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[ARTICLE] Novel Multi-Path Kitchen Sink Strainer (Open Design Magazine / 2023)
Creators: name: Teia, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Other engineering not elsewhere classified
Engineering design
Engineering education
Engineering practice
Systems engineering
Engineering practice and education not elsewhere classified

description: Tired of food debris blocking your kitchen sink? We all are, making this an excellent opportunity to look at novel ways to manage the dirty water outflow (often carrying clutering debris). This multi-path strainer accommodates design features that store food debris in special 360 degree cavities, while preveting complete blockage. The horizontal water path is the primary way to carry water to the outlet, whilst preventing debris from blocking completely the water flow. If this horizontal path gets blocked (by soo much debris that covers the entire 360 degrees of cavities), water will accummulate and overflow via the vertical path, providing an alternative means of discharge, and thus preventing overall blockage of the sink.
 This article explains the design process of a novel manner of managing the water flow from a sink in order to prevent, or at least minimize, its blockage (due to singularity convergence of debris, which often happens when we are washing dishes).
 The CAD model is available for download from Figshare here.
 This research was originally published as an article on the Open Design Magazine hosted by the MIT PubPub open source publication platform.
Carrier-Specific Femtosecond XUV Transient Absorption of PbI2 Reveals Ultrafast Nonradiative Recombination
Creators: name: Lin, Ming-Fu
name: Verkamp, Max
name: Leveillee, Joshua
name: Ryland, Elizabeth
name: Benke, Kristin
name: Zhang, Kaili
name: Weninger, Clemens
name: Shen, Xiaozhe
name: Li, Renkai
name: Fritz, David
name: Bergmann, Uwe
name: Wang, Xijie
name: Schleife, André
name: Vura-Weis, Josh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Femtosecond carrier recombination in PbI2 is measured using tabletop high-harmonic extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption spectroscopy and ultrafast electron diffraction. XUV absorption from 45 eV to 62 eV measures transitions from the iodine 4d core level to the conduction band density of states. Photoexcitation at 400 nm creates separate and distinct transient absorption signals for holes and electrons, separated in energy by the 2.4 eV band gap of the semiconductor. The shape of the conduction band and therefore the XUV absorption spectrum is temperature dependent, and nonradiative recombination converts the initial electronic excitation to thermal excitation within picoseconds. Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is used to measure the lattice temperature and confirm the recombination mechanism. The XUV and UED results support a 2nd-order recombination model with a rate constant of 2.5x10-9 cm3/s.
Assessing the compatibility of object-oriented class libraries
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Narasimhan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Cosmic Equilibration: A Holographic No-Hair Theorem from the Generalized Second Law
Creators: name: Carroll, Sean M.
name: Chatwin-Davies, Aidan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a wide class of cosmological models, a positive cosmological constant drives cosmological evolution toward an asymptotically de Sitter phase. Here we connect this behavior to the increase of entropy over time, based on the idea that de Sitter spacetime is a maximum-entropy state. We prove a cosmic no-hair theorem for Robertson-Walker and Bianchi I spacetimes that admit a Q-screen ("quantum" holographic screen) with certain entropic properties: If generalized entropy, in the sense of the cosmological version of the Generalized Second Law conjectured by Bousso and Engelhardt, increases up to a finite maximum value along the screen, then the spacetime is asymptotically de Sitter in the future. Moreover, the limiting value of generalized entropy coincides with the de Sitter horizon entropy. We do not use the Einstein field equations in our proof, nor do we assume the existence of a positive cosmological constant. As such, asymptotic relaxation to a de Sitter phase can, in a precise sense, be thought of as cosmological equilibration.
