cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Iran and the West: a non-Western approach.
Creators: name: ANDREW THOMAS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This project attempts to draw attention to non-Western foreign policy perspectives in the field of international relations (IR), focusing on Iran as a case study. This study looks to the Iranian case as a prime example of a state that is often the subject of foreign policy analysis, but rarely considered in the context of Iranian identity and perspective. The complexity of the Iranian political character as both nation and state makes its relationship with Western powers an ideal case that could benefit from more investigation in a non-Western context. The ultimate goal of this project is to potentially offer a greater understanding of Iran’s foreign policy character and provide another contribution to the growing call for more consideration of non-Western thought and authorship.
Heat, temperature and Clausius inequality in a model for active brownian particles
Creators: name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
name: Puglisi, Andrea
name: Maggi, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methods of stochastic thermodynamics and hydrodynamics are applied to the a recently introduced model of active particles. The model consists of an overdamped particle subject to Gaussian coloured noise. Inspired by stochastic thermodynamics, we derive from the system's Fokker-Planck equation the average exchanges of heat and work with the active bath and the associated entropy production. We show that a Clausius inequality holds, with the local (non-uniform) temperature of the active bath replacing the uniform temperature usually encountered in equilibrium systems. Furthermore, by restricting the dynamical space to the first velocity moments of the local distribution function we derive a hydrodynamic description where local pressure, kinetic temperature and internal heat fluxes appear and are consistent with the previous thermodynamic analysis. The procedure also shows under which conditions one obtains the unified coloured noise approximation (UCNA): such an approximation neglects the fast relaxation to the active bath and therefore yields detailed balance and zero entropy production. In the last part, by using multiple time-scale analysis, we provide a constructive method (alternative to UCNA) to determine the solution of the Kramers equation and go beyond the detailed balance condition determining negative entropy production.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure. Major changes in the text. 1 figure has been replaced
Herbert Siebner and Karl Spreitz: In Retrospect
Creators: name: Winchester Galleries (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Karl, Spreitz
subject: Art
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815177
subject: Art--Exhibitions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815239
subject: Siebner, Herbert, 1925-
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/135345

description: Pamphlet for exhibition featuring Karl and Herbert Siebner, titled "In Retrospect", produced by Winchester Galleries in Victoria, B.C. Front cover of pamphlet: "Uschie" (1949) by Siebner; back cover of pamphlet: "Brothers on a Bike 2" (n.d.) by Spreitz.
For a safe and prosperous future for all, we must bring focus onto the global commons
Creators: name: Policy Labs, Frontiers
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Climate Change Processes
Science Policy
Research, Science and Technology Policy

description: Are the climate talks and COP (Conference of Parties) processes failing humanity? Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-president of The Club of Rome, recently warned that we are both failing on the Paris Agreement and to deliver action at the speed and scale necessary to avert the worst effects of global warming. She urges the United Nations to shift gears and radically transform the COP process, to ensure a safe and just future for humanity. If we’re going to avoid failure on climate, then safeguarding the global commons must be a focus. 

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(200874) Esther Hooper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Intelligente Transportsystemer
Creators: name: Kildebogaard, Jan
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Workshop ved Trafikdage 2014, 26. august 2014
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Improvising Space
Creators: name: CHARLES MACINNES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: Performing Arts

description: The thesis expands the role of improvisation in the contemporary art music ensemble. A folio of original compositions is presented, and the works were written based on a framework of instructions and actions that arose from research into compositional techniques from the 1950s.
Aspects of Die Design for the Electromagnetic Sheet Metal Forming Process
Creators: name: Baumann, I.
name: Beerwald, C.
name: Brosius, A.
name: Kleiner, M.
name: Risch, D.
name: Tillmann, W.
name: Vogli, E.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: electromagnetic sheet metal forming
subject: physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
subject: tool design
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Within the electromagnetic sheet metal forming process, workpiece velocities of more than 300m/s can occur, causing typical effects when forming into a die, which will be described and discussed in the present paper. These effects make numerous demands regarding the die design. In order to analyze these requirements, experimental as well as numerical investigations have been carried out. Thereby, special focus is put on the possibilities to accomplish these requirements, which are discussed in the following.
Linear Convergence of Projection Algorithms
Creators: name: Dao, Minh N.
name: Phan, Hung M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49M27, 65K10 (Primary) 47H09, 49J52, 49M37, 65K05, 90C26 (Secondary)

