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An assessment of the chemistry journal collection of the Hargrave Library, Monash University
Creators: name: Chong, Siaw-Wan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Thesis Manuscript
Creators: name: Kamal, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440603
subject: Economic geography
classificationCode: 310307
subject: Population ecology

description: This is the manuscript for a Master's Thesis at Toulouse School of Economics and part of a Figshare collection also containing codes and data.All questions should be addressed to peter.kamal@t-online.de
Harmonic Spinors on a Family of Einstein Manifolds
Creators: name: Franchetti, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to study harmonic spinors defined on a 1-parameter family of Einstein manifolds which includes Taub-NUT, Eguchi-Hanson and $P^2(C)$ with the Fubini-Study metric as particular cases. We discuss the existence of and explicitly solve for spinors harmonic with respect to the Dirac operator twisted by a geometrically preferred connection. The metrics examined are defined, for generic values of the parameter, on a non-compact manifold with the topology of $C^2$ and extend to $P^2(C)$ as edge-cone metrics. As a consequence, the subtle boundary conditions of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem need to be carefully considered in order to show agreement between the index of the twisted Dirac operator and the result obtained by counting the explicit solutions.
description: Updated to match the published version
Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Creators: name: Simonis, Stephan
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: lattice Boltzmann methods
partial differential equations
relaxation systems
relaxation functions
numerical analysis
computational analysis
spectral analysis
scheme construction
stability
limit consistency
convergence
accuracy
computational fluid dynamics
Navier–Stokes equations
turbulence
temporal large eddy simulation
statistical solutions
Euler equations
Cahn–Hilliard equation
advection–diffusion equation
free energy functionals
binary fluid flow simulation
fluid flow in porous media
exploratory computing
high performance computing

description: Lattice Boltzmann methods provide a robust and highly scalable numerical technique in modern computational fluid dynamics. Besides the discretization procedure, the relaxation principles form the basis of any lattice Boltzmann scheme and render the method a bottom-up approach, which obstructs its development for approximating broad classes of partial differential equations. This work introduces a novel coherent mathematical path to jointly approach the topics of constructability, stability, and limit consistency for lattice Boltzmann methods. A new constructive ansatz for lattice Boltzmann equations is introduced, which highlights the concept of relaxation in a top-down procedure starting at the targeted partial differential equation. Modular convergence proofs are used at each step to identify the key ingredients of relaxation frequencies, equilibria, and moment bases in the ansatz, which determine linear and nonlinear stability as well as consistency orders of relaxation and space-time discretization. For the latter, conventional techniques are employed and extended to determine the impact of the kinetic limit at the very foundation of lattice Boltzmann methods. To computationally analyze nonlinear stability, extensive numerical tests are enabled by combining the intrinsic parallelizability of lattice Boltzmann methods with the platform-agnostic and scalable open-source framework OpenLB. Through upscaling the number and quality of computations, large variations in the parameter spaces of classical benchmark problems are considered for the exploratory indication of methodological insights. Finally, the introduced mathematical and computational techniques are applied for the proposal and analysis of new lattice Boltzmann methods. Based on stabilized relaxation, limit consistent discretizations, and consistent temporal filters, novel numerical schemes are developed for approximating initial value problems and initial boundary value problems as well as coupled systems thereof. In particular, lattice Boltzmann methods are proposed and analyzed for temporal large eddy simulation, for simulating homogenized nonstationary fluid flow through porous media, for binary fluid flow simulations with higher order free energy models, and for the combination with Monte Carlo sampling to approximate statistical solutions of the incompressible Euler equations in three dimensions.