description: 43 pages 12 figures, v2: added references, fixed typos; v3: added a corollary in sec III, reworked parts of sec IV according to referee comments, added App B; v4: small formatting changes, updated to reflect PRD
Editing Trecento: alcune riflessioni sull’analisi delle varianti musicali
Creators: name: Calvia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: Nel presente saggio si discutono alcuni dei principi che stanno alla base delle edizioni musicali del progetto European Ars Nova. Multilingual Poetry and Polyphonic Song in the Late Middle Ages, impiegando come caso di studio la ballata a due voci di Francesco degli Organi (Landini) Va' pure, Amor, e colle reti tue. L’analisi della varia lectio della ballata, trasmessa in cinque testimoni musicali, offre lo spunto per proporre alcune considerazioni in merito alle prospettive aperte dalle tecniche di edizione digitale in relazione al repertorio polifonico trecentesco.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Tuning the 0$-π$ Josephson junction with a magnetic impurity: Role of tunnel contacts, exchange coupling, $e-e$ interactions and high-spin states
Creators: name: Pal, Subhajit
name: Benjamin, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose Josephson junction with a high-spin magnetic impurity sandwiched between two superconductors. This system shows a $π$ junction behavior as a function of the spin magnetic moment state of the impurity, the interface transparency, exchange coupling and electron-electron interactions in the system. The system is theoretically analyzed for possible reason behind the $π$ shift. The crucial role of spin flip scattering is highlighted. Possible applications in quantum computation of our proposed tunable high spin magnetic impurity $π$ junction is underscored.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Scientific Reports
On the Origin of Life_A Hypothesis for the Role of Panspermia and Primordial Soup in the Emergence of Life on Earth
Creators: name: Bokati, Tekendra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310408
subject: Life histories

description: This paper proposes a hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth that combines the ideas of panspermia and the primordial soup hypothesis. The hypothesis suggests that organic molecules were delivered to Earth by meteorites or comets, and these molecules accumulated in the Earth's early oceans, forming a "primordial soup" that contained a variety of complex organic compounds. Over time, these organic molecules could have combined and evolved to form the first living cells. The hypothesis is supported by a range of scientific evidence, including the discovery of organic compounds in meteorites and comets, as well as the observation that the early Earth had the necessary conditions for the formation of complex organic molecules, such as an atmosphere rich in methane, ammonia, and water vapor, and a source of energy, such as lightning or volcanic activity. However, this hypothesis also acknowledges the limitations of our current understanding of the complex processes involved in the origin of life, and suggests that further research is needed to fully understand this important scientific question.
How did musical notation travel? Singers, manuscripts, and routes in Italy (c. 800-1100)
Creators: name: Varelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: Recent studies on early music writing definitely confirmed that neumatic notations originated from a common base of graphic techniques for the representation of sounds, rather than from a single ‘script’. These conventions were consequently developed and shaped by some of the most important carolingian centers of liturgical chant, implying that an exchange of skills and musical ‘materials’ took place during the early ninth century. However, while a series of historical records tell of the movement of singers and ‘chant’ manuscripts already in pre-Carolingian Europe, only very few later notated sources can actually provide information on how written music travelled, and on how singers may have responded to their encounter with a ‘foreign’ music script. Three case studies of Italian manuscripts – or that had an impact on Italian centers – will be analyzed from the point of view of the materiality of the various supports for the transmission of chant, assessing also the role of geography and topography in the spreading of musical notation.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras and higher level Heisenberg categorification
Creators: name: Mackaay, Marco
name: Savage, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08 (Primary), 18D10, 19A22 (Secondary)

description: We associate a monoidal category $\mathcal{H}^λ$ to each dominant integral weight $λ$ of $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_p$ or $\mathfrak{sl}_\infty$. These categories, defined in terms of planar diagrams, act naturally on categories of modules for the degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras associated to $λ$. We show that, in the $\mathfrak{sl}_\infty$ case, the level $d$ Heisenberg algebra embeds into the Grothendieck ring of $\mathcal{H}^λ$, where $d$ is the level of $λ$. The categories $\mathcal{H}^λ$ can be viewed as a graphical calculus describing induction and restriction functors between categories of modules for degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras, together with their natural transformations. As an application of this tool, we prove a new result concerning centralizers for degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras.
