cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the fundamental solution and a variational formulation of a degenerate diffusion of Kolmogorov type
Creators: name: Duong, Manh Hong
name: Tran, Hoang Minh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we construct the fundamental solution to a degenerate diffusion of Kolmogorov type and develop a time-discrete variational scheme for its adjoint equation. The so-called mean squared derivative cost function plays a crucial role occurring in both the fundamental solution and the variational scheme. The latter is implemented by minimizing a free energy functional with respect to the Kantorovich optimal transport cost functional associated with the mean squared derivative cost. We establish the convergence of the scheme to the solution of the adjoint equation generalizing previously known results for the Fokker-Planck equation and the Kramers equation.
description: 31 pages
The engine of change : the development of RASA, a new archival tool for improving access to the archives of science and technology in Australia
Creators: name: McCarthy, Gavan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Index Theory for Zero Energy Solutions of the Planar Anisotropic Kepler Problem
Creators: name: Hu, Xijun
name: Yu, Guowei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70F16, 70F10, 37J45, 53D12

description: In the variational study of singular Lagrange systems, the zero energy solutions play an important role. In this paper we find a simple way of computing the Morse indices of these solutions for the planar anisotropic Kepler problem. In particular an interesting connection between the Morse indices and the oscillating behaviors of these solutions discovered by the physicist M. Gutzwiller is established.
description: Revision based on referees reports. Accepted by Communications in Mathematical Physics(CMP)
A Tidy Data Model for Natural Language Processing using cleanNLP
Creators: name: Arnold, Taylor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The package cleanNLP provides a set of fast tools for converting a textual corpus into a set of normalized tables. The underlying natural language processing pipeline utilizes Stanford's CoreNLP library, exposing a number of annotation tasks for text written in English, French, German, and Spanish. Annotators include tokenization, part of speech tagging, named entity recognition, entity linking, sentiment analysis, dependency parsing, coreference resolution, and information extraction.
description: 20 pages; 4 figures
Nineteenth-Century Building Plans in Leicester
Creators: name: A Chinnery, Gilbert
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 49, 33-41
description: Until recently Leicester presented to the observer an aspect predominantly of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There were 18th-century and even some medieval buildings in the town but they were relatively few in number and confined to a fairly small core area. A consideration of the town's increase in population since 1801 shows why this should be so. The 1801 census recorded slightly under 17,000 people within the borough boundaries and building hardly spread outside the area of the medieval town. By 1901 the figure was 210,000 and by 1951, 283,000 though admittedly the boundaries had been somewhat extended. The buildings that accommodated this increase had, by and large, to be erected on land hitherto unused save for agricultural purposes. There was replacement of old buildings within the old town and infilling of courtyards and subdivisions of tenements, but for the most part it was new building in an unprecedented urban spread to meet an unprecedented population growth.
Sex and pubertal variation in frontal and striatal processing of rewards in early adolescents
Creators: name: Fine, Jeffrey
name: Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A
name: Barendse, Marjolein
name: Tully, Laura M.
name: Swartz, Johnna
name: Taylor, Sandra
name: Beard, Sarah
name: Guyer, Amanda
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Developmental Neuroscience
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This preregistration describes hypotheses and planned analyses with the aim to examine reward motivation and the neural reward network during the MID task in relation to sex and pubertal development.
Cherlin's conjecture for sporadic simple groups
Creators: name: Gill, Nick
name: Volta, Francesca Dalla
name: Spiga, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D08, 20B15, 20B25

description: We prove Cherlin's conjecture, concerning binary primitive permutation groups, for those groups with socle isomorphic to a sporadic simple group.
description: 11 pages; to appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Recorded sound collections in Melbourne public libraries : their organisation and access
Creators: name: Ferdinands, Laurie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Market share of Australian books in the 1980s
Creators: name: Ding, Heng Zhong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Anomalous transport model with axial magnetic fields
Creators: name: Landsteiner, Karl
name: Liu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport properties of massless fermions in $3+1$ spacetime dimension have been in the focus of recent theoretical and experimental research. New transport properties appear as consequences of chiral anomalies. The most prominent is the generation of a current in a magnetic field, the so-called chiral magnetic effect leading to an enhancement of the electric conductivity (negative magnetoresistivity). We study the analogous effect for axial magnetic fields that couple with opposite signs to fermions of different chirality. We emphasize local charge conservation and study the induced magneto-conductivities proportional to an electric field and a gradient in temperature. We find that the magnetoconductivity is enhanced whereas the magneto-thermoelectric conductivity is diminished. As a side result we interpret an anomalous contribution to the entropy current as a generalized thermal Hall effect.
