cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Proof of Radford's Biproduct Theorem by Using Braided Diagrams
Creators: name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S40, 16T05

description: We give a proof of the Radford's Biproduct Theorem in S. Montgomery's book [Hopf Algebras and Their Actions on Rings, CBMS 82, AMS,1993.] by using Majid's braided diagrams method and Yu.Bespalov and V. Lyubashenko's "t-angles.sty" package.
e-Government as a tool to promote transparency and openness: the case of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rashid, Nahid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The concept of e-Government has emerged rapidly in the developing world to establish citizen-centred government. The Bangladesh Government has also concentrated on introducing e-Government as a part of existing governance reform through the use of ICT. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the effects of e-Government on transparency and openness through greater information flows in the public sector. Bangladesh encounters a multiple form of governance challenges, including corruption, malfunctioning public management and lack of transparency and accountability in public decision making and delivery of public services. Transparency and access to information is a prerequisite for strengthening governance mechanism in this context. The potential benefits of e-Government in Bangladesh largely depend on the establishment of accessible ICT infrastructure to provide online services. However, the existing body of knowledge on assessing e-Government’s impact on transparency in the public management is scanty. No significant prior study of the use and impact of e-Government in improving transparency and openness from a developing country perspective is known. Hence, this study was undertaken to address this gap in the literature. Further, it investigates the drivers and obstacles to the successful implementation of e-Government. This exploratory, qualitative research involved detailed case studies with two organisations selected from amongst nine implementing e-Government initiatives across the public sector in Bangladesh and made use of diverse data sources. Findings from these case studies support the benefits that e-Government can achieve transparency and openness in the government system when technological integration involves constant engagement between service providers and the users to ‘join up services’. The major theoretical contribution of this thesis builds on the ‘Technology Enactment’ theory of Fountain (2001). Although developed in an Anglo-American context, Fountain’s ‘technology enactment’ is reflected this study which uses her theory as an analytical framework to study the information-based changes in the organisations studied. The thesis identifies several factors affecting successful implementation of e-Government development in this context, including the role of political leaders and improvement of infrastructure capacity. Public-private partnership e-Government projects offer the potential of new knowledge and skills, financial support, and performance accountability. However, caution should be taken to fair play the role of the private partners within the purview of PPP. Finally, the thesis finds that the implementation of e-Government necessitates crafting strategies that affect the structures and processes of the government and demand large amounts of scarce resources, money, skills and commitment of the political leaders, public sector leaders and managers.
Air pollution & health
Creators: name: Gerbase, Margaret
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616
Air pollution
Environmental health
Health effects of airborne pollutants

description: Air pollution has become a central public health issue following a series of environmental calamities, which occurred in Europe during the second half of the XXth century and had an enormous impact on peoples' health and mortality. Since then, abundant scientific evidence has reported on the specific health effects determined by exposure to environmental air pollutants, notably ozone and particulate matter. More recently, worldwide large population-based cohort studies showed positive associations between levels of exposure to common air pollutants and systemic illnesses irrespective of age. Reports in children exposed to airborne hazards showed decreased lung growth and function, increased rates of respiratory allergies and early onsets of asthma, and aggravation of respiratory symptoms and asthma. In adults, the available evidence reports on the increased incidence of acute and chronic respiratory diseases, and also on the early cardiovascular morbidity risk factors, such as arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, decreased heart-rated variability, which may further lead to myocardial infarction and stroke. As a consequence, increased utilization of medical care, outpatient visits to emergency rooms and hospitalizations with a significant impact on individuals' health-related quality of life and costs have been shown. Individual susceptibility to environmental pollutants is an important determinant of the health effects. A number of personal conditions have been associated with the detrimental effects of air pollutants, including sex, nutrition, associated comorbidities, tobacco smoke, occupational exposure and genetic predisposition. In the last years, new policy regulation measures to reduce fine particle emissions and limit involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke proved beneficial, notably in susceptible persons. The present work aimed to 1) provide an overview of the consistent literature on the effects of outdoor and indoor air pollution on human's health, and 2) examine the evidence on the individual's factors of susceptibility to environmental air pollutants, further focusing on three articles from the author addressing the effects of passive smoking in susceptible individuals.
Metalloporphyrin-based porous polymers prepared via click chemistry for size-selective adsorption of protein
Creators: name: Zhu, Dailian
name: Qin, Cunqi
name: Ao, Shanshi
name: Su, Qiuping
name: Sun, Xiying
name: Jiang, Tengfei
name: Pei, Kemei
name: Ni, Huagang
name: Ye, Peng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Zinc porphyrin-based porous polymers (PPs-Zn) with different pore sizes were prepared by controlling the reaction condition of click chemistry, and the protein adsorption in PPs-Zn and the catalytic activity of immobilized enzyme were investigated. PPs-Zn-1 with 18 nm and PPS-Zn-2 with 90 nm of pore size were characterized by FTIR, NMR and nitrogen absorption experiments. The amount of adsorbed protein in PPs-Zn-1 was more than that in PPs-Zn-2 for small size proteins, such as lysozyme, lipase and bovine serum albumin (BSA). And for large size proteins including myosin and human fibrinogen (HFg), the amount of adsorbed protein in PPs-Zn-1 was less than that in PPs-Zn-2. The result indicates that the protein adsorption is size-selective in PPs-Zn. Both the protein size and the pore size have a significant effect on the amount of adsorbed protein in the PPs-Zn. Lipase and lysozyme immobilized in PPs-Zn exhibited excellent reuse stability.
The spatial sign covariance matrix with unknown location
Creators: name: Dürre, Alexander
name: Vogel, Daniel
name: Tyler, David E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H12, 62G20, 62H11