Searching for Exoplanets Around X-Ray Binaries with Accreting White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
Creators: name: Imara, Nia
name: Di Stefano, Rosanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recommend that the search for exoplanets around binary stars be extended to include X-ray binaries in which the accretor is a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. We present a novel idea for detecting planets bound to such mass transfer binaries: we propose that the X-ray light curves of these binaries be inspected for signatures of transiting planets. X-ray transits may be the only way to detect planets around some systems, while providing a complementary approach to optical and/or radio observations in others. Any planets associated with X-ray binaries must be in stable orbits. We consider the range of allowable separations and find that orbital periods can be hours or longer, while transit durations extend upward from about a minute for Earth-radius planets in very close orbits, to hours for Jupiter-radius planets in wider orbits. The search for planets around mass transfer binaries could begin at once with existing X-ray observations of these systems. If and when a planet is detected around an X-ray binary, the size and mass of the planet may be readily measured, and it may also be possible to study the transmission and absorption of X-rays through its atmosphere. Finally, a noteworthy application of our proposal is that the same technique could be used to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. If an advanced exocivilization placed a Dyson sphere or similar structure in orbit around the accretor of an X-ray binary in order to capture energy, such an artificial structure might cause detectable transits in the X-ray light curve.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Access and equity : reactions from library professionals to the Reagan government's domestic information policies, 1981-1984
Creators: name: Felder, Karen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Harmonic functions vanishing on a cone
Creators: name: Mangoubi, Dan
name: Weller-Weiser, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let $Z$ be a quadratic harmonic cone in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. We consider the family $\mathcal{H}(Z)$ of all harmonic functions vanishing on $Z$. Is $\mathcal{H}(Z)$ finite or infinite dimensional? Some aspects of this question go back to as early as the 19th century. To the best of our knowledge, no nondegenerate quadratic harmonic cone exists for which the answer to this question is known. In this paper we study the right circular harmonic cone and give evidence that the family of harmonic functions vanishing on it is, maybe surprisingly, finite dimensional. We introduce an arithmetic method to handle this question which extends ideas of Holt and Ille and is reminiscent of Hensel's Lemma.
description: 19 pages; changes in acknowledgments and referee comments incorporated
An assessment of strategies to identify and specify requirements for the creation and capture of evidence in the child protection function
Creators: name: Theodore, Carolyn Barbara.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Semi-analytical solution of multilayer diffusion problems with time-varying boundary conditions and general interface conditions
Creators: name: Carr, Elliot J.
name: March, Nathan G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a new semi-analytical method for solving multilayer diffusion problems with time-varying external boundary conditions and general internal boundary conditions at the interfaces between adjacent layers. The convergence rate of the semi-analytical method, relative to the number of eigenvalues, is investigated and the effect of varying the interface conditions on the solution behaviour is explored. Numerical experiments demonstrate that solutions can be computed using the new semi-analytical method that are more accurate and more efficient than the unified transform method of Sheils [Appl. Math. Model., 46:450-464, 2017]. Furthermore, unlike classical analytical solutions and the unified transform method, only the new semi-analytical method is able to correctly treat problems with both time-varying external boundary conditions and a large number of layers. The paper is concluded by replicating solutions to several important industrial, environmental and biological applications previously reported in the literature, demonstrating the wide applicability of the work.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, accepted version of paper published in Applied Mathematics and Computation
Estimated values of the kinetic energy for liquid $^3$He
Creators: name: Zampronio, V.
name: Vitiello, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kinetic energy is estimated for the ground-state of liquid $^3$He at equilibrium density. The obtained value for this quantity, $10.16\pm0.05$ K/atom at density $0.0163~\mboxÅ$, is in agreement with most of the experimental data found in the literature. This result resolves a long-standing controversy between experimental and theoretical values of this quantity. The variational path integral method, an "exact" quantum Monte Carlo method extended for fermionic systems, is applied in the calculations. The results obtained are subjected only to the restrictions imposed by a chosen nodal structure without any further approximation, even for quantities that do not commute with the Hamiltonian. The required fixed-node approximation entails an implementation that allows a more effective estimation of the quantities of interest. Total and potential energies together with the radial distribution function are also computed.
