cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trending Time Series Models with Endogeneity
Creators: name: LI CHEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The thesis explores the endogeneity problem in the trending regression models. I propose a nonparametric control function method and a bias-correction method to deal with this problem in the weak and strong trending time series regression models respectively. I have proved that the proposed estimators for the coefficients are unbiased and consistent so that the economists are able to obtain accurate estimates and reliable inferences for the trending time series regression models.
Bidimensional linked matrix factorization for pan-omics pan-cancer analysis
Creators: name: Lock, Eric F.
name: Park, Jun Young
name: Hoadley, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Several modern applications require the integration of multiple large data matrices that have shared rows and/or columns. For example, cancer studies that integrate multiple omics platforms across multiple types of cancer, pan-omics pan-cancer analysis, have extended our knowledge of molecular heterogenity beyond what was observed in single tumor and single platform studies. However, these studies have been limited by available statistical methodology. We propose a flexible approach to the simultaneous factorization and decomposition of variation across such bidimensionally linked matrices, BIDIFAC+. This decomposes variation into a series of low-rank components that may be shared across any number of row sets (e.g., omics platforms) or column sets (e.g., cancer types). This builds on a growing literature for the factorization and decomposition of linked matrices, which has primarily focused on multiple matrices that are linked in one dimension (rows or columns) only. Our objective function extends nuclear norm penalization, is motivated by random matrix theory, gives an identifiable decomposition under relatively mild conditions, and can be shown to give the mode of a Bayesian posterior distribution. We apply BIDIFAC+ to pan-omics pan-cancer data from TCGA, identifying shared and specific modes of variability across 4 different omics platforms and 29 different cancer types.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Evidence of adaptive evolution of alpine pheasants to high-altitude environment from mitogenomic perspective
Creators: name: Gu, Peng
name: Liu, Wei
name: Yao, Yong-fang
name: Ni, Qing-yong
name: Zhang, Ming-wang
name: Li, Di-yan
name: Xu, Huai-liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Adaptive evolutions to high-altitude adaptation have been intensively studied in mammals. However, considering the additional vertebrate groups, new perception regarding selection challenged by high-altitude stress on mitochondrial genome can be gained. To test this hypothesis, we compiled and analyzed the mitochondrial genomes of 5 alpine pheasants and 12 low-altitude species in Phasianidae. The results that evolutionary rates of ATP6 and ND6 showing significant fluctuation among branches when involved with five alpine pheasants revealed both genes might have implications with adapting to highland environment. The radical physico-chemical property changes identified by the modified MM01 model, including composition (C) and equilibrium constant (ionization of COOH) (Pk′) in ATP6 and beta-structure tendencies (Pβ), Pk′, and long-range non-bonded energy (El) in ND6, suggested that minor overall adjustments in size, protein conformation and relative orientation of reaction interfaces have been optimized to provide the ideal environments for electron transfer, proton translocation and generation of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Additionally, three unique substitution sites were identified under selection in ND6, which could be potentially important adaptive changes contributing to cellular energy production. Our findings suggested that adaptive evolution may occur in alpine pheasants, which are an important complement to the knowledge of genetic mechanisms against the high-altitude environment in non-mammal animals.
Zukünfte der Gruppenarbeiten - pluralistisch, transdisziplinär und gestaltend?
Creators: name: Drechsel, Jonas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Zukünfte
subject: Gruppenarbeit
subject: pluralistisch
subject: transdisziplinär
subject: gestaltend
subject: transdisziplinäre Forschung
subject: Systemwissen
subject: Zielwissen
subject: Transformationswissen
subject: Hierarchie
subject: Ziele
subject: Sozialer Prozess
subject: Emotionen
subject: Konflikte
subject: Vertrauen
subject: Verantwortung
subject: Möglichkeiten
subject: Design
subject: Reflexion
subject: Rekonstruktion
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::302 Soziale Interaktion

description: Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekt “Zukünfte der Gruppenarbeiten” im Rahmen des Praxissemesters des Masters Zukunftsforschung wurden disziplinübergreifende Erkenntnisse von unterschiedlichen AlltagsexpertInnen gesammelt. Die Ergebnisse aus elf Interviews und eigenen Recherchen wurden zum hier vorgelegten Leitfaden für Gruppenarbeiten verdichtet.