description: The consistency and asymptotic normality of the spatial sign covariance matrix with unknown location are shown. Simulations illustrate the different asymptotic behavior when using the mean and the spatial median as location estimator.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Supplementary materials from Modelling non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in human hepatocyte-like cells
Creators: name: Lyall, Marcus J.
name: Cartier, Jessy
name: Thomson, John P.
name: Cameron, Kate
name: Meseguer-Ripolles, Jose
name: Szkolnicka, Dagmara
name: Villarin, Baltasar Lucendo
name: Wang, Yu
name: Blanco, Giovanny Rodriguez
name: Dunn, Warwick B.
name: R. Meehan, Richard
name: Hay, David C.
name: J. Drake, Amanda
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Supplementary methods, figures and tables
Spatial Sign Correlation
Creators: name: Dürre, Alexander
name: Vogel, Daniel
name: Fried, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62H12, 62G05, 62G35

description: A new robust correlation estimator based on the spatial sign covariance matrix (SSCM) is proposed. We derive its asymptotic distribution and influence function at elliptical distributions. Finite sample and robustness properties are studied and compared to other robust correlation estimators by means of numerical simulations.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
supporting information Graphene quantum dots modified Ag3PO4 for facile synthesis and the enhanced photocatalytic performance
Creators: name: Chen, Zhigang
name: Zhao, Zhenzhen
name: Liu, Jinyuan
name: Zhu, Xingwang
name: Wang, Liang
name: Yu, Yuanguo
name: Xu, Hui
name: Li, Huaming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: classificationCode: 410501
subject: Environmental biogeochemistry

description: supporting information
LAVLAGINING AHAMIYATI VA SAQLASH TEXNOLOGIYASI
Creators: name: Xurramova Sabrina Shuxrat qizi,  Ismoilova Mohinur Shavkat qizi,  Ismoilova Charos Ilhom qizi Termiz Davlat Universiteti  Professional ta'lim:  Qishloq xo'jaligi mahsulotini saqlash va dastlabki qayta ishlash texnologiyasi (mahsulot turlari bo'yicha) ta'lim yo'nalishi 2-kurs talabalari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada ildiz mevali sabzavotlar haqida ma’lumot, lavlagining  foydali xususiyatlari, lavlagidagi foydali moddalar, lavlagining saqlash usullari,lavlagini yetishtirish texnologiyasi, mahsulotga qo’yiladigan talablar lavlagining navi va keng tarqalgan turi, lavlagini ko’p yetishtiradigan davlatlar va ko’p istemol qilish bo’yicha yuqori o’rinda turuvchi mamlakatlar haqida ma’lumotlar berilgan.

