cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An empirical study on the impact of IDE tool support in pair and solo programming
Creators: name: Gómez, Omar S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Agile software development has been widespread adopted. One well-known agile approach is eXtreme Programming (XP) where pair programming (PP) is a relevant practice. Although various aspects of PP have been studied, we have not found, under a traditional model of PP, studies that examine the impact of using an IDE tool support. In an attempt to obtain a better understanding of the impact of using an IDE, we present the results of a controlled experiment that expose the influence on quality, measured as the number of defects injected per hour, and cost, measured as the time necessary to complete programming assignments, of pair and solo programming with and without the use of an IDE. For quality, our findings suggest that the use of an IDE results in significantly higher defect injection rates (for both pairs and solos) when the programming assignment is not very complicated. Nevertheless, defect injection rates seem to decrease when pairs work on more complicated programming assignments irrespective of the tool support used. For cost, the programming assignment significantly affects the time necessary to complete the assignment. Finally, both aspects (quality and cost) are affected in a similar manner when either pair or solo programming is used.
Chalinolobus gleni
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus gleni

description: Chalinolobus gleni (Peterson and Smith, 1973). R. Ont. Mus. Life Sei. Occ. Pap., 22:3. TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroun, near Lomie. DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun; Uganda. COMMENT: Transferred from Glauconycteris; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:1-4.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
An ultra-deep survey of low surface brightness galaxies in Virgo
Creators: name: Moore, Elizabeth Helen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Originally planned as a PhD project, but curtailed to a Master of Philosophy due to time constraints and numerous other commitments, the principal objective of this project was to undertake a survey of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. This thesis presents background material and the results of that survey. As considerable research has already been conducted on galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the early chapters cover: LSB galaxies; current knowledge of the Virgo Cluster; and the luminosity function that describes a galaxy population. -- The base data for this project is a unique resource - the Virgo Deep Stack - made from 63 digitally-scanned photographic films centred on the core of the Virgo Cluster. Subsequent chapters describe the data and analysis techniques and compare these new data with previously published work. -- On the specific question of the characteristics of the faint end of the luminosity function in the Virgo Cluster, where the low surface brightness dwarf galaxies predominate, most survey results disagree. This project addresses the reasons for the disagreement and explores the quality of the published data sets by comparison with data from the Virgo Deep Stack. Finally, the catalogue of newly-identified galaxies is presented and discussed. The new galaxies and their properties will contribute to the body of scientific knowledge about the cluster and its low surface brightness population.
Chalinolobus gouldii Gray 1841
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus gouldii

description: Chalinolobus gouldii Gray, 1841. In Grey, J. Two Exped. Aust., 2:401, 405. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Tasmania, Launceston. DISTRIBUTION: Australia but not Cape York Penninsula N. of Cardwell (FRA); Tasmania; Norfolk IsL; New Caledonia (KFK). COMMENT: Includes neocaledonicus; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:5. Also includes venatoris (FRA). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003006001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Controlling energy transfer time between two coupled magnetic vortex-state disks
Creators: name: Vigo-Cotrina, H.
name: Guimarães, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the in-plane uniaxial anisotropy (IPUA) in the mutual energy transfer time ($τ$) between two identical coupled nanodisks was studied. Using an analytical dipolar model we obtained the interactions between the disks along x and y directions (the coupling integrals) as a function of the uniaxial anisotropy constant (K$_σ$) and the distance. We find that the IPUA increases the interaction between the disks allowing shorter energy transfer times. For our range of K$_σ$ values we get a drop in the values of $τ$ of up to about 70$\%$. From the lagrangian of the system we obtained the equations of motion and the coupling frequencies of the dynamic system as a function of distance and K$_σ$. The coupling frequencies were also obtained from micromagnetic simulations. Our results of the simulations are in agreement with the analytical results.