description: 35 pages; v2: published version
Margaritae ante porcos. Musica per s. Antonio di Vienne nell’Europa del Quattrocento
Creators: name: Rizzuti, Alberto
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: Eccezion fatta per un mottetto di Busnois e una messa perduta di Du Fay, la figura di s. Antonio abate non ha dato luogo a opere musicali di grande importanza. Il fatto è degno di nota considerando il rilievo acquisito lungo tutto il Medioevo dal santo taumaturgo e la capillarità della rete di ospedali antoniani diffusa sulle vie dell’Europa occidentale. Rea- lizzati da Giacomo Jaquerio intorno al 1415, gli affreschi della Precettoria di S. Antonio di Ranverso (Torino) presentano un ciclo di episodi al cui interno spicca quello delle Ten- tazioni. Un messale compilato per l’uso locale intorno al 1420 custodisce il testo di un versetto («O Anthoni, expulsor demonum») che consente di integrare e rettificare quello intonato in un mottetto adespoto trasmesso da un manoscritto compilato in area veneta intorno al 1440. La circostanza consente di ipotizzare una circolazione di testi antoniani anche in un’area periferica rispetto al tracciato della Via Francigena, itinerario lungo cui si dispongono le sedi principali dell’ordine.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Illuminato Aiguino and the persistence of commixture in late sixteenth-century italian music theory
Creators: name: Cascarelli Iafelice, Carlos
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: This study aims to demonstrate the detailed treatment of modal commixture adopted by Illuminato Aiguino in his two treatises, namely La Illuminata of Tutti i Tuoni di Canto Fermo (Venice, 1562) and Il Tesoro Illuminato di Tutti i Tuoni di Canto Figurato (Venice, 1581), from an alternative perspective compared to the theoretical codification approach that underpins Zarlino’s twelvefold system (after Glarean). The persistence of an expanded modal proposal of the octonary tradition post-Zarlino can also denote an op- tion for the codification of sound spaces of polyphonic pieces with characteristics that are understood to be modally inconsistent in view of the eight-mode system. Therefore, in the final part of this study, two motets cited by Zarlino as belonging to Mode 9 and 10 (Sancta et immaculata Virginitas by Morales and Flete oculi by Willaert, respectively) will be observed from the prism of Aiguino’s theory making it possible to compare and contrast from a perspective of both modal systems identifying their differences and sim- ilarities.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Coupling the Gaussian free fields with free and with zero boundary conditions via common level lines
Creators: name: Qian, Wei
name: Werner, Wendelin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out a new simple way to couple the Gaussian Free Field (GFF) with free boundary conditions in a two-dimensional domain with the GFF with zero boundary conditions in the same domain: Starting from the latter, one just has to sample at random all the signs of the height gaps on its boundary-touching zero-level lines (these signs are alternating for the zero-boundary GFF) in order to obtain a free boundary GFF. Constructions and couplings of the free boundary GFF and its level lines via soups of reflected Brownian loops and their clusters are also discussed. Such considerations show for instance that in a domain with an axis of symmetry, if one looks at the overlay of a single usual Conformal Loop Ensemble CLE(3) with its own symmetric image, one obtains the CLE(4)-type collection of level lines of a GFF with mixed zero/free boundary conditions in the half-domain.
description: 26 pages. To appear in Comm. Math. Phys
Semidefinite approximations of the matrix logarithm
Creators: name: Fawzi, Hamza
name: Saunderson, James
name: Parrilo, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The matrix logarithm, when applied to Hermitian positive definite matrices, is concave with respect to the positive semidefinite order. This operator concavity property leads to numerous concavity and convexity results for other matrix functions, many of which are of importance in quantum information theory. In this paper we show how to approximate the matrix logarithm with functions that preserve operator concavity and can be described using the feasible regions of semidefinite optimization problems of fairly small size. Such approximations allow us to use off-the-shelf semidefinite optimization solvers for convex optimization problems involving the matrix logarithm and related functions, such as the quantum relative entropy. The basic ingredients of our approach apply, beyond the matrix logarithm, to functions that are operator concave and operator monotone. As such, we introduce strategies for constructing semidefinite approximations that we expect will be useful, more generally, for studying the approximation power of functions with small semidefinite representations.
