cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors limiting the distribution and regeneration of four semi-arid tree species at Wyperfeld National Park, northwestern Victoria
Creators: name: Wevill., Tricia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Quintessential Scale Dependence from Separate Universe Simulations
Creators: name: Chiang, Chi-Ting
name: Li, Yin
name: Hu, Wayne
name: LoVerde, Marilena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By absorbing fluctuations into a local background, separate universe simulations provide a powerful technique to characterize the response of small-scale observables to the long-wavelength density fluctuations, for example those of the power spectrum and halo mass function which lead to the squeezed-limit $n$-point function and halo bias, respectively. Using quintessence dark energy as the paradigmatic example, we extend these simulation techniques to cases where non-gravitational forces in other sectors establish a Jeans scale across which the growth of density fluctuations becomes scale dependent. By characterizing the separate universes with matching background expansion histories, we show that the power spectrum and mass function responses depend on whether the long-wavelength mode is above or below the Jeans scale. Correspondingly, the squeezed bispectrum and halo bias also become scale dependent. Models of bias that are effectively local in the density field at a single epoch, initial or observed, cannot describe this effect which highlights the importance of temporal nonlocality in structure formation. Validated by these quintessence tests, our techniques are applicable to a wide range of models where the complex dynamics of additional fields affect the clustering of matter in the linear regime and it would otherwise be difficult to simulate their impact in the nonlinear regime.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures; minor changes to text, matches PRD accepted version
Reciprocating support: experiences of people with schizophrenia living in the Thai rural villages
Creators: name: Snow, Wilaiwan Maneechak
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Supplement Information Zebrafish (Danio rerio) larva as an in vivo vertebrate model to study renal function
Creators: name: Bolten, Jan
name: Huwyler, Jörg
name: Fricker, Gert
name: Pratsinis, Anna
name: Alter, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111504 Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Information
Geomagnetically Induced Currents in the Irish Power Network during Geomagnetic Storms
Creators: name: Blake, Seán P.
name: Gallagher, Peter T.
name: Jones, Alan G.
name: Hogg, Colin
name: Campanyà, Joan
name: Beggan, Ciarán
name: Thomson, Alan W. P.
name: Kelly, Gemma S.
name: Bell, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) are a well-known terrestrial space weather hazard. They occur in power transmission networks and are known to have adverse effects in both high and mid-latitude countries. Here, we study GICs in the Irish power transmission network (geomagnetic latitude 54.7--58.5$^{\circ}$ N) during five geomagnetic storms (06-07 March 2016, 20-21 December 2015, 17-18 March 2015, 29-31 October 2003 and 13-14 March 1989). We simulate electric fields using a plane wave method together with two ground resistivity models, one of which is derived from magnetotelluric measurements (MT model). We then calculate GICs in the 220, 275 and 400~kV transmission network. During the largest of the storm periods studied, the peak electric field was calculated to be as large as 3.8~V~km\textsuperscript{-1}, with associated GICs of up to 23~A using our MT model. Using our homogenous resistivity model, those peak values were 1.46~V~km\textsuperscript{-1} and 25.8~A. We find that three 400 and 275~kV substations are the most likely locations for the Irish transformers to experience large GICs.
description: 14 pages, 11 Figures, 4 Tables
The Ethical Implications of Generative Audio Models: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Barnett, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Generative audio models typically focus their applications in music and speech generation, with recent models having human-like quality in their audio output. This paper conducts a systematic literature review of 884 papers in the area of generative audio models in order to both quantify the degree to which researchers in the field are considering potential negative impacts and identify the types of ethical implications researchers in this area need to consider. Though 65% of generative audio research papers note positive potential impacts of their work, less than 10% discuss any negative impacts. This jarringly small percentage of papers considering negative impact is particularly worrying because the issues brought to light by the few papers doing so are raising serious ethical implications and concerns relevant to the broader field such as the potential for fraud, deep-fakes, and copyright infringement. By quantifying this lack of ethical consideration in generative audio research and identifying key areas of potential harm, this paper lays the groundwork for future work in the field at a critical point in time in order to guide more conscientious research as this field progresses.