From The floating world to The 7 stages of grieving: the presentation of contemporary Australian plays in Japan
Creators: name: Sawada, Keiji
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Many Australian plays have been presented in Japan since the middle of the 1990s. This thesis demonstrates that in presenting Australian plays the Japanese Theatre has not only attempted to represent an aspect of Australian culture, but has also necessarily revealed aspects of Japanese culture. This thesis demonstrates that understanding this process is only fully possible when the particular cultural function of 'translated plays' in the Japanese cultural context is established. In order to demonstrate this point the thesis surveys the history of so-called 'honyakugeki' (translated plays) in the Japanese Theatre and relates them to the production of Western plays to ideas and processes of modernisation in Japan. -- Part one of the thesis demonstrates in particular that it was the alternative Theatre movement of the 1960s and 1970s which liberated 'honyakugeki' from the issue of 'authenticity'. The thesis also demonstrates that in this respect the Japanese alternative theatre and the Australian alternative theatre of the same period have important connections to the quest for 'national identity'. Part one of the thesis also demonstrates that the Japanese productions of Australian plays such as The Floating World, Diving for Pearls and Honour reflected in specific ways this history and controversy over 'honyakugeki'. Furthermore, these productions can be analysed to reveal peculiarly Japanese issues especially concerning the lack of understanding of Australian culture in Japan and the absence of politics from the Japanese contemporary theatre. -- Part two of the thesis concentrates on the production of translations of the Australian Aboriginal plays Stolen and The 7 Stages of Grieving. 'This part of the thesis demonstrates that the presentation of these texts opened a new chapter in the history of presenting 'honyakugeki' in Japan. It demonstrates that the Japanese theatre had to confront the issue of 'authenticity' once more, but in a radically new way. The thesis also demonstrates that the impact of these productions in Japan had a particular Japanese cultural and social impact, reflecting large issues about the issue of minorities and indigenous people in Japan and about the possibilities of theatre for minorities. In particular the thesis demonstrates that these representations of Aborigines introduced a new image of Australian Aborigines to that which was dominant amongst Japanese anthropologists.
Asymptotic Theory of Channeling in the Field of an Atomic Chain and an Atomic Plane
Creators: name: Kovalev, Gennady V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rigorous theory of diffraction scattering from extended objects is proposed. The present theory is based on a multiple asymptotic expansion of an integral equation for the exact wave function in terms of the large parameters of the problem, which are the range of the potential and the momentum components of the incident particle. For small angles of incidence the density of positively charged particles on the axis of a chain is always lower than unit y and the density of negatively charged particles has a maximum for certain strength of the potential which can exceed considerably unity. The conditions of validity of the proposed approach are obtained.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 Tab
On symmetric decompositions of positive operators
Creators: name: Jivulescu, Maria Anastasia
name: Nechita, Ion
name: Gavruta, Pasc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by some problems in Quantum Information Theory, we present some results concerning decompositions of positive operators acting on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We focus on decompositions by families having geometrical symmetry with respect to the Euclidean scalar product and we characterize all such decompositions, comparing our results with the case of SIC--POVMs from Quantum Information Theory. We also generalize some Welch--type inequalities from the literature.
Proteomic analysis of liver membranes through an alternative shotgun methodology
Creators: name: Chick, Joel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of this thesis was to develop a proteomics methodology that improves the identification of membrane proteomes from mammalian liver. Shotgun proteomics is a method that allows the analysis of proteins from cells, tissues and organs and provides comprehensive characterisation of proteomes of interest. The method developed in this thesis uses separation of peptides from trypsin digested membrane proteins by immobilised pH gradient isoelectric focusing (IPG-IEF) as the first dimension of two dimensional shotgun proteomics. In this thesis, peptide IPG-IEF was shown to be a highly reproducible, high resolution analytical separation that provided the identification of over 4,000 individual protein identifications from rat liver membrane samples. Furthermore, this shotgun proteomics strategy provided the identification of approximately 1,100 integral membrane proteins from the rat liver. The advantages of using peptide IPG-IEF as a shotgun proteomics separation dimension in conjunction with label-free quantification was applied to a biological question: namely, does the presence of a spatially unrelated benign tumor affect the abundance of mouse liver proteins. IPG-IEF shotgun proteomics provided comprehensive coverage of the mouse liver membrane proteome with 1,569 quantified proteins. In addition, the presence of an Englebreth-Holm-Swarm sarcoma induced changes in abundance of proteins in the mouse liver, including many integral membrane proteins. Changes in the abundance of liver proteins was observed in key liver metabolic processes such as fatty acid metabolism, fatty acid transport, xenobiotic metabolism and clearance. These results provide compelling evidence that the developed shotgun proteomics methodology allows for the comprehensive analysis of mammalian liver membrane proteins and detailed some of the underlying changes in liver metabolism induced by the presence of a tumor. This model may reflect changes that could occur in the livers of cancer patients and has implications for drug treatments.
