprendimento/insegnamento della filosofia. Ciò risulta chiaro se si concepisce la filosofia come un’arte, il cui apprendistato richiede di “mettere le mani in pasta”, proprio come l’apprendistato di altre arti e mestieri. Se la filosofia è un’arte e il suo apprendimento/insegnamento un apprendistato, sorge il problema di quale ne sia il canone. Il proprio della filosofia si configura non come un mero elenco di contenuti, ma come un intreccio di conoscenze e competenze. Keywords – Didactics, Skills, Knowledge, Training, Method, Kant, Hegel Parole chiave – Didattica, Competenze, Conoscenze, Apprendistato, Metodo, Kant, Hegel
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
The ghost who walks: a cultural history of the Phantom comic book in Australia, India and Sweden
Creators: name: Patrick, Kevin John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Phantom, conceived as a newspaper comic strip in 1936, is the forerunner of the comic-book superhero genre which today underpins vast, multi-billion dollar franchises that span publishing, audio-visual entertainment and licensed merchandise. Yet despite the character’s American provenance, The Phantom has enjoyed consistently greater popularity amongst international audiences, most notably in Australia, India and Sweden. The paradox of The Phantom, whereby its relative commercial failure in the US was offset by its phenomenal success in these culturally distinct foreign markets, forms the basis for a fascinating case-study that can provide fresh insights into the production, dissemination and consumption of popular media. Charting the publication of The Phantom comic book across international markets since the mid-1930s creates an opportunity for delving into the largely unexplored pre-history of modern media licensing industries. Examining the complex, intersecting political, economic and temporal factors that have influenced The Phantom’s popularity in Australia, India and Sweden provides a nuanced study of the complex cultural flow of a specific media property, and raises questions about the dominance of textual methodologies in non-denunciatory examinations of popular media. Surveying attitudes towards The Phantom amongst Australian, Indian and Swedish audiences brings a greater international dimension to the study of comic fandom that enriches the existing body of audience reception literature, which, to date, has been confined to a largely Anglo-American focus. By intertwining critical political economy with media history, coupled with the use of audience studies and textual analysis, the cultural history of The Phantom comic book in Australia, India and Sweden adopts theoretical frameworks and methodologies rarely brought to bear in the study of comic books, to bring a richer, multi-perspectival approach to the burgeoning field of comics studies.
Être chez-soi pour devenir autre. Approximations pour une pédagogie hégélienne de la langue
Creators: name: Tangorra, Manuel
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – In his speech of September 29th, 1809, which he gave as rector of the Nuremberg Classical Gymnasium, Hegel dwelt on the "intimate" relationship that the subject in training has with his mother tongue, where the spirit is "truly at home". The aim of the present work is to question the philosophical stakes of such pedagogical proposal, to analyze the role of ancient languages, and to identify the relationship woven between language and identity. In order to do this, we will first have to reconstruct – with particular reference to the Jena period – the fundamental features of the Hegelian conception of language and its function as a sensitive and conceptual medium where the historical-cultural roots of the spirit are materialized. We will then return to the Hegelian discourse on language learning in order to understand how the education of the expressive faculties is linked to the construction of identity as well as to the opening of the spirit to the universal life of humanity. Résumé – Lors de son discours du 29 septembre 1809, en tant que recteur du Gymnase Classique de Nuremberg, Hegel s’attarde sur le rapport “intime” que le sujet en formation entretient avec sa langue maternelle, au sein de laquelle l’esprit se trouve “véritablement chez lui”. L’objectif de ce travail est d’interroger les enjeux philosophiques d’une telle proposition pédagogique, d’analyser le rôle des langues anciennes, et d’identifier le rapport qui se tisse entre langue et identité. Pour ce faire, il nous faudra d’abord reconstruire – en nous adressant particulièrement à la période de Jena – les traits fondamentaux de la conception hégélienne de la langue et sa fonction en tant que medium sensible et conceptuel où se révèle l’enracinement historico-culturel de l’esprit. Ensuite, nous reviendrons vers les propos hégéliens sur l’apprentissage langagier afin de saisir comment l’éducation des facultés expressives se lie à la construction identitaire ainsi qu’à l’ouverture de l’esprit à la vie universelle de l’humanité. Keywords – Hegel, Language, Languages, Pedagogy, Identity Mots-clés – Hegel, Langage, Langue, Pédagogie, Identité
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
Excitations of the Field-Induced Quantum Soliton Lattice in CuGeO3
Creators: name: Dhalenne, G.
