cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corporatization of Covert Infrastructure: Public-Private Partnerships in Covert Action
Creators: name: Mott, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CIA
subject: Covert Action
subject: Covert Intervention
subject: Intelligence
subject: Proprietaries
subject: Front Companies
subject: Civil Air Transport
subject: Seven Seas Airlines
subject: Congo Crisis
subject: George Doole
subject: Privatization
subject: Larry Devlin

description: In the years following WWII, the CIA adopted a new model of covert infrastructure with which to carry out covert intervention — the corporatized model. Covert infrastructure refers to the logistical, human, and material support needed for covert action missions. This can include safehouses, letter drop locations, relationships with political dissidents, intelligence sources, weapons caches, and transportation. Under more traditional approaches, this infrastructure was painstakingly built and maintained over months and years at great financial cost and political risk. Under the corporatized model, intelligence services leverage the strengths of private contractors, front companies, organized crime syndicates, smugglers, and mercenaries to replicate this covert infrastructure in a way that provides intelligence services with plausible deniability, lower costs, and greater flexibility. In this thesis, by examining several case studies, I set out to answer the questions of why a state would choose to adopt this corporatized model — what its strengths are — and how widespread this practice is. I examine one case study very closely: the US, French, and Belgian intervention in Congo in the early 1960s, and show that all three states employed some variation of this model. I then briefly examine several other case studies on the surface level to show that this was not isolated to a single event. I then conclude by illustrating that it appears these same strategies are being employed by a variety of states today still and call for greater research into how corporatization is employed in covert intervention strategies today.
Revised Supporting Information for Journal Article "Redox-Active Chiroptical Switching in Mono- and Bis-Iron Ethynylcarbo[6]helicenes Studied by Electronic and Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Resonance Raman Optical Activity"
Creators: name: Shen, Chengshuo
name: Srebro-Hooper, Monika
name: Weymuth, Thomas
name: Krausbeck, Florian
name: López Navarrete, Juan T.
name: Ramírez, Francisco J.
name: Nieto-Ortega, Belén
name: Casado, Juan
name: Reiher, Markus
name: Autschbach, Jochen
name: Crassous, Jeanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This upload contains the revised parts of the supporting information for the journal article "Redox-Active Chiroptical Switching in Mono- and Bis-Iron Ethynylcarbo[6]helicenes Studied by Electronic and Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Resonance Raman Optical Activity" (Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 15067).
Metastable vacua from torsion and machine learning
Creators: name: Damian, Cesar
name: Loaiza-Brito, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By implementing an error function on a Machine Learning algorithm we look for minimal conditions to construct stable Anti de Sitter and de Sitter vacua from dimensional type IIB String theory compactifcation on Kähler manifolds with torsion. This allows to have contributions to the scalar potential from the five-form flux and from D-branes wrapping torsional cycles, interpreted as non-BPS states. The former implies the possibility to construct stable AdS vacua while the later constitutes a mechanism to uplift AdS to dS vacua. Particularly we consider $\hat{D5}$ non-BPS states to uplift the stable AdS vacua to an (apparently) stable dS minimum. Both results -- the generation of an AdS vacuum and the corresponding uplifting to a dS one -- are restricted to certain type of configurations, specifically with the number of O3 orientifolds bounded from below by the number of D3-branes and fluxes. Under these conditions we report over 170 dS (classical) stable vacua. In all of them, the uplifted effective potential becomes very flat indicating the presence of possible source of instabilities. We comment about their relation with the Swampland Conjectures.
description: 25+1 pages, 5 figures
Near-Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Inner Region of GG Tau A Disk
Creators: name: Yang, Yi
name: Hashimoto, Jun
name: Hayashi, Saeko S.