Chalinolobus morio Gray 1841
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus morio

description: Chalinolobus morio Gray, 1841. In Grey, J. Two Exped. Aust., 2:400, 405. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Tasmania. DISTRIBUTION: S. Australia; Tasmania. Perhaps Western Australia. COMMENT: Includes australis, microdon and signifer; see Tate, 1942, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 80:221-297. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003007001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 171, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Physical mechanisms of micro- and nanodomain formation in multicomponent lipid membranes
Creators: name: Schmid, Friederike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article summarizes a variety of physical mechanisms proposed in the literature, which can generate micro- and nanodomains in multicomponent lipid bilayers and biomembranes. It mainly focusses on lipid-driven mechanisms that do not involve direct protein-protein interactions. Specifically, it considers (i) equilibrium mechanisms based on lipid-lipid phase separation such as critical cluster formation close to critical points, and multiple domain formation in curved geometries, (ii) equilibrium mechanisms that stabilize two-dimensional microemulsions, such as the effect of linactants and the effect of curvature-composition coupling in bilayers and monolayers, and (iii) non-equilibrium mechanisms induced by the interaction of a biomembrane with the cellular environment, such as membrane recycling and the pinning effects of the cytoplasm. Theoretical predictions are discussed together with simulations and experiments. The presentation is guided by the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, and the appendix summarizes the mathematical background in a concise way within the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau theory.
description: Review, 217 references, to appear in BBA-biomembranes
Angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibody-mediated kidney rejection unresponsive to treatment
Creators: name: Allison, David
name: Hajjiri, Zahraa
name: Manon, Luis
name: Campbell-Lee, Sally
name: Sahni
name: Setty, Suman
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Allograft rejection is a significant cause of renal transplant failure which needs prompt diagnosis and treatment for graft salvage. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibody-mediated rejection (AT1R-AMR) is increasingly being identified as the etiology of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplant recipients with allograft rejection but without detectable HLA antibodies. While some reports have suggested that AT1R-AMR may be refractory to standard therapy, others have reported improvement or stabilization of graft function. We present two patients in which anti-rejection therapy including therapeutic plasma exchange was unable to salvage the allograft.
Chalinolobus nigrogriseus Gould 1852
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus nigrogriseus

description: Chalinolobus nigrogriseus Gould, 1852. Mamm. Aust., Part 4, Vol. 3, pl. 43. REVIEWED BY: A. C. Ziegler (ACZ). TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, vic. of Moreton Bay. DISTRIBUTION: N. and E. Australia; S. E. New Guinea. Adjacent small islands (KFK). COMMENT: Includes rogersi; see Van Deusen and Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2468:10-27; but also see Ride, 1970:176. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003008001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Van Deusen, H. M., and K. F. Koopman. 1971. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 95. The genus Chalinolobus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Taxonomic review of Chalinolobus picatus, C. nigrogriseus, and C. rogersi. American Museum Novitates, 2468: 1 - 30.", "Ride, W. D. L. 1970. A guide to the native mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 249 pp."]}
Towards identifying and providing for the musically gifted and talented in Victoria : a study in three parts
Creators: name: McCarthy, Marlane.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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 References field.
