cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cryptanalyzing an Image-Scrambling Encryption Algorithm of Pixel Bits
Creators: name: Li, Chengqing
name: Lin, Dongdong
name: Lü, Jinhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.3
subject: 68Wxx

description: Position scrambling (permutation) is widely used in multimedia encryption schemes and some international encryption standards, such as the Data Encryption Standard and the Advanced Encryption Standard. In this article, the authors re-evaluate the security of a typical image-scrambling encryption algorithm (ISEA). Using the internal correlation remaining in the cipher image, they disclose important visual information of the corresponding plain image in a ciphertext-only attack scenario. Furthermore, they found that the real scrambling domain--the position-scrambling scope of ISEA's scrambled elements--can be used to support an efficient known or chosen-plaintext attack on it. Detailed experimental results have verified these points and demonstrate that some advanced multimedia processing techniques can facilitate the cryptanalysis of multimedia encryption algorithms.
description: 7 pages
A suggested system of committees for the Australian Parliament
Creators: name: Gray, Garrick L. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Fabrication of fully automated setup for high temperature thermal conductivity measurement
Creators: name: Patel, Ashutosh
name: Pandey, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we report the fabrication of experimental setup for high temperature thermal conductivity ($κ$) measurement. It can characterize samples with various dimensions and shapes. Steady state based axial heat flow technique is used for $κ$ measurement. Heat loss is measured using parallel thermal conductance technique. Simple design, lightweight and small size sample holder is developed by using a thin heater and limited components. Low heat loss value is achieved by using very low thermal conductive insulator block with small cross sectional area. Power delivered to the heater is measured accurately by using 4-wire technique and for this, heater is developed with 4-wire. This setup is validated by using $Bi_{0.36}Sb_{1.45}Te_3$, polycrystalline bismuth, gadolinium, and alumina samples. The data obtained for these samples are found to be in good agreement with the reported data. The maximum deviation of 6 \% in the value $κ$ are observed. This maximum deviation is observed with the gadolinium sample. We also report the thermal conductivity of polycrystalline tellurium from 320 K to 550 K and the non monotonous behavior of $κ$ with temperature is observed.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Effects of cyprinid removal and reintroduction: Diamond Lake, Oregon
Creators: name: Eilers, J.
name: Miller, R.
name: Loomis, D.
name: Vogel, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Eilers J, Miller R, Loomis D, Vogel A. 2023. Effects of cyprinid removal and reintroduction: Diamond Lake, Oregon. Lake Reserv Manage. 39:156–173. Diamond Lake, located in the Oregon Cascade Range, was treated with rotenone in 2006 to remove invasive populations of cyprinids, Gila bicolor and Notemigonus crysoleucas. The treatment successfully removed all fish, and the lake was restocked in 2007 with rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The treatment resulted in large increases in transparency, large cladocerans (Daphnia pulicaria), and benthic invertebrates. The previous cyanobacterial blooms were comprised almost exclusively of Anabaena [Dolichospermum], whereas the current populations of cyanophytes include Gloeotrichia. Cyprinids were reintroduced into the lake and documented in 2008 (Notemigonus crysoleucas) and 2015 (Gila bicolor), likely contributing to a decline of several metrics of water quality. Piscivorous trout (Salmo trutta and Salmo trutta x Salvelinus fontinalis) were introduced into the lake starting in 2016 to control the introduced cyprinids. The cyprinid populations have stabilized, and most metrics of lake status (Secchi disk transparency, phytoplankton biovolume, abundance of large cladocerans, zoobenthic biomass, trout condition factor) indicate that the lake has improved substantially since the treatment and introduction of piscivorous trout. It is unclear whether the cyprinid populations are constrained by behavioral mechanisms associated with the introduction of the piscivorous trout or whether other factors currently keep the cyprinids in check. The success of this biomanipulation project requires continued monitoring and use of adaptive management strategies to respond to changes in fish composition.