name: Enderle, M.
name: McMorrow, D. F.
name: Regnault, L.-P.
name: Rønnow, H. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Measuring and developing sense of safety in urban public spaces: a case study comparing local and international university student experiences of low density, designed environments in an Australian regional city
Creators: name: Gungamuwage, Rangajeewa Ratnayake
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 Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201069) Eleanor Powys
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.
title: Reducing Indigenous homelessness and displacement: A work-based study of the 'Return to Country' program in far north Queensland
Creators: name: Hunter, Gary
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 450499
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing not elsewhere classified

description: When a person becomes displaced and homeless, there is seldom one cause. Homelessness is caused by multiple interwoven challenges and issues. This study examines the displacement and homelessness within Cairns (a regional centre) faced by members of discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities located throughout Cape York and the Torres Straits (hereafter respectfully referred to as ‘Indigenous’ people and communities). This research explores the experience of displacement and homelessness with a unique population in far north Queensland from the perspective of service providers, it then compares these findings with the associated issues encountered worldwide, including issues of police confrontation and adversity. The Queensland Police Service (QPS) facilitated Return to Country program (R2C program) was introduced to provide a viable option for Indigenous people stranded in Cairns, to cycle out of homelessness by returning home to their home community. The R2C program is intended to offer opportunities for Indigenous people to exit an unplanned lifestyle. The R2C program proposes an authentic framework that advocates for alternative solutions to mainstream homelessness. This qualitative study uses semi-structured interviews conducted with employees of organisations that have knowledge of the R2C program in order to assess it. The study embarked on a qualitative thematic analysis methodology used to explore participant experiences and values, with the intent of understanding localised homelessness and enhancing the existing R2C program. Finally, the study highlights the importance of sustaining the R2C Program as this program can impact the rate of Indigenous homelessness in the greater Cairns area. All organisations associated with the program indicated that they fully supported QPS’ involvement with the R2C program.
Long-Lived Valley Polarization of Intra-Valley Trions in Monolayer WSe2
Creators: name: Singh, Akshay
name: Tran, Kha
name: Kolarczik, Mirco
name: Seifert, Joe
name: Wang, Yiping
name: Hao, Kai
name: Pleskot, Dennis
name: Gabor, Nathaniel M.
name: Helmrich, Sophia
name: Owschimikow, Nina
name: Woggon, Ulrike
name: Li, Xiaoqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate valley dynamics associated with trions in monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) using polarization resolved two-color pump-probe spectroscopy. When tuning the pump and probe energy across the trion resonance, distinct trion valley polarization dynamics are observed as a function of energy and attributed to the intra-valley and inter-valley trions in monolayer WSe2. We observe no decay of a near-unity valley polarization associated with the intra-valley trions during ~ 25 ps, while the valley polarization of the inter-valley trions exhibits a fast decay of ~ 4 ps. Furthermore, we show that resonant excitation is a prerequisite for observing the long-lived valley polarization associated with the intra-valley trion. The exceptionally robust valley polarization associated with resonantly created intra-valley trions discovered here may be explored for future valleytronic applications such as valley Hall effects.