Travel the World: Analyzing and Predicting Booking Behavior using E-mail Travel Receipts
Creators: name: Djuric, Nemanja
name: Grbovic, Mihajlo
name: Radosavljevic, Vladan
name: Savla, Jaikit
name: Bhagwan, Varun
name: Sharp, Doug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tourism industry has grown tremendously in the previous several decades. Despite its global impact, there still remain a number of open questions related to better understanding of tourists and their habits. In this work we analyze the largest data set of travel receipts considered thus far, and focus on exploring and modeling booking behavior of online customers. We extract useful, actionable insights into the booking behavior, and tackle the task of predicting the booking time. The presented results can be directly used to improve booking experience of customers and optimize targeting campaigns of travel operators.
description: 25th International World Wide Web Conference
Role of neopterin on inflammasome activation in the nervous system
Creators: name: De Paula Martins, Roberta
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The inflammasome is a protein complex responsible for the maturation of the pro-inflammatory cytokines, pro-IL-1β and pro-IL-18. It represents a key event in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases which can be triggered by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Neopterin, , an endogenous pteridin, is considered an early and sensitive biomarker of immune system activation. Although elevated neopterin levels have been associated with oxidative stress and inflammation for decades, the role of the pteridine in these conditions also remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated neopterin production in the central nervous system (CNS) under inflammatory conditions and the effect of neopterin preconditioning on inflammasome activation in nervous cells. A single lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (0.33 mg/kg; intraperitoneal) injection elicited an early hippocampal and serum increase of neopterin levels in adult Swiss mice, which occurred in parallel with inflammasome activation. It was also observed that rat cortical astrocytes produced and released neopterin under mitochondrial stress. In addition, extracellular neopterin (50 nM) inhibited ROS production and increased heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1) content, an inducible antioxidant enzyme controlled by Nrf2 (nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2), which was also increased by the pteridine. Aiming to better understand the role of neopterin, we evaluated the effect of neopterin preconditioning on LPS-induced inflammasome activation in human primary nerve cells. Neopterin inhibited the inflammasome activation in astrocytes and neurons. Moreover, neopterin increased the anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-10 and IL-1Ra astrocytic release. Finally, we analysed the levels of neopterin and cytokines in the serum of patients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), a disease whose the pathophysiology remains virtually unknown. Higher neopterin and IL-10 and IL-1Ra levels were observed in ASD patients, while IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-6 did not change. In conclusion, neopterin appears to induce neuroprotective functions, when produced before or in parallel with the inflammatory stimulus in the CNS, by favoring oxidative stress resistance and inhibiting inflammasome assembly. The proposed molecular mechanism for this effect is through the activation of the Nrf2/HO-1 cytoprotective pathway.
Chalinolobus picatus Gould 1852
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus picatus

description: Chalinolobus picatus Gould, 1852. Mamm. Aust., ser. 4, Vol. 3, pl. 43. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Capt. Sturt's Depot. DISTRIBUTION: N.W. New South Wales; C. and S. Queensland; South Australia (FRA). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003009001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Children and resilience behaviours : the differences between boys and girls
Creators: name: Pratt, Yvette Rochelle.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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 References field.
Measurement of Fast Neutron Rate for NEOS Experiment
Creators: name: Ko, Y. J.
name: Kim, J. Y.
name: Han, B. Y.
name: Jang, C. H.
name: Jeon, E. J.
name: Joo, K. K.
name: Kim, B. R.
name: Kim, H. J.
name: Kim, H. S.
name: Kim, Y. D.
name: Lee, Jaison
name: Lee, J. Y.
name: Lee, M. H.
name: Oh, Y. M.
name: Park, H. K.
name: Park, H. S.
name: Park, K. S.
name: Seo, K. M.
name: Siyeon, Kim
name: Sun, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast neutron rate is measured at the site of NEOS experiment, a short baseline neutrino experiment located in a tendon gallery of a commercial nuclear power plant, using a 0.78-liter liquid scintillator detector. A pulse shape discrimination technique is used to identify neutron signals. The measurements are performed during the nuclear reactor-on and off periods and found to be ~20 per day for both periods. The fast neutron rate is also measured at an overground site with a negligible overburden and is found to be ~100 times higher than that at the NEOS experiment site.