description: 31 pages, Introduction rewritten and numerous small changes throughout
An object-oriented scheduling system with knowledge objects
Creators: name: Cai, Kevin Yang.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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I funeral book italiani come fonte per la musicologia. Introduzione a An annotated bibliography of funeral books printed in Italy (1535-1666)
Creators: name: Chemotti, Antonio
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: Con il termine funeral book si indicano usualmente i resoconti a stampa a carattere commemorativo di esequie solenni, un genere letterario che divenne piuttosto comune dalla seconda metà del sedicesimo secolo. Nonostante gli autori di funeral book fossero principalmente interessati alle architetture effimere edificate per le esequie, spesso descrivevano anche la celebrazione del rito e il suo apparato musicale. Questo contributo, inteso come un’introduzione alla qui pubblicata bibliografia di funeral book stampati in Italia tra 1535 e 1666, tratteggia le caratteristiche precipue del genere e ne evidenzia al contempo la rilevanza per gli studi musicologici.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Valence quark contributions for the $γ^\ast N \to N(1440)$ form factors from Light-Front holography
Creators: name: Ramalho, G.
name: Melnikov, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of the nucleon and the first radial excitation of the nucleon, the Roper, $N(1440)$, is studied within the formalism of Light-Front holography. The nucleon elastic form factors and $γ^\ast N \to N(1440)$ transition form factors are calculated under the assumption of the dominance of the valence quark degrees of freedom. Contrary to the previous studies, the bare parameters of the model associated with the valence quark are fixed by the empirical data for large momentum transfer ($Q^2$) assuming that the corrections to the three-quark picture (meson cloud contributions) are suppressed. The $γ^\ast N \to N(1440)$ transition form factors are then calculated without any adjustable parameters. Our estimates are compared with results from models based on valence quarks and others. The model compares well with the $γ^\ast N \to N(1440)$ transition form factor data, suggesting that meson cloud effects are not large, except in the region $Q^2< 1.5$ GeV$^2$. In particular, the meson cloud contributions for the Pauli form factor are small.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures. Published version
Analyticity in Spin in Conformal Theories
Creators: name: Caron-Huot, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conformal theory correlators are characterized by the spectrum and three- point functions of local operators. We present a formula which extracts this data as an analytic function of spin. In analogy with a classic formula due to Froissart and Gribov, it is sensitive only to an "imaginary part" which appears after analytic continuation to Lorentzian signature, and it converges thanks to recent bounds on the high-energy Regge limit. At large spin, substituting in cross-channel data, the formula yields 1/J expansions with controlled errors. In large-N theories, the imaginary part is saturated by single-trace operators. For a sparse spectrum, it manifests the suppression of bulk higher-derivative interactions that constitutes the signature of a local gravity dual in Anti-de-Sitter space.
description: 33+12 pages, 6 figures. Typos fixed, published version
An annotated bibliography of funeral books printed in Italy (1535-1666)
Creators: name: Chemotti, Antonio
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: The present bibliography lists funeral books printed in Italy between 1535 and 1666 to commemorate solemn exequies held in the Italian peninsula and in Sicily. Few funeral books printed in Italy are devoted to exequies held abroad: these are marked with the sign * placed before the short title.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Simulation studies of real traffic streams with applications to ATM traffic management and network dimensioning
Creators: name: Yu, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Alle origini del pensiero compositivo di Liszt. Storia e profezia nel De profundis (1834)