         Kalit so’zlar. Lavlagi, texnologiya, lavlagining navlari, lavlagining eng ommalashgan turlari, vitaminlar, lavlagining kelib chiqishi, tarqalishi,biologik xususiyatlar, o’g’itlash, kimyoviy tarkibi, lavlagi kasalliklari va zararkunandalari, lavlagi saqlash texnologiyasi
On the efficiency of Gini's mean difference
Creators: name: Gerstenberger, Carina
name: Vogel, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G35, 62G05, 62G20

description: We examine the efficiency of the mean deviation and Gini's mean difference (the mean of all pairwise distances). Our findings support the viewpoint that Gini's mean difference combines the advantages of the mean deviation and the standard deviation.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables
Influence of surface termination on inverse Goos-Hänchen shift of negatively refractive photonic crystals
Creators: name: Hu, Jinbing
name: Liang, Binming
name: Chen, Jiabi
name: Cai, Xiaoshu
name: Jiang, Qiang
name: Zhuang, Songlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of surface termination on the inverse Goos Hanchen (GH) shift of two dimensional (2D) negatively refractive photonic crystal (NRPhC) containing air holes arranged in hexagonal lattice in a dielectric background is investigated for TM polarization. Results show that the magnitude of the inverse GH shift of 2DNRPhC strongly depends on surface termination even for an incident beam with a fixed frequency and incidence angle. Further study by calculating the dispersion of surface mode of 2D-NRPhC as a function of surface termination reveals that 2DNRPhC presents large inverse Goos Hanchen shift at those terminations where surface mode is excited, that is, large inverse Goos-Hanchen shift originates from backward surface mode of 2DNRPhC. In addition, the coupling coefficient of incident field into the field of surface mode as a function of surface termination is studied and demonstrates above results. This paper provides technical information regarding the combination of various functional photonic elements in the design of integrated optical circuits.
description: 5 pages,6 figures
Studentized U-quantile processes under dependence with applications to change-point analysis
Creators: name: Vogel, Daniel
name: Wendler, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17, 62G10, 62G35, 62M10

description: Many popular robust estimators are $U$-quantiles, most notably the Hodges-Lehmann location estimator and the $Q_n$ scale estimator. We prove a functional central limit theorem for the sequential $U$-quantile process without any moment assumptions and under weak short-range dependence conditions. We further devise an estimator for the long-run variance and show its consistency, from which the convergence of the studentized version of the sequential $U$-quantile process to a standard Brownian motion follows. This result can be used to construct CUSUM-type change-point tests based on $U$-quantiles, which do not rely on bootstrapping procedures. We demonstrate this approach in detail at the example of the Hodges-Lehmann estimator for robustly detecting changes in the central location. A simulation study confirms the very good robustness and efficiency properties of the test. Two real-life data sets are analyzed.
All-dielectric periodic terajet waveguide using an array of coupled cuboids
Creators: name: Minin, I. V.
name: Minin, O. V.
name: Pacheco-Peña, V.
name: Beruete, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2
subject: 65Z05

description: In this paper, the recently proposed technique to produce photonic jets (terajets at THz frequencies) using 3D dielectric cuboids is applied in the design of mesoscale cuboid-chain waveguide. The chains are basically designed with several dielectric cubes with dimensions λ0 along the x, y and z axes placed periodically along the axial z-axis and separated by an air-gap. Based on this, a systematic study of the focusing properties and wave guiding of this chain is performed when the air-gap between the dielectric cubes is changed from 0.25λ0 to 2.5λ0 with the best performance achieved with the latter design. The numerical results of focusing and transport properties are carried out using Finite Integration Technique. The results here presented may be scaled to any frequency ranges such as millimeter, sub-millimeter or optical frequencies.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. presenting antibodies used for immunofluorescence staining and flow cytometry analysis. (DOCX 14 kb)
Asymptotics of the two-stage spatial sign correlation
Creators: name: Dürre, Alexander
name: Vogel, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H12, 62G05, 62G35