description: To be submitted to JKPS
The Hmong-CIA Relationship as a Case Study of an Effective Ethnic Proxy Relationship
Creators: name: Altherr, Andre
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hmong
subject: Laotian Civil War
subject: Ethnic Proxy
subject: CIA

description: Though largely of secondary importance to United States policymakers compared to the war in Vietnam, American involvement in the Laotian Civil War is notable for the relatively successful use of the Hmong people of Northern Laos as an American ethnic proxy in the fight against the Pathet Lao and NVA until 1973. The results of this case study suggest two possible models for evaluating ethnic proxy usefulness going forwards. The first, within case analysis, suggests the necessity of an intersection of proxy demographic strength and provision of the patron’s comparative advantage in order for the proxy to meet with consistent military success. The second, cross-case comparison with the United States’ relationship with the Iraqi Kurds, suggests an interaction between the aims of the ethnic proxy within their state and the strength of proxy leadership, wherein limited ethnic goals in regards to the central government and strong leadership within the ethnic proxy are more conducive to proxy-central government cooperation.
A Goldilocks principle for modeling radial velocity noise
Creators: name: Feng, Fabo
name: Tuomi, M.
name: Jones, H. R. A.
name: Butler, R. P.
name: Vogt, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The doppler measurements of stars are diluted and distorted by stellar activity noise. Different choices of noise models and statistical methods have led to much controversy in the confirmation of exoplanet candidates obtained through analysing radial velocity data. To quantify the limitation of various models and methods, we compare different noise models and signal detection criteria for various simulated and real data sets in the Bayesian framework. According to our analyses, the white noise model tend to interpret noise as signal, leading to false positives. On the other hand, the red noise models are likely to interprete signal as noise, resulting in false negatives. We find that the Bayesian information criterion combined with a Bayes factor threshold of 150 can efficiently rule out false positives and confirm true detections. We further propose a Goldilocks principle aimed at modeling radial velocity noise to avoid too many false positives and too many false negatives. We propose that the noise model with RHK-dependent jitter is used in combination with the moving average model to detect planetary signals for M dwarfs. Our work may also shed light on the noise modeling for hotter stars, and provide a valid approach for finding similar principles in other disciplines.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Australian rainforest ecology on the basis of species traits
Creators: name: Kooyman, Robert Michael
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Objectives: Quantify the influence of species traits, functional and phylogenetic diversity, history, scale, and environmental gradients on community assembly in tropical and sub-tropical rainforests. Methods: Three datasets were used. Allometric relationships governing the economy of sapling height gain were investigated for 11,111 individuals from 75 species in sub-tropical rainforest. Trait-gradient analysis partitioned species trait values between alpha (within) and beta (among) components for 231 woody taxa in 216 sub-tropical rainforest assemblages. Community phylogenetic structure was quantified for 596 assemblages, 1137 taxa, four functional traits, and two latitude regions (tropical and sub-tropical). Taxonomic patterns, trait values and structures, phylogenetic structure, and species niche breadth were quantified and compared across selected gradients and scales. Results: Main-stem mass required to achieve a common height was the product of stem volume and wood density, and not significantly linked to other ecological traits. Correlation structures of species trait values differed across scales. Within sites, dispersal, habitat filtering, and competitive exclusion did not create strong linkages among traits. Across the landscape, abiotic drivers created strong linkages among leaf, stem, and seed traits. Within species height variation showed only a few species moved from lower to higher height ranking as site-mean-height declined. Most declined in unison with, or had a narrower range relative to site-mean-heights. Phylogenetic divergences in moist forest along the latitudinal gradient between the tropics and sub-tropics were older than those along the altitudinal gradient within. Assemblages of species were more phylogenetically clustered where the effects of historic climatic oscillations had been greater, and less clustered in long-term stable locations. Conclusions: Historic and recent rainforest contraction and re-expansion resulted in species within regions being more related than by chance. In recolonised areas within regions, species pools and trait ranges were reduced, and assemblages were dominated by widely dispersed species with greater niche breadth.