description: 10 pages and 3 figure
Minimal boundaries in Tonelli Lagrangian systems
Creators: name: Asselle, Luca
name: Benedetti, Gabriele
name: Mazzucchelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J45, 58E05

description: We prove several new results concerning action minimizing periodic orbits of Tonelli Lagrangian systems on an oriented closed surface $M$. More specifically, we show that for every energy larger than the maximal energy of a constant orbit and smaller than or equal to the Mañé critical value of the universal abelian cover, the Lagrangian system admits a minimal boundary, i.e. a global minimizer of the Lagrangian action on the space of smooth boundaries of open sets of $M$. We also extend the celebrated graph theorem of Mather in this context: in the tangent bundle $TM$, the union of the supports of all lifted minimal boundaries with a given energy projects injectively to the base $M$. Finally, we prove the existence of action minimizing simple periodic orbits on energies just above the Mañé critical value of the universal abelian cover. This provides in particular a class of non-reversible Finsler metrics on the 2-sphere possessing infinitely many closed geodesics.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures. This version also incorporates the results of arXiv:1702.08815 (the preprint arXiv:1702.08815 has been withdrawn from the arXiv, and will not be submitted for publication)
Presentation: Social-Media Mapping of Discourses Related to the Repatriation of Former is Residents from Indonesia
Creators: name: Hestutomo Restu Kuncoro
name: Dyah Lupita Sari
name: Rachmawati, Iva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material has presented on 1st International Conference on Advance Research in Social and Economic Science. October 25, 2022
Topological transport in Dirac nodal-line semimetals
Creators: name: Rui, W. B.
name: Zhao, Y. X.
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by one-dimensional Dirac nodal rings that are protected by the combined symmetry of inversion $\mathcal{P}$ and time-reversal $\mathcal{T}$. The stability of these Dirac rings is guaranteed by a quantized $\pm π$ Berry phase and their low-energy physics is described by a one-parameter family of (2+1)-dimensional quantum field theories exhibiting the parity anomaly. Here we study the Berry-phase supported topological transport of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$ invariant nodal-line semimetals. We find that small inversion breaking allows for an electric-field induced anomalous transverse current, whose universal component originates from the parity anomaly. Due to this Hall-like current, carriers at opposite sides of the Dirac nodal ring flow to opposite surfaces when an electric field is applied. To detect the topological currents, we propose a dumbbell device, which uses surface states to filter charges based on their momenta. Suggestions for experiments and device applications are discussed.
Equidistribution in Shrinking Sets and L^4-Norm Bounds for Automorphic Forms
Creators: name: Humphries, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F12 (primary), 58J51 (secondary)

description: We study two closely related problems stemming from the random wave conjecture for Maass forms. The first problem is bounding the $L^4$-norm of a Maass form in the large eigenvalue limit; we complete the work of Spinu to show that the $L^4$-norm of an Eisenstein series $E(z,1/2+it_g)$ restricted to compact sets is bounded by $\sqrt{\log t_g}$. The second problem is quantum unique ergodicity in shrinking sets; we show that by averaging over the centre of hyperbolic balls in $Γ\backslash \mathbb{H}$, quantum unique ergodicity holds for almost every shrinking ball whose radius is larger than the Planck scale. This result is conditional on the generalised Lindelof hypothesis for Maass eigenforms but is unconditional for Eisenstein series. We also show that equidistribution for Maass eigenforms need not hold at or below the Planck scale. Finally, we prove similar equidistribution results in shrinking sets for Heegner points and closed geodesics associated to ideal classes of quadratic fields.
description: 36 pages. To appear in Mathematische Annalen
English stately-home libraries : their use and decoration in the nineteenth century
Creators: name: Williams, Jennifer A. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A scoping review on occupational science research in European contexts
Creators: name: Morville, Anne-Le
name: Jones, Janice
name: Bar, Michal Avrech
name: Clouston, Teena
name: Dür, Mona
name: Ilper, Nicole
name: Röschel, Anna
name: Whitcombe, Steve
name: Kristensen, Hanne Kaae
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: A survey showed European occupational scientists cover a broad range in occupational science (OS) research, however, no contemporary overviews of European OS research exists, and current research may provide valuable information for OS and occupational therapy. The aim was to provide an overview of contemporary European OS research. A scoping review was performed, including studies conducted in Europe and published in the British Journal of Occupational Therapy (BJOT), the Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy (SJOT) or the Journal of Occupational Science (JOS) between 2015 and 2020. The journals were systematically searched, and quality assessment and thematic analysis were undertaken. Findings from 93 articles identified many studies from the Nordic countries. Most studies applied qualitative research methods. Theoretical concepts from OS were used in data generating and discussions. A wide range of demographics, and living conditions were explored. Recent articles took a reflexive stance on the positionality of the researcher/s. This review highlights the diversity of OS research, suggesting a solid theoretical knowledge base within European OS research. The results contribute to further development and maturation of the discipline of OS in Europe and internationally.