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Mayama, Satoshi
name: Rafikov, Roman
name: Akiyama, Eiji
name: Carson, Joseph C.
name: Janson, Markus
name: Kwon, Jungmi
name: de Leon, Jerome
name: Oh, Daehyeon
name: Takami, Michihiro
name: Tang, Ya-wen
name: Kudo, Tomoyuki
name: Kusakabe, Nobuhiko
name: Abe, Lyu
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Brandt, Timothy D.
name: Egner, Sebastian
name: Feldt, Markus
name: Goto, Miwa
name: Grady, Carol A.
name: Guyon, Olivier
name: Hayano, Yutaka
name: Hayashi, Masahiko
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Hodapp, Klaus W.
name: Ishi, Miki
name: Iye, Masanori
name: Kandori, Ryo
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Kuzuhara, Masayuki
name: Matsuo, Taro
name: Mcelwain, Michael W.
name: Miyama, Shoken
name: Morino, Jun-Ichi
name: Moro-Martin, Amaya
name: Nishimura, Tetsuo
name: Pyo, Tae-Soo
name: Serabyn, Eugene
name: Suenaga, Takuya
name: Suto, Hiroshi
name: Suzuki, Ryuji
name: Takahashi, Yasuhiro H.
name: Takato, Naruhisa
name: Terada, Hiroshi
name: Thalmann, Christian
name: Turner, Edwin L.
name: Watanabe, Makoto
name: Wisniewski, John
name: Yamada, Toru
name: Takami, Hideki
name: Usuda, Tomonori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By performing non-masked polarization imaging with Subaru/HiCIAO, polarized scattered light from the inner region of the disk around the GG Tau A system was successfully detected in the $H$ band with a spatial resolution of approximately 0.07$\arcsec$, revealing the complicated inner disk structures around this young binary. This paper reports the observation of an arc-like structure to the north of GG Tau Ab and part of a circumstellar structure that is noticeable around GG Tau Aa extending to a distance of approximately 28 AU from the primary star. The speckle noise around GG Tau Ab constrains its disk radius to <13 AU. Based on the size of the circumbinary ring and the circumstellar disk around GG Tau Aa, the semi-major axis of the binary's orbit is likely to be 62 AU. A comparison of the present observations with previous ALMA and near-infrared (NIR) H$_2$ emission observations suggests that the north arc could be part of a large streamer flowing from the circumbinary ring to sustain the circumstellar disks. According to the previous studies, the circumstellar disk around GG Tau Aa has enough mass and can sustain itself for a duration sufficient for planet formation; thus, our study indicates that planets can form within close (separation $\lesssim$ 100 AU) young binary systems.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ, 12 pages, 5 figures
Studies on ecological relationships within a saline lake with special reference to energetics
Creators: name: Davey, Gary.
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.
Accelerating High-Order Mesh Optimization Using Finite Element Partial Assembly on GPUs
Creators: name: Camier, Jean-Sylvain
name: Dobrev, Veselin
name: Knupp, Patrick
name: Kolev, Tzanio
name: Mittal, Ketan
name: Rieben, Robert
name: Tomov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a new GPU-oriented mesh optimization method based on high-order finite elements. Our approach relies on node movement with fixed topology, through the Target-Matrix Optimization Paradigm (TMOP) and uses a global nonlinear solve over the whole computational mesh, i.e., all mesh nodes are moved together. A key property of the method is that the mesh optimization process is recast in terms of finite element operations, which allows us to utilize recent advances in the field of GPU-accelerated high-order finite element algorithms. For example, we reduce data motion by using tensor factorization and matrix-free methods, which have superior performance characteristics compared to traditional full finite element matrix assembly and offer advantages for GPU-based HPC hardware. We describe the major mathematical components of the method along with their efficient GPU-oriented implementation. In addition, we propose an easily reproducible mesh optimization test that can serve as a performance benchmark for the mesh optimization community.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW151226
Creators: name: Smartt, S. J.
name: Chambers, K. C.
name: Smith, K. W.
name: Huber, M. E.
name: Young, D. R.
name: Chen, T. -W.
name: Inserra, C.
name: Wright, D. E.
name: Coughlin, M.
name: Denneau, L.
name: Flewelling, H.
name: Heinze, A.
name: Jerkstrand, A.
name: Magnier, E. A.
name: Maguire, K.
name: Mueller, B.
name: Rest, A.
name: Sherstyuk, A.
name: Stalder, B.
name: Schultz, A. S. B.
name: Stubbs, C. W.