Crystal Bog, Mount Buffalo : a palaeoecological study of a subalpine peat deposit
Creators: name: Williams, Janet M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Thomas von Aquin, Über die Einheit des Geistes gegen die Averroisten - De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas
Creators: name: Niedermeier, R.
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 8 Nr. 1 (1992): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 8, Heft 1
Asymptotically optimal feedback control for a system of linear oscillators
Creators: name: Ovseevich, Alexander
name: Fedorov, Aleksey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B03, 93B07, 93B52

description: Problem of damping of an arbitrary number of linear oscillators under common bounded control is considered. We are looking for a feedback control steering the system to the equilibrium. The obtained control is asymptotically optimal: the ratio of motion time to zero with this control to the minimum one is close to 1, if the initial energy of the system is large. Some of the results based on the new lemma about sustainable observability autonomous linear systems.
description: 7 pages; starting-point paper on the asymptotic control theory for a system of linear oscillators; this paper is closely related to arXiv:1308.6090, arXiv:1404.6901, arXiv:1505.00773, arXiv:1508.07775, and arXiv:1509.06056
(202472) Sarah Louisa Grant
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Female characterization onstage in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Creators: name: Tweg, Sue.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Trail to the Fork of Quesnell River 1860
Creators: name: Sylvester, Frank, 1837-1908
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Trails
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1154418
subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Voyages and travels
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1169308
subject: Gold mines and mining
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944469

description: A manuscript dated 1908 of hand-written lecture notes, on ruled paper, hand-numbered in upper right corners 1 to 18. Consists of an account of Frank Sylvester's travels to the Fork of the Quesnell River in 1860 and 1864, and the changes that gold mining caused in the area. Also mentions the Old Brigade trail, his reasons for traveling, the lakes, towns and other places he passed on his travels.
Rotational evolution of magnetars in the presence of a fallback disk
Creators: name: Tong, H.
name: Wang, W.
name: Liu, X. W.
name: Xu, R. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetars may have strong surface dipole field. Observationally, two magnetars may have passive fallback disks. In the presence of a fallback disk, the rotational evolution of magnetars may be changed. In the self-similar fallback disk model, it is found that: (1) When the disk mass is significantly smaller than $10^{-6} \,\rm M_{\odot}$, the magnetar is unaffected by the fallback disk and it will be a normal magnetar. (2) When the disk mass is large, but the magnetar's surface dipole field is about or below $10^{14} \,\rm G$, the magnetar will also be a normal magnetar. A magnetar plus a passive fallback disk system is expected. This may correspond to the observations of magnetars 4U 0142$+$61, and 1E 2259$+$586. (3) When the disk mass is large, and the magnetar's surface dipole field is as high as $4\times 10^{15} \,\rm G$, the magnetar will evolve from the ejector phase to the propeller phase, and then enter rotational equilibrium. The magnetar will be slowed down quickly in the propeller phase. The final rotational period can be as high $2\times 10^4 \,\rm s$. This may correspond to the super-slow magnetar in the supernova remnant RCW 103. Therefore, the three kinds of magnetars can be understood in a unified way.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for ApJ
Small-footprint Highway Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Lu, Liang
name: Renals, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art speech recognition systems typically employ neural network acoustic models. However, compared to Gaussian mixture models, deep neural network (DNN) based acoustic models often have many more model parameters, making it challenging for them to be deployed on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices. In this paper, we study the application of the recently proposed highway deep neural network (HDNN) for training small-footprint acoustic models. HDNNs are a depth-gated feedforward neural network, which include two types of gate functions to facilitate the information flow through different layers. Our study demonstrates that HDNNs are more compact than regular DNNs for acoustic modeling, i.e., they can achieve comparable recognition accuracy with many fewer model parameters. Furthermore, HDNNs are more controllable than DNNs: the gate functions of an HDNN can control the behavior of the whole network using a very small number of model parameters. Finally, we show that HDNNs are more adaptable than DNNs. For example, simply updating the gate functions using adaptation data can result in considerable gains in accuracy. We demonstrate these aspects by experiments using the publicly available AMI corpus, which has around 80 hours of training data.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2017. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1608.00892, arXiv:1607.01963
Weighing the Giants V: Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations
Creators: name: Mantz, Adam B.