description: v3: 16 pages, matches published version
Essentiality, conservation, evolutionary pressure and codon bias in bacterial genes
Creators: name: Dilucca, Maddalena
name: Cimini, Giulio
name: Giansanti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Essential genes constitute the core of genes which cannot be mutated too much nor lost along the evolutionary history of a species. Natural selection is expected to be stricter on essential genes and on conserved (highly shared) genes, than on genes that are either nonessential or peculiar to a single or a few species. In order to further assess this expectation, we study here how essentiality of a gene is connected with its degree of conservation among several unrelated bacterial species, each one characterised by its own codon usage bias. Confirming previous results on E. coli, we show the existence of a universal exponential relation between gene essentiality and conservation in bacteria. Moreover we show that, within each bacterial genome, there are at least two groups of functionally distinct genes, characterised by different levels of conservation and codon bias: i) a core of essential genes, mainly related to cellular information processing; ii) a set of less conserved nonessential genes with prevalent functions related to metabolism. In particular, the genes in the first group are more retained among species, are subject to a stronger purifying conservative selection and display a more limited repertoire of synonymous codons. The core of essential genes is close to the minimal bacterial genome, which is in the focus of recent studies in synthetic biology, though we confirm that orthologs of genes that are essential in one species are not necessarily essential in other species. We also list a set of highly shared genes which, reasonably, could constitute a reservoir of targets for new anti-microbial drugs.
Wood-carvings from the Nave Roof of Market Harborough Parish Church
Creators: name: A Greenhill, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 35, 33-35
description: Early in 1953, the nave roof of the parish church of St. Dionysius, Market Harborough, was found to be so badly affected by the ravages of the death watch beetle that it had to be taken down and a new one erected in its place. It consisted of a central ridge-beam and two purlins running east and west, supported on six massive tie-beams aligned north to south, of which one abutted the east wall over the chancel arch, another was set out about one foot from the west wall above the tower arch, and the remaining four spaced at equal intervals between. These tie-beams, which were embattled along the top, were adorned with a number of carved figures, while morticed on to the centre of each of the four inner ones, and occupying the space between it and the ridge-beam above, was an oblong block with a carved figure at either extremity, one facing east, the other west. The new roof is a complete replica of the old, minus the carvings.
User education and the public library : a study of approaches to user education in fifteen of Melbourne's public libraries
Creators: name: Gehrig, Angela.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Seven Leicestershire Wills
Creators: name: A Greenhill, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 38, 9-20
description: The following wills were examined in the course of researches that culminated in The Incised Slabs of Leicestershire and Rutland, and were all incorporated in the original MS. of that work. Exigencies of space, however, forbade more than a brief quotation from three of them, and the other four had perforce to be omitted. All are well worth perusal, particularly the long home-made one of Robert Herrick, uncle of the poet and M.P. for Leicester in the memorable year of the Armada. It is fitting that they should now be published, not merely for their interest to Leicestershire folk, but still more on account of the sidelights they throw on family life and the standard of living among town magnates and country gentlemen in Tudor and early Stuart times. I have preserved the original and often wayward punctuation and spelling, with their many quaint inconsistencies. Letters placed within round brackets are represented in the original by contraction marks.
'No place in a community of scholars' : Axel Lodewycks and the University of Melbourne, 1956-73
Creators: name: Kilpatrick, James William.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additions to the Incised Slabs of Leicestershire and Rutland
Creators: name: A Greenhill, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 50, 49-53
description: Since this book appeared in 19581, three further items have been recorded. Of these (1 - AB KETTLEBY, FRAMLAND) evidently escaped Beetlestone's normally very sharp eye, but was spotted by Mr. John Daniell of Newarke Houses Museum in November 1969: (2 - AB KETTLEBY, POTTER'S HILL FARM, FRAMLAND) was found in 1962 by Mr. Leo W. Cullen of Melton Mowbray: for (3 - HUSBANDS BOSWORTH, GARTREE). I must accept full responsibility for having missed it when visiting the church in December 1926.