Comparison of the X-ray emission from Tidal Disruption Events with those of Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Auchettl, Katie
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
name: Guillochon, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main challenges of current tidal disruption events (TDEs) studies is that emission arising from AGN activity may potentially mimic the expected X-ray emission of a TDE. Here we compare the X-ray properties of TDEs and AGN to determine a set of characteristics which would allow us to discriminate between flares arising from these two objects. We find that at peak, TDEs are brighter than AGN found at similar redshifts. However, compared to preflare upperlimits, highly variable AGN can produce flares of a similar order of magnitude as those seen from X-ray TDEs. Nevertheless, TDEs decay significantly more monotonically, and their emission exhibits little variation in spectral hardness as a function of time. We also find that X-ray TDEs are less absorbed, and their emission is much softer than the emission detected from AGN found at similar redshifts. We derive the X-ray luminosity function (LF) for X-ray TDEs using the events from Auchettl et al. (2017). Interestingly, our X-ray LF matches closely the theoretically derived LF by Milosavljević et al. (2006). which assumes a higher TDE rate currently estimated from observations. Using our results and the results of Stone & Metzger (2016), we estimate a TDE rate of $(0.7-4.7)\times10^{-4}$ yr$^{-1}$ per galaxy, higher than current observational estimates. We find that TDEs can contribute significantly to the LF of AGN for $z\lesssim0.4$, while there is no evidence that TDEs influence the growth of $10^{6-7}M_{\odot}$ BHs. However, BHs $<10^{6}M_{\odot}$ can grow from TDEs arising from super-Eddington accretion without contributing significantly to the observed AGN LF at $z=0$.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to ApJ
Herding boosts too-connected-to-fail risk in stock market of China
Creators: name: Lu, Shan
name: Zhao, Jichang
name: Wang, Huiwen
name: Ren, Ruoen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crowd panic and its contagion play non-negligible roles at the time of the stock crash, especially for China where inexperienced investors dominate the market. However, existing models rarely consider investors in networking stocks and accordingly miss the exact knowledge of how panic contagion leads to abrupt crash. In this paper, by networking stocks of sharing common mutual funds, a new methodology of investigating the market crash is presented. It is surprisingly revealed that the herding, which origins in the mimic of seeking for high diversity across investment strategies to lower individual risk, will produce too-connected-to-fail stocks and reluctantly boosts the systemic risk of the entire market. Though too-connected stocks might be relatively stable during the crisis, they are so influential that a small downward fluctuation will cascade to trigger severe drops of massive successor stocks, implying that their falls might be unexpectedly amplified by the collective panic and result in the market crash. Our findings suggest that the whole picture of portfolio strategy has to be carefully supervised to reshape the stock network.
An evaluation of Chinese-language collections in Melbourne : the State Library of Victoria, public libraries and Chinese community libraries
Creators: name: Tse, Soo-Kin Helen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Australian debate on privacy law 1970-1995
Creators: name: Langford, Ron F. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Manin constant in the semistable case
Creators: name: Cesnavicius, Kestutis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11G05, 11G10, Secondary 11G18, 11F11, 14G35

description: For an optimal modular parametrization $J_0(n) \twoheadrightarrow E$ of an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ of conductor $n$, Manin conjectured the agreement of two natural $\mathbb{Z}$-lattices in the $\mathbb{Q}$-vector space $H^0(E, Ω^1)$. Multiple authors generalized his conjecture to higher dimensional newform quotients. We prove the Manin conjecture for semistable $E$, give counterexamples to all the proposed generalizations, and prove several semistable special cases of these generalizations. The proofs establish general relations between the integral $p$-adic etale and de Rham cohomologies of abelian varieties over $p$-adic fields and exhibit a new exactness result for Neron models.
description: 28 pages; final version, to appear in Compositio Mathematica
Experiment 1: predicting episodic memory performance for meaningless items
Creators: name: Moulin, Chris
name: Devaluez, Méline
name: Souchay, Céline
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: episodic memory
subject: memory
subject: metacognition
subject: metamemory
subject: semantic processing

description: This projects aims at assessing whether people are accurate in predicting their performance on an episodic memory task when semantic processing of items is not possible. In this first experiment, participants learnt pairs of items which were real words or pseudo-words. They had to predict their future recognition memory performance. The goal was to assess whether semantic processing of information is necessary to accurately predict memory performance.
