cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(201515) John Robson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Discrete Anderson Speckle
Creators: name: Kondakci, H. Esat
name: Abouraddy, Ayman F.
name: Saleh, Bahaa E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a disordered array of coupled waveguides is illuminated with an extended coherent optical field, discrete speckle develops: partially coherent light with a granular intensity distribution on the lattice sites. The same paradigm applies to a variety of other settings in photonics, such as imperfectly coupled resonators or fibers with randomly coupled cores. Through numerical simulations and analytical modeling, we uncover a set of surprising features that characterize discrete speckle in one- and two-dimensional lattices known to exhibit transverse Anderson localization. Firstly, the fingerprint of localization is embedded in the fluctuations of the discrete speckle and is revealed in the narrowing of the spatial coherence function. Secondly, the transverse coherence length (or speckle grain size) is frozen during propagation. Thirdly, the axial coherence depth is independent of the axial position, thereby resulting in a coherence voxel of fixed volume independently of position. We take these unique features collectively to define a distinct regime that we call discrete Anderson speckle.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Unbounded Pontryagin numbers on nonnegatively curved spin manifolds
Creators: name: Hsiao, E.
name: Kotschick, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary 53C20, 57R20, secondary 53C23, 53C27, 57R75

description: We prove that any rational linear combination of Pontryagin numbers that does not factor through the universal elliptic genus is unbounded on connected closed spin manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature.
description: 9 pages, final version, to appear in Bulletin London Math. Soc
AUTOMATED FLOW INJECTION INSTRUMENTATION FOR MONITORING NITROGEN SPECIES IN NATURAL WATERS
Creators: name: COLES, SIMON PHILIP
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: The provision of high quality analytical data is an essential prerequisite for understanding the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in the aquatic environment. Due to the instability of samples collected for nutrient determinations however, in situ analysis is preferred. This approach also allows for high temporal and spatial resolution of the data and alteration of the sampling frequency to meet local environmental needs. Chapter One describes the role of nitrogen species, particularly ammonia and nitrate, in the aquatic environment, their sources, and possible environmental effects and summarises analytical techniques for their determination. Solid state miniaturised detectors and their suitability for in situ monitoring are also discussed. The characterisation and evaluation of a miniature Ocean Optics PSD - 1000 spectrometer and its suitability for field deployment is described in Chapter Two. Parameters investigated were optical resolution, wavelength repeatability, photometric linearity and instrumental noise and drift. The incorporation of the Ocean Optics PSD - 1000 miniature spectrometer into a gas diffusion Flow Injection (Fl) manifold for the determination of ammonia in natural waters is detailed in Chapter Three. Optimisation of the Fl parameters and analytical performance are discussed in detail. The development of an immobilised pH indicator and adaptation to a laminar Fl manifold is also considered. Chapter Four describes the use of the miniature spectrometer in a Fl manifold for the determination of nitrate and nitrite, with analytical figures of merit detailed. The increased information potential of the spectrometer (i.e. full spectral acquisition) facilitated the removal of the refractive index problem using dual wavelength correction. Miniaturisation and automation of the optimised nitrate manifold using micro-solenoid pumps and LabView™ graphical programming is described in Chapter Five. Field deployment of the automated system was assessed during a six week British Schools Exploring Society Expedition to Lesotho, S. Africa (in which an intensive biogeochemical survey of the Sehlabathebe National Park was conducted) and a three day campaign on the River Frome, Dorset, U.K. Chapter Six details the ion chromatographic analysis of major anions and cations (including ammonium and nitrate) in precipitation samples. Two sampling campaigns were conducted. One was at an urban site (Plymouth City Centre) from 27/01/98 - 11/05/98, and the influence of aerosol source on the chemical composition of Plymouth precipitation is discussed. The other involved the Austrian precipitation network and wet deposition trends for nitrate, ammonium and sulphate are discussed. The multivariate analysis technique of PCA was applied to both environmental datasets and the interpretation and merits of this statistical approach are considered.