Creators: name: Fontanelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: La sperimentazione lisztiana sulla forma ciclica e sulle tecniche di metamorfosi tematica viene generalmente associata ai capolavori del periodo di Weimar (la Sonata in Si minore, il Grosses Konzertsolo, la versione definitiva dei due Concerti). Pochi sanno che quelle soluzioni erano già state impiegate vent’anni prima a Parigi, in un’opera rimasta inedita: il De profundis per pianoforte e orchestra, ‘salmo strumentale’ di ben 900 battute, che si articola in più movimenti senza soluzione di continuità. Il contributo rimette al centro il lavoro del giovane Liszt, a lungo trascurato dall’indagine musicologica, individuandone i possibili modelli e la semantica delle strategie compositive. Viene ricostruito il contesto nel quale maturò la genesi dell’opera, con particolare riguardo agli influssi del dedicatario, l’abate Lamennais. Si propone quindi una lettura in chiave programmatica, che interpreta il De profundis come un ‘poema sinfonico’ ante litteram, sulla base di due fonti coeve: il libello lamennaisiano Paroles d’un croyant, nel quale il salmo 129 veniva declinato nei termini di un’escatologia sociale e politica, e il saggio di Liszt del 1834 sulla musica sacra dell’avvenire. L’analisi della partitura, unita all’approfondimento dello sfondo storico-culturale, fa luce sulle molteplici valenze del progetto lisztiano, chiarendo aspetti che i commentatori avevano sinora giudicato incomprensibili, come ad esempio il significato dell’intermezzo polacco, che irrompe come un corpo estraneo a metà del pezzo, o l’apparente contrasto tra la dimensione del sacro e la teatralità ‘mondana’ di certi passaggi. Nel De profundis sono già racchiusi, con sorprendente preveggenza, gli esiti del Liszt maturo e, in questo senso, lo studio qui proposto non può che giovare a una rinnovata comprensione dell’universo del compositore e della continuità della sua parabola.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Field equations from Killing spinors
Creators: name: Açık, Özgür
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the Killing spinor equation and the equations satisfied by their bilinears we deduce some well known bosonic and fermionic field equations of mathematical physics. Aside from the trivially satisfied Dirac equation, these relativistic wave equations in curved spacetimes respectively are Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, Proca, Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau, Kähler, twistor and Rarita-Schwinger equations. This result shows that, besides being special kinds of Dirac fermions, Killing fermions can be regarded as physically fundamental. For the Maxwell case the problem of motion is analysed in a reverse manner with respect to the works of Einstein-Groemer-Infeld-Hoffmann and Jean Marie Souriau. In the analysis of the gravitino field a generalised $3-ψ$ rule is found which is termed the vanishing trace constraint.
description: 10 pages, published version
The process of CASE implementation into organisations
Creators: name: Hodgson, Brett.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio per violoncello solo (1945) di Luigi Dallapiccola: indagine sui problemi testuali e sul ruolo di Gaspar Cassadó
Creators: name: Scigliuzzo, Francesca
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2021

description: Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio per violoncello solo fu composto da Luigi Dallapiccola nel 1945 su richiesta del virtuoso strumentista Gaspar Cassadó. La collaborazione tra i due maestri, non di certo un unicum nella storia novecentesca, produsse un capolavoro innovativo sia per la tecnica compositiva sperimentata da Dallapiccola, sia per la ricerca di nuove soluzioni strumentali da parte di Cassadó. Il saggio ricostruisce la storia di tale collaborazione, la genesi del brano ed esamina i testimoni più antichi da cui esso è tramandato, rivolgendo l’attenzione soprattutto ad alcune varianti annotate dal violoncellista ma mai accolte nella tradizione a stampa. Il contributo costituisce uno studio preparatorio in vista di un’auspicabile edizione critica.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 20, N° 1 (2021)
Quality metrics : test coverage analysis for Smalltalk
Creators: name: Connell, Mark.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Log terminal singularities, platonic tuples and iteration of Cox rings
Creators: name: Arzhantsev, Ivan
name: Braun, Lukas
name: Hausen, Juergen
name: Wrobel, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L30, 14L32, 14E15, 14B05

description: Looking at the well understood case of log terminal surface singularities, one observes that each of them is the quotient of a factorial one by a finite solvable group. The derived series of this group reflects an iteration of Cox rings of surface singularities. We extend this picture to log terminal singularities in any dimension coming with a torus action of complexity one. In this setting, the previously finite groups become solvable torus extensions. As explicit examples, we investigate compound du Val threefold singularities. We give a complete classification and exhibit all the possible chains of iterated Cox rings.
description: Minor revision, 56 pages
title: The pathology of bracken-associated tumours in cattle
Creators: name: McNeil, Pauline E.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Animal diseases, pathology.