name: Allen, Steven W.
name: Morris, R. Glenn
name: von der Linden, Anja
name: Applegate, Douglas E.
name: Kelly, Patrick L.
name: Burke, David L.
name: Donovan, David
name: Ebeling, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present constraints on the scaling relations of galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity, temperature and gas mass (and derived quantities) with mass and redshift, employing masses from robust weak gravitational lensing measurements. These are the first such results obtained from an analysis that simultaneously accounts for selection effects and the underlying mass function, and directly incorporates lensing data to constrain total masses. Our constraints on the scaling relations and their intrinsic scatters are in good agreement with previous studies, and reinforce a picture in which departures from self-similar scaling laws are primarily limited to cluster cores. However, the data are beginning to reveal new features that have implications for cluster astrophysics and provide new tests for hydrodynamical simulations. We find a positive correlation in the intrinsic scatters of luminosity and temperature at fixed mass, which is related to the dynamical state of the clusters. While the evolution of the nominal scaling relations over the redshift range $0.0
description: MNRAS accepted. This version corrects the temperature column of Table 2
Jorge Guillen's Clamor : the poetry of an exile
Creators: name: Topley, D. F. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202469) Sarah Rowe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electroweak Vacuum Instability and Renormalized Higgs Field Vacuum Fluctuations in the Inflationary Universe
Creators: name: Kohri, Kazunori
name: Matsui, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigated the electroweak vacuum instability during or after inflation. In the inflationary Universe, i.e., de Sitter space, the vacuum field fluctuations $\left< {δϕ}^{ 2 } \right>$ enlarge in proportion to the Hubble scale $H^{2}$. Therefore, the large inflationary vacuum fluctuations of the Higgs field $\left< {δϕ}^{ 2 } \right>$ are potentially catastrophic to trigger the vacuum transition to the negative-energy Planck-scale vacuum state and cause an immediate collapse of the Universe. However, the vacuum field fluctuations $\left< {δϕ}^{ 2 } \right>$, i.e., the vacuum expectation values have an ultraviolet divergence, and therefore a renormalization is necessary to estimate the physical effects of the vacuum transition. Thus, in this paper, we revisit the electroweak vacuum instability from the perspective of quantum field theory (QFT) in curved space-time, and discuss the dynamical behavior of the homogeneous Higgs field $ϕ$ determined by the effective potential ${ V }_{\rm eff}\left( ϕ\right)$ in curved space-time and the renormalized vacuum fluctuations $\left< {δϕ}^{ 2 } \right>_{\rm ren}$ via adiabatic regularization and point-splitting regularization. We simply suppose that the Higgs field only couples the gravity via the non-minimal Higgs-gravity coupling $ξ(μ)$. In this scenario, the electroweak vacuum stability is inevitably threatened by the dynamical behavior of the homogeneous Higgs field $ϕ$, or the formations of AdS domains or bubbles unless the Hubble scale is small enough $H< Λ_{I} $.
description: 29 pages, references added, version accepted for publication in JCAP
Asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti stars with fully evolutionary white dwarf models: I. The impact of the uncertainties from prior evolution on the period spectrum
Creators: name: De Gerónimo, Francisco C.
name: Althaus, Leandro G.
name: Córsico, Alejandro H.
name: Romero, Alejandra D.