description: Projection algorithms are well known for their simplicity and flexibility in solving feasibility problems. They are particularly important in practice due to minimal requirements for software implementation and maintenance. In this work, we study linear convergence of several projection algorithms for systems of finitely many closed sets. The results complement contemporary research on the same topic.
Projekt Cykeljakken
Creators: name: Lahrmann, Harry
name: Madsen, Jens Christian Overgaard
name: Kidholm, Tanja
name: Olesen, Anne Vingaard
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Dette projekts hypotese er, at cyklisters sikkerhed kan forbedres ved at øge deres synlighed i trafikbilledet. I projektet er denne hypotese undersøgt ved at teste, om en cykeljakke med høj synlighed (farve og reflekser) øger cyklisters sikkerhed. Projektet er gennemført som et randomiseret forsøg, hvor 6.800 frivillige cyklister har fået en cykeljakke. Efter tilfældig udvælgelse fik halvdelen – testgruppen – cykeljakken med det samme, og lovede at køre med jakken, hver gang de cyklede i det år, projektet varede. Den anden halvdel udgjorde en såkaldt kontrolgruppe, som først fik cykeljakken, da projektperioden var omme. I løbet af året blev alle deltagere hver måned spurgt, om de siden sidst havde været involveret i et trafikuheld som cyklist. Da året var gået, blev antallet af uheld, som hver af de to grupper havde været involveret i, talt op. Forskellen mellem uheldstallet i de to grupper er et estimat på den sikkerhedsmæssige effekt af cykeljakken. På en tilfældig dag i hver måned blev testgruppen også spurgt, om de havde jakken på, sidst de cyklede, og anvendelsesgraden blev på denne måde målt til 77 %. De selvrapporterede uheld viste, at testgrup- pen havde 38 % færre personskadeuheld med andre trafikanter – såkaldte flerpartsuheld – end gruppen, der ikke brugte cykeljakke. Ses alene på uheld mellem deltagerne og motorkøretøjer, er forskellen på 48 %. Forskellene er statistisk signifikante på 5 % niveau. I testgruppen rapporterede 37 % af de uheldsimplicerede, at de ikke havde cykeljakken eller anden pangfarvet beklædningsgenstand på, da uheldet skete.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Translating 'Controversy' Methodology for the Translation of Controversial Texts Exemplified through 'Hate Hallyu: The Comic'
Creators: name: ADAM ANTONI ZULAWNIK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200312 Japanese Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: 200316 Korean Language

description: This thesis presents a new approach for the translation of controversial and visual media exemplified through the translation of the Japanese graphic novel (manga) 'Manga Kenkanryu' (Hate Hallyu: The Comic). The thesis discusses the translation of politically controversial terms from the context of Japan-South Korea relations.
Trafiksikkerhed i kryds med dobbeltrettede cykelstier
Creators: name: Buch, Thomas Skallebæk
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Følgende artikel præsenterer en undersøgelse af trafiksikkerheden i vigepligtsregulerede kryds, hvor en dobbeltrettet cykelsti løber langs vej og skærer et krydsben. I undersøgelsen indgår 776 vej-stikryds fordelt på 17 kommuner med i alt 384 uheld, hvor mindst én part har benyttet den dobbeltrettede cykelsti. På baggrund af krydsregistreringer, uheldstal og trafiktællinger er uheldsfrekvenser samt uhelds- og personskademodeller udarbejdet. Modellerne er estimeret ved regressionsanalyse på baggrund af trafik- og designvariable, og de er opstillet som en negativ binomialfordelt log-link funktion. Det er sikrest at udføre vej-stikryds i to plan. For stitrafikanterne er der en høj grad af ”safety in numbers”. Vej-stikryds i ét plan er sikrest, når stitrafikken er pålagt vigepligt, og der er mindst 6 meter mellem sti og nærmeste kørespor for ligeudkørende trafik på primærvejen. Er vejtrafikken pålagt vigepligt, er det en fordel, at der er en vigelinje både før vej-stikrydset og vej-vejkrydset. Hvis der ikke er plads til dette, skal stien helst placeres tættest muligt på primærvejen. Synliggørelse af stiforløbet ved hjælp af stiplet midtlinje på sti, farvet cykelfelt og vigepligtstavler øger antallet af uheld.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Eulichas bertiae Jach 1995
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas bertiae