(201516) Jane [Robson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Search for short strings in~$e^+e^-$-annihilation
Creators: name: Kozhevnikova, Marina
name: Oganesian, Armen
name: Teryaev, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the behavior of power corrections to Adler finction in operator product expansion (OPE) is studied, in particular the possible contribution of operator of dimension 2. The OPE terms of dimension 4 and 6 are taken into account. Various experimental data on reactions of $e^+e^-$-annihilation to pion channels ($π^+π^-$, $2π^+2π^-$, $π^+π^-2π^0$, $3π^+3π^-$, $2π^+2π^-2π^0$) are used. The high-precision fits of the experimental data are obtained and used. The method based on Borel transform of Adler function is applied. It is shown that the contribution of operator of dimension 2 is negative being compatible to zero at three standard deviations level. The strong (anti)corellation between short string and local gluon condensate is found.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, a report on the XXIII Baldin ISHEPP, minor corrections, references added
Orokaiva production and change
Creators: name: Newton, Janice Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Updated Lattice Results for Parton Distributions
Creators: name: Alexandrou, Constantia
name: Cichy, Krzysztof
name: Constantinou, Martha
name: Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Steffens, Fernanda
name: Wiese, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an analysis of the x-dependence of the bare unpolarized, helicity and transversity iso-vector parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice calculations employing (maximally) twisted mass fermions. The x-dependence of the calculated PDFs resembles the one of the phenomenological parameterizations, a feature that makes this approach very promising. Furthermore, we apply momentum smearing for the relevant matrix elements to compute the lattice PDFs and find a large improvement factor when compared to conventional Gaussian smearing. This allows us to extend the lattice computation of the distributions to higher values of the nucleon momentum, which is essential for the prospects of a reliable extraction of the PDFs in the future.
description: A table with the moments of PDFs and a figure with the dispersion relation were added. Version to appear in PRD
Sharp Bounds on Eigenvalues via Spectral Embedding Based on Signless Laplacians
Creators: name: Wei, Zhi-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C81, 60J10, 05C50

description: Using spectral embedding based on the signless Laplacian, we obtain bounds on the spectrum of transition matrices on graphs. As a consequence, we bound return probabilities and the uniform mixing time of simple random walk on graphs. In addition, spectral embedding is used in this article to bound the spectrum of graph adjacency matrices. Our method is adapted from [Lyons and Oveis Gharan, 2017].
description: In this version, some literature are cited more properly; contributions therein are mentioned in a more appropriate way. Especially, Proposition 3.8 was first published in [Mao & Song, 2013]; we are only giving a different approach in this submission
'Another dimension of seeing...': Exploring artistic responses to antiquity and the effect on the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Hardy Smith, Tania
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 Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
AGRICULTURAL ANALYSIS BY PLASMA EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY WITH SLURRY ATOMISATION
Creators: name: SPARKES, SIMON TIMOTHY
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1986

description: The three electrode direct current plasma (DCP), has been investigated for the analysis of samples introduced using aqueous solution nebulisation, hydride generation and slurry atomisation. For aqueous solutions, simplex optimisation with signal to background ratio as the criterion of merit, vertical viewing position was found to be most critical. A continuous-flow hydride generator was interfaced to the DCP via a modified sample introduction chimney. Optimisation indicated that total sample introduction gas flow rates were essentially similar to those for conventional nebulisation and that vertical viewing position was again critical. Generation conditions for lead hydride were also simplex optimised. Acid, sodium hydroxide, and hydrogen peroxide concentration were all found to be critical. Detection limits for hydride generation were: As 4 ng cmˉ³, Se 4 ng cmˉ³, Pb 10 ng cmˉ³. Arsenic and selenium were accurately determined in various reference materials. The determination of Mg in aqueous slurries of kaolin was optimised using the Mg(II) 279.079 nm line and conventional sample introduction. Vertical viewing position was again critical with the optimum on the boundary of the analytical zone and over the plasma core. A reduction of emission intensity at high slurry concentrations (> 12%), was observed. Particle size was the most important parameter in slurry atomisation, < 5 µm being preferred. Soils, milk, plant materials and sewage sludges were successfully analysed by slurry atomisation. Where necessary, particle size was reduced using simple grinding procedures. For fibrous materials, prior matrix carbonisation was advantageous. Results obtained using these procedures and simple aqueous calibration showed excellent agreement with certified values of reference materials. Electron number density (ne), excitation temperature (Texc) and ionisation temperature (Tion), were measured for two series of kaolin slurries, (1-20% m/V), one containing 5 g 1ˉ¹ lithium as enhancement buffer. For the slurries containing added lithium, Texc and ne were found to be reduced with increasing slurry concentration. Observed decreases in analyte emission with increased sample loadings (> 12%), are considered to be consistent with proposed excitation models.