name: Kepler, S. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ZZ Ceti stars are pulsating white dwarfs with a carbon-oxygen core build up during the core helium burning and thermally pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch phases. Through the interpretation of their pulsation periods by means of asteroseismology, details about their origin and evolution can be inferred. The whole pulsation spectrum exhibited by ZZ Ceti stars strongly depends on the inner chemical structure. At present, there are several processes affecting the chemical profiles that are still not accurately determined. We present a study of the impact of the current uncertainties of the white dwarf formation and evolution on the expected pulsation properties of ZZ Ceti stars. Our analysis is based on a set of carbon-oxygen core white dwarf models with masses $0.548$ and $0.837 M_{\sun}$ derived from full evolutionary computations from the ZAMS to the ZZ Ceti domain. We have considered models in which we varied the number of thermal pulses, the amount of overshooting, and the $^{12}$C$(α,γ)^{16}$O reaction rate within their uncertainties. We explore the impact of these major uncertainties in prior evolution on the chemical structure and the expected pulsation spectrum. We find that these uncertainties yield significant changes in the $g$-mode pulsation periods. We conclude that the uncertainties in the white dwarf progenitor evolution should be be taken into account in detailed asterseismological analysis of these pulsating stars.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
MLPerf Inference 3D-Unet ONNX Model on BraTS 2019 dataset (fold 1)
Creators: name: Po-Han Huang
name: Ribalta, Pablo
name: Karargyris, Alex
name: Isensee, Fabian
name: Reina, Tony
name: Khalique Ahmed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This 3D-Unet ONNX model is converted from https://zenodo.org/record/3904106. See MLPerf Inference GitHub repository for instructions about how to run this model. Link: https://github.com/mlperf/inference/tree/master/v0.7/medical_imaging/3d-unet
Trade marks and advertising slogans
Creators: name: Sjodin, John W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Hitomi observations of Perseus support heating by mixing
Creators: name: Hillel, Shlomi
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the velocity dispersion of the intracluster medium (ICM) of the Perseus cluster of galaxies as observed by the Hitomi X-ray telescope to our three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of jet-inflated bubbles in cluster cooling flows, and conclude that the observations support the mixing-heating mechanism of the ICM. In the mixing-heating mechanism the ICM is heated by mixing of hot bubble gas with the ICM. This mixing is caused by vortices that are formed during the inflation process of the bubble. Sound waves and turbulence are also excited by the vortices, but they contribute less than 20 per cents to the heating of the ICM. Shocks that are excited by the jets contribute even less.
description: MNRAS, in press
Late Quaternary vegetation and environments of Jackson's Bog and the Monaro Tablelands, New South Wales
Creators: name: Southern, Wendy.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202473) Samuel Henry Grant
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Effect of Corner Modes in the Initial Conditions of Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Falck, B.
name: McCullagh, N.
name: Neyrinck, M. C.
name: Wang, J.
name: Szalay, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of future high-precision large-scale structure surveys, it is important to quantify the percent and subpercent level effects in cosmological $N$-body simulations from which theoretical predictions are drawn. One such effect involves deciding whether to zero all modes above the one-dimensional Nyquist frequency, the so-called "corner" modes, in the initial conditions. We investigate this effect by comparing power spectra, density distribution functions, halo mass functions, and halo profiles in simulations with and without these modes. For a simulation with a mass resolution of $m_p \sim 10^{11}\,h^{-1}\,M_{\odot}$, we find that at $z>6$, the difference in the matter power spectrum is large at wavenumbers above $\sim 80$\% of $k_{\rm{Ny}}$, reducing to below 2\% at all scales by $z\sim 3$. Including corner modes results in a better match between low- and high-resolution simulations at wavenumbers around the Nyquist frequency of the low-resolution simulation, but the effect of the corner modes is smaller than the effect of particle discreteness. The differences in mass functions are 3\% for the smallest halos at $z=6$ for the $m_p \sim 10^{11}\,h^{-1}\,M_{\odot}$ simulation, but we find no significant difference in the stacked profiles of well-resolved halos at $z \leq 6$. Thus removing power at $|\mathbf{k}|>k_{\rm{Ny}}$ in the initial conditions of cosmological simulations has a small effect on small scales and high redshifts, typically below a few percent.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, matches version accepted to ApJ
Chiral Soliton Lattice and Charged Pion Condensation in Strong Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Brauner, Tomas
name: Yamamoto, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Chiral Soliton Lattice (CSL) is a state with a periodic array of topological solitons that spontaneously breaks parity and translational symmetries. Such a state is known to appear in chiral magnets. We show that CSL also appears as a ground state of quantum chromodynamics at nonzero chemical potential in a magnetic field. By analyzing the fluctuations of the CSL, we furthermore demonstrate that in strong but achievable magnetic fields, charged pions undergo Bose-Einstein condensation. Our results, based on a systematic low-energy effective theory, are model-independent and fully analytic.
