cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coaching for clinical nurse leaders: A mixed methods study
Creators: name: Thompson, Lorraine
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420599
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: This inquiry examined coaching as an approach for supporting and professionally developing clinical nurse leaders within their roles. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was considered appropriate for this study consisting of a quantitative phase at the outset, followed by a qualitative phase.
Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: The ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for new phenomena in events with a high-energy jet and large missing transverse momentum is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Four kinematic regions are explored using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse femtobarn. No excess of events beyond expectations from Standard Model processes is observed, and limits are set on large extra dimensions and the pair production of dark matter particles.
description: 36 pages plus author list (58 pages total), 7 figures, 8 tables, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2011-20/ Revision matches published version
Black Hole spin dependence of general relativistic multi-transonic accretion close to the horizon
Creators: name: Das, Tapas K.
name: Nag, Sankhasubhra
name: Hegde, Swathi
name: Bhattacharya, Sourav
name: Maity, Ishita
name: Czerny, Bozena
name: Barai, Paramita
name: Wiita, Paul J.
name: Karas, Vladimir
name: Naskar, Tapan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a novel formalism to investigate the role of the spin angular momentum of astrophysical black holes in influencing the behaviour of low angular momentum general relativistic accretion. We propose a metric independent analysis of axisymmetric general relativistic flow, and consequently formulate the space and time dependent equations describing the general relativistic hydrodynamic accretion flow in the Kerr metric. The associated stationary critical solutions for such flow equations are provided and the stability of the stationary transonic configuration is examined using an elegant linear perturbation technique. We examine the properties of infalling material for both prograde and retrograde accretion as a function of the Kerr parameter at extremely close proximity to the event horizon. Our formalism can be used to identify a new spectral signature of black hole spin, and has the potential of performing the black hole shadow imaging corresponding to the low angular momentum accretion flow.
description: To appear in New Astronomy. 46 pages. 14 figures
More me: How can a memoirist create a vibrant sequel memoir?
Creators: name: Waters, Irene
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Memoir, the writing of a portion of one or another’s life, is becoming an increasingly popular genre of writing with readers. Writing a sequel to a memoir is relatively uncommon and little research has been carried out on the writing of a sequel or prequel to a first narrative. This thesis consists of a book-length creative artefact, a sequel memoir titled ‘After the Nightmare’, and a reflective exegesis ‘Creating a Compelling Sequel Memoir.’
Exploring the barriers and facilitators of healthy lifestyles and educational responsibilities of registered nurses
Creators: name: Heidke, Penny
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion
classificationCode: 420599
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: Certain health risk behaviours are modifiable by the individual, such as diet, smoking, physical activity and alcohol consumption. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of Registered Nurses’ (RNs) own health risk behaviours and whether these influenced the provision of regular health education to patients. This two phase study used a sequential, mixed methods design. Phase one, involved an online survey distributed to registered nurses in a coastal regional town in Australia. Findings from phase one informed the eight semi-structured interviews obtained in phase two. When compared to the general population, the participants in this study reported a lower levels of smoking and met national guidelines for daily fruit and vegetable intake. In contrast, this group reported higher levels of alcohol consumption and lower levels of exercise. Commonly cited barriers to adhering to healthy lifestyles were shift work, long work hours and family commitments. While participants endorsed the importance of the role of the registered nurse in health education, they were not consistent in providing regular advice. Two themes emerged from the phase two interviews: role modelling and lack of priority. The central tenet is that registered nurses’ own health risk behaviours strongly influence attitudes and education provision but that improving perceived self-efficacy may be helpful in improving nurses’ delivery of healthy lifestyle education to patients at risk of non-communicable diseases. The renewed prioritisation of health promotion and prevention of non-communicable diseases nationwide presents the nursing profession with a prime opportunity to be change agents. A number of recommendations have been made in relation to curriculum, practice and policy. Future research should further explore strategies to support RNs in their health education roles and to become workplace health champions.