Peter Murphy and David Roberts. Dialectic of Romanticism. London: Continuum, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Savage, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In 1942, two exiled German intellectuals held a series of meetings in Los Angeles. The topic of their discussions was the convolution of enlightenment and myth, the origin of the one in the other and the accelerating assimilation of the Other to the One. In the background, all but ignored by the interlocutors, sat a woman taking notes in shorthand. Later, her notes were typed up, revised, elaborated, and sent forth into the world under the title Dialectic of Enlightenment. In the foreword they added to the 1969 edition, the authors downplayed the significance of her contribution: "We jointly dictated lengthy sections; and the vital principle of the Dialectic is the tension between the two intellectual temperaments conjoined in it." No place remains in this marriage of minds for the woman who acted as surrogate for their creation, the empty vessel through which their words flowed and intermingled to the point where they could no longer be traced back to one or the other parent.
title: Liquidating bankers’ acceptances
title: international crisis, doctrinal conflict and american exceptionalism in the federal reserve 1913-1932
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Adam, Marc Christopher
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Federal Reserve System
subject: Acceptances
subject: Great Depression
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft

description: This paper seeks to explain the collapse of the market for bankers’ acceptances between 1931 and 1932 by tracing the doctrinal foundations of Federal Reserve policy and regulations back to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. I argue that a determinant of the collapse of the market was Carter Glass’ and Henry P. Willis’ insistence on one specific interpretation of the “real bills doctrine”, the idea that the financial system should be organized around commercial bills. The Glass- Willis doctrine, which stressed non-intervention and the self-liquidating nature of real bills, created doubts about the eligibility of frozen acceptances for purchase and rediscount at the Reserve Banks and caused accepting banks to curtail their supply to the market. The Glass-Willis doctrine is embedded in a broader historical narrative that links Woodrow Wilson’s approach to foreign policy with the collapse of the international order in 1931.
The Problem of Finitude in Phenomenology
Creators: name: Cooke, Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The problem of history and, more precisely, the historicity of history constitutes one of the greatest stumbling blocks for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy. If one confines oneself to the criticisms levelled against Husserlian phenomenology by Martin Heidegger, those concepts developed as a result all operate in a dialogue with historicity. Perhaps the first step beyond Husserl arrives with the concept of 'facticity,' a concept which recognises the essential temporality or historicity of the ego – that being which attempts to enact the phenomenological epoche.
Editorial
Creators: name: Colloquy Editorial Team
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Issue 6 shows that Colloquy continues to function as a dynamic forum for the presentation of the research of postgraduates. The diversity of topics and the high quality of the content demonstrate that this vibrant community has a voice. In many cases, this voice is heard for the first time in the context of a refereed journal. Colloquy, then, provides a service both for the students to present their work, and to academic debate in general, which is thus enriched.The presence of Australian literature is strong in Issue 6.
Identifying Directions for the Russia's Science and Technology Cooperation
Creators: name: Kotsemir, Maxim
name: Pikalova, Anna
name: Kuznetsova, Tatiana
name: Nasybulina, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Kotsemir M., Kuznetsova T., Nasybulina E., Pikalova A. (2015) Identifying Directions for Russia’s Science and Technology Cooperation. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 9, no 4, pp. 54–72. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459x.2015.4.54.72
https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/2015-9-4/168519970.html

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2714363

Strong international partnerships are a key vehicle for building an efficient national innovation system. Successful global cooperation needs comprehensive knowledge of the features of the science and technology (S&T) sphere in a changing environment of global division of labour, competition, and political climates. New realities and trends emerge, changing the established ‘rules of the game’ and calling for immediate actions from politicians, experts, and various economic actors.

We propose an analytical approach to build and examine an empirical database. Drawing on bibliometric analysis and expert survey tools, such an approach helps us identify the most promising areas for Russia’s international S&T cooperation. We assess the scope for applying the proposed methodology. Based on the latest available data in Web of Science, the international scientific citation indexing service (2014 and early 2015), we compare the structure and variation over time of scientific specializations in Russia, leading S&T countries, and several fast growing global economies.

The cooperation priorities that we identified via matrix analysis were complemented with data from expert surveys. The surveys highlighted the partner organizations, thematic areas, and instruments of S&T cooperation, which indicate some of the future possibilities for Russia’s international S&T cooperation.
