cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Squeezing-enhanced measurement sensitivity in a cavity optomechanical system
Creators: name: Kerdoncuff, Hugo
name: Hoff, Ulrich B.
name: Harris, Glen I.
name: Bowen, Warwick P.
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the theoretical limits to squeezing-enhanced measurement sensitivity of mechanical motion in a cavity optomechanical system. The motion of a mechanical resonator is transduced onto quadrature fluctuations of a cavity optical field and a measurement is performed on the optical field exiting the cavity. We compare measurement sensitivities obtained with coherent probing and quantum-enhanced probing of the mechanical motion, i.e. the coherent probe field carries vacuum states and quadrature squeezed vacuum states at sideband frequencies, respectively. We find that quantum-enhanced probing provides little to no improvement in motion sensing for resonators in the unresolved sideband regime but may significantly increase measurement sensitivities for resonators in the resolved sideband regime.
Competition for the use of fishery resources in Anderson Inlet : balancing the exploitation of the aquatic living resources with the protection of the estuarine ecosystem
Creators: name: Smith, Geoffrey H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Estimating the speed-up of Adaptively Restrained Langevin Dynamics
Creators: name: Trstanova, Zofia
name: Redon, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Adaptively Restrained Langevin dynamics, in which the kinetic energy function vanishes for small velocities. Properly parameterized, this dynamics makes it possible to reduce the computational complexity of updating inter-particle forces, and to accelerate the computation of ergodic averages of molecular simulations. In this paper, we analyze the influence of the method parameters on the total achievable speed-up. In particular, we estimate both the algorithmic speed-up, resulting from incremental force updates, and the influence of the change of the dynamics on the asymptotic variance. This allows us to propose a practical strategy for the parametrization of the method. We validate these theoretical results by representative numerical experiments.
Management techniques for the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) in eastern Victoria
Creators: name: Marks, Clive A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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القدرة التنافسية لقطاع السياحة والأسفار في الجزائر
Creators: name: خلوفي, سفيان
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tourism economics

description: هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى تحليل مؤشرات القدرة التنافسية لقطاع السياحة والسفر في الجزائر وفقا لما جاءت به المنظمة العالمية للسياحية والسفر في تقاريرها السنوية لسنتي 2015 و2017، وكذا الوقوف على أداء قطاع السياحة والسفر في الجزائر، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن القدرة التنافسية لقطاع السياحة والسفر لأي بلد تتجسد في أربعة مؤشرات رئيسية هي: البيئة التمكينية، الظروف والسياسات التمكينية، البنية التحتية، الموارد الطبيعية والثقافية. حيث تتمتع الجزائر بمقومات سياحية متنوعة وثرية، لكن ضعف الخدمات السياحية وقلة البنية التحتية المرتبة بالنشاط السياحي، وعدم اعتبار القطاع السياحي من الأولويات، كان عائقا أمام الدولة لتحقيق الأهداف المرجوة من هذا القطاع، وأوصت الدراسة في الأخير بضرورة دعم القطاع السياحي واعتباره من الأولويات، والسعي وراء تحقيق تكامل بين القدرات التنافسية للسياحة والسفر، لاسيما فيما تعلق بالبنية التحتية والخدمات السياحية وتوفير الأمن والسلامة والصحة، وصولا إلى الاستدامة البيئية والمحافظة على الموارد الطبيعية والثقافية، حتى تتماشى والقدرة التنافسية السعرية التي تتمتع بها الجزائر مقارنة مع دول العالم، واستغلالها كميزة لقطاع السياحة والسفر في الجزائر. This study aims to analyze the competitiveness indicators of the tourism and travel sector in Algeria according to the World Travel and Tourism Organization in its annual reports for the years 2015 and 2017, as well as the performance of tourism and travel sector in Algeria. The study concluded that the competitiveness of travel and tourism sector In four key indicators: enabling environment, enabling conditions and policies, infrastructure, natural and cultural resources. Where Algeria enjoys a variety of tourist resources and rich, but the weakness of tourism services and the lack of infrastructure ranked tourism activity, not to consider the tourism sector a priority, was a barrier to the State to achieve the desired goals of this sector, and recommended the study in the latter need to support the tourism sector and a priority, To integrate tourism and travel competitiveness, especially in relation to infrastructure and tourism services, and to provide security, safety and health, to environmental sustainability and conservation of natural and cultural resources, so that the competitiveness of the price Of which Algeria enjoys Mqarndta with the countries of the world, and exploit an advantage for travel and tourism in Algeria.