description: In proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). 10 pages, 1 figure
Δασικοί χάρτες και τουριστικά ακίνητα του Ελληνικού Δημοσίου στην Κασσάνδρα Χαλκιδικής
Creators: name: Παπαγιάννης, Ιωάννης Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Δασικοί χάρτες
Τουριστικά ακίνητα
Ελληνικό δημόσιο
Κασσάνδρα Χαλκιδικής
Forest maps
Tourist properties
Greek state
Kassandra Chalkidiki

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία, αναλύεται το καθεστώς δύο εκτάσεων στην Κασσάνδρα Χαλκιδικής, οι οποίες απαλλοτριώθηκαν με σκοπό την τουριστική αξιοποίηση , μέσω της ανάπτυξης τουριστικών εγκαταστάσεων. Αναπτύσσεται αναλυτικά το νομοθετικό πλαίσιο το οποίο τις διέπει από την εποχή την οποία απαλλοτριώθηκαν έως και σήμερα και ειδικά υπό το πρίσμα της ανάγκης αξιοποίησης της ιδιωτικής περιουσίας του δημοσίου. Ειδικότερα, αναπτύσσονται οι διαδικασίες σύμφωνα με τις οποίες αυτές απαλλοτριώθηκαν και σύμφωνα με τις οποίες καθορίστηκαν και οριοθετήθηκαν διάφορα χαρακτηριστικά τους (όπως οι αρχαιολογικοί χώροι, ο αιγιαλός και η παραλία, τα ρέματα), αλλά και οι διαδικασίες υπό τις οποίες γίνεται η προσπάθεια αξιοποίησης τους από το Τ.Α.Ι.Π.Ε.Δ.. Αναλύεται διεξοδικά το θέμα της δασικής προστασίας και των επιτρεπτών επεμβάσεων εντός δασών και δασικών εκτάσεων, αλλά κυρίως η διαδικασία κατάρτισης των δασικών χαρτών. Τέλος, και για κάθε έκταση ξεχωριστά, γίνεται ανάλυση σχετικά με το στάδιο στο οποίο βρίσκεται η διαδικασία των δασικών χαρτών.
description: In this paper, is analyzed the status of two areas in Kassandra, Chalkidiki, which were expropriated for the purpose of tourism development through the development of tourist facilities. The legal framework governing them from the time they were expropriated until today is developed in detail, especially in the light of the need to exploit the private property of the state. In particular, the procedures according to which they were expropriated and according to which their various characteristics (such as archaeological sites, seashore and beach, streams) were defined and delimited, as well as the procedures under which the Η.R.A.D.F. attempts to exploit them, are developed. The issue of forest protection and permissible interventions within forests and forest areas is analyzed in detail, but mainly the process of creating forest maps. Finally, for each area separately, there is an analysis of the stage reached in the Forest Maps process.
Association between women's empowerment stuning among children aged 6to59 months: from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey.
Creators: name: Shibiru, Yirgalem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Background :Stuntingispredominantlyirreversiblenutritionaldeficiencydisorderofchildren.Evidenc es on the impact of womenempowerment to reducechild stuntingarelimitedin Ethiopia. Objective:Todeterminetheassociation betweenwomenempowermentonstuntingamongchildrenaged6to59 months from the2016 Ethiopian Demographicand HealthSurveydatasets. Methods:Thestudyused theEthiopianDemographicandHealth Survey 2016 dataset,whichisa crosssectionalstudy.Thestudyparticipantswere currentmarriedwomenofthereproductiveage(15– 49years)grouplivingwiththeirhusbandsorpartnerswhohavechildrenaged6-59monthsinthehousehold whowerealiveatthetimeofthesurvey.Data selectedandexportedtoSPSSversion22foranalysis. Complex sample binary logistic regressionanalysis was employedtodeterminetheassociationbetweenchildren stunting aged 6-59 months and the predictor variables.Inaddition,multivariable logistic regressionmodelwas performedusing variablesthatare significantatPvalue ≤.05with95%ofconfidencelevel. Result:The prevalence of stunting among children aged 6- 59 month with 95% confidence interval was 41%(3,318) (95%CI: 39% - 43.3%). Around 45 %( 3806) of mothers employed in the last 12 months before the survey. Among mothers who had a job, 2072(54%) had seasonal jobs and the rest 1734(45%) had jobs throughout the year. About 50.5 %( 1921)of the mothers have been not paid for the job they were engaged with. Approximately 5855(69%) of mothers have had a positive attitude towards the husband justifying hitting or beating his wife.Maternal attitude towards wife beating (AOR [95% CI]) = 1.057[0.889, 1.256]), decision on large household purchase (AOR [95% CI] = 1.001[0.807, 1.243])had no association with child stunting.In contrast, Household wealth index (AOR [95% CI]) = 1.98 [1.44, 2.726]), Maternal height (AOR [95%CI] = 1.9[1.280, 2.82]), child sex (AOR [95% CI] = 1.255[1.077, 1.463]) were significantly associate with child stunting. Conclusion and recommendation: The study indicated very high child stunting among children age 6-59 month. It also identified low women's economic and socio-familial empowerment. Thus, it is recommended thatMinistry of Health up to local health service authority should strengthen their effort on the implementation programs which aim to improve childhood undernutrition. Advocacy programs should be introduced to strengthen the practice on implementation policies and proclamation that enshrines women' right so as to support women empowerment and thereby improve young childhood nutrition in Ethiopia.