name: Tonry, J.
name: Waters, C.
name: Wainscoat, R.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Dennefeld, M.
name: Dimitriadis, G.
name: Firth, R. E.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Frohmaier, C.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Harmanen, J.
name: Kankare, E.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Kromer, M.
name: Mandel, I.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Gibson, B.
name: Primak, N.
name: Willman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for an electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW151226. Using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope we mapped out 290 square degrees in the optical i_ps filter starting 11.5hr after the LIGO information release and lasting for a further 28 days. The first observations started 49.5hr after the time of the GW151226 detection. We typically reached sensitivity limits of i_ps = 20.3-20.8 and covered 26.5% of the LIGO probability skymap. We supplemented this with ATLAS survey data, reaching 31% of the probability region to shallower depths of m~19. We found 49 extragalactic transients (that are not obviously AGN), including a faint transient in a galaxy at 7Mpc (a luminous blue variable outburst) plus a rapidly decaying M-dwarf flare. Spectral classification of 20 other transient events showed them all to be supernovae. We found an unusual transient, PS15dpn, with an explosion date temporally coincident with GW151226 which evolved into a type Ibn supernova. The redshift of the transient is secure at z=0.1747 +/- 0.0001 and we find it unlikely to be linked, since the luminosity distance has a negligible probability of being consistent with that of GW151226. In the 290 square degrees surveyed we therefore do not find a likely counterpart. However we show that our survey strategy would be sensitive to NS-NS mergers producing kilonovae at D < 100 Mpc which is promising for future LIGO/Virgo searches.
description: Submitted to ApJL on 6th June 2016. Accepted on 8th August 2016. This is the accepted version after referee report and minor revisions
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 09, No. 01 (January, 1982)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Machine learning methods for Schlieren imaging of a plasma channel in tenuous atomic vapor
Creators: name: Bíró, Gábor
name: Pocsai, Mihály
name: Barna, Imre Ferenc
name: Moody, Joshua T.
name: Demeter, Gábor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the usage of a Schlieren imaging setup to measure the geometrical dimensions of a plasma channel in atomic vapor. Near resonant probe light is used to image the plasma channel in a tenuous vapor and machine learning techniques are tested for extracting quantitative information from the images. By building a database of simulated signals with a range of plasma parameters for training Deep Neural Networks, we demonstrate that they can extract from the Schlieren images reliably and with high accuracy the location, the radius and the maximum ionization fraction of the plasma channel as well as the width of the transition region between the core of the plasma channel and the unionized vapor. We test several different neural network architectures with supervised learning and show that the parameter estimations supplied by the networks are resilient with respect to slight changes of the experimental parameters that may occur in the course of a measurement.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
Yang-Mills-Higgs connections on Calabi-Yau manifolds, II
Creators: name: Biswas, Indranil
name: Bruzzo, Ugo
name: Otero, Beatriz Graña
name: Giudice, Alessio Lo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05, 14J32, 32L05, 53C07, 58E15

description: In this paper we study Higgs and co-Higgs $G$-bundles on compact Kähler manifolds $X$. Our main results are: (1) If $X$ is Calabi-Yau, and $(E,\,θ)$ is a semistable Higgs or co-Higgs $G$-bundle on $X$, then the principal $G$-bundle $E$ is semistable. In particular, there is a deformation retract of ${\mathcal M}_H(G)$ onto $\mathcal M(G)$, where $\mathcal M(G)$ is the moduli space of semistable principal $G$-bundles with vanishing rational Chern classes on $X$, and analogously, ${\mathcal M}_H(G)$ is the moduli space of semistable principal Higgs $G$-bundles with vanishing rational Chern classes. (2) Calabi-Yau manifolds are characterized as those compact Kähler manifolds whose tangent bundle is semistable for every Kähler class, and have the following property: if $(E,\,θ)$ is a semistable Higgs or co-Higgs vector bundle, then $E$ is semistable.
description: 12 pages. v2: references added. v3: final version, to be published in the Proceedings of GEOQUANT 2015, Travaux en Course, Universit\'e du Luxembourg
Algebraic properties of non-standard numbers
Creators: name: Woods, Alan Robert.