Kotsemir M., Kuznetsova T., Nasybulina E., Pikalova A. (2015) Identifying Directions for Russia’s Science and Technology Cooperation. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 9, no 4, pp. 54–72. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459x.2015.4.54.72
https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/2015-9-4/168519970.html

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2714363
Novel skeleton sesquiterpenoids isolated from guava leaves
Creators: name: Ouyang, Wen
name: Zhu, Xiao-ai
name: Wang, Wei
name: Chen, Xue-Xiang
name: Chen, Yun-Jiao
name: Cao, Yong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A chemical investigation of the plant Psidium guajava L., collected in Guangdong province, afforded two novel skeleton sesquiterpenoids 1 and 2. Compound 2 also known as isocaryolan-9-one was a new natural product. The structure of the novel compound 1 was determined as guavacid A by various spectroscopic methods. A possible biosynthetic pathway for 1 and 2 was proposed.
Generalized Cluster Structures Related to the Drinfeld Double of $GL_n$
Creators: name: Gekhtman, Misha
name: Shapiro, Michael
name: Vainshtein, Alek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: We prove that the regular generalized cluster structure on the Drinfeld double of $GL_n$ constructed in arXiv:1912.00453 is complete and compatible with the standard Poisson--Lie structure on the double. Moreover, we show that for $n=4$ this structure is distinct from a previously known regular generalized cluster structure on the Drinfeld double, even though they have the same compatible Poisson structure and the same collection of frozen variables. Further, we prove that the regular generalized cluster structure on band periodic matrices constructed in arXiv:1912.00453 possesses similar compatibility and completeness properties.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Forecasting the Spread of Covid-19 Under Control Scenarios Using LSTM and Dynamic Behavioral Models
Creators: name: Zandavi, Seid Miad
name: Rashidi, Taha Hossein
name: Vafaee, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To accurately predict the regional spread of Covid-19 infection, this study proposes a novel hybrid model which combines a Long short-term memory (LSTM) artificial recurrent neural network with dynamic behavioral models. Several factors and control strategies affect the virus spread, and the uncertainty arisen from confounding variables underlying the spread of the Covid-19 infection is substantial. The proposed model considers the effect of multiple factors to enhance the accuracy in predicting the number of cases and deaths across the top ten most-affected countries and Australia. The results show that the proposed model closely replicates test data. It not only provides accurate predictions but also estimates the daily behavior of the system under uncertainty. The hybrid model outperforms the LSTM model accounting for limited available data. The parameters of the hybrid models were optimized using a genetic algorithm for each country to improve the prediction power while considering regional properties. Since the proposed model can accurately predict Covid-19 spread under consideration of containment policies, is capable of being used for policy assessment, planning and decision-making.
description: As requested by the dear moderator, to assess the statistical significance of the reduction in RMSE in hybrid models compared to LSTM, each module was evaluated 500 times after hype-parameter tuning, and the corresponding RMSE distribution was used to estimate 95% confidence interval (CI) and t-test p-values comparing significant differences between different stages
Configurational entropy and spectroscopy of pomeron resonances in dynamical AdS/QCD
Creators: name: Rodrigues, D. Marinho
name: da Rocha, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pomeron resonances in AdS/QCD are here studied using the configurational entropy (CE). The concept of CE Regge trajectories, associating the CE of the pomeron resonances with both their spin $J^{PC}$ and to their mass spectra, is used to derive the mass spectra of higher $J^{PC}$ pomeron resonances. For it, the linear, the exponential modified and the anomalous quadratic dilatonic models, each one with linear and logarithmic anomalous corrections, are employed. Several methods are implemented, hybridizing AdS/QCD and established data of lattice QCD.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
Neural Entity Linking: A Survey of Models Based on Deep Learning
Creators: name: Sevgili, Ozge
name: Shelmanov, Artem
name: Arkhipov, Mikhail
name: Panchenko, Alexander
name: Biemann, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of neural entity linking systems and compare their performance to the remarkable classic methods on common benchmarks. This work distills a generic architecture of a neural EL system and discusses its components, such as candidate generation, mention-context encoding, and entity ranking, summarizing prominent methods for each of them. The vast variety of modifications of this general architecture are grouped by several common themes: joint entity mention detection and disambiguation, models for global linking, domain-independent techniques including zero-shot and distant supervision methods, and cross-lingual approaches. Since many neural models take advantage of entity and mention/context embeddings to represent their meaning, this work also overviews prominent entity embedding techniques. Finally, the survey touches on applications of entity linking, focusing on the recently emerged use-case of enhancing deep pre-trained masked language models based on the Transformer architecture.