Quaternionic Aharonov-Bohm effect
Creators: name: Giardino, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quaternionic analog of the Aharonov-Bohm effect is developed without the usual anti-hermitian operators in quaternionic quantum mechanics (QQM). A quaternionic phase links the solutions obtained to ordinary complex wave functions, and new theoretical studies and experimental tests are possible for them.
Opening up ChatGPT: Tracking openness, transparency, and accountability in instruction-tuned text generators
Creators: name: Liesenfeld, Andreas
name: Lopez, Alianda
name: Dingemanse, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models that exhibit instruction-following behaviour represent one of the biggest recent upheavals in conversational interfaces, a trend in large part fuelled by the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, a proprietary large language model for text generation fine-tuned through reinforcement learning from human feedback (LLM+RLHF). We review the risks of relying on proprietary software and survey the first crop of open-source projects of comparable architecture and functionality. The main contribution of this paper is to show that openness is differentiated, and to offer scientific documentation of degrees of openness in this fast-moving field. We evaluate projects in terms of openness of code, training data, model weights, RLHF data, licensing, scientific documentation, and access methods. We find that while there is a fast-growing list of projects billing themselves as 'open source', many inherit undocumented data of dubious legality, few share the all-important instruction-tuning (a key site where human annotation labour is involved), and careful scientific documentation is exceedingly rare. Degrees of openness are relevant to fairness and accountability at all points, from data collection and curation to model architecture, and from training and fine-tuning to release and deployment.
Phenomenology in ceramic practice: a frocking assemblage of women
Creators: name: O'Shea, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of School of Communication, Art and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
A complete real-time speech recognition system on a single low-cost FPGA
Creators: name: Vu, Ngoc Vinh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.

The public version of this thesis does not contain all material submitted for examination.
Desenvolvimento de um controlador para a tarefa de vigilância robótica através de sensores de presença
Creators: name: Oliveira, Gabriely Gauer G. de
name: Magalhaes, Maria Clara M.
name: Ferreira, Maria Eugenia de A.
name: Silva, Aline Fernanda Furtado
name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91007 Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics (excl. Automotive Mechatronics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation

description: Surveillance is known to be a task that requires a high demand for camera resources. To solve this problem, an autonomous robot was developed for environment patrol. This extended abstract describes the process of planning and developing a controller for the robotic surveillance task through of presence sensors. Its construction takes place by means of motors and locomotion and alarm sensors which are controlled by an Arduino - small board consisting of a micro-controller. In addition, the structure does not prototype was printed by a 3D printer, reducing industry costs.
Ecdysteroid titres during development of the fleshfly sarcophaga bullata (Parker) (sarcophagidae: diptera)
Creators: name: Wentworth., Sherrie L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Anti-noise window: Subjective perception of active noise reduction and effect of informational masking
Creators: name: Lam, Bhan
name: Lim, Kelvin Chee Quan
name: Ooi, Kenneth
name: Ong, Zhen-Ting
name: Shi, Dongyuan
name: Gan, Woon-Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reviving natural ventilation (NV) for urban sustainability presents challenges for indoor acoustic comfort. Active control and interference-based noise mitigation strategies, such as the use of loudspeakers, offer potential solutions to achieve acoustic comfort while maintaining NV. However, these approaches are not commonly integrated or evaluated from a perceptual standpoint. This study examines the perceptual and objective aspects of an active-noise-control (ANC)-based "anti-noise" window (ANW) and its integration with informational masking (IM) in a model bedroom. Forty participants assessed the ANW in a three-way interaction involving noise types (traffic, train, and aircraft), maskers (bird, water), and ANC (on, off). The evaluation focused on perceived annoyance (PAY; ISO/TS 15666), perceived affective quality (ISO/TS 12913-2), loudness (PLN), and included an open-ended qualitative assessment. Despite minimal objective reduction in decibel-based indicators and a slight increase in psychoacoustic sharpness, the ANW alone demonstrated significant reductions in PAY and PLN, as well as an improvement in ISO pleasantness across all noise types. The addition of maskers generally enhanced overall acoustic comfort, although water masking led to increased PLN. Furthermore, the combination of ANC with maskers showed interaction effects, with both maskers significantly reducing PAY compared to ANC alone.