description: 4 figures, 7 pages v2 has minor edits over v1, and is the final version of the paper
Bildung e Halbbildung in Theodor W. Adorno
Creators: name: Baldassarre, Luca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – This essay examines Bildung as the nucleus around which Theodor W. Adorno's theory develops. Adorno insists on the link between Bildung and culture, which is fruitful only when the latter is expressed in its inevitably contradictory character in relation to the status quo, not in its affirmative character. For this reason, Adorno's criticism of the culture industry is inextricably linked to the concept of Halbbildung. This is, so to speak, the subjective side of the culture industry: not immature, but perverse, deformed Bildung. The formation of the individual is no longer addressed to the criticism of the existing, but to its confirmation and ratification. Only education, such as education to the tension inherent in the cultural work, can resist the proliferation of individuals for whom what matters is not personal experience, but the ability to recognize, in a world reduced to a museum, the objects that are placed in front of them from time to time. Riassunto – Questo saggio indaga la Bildung quale nucleo attorno al quale si sviluppa la teoresi di Theodor W. Adorno. Questi insiste sul nesso fra Bildung e cultura, fecondo soltanto nel momento in cui quest’ultima si esplica nel suo carattere inevitabilmente contraddittorio rispetto allo status quo, non nel suo carattere affermativo. Per questo motivo la critica adorniana all’industria culturale è legata imprescindibilmente al concetto di Halbbildung. Questa è, per così dire, il lato soggettivo dell’industria culturale: non Bildung immatura, ma perversa, deformata. La formazione dell’individuo non è più rivolta alla critica dell’esistente, ma alla sua conferma e ratificazione. Soltanto l’educazione, intesa come educazione alla tensione immanente all’opera culturale, può opporre una resistenza al proliferare di individui per i quali ciò che conta non è l’esperienza personale, bensì la capacità di riconoscere, in un mondo ridotto a museo, gli oggetti che di volta in volta si pongono davanti. Keywords – Midcult, Management, Communication, Dialectics, Narcissism Parole chiave – Semicultura, Amministrazione, Comunicazione, Dialettica, Narcisismo
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
Generation of Spatially Embedded Random Networks to Model Complex Transportation Networks
Creators: name: Hackl, Jürgen
name: Adey, Bryan T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random networks, often without considering their spatial properties. In this article, a methodology is proposed to create random networks conserving their spatial properties. The produced random networks are not intended to be an accurate model of the real-world network being investigated, but are to be used to gain insight into the functioning of the network taking into consideration its spatial properties, which has potential to be useful in many types of analysis, e.g. estimating the network related risk. The proposed methodology combines a spatial non-homogeneous point process for vertex creation, which accounts for the spatial distribution of vertices, considering clustering effects of the network and a hybrid connection model for the edge creation. To illustrate the ability of the proposed methodology to be used to gain insight into a real world network, it is used to estimate standard structural statistics for part of the Swiss road network, and these are then compared with the known values.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Verhaltensentscheidung für automatisierte Fahrzeuge mittels Arbitrationsgraphen
Creators: name: Orzechowski, Piotr Franciszek
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: decision-making
behaviour planning
maneuver planning
arbitrator
hierarchical arbitration graphs
automated driving
safety verification
scalability
traceability

description: Automatisiertes Fahren verspricht die Sicherheit, den Komfort und die Effizienz des Straßenverkehrs zu verbessern und hat das Potenzial eine grundlegende Transformation der Mobilität anzustoßen. Neben der Wahrnehmung und Interpretation seines Umfelds muss ein automatisiertes Fahrzeug zuverlässig sichere und zeitlich konsistente Entscheidungen treffen – bspw. ob, wann und wie ein Fahrstreifenwechsel durchgeführt wird. Da es für viele Szenarien bereits spezialisierte Lösungsansätze zur Verhaltensplanung gibt, sollte die Verhaltensentscheidung in der Lage sein, diese sinnvoll miteinander zu kombinieren. Gleichzeitig muss sie robust gegen fehlerhafte Ausgaben oder gar Ausfälle einzelner Verhaltensoptionen sein. Schließlich sollte der Entscheidungsprozess transparent und nachvollziehbar sein, um einen effektiven Entwicklungsprozess zu ermöglichen. Daher wird in dieser Arbeit zunächst eine anwendungsunabhängige Systemarchitektur zur sicheren und robusten Verhaltensentscheidung vorgeschlagen. Diese setzt grundlegende Verhaltensoptionen in einem hierarchischen Arbitrationsgraphen zusammen und sichert dabei die Stellgrößen mittels Verifikation und diversen Rückfallebenen ab. Die jeweiligen Verhaltensbausteine übernehmen dabei die Situationsinterpretation und Verhaltensplanung, während generische Arbitratoren den Entscheidungsprozess realisieren. Anschließend wird diese Architektur auf den Kontext des automatisierten Fahrens angewandt und in Simulation evaluiert. Dabei planen die Verhaltensoptionen einzelne Fahrmanöver und geben diese als Trajektorien aus. Drei Verifikatoren prüfen diese auf Gültigkeit, Realisierbarkeit und Verkehrssicherheit. Stellt sich ein Fahrmanöver bspw. als unsicher heraus, greift die Arbitration auf Alternativoptionen und drei Rückfallebenen zurück, um weiterhin ein sicheres Verhalten zu erzeugen. Die Evaluation zeigt, dass die vorgestellte Methode auch bei hohen Ausfallraten ein sicheres und stabiles Fahrverhalten erzeugt. Die Entkopplung von Situationsinterpretation und Verhaltensentscheidung trägt außerdem zu einer transparenten und nachvollziehbaren Entscheidungsfindung bei. Dank konsequenter Modularität können vielfältige Methoden der Verhaltensplanung effizient und skalierbar miteinander kombiniert werden. Zudem ermöglicht der Bottom-Up Entwurf schnelles Prototyping und eine iterative Weiterentwicklung des Gesamtsystems.