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.
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 09, No. 05 (May, 1982)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
DSpace 7 ORCID Integration: DCAT meeting 2023.02.14
Creators: name: Bollini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DSpace
ORCID
interoperability

description: This presentation was delivered at the DCAT Meeting in February 2023 to present the activities done by 4Science to benefit ORCID Members adopting the DSpace platform. 4Science, a leading contributor of DSpace, has developed the current ORCID integration for DSpace offering the ability to connect DSpace researcher profiles with ORCID, then push publications & projects information to the ORCID profile. DSpace, until its version 7.2 was only able to query the ORCID registry to lookup for authors. DSpace-CRIS instead, an open source extension of DSpace built and maintained by 4Science, provides since version 4 a full bi-directional integration with ORCID able to push & pull data via the member API. The DSpace governance, Steering & Leadership groups, set these new features as a high priority and 4Science donated what was done for ORCID integration in DSpace-CRIS adaption and ported such features to plain DSpace. These features are available in DSpace, starting from 7.3 version.
A Critical Compilation of Experimental Data on the 1s2$l$2$l^{\prime}$ Core-Excited States of Li-like Ions from Carbon to Uranium
Creators: name: Azarov, V. I.
name: Kramida, A.
name: Ralchenko, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advance in calculations of energy levels of the 1s2$l$2$l^{\prime}$ core-excited states for ions along the Li isoelectronic sequence from carbon to uranium suggested that theoretical predictions for the 1s2$l$2$l^{\prime}$ transitions are significantly more precise than most of the experimental results available today and can thus be used for calibrating measured X-ray spectra. This suggestion is verified in the present work by comparison with benchmark experimental results. We present a critical compilation of all available experimental data on the energy levels of the 1s2$l$2$l^{\prime}$ core-excited states of Li-like ions. The compiled experimental data include uncertainty estimates, which allowed proper weighted averaging and comparison with theoretical calculations. This comparison confirmed the supremacy of the most advanced theoretical calculations of the 1s2$l$2$l^{\prime}$ levels over the best experimental results available today.
description: 63 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 09, No. 07 (September, 1982)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
A comprehensive overview of all ESS relevant RDM networks and initiatives in which NFDI4Earth participants are active will be established and available (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D3.4.1)
Creators: name: Protopopova-Kakar, Valentina
name: Ott, Florian
name: Castell-Rüdenhausen, Wolfgang
name: Tilmann, Frederik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: NFDI
NFDI4Earth
NFDI4Earth Deliverable

description: This report summarizes the initial version of the overview of all Earth System Science (ESS) relevant Research Data Management (RDM) networks and initiatives in which NFDI4Earth participants are active. The first part of this comprehensive overview presents the additional value that the collected information could bring to the NFDI4Earth community - an improved level of information about the available international opportunities in various RDM and/or ESS initiatives, offering a direct contact through their German representatives. The collected data will be stored in the NFDI4Earth Knowledge Hub (KH), periodically updated and will be easily accessible through the NFDI4Earth One Stop for All (OS4A). Four main different types of initiatives are distinguished (Communities and Accusations; Data Infrastructures; Data, Software, Services and Educational & Training materials providers; Projects), which are listed in the second section of the document. The future networking approach to each of the groups is built on the existing commitment of participants in NFDI4Earth and their active engagement to each initiative. The data collection approach, based primary on internet survey, is presented in the third part of the report. The document outlines a future step to gather information through direct contact with NFDI4Earth participants to obtain all necessary information and keep it up-to-date.
description: This work has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the project NFDI4Earth (DFG project no.460036893, https://www.nfdi4earth.de/) within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, https://www.nfdi.de/).