A group-galaxy cross-correlation function analysis in zCOSMOS
Creators: name: Knobel, C.
name: Lilly, S. J.
name: Carollo, C. M.
name: Contini, T.
name: Kneib, J. -P.
name: Fevre, O. Le
name: Mainieri, V.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Scodeggio, M.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Bardelli, S.
name: Bolzonella, M.
name: Bongiorno, A.
name: Caputi, K.
name: Cucciati, O.
name: de la Torre, S.
name: de Ravel, L.
name: Franzetti, P.
name: Garilli, B.
name: Iovino, A.
name: Kampczyk, P.
name: Kovac, K.
name: Lamareille, F.
name: Borgne, J. -F. Le
name: Brun, V. Le
name: Maier, C.
name: Mignoli, M.
name: Pello, R.
name: Peng, Y.
name: Montero, E. Perez
name: Presotto, V.
name: Silverman, J.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tasca, L.
name: Tresse, L.
name: Vergani, D.
name: Zucca, E.
name: Barnes, L.
name: Bordoloi, R.
name: Cappi, A.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Coppa, G.
name: Koekemoer, A. M.
name: López-Sanjuan, C.
name: McCracken, H. J.
name: Moresco, M.
name: Nair, P.
name: Pozzetti, L.
name: Welikala, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a group-galaxy cross-correlation analysis using a group catalog produced from the 16,500 spectra from the optical zCOSMOS galaxy survey. Our aim is to perform a consistency test in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.8 between the clustering strength of the groups and mass estimates that are based on the richness of the groups. We measure the linear bias of the groups by means of a group-galaxy cross-correlation analysis and convert it into mass using the bias-mass relation for a given cosmology, checking the systematic errors using realistic group and galaxy mock catalogs. The measured bias for the zCOSMOS groups increases with group richness as expected by the theory of cosmic structure formation and yields masses that are reasonably consistent with the masses estimated from the richness directly, considering the scatter that is obtained from the 24 mock catalogs. An exception are the richest groups at high redshift (estimated to be more massive than 10^13.5 M_sun), for which the measured bias is significantly larger than for any of the 24 mock catalogs (corresponding to a 3-sigma effect), which is attributed to the extremely large structure that is present in the COSMOS field at z ~ 0.7. Our results are in general agreement with previous studies that reported unusually strong clustering in the COSMOS field.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, published in ApJ
Analysing Bangladeshi consumers’ e-commerce security and privacy satisfaction in small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Creators: name: Karim, Shakir
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460911
subject: Inter-organisational, extra-organisational and global information systems

description: The world has entered the new millennium with great hopes. People understand that the world is very clearly changing in new forms of collaboration and interaction. Information Technology, and, in particular, e-commerce is playing a fundamental part in changing the old economy into a rapid new economy for this world. E-commerce has created a massive series of professional prospects for both organizations and entities from emerging countries to market the products and services overseas and earn foreign exchange for the countries. It is a fact that the majority of consumers use the Internet to complete their online buying and selling. Even if people do not directly shop the products online, shoppers believe a trustworthy business must have an e-commerce system. While a significant number of e-commerce systems have been implemented effectively in special areas of business and industry in developed countries, a considerable number have been unsuccessful, especially in small to medium projects. No prior study has been found in the area of e-commerce security and privacy satisfaction of Bangladeshi SMEs.
Combined search for the quarks of a sequential fourth generation
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from a search for a fourth generation of quarks produced singly or in pairs in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. A novel strategy has been developed for a combined search for quarks of the up and down type in decay channels with at least one isolated muon or electron. Limits on the mass of the fourth-generation quarks and the relevant Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements are derived in the context of a simple extension of the standard model with a sequential fourth generation of fermions. The existence of mass-degenerate fourth-generation quarks with masses below 685 GeV is excluded at 95% confidence level for minimal off-diagonal mixing between the third- and the fourth-generation quarks. With a mass difference of 25 GeV between the quark masses, the obtained limit on the masses of the fourth-generation quarks shifts by about +/- 20 GeV. These results significantly reduce the allowed parameter space for a fourth generation of fermions.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
A decision making pathway: Selecting an early childhood education and care centre
Creators: name: Murray, Kathryn
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390409
subject: Learning sciences

description: Decision making is a common occurrence in our lives. Research into the process used by people or groups of people is primarily located in the fields of business, marketing and psychology. However, in the field of education the Decision Making Process (DMP) concerning the selection of an Early Learning Centre (ELC), also called daycare or child care, is largely under researched. This research concerns itself with the decision making process used by parents when selecting an early childhood education and care centre for their child.