Reviews
Creators: name: George Hoskins, William
name: James Curtis, Stanley
name: Simmons, Jack
name: Scarfe, Norman
name: Patrick Reginald Finberg, Herbert
name: A Greenhill, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 30, 130-140
description: RADICAL LEICESTER: A HISTORY OF LEICESTER 1780-1850. By A. Temple Patterson. x + 405. University College, Leicester. 1954. 30s.; THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF LEICESTER. By M. Claire Cross. University College, Leicester (Dept. of English Local History: Occasional Papers, No. 4). 1953. 51 pp. 6s.; HANDLIST OF RECORDS OF LEICESTER ARCHDEACONRY. Leicester Museums and Art Gallery. 1954. 48 pp. 4s. 6d.; THE BRUDENELLS OF DEENE. By Joan Wake. Cassell. 1953. xvi + 516 pp. 21s.; JUST RUTLAND. By J. and A. E. Stokes. Uppingham: John Hawthorn (S. R. Fuller). 1953. 128 pp. 10s. 6d.; LOCAL RECORDS: THEIR NATURE AND CARE. Edited by Lilian J, Redstone and Francis W. Steer. Bell. 1953. xv + 246 pp. 25s.; MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS HOUSES, ENGLAND AND WALES. By David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock. Longman. 1953. xxiv + 388 pp. 42s.; MONUMENTAL BRASSES. By Herbert W. Macklin. New Edition, revised by Charles Oman. George Allen & Unwin. 1953. 196 pp. 12s. 6d.; ENGLISH STAINED AND PAINTED GLASS. By Christopher Woodforde. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1954. 84 pp. + 80 plates. 30s.; DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS 1660-1851. By Rupert Gunnis. Odhams Press. 1953. 514 pp. 63s; THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER. Vol. II. Edited by w. G . Hoskins, assisted by R. A. McKinley. Oxford University Press (for the University of London). 1954. xviii + 270 pp. 63s.;
Effective Field Theory of Chiral Spin Liquid between Ordered Phases in Kagomé Antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Makhfudz, Imam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose in this work an effective field theory description of the chiral spin liquid state in Heisenberg spin system on kagomé lattice.To this end, we derive the low-energy effective theory of kagomé (isotropic) Heisenberg antiferromagnet around its ordered ground states found numerically and show that quantum fluctuations induced by further neighbor spin exchanges are equally strong as those from first neighbor.We use a chiral order parameter theory to argue for the occurrence of finite temperature chiral symmetry breaking transition into chiral ordered state in kagomé antiferromagnet with further neighbor spin exchange interactions.We compute the chiral symmetry breaking term in the effective ground state energy and show that chiral spin liquid necessarily occurs in the ground state of kagomé antiferromagnet with the first three nearest-neighbor spin exchange interactions.Finally, we consider the quantum criticality of the kagomé antiferromagnet and show that a Chern-Simons term emerges naturally at the transition between two ordered states that satisfy appropriate `matching condition' that we derive, providing explanation for why chiral spin liquid could occur at the transition between appropriate ordered states.This emergent Chern-Simons term is the low energy effective theory of the chiral spin liquid state, where the chirality is the immediate consequence of the breaking of discrete symmetries by this topological field theory.