Pregnancy Outcome in Rural Ethiopia With Emphasis to Perinatal Mortality
Creators: name: Wolde-Michael, Kifle
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1997

description: A prospective community-based study of pregnant women was conducted to assess pregnancy outcome with emphasis to perinatal mortal ity in rural communities of Meskan and Mareko district in Gurage zone in Southern Eth iop ia, between March 22 and August 2 1, 1997. Pregnant women were identified by trained enumerators through house - to - house visit and were followed month Iy till del ivery, after wh ich both the neonates and the mothers were visited at 7th and 28th days. Pretes ted standard questionnaires were used to obtain information on socio-demograph ic characteristics, past obstetric history, health problems during the index pregnancy and labour, and the condition of both the neonates and the mothers at the 7th and 28th days. Analysis made on 428 singleton births showed a perinatal mortality rate of 44.4 per 1000 births. The stillbirth and early neonatal mortality rates were 21.0 per 1000 births and 23.9 per 1000 live births, respectively. The rates were found to be relatively low as compared to figures reported for other sub- Saharan Africa. Both bivariate and multivariate analysis showed that maternal height and gestational age were significantly associated with perinatal ~ - -- mortality. The risk of death was signif icantly higher among neonates born to short statured mothers. Similarly the risk of perinatal death was higher in preterm babies than term babies. Establishment of emergency obstetric care (EOC) alongside with training of traditional birth attendants and educating mothers for appropriate utilization of MCH services are recommended.
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 09, No. 06 (June, 1982)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
The trans effect in complexes of cobalt (III)
Creators: name: Tomlins, Lorraine Anne.
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.
High-Precision Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope P127 Prism
Creators: name: Joshi, Bhavin A.
name: Strolger, Louis-Gregory
name: Ryan,, Russell E.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Hounsell, Rebekah
name: Kelly, Patrick L.
name: Kessler, Richard
name: Macias, Phillip
name: Rose, Benjamin
name: Scolnic, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from simulating slitless spectroscopic observations with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (Roman) Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) P127 prism spanning 0.75 $μm$ to 1.8 $μm$. We quantify the efficiency of recovered Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) redshifts, as a function of P127 prism exposure time, to guide planning for future observing programs with the Roman prism. Generating the two-dimensional dispersed images and extracting one-dimensional spectra is done with the slitless spectroscopy package pyLINEAR along with custom-written software. From the analysis of 1698 simulated SN Ia P127 prism spectra, we show the efficiency of recovering SN redshifts to $z\lesssim3.0$, highlighting the exceptional sensitivity of the Roman P127 prism. Redshift recovery is assessed by setting a requirement of $σ_z = (\left|z - z_\mathrm{true} \right|)/(1+z) \leq 0.01$. We find that 3 hr exposures are sufficient for meeting this requirement, for $\gtrsim 50\%$ of the sample of mock SNe Ia at $z\approx2$ and within $\pm5$ days of rest-frame maximum light in the optical. We also show that a 1 hr integration of Roman can achieve the same precision in completeness to a depth of $24.4 \pm 0.06$ AB mag (or $z\lesssim 1$). Implications for cosmological studies with Roman P127 prism spectra of SNe Ia are also discussed.
description: ApJ accepted. Updated to match accepted version
Rationale, design, demographics and baseline characteristics of the randomized, controlled, Phase 2b SAPPHIRE study of verinurad plus allopurinol in patients with chronic kidney disease and hyperuricaemia
Creators: name: Heerspink, Hiddo J.L.
name: STACK, AUSTIN
name: Terkeltaub, Robert
name: A. Greene, Tom
name: Inker, Lesley A
name: Bjursell, Magnus
name: Perl, Shira
name: Rikte, Tord
name: Erlandsson, Fredrik
name: Perkovic, Vlado
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background. Verinurad is a human uric acid (UA) transporter (URAT1) inhibitor known to decrease serum UA (sUA) levels and that may reduce albuminuria. In a Phase 2a study (NCT03118739), treatment with verinurad þ febuxostat lowered urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) at 12 weeks by 39% (90% confidence interval 4–62%) among patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperuricaemia and albuminuria. The Phase 2b, randomized, placebo-controlled Study of verinurAd and alloPurinol in Patients with cHronic kIdney disease and hyperuRicaEmia (SAPPHIRE; NCT03990363) will examine the effect of verinurad þ allopurinol on albuminuria and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) slope among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hyperuricaemia. Methods Adults (≥18 years of age) with CKD, eGFR ≥25 mL/min/1.73 m2, UACR 30–5000 mg/g and sUA ≥6.0 mg/dL will be enrolled. Approximately 725 patients will be randomized 1:1:1:1:1 to 12, 7.5 or 3 mg verinurad + allopurinol, allopurinol or placebo. An 8-week dose-titration period will precede a 12-month treatment period; verinurad dose will be increased to 24 mg at Month 9 in a subset of patients in the 3 mg verinurad + allopurinol arm. The primary efficacy endpoint the is change from baseline in UACR at 6 months. Secondary efficacy endpoints include changes in UACR, eGFR and sUA from baseline at 6 and 12 months. Conclusions This study will assess the combined clinical effect of verinurad + allopurinol on kidney function in patients with CKD, hyperuricaemia and albuminuria, and whether this combination confers renoprotection beyond standard-of-care.