description: v2: 19 pages, 6 figures; substantially extended version of the paper, published in JHEP
Virgil's Georgics and Lucretius' De Rerum Natura : a comparative study
Creators: name: Seal, David .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Η Ήπειρος ως λογοτεχνικός μύθος στη μεταπολεμική πεζογραφία [Epirus as literary myth in postwar Greek prose fiction], Διδακτορική Διατριβή, Τομέας Μεσαιωνικής και Νέας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας Τμήματος Φιλολογίας Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων, Ιωάννινα 2012, 482 σελ. ISBN: 978-960-99633-1-2
Creators: name: Kougoulos, Thanasis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: In our thesis we examine the function of the geographic area of Epirus as a literary myth in Greek prose fiction after World War II and, particularly, in the prose fiction that mythologizes the Epirotic space as birthplace. We focus on one hundred forty two texts by eight writers, who belong to the two postwar generations. In the first generation belong D. Hatzis, K. Tzallas, Ph. Tziovas and G. Dallas, while in the second T. Porfyris, Ch. Milionis, S. Stamatis and F. Moulios. Initially, most of them work as a team, being also members of the editorial committee of the literary magazine Endohora (1959-1966) of the city of Ioannina. Based on various approaches of the theory of literary space and literary myth, which are presented in the introduction, and applying the method of mapping that Literary Geography suggests, we distinguish the textual representation of the geography of Epirus into two categories: “place-setting” and “place-phantom”. In the first category we study urban (especially Ioannina) and rural areas and their symbolism, along with the value codes they carry, as the determined -directly or indirectly-topographic substrate of the text. In the second category we investigate the imaginary reconstruction of Epirus, when fiction refers to a setting far away from Epirus (such as Athens, Germany, England). We realize that the literary Epirus has a lot in common with the authors’ experience of Epirus. We also examine invisible spatial aspects: a. the historical dimension of Epirus as a war space of hostility, particularly during the 1940s; and b. the symbolizationed space of Epirus as a field of positive activity. In contrast to the war, the space is symbolized positively by the oral literature (i.e. in folk songs and legends), by the local dialect, and the local historiography. We infer that basic themes and motifs are derived from D. Hatzis and especially from The End of Our Small Town (1953, 1963), and, therefore, we emphasize his central role in the formation of post-war prose fiction of Epirotic locality. ISBN: 978-960-99633-1-2
(202470) Frederick Henry Leonard Grant
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Harmonia axyridis
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia axyridis

description: Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1772) (Fig 3n).
Examined material: Not available.
Original reference: Grez & Zaviezo (2015) “ 1 junio 2016 (Dalcahue)”, “2 junio [June] 2017 (Ancud)”.
Comments: See comments for the same species under the Rapa Nui species list.