description: Published version
Spontaneous CP-violation in the Simplest Little Higgs Model and its Future Collider Tests: the Scalar Sector
Creators: name: Mao, Ying-nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We proposed the spontaneous CP-violation in the Simplest Little Higgs model. In this model, the pseudoscalar field can acquire a nonzero vacuum expected value. It leads to a mixing between the two scalars with different CP-charge, which means spontaneous CP-violation happens. It is also a connection between composite Higgs mechanism and CP-violation. Facing the experimental constraints, the model is still alive for both scenarios in which the extra scalar appears below or around the electro-weak scale. We also discussed the future collider tests on CP-violation in the scalar sector through measuring $h_2ZZ$ and $h_1h_2Z'$ vertices (see the definitions of the particles in the text) which provides new motivations on future $e^+e^-$ and $pp$ colliders. It also shows the importance of the vector-vector-scalar- and vector-scalar-scalar-type vertices to discover CP-violation effects in the scalar sector.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures, almost everywhere refined: abstract, introduction, and conclusions updated; the improved formalism added; details on quantum corrections added; experimental constaints on f and EDM added; more discussions about future tests updated in which the conclusions changed comparing with the previous version; references updated; more typos and errors corrected
Secondary isocurvature perturbations from acoustic reheating
Creators: name: Ota, Atsuhisa
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superhorizon (iso)curvature perturbations are conserved if the following conditions are satisfied: (i) (each) non adiabatic pressure perturbation is zero, (ii) the gradient terms are ignored, that is, at the leading order of the gradient expansion (iii) (each) total energy momentum tensor is conserved. We consider the case with the violation of the last two requirements and discuss the generation of secondary isocurvature perturbations during the late time universe. Second order gradient terms are not necessarily ignored even if we are interested in the long wavelength modes because of the convolutions which may pick products of short wavelength perturbations up. We then introduce second order conserved quantities on superhorizon scales under the conditions (i) and (iii) even in the presence of the gradient terms by employing the full second order cosmological perturbation theory. We also discuss the violation of the condition (iii), that is, the energy momentum tensor is conserved for the total system but not for each component fluid. As an example, we explicitly evaluate second order heat conduction between baryons and photons due to the weak Compton scattering, which dominates the period just before recombination. We show that such secondary effects can be recast into the isocurvature perturbations on superhorizon scales if the local type primordial non Gaussianity exists a priori.
description: 18 pages, considerable revision from v1
The Agrarian Revolution at Cotesbach
Creators: name: A Parker, Leslie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 24, 41-76
description: Cotesbach, a lordship of some eleven hundred acres, lies in the southern tip of Leicestershire, almost at the junction of the county with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, and was, therefore, virtually the centre of the open-field area of England. The move-ment for the destruction of the open-fields by enclosure for pasture began to gather strength in Leicestershire in the middle of the fifteenth century. It was especially widespread at the beginning and at the end of the Tudor period, and Cotesbach felt the impact of both waves. Cotesbach, indeed, became one of the principal centres of agrarian discontent and revolt which broke out in the Midlands in May, 1607, when 'full five thousand' rioters assembled there 'to level and lay open inclosures'. In the following pages we shall trace the course of enclosure in this lordship and the consequent changes wrought in its agrarian economy. In short, to show the reason why Burton in 1622 described Cotesbach as a 'very fine lord-ship and exceeding good ground, now (for the most part) converted into sheep pasturage.'
Parallel Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Creators: name: Jain, Rahul
name: Miller, Carl A.
name: Shi, Yaoyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prominent application of quantum cryptography is the distribution of cryptographic keys that are provably secure. Recently, such security proofs were extended by Vazirani and Vidick (Physical Review Letters, 113, 140501, 2014) to the device-independent (DI) scenario, where the users do not need to trust the integrity of the underlying quantum devices. The protocols analyzed by them and by subsequent authors all require a sequential execution of N multiplayer games, where N is the security parameter. In this work, we prove unconditional security of a protocol where all games are executed in parallel. Besides decreasing the number of time-steps necessary for key generation, this result reduces the security requirements for DI-QKD by allowing arbitrary information leakage of each user's inputs within his or her lab. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first parallel security proof for a fully device-independent QKD protocol. Our protocol tolerates a constant level of device imprecision and achieves a linear key rate.
description: v2: Proofs have been streamlined and reorganized, with minor corrections and numerical adjustments. 33 pages
Development of a fully coupled hydro-mechanical multi-phase multi-physics SPH framework to model soil internal erosion
Creators: name: MA, GUODONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401902
subject: Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
classificationCode: 400502
subject: Civil geotechnical engineering

description: This study focuses on the damaging effects of internal erosion in soil, a crucial concern for structures like embankments. Internal erosion causes soil to lose mass and strength, leading to potential failures. To address this, the research introduces a new mathematical model that accurately describes the behaviour and interactions of various components within soil. Additionally, the study develops constitutive models to understand how soil responds during and after erosion. It also presents a computational framework that effectively simulates erosion processes. By applying these advancements, the study sheds light on erosion mechanisms and helps design safer structures for our communities.