description: Published in Semantic Web journal
Strategic Subjects: The Sexual Binary, Transgression and the Ethics of Strategic Essentialism
Creators: name: Cover, Rob
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: For more than ten years the collective set of critical post-structuralist positions labelled 'queer theory' has been deployed to show that sexual identity—and particularly hetero and homo sexual subjectivities—are produced through discursive knowledges; contingent and historical. Such work has usefully opened paths for the examination of racial, ethnic and gendered tensions within the ethnic-minority grouping that is the lesbian/gay (or 'queer') community. What might be considered the largest contribution of queer theory to the field of lesbian/gay politics has been the ways in which it can be deployed for the examination of lesbian/gay (and 'straight') subjects as they are subjectively performed in accord with various discourses of sexuality and subjectivity, thus prompting examinations of how these discourses are governed by the cultural construct hetero/homo binary. Nevertheless, much of this work is ignored in the praxis of lesbian/gay politics which continues to assert and reassert the hetero/homo binary as 'sexual truth'.
About essential spectra of unbounded Jacobi matrices
Creators: name: Świderski, Grzegorz
name: Trojan, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 47B25, 47B36. Secondary: 42C05, 39A22

description: We study spectral properties of unbounded Jacobi matrices with periodically modulated or blended entries. Our approach is based on uniform asymptotic analysis of generalized eigenvectors. We determine when the studied operators are self-adjoint. We identify regions where the point spectrum has no accumulation points. This allows us to completely describe the essential spectrum of these operators.
description: 40 pages
Jack Reynolds and John Roffe (eds). Understanding Derrida. London: Continuum, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Garrett, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This collection of seventeen introductory essays, each tackling a single concept or author, was published shortly before Derrida's death last year. Each essay is provided by a different scholar, many of whom have established distinguished reputations in the relation of Derrida's work to their particular topic.
The Politics of Influence: Bruce Beaver's Letters to Live Poets
Creators: name: Savage, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In his celebrated livre composé Letters to Live Poets, Bruce Beaver forged a poetry of the suffering, narcissistic self, deeply estranged from an «uglier than ugly» (II) society and in constant danger of disintegrating into madness. Beaver's undisguised solipsism is remarkable even for a confessional poet.
Who was Eve Langley?
Creators: name: Ellis, Rhonda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: A quarter of a century after her death, controversial comment continues to surface regarding the Australian writer, Eve Langley. In addition to popular attention, half a dozen academic essays discuss aspects and estimations of Langley's life and work, including 'becoming' Oscar Wilde and the attenuate issue of transvestism, her solitary later life and her death. Two full-length texts also exist which focus on the writer and offer widely disparate answers to the question: who was Eve Langley?
PIDA: Smooth and Stable Flight Using Stochastic Dual Simplex Algorithm and Genetic Filter
Creators: name: Zandavi, Seid Miad
name: Chung, Vera
name: Anaissi, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a new Proportional-Integral-Derivative-Accelerated (PIDA) control with a derivative filter to improve quadcopter flight stability in a noisy environment. The mathematical model is derived from having an accurate model with a high level of fidelity by addressing the problems of non-linearity, uncertainties, and coupling. These uncertainties and measurement noises cause instability in flight and automatic hovering. The proposed controller associated with a heuristic Genetic Filter (GF) addresses these challenges. The tuning of the proposed PIDA controller associated with the objective of controlling is performed by Stochastic Dual Simplex Algorithm (SDSA). GF is applied to the PIDA control to estimate the observed states and parameters of quadcopters in both attitude and altitude. The simulation results show that the proposed control associated with GF has a strong ability to track the desired point in the presence of disturbances.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.12886
Effects of microgravity on DNA damage response in Caenorhabditis elegans during Shenzhou-8 spaceflight
Creators: name: Gao, Ying
name: Xu, Dan
name: Zhao, Lei
name: Zhang, Min
name: Sun, Yeqing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Purpose: Space radiations and microgravity both could cause DNA damage in cells, but the effects of microgravity on DNA damage response to space radiations are still controversial.Materials and methods: A mRNA microarray and microRNA micro- array in dauer larvae of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) that endured spaceflight environment and space radiations environment during 16.5-day Shenzhou-8 space mission was performed.Results: Twice as many transcripts significantly altered in the spaceflight environment than space radiations alone. The majority of alterations were related to protein amino acid dephosphorylation and histidine metabolic and catabolic processes. From about 900 genes related to DNA damage response, 38 differentially expressed genes were extracted; most of them differentially expressed under spaceflight environment but not space radiations, although the identical directions of alteration were observed in both cases. cel-miR-81, cel- miR-82, cel-miR-124 and cel-miR-795 were predicted to regulate DNA damage response through four different anti-correlated genes.Conclusions: Evidence was provided that, in the presence of space radiations, microgravity probably enhanced the DNA damage response in C. elegans by integrating the transcriptome and microRNome.