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156
Anomaly of strings of 6d $\mathcal{N}{=}(1,0)$ theories
Creators: name: Shimizu, Hiroyuki
name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the anomaly polynomial of strings of general 6d $\mathcal{N}{=}(1,0)$ theories in terms of anomaly inflow. Our computation sheds some light on the reason why the simplest 6d $\mathcal{N}{=}(1,0)$ theory has $E_8$ flavor symmetry, and also partially explains a curious numerology in F-theory.
description: 13 pages; v2: references added
title: The Information Behaviour of Mature Online Doctoral Students at a University in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study
Creators: name: Mudaliar, P Mageswary
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: Online doctoral students’ information behaviour is drawn from their experiences in the information behaviour process cycle, learning at the doctoral level and usability of information support services. It emphasises the behaviour of humans and their interaction with information, rather than the information system itself. This doctoral thesis focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the online doctoral students, as highly non-traditional adult learners, at two phases of the thesis stage: the pre-ethical and post-ethical approval phase. Wilson’s 1997 information behaviour conceptual framework is used to design this study, which identifies four main components of information behaviour: person-in-context, information-need, information-seeking, and information-processing-and-use. The research employs a qualitative single-case study design, in which 19 participants, 14 students and 5 faculty members were interviewed. The results showed there is a significant level of ‘socialness’ in the online doctoral students’ information behaviour through the information-sharing activities. As they undergo the information behaviour iterative process cycle, a transformation occurs. They acquire knowledge and skills that change their mental and emotional structures. Doctoral-level learning is transformative, wherein students experience an ontological, epistemological and methodological shift in ‘self’ (S  S’). These findings help expand Wilson’s information behaviour conceptual framework by adding information-sharing as a new component. The study also found that the information behaviour process is not a linear sequential process but is one that is iterative, until a specific outcome is achieved. In addition, the study discovers Wilson’s intervening variables: social learning and self-efficacy theories are appropriate attributes of the person-in-context, rather than influencing variables in information-seeking. The outcome of information use through the person-in-context attributes changes knowledge, skills, and the mental and emotional structure of ‘self’ (S), making S = KNL (knowledge) + SKL (skill) + MTL (mental) + EMT (emotion). Further, the findings showed that information support services hold a significant influence on the students’ information behaviour in terms of user experience in the information and learning support environment, where socialness in the online information for adult learners, the adoption of usability and user experience concepts should be enhanced.
Experimental Investigation of the Two-Photon Widths of the chic0 and the chic2 Mesons
Creators: name: Eisenstein, B. I.
name: Ernst, J.
name: Gladding, G. E.
name: Gollin, G. D.
name: Hans, R. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Conrad's "tightrope" : the balance between "self" and "society"
Creators: name: Miller, John Lawrence.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Quality improvement of clinical learning environment: An appreciative inquiry approach
Creators: name: Tsai, Jer-Chia
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2525

description: Taiwan faces crucial clinical training and healthcare system issues impacting the quality of the clinical learning environment (CLE). Previous studies demonstrated methodology weaknesses and limited scopes of CLE quality. This thesis aims to explore the key elements, impacts, and action plans informing and improving the CLE quality in Taiwan. Research questions include (1) What are key elements that would construct the quality of the CLE from trainees’ and teachers’ viewpoints? (2) Why are these elements crucial in forming a quality CLE in the Taiwanese sociocultural context? (3) What are the action plans that could be implemented to improve the quality of CLE and inform medical education practice? This thesis employed social constructivism as a theoretical framework and appreciative inquiry approach to design qualitative research using individual interviews with 12 medical trainees and 12 clinical teachers. Thematic analysis identified five themes as key elements: (1) Setting a learning community: creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for patient care practice. (2) Fostering learning goals and medical competencies on patient-centred care, clinical management, and interprofessional learning and practice. (3) Learning facilitation with supervision and autonomy, assessment and feedback in aligning with trainees’ levels and psycho-sociocultural factors. (4) Role modelling and professional development: teachers’ roles as facilitators, coaches, and mentors beyond knowledge providers. (5) Organisational culture, systemic regulation, and educational resources: a collaborative and non-blaming organisational culture for psychological safety; dual effects of duty-hour regulation on job stress and training course arrangement; simulation medicine training model for patient safety. Action plans included (1) The bottom-up Teacher Development Learning Community; (2) Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship model to ensure the “continuity” of clinical education, patient care, and supervision; (3) Empowerment and assessment system in aligning with patients’ complexities and trainees’ capabilities. Study limitations included a single researcher, predominant male participants, and inherent features of qualitative design. In conclusion, this study reveals the enabling and hindering factors in shaping the CLE quality and highlights psycho-sociocultural factors in mediating mutual engagement among medical teams and organisation. Collaborative action plans improve the CLE quality in the local institute and advance better educational practice in Taiwanese medical society.