description: Accepted manuscript submitted to Sustainable Cities and Society
The importance of riparian vegetation and inundation patterns for billabongs of the Murray River
Creators: name: Watkins., Susanne Claudia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Higher Spin Currents in the Enhanced N=3 Kazama-Suzuki Model
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
name: Kim, Hyunsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N=3 Kazama-Suzuki model at the `critical' level has been found by Creutzig, Hikida and Ronne. We construct the lowest higher spin currents of spins (3/2, 2,2,2,5/2, 5/2, 5/2, 3) in terms of various fermions. In order to obtain the operator product expansions (OPEs) between these higher spin currents, we describe three N=2 OPEs between the two N=2 higher spin currents denoted by (3/2, 2, 2, 5/2) and (2, 5/2, 5/2, 3) (corresponding 36 OPEs in the component approach). Using the various Jacobi identities, the coefficient functions appearing on the right hand side of these N=2 OPEs are determined in terms of central charge completely. Then we describe them as one single N=3 OPE in the N=3 superspace. The right hand side of this N=3 OPE contains the SO(3)-singlet N=3 higher spin multiplet of spins (2, 5/2, 5/2, 5/2, 3,3,3, 7/2), the SO(3)-singlet N=3 higher spin multiplet of spins (5/2, 3,3,3, 7/2, 7/2, 7/2, 4), and the SO(3)-triplet N=3 higher spin multiplets where each multiplet has the spins (3, 7/2, 7/2, 7/2, 4,4,4, 9/2), in addition to N=3 superconformal family of the identity operator. Finally, by factoring out the spin-1/2 current of N=3 linear superconformal algebra generated by eight currents of spins (1/2, 1,1,1, 3/2, 3/2, 3/2, 2), we obtain the extension of so-called SO(3) nonlinear Knizhnik Bershadsky algebra.
description: 71 pages; The second-fourth paragraphs in page 31 and Appendix H added and to appear in JHEP
Socio-Economic, Environmental, and Behavioural Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Diarrhoeal Disease among Under-Five Children, Meskanena Mareko Woreda, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mulugeta, Teklu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: Diarrhoeal diseases are still the major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in many developing countries, including Ethiopia. There is a general agreement that the cause of child mortality and morbidity in developing countries is multi-factorial. Interaction of socioeconomic, biological, behavioural and environmental factors influences the survival of children. This comparative cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the effects of socio-economic, environmental and behavioural factors that were associated with childhood diarrhoea in Meskanena Mareko Woreda, between December 2002 and January 2003. A total of 987 households that had at least one under-five child were randomly selected from the nine peasant associations and one urban kebele that are found in the Butajira Rural Health Program catchments. Information on the households' socio-economic, environmental and behavioural characteristics was collected using structured, pre-tested questionnaire. Diarrhoeal morbidity occurred in the under-five children at the time of the interview, and the subsequent 15-days was registered to determine prevalence and incidence. The findings of this study showed that the overall two-week period prevalence of diarrhoea in under-fives was 51.4%, and that of incidence 12.9 percent. The point prevalence was found to be 38.5 percent. Significant variation was observed in prevalence of diarrhoea between urban and rural areas. Children in the age group 12 – 23 were highly affected. A logistic regression analysis showed that rural children had more than five times higher odds of having diarrhoea than their urban counterparts. The odds of having diarrhoea in children who lived in households where there were two or more children were two times higher than the odds in children who lived in households where there was only one child. Also, households that vii disposed refuse indiscriminately had children who had about two times higher odds of getting diarrhoea than households that burned or disposed the refuse in a pit. Maternal diarrhoeal morbidity and current breast-feeding were also found to be significant predictors of diarrhoeal morbidity in children. From the study it is concluded that the prevalence of diarrhoea in under-five children is very high in Meskanena Mareko Woreda, especially in children who reside in rural areas, and who are younger than two years of age. Poverty, crowding and poor environmental conditions are associated with the occurrence of diarrhoea in children. Even though these problems may be alleviated by sustainable socio-economic development through integrated effort of different sectors in the long run, recommendations are forwarded considering short-term solutions
The structure skew brace associated with a finite non-degenerate solution of the Yang-Baxter equation is finitely presented
Creators: name: Trombetti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T25

description: The aim of this paper is to show that the structure skew brace associated with a finite non-degenerate solution of the Yang-Baxter equation is finitely presented.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2210.08598
It’s another world record: album cover art from the studio of The World Record Club 1958–1976
Creators: name: Hocking, Geoffrey N.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts & Design to the School of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The independent record distribution company known as The World Record Club began its direct-mail marketing operation in London in 1958. Two years later it opened in Melbourne, soon attracting more than 50,000 members across Australia. The club introduced budget priced recordings sourced from, then little known, European artists and orchestras and sold to its members by catalogue selection. Among these ‘new’ artists were Yehudi Menuhin, Daniel Barenboim and Herbert Von Karajan, and the innovative and entrepeneureal approach to the marketing of often unheard classical music into Australia encouraged many like-minded European recording companies to release their product into Australia exclusively through the Club. The World Record Club can be credited with the introduction of the music of ‘the baroque’ to an Australian audience and was in the vanguard for international and Australian contemporary classical music. Right from the start the Club took the decision to create conceptual packaging for its album covers, not borrowing already existing designs from Europe but to create a totally new and independent look for World Record product using the talents of some of the most influential artists, illustrators, typographers and photographers who were working in the Melbourne design and communication industry in the late 1950s and 1960s. The studio saw this period as its heyday, producing thousands of innovative, creative and artistic album cover artworks which set a benchmark for design and illustration in Australia during this period. Many prominent Australian designers describe the studio at World Record as the most important independent studio in Australia of its time because of the creative licence its founding art director Geoff Digby allowed the alumni of creatives who designed for the company, and because it was possibly the first studio in Australia that had broken away from the world of Advertising Agency control and was established to pursue one creative goal for a single genre. Even after forty years many of the designs from the studio remain as icons of Australian graphic design: with an alumni of designers, illustrators and photographers, both staff artists and freelance, who number among them some of the leading names in Australian graphic design today. This thesis celebrates the ouevre that is the World Record Club: its influences, and the influence it had on the burgeoning graphic design industry in Australia in the glory days of the ‘swinging sixties’; and also celebrates the artists and designers who created for the Club, and acknowledges the legacy of designs that remain.