description: The spatial sign correlation (Dürre, Vogel and Fried, 2015) is a highly robust and easy-to-compute, bivariate correlation estimator based on the spatial sign covariance matrix. Since the estimator is inefficient when the marginal scales strongly differ, a two-stage version was proposed. In the first step, the observations are marginally standardized by means of a robust scale estimator, and in the second step, the spatial sign correlation of the thus transformed data set is computed. Dürre et al. (2015) give some evidence that the asymptotic distribution of the two-stage estimator equals that of the spatial sign correlation at equal marginal scales by comparing their influence functions and presenting simulation results, but give no formal proof. In the present paper, we close this gap and establish the asymptotic normality of the two-stage spatial sign correlation and compute its asymptotic variance for elliptical population distributions. We further derive a variance-stabilizing transformation, similar to Fisher's z-transform, and numerically compare the small-sample coverage probabilities of several confidence intervals.
Additional file 2: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Table S2. presenting primers used for characterization of hepatocytic functions. (DOCX 14 kb)
Eliminating Higher-Multiplicity Intersections, III. Codimension 2
Creators: name: Avvakumov, S.
name: Mabillard, I.
name: Skopenkov, A.
name: Wagner, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 57Q35, 55S91, 52A35

description: We study conditions under which a finite simplicial complex $K$ can be mapped to $\mathbb R^d$ without higher-multiplicity intersections. An almost $r$-embedding is a map $f: K\to \mathbb R^d$ such that the images of any $r$ pairwise disjoint simplices of $K$ do not have a common point. We show that if $r$ is not a prime power and $d\geq 2r+1$, then there is a counterexample to the topological Tverberg conjecture, i.e., there is an almost $r$-embedding of the $(d+1)(r-1)$-simplex in $\mathbb R^d$. This improves on previous constructions of counterexamples (for $d\geq 3r$) based on a series of papers by M. Özaydin, M. Gromov, P. Blagojević, F. Frick, G. Ziegler, and the second and fourth present authors. The counterexamples are obtained by proving the following algebraic criterion in codimension 2: If $r\ge3$ and if $K$ is a finite $2(r-1)$-complex then there exists an almost $r$-embedding $K\to \mathbb R^{2r}$ if and only if there exists a general position PL map $f:K\to \mathbb R^{2r}$ such that the algebraic intersection number of the $f$-images of any $r$ pairwise disjoint simplices of $K$ is zero. This result can be restated in terms of cohomological obstructions or equivariant maps, and extends an analogous codimension 3 criterion by the second and fourth authors. As another application we classify ornaments $f:S^3 \sqcup S^3\sqcup S^3\to \mathbb R^5$ up to ornament concordance. It follows from work of M. Freedman, V. Krushkal and P. Teichner that the analogous criterion for $r=2$ is false. We prove a lemma on singular higher-dimensional Borromean rings, yielding an elementary proof of the counterexample.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, exposition improved
Acoustojet: acoustic analogue of photonic jet phenomenon
Creators: name: Minin, Igor V.
name: Minin, Oleg V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2
subject: 65Z05

description: It has been demonstrated for the first time that an existence of acoustic analogue of photonic jet phenomenon, called acoustojet, providing for subwavelength localization of acoustic field in the shadow area of arbitrary 3D penetrable mesoscale particle, is possible.
description: 2 Figures
Additional file 3: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Figure S1. showing sequencing results of parental and inserted iPSCs. a Parental iPSCs have the known F9 gene mutation c.676C > T, p.Arg226Trp. b Inserted iPSCs (colony 5) have a heterozygous mutation of c.676C > T, p.Arg226Trp. (DOCX 393 kb)
Tests for scale changes based on pairwise differences
Creators: name: Gerstenberger, Carina
name: Vogel, Daniel
name: Wendler, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62G10, 62G35