Leicestershire Record Office
Creators: name: A Parker, Leslie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 28, 92-95
description: During the year ending 31 March 1952 the County Record Office has received a number of small but valuable MS. collections. The most important are the parish records of Kirby Muxloe and a number of Enclosure Awards (some with maps) for seven Leicestershire parishes.
GXNOR-Net: Training deep neural networks with ternary weights and activations without full-precision memory under a unified discretization framework
Creators: name: Deng, Lei
name: Jiao, Peng
name: Pei, Jing
name: Wu, Zhenzhi
name: Li, Guoqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is a pressing need to build an architecture that could subsume these networks under a unified framework that achieves both higher performance and less overhead. To this end, two fundamental issues are yet to be addressed. The first one is how to implement the back propagation when neuronal activations are discrete. The second one is how to remove the full-precision hidden weights in the training phase to break the bottlenecks of memory/computation consumption. To address the first issue, we present a multi-step neuronal activation discretization method and a derivative approximation technique that enable the implementing the back propagation algorithm on discrete DNNs. While for the second issue, we propose a discrete state transition (DST) methodology to constrain the weights in a discrete space without saving the hidden weights. Through this way, we build a unified framework that subsumes the binary or ternary networks as its special cases, and under which a heuristic algorithm is provided at the website https://github.com/AcrossV/Gated-XNOR. More particularly, we find that when both the weights and activations become ternary values, the DNNs can be reduced to sparse binary networks, termed as gated XNOR networks (GXNOR-Nets) since only the event of non-zero weight and non-zero activation enables the control gate to start the XNOR logic operations in the original binary networks. This promises the event-driven hardware design for efficient mobile intelligence. We achieve advanced performance compared with state-of-the-art algorithms. Furthermore, the computational sparsity and the number of states in the discrete space can be flexibly modified to make it suitable for various hardware platforms.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures
Leicestershire Record Office Year Ended 31 March 1964 & 31 March 1965
Creators: name: A Parker, Leslie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 40, 85-91
description: Leicestershire Record Office Year Ended 31 March 1964 & 31 March 1965
From Satyrs to Penguins : a comparative study of the little magazine in Australia, 1920-1945
Creators: name: Howard, Joanne Elizabeth.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Generalized Self-Concordant Functions: A Recipe for Newton-Type Methods
Creators: name: Sun, Tianxiao
name: Tran-Dinh, Quoc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the smooth structure of convex functions by generalizing a powerful concept so-called self-concordance introduced by Nesterov and Nemirovskii in the early 1990s to a broader class of convex functions, which we call generalized self-concordant functions. This notion allows us to develop a unified framework for designing Newton-type methods to solve convex optimiza- tion problems. The proposed theory provides a mathematical tool to analyze both local and global convergence of Newton-type methods without imposing unverifiable assumptions as long as the un- derlying functionals fall into our generalized self-concordant function class. First, we introduce the class of generalized self-concordant functions, which covers standard self-concordant functions as a special case. Next, we establish several properties and key estimates of this function class, which can be used to design numerical methods. Then, we apply this theory to develop several Newton-type methods for solving a class of smooth convex optimization problems involving the generalized self- concordant functions. We provide an explicit step-size for the damped-step Newton-type scheme which can guarantee a global convergence without performing any globalization strategy. We also prove a local quadratic convergence of this method and its full-step variant without requiring the Lipschitz continuity of the objective Hessian. Then, we extend our result to develop proximal Newton-type methods for a class of composite convex minimization problems involving generalized self-concordant functions. We also achieve both global and local convergence without additional assumption. Finally, we verify our theoretical results via several numerical examples, and compare them with existing methods.
description: 47 pages, 2 figures
The Keck/OSIRIS Nearby AGN Survey (KONA) I. The Nuclear K-band Properties of Nearby AGN
Creators: name: Müller-Sánchez, F.
name: Hicks, E. K. S.
name: Malkan, M.