Schleifen und Polierschleifen von wendelförmigen Spannuten an Vollhartmetallbohrwerkzeugen
Creators: name: Heymann, Tobias
Publisher: name: Vulkan-Verl.
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Schleifen
subject: Polieren
subject: Bohrwerkzeuge
subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Tiefschleifen
subject: Polieren
subject: Spannvorrichtung
subject: Bohrer

description: Gerade vor dem Hintergrund stetig steigender Forderungen hinsichtlich erreichbarer Bauteilqualitäten und Prozesseffizienz nehmen Vollhartmetallzerspanwerkzeuge eine immer wichtigere Rolle im Bereich der spanenden Fertigungstechnologien ein. Zur Erzeugung leistungsfähiger Zerspanwerkzeuge, die den gestiegenen Ansprüchen gerecht werden, muss die schleiftechnische Herstellung optimiert werden. Ein wesentliches, die Qualität und Leistungsfähigkeit von Vollhartmetallzerspanwerkzeugen erzeugendes Gestaltelement stellt die Spannut dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Herstellung von wendelförmigen Spannuten in Vollhartmetallrohlingen, durchgeführt im Tiefschliff mit hybridgebundenen Diamantschleifscheiben, und mit einer darauf aufbauenden Oberflächenfeinstbearbeitung mithilfe von elastisch gebundenen Diamantschleifscheiben durch das Polierschleifen.
description: Schriftenreihe des ISF ; 77
High Fidelity 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction via Scalable Graph Frequency Decomposition
Creators: name: Luan, Tianyu
name: Zhai, Yuanhao
name: Meng, Jingjing
name: Li, Zhong
name: Chen, Zhang
name: Xu, Yi
name: Yuan, Junsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the impressive performance obtained by recent single-image hand modeling techniques, they lack the capability to capture sufficient details of the 3D hand mesh. This deficiency greatly limits their applications when high-fidelity hand modeling is required, e.g., personalized hand modeling. To address this problem, we design a frequency split network to generate 3D hand mesh using different frequency bands in a coarse-to-fine manner. To capture high-frequency personalized details, we transform the 3D mesh into the frequency domain, and propose a novel frequency decomposition loss to supervise each frequency component. By leveraging such a coarse-to-fine scheme, hand details that correspond to the higher frequency domain can be preserved. In addition, the proposed network is scalable, and can stop the inference at any resolution level to accommodate different hardware with varying computational powers. To quantitatively evaluate the performance of our method in terms of recovering personalized shape details, we introduce a new evaluation metric named Mean Signal-to-Noise Ratio (MSNR) to measure the signal-to-noise ratio of each mesh frequency component. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach generates fine-grained details for high-fidelity 3D hand reconstruction, and our evaluation metric is more effective for measuring mesh details compared with traditional metrics.