Realizing the vision : towards managing electronic records in Malaysia
Creators: name: Ismail, Aliza.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Gaining intellectual control of records in a large Australian government agency : a case study
Creators: name: Eccleston, Elaine.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Rigidity of volume-minimizing hypersurfaces in Riemannian 5-manifolds
Creators: name: Mendes, Abraão
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we generalize the main result of [4] for manifolds that are not necessarily Einstein. In fact, we obtain an upper bound for the volume of a locally volume-minimizing closed hypersurface $Σ$ of a Riemannian 5-manifold $M$ with scalar curvature bounded from below by a positive constant in terms of the total traceless Ricci curvature of $Σ$. Furthermore, if $Σ$ saturates the respective upper bound and $M$ has nonnegative Ricci curvature, then $Σ$ is isometric to $\mathbb{S}^4$ up to scaling and $M$ splits in a neighborhood of $Σ$. Also, we obtain a rigidity result for the Riemannian cover of $M$ when $Σ$ minimizes the volume in its homotopy class and saturates the upper bound.
description: 9 pages. Minor changes. Version to appear in Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society
The Boy's own paper and the Boy Scout Movement, 1908-1914 : a thematic study
Creators: name: Coleman, Kylie M. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenpeng
name: Lu, Xuan
name: Ai, Wei
name: Li, Huoran
name: Mei, Qiaozhu
name: Liu, Xuanzhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Based on a large data set of emoji using behavior collected from smartphone users over the world, this paper investigates gender-specific usage of emojis. We present various interesting findings that evidence a considerable difference in emoji usage by female and male users. Such a difference is significant not just in a statistical sense; it is sufficient for a machine learning algorithm to accurately infer the gender of a user purely based on the emojis used in their messages. In real world scenarios where gender inference is a necessity, models based on emojis have unique advantages over existing models that are based on textual or contextual information. Emojis not only provide language-independent indicators, but also alleviate the risk of leaking private user information through the analysis of text and metadata.
description: The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018)
Cultural Production of Video Games: Conditions of Control and Resistance
Creators: name: Tomkinson, Sian
name: Harper, Tauel
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2022

description: In this article we consider how much control gamers have over game culture and production, arguing that the monopolistic power of corporations has been challenged in many cases by resistant cultures. In the view of the Frankfurt School’s culture industry, ownership and control of the means of production translates into control over culture. Indeed, the high costs of production and platformisation has extended trends of consolidation and control in the video game industry. However, there is also evidence that this consolidation and control can be resisted by digitally native, active, and organised sub-cultures. Such moments occur, we suggest, in part due to the contingent and digital nature of video games, which allows digitally literate players to utilise tools and communities to resist the cultural control of platform owners. In the face of a general tendency to emphasise the winner-takes-all effects of platform technology, our research suggests that technological literacy and enthusiast communities can play a crucial role in governing game production. Examining the games industry, we show that, generally, cultural production is shaped by concerns around profitability, but under some quite particular conditions, the affordances of versatile digital technology can contribute to more idiosyncratic cultural production. We discuss examples such as the Universal Windows Platform (2019), Minecraft (2011) and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) to provide insight into ways that gamers have influence over video game production.