name: Davies, R.
name: Yu, P. C.
name: Shaver, S.
name: Davis, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the Keck Osiris Nearby AGN survey (KONA), a new adaptive optics-assisted integral-field spectroscopic survey of Seyfert galaxies. KONA permits at ~0.1" resolution a detailed study of the nuclear kinematic structure of gas and stars in a representative sample of 40 local bona fide active galactic nucleus (AGN). KONA seeks to characterize the physical processes responsible for the coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies, principally inflows and outflows. With these IFU data of the nuclear regions of 40 Seyfert galaxies, the KONA survey will be able to study, for the first time, a number of key topics with meaningful statistics. In this paper we study the nuclear K-band properties of nearby AGN. We find that the luminosities of the unresolved Seyfert 1 sources at 2.1 microns are correlated with the hard X-ray luminosities, implying that the majority of the emission is non-stellar. The best-fit correlation is logLK = 0.9logL2-10 keV + 4 over 3 orders of magnitude in both K-band and X-ray luminosities. We find no strong correlation between 2.1 microns luminosity and hard X-ray luminosity for the Seyfert 2 galaxies. The spatial extent and spectral slope of the Seyfert 2 galaxies indicate the presence of nuclear star formation and attenuating material (gas and dust), which in some cases is compact and in some galaxies extended. We detect coronal-line emission in 36 galaxies and for the first time in five galaxies. Finally, we find 4/20 galaxies that are optically classified as Seyfert 2 show broad emission lines in the near-IR, and one galaxy (NGC 7465) shows evidence of a double nucleus.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 19 pages with 18 figures
Monogamy relations for nonclassical correlations of multi-qubit states
Creators: name: Cheng, Shuming
name: Liu, Lijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonclassical correlations have been found useful in many quantum information processing tasks, and various measures have been proposed to quantify these correlations. In this work, we mainly study one of nonclassical correlations, called measurement-induced nonlocality (MIN). First, we establish a close connection between this nonlocal effect and the Bell nonlocality for two-qubit states. Then, we derive a tight monogamy relation of MIN for any pure three-qubit state and provide an alternative way to obtain similar monogamy relations for other nonclassical correlation measures, including squared negativity, quantum discord, and geometric quantum discord. Finally, we find that the tight monogamy relation of MIN is violated by some mixed three-qubit states, however, a weaker monogamy relation of MIN for mixed states and even multi-qubit states is still obtained.
description: 14 pages, no figures
Model of collective fish behavior with hydrodynamic interactions
Creators: name: Filella, Audrey
name: Nadal, François
name: Sire, Clément
name: Kanso, Eva
name: Eloy, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fish schooling is often modeled with self-propelled particles subject to phenomenological behavioral rules. Although fish are known to sense and exploit flow features, these models usually neglect hydrodynamics. Here, we propose a novel model that couples behavioral rules with far-field hydrodynamic interactions. We show that (1) a new "collective turning" phase emerges; (2) on average individuals swim faster thanks to the fluid; (3) the flow enhances behavioral noise. The results of this model suggest that hydrodynamic effects should be considered to fully understand the collective dynamics of fish.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures + Supplementary Material: 6 pages, 5 figures
title: Low-cost modular and flexible laser source
Creators: name: Spoor, Henry
Publisher: name: Colorado School of Mines Repository
Year: 2023

description: This project investigates the feasibility of producing high-quality, high-reliability laser beams from traditional handheld laser pointers. The goals of this project included understanding the fundamental principles and functionality of a handheld laser pointer as well as conversion of said laser pointer to a setup that could be used in a research-level capacity. To achieve these goals, handheld lasers were disassembled to their component parts, and extensive testing was performed on the maximum capabilities of the laser pointers. Data was collected on the maximum supplied current the laser diode could withstand, the viability of creating a tunable intensity laser and the potential for making a reproducible product. In the testing process, the converted laser pointers were found to be reliable if constrained to a limited current. Additionally, the laser beam was successfully made to have a tunable intensity by varying the supplied current. Additional testing will be performed to determine the lifespan of the converted laser pointer as well as the reproducibility of the project for use in a research setting.