description: In many applications it is important to know whether the amount of fluctuation in a series of observations changes over time. In this article, we investigate different tests for detecting change in the scale of mean-stationary time series. The classical approach based on the CUSUM test applied to the squared centered, is very vulnerable to outliers and impractical for heavy-tailed data, which leads us to contemplate test statistics based on alternative, less outlier-sensitive scale estimators. It turns out that the tests based on Gini's mean difference (the average of all pairwise distances) or generalized Qn estimators (sample quantiles of all pairwise distances) are very suitable candidates. They improve upon the classical test not only under heavy tails or in the presence of outliers, but also under normality. An explanation for this at first counterintuitive result is that the corresponding long-run variance estimates are less affected by a scale change than in the case of the sample-variance-based test. We use recent results on the process convergence of U-statistics and U-quantiles for dependent sequences to derive the limiting distribution of the test statistics and propose estimators for the long-run variance. We perform a simulations study to investigate the finite sample behavior of the test and their power. Furthermore, we demonstrate the applicability of the new change-point detection methods at two real-life data examples from hydrology and finance.
Body composition : methods of measurement, normative values and clinical use
Creators: name: Genton Graf, Laurence
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616
Body composition
Total body potassium
Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry
Bioelectrical impedance analysis

description: Measurement of body composition is an important part of nutritional assessment. The low FFM associated with malnutrition has been associated with numerous infectious and noninfectious complications, increasing length of stay, morbidity and mortality. DXA and TBK are reference method for determination of FFM and BCM, but, as these methods are expensive and require extensive technique of the operator, we have focused especially on BIA, an easy, quick, safe and reliable bedside method to measure body composition. BIA formulas to routinely assess FFM and appendicular skeletal muscle mass have been developed. Normative values of total body composition have been established, according to age and gender. Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies allowed an insight on the impact of physical activity and environment on body composition. With regard to clinics, we have studied the impact of body composition, determined by BIA, on length of hospital stay and shown that a low FFM and FM index were associated with an increased length of stay. This demonstrates that prevention of FFM loss, whether through nutritional support or drugs, may improve clinical outcome and decrease hospital costs. Finally, we have shown two case reports where sequential FFM measurements guided nutritional and medical therapy. Future studies should focus on the relationship between body composition and outcome in various types of patients. They should also try to determine the characteristics of nutritional support (amount of calories, type of macronutrient intakes, timing of nutritional support), potentially associated with anabolic drugs or physical activity, necessary to limit FFM loss, in order to improve clinical outcome.
Additional file 4: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S3 presenting plasmids used for transfection of HEK293T cells and iPSCs. (DOCX 14 kb)
Multilingual professionals: translators, interpreters and cultural identities
Creators: name: Badalotti, Floriana
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The T&I profession hinges on multilingual and multicultural competence, and leads translators and interpreters to being located at the point of contact of two cultures. Translation (intended here in the broadest sense, of written and spoken texts) has been described as “an activity [which] is always doubly contextualised, since the text has a place in two cultures” (Bassnett & Lefevere, 1990:11). If both the text and the translational activity are acknowledged to have multiple locations, then the translator/interpreter could also be considered as doubly or multiply positioned. These ‘multiple positions’ raise the question of the cultural and linguistic identifications of language professionals. The role played by language(s) in the formation and performance of identities (personal, social, cultural, etc.) is well known and researched, yet professional multilinguals' experiences and points of view are rarely considered; the affective aspects of multilingualism have up to now received marginal attention in Translation Studies, traditionally more focused on textual analysis and translation as a process rather than on its agents. With multilingualism becoming a prominent feature in communicative situations of all kinds, the professional figures of translators and interpreters have become more and more conspicuous. T/Is constitute a unique sample of multilingual individuals: because of the very nature of their job, and because multilingualism is for T/Is an actively pursued condition. This places them in a different position to ‘lay’ multilingual people, for whom translation can be a routine activity and multilingualism may not be a choice or have a bearing on their livelihood. T/Is can be said to belong to a new category of study: that of multilingual professionals, traditionally overlooked in the social study of language (Day & Wagner, 2007:393). In an attempt to answer Pym's appeal for “a sociology of […] mediators” (2006:2), this thesis presents data from a web-based survey with 65 T/Is across Australia on the topics of language history, use, feelings in different languages, and cultural and professional identifications. It attempts to address some of the unexplored social, cultural and psychological aspects of translators and interpreters as multilingual and multicultural professionals.
An ethno-phenomenological study of actors’ experiences of performing in theatre