description: gamevironments, No. 17 (2022): Special Issue "Social Justice"
A history of the children's book trade in England and America to 1830
Creators: name: Wood, Christopher T. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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From Political Economy to Identity Politics: A Forum Study of Political Discussions between Players
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Kristine
name: Sekanina, Ida
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2022

description: This article presents the results from a qualitative study of how players discuss political issues in videogames and game culture in two of the largest and most active English-language online forums for games in the aftermath of the #gamergate controversy. Taking a broad understanding of politics that includes ideology and tensions relating to the distribution of values and power, the study includes sociopolitical discussions spanning political economy and identity politics. Our results show that while gender and identity politics with little doubt remain important issues for many of the users of these forums, other ideologically or politically oriented topics of relevance for the users were issues of corporate ownership and proprietary issues, and game regulation. In light of the hostile discussion climate during the #gamergate controversy, an interesting finding is that the discussions in these forums are on topic and kept in a civil tone. While the relative absence of these hot topics may be due to forum policy and moderation and the possibility that the most outspoken #gamergate supporters have moved to other arenas, what this study shows is that gaming culture is a diverse subculture with the same political range as the rest of society.
description: gamevironments, No. 17 (2022): Special Issue "Social Justice"
Kira - A Feynman Integral Reduction Program
Creators: name: Maierhoefer, Philipp
name: Usovitsch, Johann
name: Uwer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we present a new implementation of the Laporta algorithm to reduce scalar multi-loop integrals---appearing in quantum field theoretic calculations---to a set of master integrals. We extend existing approaches by using an additional algorithm based on modular arithmetic to remove linearly dependent equations from the system of equations arising from integration-by-parts and Lorentz identities. Furthermore, the algebraic manipulations required in the back substitution are optimized. We describe in detail the implementation as well as the usage of the program. In addition, we show benchmarks for concrete examples and compare the performance to Reduze 2 and FIRE 5. In our benchmarks we find that Kira is highly competitive with these existing tools.
description: 37 pages, 3 figures
Precision spectroscopy in stellar astrophysics, the star-planet connection and Galactic archaeology
Creators: name: Melendez, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stellar Astrophysics, Chemical Tagging, Galactic Archaeology, Solar Twins, Precision Abundances, Stellar Ages, Stellar Parameters, Stellar Activity, Planets, Planet-Star Connection, Lithium, Thorium, Volatile Elements, Refractory Elements, Rocky Planets, AGB stars, supernovae, odd-even pattern, binary stars, chemical abundances

description: We show the impact of line-by-line differential spectroscopy on the determination of chemical abundances and stellar parameters. For stellar twins, it is possible to achieve a precision of about 0.01 dex in chemical abundances and a high precision in stellar parameters, allowing to obtain precise stellar masses (of the order of 0.01 solar masses) and ages (about 1 Gyr). Different applications are discussed on the planet-star connection (rocky-forming elements, lithium, and thorium, a key element for heating of planetary interiors), stellar astrophysics (Li/Be and stellar interiors, the relation between magnetic activity and abundances, and the long-term evolution of stellar rotation and activity) and Galactic archaeology (chemical homogeneity of open clusters, nucleosynthetic signatures of AGB stars and supernovae).
Experimental study of the convection in a rotating tangent cylinder
Creators: name: Aujogue, Kélig
name: Pothérat, Alban
name: Sreenivasan, Binod
name: Debray, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper experimentally investigates the convection in a fast rotating Tangent Cylinder (TC), for Ekman numbers down to $E=3.36\times10^{-6}$, in a configuration relevant to the liquid core of the Earth. In the apparatus, the TC results from the Proudman-Taylor constraint incurred by rotating a hemispherical fluid vessel heated in its centre by a protruding heating element of cylindrical shape. The resulting convection that develops above the heater, i.e within the TC, is shown to set in for critical Rayleigh numbers and wavenumbers respectively scaling as $Ra_c\sim E^{4/3}$ and $a_c\sim E^{1/3}$ with the Ekman number $E$. Though exhibiting the same exponents as for plane rotating convection, these laws are indicative of much larger convective plumes at onset. The structure and dynamics of these plumes are in fact closer to those found in solid rotating cylinders heated from below, suggesting that the confinement within the TC induced by the Taylor-Proudman constraint influences convection in a similar way as solid walls would do. There is further similarity in that the critical modes in the TC all exhibit a slow retrograde precession at onset. In supercritical regimes, the precession evolves into a thermal wind with a complex structure featuring retrograde rotation at high latitude and either prograde or retrograde rotation at low latitudes (close to the heater), depending on the criticality and the Ekman number. Nevertheless the intensity of the thermal wind measured by the Rossby number scales as $Ro\sim 0.85(Ra_q^*)^{0.41}$ with the Rayleigh number based on the heat flux $Ra_q^*$. This scaling suggests that the convection in the TC is driven by quasi-geostrophic dynamics, a finding supported by the scaling for the rotation-normalised Nusselt number $Nu^{*} \sim (Ra_{q}^{*})^{5/9}$.