Malcolm K. Read. Educating the Educators: Hispanism and its Institutions. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003 [Book review]
Creators: name: Vek Lewis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Malcolm Read says of his objective in writing his latest work, Educating the Educators: My aim throughout has been less to write a book in the currently fashionable academic genre of memoir writing than to uncover the political and ideological presuppositions of Hispanism, as these were filtered through my own life experiences. (12) It is an intriguing proposition and, as its author notes, not one without pitfalls. The book itself went through several revisions and re-submissions as it baffled some editors with its multivalent, class-conscious style. For what Read takes on in his book is to map his own role in developing and sustaining a Marxist stance on the subject's relation to social formations and ideology and how this correlates to his own journey from working class beginnings to the academy in one of its most conservative and traditionalist domains: British Hispanic Studies. His book is hence a hybrid affair. It mixes details of his childhood and adolescence in Derby, England, his forthwith but unexpected entry into the university, with critiques of post-war pedagogy and the trajectory of scholarship within Hispanic Studies in the U.K. from this period to the present day.
$X_0(2900)$ and $X_1(2900)$: hadronic molecules or compact tetraquarks
Creators: name: Chen, Hua-Xing
name: Chen, Wei
name: Dong, Rui-Rui
name: Su, Niu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very recently the LHCb Collaboration reported their observation of the first two fully open-flavor tetraquark states, the $X_0(2900)$ of $J^P = 0^+$ and the $X_1(2900)$ of $J^P = 1^-$. We study their possible interpretations using the method of QCD sum rules, paying special attention to an interesting feature of this experiment that the higher resonance $X_1(2900)$ has a width significantly larger than the lower one $X_0(2900)$. Our results suggest that the $X_0(2900)$ can be interpreted as the $S$-wave $D^{*-}K^{*+}$ molecule state of $J^P = 0^+$, and the $X_1(2900)$ can be interpreted as the $P$-wave $\bar c \bar s u d$ compact tetraquark state of $J^P = 1^-$. Mass predictions of their bottom partners are also given.
description: revised version, 5 pages, 2 figures, published in Chinese Physics Letters (Express Letter)
Peter Krapp. Déjà vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Everyone is familiar with déjà vu. "It feels like I have been here before." Or, "have I not met you before?" Or, "it is as if I knew this all along." Déjà vu is commonly regarded as an uncanny phenomenon, whereby that which has in fact never happened is remembered. For this contentless recollection, emphasis is usually placed upon the way in which memory is generated of an experience which never took place.
The Discreet charm of the lugubriosie (or The art of tiding oneself over): Thomas Bernhard's Extinction, trans. David McLintock, Penguin Books, London, 1996, pp. 335, RRP $16.95 (paper). [Book Review]
Creators: name: Narelle Hanratty
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: It's all here – the escalating hyperbole, the grandiosity, the connoisseurship, the importuning of the witness – the unmistakeable voice of one of Thomas Bernhard's protagonists holding out, fittingly enough, on the topic of exaggeration. On the occasion of the publication of Bernhard's biography, reviewed recently by Murray Bail in The Age,[2] I look at his last novel, Extinction and its fine contribution to the sensibility of lugubriousness.