Creators: name: Creely, Edwin Arthur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis contains an ethno-phenomenological study of actors’ experiences of performing in theatre. The methodology of the investigation was developed from the traditions of phenomenology and ethnography, with particular attention given to phenomenological reduction as espoused by Husserl. There are two distinct threads of inquiry that are juxtaposed with each other in order to understand actors’ experiences and the contingencies that accompany such experiences. First, there is a ‘wide’ examination of factors that impinge on or foster experience for actors. Second, there is a ‘deep’ and ‘narrow’ examination of the performance experiences themselves, gathered from a small selection of actors. Both threads, while different in approach, are complementary and are necessarily positioned together. The study also examines the sedimentation that undergirds such experiences, including actor training, with ‘sedimentation’ conceived to be a set of accumulated memories and practices embodied in an actor that are often linked to training. The research is structured around a set of claims related to actors’ experiences within the context of performance in theatre productions, claims which have accumulated abductively from the researcher’s theatre praxis and reading of the research literature. These claims are tested against the testimonies of actors gathered through transcripts of interviews and written journals from a small selection of case studies. In order to assess the extent of influence of training on how actors experience performance, actors are grouped in the study according to whether they are in training programs or post-training. Further comparison is made through reference to interviews with actor educators, especially in regard to actors deemed to be in training. In order to analyse and evaluate textual materials, selected aspects of the philosophical ideas of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Whitehead are deployed to provide distinct lenses on experience. Merleau-Ponty is utilised to focus discussion on embodiment, Levinas to draw attention to relational aspects of experience and Whitehead to suggest the nature of creative constitution as it is linked to experience. Moreover, a set of discrete ontological categories is introduced to enable labelling and categorizing of experience. Throughout the thesis, concept maps are used to represent phenomena and depict the ontological characteristics of phenomena. The study concludes that the experiences of actors during performing within theatre contexts are more diverse and complex than is often believed, and suggests that such experiences play a greater role in the constitution of performance than is commonly thought. In addition, it is likely that sedimentation plays a critical role in the constitution of experience for actors. Among a number of recommendations for further research, it is suggested that the internality of actors in performance needs greater consideration.
Additional file 5: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Figure S2 showing characterization of iPSC colony 5. a Karyotype of iPSC colony 5 was normal. b qRT-PCR analysis showed expression of OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG of iPSC colony 5. PBMNCs of patient used as negative control, H1 embryonic stem cells used as positive control. c Immunofluorescence staining showed expression of TRA-1-60, SSEA4, OCT4, and NANOG. d Sections of teratomas stained with H&E (endoderm: pancreas; mesoderm: muscle; ectoderm: nerve fibers). All scale bars represent 100 Îźm. (DOCX 1261 kb)
Historical films and the Asian nations: struggles for independence and emancipation – a gendered perspective
Creators: name: Wan Yahaya, Wan Aida
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores in detail fourteen historical films about Asian nations, most made by indigenous production companies and directors from the countries depicted in the films. The thesis has concentrated on films from Southeast Asia, but includes extensive discussion of two films made about Indian history and of two films made about Japanese history. The thesis concentrates on films concerned with issues of national independence, the period of the formation of the nation, and with women’s emancipation and women’s rights to self-determination. One reason for the selection of these topics is that these topics are quite common concerns in historical films made in Asian countries, particularly in the Southeast Asian region, which is the main focus of the study, and which is a region where many countries were colonised, at least from the nineteenth century onwards. In addressing the topic of the historical film, a number of concerns have figured prominently. A primary concern raised by the thesis is the question of the adequacy of historical films to the representation of the modern history of some of the nations under discussion. This has led into discussions of how the films represent national struggles, but also how they are discourses engaging with their societies at the time the film was made, and in what ways these films end up supporting or challenging hegemonic views of the nation. The discussion of films about the periods of the national struggle for independence is mainly explored in relation to films about Indian and Malaysian history, in chapters in the first half of the thesis. The second half of the thesis is concerned with the representation of women in history, particularly in struggles for freedom from an oppressive patriarchy, in struggles for women’s rights, for emancipation generally and for education. While most of the thesis discusses historical films made about situations in history post 1880, one chapter in the thesis (Chapter Four, Representation of Women in Historical Films about Early Modern Southeast Asia) deals with periods as far back as the fifteenth century. The division of the thesis, in such a way as to spend half of the thesis on the representation of women in historical films, is in accord with priorities in relatively recent Asian historical films, and with my own concern to ensure that women are seen as part of history. The thesis also includes a discussion of the different forms that historical films can take, and how this is often determined by the kinds of historical knowledge and of historical documentation that are available from different periods.
Additional file 6: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S3. showing off-target effects detection in successful inserted iPSCs. Using Cas-OFFinder, 1799 potential off-target sites that differed from the sgRNA sequence by up to five nucleotides in the genome were found. We found 97,968 indels, 3084 SVs, 51,628 SNPs, and 2225 CNVs unique to the inserted iPSCs compared to that in the parental iPSCs. Since indels and SVs comprise virtually all of the mutations introduced by CRISPR-Cas9, we focused solely on indels and SVs. Through comparison of potential off-target sites, and indels and SVs unique to the inserted iPSCs, we found no overlapping mutation between them. (DOCX 302 kb)
Embeddings of non-simply-connected 4-manifolds in 7-space. II. On the smooth classification
Creators: name: Crowley, D.
name: Skopenkov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R52, 57R67, 55R15