Tracking Length and Differential-Wavefront-Sensing Signals from Quadrant Photodiodes in Heterodyne Interferometers with Digital Phase-Locked-Loop Readout
Creators: name: Heinzel, Gerhard
name: Álvarez, Miguel Dovale
name: Pizzella, Alvise
name: Brause, Nils
name: Delgado, Juan José Esteban
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Physical Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Heterodyning
subject: Interferometers
subject: Laser interferometry
subject: Laser mode locking
subject: Phase locked loops
subject: Photodiodes
subject: Signal to noise ratio
subject: Wavefronts
subject: Attractive solutions
subject: Differential wavefront sensing
subject: Digital phase locked loops
subject: Dynamical behaviors
subject: Heterodyne interferometer
subject: Heterodyne laser interferometers
subject: Light conditions
subject: Quadrant photodiodes
subject: Underwater acoustics
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We propose a method to track signals from quadrant photodiodes (QPDs) in heterodyne laser interferometers that employ digital phase-locked loops for phase readout. Instead of separately tracking the four segments from the QPD and then combining the results into length and differential-wavefront-sensing signals, this method employs a set of coupled tracking loops that operate directly on the combined length and angular signals. The benefits are an increased signal-to-noise ratio in the loops and the possibility of adapting the loop bandwidths to the differing dynamical behavior of the signals being tracked, which now correspond to physically meaningful observables. We demonstrate an improvement of up to 6 dB over single-segment tracking, which makes this scheme an attractive solution for applications in precision intersatellite laser interferometry in ultralow light conditions. © 2020 authors.
Adorno pedagogico. Theorie der Halbbildung e prassi didattica
Creators: name: Domenicali, Filippo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – The famous Theory of the Half-Education is an essay in which Adorno made a ruthless diagnosis of the current situation of culture. The Bildung was universally transformed into socialized Halbbildung. What is to be done? Traditionally, Adorno has always been reluctant to propose practical references, and he has often been accused of having endorsed a real “split” between theory and practice. However, his contributions to the education debate, there is no lack of indications and suggestions. In his conversations with Hellmut Becker, in the writings and university lectures of the 1960s, it is possible to identify an emancipatory and didactic strategy based on the re-evaluation of the art of reading. Riassunto – La celebre Teoria della Halbbildung oltre a essere il testo più sistematico che Adorno abbia dedicato ai problemi della pedagogia e dell’educazione, è anche un saggio in cui ha compiuto una diagnosi spietata dell’attuale situazione della cultura. La Bildung è universalmente decaduta ad Halbbildung socializzata. Che fare? Tradizionalmente Adorno è sempre stato molto avaro di riferimenti pratici, tanto che è stato spesso accusato di aver avallato una vera e propria “scissione” tra teoria e prassi. Eppure, nei suoi interventi sull’educazione le indicazioni e i suggerimenti non mancano. Nei colloqui con Hellmut Becker, negli scritti e nelle lezioni universitarie degli anni Sessanta, è possibile individuare una strategia emancipativa e didattica centrata sulla rivalutazione dell’arte della lettura. Keywords – Adorno, Education, Art of Reading, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory Parole chiave – Adorno, Educazione, Arte della lettura, Ermeneutica, Teoria critica
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
Giant Magnetoresistance by Exchange Springs in DyFe2/YFe2 Superlattices
Creators: name: Beaujour, J.-M. L.