Language ethnicity and social change : a sociolinguistic study of Afrikaans-speaking groups in South Africa
Creators: name: Nel, Lea
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
A case study of assessment philosophy and practice in a catholic junior secondary school
Creators: name: Ward, Vicki L
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Assessment of student performance at secondary school continues to occupy a prominent place in the mind of the community. Successive inquiries and reports ( Campbell et al, 1975; Fairbairn et al, 1976; Scott et al, 1978; Kennedy et al, 1989) highlight the efforts of the educational community to arrive at a system of assessment, reporting and certification which more adequately meets the needs of all stakeholders. In Queensland, these have resulted in such far-reaching consequences as the abolition of public exams, and the progression through norm -referenced to criterion -referenced assessments as methods of describing individual student achievement. On a national scale , the debate about assessment has taken on overt political overtones. This is undoubtedly because of the present economic climate. Australia is popularly seen as not giving a good account of itself in international commerce, and requiring the nation's schools to produce a better 'product' is proposed as one way of redressing the trend. At the same time, the necessity to rank students to provide a basis for comparison of achievement so that selection for further study can be easily and fairly made is being seen as less important for many students completing school as they do not seek admission to tertiary institutions. In addition, the Employment and Skills Formation Council (1992) is proposing a national system to describe students by competencies rather than school results for use by employers when selecting potential employees. Within the Catholic education system, questions about justice in assessment for all students, who has the right to know information about students' performance, what is actually essential for these people to know, and how to provide this information while preserving the dignity and sense of self-worth of the students are the subjects of debate. Given this questioning, the contemporary emphasis on measurement of outcomes at the end of formal schooling (i.e. Year 12) , and the fact that the majority of students now stay on past Year 10, questions about the methods and focus of assessment practices in the junior secondary school come into sharper focus. Has the role of assessment in these years of schooling changed, and, if it has, do the methods and practices presentlyemployed fit this changed emphasis?
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 09/95
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: 5. Änderung der Satzung der Studentenschaft der Universität Dortmund
description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Verlust eines Dienstausweises
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 9, 1995
The structure of Drinfeld modular forms of level $Γ_0(T)$ and applications
Creators: name: Dalal, Tarun
name: Kumar, Narasimha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11G09, 11F52, Secondary 11F33, 13C05

description: In this article, we describe the structure of the $R$-algebra of Drinfeld modular forms $M(Γ_0(T))_R$ (resp., $M^0(Γ_0(T))_R$) of level $Γ_0(T)$ and the structure of mod-$\p$ reduction of $M_{\mfp}^0(Γ_0(T))$ for $\p \neq (T)$. As a result, we are able to study the properties of the weight filtration for $M_{k,l}(Γ_0(T))$. Finally, we prove a result on mod-$\p$ congruences for Drinfeld modular forms of level $Γ_0(\p T)$ for $\p \neq (T)$.
On the spectral radius of a random matrix: an upper bound without fourth moment
Creators: name: Bordenave, Charles
name: Caputo, Pietro
name: Chafai, Djalil
name: Tikhomirov, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C20, 15B52, 47A10, 05C80

description: Consider a square matrix with independent and identically distributed entries of zero mean and unit variance. It is well known that if the entries have a finite fourth moment, then, in high dimension, with high probability, the spectral radius is close to the square root of the dimension. We conjecture that this holds true under the sole assumption of zero mean and unit variance, in other words that there are no outliers in the circular law. In this work we establish the conjecture in the case of symmetrically distributed entries with a finite moment of order larger than two. The proof uses the method of moments combined with a novel truncation technique for cycle weights that might be of independent interest.
Dynamic multi feature-class Gaussian process models
Creators: name: Fouefack, Jean-Rassaire
name: Borotikar, Bhushan
name: Lüthi, Marcel
name: Douglas, Tania S.