FACT - The first Cherenkov telescope using a G-APD camera for TeV gamma-ray astronomy
Creators: name: Anderhub, H.
name: Backes, M.
name: Biland, A.
name: Boller, A.
name: Braun, I.
name: Bretz, T.
name: Commichau, S.
name: Commichau, V.
name: Domke, M.
name: Dorner, D.
name: Gendotti, A.
name: Grimm, O.
name: Hildebrand, D.
name: Horisberger, U.
name: Köhne, J.-H.
name: Krähenbühl, T.
name: Kranich, D.
name: Krumm, B.
name: Lorenz, E.
name: Lustermann, W.
name: Mannheim, K.
name: Neise, D.
name: Pauss, F.
name: Renker, D.
name: Rhode, W.
name: Ribordy, M.
name: Rissi, M.
name: Röser, U.
name: Stark, L. S.
name: Stucki, J.-P.
name: Tibolla, O.
name: Viertel, G.
name: Vogler, P.
name: Von Gunten, H.
name: Warda, K.
name: Weitzela, Q.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cherenkov telescope
subject: Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (G-APD)
subject: ground-based gamma-ray astronomy
subject: instrumentation
subject: 004

description: Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiodes (G-APD) bear the potential to significantly improve the sensitivity of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). We are currently building the First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) by refurbishing an old IACT with a mirror area of 9.5 square meters and are constructing a new, fine-pixelized camera using novel G-APDs. The main goal is to evaluate the performance of a complete system by observing very high energy gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula. This is an important field test to check the feasibility of G-APD-based cameras to replace at some time the PMT-based cameras of planned future IACTs like AGIS and CTA. In this article, we present the basic design of such a camera as well as some important details.
description: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A ; Volume 639, Issue 1
Green consumerism : help or hindrance? : Victoria's Green Spot campaign ; a case study in the social deconstruction of green consumerism
Creators: name: Sickert, Christine A. M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Galactic Nova Rate Revisited
Creators: name: Shafter, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite its fundamental importance, a reliable estimate of the Galactic nova rate has remained elusive. Here, the overall Galactic nova rate is estimated by extrapolating the observed rate for novae reaching $m\leq2$ to include the entire Galaxy using a two component disk plus bulge model for the distribution of stars in the Milky Way. The present analysis improves on previous work by considering important corrections for incompleteness in the observed rate of bright novae and by employing a Monte Carlo analysis to better estimate the uncertainty in the derived nova rates. Several models are considered to account for differences in the assumed properties of bulge and disk nova populations and in the absolute magnitude distribution. The simplest models, which assume uniform properties between bulge and disk novae, predict Galactic nova rates of $\sim$50 to in excess of 100 per year, depending on the assumed incompleteness at bright magnitudes. Models where the disk novae are assumed to be more luminous than bulge novae are explored, and predict nova rates up to 30% lower, in the range of $\sim$35 to $\sim$75 per year. An average of the most plausible models yields a rate of $50_{-23}^{+31}$ yr$^{-1}$, which is arguably the best estimate currently available for the nova rate in the Galaxy. Virtually all models produce rates that represent significant increases over recent estimates, and bring the Galactic nova rate into better agreement with that expected based on comparison with the latest results from extragalactic surveys.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 18 pages, 10 figures; analysis expanded to include nova rate estimates and uncertainties based on Monte Carlo simulations
الالتزام بأخلاقيات التسويق من أجل ترسيخ مفهوم المسؤولية الاجتماعية في منظمات الأعمال
Creators: name: خلوفي, سفيان
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Corporate social responsibility
Service marketing
Social marketing

description: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى توضيح دور أخلاقيات التسويق في ترسيخ مفهوم المسؤولية الاجتماعية في المؤسسات، من خلال ضبطها لقيمها الأخلاقية كالأمانة والعدل والوضوح والمواظبة أثناء أدائها لنشاطها التسويقي، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن أخلاقيات التسويق ترتبط بالمسؤولية الاجتماعية بشكل كبير من خلال تجسيدها لإطار تسويقي قائم على آليات وأنشطة تسويقية مسؤولة وأخلاقية، حسب نتائج الدراسة التطبيقية التي تمت عن طريق تقديم استبيان الكتروني لعدد من المستهلكين الجزائريين (مستوى جامعي)، باستخدام (Google Drive) و(facebook)، وأوصت الدراسة في الأخير بضرورة الالتزام بالصدق والأمانة والعدل في التعاملات مع مختلف الأطراف، والابتعاد عن تضليل المستهلكين والتمييز بينهم، من أجل مؤسسة مسؤولة وأخلاقية. This study aims at clarifying the role of marketing ethics in establishing the concept of social responsibility in the institutions by controlling their ethical values such as honesty, justice, clarity and persistence while performing their marketing activities. The study concluded that marketing ethics are largely related to social responsibility, Mechanisms and marketing activities are responsible and ethical, according to the results of the applied study which was conducted by submitting an electronic questionnaire to a number of Algerian consumers (students and university professors) using Google Drive and Facebook. The study recommended the need to adhere to honesty, honesty and fairness in dealing with different parties and to avoid misleading and discriminating consumers for a responsible and ethical institution.