NTCP reduction for advanced head and neck cancer patients using proton therapy for complete or sequential boost treatment versus photon therapy
Creators: name: Jakobi, Annika
name: Stützer, Kristin
name: Bandurska-Luque, Anna
name: Löck, Steffen
name: Haase, Robert
name: Wack, Linda-Jacqueline
name: Mönnich, David
name: Thorwarth, Daniel
name: Perez, Damien
name: Lühr, Armin
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Krause, Mechthild
name: Baumann, Michael
name: Perrin, Rosalind
name: Richter, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics

description: ABSTRACTBackground. To determine by treatment plan comparison differences in toxicity risk reduction for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) from proton therapy either used for complete treatment or sequential boost treatment only.Materials and methods. For 45 HNSCC patients, intensity-modulated photon (IMXT) and proton (IMPT) treatment plans were created including a dose escalation via simultaneous integrated boost with a one-step adaptation strategy after 25 fractions for sequential boost treatment. Dose accumulation was performed for pure IMXT treatment, pure IMPT treatment and for a mixed modality treatment with IMXT for the elective target followed by a sequential boost with IMPT. Treatment plan evaluation was based on modern normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models for mucositis, xerostomia, aspiration, dysphagia, larynx edema and trismus. Individual NTCP differences between IMXT and IMPT (∆NTCPIMXT-IMPT) as well as between IMXT and the mixed modality treatment (∆NTCPIMXT-Mix) were calculated.Results. Target coverage was similar in all three scenarios. NTCP values could be reduced in all patients using IMPT treatment. However, ∆NTCPIMXT-Mix values were a factor 2–10 smaller than ∆NTCPIMXT-IMPT. Assuming a threshold of ≥ 10% NTCP reduction in xerostomia or dysphagia risk as criterion for patient assignment to IMPT, less than 15% of the patients would be selected for a proton boost, while about 50% would be assigned to pure IMPT treatment. For mucositis and trismus, ∆NTCP ≥ 10% occurred in six and four patients, respectively, with pure IMPT treatment, while no such difference was identified with the proton boost.Conclusions. The use of IMPT generally reduces the expected toxicity risk while maintaining good tumor coverage in the examined HNSCC patients. A mixed modality treatment using IMPT solely for a sequential boost reduces the risk by 10% only in rare cases. In contrast, pure IMPT treatment may be reasonable for about half of the examined patient cohort considering the toxicities xerostomia and dysphagia, if a feasible strategy for patient anatomy changes is implemented.
NTCP reduction for advanced head and neck cancer patients using proton therapy for complete or sequential boost treatment versus photon therapy
Creators: name: Jakobi, Annika
name: Stützer, Kristin
name: Bandurska-Luque, Anna
name: Löck, Steffen
name: Haase, Robert
name: Wack, Linda-Jacqueline
name: Mönnich, David
name: Thorwarth, Daniel
name: Perez, Damien
name: Lühr, Armin
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Krause, Mechthild
name: Baumann, Michael
name: Perrin, Rosalind
name: Richter, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics

description: Purpose. To determine by treatment plan comparison differences in toxicity risk reduction for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) from proton therapy either used for complete treatment or sequential boost treatment only.Materials and methods. For 45 HNSCC patients, intensity-modulated photon (IMXT) and proton (IMPT) treatment plans were created including a dose escalation via simultaneous integrated boost with a one-step adaptation strategy after 25 fractions for sequential boost treatment. Dose accumulation was performed for pure IMXT treatment, pure IMPT treatment and for a mixed modality treatment with IMXT for the elective target followed by a sequential boost with IMPT. Treatment plan evaluation was based on modern normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models for mucositis, xerostomia, aspiration, dysphagia, larynx edema and trismus. Individual NTCP differences between IMXT and IMPT (∆NTCPIMXT-IMPT) as well as between IMXT and the mixed modality treatment (∆NTCPIMXT-Mix) were calculated.Results. Target coverage was similar in all three scenarios. NTCP values could be reduced in all patients using IMPT treatment. However, ∆NTCPIMXT-Mix values were a factor 2–10 smaller than ∆NTCPIMXT-IMPT. Assuming a threshold of ≥ 10% NTCP reduction in xerostomia or dysphagia risk as criterion for patient assignment to IMPT, less than 15% of the patients would be selected for a proton boost, while about 50% would be assigned to pure IMPT treatment. For mucositis and trismus, ∆NTCP ≥ 10% occurred in six and four patients, respectively, with pure IMPT treatment, while no such difference was identified with the proton boost.Conclusions. The use of IMPT generally reduces the expected toxicity risk while maintaining good tumor coverage in the examined HNSCC patients. A mixed modality treatment using IMPT solely for a sequential boost reduces the risk by 10% only in rare cases. In contrast, pure IMPT treatment may be reasonable for about half of the examined patient cohort considering the toxicities xerostomia and dysphagia, if a feasible strategy for patient anatomy changes is implemented.