name: Burdin, Valérie
name: Mutsvangwa, Tinashe E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In model-based medical image analysis, three features of interest are the shape of structures of interest, their relative pose, and image intensity profiles representative of some physical property. Often, these are modelled separately through statistical models by decomposing the object's features into a set of basis functions through principal geodesic analysis or principal component analysis. This study presents a statistical modelling method for automatic learning of shape, pose and intensity features in medical images which we call the Dynamic multi feature-class Gaussian process models (DMFC-GPM). A DMFC-GPM is a Gaussian process (GP)-based model with a shared latent space that encodes linear and non-linear variation. Our method is defined in a continuous domain with a principled way to represent shape, pose and intensity feature classes in a linear space, based on deformation fields. A deformation field-based metric is adapted in the method for modelling shape and intensity feature variation as well as for comparing rigid transformations (pose). Moreover, DMFC-GPMs inherit properties intrinsic to GPs including marginalisation and regression. Furthermore, they allow for adding additional pose feature variability on top of those obtained from the image acquisition process; what we term as permutation modelling. For image analysis tasks using DMFC-GPMs, we adapt Metropolis-Hastings algorithms making the prediction of features fully probabilistic. We validate the method using controlled synthetic data and we perform experiments on bone structures from CT images of the shoulder to illustrate the efficacy of the model for pose and shape feature prediction. The model performance results suggest that this new modelling paradigm is robust, accurate, accessible, and has potential applications including the management of musculoskeletal disorders and clinical decision making
description: 16
Extremal points of total generalized variation balls in 1D: characterization and applications
Creators: name: Iglesias, José A.
name: Walter, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The total generalized variation (TGV) is a popular regularizer in inverse problems and imaging combining discontinuous solutions and higher order smoothing. In particular, empirical observations suggest that its order two version strongly favors piecewise affine functions. In the present manuscript, we formalize this statement for the one-dimensional TGV-functional by characterizing the extremal points of its sublevel sets with respect to a suitable quotient space topology. These results imply that 1D TGV-regularized linear inverse problems with finite dimensional observations admit piecewise affine minimizers. As further applications of this characterization we include precise first-order necessary optimality conditions without requiring convexity of the fidelity term, and a simple solution algorithm for TGV-regularized minimization problems.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures
(201511) Thomas Robson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Analytic solution for Gauged Dirac-Weyl equation in $(2+1)$-dimensions
Creators: name: Ardenghi, Juan Sebastián
name: Juan, Alfredo
name: Escudero, Federico
name: Sourrouille, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gauged Dirac-Weyl equation in (2+1)-dimension is considered. This equation has the particularity to describe the states of a graphene Dirac matter. In particular we are interested in matter interacting with a Chern-Simons gauge fields. We show that exact self-dual solutions are admitted. These solutions are the same as those supported by nonrelativistic matter interacting with a Chern-Simons gauge field.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Honeycomb Layered Oxides With Silver Atom Bilayers and Emergence of Non-Abelian SU(2) Interactions
Creators: name: Masese, Titus
name: Kanyolo, Godwill Mbiti
name: Miyazaki, Yoshinobu
name: Ito, Miyu
name: Taguchi, Noboru
name: Rizell, Josef
name: Tachibana, Shintaro
name: Tada, Kohei
name: Huang, Zhen-Dong
name: Alshehabi, Abbas
name: Ubukata, Hiroki
name: Kubota, Keigo
name: Yoshii, Kazuki
name: Senoh, Hiroshi
name: Tassel, Cedric
name: Orikasa, Yuki
name: Kageyama, Hiroshi
name: Saito, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Honeycomb layered oxides with monovalent or divalent, monolayered cationic lattices generally exhibit myriad crystalline features encompassing rich electrochemistry, geometries and disorders, which particularly places them as attractive material candidates for next-generation energy storage applications. Herein, we report global honeycomb layered oxide compositions, ${\rm Ag_2}M_2{\rm TeO_6}$ ($M = \rm Ni, Mg, \textit{etc}.$) exhibiting $\rm Ag$ atom bilayers with sub-valent states within Ag-rich crystalline domains of ${\rm Ag_6}M_2{\rm TeO_6}$ and $\rm Ag$-deficient domains of ${\rm Ag}_{2 - x}\rm Ni_2TeO_6$ ($0 < x < 2$). The $\rm Ag$-rich material characterised by aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy reveals local atomic structural disorders characterised by aperiodic stacking and incoherency in the bilayer arrangement of $\rm Ag$ atoms. Meanwhile, the global material not only displays high ionic conductivity, but also manifests oxygen-hole electrochemistry during silver-ion extraction. Within the $\rm Ag$-rich domains, the bilayered structure, argentophilic interactions therein and the expected $\rm Ag$ sub-valent states ($1/2+, 2/3+, \textit{etc}.$) are theoretically understood via spontaneous symmetry breaking of SU($2$)$\times$U($1$) gauge symmetry interactions amongst $3$ degenerate mass-less chiral fermion states, justified by electron occupancy of silver $4d_{z^2}$ and $5s$ orbitals on a bifurcated honeycomb lattice. This implies that bilayered frameworks have research applications that go beyond the confines of energy storage.