description: This thesis describes the pathology of UAT carcinoma and urinary bladder neoplasia in cattle in the West of Scotland. The UAT tumours are squamous carcinomas which occur as verrucose protruberances or ulcerative downgrowths. In a survey of 100 cases, predilection sites were the tongue, soft palate and oropharynx, the oesophagus, the reticular groove and the dorsal sac of the rumen; sites where viral papillomas were also commonly found. The microscopical appearance of the tumours is detailed and a grading system is proposed, based on the degrees of cellular atypia and anaplasia, which correlates well with the incidence of secondary tumours. Examination of 60 cases of urinary bladder neoplasia revealed vascular, epithelial or fibrous tumours. A striking feature of most cases was the variety and multiplicity of lesions in each bladder. A spectrum of changes was seen ranging from epithelial hyperplasia and dysplasia, capillary proliferation and ectasia and stromal hyperplasia to frank neoplasms which occasionally infiltrated widely and in a few cases produced secondary deposits. The bladder tumours were indistinguishable from those described by other authors in association with CEH and presumed to be due to long term ingestion of bracken fern. A high incidence of bovine UAT carcinoma has been described by workers in Kenya, but only in Brazil has the co-incidence of UAT and urinary bladder neoplasia in cattle been reported previously. Brazilian authors attributed the occurrence of tumours at both sites to the oncogenic action of bracken fern. Epidemiological studies of cases in the West of Scotland have also implicated bracken fern as a possible aetiological agent. Chapter II of the thesis describes a preliminary experiment in which four cattle received intra-ruminal inoculations of bovine papillomavirus and were fed bracken fern, intermittently, for up to eight years. Only minimal haematological changes were observed and the acute toxic effects of the plant were avoided, yet three animals which survived more than five years developed haematuria and had bladder tumours at necropsy. No UAT carcinoma was found and the results do not clarify the possible role of papillomavirus in the development of bovine cancer. This work does confirm the major aetiological role of bracken fern in bovine bladder neoplasia but evidence for its role in the aetiology of UAT carcinoma remains circumstantial.
A multiple-constituency approach for the evaluation of decision support systems
Creators: name: Maynard, Sean.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Maximal fluctuations of confined actomyosin gels: dynamics of the cell nucleus
Creators: name: Rupprecht, Jean-Francois
name: Vishen, Amit Singh
name: Shivashankar, G. V.
name: Rao, Madan
name: Prost, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of stress fluctuations on the stochastic dynamics of an inclusion embedded in a viscous gel. We show that, in non-equilibrium systems, stress fluctuations give rise to an effective attraction towards the boundaries of the confining domain, which is reminiscent of an active Casimir effect. We apply this generic result to the dynamics of deformations of the cell nucleus and we demonstrate the appearance of a fluctuation maximum at a critical level of activity, in agreement with recent experiments [E. Makhija, D. S. Jokhun, and G. V. Shivashankar, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, E32 (2016)].
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Issues involved in combining the OODMS and CBSD
Creators: name: Angkasaputra, Niniek.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A generalized quantum Slepian-Wolf
Creators: name: Anshu, Anurag
name: Jain, Rahul
name: Warsi, Naqueeb Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we consider a quantum generalization of the task considered by Slepian and Wolf [1973] regarding distributed source compression. In our task Alice, Bob, Charlie and Reference share a joint pure state. Alice and Bob wish to send a part of their respective systems to Charlie without collaborating with each other. We give achievability bounds for this task in the one-shot setting and provide the asymptotic and i.i.d. analysis in the case when there is no side information with Charlie. Our result implies the result of Abeyesinghe, Devetak, Hayden and Winter [2009] who studied a special case of this problem. As another special case wherein Bob holds trivial registers, we recover the result of Devetak and Yard [2008] regarding quantum state redistribution.