Finite element analysis of ion-implanted diamond surface swelling
Creators: name: Bosia, F.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Vittone, E.
name: Picollo, F.
name: Giudice, A. Lo
name: Jaksic, M.
name: Skukan, N.
name: Giuntini, L.
name: Massi, M.
name: Calusi, S.
name: Vannoni, M.
name: Lagomarsino, S.
name: Sciortino, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental results and numerical Finite Element analysis to describe surface swelling due to the creation of buried graphite-like inclusions in diamond substrates subjected to MeV ion implantation. Numerical predictions are compared to experimental data for MeV proton and helium implantations, performed with scanning ion microbeams. Swelling values are measured with white light interferometric profilometry in both cases. Simulations are based on a model which accounts for the through-the-thickness variation of mechanical parameters in the material, as a function of ion type, fluence and energy. Surface deformation profiles and internal stress distributions are analyzed and numerical results are seen to adequately fit experimental data. Results allow us to draw conclusions on structural damage mechanisms in diamond for different MeV ion implantations.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
The Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the Colored Zee-Babu Model
Creators: name: Chen, Shao-Long
name: Xiao, Yu-Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the neutrinoless double beta decay in the colored Zee-Babu model. We consider three cases of the colored Zee-Babu model with a leptoquark and a diquark introduced. The neutrino masses are generated at two-loop level, and the constraints given by tree-level flavor violation processes and muon anomalous magnetic moment $(g-2)_μ$ have been considered. In our numerical analysis, we find that the standard light neutrino exchange contribution can be canceled by new physics contribution under certain assumption and condition, leading to a hidden neutrinoless double beta decay. The condition can be examined comprehensively by future complementary searches with different isotopes.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, references added
An evaluation of the dominant assumptions and practices of training packages in Australian Vocational Education and Training and the extent to which they coincide with the emergence of mode-2 society and its imputed education and training needs
Creators: name: Graham, Clive
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy
Education policy, sociology and philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: This research investigates the relevance of contemporary Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) to economic development in Mode-2 society. Mode-2 society is a term coined by Nowotny et al (2001) which equates with changes in productivity and the triumph of free-market capitalism commonly referred to as knowledge driven capitalism or knowledge capitalism. Building on Schumpeter's economic theory of entrepreneurial competition and Romer's new growth economic model that have transformed capitalism into 'gales of creative destruction' by which new knowledge now generates national economic advantage, the thesis examines the literature of Training Packages as the prescribed instruments of VET in the milieu of knowledge capitalism. It could be expected that Australian VET, and in particular Training Packages, would have a greater justification for pursuing a knowledge and skill application-and-transfer policy that fits the growth of knowledge capitalism which Mode-2 society represents than it had for the former manufacturing economy. To test this contention, the thesis establishes eleven key transitions from Mode-1 to Mode-2 society and the imputed education and training needs of the latter as derived from the Nowotny et al (2001) Mode-2 thesis. These transitions are formed into an Evaluative Framework and underpin an ethnographic study involving thirty-three VET experts. The literature search and ethnography responses are synthesized and analysed with new material elicited from the ethnography. The outcomes of the analysis are equated with the eleven key transitions from Mode-1 to Mode-2 society and the imputed emergent education and training needs of each transition. It is concluded that the dominant assumptions and practices of Training Packages do not align with the imputed education and training needs of Mode-2 society as indicated by the eleven key attributes of the Nowotny et al (2001) conceptualisation. The theoretical implications of this conclusion had an impact on the Australian provision of VET because they indicate that the Training Package agenda is a potential liability for national economic advantage in Mode-2 society.