description: 67 pages, 5 figures, 1 cover art, 1 table
6d Dual Conformal Symmetry and Minimal Volumes in AdS
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy
name: Lipstein, Arthur E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The S-matrix of a theory often exhibits symmetries which are not manifest from the viewpoint of its Lagrangian. For instance, powerful constraints on scattering amplitudes are imposed by the dual conformal symmetry of planar 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and the ABJM theory. Motivated by this, we investigate the consequences of dual conformal symmetry in six dimensions, which may provide useful insight into the worldvolume theory of M5-branes (if it enjoys such a symmetry). We find that 6d dual conformal symmetry uniquely fixes the integrand of the one-loop 4-point amplitude, and its structure suggests a Lagrangian with more than two derivatives. On integrating out the loop momentum in $6-2 ε$ dimensions, the result is very similar to the corresponding amplitude of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. We confirm this result holographically by generalizing the Alday-Maldacena solution for a minimal area string in Anti-de Sitter space to a minimal volume M2-brane ending on pillow-shaped Wilson surface in the boundary whose seams correspond to a null-polygonal Wilson loop. This involves careful treatment of a prefactor which diverges as $1/ε$, and we comment on its possible interpretation. We also study 2-loop 4-point integrands with 6d dual conformal symmetry and speculate on the existence of an all-loop formula for the 4-point amplitude.
description: v1: 17+5 pages, 9 figures, v2: Published version; new references added
A non-Levi branching rule in terms of Littelmann paths
Creators: name: Schumann, Bea
name: Torres, Jacinta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a conjecture of Naito-Sagaki about a branching rule for the restriction of irreducible representations of $\mathfrak{sl}(2n,\mathbb{C})$ to $\mathfrak{sp}(2n,\mathbb{C})$. The conjecture is in terms of certain Littelmann paths, with the embedding given by the folding of the type $A_{2n-1}$ Dynkin diagram.
description: 29 pages, comments welcome
Science, exploration and travel : an examination of the scientific instructions provided for travellers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Creators: name: Murray, Barbara Dawn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
On noise-resolution uncertainty in quantum field theory
Creators: name: Gureyev, Timur E.
name: Kozlov, Alexander
name: Nesterets, Yakov I.
name: Paganin, David M.
name: Quiney, Harry M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An uncertainty inequality is presented that establishes a lower limit for the product of the variance of the time-averaged intensity of a mode of a quantized electromagnetic field and the degree of its spatial localization. The lower limit is determined by the vacuum fluctuations within the volume corresponding to the width of the mode. This result also leads to a generalized form of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for boson fields in which the lower limit for the product of uncertainties in the spatial and momentum localization of a mode is equal to the product of Planck's constant and a dimensionless functional which reflects the joint signal-to-noise ratio of the position and momentum of vacuum fluctuations in the region of the phase space occupied by the mode. Experimental X-ray synchrotron measurements provide an initial verification of the proposed theory in the case of Poisson statistics.
(201513) Kate Elizabeth Robson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Energy localization enhanced ground-state cooling of mechanical resonator from room temperature in optomechanics using a gain cavity
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-Long
name: Liu, Yu-xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a gain system is coupled to a loss system, the energy usually flows from the gain system to the loss one. We here present a counterintuitive theory for the ground-state cooling of the mechanical resonator in optomechanical system via a gain cavity. The energy flows first from the mechanical resonator into the loss cavity, then into the gain cavity, and finally localizes there. The energy localization in the gain cavity dramatically enhances the cooling rate of the mechanical resonator. Moreover, we show that unconventional optical spring effect, e.g., giant frequency shift and optically induced damping of the mechanical resonator, can be realized. Those feature a pre-cooling free ground-state cooling, i.e., the mechanical resonator in thermal excitation at room temperature can directly be cooled to its ground state. This cooling approach has the potential application for fundamental tests of quantum physics without complicated cryogenic setups.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
The stability of standard homogeneous Einstein manifolds
Creators: name: Lauret, Emilio A.
name: Lauret, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Back in 1985, Wang and Ziller obtained a complete classification of all homogeneous spaces of compact simple Lie groups on which the standard or Killing metric is Einstein. The list consists, beyond isotropy irreducible spaces, of 12 infinite families (two of them are actually conceptual constructions) and 22 isolated examples. We study in this paper the nature of each of these Einstein metrics as a critical point of the scalar curvature functional.