description: We work in the smooth category. Let $N$ be a closed connected orientable 4-manifold with torsion free $H_1$, where $H_q := H_q(N; \mathbb Z)$. Our main result is a readily calculable classification of embeddings $N\to\mathbb R^7$ up to isotopy, with an indeterminancy. Such a classification was only known before for $H_1=0$ by our earlier work from 2008. Our classification is complete when $H_2=0$ or when the signature of $N$ is divisible neither by 64 nor by 9. The group of knots $S^4\to\mathbb R^7$ acts on the set of embeddings $N\to\mathbb R^7$ up to isotopy by embedded connected sum. In Part I we classified the quotient of this action. The main novelty of this paper is the description of this action for $H_1\ne0$, with an indeterminancy. Besides the invariants of Part I, detecting the action of knots involves a refinement of the Kreck invariant from our work of 2008. For $N=S^1\times S^3$ we give a geometrically defined 1--1 correspondence between the set of isotopy classes of embeddings and a certain explicitly defined quotient of the set $\mathbb Z\oplus\mathbb Z\oplus\mathbb Z_{12}$.
description: 19 pages, exposition improved
A Characterisation of Smooth Maps into a Homogeneous Space
Creators: name: Blaom, Anthony D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize Cartan's logarithmic derivative of a smooth map from a manifold into a Lie group $G$ to smooth maps into a homogeneous space $M=G/H$, and determine the global monodromy obstruction to reconstructing such maps from infinitesimal data. The logarithmic derivative of the embedding of a submanifold $Σ\subset M$ becomes an invariant of $Σ$ under symmetries of the "Klein geometry" $M$ whose analysis is taken up in [SIGMA 14 (2018), 062, 36 pages, arXiv:1703.03851].
Additional file 7: of Targeted genome engineering in human induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with hemophilia B using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Creators: name: Lyu, Cuicui
name: Shen, Jun
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gu, Haihui
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Xue, Feng
name: Liu, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Fu, Rongfeng
name: Zhang, Liyan
name: Li, Huiyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaobing
name: Cheng, Tao
name: Yang, Renchi
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S4. showing characterization of hepatocytic functions. Differentiated cells had functions of glycogen storage (a) and ICG uptake (b), and also expressed LDL-receptor (c) and had ability for LDL uptake (d). All scale bars represent 100 Îźm. (DOCX 1747 kb)
Additional file 1: of Evaluation of the effects of ascorbic acid on metabolism of human mesenchymal stem cells
Creators: name: Fujisawa, Koichi
name: Hara, Kazusa
name: Takami, Taro
name: Okada, Sae
name: Matsumoto, Toshihiko
name: Yamamoto, Naoki
name: Sakaida, Isao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional Methods. (DOCX 22 kb)
Semi-Supervised AUC Optimization based on Positive-Unlabeled Learning
Creators: name: Sakai, Tomoya
name: Niu, Gang
name: Sugiyama, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced classification. So far, various supervised AUC optimization methods have been developed and they are also extended to semi-supervised scenarios to cope with small sample problems. However, existing semi-supervised AUC optimization methods rely on strong distributional assumptions, which are rarely satisfied in real-world problems. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised AUC optimization method that does not require such restrictive assumptions. We first develop an AUC optimization method based only on positive and unlabeled data (PU-AUC) and then extend it to semi-supervised learning by combining it with a supervised AUC optimization method. We theoretically prove that, without the restrictive distributional assumptions, unlabeled data contribute to improving the generalization performance in PU and semi-supervised AUC optimization methods. Finally, we demonstrate the practical usefulness of the proposed methods through experiments.
description: Fixed typos in Appendix
On the nature of wintertime precipitation in the alpine regions of south-eastern Australia