title: The deployment of Estill Voice Training (EVT™) in community choirs
title: two case studies from regional northern Australia
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fabris, Paolo
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2018

description: In the latter 20th Century scientific approaches and the use of the latest technologies have contributed to the development of singing techniques. Whilst there has been some research into these training techniques in single voice training, there is no significant literature regarding the application of such techniques in the context of choral singing and conducting. The aim of this research is to evaluate the deployment of the Estill Voice Training™ (EVT) in choral training and conducting by exploring how this technique may or may not contribute positively, through its hand signals, both to rehearsals and performances of a given vocal ensemble. Therefore, Estill Voice Training™ technique were applied to the training of two community choirs based in Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia; the two choirs include individuals from different demographics, cultural backgrounds and musical skills.
Chalinolobus poensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus poensis

description: Chalinolobus poensis (Gray, 1842). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 258. TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Abo (lower Niger River). DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Uganda; Bioko. COMMENT: Transferred from Glauconycteris; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:1-4. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Seeking Maximum Linearity of Transfer Functions
Creators: name: Silva, Filipi N.
name: Comin, Cesar H.
name: Costa, Luciano da F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linearity is an important and frequently sought property in electronics and instrumentation. Here, we report a method capable of, given a transfer function, identifying the respective most linear region of operation with a fixed width. This methodology, which is based on least squares regression and systematic consideration of all possible regions, has been illustrated with respect to both an analytical (sigmoid transfer function) and real-world (low-power, one-stage class A transistor amplifier) situations. In the former case, the method was found to identity the theoretically optimal region of operation even in presence of noise. In the latter case, it was possible to identify an amplifier circuit configuration providing a good compromise between linearity, amplification and output resistance. The transistor amplifier application, which was addressed in terms of transfer functions derived from its experimentally obtained characteristic surface, also yielded contributions such as the estimation of local constants of the device, as opposed to typically considered average values. Moreover, the obtained characteristic surfaces of the considered transistor (a generic, low signal device) revealed a surprisingly complex structure. The reported method and results paves the way to several other applications in other types of devices and systems, intelligent control operation, and other areas such as identifying regions of power law behavior.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Methodology to study the suction effects on mechanical characteristics of rammed earth
Creators: name: El Hajjar, A.
name: Chauhan, P.
name: Prime, N.
name: Plé, O.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: La terre crue est un matériau de construction mais aussi une technique de construction par laquelle le sol est compacté dynamiquement dans un coffrage temporaire pour former des murs. Cette construction présente des caractéristiques mécaniques qui varient en fonction de leur état de succion. Malgré ses nombreux avantages en tant que matériau de construction durable, les caractéristiques de résistance montrent une dépendance aux conditions environnementales. Ce lien entre les caractéristiques mécaniques et les conditions hygroscopiques est étudié ici avec un test de résistance à la compression non confiné avec et sans cycles de décharge-rechargement sur des échantillons compactés de façon homogène conditionnés à différents états des succions. Cette étude montre que la résistance à la compression et le module d'Young augmentent avec la succion. Un comportement mécanique complexe impliquant des déformations plastiques et un phénomène d'endommagement a été observé, en relation avec l'activité du sol. Le sol étudié est en effet légèrement actif et subit à la fois de l’endommagement et de la déformation plastique influencés par la succion.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Charged particle dynamics in the presence of non-Gaussian Lévy electrostatic fluctuations
Creators: name: Moradi, Sara
name: del-Castillo-Negrete, Diego