$W^{s,p}$-approximation properties of elliptic projectors on polynomial spaces, with application to the error analysis of a Hybrid High-Order discretisation of Leray-Lions problems
Creators: name: Di Pietro, Daniele
name: Droniou, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N08, 65N30, 65N12

description: In this work we prove optimal $W^{s,p}$-approximation estimates (with $p\in[1,+\infty]$) for elliptic projectors on local polynomial spaces. The proof hinges on the classical Dupont--Scott approximation theory together with two novel abstract lemmas: An approximation result for bounded projectors, and an $L^p$-boundedness result for $L^2$-orthogonal projectors on polynomial subspaces. The $W^{s,p}$-approximation results have general applicability to (standard or polytopal) numerical methods based on local polynomial spaces. As an illustration, we use these $W^{s,p}$-estimates to derive novel error estimates for a Hybrid High-Order discretization of Leray--Lions elliptic problems whose weak formulation is classically set in $W^{1,p}(Ω)$ for some $p\in(1,+\infty)$. This kind of problems appears, e.g., in the modelling of glacier motion, of incompressible turbulent flows, and in airfoil design. Denoting by $h$ the meshsize, we prove that the approximation error measured in a $W^{1,p}$-like discrete norm scales as $h^{\frac{k+1}{p-1}}$ when $p\ge 2$ and as $h^{(k+1)(p-1)}$ when $p<2$.
description: keywords: $W^{s,p}$-approximation properties of elliptic projector on polynomials, Hybrid High-Order methods, nonlinear elliptic equations, $p$-Laplacian, error estimates
(202465) Robert Chapman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
L'image de la police parisienne sous les monarchics censitaires (1814-1848) : the image of the police of Paris during the Constitutional Monarchy (1814-1848)
Creators: name: Merriman, Susan R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Parallelization, scalability, and reproducibility in next generation sequencing analysis
Creators: name: Köster, Johannes
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatik
subject: 004

description: The analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data is a major topic in bioinformatics: short reads obtained from DNA, the molecule encoding the genome of living organisms, are processed to provide insight into biological or medical questions. This thesis provides novel solutions to major topics within the analysis of NGS data, focusing on parallelization, scalability and reproducibility. The read mapping problem is to find the origin of the short reads within a given reference genome. We contribute the q-group index, a novel data structure for read mapping with particularly small memory footprint. The q-group index comes with massively parallel build and query algorithms targeted towards modern graphics processing units (GPUs). On top, the read mapping software PEANUT is presented, which outperforms state of the art read mappers in speed while maintaining their accuracy. The variant calling problem is to infer (i.e., call) genetic variants of individuals compared to a reference genome using mapped reads. It is usually solved in a Bayesian way. Often, variant calling is followed by filtering variants of different biological samples against each other. With state of the art solutions, the filtering is decoupled from the calling, leading to difficulties in controlling the false discovery rate. In this work, we show how to integrate the filtering into the calling with an algebraic approach and provide an intuitive solution for controlling the false discovery rate along with solving other challenges of variant calling like scaling with a growing set of biological samples. For this, a hierarchical index data structure for storage of preprocessing results is presented and compression strategies are provided. The developed methods are implemented in the software ALPACA. Depending on the research question, the analysis of NGS data entails many other steps, typically involving diverse tools, data transformations and aggregation of results. These steps can be orchestrated by work ow management. We present the general purpose work ow system Snakemake, which provides an easy to read domain-specific language for defining and documenting work ows, thereby ensuring reproducibility of analyses. The language is complemented by an execution environment that allows to scale a work ow to available resources, including parallelization across CPU cores or cluster nodes, restricting memory usage or the number of available coprocessors like GPUs. The benefits of using Snakemake are exemplified by combining the presented approaches for read mapping and variant calling to a complete, scalable and reproducible NGS analysis.