The role of heritage in Australian legal deposit libraries
Creators: name: D'Arcy, Keryn.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Fractal based observables to probe jet substructure of quarks and gluons
Creators: name: Davighi, Joe
name: Harris, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New jet observables are defined which characterize both fractal and scale-dependent contributions to the distribution of hadrons in a jet. These infrared safe observables, named Extended Fractal Observables (EFOs), have been applied to quark-gluon discrimination to demonstrate their potential utility. The EFOs are found to be individually discriminating and only weakly correlated to variables used in existing discriminators. Consequently, their inclusion improves discriminator performance, as here demonstrated with particle level simulation from the parton shower.
description: [v1] 11 pages 4 figures [v2] 13 pages, 5 figures [v3] 9 pages, 7 figures. v2 added comment on how the observable can preserve infrared safety, updated acknowledgement, added diagram about visualization. v3 added comparison of performance in Herwig and Pythia, added comparison between two different EFO fitting functions, and added figure showing dependence on transverse momentum
Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
Creators: name: Catling, David C.
name: Krissansen-Totton, Joshua
name: Kiang, Nancy Y.
name: Crisp, David
name: Robinson, Tyler D.
name: DasSarma, Shiladitya
name: Rushby, Andrew
name: Del Genio, Anthony
name: Bains, William
name: Domagal-Goldman, Shawn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding life on exoplanets from telescopic observations is an ultimate goal of exoplanet science. Life produces gases and other substances, such as pigments, which can have distinct spectral or photometric signatures. Whether or not life is found with future data must be expressed with probabilities, requiring a framework of biosignature assessment. We present a framework in which we advocate using biogeochemical "Exo-Earth System" models to simulate potential biosignatures in spectra or photometry. Given actual observations, simulations are used to find the Bayesian likelihoods of those data occurring for scenarios with and without life. The latter includes "false positives" where abiotic sources mimic biosignatures. Prior knowledge of factors influencing planetary inhabitation, including previous observations, is combined with the likelihoods to give the Bayesian posterior probability of life existing on a given exoplanet. Four components of observation and analysis are necessary. 1) Characterization of stellar (e.g., age and spectrum) and exoplanetary system properties, including "external" exoplanet parameters (e.g., mass and radius) to determine an exoplanet's suitability for life. 2) Characterization of "internal" exoplanet parameters (e.g., climate) to evaluate habitability. 3) Assessment of potential biosignatures within the environmental context (components 1-2) and any corroborating evidence. 4) Exclusion of false positives. The resulting posterior Bayesian probabilities of life's existence map to five confidence levels, ranging from "very likely" (90-100%) to "very unlikely" ($\le$10%) inhabited.
description: Part of a NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) series of 5 papers. V.3 published as an Open Access paper in Astrobiology
The Sandhurst Mechanics' Institute and Free Library 1854-1983
Creators: name: Barker, Donald.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Ecclesiastical Courts of the Archdeaconry of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century
Creators: name: A Pemberton, W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 57, 37-56
description: The archives of ecclesiastical courts, even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when their disciplinary power had almost disappeared, can still supply useful information about the application of canon law, the administration of the church and the religious and social conditions of the age. They are particularly valuable as sources which relate to the activities of church building and reparation.
Cost of remembering a bit of information
Creators: name: Chiuchiù, Davide
name: López-Suárez, Miquel
name: Neri, Igor
name: Diamantini, Maria Cristina
name: Gammaitoni, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1961, Rolf Landauer pointed out that resetting a binary memory requires a minimum energy of $k_BT \ln(2)$. However, once written, any memory is doomed to loose its content if no action is taken. To avoid memory losses, a refresh procedure is periodically performed. In this paper we present a theoretical model and an experiment on a micro-electro-mechanical system to evaluate the minimum energy required to preserve one bit of information over time. Two main conclusions are drawn: i) in principle the energetic cost to preserve information for a fixed time duration with a given error probability can be arbitrarily reduced if the refresh procedure is performed often enough; ii) the Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets an upper bound on the memory lifetime.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
The Parochial Visitation of James Bickham D.D. Archdeacon of Leicester in the Years 1773-1779
Creators: name: A Pemberton, W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 59, 52-72
description: The Established Church of the eighteenth century has received a bad reputation for an excessive somnolence and corruption, and its unspiritual condition could be reflected in the miserable decay into which many cathedrals and parish churches were reported to have fallen. Bishop Fleetwood had declared that: 'Unless the good public spirit of repairing churches should prevail a good deal more than it does at present an hundred years will bring to the ground a huge number of our churches'. Archbishop Secker enumerated: 'Some of the annoyances which must gradually bring our churches to decay ... water is undermining and rotting the foundations; earth is heaped up against the outside walls; weeds and shrubs are growing in the very walls; !he floors are meanly paved; the inside walls are dirty and patched, the windows are ill glazed and in part stopped with rags and straw ... very many of the churches are damp, offensive and unwholesome'. It may, however, be questioned to what extent these criticisms are exaggerated, being mostly generalisations.