Anne Kellas, Isolated States. Launceston: Cornford Press, 2001. ISBN: 0957756569. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Nicholls, Angus
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In Isolated States, Anne Kellas's poetry expresses a direct and often intricate relationship between the political and the personal, with various senses of 'isolation' functioning as motifs throughout the entire volume. In fact, Isolated States sets out to traverse a very difficult and varied poetic terrain.
A model for hot spots and Q-slope in granular Niobium thin film superconducting RF cavities
Creators: name: Ramiere, Aymeric
name: Antoine, Claire Z.
name: Amrit, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model to explain power dissipation leading to the formation of hot spots in the inner walls of niobium thin film superconducting RF cavities. The physical mechanism that we explore is due to the constriction of surface electrical current flow at grain interface boundaries. This constriction creates an additional electrical contact resistance which induces localized punctual heat dissipation. The temperature at these spots is derived; and the electrical contact resistance is shown to depend on the magnetic field, on the gain contact size over which dissipation occurs, and on other key parameters, including the effective London penetration depth and the frequency. The surface resistance and the quality factors are determined using our model and are shown to be in excellent agreement with experimental data.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures
Decoding the Silence: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Dynamics and Underlying Factors of Stalled Pull Requests [ESEM 2025]
Creators: name: Annonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Background: Pull Requests (PRs) are central to pull-based development in open-source projects, facilitating code reviews and collaborative contributions. Yet, many PRs become inactive and are eventually abandoned or closed. Although a few studies have investigated this issue, the underlying causes of inactivity and the effectiveness of existing interventions are not yet fully understood. Aims: This study aims to identify PR types prone to stalling, investigate the fine-grained causes and impact of inactivity from both authors’ and reviewers’ perspectives, and provide actionable recommendations to improve the PR process and reduce waste. Method: We analyzed 14,234 stalled PRs and 164,562 code review comments from 19 popular open-source GitHub repositories. An LLM-based classifier was developed to automatically categorize PRs by type. Additionally, we performed qualitative and quantitative analyses of review comments to identify the reasons for inactivity from both authors’ and reviewers’ perspectives. Results: Our findings show that certain types of PRs, such as Feature Enhancements and Issue Fixing, are more likely to experience inactivity. We identified that PR inactivity is mainly caused by communication issues (e.g., lack of responses), technical problems (e.g., test failures), and code quality concerns (e.g., poor formatting). These factors hinder collaboration, leading to a decrease in contributor engagement, as reflected in a 39.56% author retention rate and around 21% reviewer re-engagement rate. Conclusions: Understanding the causes of PR stalling can inform strategies to mitigate abandonment. Our study offers practical recommendations to improve reviewer responsiveness, comment clarity, and contributor engagement. These insights can help streamline collaboration, enhance the efficiency of open-source development workflows, and potentially open future research avenues.
Style Over Substance John A Dern. Martians, Monsters & Madonna: Fiction and Form in the World of Martin Amis Peter Lang, 2000 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Hateley, Erica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: I would like to start by saying that I am always happy to see extended criticism of contemporary authors published. As a fan of contemporary British fiction in particular, I was eager to read John Dern's recent volume dealing with the work of Martin Amis. To date, Amis has been the subject of relatively few extended volumes of criticism, which seems surprising when we consider that Amis has been one of a select group of authors – including Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie and Julian Barnes – at the forefront of British literature for the past few decades.
Combinatorics of ultrafilters on Cohen and random algebras
Creators: name: Brendle, Jörg
name: Parente, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the structure of ultrafilters on Boolean algebras in the framework of Tukey reducibility. In particular, this paper provides several techniques to construct ultrafilters which are not Tukey maximal. Furthermore, we connect this analysis with a cardinal invariant of Boolean algebras, the ultrafilter number, and prove consistency results concerning its possible values on Cohen and random algebras.