Real time to real life: Puppet simulation in health care
Creators: name: Tilbrook, Vanessa
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321399
subject: Paediatrics not elsewhere classified

description: Puppets are used as a medium for learning and teaching, a way to communicate with children and for the purpose of play. Whilst the use of puppets with children in health care is well documented, especially with regards to play therapists and psychologists, little is understood about how nurses use puppets in their practice. Nurses are primarily the ones who engage and deliver clinical and medical care to the sick child in the hospital environment. Hence, effective communication strategies such as puppets could have a positive impact for the child. Understanding the experiences of nurses using puppets in the context of health care delivery including education potentially has merit as there is little known about this phenomenon. The purpose of this study is to explore the paediatric nurse clinicians’ and nurse educators’ experience of integrating puppet simulation in their practice, when they are the operator of the puppet. A descriptive phenomenological approach was adopted to guide this study as it was considered an appropriate design to elicit rich descriptions of the lived experience from the participants themselves. The results from this research identified that as wearers of the puppets both paediatric nurse clinicians and nurse educators were able to maximise learner engagement. The paediatric nurse clinicians perceived that the puppets provided a fun learning experience and reduced fear and anxiety for the child. The puppets not only helped to playfully facilitate communication with children but also to playfully communicate and engage learning and teaching. Understanding the perceptions of paediatric nurse clinicians and nurse educators experience provides an understanding of factors that both enhance and detract from implementing puppets in practice. Such information can be used to guide health care professionals who may wish to use the medium of puppets in their practice.
Decision support system for railway bridge maintenance management
Creators: name: Nielsen, Dwayne
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400508
subject: Infrastructure engineering and asset management

description: Railway bridges and other civil infrastructure perform an essential role in the economy of many developed countries. Railway organisations around the world have been improving rail productivity by increasing axle loads and train speeds on railway lines that were not originally designed for these higher forces. As with other civil structures, bridges deteriorate with age, use and with increased loads, and would eventually become unsafe without adequate maintenance. However, despite the best and most diligent maintenance practices, eventually the bridge condition will reach a point when it may be uneconomical or not practical to conduct routine maintenance and major maintenance alternatives, including bridge replacement or refurbishment, may need to be considered. Therefore, railway organisations are being challenged to find economical solutions to address the issues caused by increased asset degradation, while simultaneously reducing maintenance costs on ageing infrastructure.
Complementarity Endures: No Firewall for an Infalling Observer
Creators: name: Nomura, Yasunori
name: Varela, Jaime
name: Weinberg, Sean J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the complementarity picture, as interpreted as a reference frame change represented in quantum gravitational Hilbert space, does not suffer from the "firewall paradox" recently discussed by Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski, and Sully. A quantum state described by a distant observer evolves unitarily, with the evolution law well approximated by semi-classical field equations in the region away from the (stretched) horizon. And yet, a classical infalling observer does not see a violation of the equivalence principle, and thus a firewall, at the horizon. The resolution of the paradox lies in careful considerations on how a (semi-)classical world arises in unitary quantum mechanics describing the whole universe/multiverse.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; clarifications and minor revisions; v3: a small calculation added for clarification; v4: some corrections, conclusion unchanged
The implementation of Lean thinking in reducing waste, streamlining clinical processes, improving clinical access, efficiency and consumer outcomes in Queensland regional, rural and remote mental health services
Creators: name: Mayahle, Brian
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310404
subject: Evolution of developmental systems

description: Mental health has become a high priority for many countries, including Australia, due to the increasing number of mental health consumers presenting for treatment. The increase in service demand is not being matched with availability of resources world-wide. In line with the current health blue print document that emphasises the need for efficiencies, mental health service managers are under pressure to streamline processes so that consumers will continue to receive the same quality of care despite reduction in funding. A plethora of research demonstrates that business principles are being employed successfully in healthcare organisations; for example, in emergency departments, to improve quality of care, safety of consumers, efficiency in consumer flows, and admission and discharge processes. However, there is a noticeable paucity of research studies conducted in mental health with regards to applying contemporary business principles to reduce waste. This study follows Creswell’s convergent mixed methods design to explore the Lean-inspired improvement efforts in regional, rural and remote Central Queensland mental health services. Several Lean thinking tools were used to ascertain applicability in mental health services in relation to effectiveness in reducing waste and improving mental health consumer outcomes.
Search for a narrow, spin-2 resonance decaying to a pair of Z bosons in the q q-bar l+l- final state
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from a search for a narrow, spin-2 resonance decaying into a pair of Z bosons, with one Z-boson decaying into leptons (e+e- or mu+mu-) and the other into jets. An example of such a resonance is the Kaluza--Klein graviton, G[KK], predicted in Randall--Sundrum models. The analysis is based on a 4.9 inverse femtobarn sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Kinematic and topological properties including decay angular distributions are used to discriminate between signal and background. No evidence for a resonance is observed, and upper limits on the production cross sections times branching fractions are set. In two models that predict Z-boson spin correlations in graviton decays, graviton masses are excluded lower than a value which varies between 610 and 945 GeV, depending on the model and the strength of the graviton couplings.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Cold accretion in early galaxy formation and its Lyman-alpha signatures
Creators: name: Yajima, Hidenobu
name: Li, Yuexing
name: Zhu, Qirong
name: Abel, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lyman-alpha (Lya) emission has played an important role in detecting high-redshift galaxies, including recently distant ones at redshift z > 7. It may also contain important information on the origin of these galaxies. Here, we investigate the formation of a typical L* galaxy and its observational signatures at the earliest stage, by combining a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation with three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations using the newly improved ART^2 code. Our cosmological simulation uses the Aquila initial condition which zooms in onto a Milky Way-like halo with high resolutions, and our radiative transfer couples multi-wavelength continuum, Lya line, and ionization of hydrogen. We find that the modeled galaxy starts to form at redshift z ~ 24 through efficient accretion of cold gas, which produces a strong Lya line with a luminosity of L(Lya) ~ 10^42 erg/s as early as z ~ 14. The Lya emission appears to trace the cold, dense gas. The lines exhibit asymmetric, single-peak profiles, and are shifted to the blue wing, a characteristic feature of gas inflow. Moreover, the contribution to the total Lya luminosity by excitation cooling increases with redshift, and it becomes dominant at z >~ 6. We predict that L* galaxies such as the modeled one may be detected at z
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Unraveling the behavior of amagmatic coastal orogenic geothermal systems using 3D simulations
Creators: name: Carbajal-Martinez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Best poster award for Session 1: Modelling and Imaging of Geothermal Reservoirs, at the European Geothermal PhD Days 2022 at RWTH Aachen, Germany, held from the 27th to 29th April 2022.
When does cyclic dominance lead to stable spiral waves?
Creators: name: Szczesny, Bartosz
name: Mobilia, Mauro
name: Rucklidge, Alastair M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Species diversity in ecosystems is often accompanied by the self-organisation of the population into fascinating spatio-temporal patterns. Here, we consider a two-dimensional three-species population model and study the spiralling patterns arising from the combined effects of generic cyclic dominance, mutation, pair-exchange and hopping of the individuals. The dynamics is characterised by nonlinear mobility and a Hopf bifurcation around which the system's phase diagram is inferred from the underlying complex Ginzburg-Landau equation derived using a perturbative multiscale expansion. While the dynamics is generally characterised by spiralling patterns, we show that spiral waves are stable in only one of the four phases. Furthermore, we characterise a phase where nonlinearity leads to the annihilation of spirals and to the spatially uniform dominance of each species in turn. Away from the Hopf bifurcation, when the coexistence fixed point is unstable, the spiralling patterns are also affected by nonlinear diffusion.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, supplementary material and movies available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.96949, accepted by the EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Secondary school teacher perceptions and experiences of planning time use
Creators: name: Gellion, Stephen
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390306
subject: Secondary education

description: Teachers undertake planning activities at an individual, collegial and whole school level. Existing research into teacher planning has mainly focused on collegial and whole school planning. However, there is limited research into the use of teacher planning time provided to teachers in the Australian secondary school context. This research explored teacher perceptions and experiences of planning time using a sequential mixed method methodology.
Observation of a diffractive contribution to dijet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section for dijet production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented as a function of xi, a variable that approximates the fractional momentum loss of the scattered proton in single-diffractive events. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 2.7 inverse nanobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at low instantaneous luminosities, and uses events with jet transverse momentum of at least 20 GeV. The dijet cross section results are compared to the predictions of diffractive and nondiffractive models. The low-xi data show a significant contribution from diffractive dijet production, observed for the first time at the LHC. The associated rapidity gap survival probability is estimated.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Explainable AI through the lens of Legitimate AI
Creators: name: van der Waa, Jasper
name: Hoekstra, Marissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Explainable AI
XAI
Contestability

description: Explainable AI (XAI) is frequently linked to responsible AI, under the assumption that it allows organisations to implement AI responsibly. However, with AI's growing use in civic settings, the number of people subjected to (partially) automated decisions rises, which should make us question if explanations from a responsible AI perspective would also benefit these subjects. We propose legitimate AI as an alternative and more relevant perspective to guide explainable AI (XAI) research focused on these subjects. If subjects are aided in their judgement of whether an AI is legitimate, they can serve as a societal check if the development and usage of an AI were done responsibly. In addition, explanations supporting that judgment enable them to decide to contest or accept a decision. We outline four aspects of legitimacy and their relevance to XAI, discussing a subject's potential questions for each aspect, highlighting topics that are currently under-explored. This perspective also uncovers the complexity of explanations aimed at empowering subjects, as such explanations need to reveal complex and intertwined topics through limited to no direct interaction.
Improving biometric image watermarking based on sparse approximation and frequency domain transforms
Creators: name: Ben Tarif, Eyad
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460306
subject: Image processing

description: With the rapid growth of web-based applications, digital images can now be distributed much faster and easier, which resulted in the rise of problems such as illegal copying, manipulation, and redistribution of digital multimedia. Given this context, it is imperative to develop effective methods for securing the digital data during transmission. To address the issue, digital watermarking concept has recently been proposed to prevent any illegal usage of the digital data.
Thermal Instability of Protected End States in a 1-D Topological Insulator
Creators: name: Viyuela, O.
name: Rivas, A.
name: Martin-Delgado, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the dynamical thermal effects on the protected end states of a topological insula- tor (TI) when it is considered as an open quantum system in interaction with a noisy environment at a certain temperature T . As a result, we find that protected end states in a TI become unstable and decay with time. Very remarkably, the interaction with the thermal environment (fermion-boson) respects chiral symmetry, which is the symmetry responsible for the protection (robustness) of the end states in this TI when it is isolated from the environment. Therefore, this mechanism makes end states unstable while preserving their protecting symmetry. Our results have immediate practical implications in recently proposed simulations of TI using cold atoms in optical lattices. Accordingly, we have computed lifetimes of topological end states for these physical implementations that are useful to make those experiments realistic.
description: RevTex4 file, color figures, as published version
Understanding transgression in respiratory rate observation collection methods in the Emergency Department: A classic grounded theory analysis
Creators: name: Flenady, Tracy
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420501
subject: Acute care

description: Abnormal respiratory rates are one of the first indicators of clinical deterioration in emergency department patients. Despite the importance of respiratory rate observations, this vital sign is often missing or misrepresented on emergency department observation charts, compromising patient safety. Concurrently, there is a paucity of research reporting why this phenomenon occurs. This research project employed a classic grounded theory analysis of qualitative data with the aim of developing a substantive theory explaining emergency department registered nurses’ reasoning when they miss or misreport respiratory rate observations. Seventy nine registered nurses currently working in emergency departments within Australia provided detailed responses from individual interviews and open ended responses from an online questionnaire. Classic grounded theory research methods were utilised, therefore coding was central to the abstraction of data and its reintegration as theory. The three types of constant comparison synonymous with classic grounded theory methods were employed to code data. This overall approach facilitated the identification of the main concern of the participants from the substantive area of interest, and aided in the generation of theory explaining how the participants processed this issue. The main concern identified was that registered nurses did not want to perform respiratory rate observations at each round, however organizational requirements dictate a value for the respiratory rate be included each time vital signs are collected. The theory ‘Rationalising Transgression’, explains how the participants continually resolve this problem. The study found that despite feeling professionally conflicted, nurses often erroneously record respiratory rate observations, and then rationalise this behaviour by employing several strategies that adjust the significance of the organisational requirement. These strategies include compensating, when nurses believe they are compensating for errant behaviour by adding value to the patient’s outcome. Minimalizing is employed when nurses believe that the patient’s outcome would be no different if they performed and recorded an accurate respiratory rate or not. The Trivialising strategy sanctions negligent behaviour and occurs when nurses ‘cut corners’ to get the job done. This research reveals that despite years of continuing education regarding best practice guidelines for respiratory rate collection, suboptimal practice continues. Ideally, to combat this transgression, a culture shift must occur regarding nurses’ understanding of acceptable practice methods in regards to patient safety. Nurses must receive education in a way that permeates their understanding of the relationship between the regular collection of accurate respiratory rate observations and optimal patient outcomes.
Listener-ship to farmer round table program on unity FM, Abakaliki and attitude of peasant farmers towards innovative agriculture practices in Ebonyi State , Nigeria.
Creators: name: Obi, Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: Globally, radio is recognized as one of the potent tools for rapid development of all sectors of the economy including agriculture, its potentiality and pivotal roles cannot be over-emphasized. The study therefore appraised the Audience Listenership to Farmers’ Round Table Agricultural Programme on Radio Nigeria, Unity Fm, Abakaliki. The paper was hinged on Development Media Theory. Survey research method was adopted and a population of one hundred and eighty-six residents of Abakaliki metropolis was randomly sampled. One of the major findings in the study was that, the programme Farmers’ Round Table on UnityFm, Abakaliki was strategic in its contribution to agricultural transformation in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, especially among the youths. The researchers therefore recommended that: The Ebonyi State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, FADAMA III and other local and international agricultural donor agencies should collaborate to reactivate the star agricultural programme which has gone into extinction due to lack of sponsorship.
Three-dimensional spacetimes of maximal order
Creators: name: Milson, Robert
name: Wylleman, Lode
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C50

description: We show that the equivalence problem for three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds requires at most the fifth covariant derivative of the curvature tensor. We prove that this bound is sharp by exhibiting a class of 3D Lorentzian manifolds which realize this bound. The analysis is based on a three-dimensional analogue of the Newman-Pen-rose formalism, and spinorial classification of the three-dimensional Ricci tensor.
description: final revisions
Presburger arithmetic, rational generating functions, and quasi-polynomials
Creators: name: Woods, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.3; G.2.1; F.2.2
subject: 05A15, 52C07, 03B25

description: Presburger arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with addition (but no multiplication). We characterize sets that can be defined by a Presburger formula as exactly the sets whose characteristic functions can be represented by rational generating functions; a geometric characterization of such sets is also given. In addition, if p=(p_1,...,p_n) are a subset of the free variables in a Presburger formula, we can define a counting function g(p) to be the number of solutions to the formula, for a given p. We show that every counting function obtained in this way may be represented as, equivalently, either a piecewise quasi-polynomial or a rational generating function. Finally, we translate known computational complexity results into this setting and discuss open directions.
description: revised, including significant additions explaining computational complexity results. To appear in Journal of Symbolic Logic. Extended abstract in ICALP 2013. 17 pages
Mungabah: A rural romance novel and exegesis
Creators: name: Taylor, Kristy
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: This Masters by research consists of a rural romance novel called Mungabah, and an accompanying exegesis. The novel is set in remote south western Queensland in the contemporary period and evolves through the life of Kylie, effectively a lost city girl from Brisbane who unsuspectingly inherits a large run-down farm and homestead in the country and who is also betrayed by her boyfriend boss in the city. Love develops between Kylie and a good looking farm hand called Jack, though this is not straight forward because they could be related. In the country Kylie flounders as she finds herself completely out of her depth in rural life, but gradually finds her feet and makes herself an integral part of the community, gaining a better understanding of herself and finding love along the way. The rural romance sub-genre has become very popular amongst both writers and readers in Australia yet the sub-genre and reasons for its popularity remain underrepresented in the scholarly literature (Flesch 2004; Fletcher 2013). Situating my study within this gap in the literature, my aim in the exegesis is to explain how I have created a novel that applies inventive ways to incorporate pair-bonding and social issues into the narrative and plot, while concurrently respecting the integrity of romance as a genre with its core set of conventions around the protagonists’ quest for ‘true love’. Mirmohamadi (2015) argues that ‘the burgeoning genre of Australian rural romance novels...shares significant and defining generic features with romance fiction...it also reworks conventional forms to address current socio-historical conditions in rural Australia’. Advancing the innovation of the romance genre means challenging the established tacit ‘rules’ of the form as well as challenging the normative tendencies traditionally reinforced in the genre. Using the practice-led research methodology and drawing on literary theory and the essential elements of published Australian rural romance novels, the exegesis explains how my artefact innovates on the form and content of the Australian rural romance by subverting some of the tropes used in rural romances. This Masters makes an original contribution to the existing scholarly knowledge of rural romance novels and the application of its generic attributes to a creative artefact.
An exploration of social workers’ professional identities within health settings in Queensland
Creators: name: McNamara, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440901
subject: Clinical social work practice
classificationCode: 440902
subject: Counselling, wellbeing and community services

description: Social workers make up a significant number of the professionals and are key members of multidisciplinary teams employed within the health sector in Queensland. Shifting government priorities such as increased governance, managerialism, privatisation and marketisation of the health sector in Queensland are consistently shaping health service delivery. These are subsequently reflected in the delivery of social work services in this context. This has prompted an exploration of how social workers develop and maintain their professional identity when working amidst the presence of medical dominance and evolving neoliberal ideology that underpin the operation of health services within Queensland.
Search for exclusive or semi-exclusive photon pair production and observation of exclusive and semi-exclusive electron pair production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for exclusive or semi-exclusive photon pair production, pp to p(*) + photon pair + p(*) (where p(*) stands for a diffractively-dissociated proton), and the observation of exclusive and semi-exclusive electron pair production, pp to p(*) + ee + p(*), in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, are presented. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC at low instantaneous luminosities. Candidate photon pair or electron pair events are selected by requiring the presence of two photons or a positron and an electron, each with transverse energy ET > 5.5 GeV and pseudorapidity abs(eta) < 2.5, and no other particles in the region abs(eta) < 5.2. No exclusive or semi-exclusive diphoton candidates are found in the data. An upper limit on the cross section for the reaction pp to p(*) + photon pair + p(*), within the above kinematic selections, is set at 1.18 pb at 95% confidence level. Seventeen exclusive or semi-exclusive dielectron candidates are observed, with an estimated background of 0.85 +/- 0.28 (stat.) events, in agreement with the QED-based prediction of 16.3 +/- 1.3 (syst.) events.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Antiferromagnetic Spin Ice Correlations at (1/2,1/2,1/2) in the Ground State of the Pyrochlore Magnet Tb2Ti2O7
Creators: name: Fritsch, K.
name: Ross, K. A.
name: Qiu, Y.
name: Copley, J. R. D.
name: Guidi, T.
name: Bewley, R. I.
name: Dabkowska, H. A.
name: Gaulin, B. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-resolution single crystal time-of-flight neutron scattering measurements on the candidate quantum spin liquid pyrochlore Tb2Ti2O7 at low temperature and in a magnetic field. At ~70 mK and in zero field, Tb2Ti2O7 reveals diffuse magnetic elastic scattering at (1/2,1/2,1/2) positions in reciprocal space, consistent with short-range correlated regions based on a two-in, two-out spin ice configuration on a doubled conventional unit cell. This elastic scattering is separated from very low-energy magnetic inelastic scattering by an energy gap of ~0.06-0.08 meV. The elastic signal disappears under the application of small magnetic fields and upon elevating temperature. Pinch-point-like elastic diffuse scattering is observed near (1,1,1) and (0,0,2) in zero field at ~70 mK, in agreement with Fennell et al. (Ref. 1), supporting the quantum spin ice interpretation of Tb2Ti2O7.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. Replaced previous version with now published version with corrected figure 5
Myhill-Nerode methods for hypergraphs
Creators: name: van Bevern, René
name: Downey, Rodney G.
name: Fellows, Michael R.
name: Gaspers, Serge
name: Rosamond, Frances A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.1.1; F.2.2; F.4.2; G.2.1; G.2.3
subject: 68Q45

description: We give an analog of the Myhill-Nerode methods from formal language theory for hypergraphs and use it to derive the following results for two NP-hard hypergraph problems: * We provide an algorithm for testing whether a hypergraph has cutwidth at most k that runs in linear time for constant k. In terms of parameterized complexity theory, the problem is fixed-parameter linear parameterized by k. * We show that it is not expressible in monadic second-order logic whether a hypergraph has bounded (fractional, generalized) hypertree width. The proof leads us to conjecture that, in terms of parameterized complexity theory, these problems are W[1]-hard parameterized by the incidence treewidth (the treewidth of the incidence graph). Thus, in the form of the Myhill-Nerode theorem for hypergraphs, we obtain a method to derive linear-time algorithms and to obtain indicators for intractability for hypergraph problems parameterized by incidence treewidth. In an appendix, we point out an error and a fix to the proof of the Myhill-Nerode theorem for graphs in Downey and Fellow's book on parameterized complexity.
description: A preliminary version of this article appeared in the proceedings of ISAAC 2013. This extended and revised version contains the full proof details, more figures, and corollaries to make the application of the Myhill-Nerode theorem for hypergraphs easier in an algorithmic setting. Moreover, it provides a fix to the proof of the Myhill-Nerode theorem for graphs in the books of Downey and Fellows
New States of Gauge Theories on a Circle
Creators: name: Azuma, Takehiro
name: Morita, Takeshi
name: Takeuchi, Shingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a one-dimensional large-N U(N) gauge theory on a circle as a toy model of higher dimensional Yang-Mills theories at finite temperature. To investigate the profile of the thermodynamical potential in this model, we evaluate a stochastic time evolution of several states, and find that an unstable confinement phase at high temperature does not decay to a stable deconfinement phase directly. Before it reaches the deconfinement phase, it develops to several intermediate states. These states are characterised by the expectation values of the Polyakov loop operators, which wind the temporal circle different times. We reveal that these intermediate states are the saddle point solutions of the theory, and similar solutions exist in a wide class of SU(N) and U(N) gauge theories on S^1 including QCD and pure Yang-Mills theories in various dimensions. We also consider a Kaluza-Klein gravity, which is the gravity dual of the one-dimensional gauge theory on a spatial S^1, and show that these solutions may be related to multi black holes localised on the S^1. Then we present a connection between the stochastic time evolution of the gauge theory and the dynamical decay process of a black string though the Gregory-Laflamme instability.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, related movies are on http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~azuma/multi_cut/index.html; v2: minor corrections; v3: minor corrections, to appear in JHEP
Average Characteristic Polynomials of Determinantal Point Processes
Creators: name: Hardy, Adrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the average characteristic polynomial $\mathbb E\big[\prod_{i=1}^N(z-x_i)\big] $ where the $x_i$'s are real random variables which form a determinantal point process associated to a bounded projection operator. For a subclass of point processes, which contains Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles and Multiple Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles, we provide a sufficient condition for its limiting zero distribution to match with the limiting distribution of the random variables, almost surely, as $N$ goes to infinity. Moreover, such a condition turns out to be sufficient to strengthen the mean convergence to the almost sure one for the moments of the empirical measure associated to the determinantal point process, a fact of independent interest. As an application, we obtain from a theorem of Kuijlaars and Van Assche a unified way to describe the almost sure convergence for classical Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles. As another application, we obtain from Voiculescu's theorems the limiting zero distribution for multiple Hermite and multiple Laguerre polynomials, expressed in terms of free convolutions of classical distributions with atomic measures.
description: 26 pages
Bogoliubov theory on the disordered lattice
Creators: name: Gaul, Christopher
name: Müller, Cord A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum fluctuations of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in disordered lattices are studied by inhomogeneous Bogoliubov theory. Weak-disorder perturbation theory is applied to compute the elastic scattering rate as well as the renormalized speed of sound in lattices of arbitrary dimensionality. Furthermore, analytical results for the condensate depletion are presented, which are in good agreement with numerical data.
description: 10 pages, contributed to Lyon BEC 2012
G. Hirschfeld, G. Krumeich, D. Langewiesche, H.-P. Ullmann (Hg.), Kriegserfahrungen. Studien zur Sozial- und Mentalitätsgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, 1997
Creators: name: Spivak, M.
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (1999)