description: CVPR 2023
Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in field Epidemiology
Creators: name: Nasser, Munira
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background Measles is an acute viral illness caused by a virus in the family paramyxo virus, genus Morbilli virus. It is characterized by a prodrome of fever (as high as 105°F) and malaise, cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis, followed by a maculopapular rash. Sidama zone Chire woreda reported measles cases since 26 Dec 2015. And the investigation was conducted to identify the magnitude of the outbreak and to undertake prevention and control interventions [1]. Laboratory investigation was done for five cases and five cases were found to be positive for measles. Methods A case was defined as any person with fever and maculopapular rash and cough, coryza, or conjunctivitis or any person in whom a clinician had suspected measles. And controls defined as any person without sign and symptom of the disease. Structured questioner was used to collect data from 40 cases and 80 controls. Patient observation was made at health centers and active cases were searched house to house from 18 Jan 2016 to 19 Jan 2016. Five samples were confirmed by laboratory investigation. Descriptive and case control analysis was conducted using Epi-Info7 and Ms-Excel 2007. Results A total of 439 cases (Attack Rate: 1.00%) with 2 deaths case fatality rate (CFR: 0.5%) were reported and the mean age of the cases is 7 years among all identified cases 229(52.2%) were male. Compared to those who had no measles cases in the family, those who had measles cases were more likely to develop measles adjusted odds ratio (AOR= 20.2; 95%CI: 6.69, 61.24). Those cases with moderate malnutrition were more likely to develop measles compared to normal nutritional status (AOR= 4.5; 95%CI: 1.08, 18.70) (Table 6).meaning those who have measles cases in the family has 20times chance of developing measles than those who do not have measles cases in the family on the other hand those who have moderate malnutrition have 4.5 times chance of developing measles Conclusion 2 According to the analysis in this investigation shows that having sick person with measles in the family and being moderately malnourished are associated with measles both sexes are almost equally affected and age >15 are not affected by measles compared to the other age groups. Key words: Measles, Sidama zone, Chire Woreda.
title: Quasispectral operators
Creators: name: Al-Khezi, Saleh Battah Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: The main subject in this thesis is the study of quasispectral operators, their basic properties, their roots and logarithms. In Chapter One, which is not claimed as original, we include the main results on the spectral theory of linear operators and the basic properties of prespectral operators which will be required in other chapters. In Chapter Two, we prove the existence of a complex Banach space Y and a homomorphism E(•) from Sigma[p] into a bounded Boolean algebra of projections on Y such that E(•) is not a spectral measure of any class. In Chapter Three we prove that if S is a scalar-type operator and A is an operator that leaves invariant all the maximal spectral subspaces of S, then A commutes with S. In Chapter Four, which is the main part of this thesis, we introduce the concept of quasispectral operator. We prove that a quasispectral operator of class T has a unique resolution of the identity of class T and a unique Jordan decomposition for resolutions of the identity of all classes. We show that every prespectral operator of class T is quasispectral of class r but that there exists a quasispectral operator which is not prespectral of any class, We show that a quasispectral operator is decomposable. Vie prove that if a quasispectral operator has a closed range, then so does its scalar part. Finally in this chapter we consider further decompositions of quasispectral operators. In Chapter Five we obtain analogues for caasispectral operators of results in Chapter 10 of [12] on logarithms and roots of prespectral operators, we give an affirmative answer to the following question. Does there exist a prespectral operator T of class T such that f(T) = A, where A is a given prespectral operator of class T. Finally in Chapter Six, we prove a commutativity theorem for alpha-scalar operators, where alpha = C(K) and K is a compact subset of the complex plane.
History and comparative performance of the banking sector in Pakistan
Creators: name: Butt, Farooq Yahya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Submitted as per requirement of the degree of Master by Research in Economics to the School of Finance and Economics, Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

As the world has become more globalized, banks have been given the liberty to operate globally. Banks must perform efficiently in order to maximize profits for their shareholders and to benefit the stakeholders that have a significant interest in banking operations. The competition is greater than ever, which has made performance comparison even harder (Qayyum and Khan, 2006). […] To sum up, the performance of the banking sector is of vital importance to the economy. By improving their performance, the banks can win the confidence of the general public. They can develop the habit of banking among potential depositors, hence increasing the level of deposits with the banks.
Πολυστρωματική Συσκευασία Καφέ: Χαρακτηριστικά και Ανακυκλωσιμότητα
Creators: name: Πεταλωτή, Αργυρή Ιωάννα Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Πολυστρωματική Συσκευασία
Ανακύκλωση
Αποστρωματοποίηση
Multilayer Packaging
Recycling
Delamination

description: Στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μελέτη και ο χαρακτηρισμός των πολυστρωματικών συσκευασιών καφέ, καθώς και η δυνατότητα ανακύκλωσής τους. Στο πλαίσιο λοιπόν αυτό, αρχικά πραγματοποιήθηκε φυσικο-χημικός χαρακτηρισμός των πολυστρωματικών φιλμ με τη βοήθεια οπτικού μικροσκοπίου, ηλεκτρονικού μικροσκοπίου σάρωσης SEM, φασματοσκοπίας FT-IR ενώ μετρήθηκαν και οι μηχανικές ιδιότητες τους με τη βοήθεια του Instron, καθώς και το πάχος τους με παχύμετρο. Για το δεύτερο στάδιο της ανακύκλωσης χρησιμοποιήθηκε η μέθοδος της επιλεκτικής διαλυτοποίησης με εύρεση του καταλληλότερου διαλύτη για την αποστρωματοποίηση των διαφόρων υλικών του φιλμ της συσκευασίας και, στη συνέχεια ο χαρακτηρισμός και η ταυτοποίηση των στρωμάτων αυτών. Τέλος διεξήχθη χημική ανακύκλωση της ταυτοποιημένης στιβάδας του πολυ(τερεφθαλικού αιθυλενεστέρα) (PET), μέσω της διαδικασίας της γλυκόλυσης και της αλκαλικής υδρόλυσης, στοχεύοντας στην ανάκτηση των μονομερών του.