CFT and Logarithmic Corrections to the Black Hole Entropy Product Formula
Creators: name: Pradhan, Parthapratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the logarithmic corrections to the black hole (BH) entropy product formula of outer horizon and inner horizon by taking into account the \emph{effects of statistical quantum fluctuations around the thermal equilibrium} and \emph{via conformal field theory} (CFT). We argue that logarithmic corrections to the BH entropy product formula when calculated using CFT and taking into the effects of quantum fluctuations around the thermal equilibrium, the formula should \emph{not be universal} and it should also \emph{not be quantized}. These results have been explicitly checked by giving several examples.
description: Version accepted in AHEP
title: Professional development framework for new teachers: The Emirati context as a case study
Creators: name: Ezzat, Mahinour
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: To support United Arab Emirates (UAE) government initiatives in increasing Emirati representation in higher education, my institution recruited Emirati graduates interested in teaching into the Faculty Emiratisation Initiative (FEI) programme. FEI participants are early career teachers who have minimal experience delivering learning experiences in higher education; this study refers to them as ‘teachers in training’. The Teaching Skills Enhancement Programme (TSEP) was developed to help teachers in training develop effective teaching and learning practices in higher education. They receive teacher training and mentoring for one year to prepare them to become fully-fledged academic members. This study examined to what extent the TSEP helped teachers in training achieve Advance HE Associate Fellowship. The study involved a single group of Emirati teachers in training over several months, using mixed methods instruments. A mixed responses questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and written Accounts of Professional Practice (APP) of teachers in training were analysed. A hybrid approach was adopted, combining different qualitative methods of thematic analysis. This included incorporating a data-driven inductive approach from the mixed responses questionnaire, interviews and the APP, and a deductive approach using a pre-set of codes (Schon’s reflective model). The essential finding is that TSEP and associated experiential learning opportunities, including coaching and microteaching, appeared to help teachers in training develop their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in their discipline and achieve Associate Fellowship. The study’s findings highlighted some crucial factors that other institutions in the UAE and Gulf region might consider in developing an Associate Fellowship scheme, developing teacher training programmes in general, and providing support to novice teachers to achieve Advance HE Associate Fellowship. Keywords: teacher training, pedagogical knowledge, higher education, UAE, professional teaching, reflective practice, experiential learning
title: Hematological alterations in diabetic rats
title: role of adipocytokines and effect of citrus flavonoids
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Ayman M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: adiponectin
subject: IL-6
subject: hematological parameters
subject: type 2 diabetes
subject: 610

description: Dysfunction in adipocytes is associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes-associated anemia has been reported due to the increased non-enzymatic glycosylation of RBC membrane proteins, which correlates with hyperglycemia. The present study was hypothesized to assess the effect of citrus flavonoids on hematological parameters and adipose tissue interleukin-6 and adiponectin in type 2 diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced by feeding rats with a high fat diet for 2 weeks followed by an intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin. An oral dose of 50 mg/kg hesperidin or naringin was daily given for 4 weeks after diabetes induction. By the end of the experiment, blood samples were collected and were immediately used for determination of haematological parameters. Expression levels of adiponectin and interleukin-6 were assayed in adipose tissue samples. Both hesperidin and naringin significantly improved the levels of erythrocytes, leukocytes and their functional indices. Similarly, supplementation with either compound significantly ameliorated the declined adipose tissue adiponectin expression in conjunction with down-regulated interleukin-6. The findings of the present study indicated that hesperidin and naringin exert protection to diabetes-associated anemia in type 2 diabetic rats. This could be due to attenuation of proinflammatory cytokine production and stimulation of adiponectin expression.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013