name: Anderson, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Full orbit dynamics of charged particles in a $3$-dimensional helical magnetic field in the presence of $α$-stable Lévy electrostatic fluctuations and linear friction modeling collisional Coulomb drag is studied via Monte Carlo numerical simulations. The Lévy fluctuations are introduced to model the effect of non-local transport due to fractional diffusion in velocity space resulting from intermittent electrostatic turbulence. The probability distribution functions of energy, particle displacements, and Larmor radii are computed and showed to exhibit a transition from exponential decay, in the case of Gaussian fluctuations, to power law decay in the case of Lévy fluctuations. The absolute value of the power law decay exponents are linearly proportional to the Lévy index $α$. The observed anomalous non-Gaussian statistics of the particles' Larmor radii (resulting from outlier transport events) indicate that, when electrostatic turbulent fluctuations exhibit non-Gaussian Lévy statistics, gyro-averaging and guiding centre approximations might face limitations and full particle orbit effects should be taken into account.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted as a letter in Physics of Plasmas
Chalinolobus superbus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus superbus

description: Chalinolobus superbus (Hayman, 1939). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 3:219 -223. TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Oriental, Ituri Dist., Pawa. DISTRIBUTION: Ivory Coast; Ghana; N.E. Zaire. COMMENT: Transferred from Glauconycteris; see Koopman, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2451:1-4. Known only from two specimens (NS). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003011001 as C. superba (sic).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Comparative estuarine dynamics: trophic linkages and ecosystem function
Creators: name: Kenworthy, Joseph
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Estuarine systems are of crucial importance to the provision of goods and services on a global scale. High human population densities in coastal systems have caused an increasing input of pollutants, of which nutrient pollution is of major concern. Increasingly, these areas are also impacted by physical disturbance, which can originate from anthropogenic sources (e.g. bait digging, shipping) or climate change causing increasingly frequent and intense storms. The individual impacts of such stressors on ecosystems have been investigated however their combined impacts have received less attention.Cumulative impacts of multiple stressors are unpredictable and will likely result in non-additive effects. Further, the effect of local environmental context on multiple stressors is a relatively understudied topic. Work in this thesis compared the combined impact of nutrient enrichment and physical disturbance in Scotland and Australia, using a series of manipulative field experiments. Results demonstrate that response to stressors is highly context dependent, varying between and within geographic locations.While the background levels of stress may vary, by comparing these two locations it is possible to comment on the adaptations and response that communities within different parts of the world display when subjected to additional stress. This study demonstrates that environmental context must be considered when implementing future management practices. Further work demonstrated that the impact of multiple stressors varies depending on how the stress is applied –whether stressors are applied simultaneously or whether there is a delay between two stressors. This study was among the first of its kind, assessing the implications of how multiple stressors react with each other given the order and intensity in which stressors were applied. Results demonstrated that systems can become sensitised to stress making them increasingly vulnerable to additional stress. Future research should be focussed on incorporating ecologically relevant scenarios of how stressors will impact estuaries while considering how environmental context will mediate impacts.
Boosting local field enhancement by on-chip nanofocusing and impedance-matched plasmonic antennas
Creators: name: Zenin, Vladimir A.
name: Andryieuski, Andrei
name: Malureanu, Radu
name: Radko, Ilya P.
name: Volkov, Valentyn S.
name: Gramotnev, Dmitri K.
name: Lavrinenko, Andrei V.
name: Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly confined surface plasmon-polariton modes can be used for efficiently delivering the electromagnetic energy to nano-sized volumes by reducing the cross sections of propagating modes far beyond the diffraction limit, i.e., by nanofocusing. This process results in significant local-field enhancement that can advantageously be exploited in modern optical nanotechnologies, including signal processing, biochemical sensing, imaging and spectroscopy. Here, we propose, analyze, and experimentally demonstrate on-chip nanofocusing followed by impedance-matched nanowire antenna excitation in the end-fire geometry at telecom wavelengths. Numerical and experimental evidences of the efficient excitation of dipole and quadrupole (dark) antenna modes are provided, revealing underlying physical mechanisms and analogies with the operation of plane-wave Fabry-Pérot interferometers. The unique combination of efficient nanofocusing and nanoantenna resonant excitation realized in our experiments offers a major boost to the field intensity enhancement up to $\sim 12000$, with the enhanced field being evenly distributed over the gap volume of $30\times 30\times 10\ {\rm nm}^3$, and promises thereby a variety of useful on-chip functionalities within sensing, nonlinear spectroscopy and signal processing.