Creators: name: Chubb, Thomas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Data from a precipitation gauge network in the Snowy Mountains of South-Eastern Australia has been analysed to produce a new climatology of wintertime precipitation and airmass history for the region in the period 1990–2009. Precipitation amounts on the western slopes and in the high elevations (> 1000 m) of the Snowy Mountains region have experienced a decline in precipitation of 19% for annual precipitation, and for wintertime precipitation the amount is about 22%, which is far greater than the decline experienced generally in south- eastern Australia during this period. The contrast in the decline east and west of the ranges suggests that factors influencing orographic precipitation are of particular importance. A synoptic decomposition of precipitation events has been performed, which demonstrates that about 57% of the wintertime precipitation may be attributed to storms associated with “cut-off lows” (equatorward of 45◦ S). A further 40% was found to be due to “embedded lows”, with the remainder due to Australian east coast lows and several other sporadically occurring events. The declining trend in wintertime precipitation over the past two decades is most clearly seen in the intensity of precipitation due to cut-off lows, and coincides with a decline in the number of systems associated with a cold frontal passage. Closer investigation of two typical wintertime storms in the nearby Brindabella ranges, using weather station and remotely-sensed data, reveals that the post-frontal period is characterised by shallow, supercooled, orographically forced cloud and sustained, low to moderate precipitation rates. High resolution numerical simulations with the WRF model match the observations remarkably well and have been used to provide a more complete picture of the nature of these storms. The transport of moisture to the Snowy Mountains during precipitation is investigated by coupling back trajectories with precipitation observations. Two principal “moisture corridors” are revealed, with the most frequent precipitation associated with westerly trajectories and orographic forcing, while heavy precipitation is associated with synoptic ascent ahead of a cold front, whereby trajectories are shown to come from the north. Finally, a method is proposed to directly evaluate claims that precipitation in the Snowy Mountains has been suppressed by pollution from urban and industrial sources. Back trajectories are used to provide a meteorological link between suspected pollution sources and a Snowy Mountains analysis region, and both satellite-derived cloud microphysics and surface precipitation observations are considered. It is shown that, while there is a clear link between the microphysics observations and surface precipitation rates, no convincing relationship exists between any of the pollution sources and Snowy Mountains cloud or precipitation observations.
Anomaly detection using isolation
Creators: name: Liu, Fei Tony
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Anomaly detection is the process of discovering unusual data patterns that are different from the majority of the data. It has been used for fraud detection in the credit card and insurance industries, as well as other applications such as intrusion detection, industrial damage detection, and medical and public health anomaly detection. Alongside predictive modelling, link analysis and cluster analysis, anomaly detection forms one of the four pillars in data mining research and applications. Anomalies are data points that are intrinsically few in number and different from other normal data. Due to these intrinsic properties, anomalies are highly susceptible to isolation. This thesis proposes the first isolation-based anomaly detectors that detect anomalies purely based on the concept of isolation. The proposed method is fundamentally different from all existing methods that determine anomalies using distance-based or density-based approaches. Isolation-based anomaly detectors estimate the susceptibility to isolation for each data point without employing any computationally expensive distance or density measures. This fundamental allows a significantly lower processing time, higher detection accuracy and the ability to detect a wider range of anomalies, such as clustered anomalies. This thesis explains how isolation-based anomaly detectors work in separating anomalies from the majority of data, even when there is a high volume of data. In addition, an extensive empirical evaluation and an investigation on high dimensional data are provided. Finally, we discuss possible extensions of this novel method, such as handling categorical data and data streams.