description: 35 pages, close to published version
An investigation into desktop management techniques and the desktop management interface
Creators: name: Ngieng, See Hung.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A new length scale, and modified Einstein-Cartan-Dirac equations for a point mass
Creators: name: Singh, Tejinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently proposed a new action principle for combining Einstein equations and the Dirac equation for a point mass. We used a length scale $L_{CS}$, dubbed the Compton-Schwarzschild length, to which the Compton wavelength and Schwarzschild radius are small mass and large mass approximations, respectively. Here we write down the field equations which follow from this action. We argue that the large mass limit yields Einstein equations, provided we assume wave function collapse and localisation for large masses. The small mass limit yields the Dirac equation. We explain why the Kerr-Newman black hole has the same gyromagnetic ratio as the Dirac electron, both being twice the classical value. The small mass limit also provides compelling reasons for introducing torsion, which is sourced by the spin density of the Dirac field. There is thus a symmetry between torsion and gravity: torsion couples to quantum objects through Planck's constant $\hbar$ (but not $G$) and is important in the microscopic limit. Whereas gravity couples to classical matter, as usual, through Newton's gravitational constant $G$ (but not $\hbar$), and is important in the macroscopic limit. We construct the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac equations which include the length $L_{CS}$. We find a potentially significant change in the coupling constant of the torsion driven cubic non-linear self-interaction term in the Dirac-Hehl-Datta equation. We speculate on the possibility that gravity is not a fundamental interaction, but emerges as a consequence of wave function collapse, and that the gravitational constant maybe expressible in terms of Planck's constant and the parameters of dynamical collapse models.
description: 12 pages; this article is a follow-up of arXiv:1704.00747v2 [gr-qc]; remarks on `cubic Dirac fermions in Dirac semi-metals' added on page 7; paragraph added on page 8 to quantitatively compare spin density and mass density; references added; v3: clarifying remarks added after Eqn. (13), conclusions unchanged, references updated, published in Int. J. Mod. Phys
Data integrity and availability in distributed databases
Creators: name: Phan, Hong Hoc Thi.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A precise determination of the top-quark pole mass
Creators: name: Wang, Sheng-Quan
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Si, Zong-Guo
name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) provides a systematic way to eliminate the renormalization scheme and renormalization scale uncertainties for high-energy processes. We have observed that by applying PMC scale-setting, one obtains comprehensive and self-consistent pQCD predictions for the top-quark pair total cross-section and the top-quark pair forward-backward asymmetry in agreement with the measurements at the Tevatron and LHC. As a step forward, in the present paper, we determine the top-quark pole mass via a detailed comparison of the top-quark pair cross-section with the measurements at the Tevatron and LHC. The results for the top-quark pole mass are $m_t=174.6^{+3.1}_{-3.2}$ GeV for the Tevatron with $\sqrt{S}=1.96$ TeV, $m_t=173.7\pm1.5$ GeV and $174.2\pm1.7$ GeV for the LHC with $\sqrt{S} = 7$ TeV and $8$ TeV, respectively. Those predictions agree with the average, $173.34\pm0.76$ GeV, obtained from various collaborations via direct measurements. The consistency of the pQCD predictions using the PMC with all of the collider measurements at different energies provides an important verification of QCD.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Revised version to be published in Eur.Phys.J.C
Bilocal fields and gravity
Creators: name: Diaz, Pablo
name: Das, Saurya
name: Walton, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a classical bilocal field theory perturbatively up to second order. The chosen theory is the simplest which incorporates action-at-a-distance, while keeping non-local effects short-ranged. We show that the new degrees of freedom introduced by bilocality can be interpreted as gravitational degrees of freedom in the following sense: solutions of the bilocal system at linear and second order contain as a subset, gravitational perturbations (spacetime fluctuations) also to that order. In other words, gravity can be thought to originate in a bilocal field theory. We examine potential implications.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure. New version with material from arXiv:1609.08631 that matches the upcoming publication in IJMPD
Dynamic channel allocation for TCP/IP routing
Creators: name: Shao, Wei.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Knowledge discovery in database : rule discovery approach
Creators: name: Li, Kwok Kwan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Excitonic Phase Diagram of the Three-Chain Hubbard Model for Semiconducting and Semimetallic Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$
Creators: name: Domon, Kaoru
name: Yamada, Takemi
name: Ōno, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition metal chalcogenide Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$, a promising material for the excitonic insulator, is investigated on the basis of the quasi-one-dimensional three-chain Hubbard model with two conduction ($c$) bands and one valence ($f$) band. In the semimetallic case where only one of two $c$ bands and the $f$ band cross the Fermi level, the transition from the $c$-$f$ compensated semimetal to the uniform excitonic insulator takes place at low temperature as the same as in the semiconducting case. On the other hand, when another $c$ band also crosses the Fermi level, the system shows three types of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) excitonic orders characterized by the condensation of excitons with finite center-of-mass momentum $q$ corresponding to the three types of nesting vectors between the imbalanced two $c$ and one $f$ Fermi surfaces. The obtained FFLO states are metallic in contrast to the excitonic insulator and are expected to be observed in semimetallic Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ under high pressure.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Optimal Precoders for Tracking the AoD and AoA of a mm-Wave Path
Creators: name: Garcia, Nil
name: Wymeersch, Henk
name: Slock, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In millimeter-wave channels, most of the received energy is carried by a few paths. Traditional precoders sweep the angle-of-departure (AoD) and angle-of-arrival (AoA) space with directional precoders to identify directions with largest power. Such precoders are heuristic and lead to sub-optimal AoD/AoA estimation. We derive optimal precoders, minimizing the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) of the AoD/AoA, assuming a fully digital architecture at the transmitter and spatial filtering of a single path. The precoders are found by solving a suitable convex optimization problem. We demonstrate that the accuracy can be improved by at least a factor of two over traditional precoders, and show that there is an optimal number of distinct precoders beyond which the CRB does not improve.