name: Bowden, G. J.
name: De Groot, P. A. J.
name: Gordeev, S. N.
name: Rainford, B. D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The psychology of cosmopolitan behaviour: emotions, norms and social identification
Creators: name: Faulkner, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ethical cosmopolitanism has been the subject of substantial theoretical elaboration over its long history. However, until recently, very little attention had been given to the question of how individuals might be encouraged to behave as cosmopolitans in practice. Political theorists have recently identified a small number of factors – including certain social identities, collective guilt, and prosocial norms – that may increase cosmopolitan behaviour, but whether those factors actually do increase cosmopolitan behaviour has not been empirically validated. Additionally, cognate work in the field of social psychology that may provide both new hypotheses about the motivators of cosmopolitan behaviour, and tentative tests of their empirical validity, has not been integrated into cosmopolitan theorists’ work. Thus, drawing from political theory and social psychology, this dissertation identified a series of factors that may increase cosmopolitan behaviour, and tested their efficacy in a series of six experimental studies (total N = 1562). To examine causal effects on cosmopolitan behaviour, the experiments manipulated: human-, dual- (i.e. national and human) and overlapping-identity salience (Study 1); collective guilt (Studies 2, 3 and 5); empathy (Studies 4 and 5); ingroup-directed anger (Study 5); and, national prosocial norms (Study 6). Results indicated that empathy (Study 4) and, for strong national identifiers, prosocial national norms (Study 6) significantly increased cosmopolitan behaviour. Contrary to existing theory and research, manipulations of collective guilt and ingroup-directed anger did not increase cosmopolitan behaviour (Studies 2, 3 and 5) because such manipulations increased not only collective guilt and ingroup-directed anger but also increased dehumanisation of outgroups (Study 3), reduced outgroup empathy (Study 5), and marginally reduced identification with all humanity (Study 5). The effects of identity salience on cosmopolitan behaviour were not clear because the identity salience manipulations were unsuccessful. Overall, the studies reported in this dissertation represent the first experimental evidence on the causes of cosmopolitan behaviour, and demonstrate that experimental methods can be fruitfully used to develop and test theories about individual-level cosmopolitan behaviour.
An emergent geometric description for a topological phase transition in the Kitaev superconductor model
Creators: name: Kim, Ki-Seok
name: Park, Miok
name: Cho, Jaeyoon
name: Park, Chanyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resorting to Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) transformations, we propose an emergent geometric description for a topological phase transition in the Kitaev superconductor model. An effective field theory consists of an emergent bulk action with an extra dimension, an ultraviolet (UV) boundary condition for an initial value of a coupling function, and an infrared (IR) effective action with a fully renormalized coupling function. The bulk action describes the evolution of the coupling function along the direction of the extra dimension, where the extra dimension is identified with an RG scale and the resulting equation of motion is nothing but a $β-$function. In particular, the IR effective field theory turns out to be consistent with a Callan-Symanzik equation which takes into account both the bulk and IR boundary contributions. This derived Callan-Symanzik equation gives rise to a metric structure. Based on this emergent metric tensor, we uncover the equivalence of the entanglement entropy between the emergent geometric description and the quantum field theory in the vicinity of the quantum critical point.
description: Two figures added
Developing human rights before the United Nations Human Rights Committee and in New Zealand courts: a practitioner's perspective
Creators: name: Ellis, Anthony Joseph
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science to the School of Law, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.