description: The aim of the present work is twofold: to study the physico-chemical characteristics of multilayer coffee packaging and to explore their recyclability. Characterization of multilayer films was done using an optical microscope, SEM, scanning electron microscope, FT-IR spectroscopy, while their mechanical properties were measured with Instron, as well as their thickness with the caliper. For the second stage of recycling, the method of selective dissolution was used finding the most suitable solvent for the delamination of different layers. Following, the different layers were characterized and their material was identified. Finally, the recycling of the identified polymer layer of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), was carried out through the process of glycolysis and alkaline hydrolysis.
Coherence breaking channels and coherence sudden death
Creators: name: Bu, Kaifeng
name: Swati
name: Singh, Uttam
name: Wu, Junde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum noise is ubiquitous to quantum systems as they incessantly interact with their surroundings and results in degrading useful resources such as coherence for single quantum systems and quantum correlations for multipartite systems. Given the importance of these resources in various quantum information processing protocols, it is of utmost importance to characterize how deteriorating is a particular noise scenario (quantum channel) in reference to a certain resource? Here we develop a theory of coherence breaking channels for single quantum systems. Any quantum channel on a single quantum system will be called a coherence breaking channel if it is an incoherent channel and maps any state to an incoherent state. We explicitly and exhaustively characterize these coherence breaking channels. Moreover, we define the coherence breaking indices for incoherent quantum channels and present various examples to elucidate this concept. We further introduce the concept of coherence sudden death under noisy evolutions and make an explicit connection of the phenomenon of coherence sudden death with the coherence breaking channels and the coherence breaking indices together with various suggestive examples. Furthermore, for higher dimensional Hilbert spaces, we establish the typicality of the dynamics of coherence under any incoherent quantum channel exploiting the concentration of measure phenomenon.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Temperature fluctuations in canonical systems: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Hickman, J.
name: Mishin, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular dynamics simulations of a quasi-harmonic solid are conducted to elucidate the meaning of temperature fluctuations in canonical systems and validate a well-known but frequently contested equation predicting the mean square of such fluctuations. The simulations implement two virtual and one physical (natural) thermostat and examine the kinetic, potential and total energy correlation functions in the time and frequency domains. The results clearly demonstrate the existence of quasi-equilibrium states in which the system can be characterized by a well-defined temperature that follows the mentioned fluctuation equation. The emergence of such states is due to the wide separation of timescales between thermal relaxation by phonon scattering and slow energy exchanges with the thermostat. The quasi-equilibrium states exist between these two timescales when the system behaves as virtually isolated and equilibrium.
description: Accepted for publication in the Physical Review B
Robust Routing Made Easy: Reinforcing Networks Against Non-Benign Faults
Creators: name: Lenzen, Christoph
name: Medina, Moti
name: Saberi, Mehrdad
name: Schmid, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increasing scale of communication networks, the likelihood of failures grows as well. Since these networks form a critical backbone of our digital society, it is important that they rely on robust routing algorithms which ensure connectivity despite such failures. While most modern communication networks feature robust routing mechanisms, these mechanisms are often fairly complex to design and verify, as they need to account for the effects of failures and rerouting on communication. This paper conceptualizes the design of robust routing mechanisms, with the aim to avoid such complexity. In particular, we showcase \emph{simple} and generic blackbox transformations that increase resilience of routing against independently distributed failures, which allows to simulate the routing scheme on the original network, even in the presence of non-benign node failures (henceforth called faults). This is attractive as the system specification and routing policy can simply be preserved. We present a scheme for constructing such a reinforced network, given an existing (synchronous) network and a routing scheme. We prove that this algorithm comes with small constant overheads, and only requires a minimal amount of additional node and edge resources; in fact, if the failure probability is smaller than $1/n$, the algorithm can come without any overhead at all. At the same time, it allows to tolerate a large number of independent random (node) faults, asymptotically almost surely. We complement our analytical results with simulations on different real-world topologies.