description: Resubmission to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing. 12 pages and 9 figures
Finite Mixtures of Skewed Matrix Variate Distributions
Creators: name: Gallaugher, Michael P. B.
name: McNicholas, Paul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering is the process of finding underlying group structures in data. Although mixture model-based clustering is firmly established in the multivariate case, there is a relative paucity of work on matrix variate distributions and none for clustering with mixtures of skewed matrix variate distributions. Four finite mixtures of skewed matrix variate distributions are considered. Parameter estimation is carried out using an expectation-conditional maximization algorithm, and both simulated and real data are used for illustration.
The role of metaphor in computer interface design and use
Creators: name: Hamilton, Anne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A cross-correlation-based estimate of the galaxy luminosity function
Creators: name: van Daalen, Marcel P.
name: White, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend existing methods for using cross-correlations to derive redshift distributions for photometric galaxies, without using photometric redshifts. The model presented in this paper simultaneously yields highly accurate and unbiased redshift distributions and, for the first time, redshift-dependent luminosity functions, using only clustering information and the apparent magnitudes of the galaxies as input. In contrast to many existing techniques for recovering unbiased redshift distributions, the output of our method is not degenerate with the galaxy bias b(z), which is achieved by modelling the shape of the luminosity bias. We successfully apply our method to a mock galaxy survey and discuss improvements to be made before applying our model to real data.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. Replaced to match the version accepted by MNRAS
Derivation of mean-field equations for stochastic particle systems
Creators: name: Jatuviriyapornchai, Watthanan
name: Grosskinsky, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study stochastic particle systems on a complete graph and derive effective mean-field rate equations in the limit of diverging system size, which are also known from cluster aggregation models. We establish the propagation of chaos under generic growth conditions on particle jump rates, and the limit provides a master equation for the single site dynamics of the particle system, which is a non-linear birth death chain. Conservation of mass in the particle system leads to conservation of the first moment for the limit dynamics, and to non-uniqueness of stationary distributions. Our findings are consistent with recent results on exchange driven growth, and provide a connection between the well studied phenomena of gelation and condensation.
description: 26 pages
Upstream Causes of Downstream Effects
Creators: name: Saul, Bradley C.
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Mallin, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The United States Environmental Protection Agency considers nutrient pollution in stream ecosystems one of the U.S. most pressing environmental challenges. But limited independent replicates, lack of experimental randomization, and space- and time-varying confounding handicap causal inference on effects of nutrient pollution. In this paper the causal g-methods developed by Robins and colleagues are extended to allow for exposures to vary in time and space in order to assess the effects of nutrient pollution on chlorophyll a, a proxy for algal production. Publicly available data from the North Carolina Cape Fear River and a simulation study are used to show how causal effects of upstream nutrient concentrations on downstream chlorophyll a levels may be estimated from typical water quality monitoring data. Estimates obtained from the parametric g-formula, a marginal structural model, and a structural nested model indicate that chlorophyll a concentrations at Lock and Dam 1 were influenced by nitrate concentrations measured 86 to 109 km upstream, an area where four major industrial and municipal point sources discharge wastewater.