The Parochial Inspections of Andrew Burnaby D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester, in the years 1793 to 1797
Creators: name: A Pemberton, W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 63, 48-70
description: Andrew Burnaby, Archdeacon of Leicester from 1786 to 1812, should be accorded a prominent place among his contemporaries and churchmen of succeeding generations for at least three reasons. First he continued and supplemented the important work of James Bickham, his immediate predecessor. Secondly he conducted his inspections when John Nichols was compiling his monumental work. 2 Thirdly, his example may have inspired that most eminent of archdeacons, Thomas Kaye Bonney, to emulate the punctilious discharge of the duties of his office before Parliament had reformed the Church and before the influence of the Tractarian Movement had become effectual.
Magnetic excitations and amplitude fluctuations in insulating cuprates
Creators: name: Chelwani, Nitin
name: Baum, Andreas
name: Böhm, Thomas
name: Opel, Matthias
name: Venturini, Francesca
name: Tassini, Leonardo
name: Erb, Andreas
name: Berger, Helmuth
name: Forró, László
name: Hackl, Rudi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from light scattering experiments on three insulating antiferromagnetic cuprates, YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.05}$, Bi$_2$Sr$_2$YCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$, and La$_2$CuO$_4$ as a function of polarization and excitation energy {using samples of the latest generation. From the raw data we derive symmetry-resolved spectra.} The spectral shape in $B_{1g}$ symmetry is found to be nearly universal and independent of the excitation energy. The spectra agree quantitatively with predictions by field theory [\onlinecite{Weidinger:2015}] facilitating the precise extraction of the Heisenberg coupling $J$. {In addition, the asymmetric line shape on the high-energy side is found to be related to amplitude fluctuations of the magnetization. In La$_2$CuO$_4$ alone minor contributions from resonance effects may be identified.} The spectra in the other symmetries are not universal. The variations may be traced back to weak resonance effects and extrinsic contributions. For all three compounds we find support for the existence of chiral excitations appearing as a continuum in $A_{2g}$ symmetry having an onset slightly below $3J$. In La$_2$CuO$_4$ an additional isolated excitation appears on top of the $A_{2g}$ continuum.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Possible signals of vacuum dynamics in the Universe
Creators: name: Peracaula, Joan Sola
name: Perez, Javier de Cruz
name: Gomez-Valent, Adria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a generic class of time-evolving vacuum models which can provide a better phenomenological account of the overall cosmological observations as compared to the $Λ$CDM. Among these models, the running vacuum model (RVM) appears to be the most motivated and favored one, at a confidence level of $\sim 3σ$. We further support these results by computing the Akaike and Bayesian information criteria. Our analysis also shows that we can extract fair signals of dynamical dark energy (DDE) by confronting the same set of data to the generic XCDM and CPL parametrizations. In all cases we confirm that the combined triad of modern observations on Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, Large Scale Structure formation, and the Cosmic Microwave Background, provide the bulk of the signal sustaining a possible vacuum dynamics. In the absence of any of these three crucial data sources, the DDE signal can not be perceived at a significant confidence level. Its possible existence could be a cure for some of the tensions existing in the $Λ$CDM when confronted to observations.
description: Version accepted for publication in Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. (MNRAS 2018). Title slightly changed. References added
From Good Neighbour to Migrant Resource Centres : an historical perspective
Creators: name: Bransden, Julie Ann.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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