The development of the State archives in Victoria, 1910-1973
Creators: name: Harrison Snow, Ross D. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On-Site Wireless Power Generation
Creators: name: Ra'di, Y.
name: Chowkwale, B.
name: Valagiannopoulos, C. A.
name: Liu, F.
name: Alu, A.
name: Simovski, C. R.
name: Tretyakov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional wireless power transfer systems consist of a microwave power generator and a microwave power receiver separated by some distance. To realize efficient power transfer, the system is typically brought to resonance, and the coupled-antenna mode is optimized to reduce radiation into the surrounding space. In this scheme, any modification of the receiver position or of its electromagnetic properties results in the necessity of dynamically tuning the whole system to restore the resonant matching condition. It implies poor robustness to the receiver location and load impedance, as well as additional energy consumption in the control network. In this study, we introduce a new paradigm for wireless power delivery based on which the whole system, including transmitter and receiver and the space in between, forms a unified microwave power generator. In our proposed scenario the load itself becomes part of the generator. Microwave oscillations are created directly at the receiver location, eliminating the need for dynamical tuning of the system within the range of the self-oscillation regime. The proposed concept has relevant connections with the recent interest in parity-time symmetric systems, in which balanced loss and gain distributions enable unusual electromagnetic responses.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures
Nineteenth century banking records : a case study of the Bank of Australasia
Creators: name: Hart, T. J. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Balcony PV power plants in Austria: Public support for adoption and differences in implementation between Austria and Germany
Creators: name: Breit, Theresa Paula
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: balcony pv power plants
subject: austria
subject: germany
subject: supports
subject: adoption

description: In light of climate change and the immediate need for action to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, a rapid energy transition must be pursued. Internationally,Austria has committed to various goals, but to achieve them, all levels of society must be involved in the energy transition. The example of balcony power plants, i.e. plug-in photovoltaic systems with a maximum output of 800 watts, is used to show how Austria is supporting the energy transition from the bottom. The thesis deals with the following research questions: (1) “What are the differences in the implementation of a balcony PV power plant in Austria compared to Germany?”, (2) “How do institutions in Austria monetarily support the installation of balcony PV power plants at different levels?”, and(3) “How quickly would a balcony PV power plant pay for itself and how much money can a household save?” The first chapters give insights in the topics of the energy transition and renewable energies, before elaborating on the concept of balcony PV powerplants in Austria. The thesis aims to investigate the convenience of implementing a pluginPV system as well as possible monetary subsidies in order to find out how Austriaen courages individuals to participate in the energy transition. Therefore, a comparison regarding the implementation of plug-in photovoltaic systems between Germany and Austria is conducted to disclose possibilities for individuals to participate in the energy transition. After that, the Austrian subsidy system for balcony power plants is analysedto see whether monetary support is available. In a last chapter, a cost-benefit analysis is conducted to show the financial viability of plug-in PV systems.The results of the thesis show that Austria is offering little incentive for the acquisition ofa balcony power plant on the state, federal and city level. There is still room for improvement in order to convert uncertain potential customers into prosumers that produce and consumer their own electricity. However, the implementation of a balconyPV power plant is easier in Austria than in Germany. Furthermore, the cost-benefit analysis shows that plug-in PV amortise increasingly quickly, especially due to the high electricity prices and the ever lower material prices for photovoltaic systems. Already today, a plug-in PV can help a household not only to save money, but also to make acontribution to the energy transition from the bottom.