Bildung e Università. La filosofia classica tedesca nella riflessione pedagogica novecentesca tra Spagna e Stati Uniti
Creators: name: Scotton, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Year: 2020

description: Abstract – The reform of the University represents a paradigmatic element of the pedagogical reflection within classical German philosophy. This article analyzes the relevance of this issue within the philosophical and pedagogical reflection, paying particular attention to the definition of Bildung in the twentieth century. After defining Humboldt’s reform proposal, in relation to Fichte's anthropological thought on the human mission, the article presents two significant university reform projects, implemented in different contexts, but in close continuity with each other. The first by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, the second by the American Robert Hutchins. Through the analysis of the two proposals, their theoretical bases and political purposes, the article demonstrates the persistence of the legacy of classical German philosophy in the contemporary philosophical and pedagogical reflection on the role of University. A legacy that still substantiates the frequent calls for a university up to the times. Riassunto – La riforma dell’Università, della sua struttura e della sua funzione sociale, è un elemento paradigmatico della riflessione pedagogica della filosofia classica tedesca. Il presente articolo analizza la rilevanza di tale questione all’interno della riflessione filosofica e pedagogica, prestando particolare attenzione alla ridefinizione del concetto di Bildung nel corso del XX secolo. Dopo aver definito i contorni della proposta humboldtiana, analizzata in rapporto alla riflessione antropologica di Fichte, si presentano due significativi progetti di riforma universitaria proposti in contesti diversi ma in stretta continuità tra loro. Uno del filosofo spagnolo José Ortega y Gasset, l’altro dell’americano Robert Hutchins. Attraverso l’analisi delle due proposte, delle loro basi teoriche e finalità politiche, l’articolo dimostra la persistenza e l’attualità dell’eredità della filosofia classica tedesca nella riflessione filosofica e pedagogica contemporanea circa la funzione educativa, sociale e politica dell’Università. Keywords – Bildung, University, German Philosophy, Ortega y Gasset, Hutchins Parole chiave – Bildung, Università, Filosofia classica tedesca, Ortega y Gasset, Hutchins
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 12, N° 19 (2020): La nuova Bildung. Riflessioni tra filosofia e pedagogia nella filosofia classica tedesca
Hidden Weyl Points in Centrosymmetric Paramagnetic Metals
Creators: name: Gresch, Dominik
name: Wu, QuanSheng
name: Winkler, Georg W.
name: Soluyanov, Alexey A.
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 transition metal dipnictides TaAs2 , TaSb2 , NbAs2 and NbSb2 have recently sparked interest for exhibiting giant magnetoresistance. While the exact nature of magnetoresistance in these materials is still under active investigation, there are experimental results indicating anisotropic negative magnetoresistance. We study the effect of magnetic field on the band structure topology of these materials by applying a Zeeman splitting. In the absence of magnetic field, we find that the materials are weak topological insulators, which is in agreement with previous studies. When the magnetic field is applied, we find that type-II Weyl points form. This result is found first from a symmetry argument, and then numerically for a k.p model of TaAs2 and a tight-binding model of NbSb2. This effect can be of help in search for an explanation of the anomalous magnetoresistance in these materials.
The politics of ‘connective marginalities’ in Italian reggae culture
Creators: name: Stevenson, Mathias Sutherland
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis I discuss how the subaltern roots and counter-hegemonic messages of reggae have resonated rhizomatically across linguistic, cultural, and geographical frontiers to connect with marginalized groups and inspire counter-hegemonic forms of communication and social engagement ‘from below’. Using this ‘connective marginalities’ framework, I argue that the transculturation and glocalization of reggae in Italy during the 1980s and early-1990s led to new and creative forms of inclusive, grassroots, and non-institutional political practice and cultural opposition, which resisted and challenged the social and political disengagement of the so-called ‘riflusso’, and reinterpreted and reinvented Italy’s counter-cultural youth practices of the 1970s. Through an analysis of personal interviews with key figures and other primary textual and contextual data, I establish a historic and thematic narrative focusing on the socially and politically tumultuous period between 1980 and 1994. I maintain that, during this period, which represented the most innovative and influential phase of reggae’s evolution in Italy, reggae was used as a means of challenging the nation’s hegemonic politics, culture, identities, and racisms. To this end, I pay particular attention to the profound resonance of reggae in Italy’s South, where it was synthesized with local dialects, perspectives, and cultural elements to create a ‘resistance vernacular’ that resisted Southern marginality. Despite the particular significance of these Southern connective marginalities, I also discuss the translocal and ‘national popular’ posse era of the late-1980s and early-1990s, when reggae and rap were popularized throughout Italy, within both non-hegemonic and hegemonic contexts, as a form of counter-information, social commentary, and intercultural/interregional solidarity.
(201073) John Veitch
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.
Synthesis of novel quinazolines as potential inhibitors of DNA-PK, PI3K, platelet aggregation, and bacterial propagation
Creators: name: Heppell, Jacob Thomas Edwin
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 Pharmacy and Applied Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bendigo.