A framework for testing leptonic unitarity by neutrino oscillation experiments
Creators: name: Fong, Chee Sheng
name: Minakata, Hisakazu
name: Nunokawa, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If leptonic unitarity is violated by new physics at an energy scale much lower than the electroweak scale, which we call low-scale unitarity violation, it has different characteristic features from those expected in unitarity violation at high-energy scales. They include maintaining flavor universality and absence of zero-distance flavor transition. We present a framework for testing such unitarity violation at low energies by neutrino oscillation experiments. Starting from the unitary 3 active plus $N$ (arbitrary integer) sterile neutrino model we show that by restricting the active-sterile and sterile-sterile neutrino mass squared differences to $\gtrsim$ 0.1 eV$^2$ the oscillation probability in the $(3+N)$ model becomes insensitive to details of the sterile sector, providing a nearly model-independent framework for testing low-scale unitarity violation. Yet, the presence of the sterile sector leaves trace as a constant probability leaking term, which distinguishes low-scale unitarity violation from the high-scale one. The non-unitary mixing matrix in the active neutrino subspace is common for the both cases. We analyze how severely the unitarity violation can be constrained in $ν_{e}$-row by taking a JUNO-like setting to simulate medium baseline reactor experiments. Possible modification of the features of the $(3+N)$ model due to matter effect is discussed to first order in the matter potential.
description: Updated to match the published version in JHEP. Added section 5.3 on current constraints on unitarity violation. Added analysis for the case of reactor neutrino flux uncertainty of 6% in section 5
Engineering a squeezed phonon reservoir with a bichromatic driving of a quantum dot
Creators: name: Gao, Bo
name: Li, Gao-xiang
name: Ficek, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how an acoustic phonon bath when coupled to a quantum dot with the help of a bichromatic laser field may effectively form a quantum squeezed reservoir. This approach allows to achieve an arbitrary degree of squeezing of the effective reservoir and it incorporates the properties of the reservoir into two parameters, which can be controlled by varying the ratio of the Rabi frequencies of the bichromatic field. It is found that for unequal Rabi frequencies, the effective reservoir may appear as a quantum squeezed field of ordinary or inverted harmonic oscillators. When the Rabi frequencies are equal the effective reservoir appears as a perfectly squeezed field in which the decay of one of the polarization quadratures of the quantum dot dipole moment is inhibited. The decay of the quantum dot to a stationary state which depends on the initial coherence is predicted. This unusual result is shown to be a consequence of a quantum-nondemolition type coupling of the quantum dot to the engineered squeezed reservoir. The effect of the initial coherence on the steady-state dressed-state population distribution and the fluorescence spectrum is discussed in details. The complete polarization of the dressed state population and asymmetric spectra composed of only a single Rabi sideband peak are obtained under strictly resonant excitation.
description: Published version
An Investigation of Decentralization and Development in Gozamin Wereda of East Gojjam -Amhara Regional State
Creators: name: Yimer, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: This study attempts to investigate the contribution of decentralization for local development in Gozamin Wereda (District) of East Gojjam Zone Administration in the Amhara Regional State in Ethiopia. The study presents the contribution of decentralization in promoting local development. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed to collect the data for the study. The instruments used to collect the data are survey questionnaire, interview and focus group discussion. Primary and secondary data were collected from different actors of development in the Wereda as well as official reports and documents were consulted from Gozamin Wereda sector offices. The analysis was supported by literature, legal and official documents. The Major findings focused on health, education, agricultural extension services and political powers of local Councils and their duties were depicted as follows. On average, the services in health, education and agricultural extension have increased by 35%, 5% and 6% respectively during the last eight years. The community participation in socio-economic development activities has increased by an average of 22% during the last consecutive eight years, and their major contribution were focused on cash, material and labor for the construction of health centers, schools, farmer training centers, potable water points and rural roads. The study reveals that the kind of services that were provided to each Kebele is unbalanced and it differs from Kebele to Kebele due to the capacity of Kebele leaders in mobilizing human and financial resources. The Wereda administration is dependent on the state grants to cover their expenditure needs. As a matter of fact, Gozamin Wereda receives 87% of the expenditure needs from the Regional Government, while 13% of the expenditure need is collected from the Wereda. Decentralization enables and increases the involvement of the community in political and development issues. On the other hand, the study reveals that there is no space for participation of different political parties at both the Kebele and the Wereda levels. This results in the lack of debate on policy issues and policy alternatives from political opponents that is in favor of the people. The study also presents evidences that the powers and duties of Kebele and Wereda Councils are very weak to decide on issues under their jurisdiction because of the dominance of the executives at the Kebele and Wereda levels
Effect of Changing Input Prices on Net Farm Income of Typical Cash Grain, Wheat and Cotton Farms with Alternative Target Prices
Creators: name: Brown, W. H.
name: Brown, W. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 establishes target prices for feed grain, wheat and cotton. The target price levels for 1974 and 1975 are specified in the Act. For 1976 and 1977 target prices are to be adjusted to reflect changes during the previous calendar year in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes and wage rates. Target prices are also to be adjusted for changes in yields, using a 3 year moving average. The purpose of this analysis is to estimate the effects of continued changes in prices paid and alternative price specifications on net farm income of selected representative farms. The three farms include an Illinois cash grain farm, a Kansas wheat farm and a Mississippi Delta cotton farm.
Trail bike noise and its connotations as a source of annoyance to recreational groups on Forests Commission land
Creators: name: Dellora, Gary B. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The need to establish whether present day environmental levels of lead are producing harmful physiological effects
Creators: name: Dalton, Norman Morris.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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PetroSurf3D - A Dataset for high-resolution 3D Surface Segmentation
Creators: name: Poier, Georg
name: Seidl, Markus
name: Zeppelzauer, Matthias
name: Reinbacher, Christian
name: Schaich, Martin
name: Bellandi, Giovanna
name: Marretta, Alberto
name: Bischof, Horst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The development of powerful 3D scanning hardware and reconstruction algorithms has strongly promoted the generation of 3D surface reconstructions in different domains. An area of special interest for such 3D reconstructions is the cultural heritage domain, where surface reconstructions are generated to digitally preserve historical artifacts. While reconstruction quality nowadays is sufficient in many cases, the robust analysis (e.g. segmentation, matching, and classification) of reconstructed 3D data is still an open topic. In this paper, we target the automatic and interactive segmentation of high-resolution 3D surface reconstructions from the archaeological domain. To foster research in this field, we introduce a fully annotated and publicly available large-scale 3D surface dataset including high-resolution meshes, depth maps and point clouds as a novel benchmark dataset to the community. We provide baseline results for our existing random forest-based approach and for the first time investigate segmentation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on the data. Results show that both approaches have complementary strengths and weaknesses and that the provided dataset represents a challenge for future research.
description: CBMI Submission; Dataset and more information can be found at http://lrs.icg.tugraz.at/research/petroglyphsegmentation/
The Assessment of 20/80 Condominium Housing Projects in Addis Ababa: the Case of Bole and Akaky Kaliti Sub Cities
Creators: name: Dejen, Guesh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of the study was to assess 20/80 condominium housing projects in Addis Ababa. Mixed methods with quantitative and qualitative approach were applied as a methodology to address the research questions. Data was collected through semi structured questionnaire distributed to 160 purposively selected respondents, with10 key informant interviews were conducted and secondary data was collected from various sources. The data collected was analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The techniques used to analyze data were frequency and percentage using Microsoft excels. The major findings indicated that the status and realities of condominium housing projects calls for collaboration of the public and private sector at large because the government capacity is very limited in providing adequate houses though it promised to build many condominium housing to the society. Regarding to this, there are many problems concerning to the client such as problem in selection of competent consultants and reliable contractors, absence of good methods and systems in purchasing and finance, slow speed in decision making, poor planning and controlling, lack of leadership skills of project manager, poor coordination and communication with stakeholders, and lack of sense of ownership and degradation of moral obligation. With regard to the consultant, there is lack of knowledge and experience, poor management and difficulty in controlling contractors, poor coordination and communication with the project stakeholders, slow response regarding to testing and inspection, lack of commitment to ensure construction work according to specification and design. Depending on the contractors lack of experience and technical profession, poor planning and scheduling, Insufficient coordination and communication, lack of leadership quality, less commitment, wastage of resources around the project sites, construction mistakes and defective works. In conclusion the weakness of the client, consultants and contractors affects the time, budget and quality of the project of condominium housing. Due to this result the projects could not achieve beyond half of their objectives. The study recommends that the private sector and the society at large are very important in construction of condominium housing, so government should open different alternatives to build houses in quantity and quality by employing the capacity of the public and private sector to match the demand with supply of housing
Infrared Photoemission from a Pure Gold Surface: Validation of the Lucky-Electron Model
Creators: name: Fabre, J. L.
name: Guizard, S.
name: Martin, Ph.
name: Palianov, P.
name: Pisani, F.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Users' attitudes to low-level ionizing radiation
Creators: name: Din, Abdul Kadir bin Haji.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Weakly Supervised PatchNets: Describing and Aggregating Local Patches for Scene Recognition
Creators: name: Wang, Zhe
name: Wang, Limin
name: Wang, Yali
name: Zhang, Bowen
name: Qiao, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional feature encoding scheme (e.g., Fisher vector) with local descriptors (e.g., SIFT) and recent convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are two classes of successful methods for image recognition. In this paper, we propose a hybrid representation, which leverages the discriminative capacity of CNNs and the simplicity of descriptor encoding schema for image recognition, with a focus on scene recognition. To this end, we make three main contributions from the following aspects. First, we propose a patch-level and end-to-end architecture to model the appearance of local patches, called {\em PatchNet}. PatchNet is essentially a customized network trained in a weakly supervised manner, which uses the image-level supervision to guide the patch-level feature extraction. Second, we present a hybrid visual representation, called {\em VSAD}, by utilizing the robust feature representations of PatchNet to describe local patches and exploiting the semantic probabilities of PatchNet to aggregate these local patches into a global representation. Third, based on the proposed VSAD representation, we propose a new state-of-the-art scene recognition approach, which achieves an excellent performance on two standard benchmarks: MIT Indoor67 (86.2\%) and SUN397 (73.0\%).
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Code and model available at https://github.com/wangzheallen/vsad
Population density, crowding and human pathology in Melbourne
Creators: name: Dunstan, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Simulating the Impact of X-ray Heating during the Cosmic Dawn
Creators: name: Ross, Hannah E.
name: Dixon, Keri L.
name: Iliev, Ilian T.
name: Mellema, Garrelt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Upcoming observations of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization will soon provide the first direct detection of this era. This signal is influenced by many astrophysical effects, including long range X-ray heating of the intergalactic gas. During the preceding Cosmic Dawn era the impact of this heating on the 21-cm signal is particularly prominent, especially before spin temperature saturation. We present the largest-volume (349\,Mpc comoving=244~$h^{-1}$Mpc) full numerical radiative transfer simulations to date of this epoch that include the effects of helium and multi-frequency heating, both with and without X-ray sources. We show that X-ray sources contribute significantly to early heating of the neutral intergalactic medium and, hence, to the corresponding 21-cm signal. The inclusion of hard, energetic radiation yields an earlier, extended transition from absorption to emission compared to the stellar-only case. The presence of X-ray sources decreases the absolute value of the mean 21-cm differential brightness temperature. These hard sources also significantly increase the 21-cm fluctuations compared the common assumption of temperature saturation. The 21-cm differential brightness temperature power spectrum is initially boosted on large scales, before decreasing on all scales. Compared to the case of the cold, unheated intergalactic medium, the signal has lower rms fluctuations and increased non-Gaussianity, as measured by the skewness and kurtosis of the 21-cm probability distribution functions. Images of the 21-cm signal with resolution around 11~arcmin still show fluctuations well above the expected noise for deep integrations with the SKA1-Low, indicating that direct imaging of the X-ray heating epoch could be feasible.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
The housing market in Melbourne : an economic overview
Creators: name: Dunkley, Bryce Clifford.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Presentation at the AESIS Annual Conference - Society plus Science equals Impact
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Citizen Science
Public Engagement
Societal Impact

description: The 2022 Impact of Science Conference was held in Leiden -- the 2022 European City of Science -- with three days of focus on stimulating societal impact of science by building stronger, long-term structures for knowledge and data exchange, as well as Public-Private collaboration. The need for science to tackle challenges our world faces is not a new phenomenon, but has increasingly grown on a global scale, with the world facing pandemics, environmental changes and societal struggles. Policymakers, businesses and other societal actors are increasingly aware of the value of scientific data and knowledge to support them in overcoming challenges, but in many cases the interaction between worlds is not structured or stable enough. For the 10th time in a row AESIS organised their annual conference on Societal Impact of Science, to bring together stakeholders in- and outside of the science eco-system to engage with each other on the most effective approaches for implementing policies, strategies, methods and tools to optimise societal impact of science and evaluate success. https://aesisnet.com/events/impactofscience2022.html This talk took place during the opening plenary session, the focus of which was on the role of science and research in society, and the changing relationship between science and society, especially in current times. The aim of the opening plenary sessions was to provide a high level view of current developments/strategies/policies/practices that aid the impact of science in society and provide a foundational basis for the later parallel sessions rather than going into specific or practical details (which is mostly for parallel sessions). The aim of this talk was to emphasise the importance of engaging with the community to co-produce knowledge, how citizen science and community engagement moves us towards the democratisation of knowledge production, best practices in engaging citizens in science, and/or the work being done at Citizen Science Lab.
Explicit construction of local conserved operators in disordered many-body systems
Creators: name: O'Brien, T. E.
name: Abanin, Dmitry A.
name: Vidal, Guifre
name: Papić, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence and character of local integrals of motion -- quasi-local operators that commute with the Hamiltonian -- encode valuable information about the dynamics of a quantum system. In particular, strongly disordered many-body systems can generically avoid thermalisation when there are extensively many such operators. In this work, we explicitly construct local conserved operators in $1$D spin chains by directly minimising their commutator with the Hamiltonian. We demonstrate the existence of an extensively large set of local integrals of motion in the many-body localised phase of the disordered XXZ spin chain. These operators are shown to have exponentially decaying tails, in contrast to the ergodic phase where the decay is (at best) polynomial in the size of the subsystem. We study the algebraic properties of localised operators, and confirm that in the many-body localised phase they are well-described by "dressed" spin operators.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Casi palmo de la risa. A corpus-based study of a Spanish constructional idiom with the causal preposition de
Creators: name: Ivorra Ordines, Pedro
name: Mellado Blanco, Carmen
Publisher: name: Constructions
Year: 2023

description: This study deals with the analysis of the mesoconstruction [V{bodily_reaction} de DET N{emotion/somatic_reaction_physiological_need}], whose constructional meaning can be paraphrased as ‘experience N{emotion/somatic_reaction_physiological_need} in its highest degree’. This intensifying semi-schematic construction conforms a continuum with the [V de NG] causative construction, with which it is related through a vertical relation of metaphorical extension (Goldberg 1995). To carry out this corpus-based study (esTenTen18, Sketch Engine) the slots fillers emoción ‘emotion’, risa ‘laugh’ and susto ‘scare’ where chosen, which correspond to N{emotion/somatic_reaction_physiological_need}. With this study, a twofold goal is pursued. First, to demonstrate that each of the three constructional idioms licensed by the [V{bodily_reaction} de DET N{emotion/somatic_reaction_physiological_need}] meso-construction tends to license very few types with high token frequency and a high degree of idiomaticity. The rest of the types, however, with lower token frequency, are intrinsically related to the meaning of the prototypical meaning, forming a “cognitive core”, which is revealed as specific to each bodily sensation/reaction analyzed (emoción, risa, susto). Second, to show that in the continuum between the causative construction and the intensifying construction, the instances licensed by the latter tend to exhibit both projectors and triggers of the intensifying meaning. These are contextual elements that can be found in the most immediate syntagmatic profile of the construction and its pragmatic function is in harmony with the intensifying meaning of the instances in which these appear. In addition to these formal elements, there are also logic-semantic traits that point to the intensifying meaning. In this way, those verbal slot fillers alluding to very unlikely or impossible human actions or reactions, such as se despezona de la risa ‘break off with laughter’, are clear indicators of a non-literal (causative) meaning but intensifying. Second,
description: Constructions, Bd. 15 Nr. 1 (2023): Special Issue "35 Years of Constructions" (Editors: Lotte Sommerer & Stefan Hartmann)
From control to prevention : the future of cleaner production in Victoria
Creators: name: Coulthard, Nicole.
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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Effects of Livestock Enterprises, Farm Size, Crop Yields, and Prices on Optimal Organization and Net Returns on Farms, Western Central Kansas - Area III
Creators: name: Nauheim, Charles W.
name: Ericksen, Milton H.
name: Nauheim, Charles W.
name: Ericksen, Milton H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Labor and Human Capital
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the Summary: Our objectives were to: (1) estimate supply response for wheat and feed grains, resource use, and net returns for specified farm situations with various price relationships for wheat and feed grains; (2) aggregate the response for a representative farm to obtain an area supply response function; (3) compare and analyze the resource use, and net returns for the specified farm situations (including those with various combinations of livestock, three farm sizes, and three levels of crop yields.) Linear programming was used to determine the optimal organization of crop and livestock enterprises that would maximize net returns for each farm situation with no government acreage restrictions or price supports, but with specified constraints on livestock enterprises. Feed grain price levels (same as corn) were set at $.80, $.94, and $1.21 per bushel, with no support programs. Wheat prices, parametrically programmed, ranged from $.80 to $3.00 per bushel,--which recognized that the price of wheat can and often does move independently of feed grain and livestock prices. Prices of other crops and of livestock were held constant, except that for one farm situation beef cattle prices also were varied from $15.20 to $39.34 per cwt., with wheat and feed grain prices all parametrically programmed.
description: In Cooperation with Department of Economics, Agricultural Experiment Station, Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Kansas. Study results for the western part of Central Kansas (Area III) reported in this publication, were developed under Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Project No. 5919 and Economics Research Service Project No. FE 9-23.
Linear and quadratic in temperature resistivity from holography
Creators: name: Ge, Xian-Hui
name: Tian, Yu
name: Wu, Shang-Yu
name: Wu, Shao-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new black hole solution in the asymptotic Lifshitz spacetime with a hyperscaling violating factor. A novel computational method is introduced to compute the DC thermoelectric conductivities analytically. We find that both the linear-T and quadratic-T contributions to the resistivity can be realized, indicating that a more detailed comparison with experimental phenomenology can be performed in this scenario.
description: 1+26 pages, 2 figures, major revision; perturbation of the auxiliary field considered; a new method was developed to compute the dc conductivities; published in JHEP
Sex in the Australian labour market : the role of women in employment and trade unions
Creators: name: Rich, Judith.
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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Cancer LncRNA Census reveals evidence for deep functional conservation of long noncoding RNAs in tumorigenesis.
Creators: name: Carlevaro-Fita, Joana
name: Lanzós, Andrés
name: Feuerbach, Lars
name: Hong, Chen
name: Mas-Ponte, David
name: Pedersen, Jakob Skou
name: Group, PCAWG Drivers and Functional Interpretation
name: Johnson, Rory
name: Consortium, PCAWG
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics

description: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a growing focus of cancer genomics studies, creating the need for a resource of lncRNAs with validated cancer roles. Furthermore, it remains debated whether mutated lncRNAs can drive tumorigenesis, and whether such functions could be conserved during evolution. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, we introduce the Cancer LncRNA Census (CLC), a compilation of 122 GENCODE lncRNAs with causal roles in cancer phenotypes. In contrast to existing databases, CLC requires strong functional or genetic evidence. CLC genes are enriched amongst driver genes predicted from somatic mutations, and display characteristic genomic features. Strikingly, CLC genes are enriched for driver mutations from unbiased, genome-wide transposon-mutagenesis screens in mice. We identified 10 tumour-causing mutations in orthologues of 8 lncRNAs, including LINC-PINT and NEAT1, but not MALAT1. Thus CLC represents a dataset of high-confidence cancer lncRNAs. Mutagenesis maps are a novel means for identifying deeply-conserved roles of lncRNAs in tumorigenesis.
Hairy black holes and the endpoint of AdS$_4$ charged superradiance
Creators: name: Dias, Oscar J. C.
name: Masachs, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct hairy black hole solutions that merge with the anti-de Sitter (AdS$_4$) Reissner-Nordström black hole at the onset of superradiance. These hairy black holes have, for a given mass and charge, higher entropy than the corresponding AdS$_4$-Reissner-Nordström black hole. Therefore, they are natural candidates for the endpoint of the charged superradiant instability. On the other hand, hairy black holes never dominate the canonical and grand-canonical ensembles. The zero-horizon radius of the hairy black holes is a soliton (i.e. a boson star under a gauge transformation). We construct our solutions perturbatively, for small mass and charge, so that the properties of hairy black holes can be used to testify and compare with the endpoint of initial value simulations. We further discuss the near-horizon scalar condensation instability which is also present in global AdS$_4$-Reissner-Nordström black holes. We highlight the different nature of the near-horizon and superradiant instabilities and that hairy black holes ultimately exist because of the non-linear instability of AdS.
description: 41 pages, 6 figures. v2: Minor changes to match published version
Impact of Government Banking Policies on Private Banks Competitiveness in Ethiopia From 1994-2015
Creators: name: Bezabih, Eskinder
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This study is intended to review impact government banking policies and directives on private bank competitiveness from year 1994 to 2015. The study is done with the main objective of assessing effects of regulations on resource mobilization and allocation decisions of these private banks. To do so, the study employed qualitative research approach in order to get better and deep information. Besides, both primary and secondary data sources were used to examine the issue under discussion. To this end, review of different secondary data was administered. In addition, to better triangulate the study findings, interview with key informants was held. Drawing documentary study and data from the primary sources, various issues of government policies and directives was assessed. The study found out that despite progress, Private Banks in Ethiopia have challenges from government policies and directives which hinder their competitiveness. The empirical results show that, there is no equal playing field between private and state owned banks, to begin with, the NBE Bill is applicable only to private banks, Secondly public sector offices and enterprises are forced to work with CBE and also resources for condominium housing was mobilized only by the public owned CBE, so, this unequal treatment of private and state owned banks negatively affected private banks. Thus, government bodies should revisit some directives issued on private banks, encourage the participation of the private banks so as to play a vital role in the economy and private commercial banks should strive to expand and grow since, their share is significant in terms of branch networks and capital
Voronoizellen diskreter Punktmengen
Creators: name: Voigt, Ina Kirsten
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Vornoizellen
subject: Lokal endlich erzeugte Punktmenge
subject: Richtungskegel
subject: Konvexe Hülle
subject: Polyeder
subject: Voronoi cell
subject: Locally finitely generated discrete point set
subject: Direction cone
subject: Convex hull
subject: Polyhedron
subject: 510

description: In dieser Arbeit wird eine Charakterisierung derjenigen diskreten Punktmengen angegeben, für die gilt, dass alle Voronoizellen Polyeder (bzw. Polytope) sind. Dazu wird der Begriff einer lokal endlich erzeugten diskreten Punktmenge eingeführt. Desweiteren wird der Rand der konvexen Hülle einer diskreten Punktmenge näher untersucht und geometrisch beschrieben.
description: This thesis gives a characterization of those discrete point sets which exhibit the property that all its Voronoi cells are polyhedra (resp. polytopes). To do this we introduce the term of locally finitely generated discrete point sets. Furthermore we investigate the boundary of the convex hull of a discrete point set and give a geometrical description.
Search for anomalous quartic $ZZγγ$ couplings in photon-photon collisions
Creators: name: Köksal, M.
name: Arı, V.
name: Senol, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-couplings of the electroweak gauge bosons are completely specified by the non-Abelian gauge nature of the Standard Model (SM). The direct study of these couplings provides a significant opportunity to test the validity of the SM and the existence of new physics beyond the SM up to the high energy scale. For this reason, we investigate the potential of the processes $γγ\rightarrow ZZ$, $e^{-}γ\rightarrow e^{-}γ^{*}γ\rightarrow e^{-}Z\, Z$ and $e^{+}e^{-} \rightarrow e^{+}γ^{*} γ^{*} e^{-} \rightarrow e^{+}\, Z\, Z\, e^{-}$ to examine the anomalous quartic couplings of $ZZγγ$ vertex at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) with center-of-mass energy $3$ TeV. We calculate $95\%$ confidence level sensitivities on the dimension-8 parameters with various values of the integrated luminosity. We show that the best bounds on the anomalous $\frac{f_{M2}}{Λ^{4}}$, $\frac{f_{M3}}{Λ^{4}}$, $\frac{f_{T0}}{Λ^4}$ and $\frac{f_{T9}}{Λ^4}$ couplings arise from $γγ\rightarrow ZZ$ process among those three processes at center-of-mass energy of 3 TeV and integrated luminosity of $L_{int}=2000$ fb$^{-1}$ are found to be $[-3.30;3.30]\times 10 ^{-3}$ TeV$^{-4}$, $[-1.20;1.20]\times 10 ^{-2}$ TeV$^{-4}$, $[-3.40;3.40]\times 10 ^{-3}$ TeV$^{-4}$ and $[-1.80;1.80]\times 10 ^{-3}$ TeV$^{-4}$, respectively.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, 2 Tables, published version