Additional file 1 of Phantom-based acquisition time and image reconstruction parameter optimisation for oncologic FDG PET/CT examinations using a digital system
Creators: name: Fragoso Costa, Pedro
name: Jentzen, Walter
name: Brahmer, Alissa
name: Mavroeidi, Ilektra-Antonia
name: Zarrad, Fadi
name: Umutlu, Lale
name: Fendler, Wolfgang P.
name: Rischpler, Christoph
name: Herrmann, Ken
name: Conti, Maurizio
name: Seifert, Robert
name: Sraieb, Miriam
name: Weber, Manuel
name: Kersting, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure S1. Peak activity concentration ratio for the small-tumour phantom as a function of the acquisition time by reference to the 10-min acquisition time PET images separately for the different investigated combinations of voxel sizes, Gaussian filters, and OSEM-TOF (A-D) or OSEM-TOF+PSF (E-H) image reconstructions. Data for all investigated spheres are presented. Dashed horizontal lines indicate the ±20% deviation (acceptance criterion). Supplemental Figure S2. Peak activity concentration ratio for the bone-lung phantom as a function of the acquisition time by reference to the 10-min acquisition time PET images separately for the different investigated combinations of voxel sizes, Gaussian filters, and OSEM-TOF (A-D) or OSEM-TOF+PSF (E-H) image reconstructions. Data for all investigated spheres/density regions are presented. Dashed horizontal lines indicate the ±20% deviation (acceptance criterion). Supplemental Figure S3. Analysis of correlation and agreement of patient data. Scatter plot (A) and Bland-Altman analysis (B) for SUVpeak of reduced acquisition time versus SUVpeak of full acquisition time PET images for OSEM-TOF reconstructions. Scatter plot (C) and Bland-Altman analysis (D) for SUVpeak of reduced acquisition time versus SUVpeak of full acquisition time PET images for OSEM-TOF+PSF image reconstructions.
SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 09, No. 08 (October, 1982)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Bibliographie Kriminalitätsopfer
Creators: name: Kerner, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dokumentation , Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich , Opferschutz , Viktimologie , Strafverfahren
subject: 340
subject: Kriminalitätsopfer
subject: Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich
subject: Mediation
subject: Conflict
subject: Opferentschädigung
subject: European Union
subject: Opferhilfe
subject: Opferschutz
subject: Council of Europe
subject: Restorative Justice
subject: Opferrechte
subject: Opferanwalt
subject: Konfliktausgleich
subject: Viktimologie

description: Diese Bibliographie schließt an frühere, anderswo veröffentlichte, Bibliographien zu Fragen des Umgangs von Staat und Gesellschaft mit Viktimisierung und den davon betroffenen Menschen an. Sie erfasst Aufsätze, Monographien, Sammelbände und Schriften der sog. Grauen Literatur aus den Jahren 2010 bis 2014, mit einigen wenigen Hinweisen bereits zum Jahr 2015. Bei deutschsprachiger Literatur ist tendenziell Vollständigkeit angestrebt. Dem Nachweise fremdsprachiger (hauptsächlich englischsprachiger) Literatur liegt die Idee einer gewichtenden, für Wissenschaft bzw. Praxis bzw. Kriminalpolitik bedeutsamen, Auswahl zugrunde. Die Suche war grundsätzlich offen, jedoch finden sich Nachweise vordringlich zu den folgenden Themenbereichen: Opferentschädigung, Opferhilfe, Mediation, Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich, Restorative Justice, Opferbeistand, Opferanwalt, Opferrechte vor allem im Strafverfahren. Ergänzend sind grundlegende Dokumente zu Opferfragen der Europäischen Union, des Europarates und der Vereinten Nationen in deutscher oder englischer Sprache abgedruckt.
description: This bibliography is the most recent kind of similar bibliographies the author has collected and published during the last decades. Its central topic is how state and society are dealing with cases of criminal victimisation and the people involved as crime victims. The collection of publications aims at journal articles, contributions to edited volumes, books, and texts from the so-called grey literature. It is concentrated on publications in the years 2010 to 2014; some titles are also stemming already out of the year 2015. As far as publications in German language are concerned the collection aims principally to be exhaustive. Regarding other languages, mainly English, a rather selective policy was guiding the work, oriented on publications with comparatively close connection to German science, practice, victim-oriented policy and crime control politics. The search perspective had been open to a large number of interesting issues. However, some topics are dealt with in a detailed manner: victim compensation; victim restitution; victim support; mediation; victim-offender reconciliation; restorative justice; victim attorney in criminal procedure; victim´s rights in criminal procedure. Basic victim policy oriented documents of the following institutions are added: European Union (Brussels), Council of Europe (Strasbourg), and United Nations Organisation (New York).
Heat transport of the kagomé Heisenberg quantum spin liquid candidate YCu$_3$(OH)$_{6.5}$Br$_{2.5}$: localized magnetic excitations and spin gap
Creators: name: Hong, Xiaochen
name: Behnami, Mahdi
name: Yuan, Long
name: Li, Boqiang
name: Brenig, Wolfram
name: Büchner, Bernd
name: Li, Yuesheng
name: Hess, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-1/2 kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnet is generally accepted as one of the most promising two-dimensional models to realize a quantum spin liquid state. Previous experimental efforts were almost exclusively on only one archetypal material, the herbertsmithite ZnCu$_3$(OH)$_6$Cl$_2$, which unfortunately suffers from the notorious orphan spins problem caused by magnetic disorders. Here we turn to YCu$_3$(OH)$_{6.5}$Br$_{2.5}$, recently recognized as another host of a globally undistorted kagomé Cu$^{2+}$ lattice free from the orphan spins, thus a more feasible system for studying the intrinsic kagomé quantum spin liquid physics. Our high-resolution low-temperature thermal conductivity measurements yield a vanishing small residual linear term of $κ/T$ ($T\rightarrow 0$), and thus clearly rule out itinerant gapless fermionic excitations. Unusual scattering of phonons grows exponentially with temperature, suggesting thermally activated phonon-spin scattering and hence a gapped magnetic excitation, consistent with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquid ground state. Additionally, the analysis of magnetic field impact on the thermal conductivity reveals a field closing of the spin gap, while the excitations remain localized.
description: 4 figures
Structural, metamorphic and geochemical environment of lead-zinc mineralization : Allendale-Paps area, Willyams Complex, N.S.W.
Creators: name: Symons, Peter M.
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.
Bounded Influence Propagation τ-Estimation: A New Robust Method for ARMA Model Estimation
Creators: name: Muma, Michael
name: Zoubir, Abdelhak M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new robust and statistically efficient estimator for ARMA models called the bounded influence propagation (BIP) τ-estimator is proposed. The estimator incorporates an auxiliary model, which prevents the propagation of outliers. Strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimator for ARMA models that are driven by independently and identically distributed (iid) innovations with symmetric distributions are established. To analyze the infinitesimal effect of outliers on the estimator, the influence function is derived and computed explicitly for an AR(1) model with additive outliers. To obtain estimates for the AR(p) model, a robust Durbin-Levinson type and a forward-backward algorithm are proposed. An iterative algorithm to robustly obtain ARMA(p,q) parameter estimates is also presented. The problem of finding a robust initialization is addressed, which for orders p+q>2 is a non-trivial matter. Numerical experiments are conducted to compare the finite sample performance of the proposed estimator to existing robust methodologies for different types of outliers both in terms of average and of worst-case performance, as measured by the maximum bias curve. To illustrate the practical applicability of the proposed estimator, a real-data example of outlier cleaning for R-R interval plots derived from electrocardiographic (ECG) data is considered. The proposed estimator is not limited to biomedical applications, but is also useful in any real-world problem whose observations can be modeled as an ARMA process disturbed by outliers or impulsive noise.