description: Eulichas bertiae Jäch, 1995
(Figs. 2, 26, 46, 66)
Eulichas bertiae Jäch, 1995: 374 (original description, Rég. de Pin-Fa); Jäch & Hájek 2006: 455 (catalogue).
Type locality. “Rég. de Pin-Fa (= Pingba, Anshun Prefecture, ca. 50 km SW Guiyang City, Guizhou, southern China).”
Type material. 5 specimens — Holotype 3 (MNHN): “MUSEUM PARIS / KOUY-TSCHÉOU / RÉG. DE PIN-FA / PÈRE CAVALERIE 1909 [printed] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [printed] // HOLOTYPE / Eulichas / bertiae sp.n. / des. M. Jäch 1994 [red label, printed]”. Paratypes: 13, same data as holotype (NHMW); 233 1Ƥ, “Suisapa, 1000 M. / Lichuan Distr. / W. Hupeh, China / VIII-30-48 // Gressitt & / Djou Collrs. [printed]” (NHMW).
Additional material studied. 3 specimens — CHINA: 13, Fujian prov., Kuatun [= Guadun], 7.ix. [19]46, Tschung-Sen leg. (MNHN); 13, Hubei prov., Lao-ho-k’ou Pr. [Laohekou distr.], Tsch’ia-yuenkow, G. Hauser leg. (ZMHB); 13, Hunan prov., Wulingyuan, N Dayong, Zangjiajie, 450 m, 30.x.1993, H. Schillhammer leg. (NHMW).
Description. Habitus elongate, fusiform. Body colouring black, rarely dark brown. Pale part of setation consists of recumbent yellowish or greyish setae forming rather indistinct ocellations on pronotum, elytra and abdominal sternites (Fig. 2).
Measurements. Males: 20–24 mm; female: 25 mm.
Head punctation consists of sparse moderately large setigerous punctures. Antenna long, slender, last antennomere almost rectangular, with apical elongation of variable length, ca. 3.60–4.64 times as long as wide (Fig. 26), its ventral side smooth.
Pronotum trapezoidal, ca. 1.85–1.95 times as wide as long. Sides of rather variable shape; in some specimens almost regularly rounded (Fig. 46). On the other hand some specimens have sides skewed and straight in anterior half, subparallel in basal half, with an indistinct obtuse angle present near the middle. Disc with two oval shallow depressions. Punctation consists of sparse moderately coarse setigerous punctures on the disc, which become slightly coarser and denser laterally.
Elytra with numerous longitudinal rows of moderately large punctures, and fine interstitial setigerous punctures.
Ventral part with fine punctures, which are sparse medially and become larger and denser laterally. Last abdominal ventrite laterally regularly rounded to apex.
Male. Aedeagus with phallobase slightly shorter than parameres. Parameres simple, relatively broad. Subbasal parameral hook small, but the subapical hook is well developed and prominent. Median lobe narrowly lanceolate (Fig. 66).
Female. Similar to male in habitus, but larger. Antenna shorter, and more slender.
Distribution. Known from several localities in southern and south-eastern China (Fujian, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan).
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří, 2009, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) II. E. dudgeoni species group, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2192 on pages 15-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189396
High Power Semiconductor Devices and Solid State Switches for Pulsed Discharge Applications
Creators: name: Fleischmann, W.
name: Welleman, A.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: high current
subject: high di/dt
subject: semiconductor device
subject: solid state switch
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Based on long term experience, collected mainly with military applications like Rail Guns and Active Armour, a range of optimized semiconductor devices for pulsed applications was developed by ABB Switzerland Ltd and described in this presentation. The presented devices are optimized for pulsed discharge and fit very well for switching the short but high electrical power demand used for magnetic forming. Devices are available in different versions with silicon wafer diameters up to 120 mm and blocking voltages of over 6500V. Because of the different application requirements a differentiation is made in device technology. Depending on the discharge circuit, devices for low, medium, or high di/dt can be selected and the difference in advantages and disadvantages between both technologies will be described. To minimize the inductance between switching device and freewheeling diode, ABB can integrate this diode monolithic on the switching wafer. These so called reverse conducting devices are very common for magnetic forming applications. Thyristor structures are commercially available up to 8500V with 120 mm silicon wafers and GTO-like structures are available up to 4500V with 91 mm silicon wafers. For higher voltages or higher currents a combination of devices in series and/or parallel connection is required. The presentation will also describe the evolution of complete discharge switching modules in the range of 10kV / 50 kJ, a large discharge system of 21kV / 200kA, and a newly designed high current switch in the range of 15kV / 3MJ. The solid state switch solutions offered today and those shown in the presentation are based on a standard platform of components existing already for several years. For reliability reasons it is of great importance that the switch assemblies for high current pulsed applications are designed in cooperation with the device manufacturer who has in-depth knowledge of the switching behavior of the semiconductor components under pulsed conditions. The advantage of a complete switch assembly is that the whole unit can be tested under application conditions. ABB has a test capability up to 65 kV and 85 kJ stored energy.
Linear Stability of the Non-Extreme Kerr Black Hole
Creators: name: Finster, Felix
name: Smoller, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is proven that for smooth initial data with compact support outside the event horizon, the solution of every azimuthal mode of the Teukolsky equation for general spin decays pointwise in time.
description: 66 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, minor improvements (published version)
The caryatid and Persian portico in historical context: the Erechtheion korai, Vitruvian imperium and Renaissance rediscovery
Creators: name: McDonald, Lee C.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The iconographic discrepancy between the punitive nature of the Vitruvian caryatid and the benign deportment of its Ancient Greek predecessors has long been the subject of academic debate. Although the Erechtheion korai clearly defy the Roman architect’s retributive symbolism some scholars persist in their attempts to bestow a Vitruvian interpretation upon them. Other scholars recognise the folly of this approach but argue that the invalidity of this retrospective application of the De architectura explanation negates Vitruvius’ credibility in regard to all depictions of caryatids. This thesis seeks to assert the validity of the Vitruvian perception of the Caryatid and Persian Portico stories through its consideration of the specific historical context from which it originated. It is argued that the Roman adaptation of the Greek originals deliberately transformed these motifs into political symbols of Augustan propaganda. The Persian Portico story has escaped the controversy experienced by its female counterpart because its historical validity can be verified by ancient texts and the monument constructed in the Spartan Agora in the fifth century BC. In lieu of similar validation for a caryatid equivalent attention understandably focussed upon known examples, but when considered within the specific historical context of Classical Athens, the Erechtheion korai can be removed from their Vitruvian connotation and given a new identification as historical exemplars. This thesis also examines the Renaissance archaeological rediscovery of the caryatid and investigates written and artistic sources such as Cesariano’s 1521 Vitruvian commentary and Raphael’s Stanza d’Eliodoro basamento, which demonstrate the continuing duality of the caryatid’s significance as a punitive and benign symbol within a new historical context. Whilst the penal servitude of the Persian Portico remained constant over two millennia it is argued in this thesis that Ancient Roman and Renaissance artists substituted the Spartan foe for their own.
Krydsløsninger for cyklister
Creators: name: Osmann Madsen, Tanja Kidholm
name: Bahnsen, Chris
name: Jørgensen, Anders
name: Moeslund, Thomas B.
name: Olesen, Anne Vingaard
name: Lahrmann, Harry
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Antallet af uheld mellem svingende motorkøretøjer og ligeudkørende cyklister i signalregulerede kryds stiger, når der etableres cykelstier, men noget tyder på, at nogle former for krydsudformninger er bedre end andre. Formålet med dette projekt er at undersøge sikkerheden for en række forskellige cykelstiudformninger i signalregulerede kryds med henblik på at kunne beskrive løsningernes relative sikkerhedsniveau ved forskellige trafikmængder og derigennem undersøge, hvornår de forskellige løsninger skal anvendes for at forbedre cyklisternes sikkerhed. Det gøres gennem et konfliktstudie, hvor potentielle konflikter detekteres med et nyudviklet videoanalyseværktøj, der kan tælle trafikken og tidsstemple interessante hændelser i trafikken. Selv om resultatet ikke er statistisk signifikant, tyder meget på, at udformningen Fremført rød cykelsti med forskudt passage er sikrere end de øvrige undersøgte løsninger. Undersøgelsen indikerer også, at en højresvingspil giver mange konflikter, hvis der stadig er højresvingende køretøjer, når grønfasen begynder.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Corporate Ingression - A New Approach to Contemporary Anglophone Postcolonial Literature
Creators: name: LIANNE MARGARETHA VAN KRALINGEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Literature

description: This research in literary and cultural studies has developed a new approach to reading postcolonial literature, named ‘corporate ingression.’ I have analysed three English literary texts by looking at how they explore the influence of corporate power over local communities worldwide and throughout time. Corporate ingression describes, firstly, how a major corporation can influence the social, economic and political structure of a community, and secondly, how it can influence the culture of such a society. In my research I show how this concept is relevant for analysing the communities and processes these novels explore.
Magnetic Pulse Acceleration
Creators: name: Gafri, O.
name: Izhar, A.
name: Livshitz, Y.
name: Shribman, V.
Publisher: name: Institut für Umformtechnik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: electromagnetic forming
subject: high speed testing methods
subject: process modeling
subject: verification
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: The present work is dedicated to describing works in the spheres of simulation, calculation, and experimental results of acceleration by pulsed electromagnetic forces where strain rates of 10,000 - 50,000 s^(-1) are common. The goal is to design a multidisciplinary model that will overcome the shortcomings of normal simulation methods that solve the EM field and then apply the solution in a mechanical analysis. Improved numeric models for virtual simulation of magnetic pulse processes are detailed, along with the pulse-power equipment and a special measurement system developed to verify these models and to determine material property data. These measure both radial velocity and axial speed (collision-point progression) for tube forming and / or welding processes, while logging the pulse current and magnetic field. The results show good a correlation between test and multiphysics model and provide valuable new insights, as well as an extraction of critical parameters by way of a comparison between calculated and measured data for materials such as aluminum alloys, copper, and steel.
Justice Reinvestment: Reimagining Criminal Justice Policy
Creators: name: KATE SHERRY BURNS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160504 Crime Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Justice reinvestment was originally developed as a policy to reduce incarceration rates by investing existing corrections funds into communities most impacted by incarceration. This qualitative research examines justice reinvestment as a concept and explores the conditions that led to justice reinvestment emerging as a criminal justice policy and program in two jurisdictions. Using case studies from Greater Manchester (United Kingdom) and Louisiana (United States) this research explores how the conceptualisation of justice reinvestment translates into criminal justice policy and practice.
Complete conservative dynamics for inspiralling compact binaries with spins at the fourth post-Newtonian order
Creators: name: Levi, Michèle
name: Steinhoff, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we complete the spin-dependent conservative dynamics of inspiralling compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian order, and in particular the derivation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-squared interaction potential. We derive the physical equations of motion of the position and the spin from a direct variation of the action. Further, we derive the quadratic-in-spin Hamiltonians, as well as their expressions in the center-of-mass frame. We construct the conserved integrals of motion, which form the Poincaré algebra. This construction provided a consistency check for the validity of our result, which is crucial in particular in the current absence of another independent derivation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-squared interaction. Finally, we provide here the complete gauge-invariant relations among the binding energy, angular momentum, and orbital frequency of an inspiralling binary with generic compact spinning components to the fourth post-Newtonian order. These high post-Newtonian orders, in particular taking into account the spins of the binary constituents, will enable to gain more accurate information on the constituents from even more sensitive gravitational-wave detections to come.
description: 23 pages, published
Infrastructure and spatial effects on the frequency of cyclist-motorist collisions in the Copenhagen region
Creators: name: Prato, Carlo G.
name: Kaplan, Sigal
name: Rasmussen, Thomas K.
name: Hels, Tove
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Promoting cycling aims at reducing congestion and pollution and encouraging healthy and sustainable lifestyles, but generally clashes with the perception of crash risk while riding a bicycle that is still the most significant disincentive to cycling. The current study analyzed the factors contributing to increase crash risk while riding a bicycle by focusing on the variation of 5349 cyclist-motorist collisions within 269 traffic zones in the Copenhagen Region. The model controlled for traffic exposure for both bicycles and motorized transport modes, evaluated the effects of infrastructure and socio-economic characteristics of the zones, and accounted for heterogeneity and spatial correlation across the zones. A Poisson-lognormal model with second-order CAR priors confirmed the existence of the safety in numbers phenomenon, contradicted previous literature about bicycle facilities not being helpful in reducing crash risk, highlighted the need for Copenhagen-style bicycle paths especially in suburban areas, and emphasized how heterogeneity and spatial correlation play a significant role in explaining the probability of cyclist-motorist crash occurrence.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Increasing Physical Activity for Young People With cerebral Palsy in Specialist Schools
Creators: name: Lee Cleary, Stacey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Thesis with publications.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport, School of Allied Health College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
D8.2 Dissemination, Communication and Collaboration Plan and Activities V1
Creators: name: Pellumbaj, Ada
name: Trochidis, Ilias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dissemination
communication
collaboration
AI
public policy
policymaking

description: “D8.2 Dissemination, Communication and Collaboration Plan and Activities V1” describes the AI4PublicPolicy dissemination and communication strategy, elaborating on the incentives, objectives, methodology, tools, channels and evaluation methods identified as most suitable for implementing the strategy, within the framework of “WP8 Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardization”. The strategy integrates dissemination and communication actions and assesses their impact with KPIs, while ensuring the visibility, dissemination and exploitation of the progress and findings of AI4PublicPolicy across the project’s target groups and audiences. The project’s 36- month strategy will be regularly updated based on a SMART approach (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely and targeted) to ensure that each action focuses on the interests and needs of the stakeholder groups.
title: ‘A Sleeping Mechanism’ for the time being?
title: Media accountability online in Bulgaria
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Glowacki, Michal
Publisher: name: MediaAcT/Erich Brost Institute
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Accountability
subject: Bulgaria
subject: Ethics
subject: Europe
subject: Journalism
subject: Media
subject: Online
subject: Responsiveness
subject: Social Media
subject: Transparency
subject: Internet
subject: 070
subject: Bulgarien
subject: Glaubwürdigkeit
subject: Journalismus
subject: Massenmedien
subject: Soziale Software

description: This report summarizes the main tendencies related to the current discussions on selfregulation and media ethics in Bulgaria, in an era of social change and technological development. On the basis of available literature and the interviews conducted with Bulgarian media scholars, experts and practitioners in Sofia (November 2010) several trends have been observed. The paper deals with the cultural, social and political contexts, the level of journalistic professionalization, as well as the effectiveness and legitimacy of existing media accountability and transparency institutions. An in-depth analysis of the development of new media platforms and Internet users’ culture helps to define some of most significant examples of external and internal practices, strategies and cases maintaining media accountability and transparency innovations in the online space. The research on the usage of social networks and blogs, as well as on practices fostering actor and production transparency and the level of media responsiveness underlines the current stage and future scenario of the evolution of system making Bulgarian media organizations accountable and transparent.
description: MediaAcT Working Paper;1/2011
Phase mixing importance for both Landau instability and damping
Creators: name: Santos, Daniel
name: Elskens, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the self-consistent dynamics of plasmas by means of hamiltonian formalism for a system of $N$ near-resonant electrons interacting with a single Langmuir wave. The connection with the Vlasov description is revisited through the numerical calculation of the van Kampen-like eigenfrequencies of the linearized dynamics for many degrees of freedom. Both the exponential-like growth as well as damping of the Langmuir wave are shown to emerge from a phase mixing effect among beam modes, revealing unexpected similarities between the stable and unstable regimes.
description: version 2, with notes correctly numbered, Journal of Plasma Physics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017
Tæt på de udsatte fodgængere
Creators: name: Thorlacius-Ussing, Henriette
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: HVU har dybdeanalyseret 27 ulykker med fodgængere i byer. Rapporten om undersøgelsen blev udgivet i december 2013. Undersøgelsen viste bl.a., at 2/3 af fodgængerne var særligt udsatte, fordi de på den ene eller den anden måde ikke havde optimale mentale eller fysiske forudsætninger for at færdes i trafikken. Dette var dog kun et blandt mange forhold, der medvirkede til ulykkerne. I artiklen sættes der fokus på tre fiktive ulykkeseksempler med udsatte fodgængere for at komme helt tæt på, hvad der typisk gik galt i samspillet med modparterne, hvordan vejmiljøet og evt. øvrige omstændigheder spillede ind, og hvordan disse forhold i kombination med fodgængernes reducerede trafikale forudsætninger førte til ulykkerne. Styrken ved HVU’s undersøgelsesmetode er netop, at det bliver muligt at stille helt skarpt på det samspil af forhold og faktorer, der fører til ulykkerne. I de tre eksempler krydser fodgængeren vejen, hvilket var tilfældet i lidt over halvdelen af de undersøgte ulykker. De øvrige ulykker var primært ulykker, som skete i forbindelse med bakning, eller hvor fodgængerne blev ramt på fortovet. Eksemplerne er baseret på den viden, HVU har fået fra undersøgelsen, og gengiver således typiske træk fra de ulykker, hvor udsatte fodgængere krydsede vejen.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
(200865) Sophia Louisa Hooper
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
GeoGebraTube & GeoGebraWeb
Creators: name: Gassner, Christina
name: Hohenwarter, Markus
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: In diesem Beitrag werden neue Möglichkeiten des Austauschs freier Unter-richtsmaterialien rund um die dynamische Mathematiksoftware GeoGebra auf der online Plattform GeoGebraTube (www.geogebratube.org) sowie deren nunmehrige Verwendbarkeit auf Tablet Computern und Smartphones im Zuge des GeoGebraWeb Projekts vorgestellt.
Evaluering af trafiksikkerhedsrevision
Creators: name: Sørensen, Michael W. J.
name: Olsen, Troels Vorre
name: Hansen, Ulrik Valentin
name: Elvik, Rune
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: Via Trafik og Transportøkonomisk institutt (Norge) har for Vejregelgruppen for Trafiksikkerhed foretaget en evaluering af trafiksikkerhedsrevision i Danmark. Formålet med evalueringen var at undersøge, om trafiksikkerhedsrevision fortsat er rentabelt, undersøge brugernes holdning til systemet og undersøge om systemet kan forbedres. Evalueringen er gennemført som en effektundersøgelse af gennemførte trafiksikkerhedsrevisioner i Danmark og en spørgeskemaundersøgelse blandt revisorer, projekterende og bygherrer. Effektvurderingen er gennemført som en med-uden evaluering. Det vil sige, hvor mange personskadeuheld der vil være, uden at revisionen blev gennemført, sammenlignet med, hvor mange personskadeuheld der vil være, når revisionen er gennemført, og tiltag/løsningsforslag er implementeret. I alt indgår der 28 revisioner i analysen. Spørgeskemaundersøgelsen omfatter 68 revisorer, 63 bygherrer og 49 projekterende. Evalueringen viser, at trafiksikkerhedsrevision stadig er et godt og rentabelt virkemiddel til at reducere antallet af uheld i Danmark. I de 28 undersøgte revisioner er der fundet et samlet benefit-cost forhold på 1,25 og en samlet uheldsbesparelse på 2,2 personskadeuheld pr. år. Evalueringen viser, at der er stor tilfredshed blandt revisorer, bygherrer og projekterende med trafiksikkerhedsrevisionssystemet. Ingen af de tilsammen 165 adspurgte har tilkendegivet, at de er utilfredse med revisionsprocessen. Den alt dominerende holdning blandt bygherrer og projekterende er, at trafiksikkerhedsrevision forbedrer projekterne, og der er generelt stor tilfredshed med de revisioner, der bliver udført. Evalueringen viser dog, at der er flere områder, hvor der er mulighed for at forbedre systemet, bl.a. information, uvildighed og kvalitetssikring.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
White goods pilot report
Creators: name: KOTNIK Simon
name: MIHELIČ Aleš
name: LIEDER Michael
name: AMIR Saman
name: STANGOVA Radmila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ReCiPSS

description: The report evaluates the economic benefits for the Original equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and their customers. This includes customer acceptance, customer behaviour and perceived customer benefits, as well as economic benefits for the OEM. The results of the tests will be used to further improve and optimize the business and technical requirements and functions.
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Mandatory mitigation to meet the methane imperative
Creators: name: Policy Labs, Frontiers
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: Science Policy
Climate Science

description: The current climate emergency can be described in terms of temperature, time, and tipping points. Last year, 2023, was the warmest year in 125,000 years and there is little time left to bend the warming curve before self-amplifying climate feedbacks push the planet past the many fast-approaching tipping points lurking beyond the 1.5ºC guardrail. 

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Client and therapist understandings of non epileptic seizures and the process of their treatment: towards a psychological understanding of non epileptic seizures
Creators: name: Quinn, Maria
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis by published work submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Psychology and Counselling, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.

Psychogenic non epileptic seizures are seizure-like events of psychological origin. Little is known about effective treatment of this serious somatoform symptom. This thesis explored therapist-client perspectives on successful therapy for psychogenic non epileptic seizures. Using a theory building case study approach, a literature review was undertaken to develop a conceptualization of psychogenic non epileptic seizures (Study 1: Conceptualization of PNES), then three qualitative in-depth interview studies involving eight therapists and their clients were undertaken to develop a therapy model to inform clinical practice. Study 2 used grounded theory to explore therapists’ understandings. Study 3 explored illness and therapy experiences of two male client participants using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and process analysis. Study 4 used a case study theory building framework to synthesize the conceptualization that emerged from review of research and practice guidelines, with analyses of client-therapist dyads using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and process analysis. The Conceptual Study identified three patterns of co-morbidity and trauma history. In Study 2, therapists conceived of psychogenic non epileptic seizures as nonverbal communication that evolved in traumatic early attachment relationships in which verbal expression of affect was proscribed. In Study 3, the psychogenic non epileptic seizures of two civilian male participants resolved in attuned therapeutic relationships that sanctioned verbal expression of emotion and supported development of a robust masculine identity. In Study 4 client participants’ formative relationships were characterized by chronic Mal-attunement. Therapy involved establishment of safety, internal self-resourcing, development of adaptive emotional expression, then processing of traumatic material, in an attuned therapeutic relationship.
Die Geometrische Algebra der (3 x 3)-Matrizen
Creators: name: Horn, Martin Erik
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Mit der Algebra der (2x2)- bzw. (4x4)-Matrizen schuf Cartan, aufbauend auf Ideen von Graßmann, Clifford, Pauli und Dirac, eine geometrisch fundierte Algebra, die von David Hestenes didaktisch ausgearbeitet wurde und sich schulisch sowie hochschulisch bewährt. Dieser Geometrischen Algebra wird eine Algebra von (3x3)-Matrizen zur Seite gestellt, die ebenfalls geometrisch gedeutet und didaktisch wie auch erkenntnistheoretisch eingeordnet werden.
Bakry-Émery curvature functions of graphs
Creators: name: Cushing, David
name: Liu, Shiping
name: Peyerimhoff, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50 (Primary), 52C99, 53A40 (Secondary)

description: We study the Bakry-Émery curvature function $\mathcal{K}_{G,x}:(0,\infty]\to \mathbb{R}$ of a vertex $x$ in a locally finite graph $G$ systematically. Here $\mathcal{K}_{G,x}(\mathcal{N})$ is defined as the optimal curvature lower bound $\mathcal{K}$ in the Bakry-Émery curvature-dimension inequality $CD(\mathcal{K},\mathcal{N})$ that $x$ satisfies. We prove the curvature functions of the Cartesian product of two graphs $G_1,G_2$ equal an abstract product of curvature functions of $G_1,G_2$. We relate the curvature functions of $G$ with various spectral properties of (weighted) graphs constructed from local structures of $G$. We explore the curvature functions of Cayley graphs, strongly regular graphs, and many particular (families of) examples including Johnson graphs and complete bipartite graphs. We construct an infinite family of $6$-regular graphs which satisfy $CD(0,\infty)$ but are not Cayley graphs.
description: In the new version, we carried out a slight restructuring of the material and added a concavity proof (in Prop. 4.1(iv)) thanks to the comments of Bobo Hua and Jim Portegies
The muon magnetic moment in the 2HDM: complete two-loop result
Creators: name: Cherchiglia, Adriano
name: Kneschke, Patrick
name: Stöckinger, Dominik
name: Stöckinger-Kim, Hyejung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ${\text{2HDM}}$ contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_μ$ and present the complete two-loop result, particularly for the bosonic contribution. We focus on the Aligned ${\text{2HDM}}$, which has general Yukawa couplings and contains the type I, II, X, Y models as special cases. The result is expressed with physical parameters: three Higgs boson masses, Yukawa couplings, two mixing angles, and one quartic potential parameter. We show that the result can be split into several parts, each of which has a simple parameter dependence, and we document their general behavior. Taking into account constraints on parameters, we find that the full ${\text{2HDM}}$ contribution to $a_μ$ can accommodate the current experimental value, and the complete two-loop bosonic contribution can amount to $(2\cdots 4)\times 10^{-10}$, more than the future experimental uncertainty.
description: Typos fixed, complying with the published version updated with the erratum. For further details, see included erratum
Vendepunktet for antall drepte i trafikken
Creators: name: Elvik, Rune
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2014

description: I mange høyt motoriserte land steg antall drepte i trafikken i tiden fra omkring 1950 og frem til omkring 1970. Da inntraff et vendepunkt i utviklingen og antall drepte har i mange land senere gått betydelig ned, i noen land med mer enn 80 prosent. Tidligere studier har hevdet at vendepunktet for antall drepte i trafikken er en matematisk nødvendighet, ikke et tegn på at de underliggende trender som bestemmer utviklingen har endret seg. To trender bestemmer hvordan antall drepte utvikler seg over tid: (1) Endringer i trafikkmengde og (2) Endringer i risiko. Dersom trafikken vokser gradvis langsommere, samtidig som risikoen synker med en konstant prosent hvert år, vil antall drepte begynne å gå ned når den årlige prosentvise trafikkveksten blir mindre enn den årlige prosentvise nedgangen i risiko. Tidligere studier har benyttet data fra perioden både før og etter at vendepunktet for antall drepte inntraff til å føye modeller av trafikkvekst og risikonedgang. Det er da en matematisk nødvendighet at modellene må vise en klokkeformet utvikling av antall drepte over tid; først vekst, så nedgang. En reell empirisk test av om det observerte vendepunktet for antall drepte i trafikken var en matematisk nødvendighet, eller gjenspeiler endringer i de underliggende trender, kan man kun få ved å benytte data fra perioden før vendepunktet inntraff til å utvikle modeller av de underliggende trender og fremskrive disse trendene til perioden etter at antall drepte i trafikken begynte å gå ned. Dersom fremskrivningen av antall drepte stemmer godt overens med den faktiske utvikling, støttes antakelsen om at vendepunktet kun var en matematisk nødvendighet og kunne ha vært predikert før det inntraff. Dersom fremskrivningen av antall drepte avviker fra den faktiske utvikling, har de underliggende trender endret seg. Data fra seks land om den historiske utvikling av trafikkarbeidet (antall kjøretøykilometer) og risikoen for å bli drept i trafikken er benyttet til å utvikle modeller av utviklingen før v endepunktet inntraff. De seks landene er: Danmark, Nederland, Norge, Storbritannia, Sverige og USA. Fremskrivning av disse trendene til perioden etter vendepunktet tyder på at det i de fleste land inntraff en endring i de underliggende trendene omkring det tidspunkt da antall drepte i trafikken var på sitt høyeste. Dette støtter hypotesen om at samfunnet reagerte på økningen av antall drepte i trafikken og iverksatte en ny og mer effektiv politikk for å redusere antallet drepte i trafikken.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol 1 Nr 1 (2014): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University