Synthesis and characterisation of 3-armed dendritic molecules with triphenylbenzene or triphenyltriazine as core and triphenylene derivative as shells
Creators: name: Bai, Yue-Feng
name: Chen, Li-Qin
name: Hu, Ping
name: Luo, Kai-Jun
name: Yu, Wen-Hao
name: Ni, Hai-Liang
name: Zhao, Ke-Qing
name: Wang, Bi-Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Two series 3-armed dendritic molecules with their 1,3,5-tris(4-methyloxyphenyl) benzene or 2,4,6-tris(4- hydroxylphenyl)-1,3,5-s-triazine core and triphenylene derivative shells connected by soft hydrocarbon chains have been synthesised and fully characterised. Whether liquid crystal (LC) or photoluminescence materials have been tuned by changing the length of the soft chain and they have been studied by POM, DSC, XRD, UV-Vis and PL. The results show that all the new dendritic compounds display UV to blue fluorescence in solvents such as DCM, THF and acetone. The TC3 compound bearing 1,3,5-tris(4-hydroxylphenyl) benzene core exhibits LC property with rectangular columnar phase (Colr) on cooling.
Conceptualizing the Innovation Process Towards the ‘Active Innovation Paradigm’ — Trends and Outlook
Creators: name: Kotsemir, Maxim
name: Meissner, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipA Systems View Across Time and Space 2016 5:14DOI: 10.1186/s13731-016-0042-z https://innovation-entrepreneurship.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13731-016-0042-z
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2755005

This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. We categorize the different approaches to understand and model innovation processes into two types. First, the so-called innovation management approach focuses on the evolution of corporate innovation management strategies in different social and economic environments. The second type is the conceptual approach which analyses the evolution of innovation models themselves as well as the models’ theoretical backgrounds and requirements. The focus in this second approach is the advantages and disadvantages of different innovation models in how far they can describe the reality of innovation processes.

The paper focuses on the advantages and disadvantages as well as the potential and limitations of the approaches. It also proposes potential future developments of innovation models as well as the analysis of the driving forces that underlie the evolution of innovation models.

The article concludes that the predominant open innovation paradigm requires rethinking and further development towards an ‘active innovation’ paradigm.
Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipA Systems View Across Time and Space 2016 5:14DOI: 10.1186/s13731-016-0042-z https://innovation-entrepreneurship.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13731-016-0042-z Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2016) 5:14. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2755005
Establishing the first hidden-charm pentaquark with strangeness
Creators: name: Chen, Hua-Xing
name: Chen, Wei
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Liu, Xiao-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $P_{cs}(4459)^0$ recently observed by LHCb using the method of QCD sum rules. Our results support its interpretation as the $\bar D^* Ξ_c$ hadronic molecular state of either $J^P=1/2^-$ or $3/2^-$. Within the hadronic molecular picture, the three LHCb experiments observing $P_c$ and $P_{cs}$ states \cite{lhcb,Aaij:2015tga,Aaij:2019vzc} can be well understood as a whole. This strongly supports the existence of hadronic molecules, whose studies can significantly improve our understanding on the construction of the subatomic world. To verify this picture, we propose to further investigate the $P_{cs}(4459)^0$ to examine whether it can be separated into two states, and to search for the $\bar D Ξ_c$ molecular state of $J^P=1/2^-$.
description: 8 pages, 3 figure, 1 table, revised version to be published in EPJC
The Halstead Treasury of Ancient Science Fiction(ed.) M. Richardson. Halstead Press, 2001. ISBN: 1875684646 [Book review]
Creators: name: Nicholls, Angus
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In light of the commonly held view that science fiction is a literary genre which arose within the nineteenth century context of the Industrial Revolution – and here we should note that the term 'science fiction' itself was not in use until the 1920's - is it tenable to posit the existence of a so-called 'ancient' science fiction? 'Yes' is the emphatic answer given to this question by Matthew Richardson, the editor of the Halstead Treasury of Ancient Science Fiction, a collection of tales which ranges from the Atlantis myth as it appears in Plato's Timaeus and Critias, through seminal classical authors like Lucian and Cicero, to ancient Asian and Arabic myths.