Exciton Polaritons in a Two-Dimensional Lieb Lattice with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Creators: name: Whittaker, C. E.
name: Cancellieri, E.
name: Walker, P. M.
name: Gulevich, D. R.
name: Schomerus, H.
name: Vaitiekus, D.
name: Royall, B.
name: Whittaker, D. M.
name: Clarke, E.
name: Iorsh, I. V.
name: Shelykh, I. A.
name: Skolnick, M. S.
name: Krizhanovskii, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study exciton-polaritons in a two-dimensional Lieb lattice of micropillars. The energy spectrum of the system features two flat bands formed from $S$ and $P_{x,y}$ photonic orbitals, into which we trigger bosonic condensation under high power excitation. The symmetry of the orbital wave functions combined with photonic spin-orbit coupling gives rise to emission patterns with pseudospin texture in the flat band condensates. Our work shows the potential of polariton lattices for emulating flat band Hamiltonians with spin-orbit coupling, orbital degrees of freedom and interactions.
Librarianship and information retrieval
Creators: name: Chew, Chiat Naun.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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New Take on Robots Ethical by Design
Creators: name: Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana
name: Çürüklü, Baran
name: Thavarasa, Jathoosh
name: Holstein, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The paper explores the incorporation of ethics into the design of intelligent robots and softbots via artificial morality. As these agents increase in complexity, their ethical framework must accommodate their growing agency, autonomy, and intelligence. It is furthermore introducing the concept of functional moral responsibility, emphasizing the importance of a system-level approach throughout agents’ lifecycle, integrating technical, human, and societal factors. The paper further promotes anticipatory ethics and speculative design, addressing the uncertainties of long-term development and their potential ethical implications.
BubbleDet: A Python package to compute functional determinants for bubble nucleation
Creators: name: Ekstedt, Andreas
name: Gould, Oliver
name: Hirvonen, Joonas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: bubble, nucleation
symmetry, rotation
potential, scalar
temperature, 0
fluctuation, scalar
higher-order, 1
field theory, scalar
critical phenomena
background field
determinant
Goldstone particle
gravitational radiation
decay rate
gauge field theory
finite temperature
background

description: We present a Python package, BubbleDet, for computing one-loop functional determinants around spherically symmetric background fields. This gives the next-to-leading order correction to both the vacuum decay rate, at zero temperature, and to the bubble nucleation rate in first-order phase transitions at finite temperature. For predictions of gravitational wave signals from cosmological phase transitions, this is expected to remove one of the leading sources of theoretical uncertainty. BubbleDet is applicable to arbitrary scalar potentials and in any dimension up to seven. It has methods for fluctuations of scalar fields, including Goldstone bosons, and for gauge fields, but is limited to cases where the determinant factorises into a product of separate determinants, one for each field degree of freedom. To our knowledge, BubbleDet is the first package dedicated to calculating functional determinants in spherically symmetric background
A STUDY ON CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SELECTED ORGANISED RETAIL STORE IN PUNE CITY
Creators: name: Valiuddin Shaikh, Farzana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marketing technology

description: Retailing is the largest private industry in the world. It is also India's largest industry accounting for over 10% of the country's GDP and around 8% of the employment. Customer relationship management is an emerging tool that enables marketers to maintain their presence in the dynamic marketing environment. In the city like Pune these organized retail store and firms are concentrating and targeting the consumer from the different segments like rural, urban, low, middle and high income segments etc. The research paper attempts to evaluate the CRM practices of the retail stores in Pune city. CRM is highly exercised in the industry like hospitality, services industry etc but it is having equal importance in the retail industry also. The results of this research paper shows that the customers don't take a single second when it comes to change the preference and break the loyalty for an organization, in such a situation it the CRM of the organization which will compel the customers to visit the retail outlet again and again.
$T$-duality on nilmanifolds
Creators: name: del Barco, Viviana
name: Grama, Lino
name: Soriani, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C30, 22E25, 17B01, 81T30, 53D18

description: We study generalized complex structures and $T$-duality (in the sense of Bouwknegt, Evslin, Hannabuss and Mathai) on Lie algebras and construct the corresponding Cavalcanti and Gualtieri map. Such a construction is called "Infinitesimal $T$-duality". As an application we deal with the problem of finding symplectic structures on 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras. We also give a criteria for the intregability of the infinitesimal $T$-duality of Lie algebras to topological $T$-duality of the associated nilmanifolds.
description: V2: minor corrections and a reference added