description: published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, reposted here to meet archival requirements of grant agencies 15 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.04042
The Conformal Hyperplet
Creators: name: Faux, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a finite off-shell hypermultiplet with no off-shell central charge. This requires 192+192 degrees of freedom, all but 8+8 of which are auxiliary or gauge. In the absence of supergravity, the model has a saddle-point vacuum instability implying ghost-like propagators. These are cured by realizing the model superconformally, such that the erstwhile ghosts are realized as compensators. Gauge fixing these links the physical hypermultiplets to supergravity. This evokes the prospect of realizing ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory off-shell.
description: references added, typos repaired, small refinements to discussion, 56 pages
title: Von sub\urban zu Pro:Polis?
title: Anmerkungen zur ambivalenten Geschichte des Städtischen im kurzen ersten Jahrzehnt der zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
Creators: name: Bertram, Grischa
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Urbanität
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Stadtproduktion
subject: Stadtgeschichte urbanity
subject: urban development
subject: urban production
subject: urban history
subject: 300
subject: 710
subject: Stadtgeschichte
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Urbanität

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Qualitative observation of reversible phase change in astrochemical ethanethiol ices using infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Pavithraa, S
name: Rajan, R
name: Gorai, P
name: Lo, J -I
name: Das, A
name: Sekhar, B N Raja
name: Pradeep, T
name: Cheng, B -M
name: Mason, N J
name: Sivaraman, B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we report the first evidence for a reversible phase change in an ethanethiol ice prepared under astrochemical conditions. InfraRed (IR) spectroscopy was used to monitor the morphology of the ice using the S-H stretching vibration, a characteristic vibration of thiol molecules. The deposited sample was able to switch between amorphous and crystalline phases repeatedly under temperature cycles between 10 K and 130 K with subsequent loss of molecules in every phase change. Such an effect is dependent upon the original thickness of the ice. Further work on quantitative analysis is to be carried out in due course whereas here we are reporting the first results obtained.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to spectrochimica Acta
Iron-based catalysts for coal liquefaction
Creators: name: D.Watkins., Ian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ολοκληρωμένοι οπτικοί πομποί μικροδακτυλίων πυριτίου
Creators: name: Σουκαράς, Σωτήριος Ευθυμίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Μικροδακτύλιοι
Φωτονικοί
Διαμορφωτές
Microrings
Photonic
Modulators

description: Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες η εκθετική αύξηση της ζήτησης για επεξεργασία και μετάδοση δεδομένων στις σύγχρονες επικοινωνίες έχει αναγκάσει την επιστημονική και εμπορική κοινότητα να υιοθετήσει νέους τρόπους, ώστε να μπορέσουν να τιθασεύσουν τις ολοένα και αυξανόμενες ανάγκες στις τηλεπικοινωνίες. Με τις οπτικές επικοινωνίες να κερδίζουν ολοένα και περισσότερο έδαφος λόγω της φύσης τους, που προσφέρει υψηλές ταχύτητες μετάδοσης και επεξεργασίας δεδομένων, η χρήση τους στις τηλεπικοινωνίες κρίνεται πιο επιτακτική από ποτέ. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, μέσω της παρούσας διπλωματικής θα παρουσιαστεί ένα νέο είδος οπτικού διαμορφωτή, βασιζόμενος στην ιδέα των εμφωλευμένων αρχιτεκτονικών που προϋποθέτουν στον κλάδο της φωτονικής τεχνολογίας, με αναλυτική αναφορά στην αρχή λειτουργίας του καθώς και στη σύγκριση με ήδη χρησιμοποιούμενες αρχιτεκτονικές/διατάξεις που υπάρχουν, στις σημερινές οπτικές τηλεπικοινωνίες. Η διάταξη που θα αναλυθεί, εκμεταλλεύεται τα πλεονεκτήματα της φωτονικής τεχνολογίας είναι ικανή να παράσχει υψηλές ταχύτητες διαμόρφωσης, ώστε να γεφυρωθεί το χάσμα της ολοένα και μεγαλύτερης αύξησης της ανάγκης δεδομένων με την ικανότητα των τηλεπικοινωνιακών συστημάτων για την επεξεργασίας τους.
description: In recent decades, the exponential growth in demand for data processing and transmission in modern communications has forced the scientific and commercial community to adopt new ways to meet the growing needs of telecommunications. With optical communications gaining ground due to their nature, which offers high speeds of data transmission and processing, their use in telecommunications is considered more imperative than ever. In this context, through this diploma thesis, a new type of optical modulator will be presented, based on the idea of nested architectures that presuppose in the field of photonic technology, with a detailed reference to its principle of operation as well as a comparison with existing architectures/devices, in today's optical telecommunications. The layout to be analyzed, taking advantage of photonic technology, can provide high modulation speeds, to bridge the gap of ever-increasing data need with the ability of telecommunication systems to process them.