The development and maintenance of adolescent depression
Creators: name: Kercher, Amy Jane
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research examined the longitudinal development of depressive symptoms among young adolescents (mean age 12 years). The first model examined depressive symptoms across 6 months in 315 young adolescents and their mothers, considering the mediation of perceived parenting and its influence on adolescent self-worth. Although parent-reported parental depression was not linked with child-reported perceived parenting, the child's perception of his or her mother as rejecting or less caring was associated with a lower sense of self-worth, which in turn predicted depressive symptoms 6 months later, controlling for initial depression. In the second model, tested across 12 months with 896 young adolescent girls, neuroticism served as a distal vulnerability for depression, conferring a risk of experiencing dependent stressors and negative automatic thoughts which fully mediated the effect of neuroticism on later depression. Initial depressive symptoms also followed this meditational pathway, in a possible maintenance and risk pathway for adolescent depression. Unexpectedly, independent stressors were also predicted by initial depressive symptoms, suggesting possible shared method or genuine environmental factors. Finally, it was proposed that young adolescents at risk of depression will not only display cognitive vulnerabilities contributing to increased depressive symptoms following stressors (cognitive diathesis-stress theory), but also be more likely to experience stressors at least partly dependent on their own behaviour (stress-generation theory). This model was supported with a large (N=756) sample of young adolescents across 6 months, controlling for initial depression. Taken together, this thesis extends previous theories about the aetiology of depression, providing evidence from family, personality and cognitive risk factors to better explain the development of depressive symptoms in early adolescence, with significant implications for intervention and treatment.
Chalinolobus tuberculatus Forster 1844
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus tuberculatus

description: Chalinolobus tuberculatus Forster, 1844. Descrip. Animal. Itinere Maris Aust. Terras, 1772-74:62. TYPE LOCALITY: New Zealand. DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand and adjacent small islands. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014003012001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 172, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Values, technology and educating girls in a global society : a study of the implementation of a values-driven ICT course for Year 10 students
Creators: name: O'Bryan, Marguerite Joyce.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Neutron-antineutron oscillations beyond the quasi-free limit
Creators: name: Davis, E. David
name: Young, Albert R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prompted by plans to conduct a new neutron oscillation experiment at the European Spallation Source (ESS), we consider issues associated with the magnetic field that must be present, some of which are potentially exacerbated by the significantly larger length $l$ contemplated for the neutron propagation region. To this end, we introduce a stochastic model of the residual magnetic field within the propagation region which draws on features of magnetic profiles measured during the last free neutron oscillation experiment [conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in the 1990's]. We average over both fluctuations in the magnetic field sampled by neutrons, and representative spectra of neutron speeds. We find that deviations from the quasi-free result for the antineutron probability do not depend quadratically on $l$ (as a naive perturbative estimate would suggest) but increase only linearly with $l$. As regards the large spikes in the magnetic field which can be expected at, for example, joints in the magnetic shielding of the propagation region (despite compensating currents and magnetic idealization of the shield), we demonstrate that their effect scales as $l/D^{3/2}$, where $D$ is the diameter of the cylindrical magnetic shielding. Our arguments suggest that, provided the dimensions of the propagation region are such that the ratio $l/D^{3/2}$ does not exceed the value pertinent to the ILL experiment, and these spikes occur close to either end of the propagation region, they can be neglected. We also establish that any large magnetic field encountered after the propagation region is exited will not diminish the probability for antineutron detection. For the range of values of $l$ of most interest to the ESS experiment, it should suffice to improve on the level of magnetic suppression achieved at the ILL by a factor of two.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
Application of Multiphase Particle Methods in Atomization and Breakup Regimes of Liquid Jets
Creators: name: Farrokhpanah, Amirsaman
name: Mostaghimi, Javad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiphase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used to study the jet breakup phenomena. It has been shown that this method is well capable of capturing different jet breakup characteristics. The value obtained for critical Weber number here in transition from dripping to jetting is a very good match to available values in literature. Jet breakup lengths are also agreeing well with several empirical correlations. Successful usage of SPH, as a comparably fast CFD solver, in jet breakup analysis helps in speeding up the numerical study of this phenomenon.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels