cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phase Transition of Mg during Hydrogenation of Mg-Nb2O5 Evaporated Composites
Creators: name: Ma, Tao
name: Isobe, Shigehito
name: Takahashi, Keisuke
name: Wang, Yongming
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Hashimoto, Naoyuki
name: Ohnuki, Somei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: classificationCode: 340601
subject: Catalysis and mechanisms of reactions
classificationCode: 401807
subject: Nanomaterials
classificationCode: 340305
subject: Physical properties of materials

description: Mg-Nb2O5 evaporated composites, which were prepared by evaporating Mg thermally on single crystals of Nb2O5, were investigated in this work. We attempted to hydrogenate the sample under 5 bar H-2 atmosphere at 250 degrees C for 2 h. The electron microscope was used to observe the microstructure of the as-prepared and hydrogenated samples. It was found that the phase transition occurred along the particular orientation where Mg(002) is parallel to MgH2(101) or MgO(200). Density functional theory calculations were carried out on MgH2 and MgO slabs, showing that MgH2(101) and MgO(200) have the lowest surface-formation energy. On the basis of the observation and calculation, the phase-transition process of Mg during hydrogenation and oxidation was discussed. Finally, a structural model including Mg-Mg distance adjustment and layer shift was proposed to demonstrate the phase-transition process.
Essays in asset pricing: socially responsible investment, intertemporal and consumption models – evidence for us and global equity markets
Creators: name: Xiao, Yuchao
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis undertakes empirical and theoretical research in asset pricing in both US and Global financial markets, with a particular focus on the financial impact of socially responsible investment (SRI) and implementation of the ICAPM and CCAPM frameworks in the US market. We aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the financial impact of SRI on the US and Global equity markets and to resolve issues relating to the CCAPM that remain in the asset pricing literature. Prior studies that examine the financial impact of SRI produce mixed findings. Therefore, we begin by reviewing the relevant international literature and stress the importance of selecting appropriate SRI proxies in asset pricing tests. We enrich the literature by identifying areas that need to be carefully considered in constructing an SRI proxy and this will shed new light on the question of what measure of SRI should be used. In the first empirical chapter, we examine the financial impact of SRI on global equity returns, assessing our SRI proxies in the context of standard asset pricing models. We find that SRI has no significant impact on the global equity market. However, since SRI has become an increasingly popular practice only recently, our results may be hampered by data constraints. This motivates the next stage of the analysis wherein we employ the ICAPM framework. In Chapter 3, we formulate a two-factor empirical model under the ICAPM framework and construct SRI proxies by using the economic tracking portfolio method of Lamont (2001) to further examine whether SRI has financial impacts on the US equity market. Our findings in Chapter 3 are consistent with those of Chapter 2. The combined import of our findings in both chapters suggests that investors are free to implement SRI mandates without fear of breaching their fiduciary duties from inferior performance due to incorporating an SRI process. This will encourage the adoption of socially responsible investment strategies in practice. In the final chapter, we examine the empirical validity of the CCAPM that assumes investor’s utility is non-separable across states of nature. To our knowledge, it is the first to evaluate the cross-sectional implications of the recursive utility function of Epstein and Zin (1991) by using innovations in consumption growth. Based on these analyses, we conclude that a variable capturing innovations in consumption growth is significantly priced in asset returns.
Accounting choice in the presence of conflicting incentives
Creators: name: Woodhouse, Kerrie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explores the still largely unexamined impact of multiple and conflicting incentives on a manager’s accounting choice as identified by Fields, Lys and Vincent (2001). Using a 2x2, between subjects, factorial design, two experiments were conducted using a sample of 116 Chief Financial Officers (hereinafter, CFOs) from a population of the top 700 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The study examines and tests hypotheses relating to incentives from each of the three classifications used by Fields et al. (2001): asset pricing, explicit contracting, and implicit contracting (the incentive to influence third parties such as customers, suppliers and employees). Insights were drawn from the disciplines of psychology and management to begin to form an understanding of this complex trade-off decision, and to assist in the development of hypotheses regarding this trade-off. Contrary to expectations based on the volume of financial accounting evidence on the importance of the asset pricing incentive, managers chose to avoid a debt covenant violation rather than meet their asset pricing benchmark when these incentives were in direct conflict. Given a conflict between a performance pricing clause and an implicit contracting incentive to protect their firm’s competitive position in imminent price negotiations, managers again prioritised the explicit contracting incentive. The study also contributes important survey evidence on the attitudes and perceptions of Australian CFOs regarding performance measures reported to stakeholders and the importance of meeting their expectations. This survey partially replicates that of Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal (2005)and as a consequence, offers an interesting comparison of the opinions of CFOs in Australia and the USA. Consistent with the counsel of Chan, Faff and Ramsay (2005), the survey results indicate that it may well be “imprudent to blindly extrapolate US findings to small market settings”. Conditional analysis of the survey responses finds that the characteristics that differentiate the Australian market from the US market (for example firm size and materials industry membership) are associated with differences in opinion between the CFOs in each setting. This study contributes primary evidence on the unexamined area of accounting choice under conflict. Such evidence is novel in that it is achieved with a lesser utilized methodology in response to the observation in Fields, et al. (2001) that research in accounting choice has exhausted certain techniques and would benefit from a fresh approach. Importantly, the theory developed in this thesis draws together insights from multiple disciplines to begin to develop a unified framework for the understanding and evaluation of choices made to satisfy multiple stakeholders. Further, the study contributes valuable insights on the attitudes of Australian CFOs towards performance measures and benchmarks and how these attitudes differ from those in the USA.
Study on the homogeneity of hydrogenation for LaFe11.5Si1.5 intermetallic compound
Creators: name: Ma, Tao
name: Long, Yi
name: Liu, Rui
name: Fu, Bin
name: Zhang, Hu
name: Ye, Rongchang
name: Chang, Yongqin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: classificationCode: 401605
subject: Functional materials

description: The homogeneity of hydrogen absorption for LaFe11.5Si1.5 intermetallic compound was investigated. The hydrides remained NaZn13-type structure when the hydrogenation temperature varied from 423 K to 923 K under 1 atm hydrogen atmosphere. The Differential Scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurements revealed slightly inhomogeneous distribution of hydrogen atoms in the hydrides hydrogenated at a low temperature. The activation before hydrogenating at a higher temperature could improve the homogeneity of hydrogen absorption. Uniform magnetic transition temperature, corresponding to the homogeneous hydrogen absorption, was observed by hydrogenating the compound at 823 K, or at 523 K after activation. The maximum magnetic entropy change ΔSM (ΔH=2 T) for the compound hydrogenated at 823 K is about 15.5 J/kg K with the latent heat of 5.12×103 J/kg during the phase transition.
Additional file 1 of Customer support for nudge strategies to promote fruit and vegetable intake in a university food service
Creators: name: Yi, Sunghwan
name: Kanetkar, Vinay
name: Brauer, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Correlations between support for nudge types, perceived effectiveness and perceived intrusiveness. Supplemental Table 2. Correlations between support for nudge types and general beliefs about healthy eating and nudging.
Applications of OFDM in vehicular and indoor optical wireless communication
Creators: name: Dissanayake, Sarangi Devasmitha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Orthogonal Frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is used widely in wired and wireless technologies. In this thesis, OFDM in two application areas are studied. The first area of study is, OFDM in wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) which is a radio frequency (RF) wireless technology. The other area of study is, OFDM in indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) which is an optical wireless technology. In OFDM in WAVE, a novel method is developed to accurately estimate the relative speed of vehicles using the OFDM symbols exchanged. In OFDM in indoor OWC systems, the limitations of existing OFDM modulation schemes such as diversity combined ACO-OFDM are investigated and ways to address those shortcomings are devised. Also in this thesis, a novel optical modulation scheme is developed, which shows higher optical power efficiency than the two conventional schemes: asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) and DC biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM).
Agent-based modelling of sustainable development in a changing climate: a security perspective
Creators: name: Hassani-Mahmooei, Behrooz
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges humanity is facing today. Numerous international reports and peer-reviewed studies have warned how vulnerable humans are, among other inhabitants of the planet, to the various adverse impacts of climate change. Chapter 1 of this thesis briefly reviews the main processes and consequences of climate change and how it is likely to affect the sustainable socio-economic development of human societies, especially through hindering security. The reasons for focusing on conflict and migration are discussed, and agent-based modelling is introduced as an appropriate approach for modelling their dynamics under different scenarios. Chapter 2, focuses on climate change and conflict attempting to provide new perspectives on a challenging debate in this area, and to address critical questions such as: Why might climate change not cause conflict and when it does, why might it not be as intense as theoretically expected? Using a generic theoretical model, the chapter investigates the circumstances in which a scarcity of resources, such as land and water, may motivate individuals to prefer predatory, conflict-inducing behaviour, to productive behaviour. The model results, which are categorized based on different types of resources, different types of resource degradation scenarios and different socio-economic structures, are compared against available data for a selected group of African countries. Chapter 3 focuses on internal migration in Bangladesh, investigating how population distribution is likely to change by 2050 based on climatic projections for the country. The chapter presents an agent-based model enriched by environmental, social and economic data from Bangladesh. The model is capable of simulating internal migrations across the country. The results, which are validated against available observations over the decade ending in 2011, predict further population shifts towards the eastern districts due to both economic and climatic push and pull factors. The thesis concludes in Chapter 4 by reviewing the main findings and providing suggestions for future research in this area.
Iron-catalyzed boration of allylic alcohols with H3BO3 as an additive
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuhan
name: Wang, Huan
name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhao, Yilong
name: Zhang, Chunxia
name: Qu, Jingping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: A method for the synthesis of allylboronates by iron-catalyzed boration of allylic alcohols with H3BO3 as an additive is developed. The introduction of H3BO3 promotes the cleavage of C‒O bond in allylic alcohols obviously. Functional groups, such as fluoro, chloro, bromo, alkyl, and alkoxy, are tolerated well. Thus, various allylboronates are obtained in acceptable yield.
Theoretical study of adsorption of organic phosphines on transition metal surfaces
Creators: name: Lou, Shujie
name: Jiang, Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The adsorption properties of organic phosphines on transition metal (TM) surfaces (Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Pt, and Au) have been studied to explore the possibility of building novel heterogeneous chiral catalytic systems based on organic phosphines. Preferred adsorption sites, adsorption energies and surface electronic structures of a selected set of typical organic phosphines adsorbed on TM surfaces are calculated with density-functional theory to obtain a systematic understanding on the nature of adsorption interactions. All organic phosphines considered are found to chemically adsorb on these TM surfaces with the atop site as the most preferred one, and the TM–P bond is formed via the lone-pair electrons of the P atom and the directly contacted TM atom. These findings imply that it is indeed possible to build heterogeneous chiral catalytic systems based on organic phosphines adsorbed on TM surfaces, which, however, requires a careful design of molecular structure of organic phosphines.
title: D’r Hofnarr Heidideldum
Creators: name: Bastian, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: TEI version for play in Alsatian. Play subtitle: Märel in 6 Bilder un 2 Verwandlunge vun Ferd. Bastian. Musik von Aug. Schwoob
Additional file 1: of Characterization of cross-tissue genetic-epigenetic effects and their patterns in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Lin, Dongdong
name: Chen, Jiayu
name: Perrone-Bizzozero, Nora
name: Bustillo, Juan
name: Du, Yuhui
name: Calhoun, Vince
name: Liu, Jingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary file including power analysis plot for meQTL detection (Figure S1), meQTL overlap among tissues by restricting SNPs and effect sizes (Figure S2), plot of the relationship between meQTL effect and the proportion of highly correlated CpGs in brain and blood (Figure S3), numbers of SNPs, CpGs, cis-SNPâ CpG pairs, meQTLs, and targeted CpGs in each tissue and their overlap across tissues (Additional file 1: Table S1), and the top ten pathways involved according to genes annotated from cross-tissue targeted CpGs (Additional file 1: Table S2). (DOCX 606 kb)
Additional file 2 of Customer support for nudge strategies to promote fruit and vegetable intake in a university food service
Creators: name: Yi, Sunghwan
name: Kanetkar, Vinay
name: Brauer, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Comparison of classical dynamical predictions for low-speed, weak-gravity, and low-speed weak-gravity chaotic systems.
Creators: name: Liang, Shiuan-Ni
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There are three fundamental classical theories which can be used to study the motion of dynamical systems: Newtonian mechanics (NM), special-relativistic mechanics (SRM) and general-relativistic mechanics (GRM). It is conventionally believed that (i) the predictions of SRM are well approximated by those of NM in the low-speed limit, (ii) the predictions of GRM are well approximated by those of SRM in the weak-gravity limit, and (iii) the predictions of GRM are well approximated by those of NM in the low-speed weak-gravity limit. In my research project, numerically-accurate predictions of the theories were compared in the three limits for chaotic dynamical systems to check the validity of the conventional beliefs. The results of this study have overturned the conventional beliefs: for each limit, I showed that the two predictions can rapidly disagree completely. This new conceptual understanding of the relationships between the predictions of the theories for low-speed, weak-gravity, and low-speed weak-gravity chaotic dynamical systems implies that physicists and engineers must replace the theories they have conventionally been using to study these systems with the more general theories. In particular, NM must be replaced by SRM for low-speed systems, SRM must be replaced by GRM for weak-gravity systems, and NM must be replaced by GRM for low-speed weak-gravity systems. These paradigm shifts could potentially lead to new understanding and discoveries in these systems.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of The chromatin remodeling subunit Baf200 promotes normal hematopoiesis and inhibits leukemogenesis
Creators: name: Liu, Lulu
name: Wan, Xiaoling
name: Zhou, Peipei
name: Zhou, Xiaoyuan
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Hui, Xinhui
name: Yuan, Xiujie
name: Ding, Xiaodan
name: Zhu, Ruihong
name: Meng, Guangxun
name: Xiao, Hui
name: Ma, Feng
name: Huang, He
name: Song, Xianmin
name: Zhou, Bin
name: Xiong, Sidong
name: Zhang, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: The immunophenotypes of the tested subsets in Figure S1. Table S2. List of primers used in mice genotyping. Table S3. List of primers used in RT-qPCR experiments. Table S4. List of commercial available antibodies used in these studies. Figure S1. Expression pattern of the Baf200 gene in FACS-purified populations from mouse FL, BM, and spleen (n = 3). Figure S2. Baf200 is dispensable for the proliferation and apoptosis of FL erythrocytes. Figure S3. Gene Ontology analysis of Baf200-regulated genes in FL S3 cells. Figure S4. RNA-seq analysis of FL LSK cells from WT and Tie2-Cre + , Baf200 f/f embryos. Figure S5. FL HSCs from Tie2-Cre + , Baf200 f/f embryos show impaired long-term reconstitution potential, related to Fig. 3. Figure S6. Baf200 contributes to adult erythropoiesis and hematopoiesis, related to Figs. 4 and 5. Figure S7. Baf200 is dispensable for the cell cycle status or apoptosis of BM LSK compartment in steady state. Figure S8. Gene Ontology analysis of Baf200-regulated genes in BM LSK cells. Figure S9. Cell-intrinsic role of Baf200 in HSCs function, related to Fig. 6. Figure S10. FL HSCs from Vav-iCre + , Baf200 f/f mice show impaired long-term reconstitution potential. (DOCX 1524 kb)
title: What lies beneath: Will deep seabed mining beyond national jurisdiction by non-state, corporate actors jeopardise achievement of the 'Common Heritage of Mankind'?
Creators: name: Dingwall, Joanna
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019

description: This thesis evaluates the role of non-State actors as participants in the legal regime governing deep seabed mining beyond national jurisdiction (the “deep seabed” or the “Area”), with a focus on corporate participation. Deep seabed exploration and exploitation is regulated on behalf of the international community as a whole by the International Seabed Authority (“ISA”). The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (“UNCLOS”) provides the broad legal framework within which the ISA operates. The overwhelming majority of States are parties to UNCLOS (the US being the most notable exception). UNCLOS is underpinned by the principle that the Area and its mineral resources constitute the common heritage of mankind. No State or commercial entity can unilaterally claim sovereignty over them. All exploration and exploitation activities must be conducted with the ISA’s permission and oversight. Much of the existing legal structure applicable to mining in the deep seabed has yet to be applied in practice and many legal rules have still to be developed. Despite this lack of a completed legal framework, deep sea mining technology is racing ahead. After decades of anticipation and exploration, deep seabed mining beyond national jurisdiction is set to begin in the coming years. A host of actors are already operating within the Area, including an array of non-State actors such as corporate entities. In this context, this thesis analyses whether imminent commercial mining activities in the Area by non-State, corporate actors will serve to undermine the UNCLOS conception of the common heritage of mankind. A product of its history, the UNCLOS legal regime applicable to the deep seabed is an unlikely hybrid of capitalist and communist values, embracing the role of private actors while enshrining principles of resource distribution. Given the potential for conflict between the values underpinning the regime, how will the regime function when mining by non-State actors commences? What legal challenges or contradictions, if any, will this present for the operation of the UNCLOS regime, particularly in terms of the realisation of the common heritage of mankind?
title: Docile bodies? Foucault, neoliberalism and FE learner identities
Creators: name: Allan, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoliberalism, Foucault, identity, discipline, docility, further education, college.

description: The extent to which Neoliberalism is an influence on identity has emerged as a key question in academic debates. Alongside issues such as worker and professional forms of identity, this debate has found its way into analyses of learner identity, with much of the literature suggesting that Neoliberalism has extended its reach into the ways in which students perceive themselves and their place in institutional life. However, the debate so far has tended to ignore learner identities within the Further Education sector, tending instead to examine the impact of neoliberalism in schools and universities. The purpose of this research is to explore the institutional contexts of further education, and specifically college learner identity in a context of neoliberal developments. I utilised the work of Michel Foucault to help explore this topic, particularly his ideas on discipline and docility; the study also considers other Foucauldian concepts such as ‘biopower’ and ‘care of the self’. This study found that there were degrees of docility evident as aspects of college learner identity, with this degree of docility resulting from college disciplinary practices. This research provides evidence that docility exists within further education that accords with Foucault’s four disciplinary techniques that shape identity: ‘the art of distributions; ‘the control of activity’; ‘the organisation of genesis’; and ‘the composition of forces’ (1977, pp.141-169). On top of this, what emerged from the study are three identifiable traits - flexibility, individualism and credentialism – that can be understood as almost typical manifestations of neoliberal culture. As a consequence of institutional controls, therefore, learners have become docile; nevertheless the degree of docility is dependent on the complex form of mediation between the learner and disciplinary practices. The study shows that these forms of learner identity have developed from the learner’s mediation of pre-existing individual priorities, through to neoliberal college practices as well as the intersection between the two. These findings suggest that the ideas of Foucault, particularly his ideas on docility but also his later ideas on governmentality, are important conceptual tools for understanding learner identities. The forensic approach adopted in this study has a key contribution to make to the already existing strong literature base that adopts a Foucauldian take on educational learner identities. At the same time the findings illustrate that not everything can be explained using a Foucauldian approach and that the institutional context remains a key mediator between (social) theory and (professional) practice.
title: Trajanic monumentality and the legacy of Augustus: appropriation, emulation and transformation
Creators: name: Greer, Alison Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Trajanic and Augustan monumentality in dialogue, Tropaeum Traiani, Mausoleum of Augustus, Ara Pacis, Fora of Trajan and Augustus, Arch of Beneventum, Trajan's emulation of Augustus.

description: The Tropaeum Traiani was one of two trophy monuments known to be erected on foreign soil since the time of Augustus. Distinctive in both form and decoration, its most prominent feature is its striking resemblance to the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, which is itself a ‘dual purpose’ monument and can be regarded as a trophy-mausoleum. This resemblance is the starting point for an investigation into the ways in which Trajan’s monumental building programme demonstrates his deliberate emulation of Augustus as part of his own imperial strategy. This research begins with a systematic analysis of the Adamclisi trophy, drawing out its connections to the Mausoleum and Ara Pacis. The Augustan trophy at La Turbie forms the next stage of the study. The dialogue between Trajanic and Augustan monumentality is most evident in monuments such as the Beneventum Arch and the Forum complex, these monuments are the subjects under discussion in the fourth and fifth chapters. Before forging ahead with his programme, Trajan required to deal with the negative associations and memories of the more recent past. He was also careful not to neglect public amenity projects, embarking upon works such as water and drainage systems, worthy of his status as pater patriae. The rebuilt Circus Maximus allowed Trajan to overwrite the Domitianic past by reshaping people’s perceptions and memories, and his grand Thermae took care of both Nero and possibly also Domitian. However, it was with the war booty from Dacia that Trajan could step up his expenditure on building projects; in Rome it was now a case of ‘bigger and better’, and the Forum represented Trajanic building at its peak. Although Augustus had been a useful model from early in his reign, here in his new forum, larger than any others, the iconographic programme made clear that it was a celebration of Trajan. In his rewriting of the past and his carefully designed monumental programme, Trajan had been able to present himself as the ‘new Augustus’, but on his own terms.
title: High power and narrow linewidth semiconductor lasers for atomic clock
Creators: name: Di Gaetano, Eugenio
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Semiconductor Lasers, Narrow linewidth, DFB lasers, atomic clock, Bragg gratings.

description: The compactness, low energy consumption and potential for volume production typical of semiconductor technology are key requirements for future miniaturised quantum systems. This thesis - funded by the Defence and Security Call 2014 on Sensing and Navigation using quantum 2.0 technologies - discusses the development of III-V semiconductor Distributed FeedBack (DFB) lasers for atomic clock systems. Specifically, the work targets devices for atomic cooling emitting at wavelengths that match the atomic transitions of cesium Cs and rubidium Rb at the wavelength of 852nm and 780nm (i.e. frequency doubled from 1560nm), and with the required performance in terms of linewidth (100kHz) and power output (100mW). These objectives were reached by working on different fronts: i) the optimization of the fabrication process to improve the robustness and repeatability of the manufacturing process, with particular emphasis on the dry etching process to ensure vertical and smooth surfaces; ii) the development of a strongly-coupled Bragg grating geometry that mitigates the detrimental impact of the so-called Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) lag; iii) the demonstration of a novel coupling chirp grating design to improve the intra-cavity field uniformity and improve the laser stability. Thanks to these design strategies and technological solutions the performance requirements in terms of output powers and linewidth were met on DFB lasers emitting at a wavelength of 1560nm. These same concepts are currently being transferred on devices fabricated on an epilayer structure emitting at 852nm.
An investigation of the social identification process in reality television
Creators: name: Higgins, Angela Frances
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The channels used for social interaction and social influence are increasing and diversifying rapidly. Further, the digital age has spurred a longing for realism, and a sense of contact (Fetveit, 1999). New channels often portray virtual social groups (Bagozzi, Dholakia, & Pearo, 2007), and virtual identities (Altheide, 2000) with which users can identify. As many of these new channels are commercially based, the influence of such channels has important implications for marketing research and understanding of consumer behaviour. There has considerable recent research on how social media creates social groups through social identification. There has also been a comparable amount of research investigating how television facilitates identification. However, the academic focus in the latter has been more on one-to-one identification, and less on how television may facilitate social identification. This is despite theorists’ proposals and modelling that have justified social identification as a purpose for television viewing. Such justification is taken from Uses and Gratifications theory that affirms audiences use media to satisfy psychological and social needs. Social Identity Theory posits that group members will adopt attitudes and behaviour through social comparison. The MasterChef brand has been credited with changing the attitudes and behaviour of consumers (its audience). Therefore, this thesis investigated if the success of the most popular show on Australian television may be credited, in part, to social identification. Such behaviour has previously been attributed to both their context-specific social identity, and the individual’s stable identity attributes. Further, individuals will judge themselves and other group members on common and significant identity attributes. Therefore, this thesis explored which significant attributes in the viewers and contestants of MasterChef Australia may facilitate the social identification process leading to changes in consumer attitudes and behaviour. The objectives of this study were investigated using a large-scale quantitative online questionnaire surveying MasterChef Australia 2010 viewers. Findings indicate that consumers of the MasterChef Australia brand do indeed social identify with contestants, and Identity, Authenticity, and Involvement may contribute to this process. As the first study of consumers of the MasterChef brand, an important conceptual contribution to consumer behaviour is made. Further conceptual contributions are made by the identification and definition of an additional construct in the social identification process, and by proposing additional theoretical linkages. Empirical contributions are made through measurement of the antecedents and consequences of consequences of viewer-television brand identification. Methodological contributions are made development of Structural Equation Model and testing of The Phantom Model approach.
Additional file 1: of Intraoperative milrinone versus dobutamine in cardiac surgery patients: a retrospective cohort study on mortality
Creators: name: Nielsen, Dorthe
name: Torp-Pedersen, Christian
name: Skals, Regitze
name: Gerds, Thomas
name: Karaliunaite, Zidryne
name: Jakobsen, Carl-Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Table S1. presenting definitions and scores of covariates included in the modified EuroSCORE (DOCX 17 kb)
title: Renal replacement therapy and bone mineral metabolism
Creators: name: Dey, Vishal
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mineral bone disease, Chronic Kidney disease.

description: Mineral bone disturbances are common in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and associated with significant risk of mortality and morbidity in patients on renal replacement therapy (RRT). Surrogate biomarkers of bone turnover such as parathyroid hormone (PTH), phosphate, calcium and Vitamin D are used to diagnose, evaluate, and guide treatment. This thesis examines the effect of RRT on mineral bone disturbances, it’s association with bone morbidity, and management strategies for phosphate control. Initially the incidence of radiologically proven bone fracture by site, in prevalent RRT groups is quantified and the relationship to associated risk factors studied. In this multicentre observational study of 2096 patients over a 3-year period the risk of fracture is higher in haemodialysis (HD) patients than in transplant patients even when controlling for other risk factors. Exposure to lanthanum and Vitamin D is apparently a protective factor in the HD group. I then examine a thrice-weekly nocturnal in-centre dialysis model in which we attain normal phosphate levels without dietary restriction or supplementation by altering the dialysis prescription and time. This observational trial over a 2-year period with over 2000 sessions of dialysis in 14 patients is associated with reduction of blood pressure medications. Subsequently I investigate the relationship of phosphate to FGF23 in a group of peritoneal dialysis patients. Finally, I study the effect of dialysis on clearances of FGF23 and expand on the knowledge of FGF-23 during a session of dialysis.
Multi-objective optimisation of CCs using simulation, heat integration and cost estimation
Creators: name: Harkin, Trent
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Carbon capture and storage (CCS) using solvent based absorption has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon intensity of power stations. It is one of a range of technologies that is necessary to be deployed in able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the lowest cost. However, the addition of CCS to power stations will increase the capital and operating expenditure of the power station and will reduce the net power produced from the power station. Therefore, minimising both the capital cost and the energy penalty associated with CCS will be imperative to ensuring that the cost of electricity of power stations with CCS remains competitive. This research uses multi-objective optimisation (MOO) of the CCS system applied to pulverised coal power stations using a combination of process simulation, heat integration using a linear programming form of pinch analysis and cost estimation. The benefit of combining MOO with automated pinch analysis is that the heat exchanger network does not need to be defined for the optimisation of the process synthesis. In this project, heat integration has shown to potentially lead to significant reductions in the energy penalty associated with the addition of CCS. Capturing 90 % of the CO2 in the flue gas, the energy penalty can be reduced from 38 % without heat integration, to just 14 % with a fully optimised and heat integrated solvent system. However, when the capital and operating costs are factored into the optimisation, to minimise the differential cost of electricity, the optimum level of heat integration may be more moderate, with energy penalties of between 25 and 30 %.
Breaking down silos on the road to the SSH Open Cluster
Creators: name: Verheusen, Astrid
name: Van Der Eijk, Cees
name: Versic, Ivana Ilijasic
name: De Jong, Franciska
name: Barbot, Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
European Open Science Cloud
EOSC
Conversation Hub
Switchboard
VCR
Virtual Collection Registry
SSH Vocabulary Platform

description: Moderator: Astrid Verheusen (LIBER) Bridging the silo's & cross discisplinary use of tools - Cees van der Eijk (The University of Nottingham) The SSH Open Cluster, future collaboration and a Memorandum of Understanding - Ivana Ilijasic Versic (CESSDA, SSHOC) SSHOC Governance and Sustainability - Franciska de Jong (CLARIN) SSH Open Marketplace Governance - Laure Barbot (DARIAH)
title: Heritage language preservation, social networking and transnational activities: a study of Russian complementary schools in Scotland
Creators: name: Ivashinenko, Nina
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: heritage language, migrant social networking, transnational activities, complementary schools, Russian-speaking community.

description: This thesis presents the first in-depth qualitative study of Russian complementary schools in Scotland. The fieldwork was conducted from November 2013 to April 2015 in four Russian schools in Scotland (in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee). The thesis offers novel insights and contributes to existing theoretical, methodological, and empirical research on migrant communities through a novel lens of heritage language complementary schools. It brings a new focus to existing work in this area through its consideration of language preservation as the key factor supporting this group of Russian-speaking parents to be involved in different types of social networks and socio-cultural transnational activities. Heritage language preservation is a negotiable process which flexibly responds to the interests of the parents, teachers and pupils who participate in the activities of the Russian schools and contribute to shaping their aims. These interests can be considered as the main driving forces for a wide range of aspects of the Russian schools’ everyday life such as educational programmes, styles of teaching, the social relationship between members and additional cultural events organised by these schools. Russian-speaking communities bring together individuals with a range of characteristics (including different paths to migration, skills and educational levels, national identities, plans for settlement in the UK/Scotland). The present study has shown the importance of this diverse composition of Russian-speaking communities to the everyday operations of the Russian schools. By using the Russian schools as a context, the thesis brings a new angle to understanding how social networks emerge and develop in this particular migrant group, which has previously been characterised as lacking strong social bonding and bridging connections (Kopnina, 2007; Molnar, 2011). In addition, the findings contribute to the discussion of socio-cultural transnational activities provided by complementary schools (Willis, 1992) and their role in migrant community development (Moskal & Sime, 2015). Expanding on the existing literature in this area, the thesis investigates heritage Russian language learning as a two-way process influencing both the transnational activities emerging around the Russian schools, and the Russian-speaking community in Scotland itself.
Additional file 2: of Intraoperative milrinone versus dobutamine in cardiac surgery patients: a retrospective cohort study on mortality
Creators: name: Nielsen, Dorthe
name: Torp-Pedersen, Christian
name: Skals, Regitze
name: Gerds, Thomas
name: Karaliunaite, Zidryne
name: Jakobsen, Carl-Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Table S2. presenting hemodynamic variables according to inotrope therapy pre and post CPB (DOCX 20 kb)
title: Political, legal and administrative conditions for urban  ecological tissue renewal: an investigation of a national  wetland park in China
Creators: name: Qian, Zhu
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Territorial governance; ecological civilization; eco-city; eco-tourism.

description: This paper explores the structural limits of state-led eco-tourism and calls for balancing ecological transformation and socioeconomic sustainability in China’s recent rhetoric of ecological civilization. Through the conceptual lens of political ecology, the paper examines the issues of environmental justice and ecological advancement confronting local communities and the indigenous population in the Xixi National Wetland Park development in Hangzhou. Based on policy and plan audits and interviews, the study reveals how territorial governance and market integration have impacted conservation approaches, property ownership changes, employment, displacement and resettlement in a capital-driven and politically centred eco-tourism development. It advocates a balanced and integrated approach to natural resource conservation through multi-scalar and inclusive ecological governance at the local level.
A sentence-level approach to opinion search and sentiment classification problems using natural language low-level features: models and applications
Creators: name: Orimaye, Sylvester Olubolu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Opinion mining includes two active research directions; opinion search and sentiment classification. The former is the art of searching for subjective statements (peoples' expression of feelings) on any particular subject matter such as products, political decisions and news topics. The subjective expressions are then ranked according to their relevance. In the latter, preferential stances in the subjective expressions are classified into positive, negative, and sometimes neutral stances that can be used as a resourceful bank of intelligence for different applications. In this thesis, we investigate a sentence-level approach to both opinion search and sentiment classification problems. The approach uses different natural language processing techniques for selecting low-level and fine-grained subjective features in order to realize more accurate results. For the opinion search problem, we propose two sentence-level topic-opinion relevance models to investigate their performance on a standard blog data set. The first model uses predicate-argument structures of sentences to improve contextual and semantic relevance between natural language query topics and the retrieved documents. The second model uses discourse representation structures to detect sentence-level opinion dependencies between the key entities of a query topic and the opinion words. The results show that using these low-level linguistic and subjective features gives up to 15.6% improvement over the TREC baselines. Finally, for the sentiment classification problem, we adapt our sentence-level approach to classify sentiment polarity from the consumer products domain. We propose a Sentence Polarity Shift model that identifies sentiment shift patterns and captures only the consistent polarities from the patterns. The premise is that there are patterns in the way people often communicate their sentiments and these patterns can be predicted by capturing the sentiment shifts of each sentence. Our empirical evidence indicates that using sentences with consistent sentiment polarities combined with additional sentence-level and document-level features is likely to reduce sentiment classification loss and improve the performance of a sentiment classifier by 8.5%.
title: Psychology and the creative writing process: the role of experiential learning in the journey from fact to fiction
Creators: name: Deveney, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Creative writing, journalism, experiential learning, psyvchology of writing, interviewing.

description: This work discusses the importance of experiential learning in the creative process of writing fiction. It shows the ways in which the insights and understandings that are gained from first- hand and third-hand experiences both inform and transform imaginative processes to create “a kernel of truth”: a believable fictional world for readers. In particular, the use of interviewing, especially media interviewing, as a trigger for this experiential learning is discussed, and the ways in which “relational depth”(Mearns and Cooper, 2005) in interviews can provide critical emotional, as well as literal, information about different lives, situations, and characters for writers. The data bank of interviews described in this work was gathered over a 20-year period in the UK media and includes celebrity interviews with figures in the arts, politics, sport, entertainment, literature, and science, as well as with “ordinary” people in extraordinary situations. The writer shows how these interviews fit into the tradition of qualitative research, and how the encounters subsequently fed into the creative processes involved in the writing of her four novels. The interviews conducted constituted a data base of hundreds of single case studies, and some multiple case studies, that were drawn on in the creative process. The importance of good interviewing technique in eliciting the depth of information required for this process is illustrated, with a comparison of techniques used in both media and psychological interviews. The importance of Unconditional Positive Regard (Rogers, 1951) in the interviewing process, and the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 1996) as an interpretative tool, are also discussed. While autobiographical writing is routinely used in psychological therapies, creative writing is less common. A case is put for the therapeutic effectiveness of creative writing in enabling people to process difficult emotions, offering the possibility of third-person narrative as a way of distancing the writer from real emotion before claiming the “I” of first-person narrative. The “safe space” that creative writing can provide to those traumatised by difficult life events is shown to be of particular significance.