description: 34 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. Final version accepted in Math. Z
Table S1. At-sea distribution metrics for the 8 juvenile emperor penguins equipped with ARGOS platforms at Atka Bay. from Juvenile emperor penguin range calls for extended conservation measures in the Southern Ocean
Creators: name: Houstin, Aymeric
name: Zitterbart, Daniel P.
name: Heerah, Karine
name: Eisen, Olaf
name: Planas-Bielsa, Víctor
name: Fabry, Ben
name: Le Bohec, Céline
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: * Yearly travelled distance was computed using one location every 6 hours (in km), ** % of time spent within the main oceanographic features (ACC, SO-TL) and conservation related areas (IUCN-EOO, MPAs) of the Southern Ocean during the trip duration, *** in days. ACC: Antarctic Circumpolar Current; SO-TL: Southern Ocean Treaty Limits (i.e. at the parallel of 60°S as defined in the Antarctic Treaty); IUCN-EOO: International Union for Conservation of Nature Extent Of Occurrence (i.e. the extent of occurrence of the species considered by the IUCN 1; WSMPA: Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area; SGSSIMPA: South Georgia and Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area.
(201514) Thomas Stretton Robson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Twenty-five Indonesians in Melbourne : a study of the social construction and transformation of ethnic identity
Creators: name: Mulyana, Deddy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Processing of Accented Speech
Creators: name: Duffy, Hester Elizabeth Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2013
Subjects: Speech processing
Cognition
Accent
ERP
Developmental
Electrophysiology

description: This thesis examines the processing of accented speech in both infants and adults. Accents provide a natural and reasonably consistent form of inter-speaker variation in the speech signal, but it is not yet clear exactly what processes are used to normalise this form of variation, or when and how those processes develop. Two adult studies use ERP data to examine differences between the online processing of regional- and foreign-accented speech as compared to a baseline consisting of the listeners’ home accent. These studies demonstrate that the two types of accents recruit normalisation processes which are qualitatively, and not just quantitatively, different. This provided support for the hypothesis that foreign and regional accents require different mechanisms to normalise accent-based variation (Adank et al., 2009, Floccia et al., 2009), rather than for the hypothesis that different types of accents are normalised according to their perceptual distance from the listener’s own accent (Clarke & Garrett, 2004). They also provide support for the Abstract entry approach to lexical storage of variant forms, which suggests that variant forms undergo a process of prelexical normalisation, allowing access to a canonical lexical entry (Pallier et al., 2001), rather than for the Exemplar-based approach, which suggests that variant word-forms are individually represented in the lexicon (Johnson, 1997). Two further studies examined how infants segment words from continuous speech when presented with accented speakers. The first of these includes a set of behavioural experiments, which highlight some methodological issues in the existing literature and offer some potential explanations for conflicting evidence about the age at which infants are able to segment speech. The second uses ERP data to investigate segmentation within and across accents, and provides neurophysiological evidence that 11-month-olds are able to distinguish newly-segmented words at the auditory level even within a foreign accent, or across accents, but that they are more able to treat new word-forms as word-like in a familiar accent than a foreign accent.
Physical ZKP for Makaro Using a Standard Deck of Cards
Creators: name: Ruangwises, Suthee
name: Itoh, Toshiya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Makaro is a logic puzzle with an objective to fill numbers into a rectangular grid to satisfy certain conditions. In 2018, Bultel et al. developed a physical zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocol for Makaro using a deck of cards, which allows a prover to physically convince a verifier that he/she knows a solution of the puzzle without revealing it. However, their protocol requires several identical copies of some cards, making it impractical as a deck of playing cards found in everyday life typically consists of all different cards. In this paper, we propose a new ZKP protocol for Makaro that can be implemented using a standard deck (a deck consisting of all different cards). Our protocol also uses asymptotically less cards than the protocol of Bultel et al. Most importantly, we develop a general method to encode a number with a sequence of all different cards. This allows us to securely compute several numerical functions using a standard deck, such as verifying that two given numbers are different and verifying that a number is the largest one among the given numbers.
description: This paper has appeared at TAMC 2022
Enumerating meandric systems with large number of loops
Creators: name: Fukuda, Motohisa
name: Nechita, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate meandric systems with a large number of loops using tools inspired by free probability. For any fixed integer $r$, we express the generating function of meandric systems on $2n$ points with $n-r$ loops in terms of a finite (the size depends on $r$) subclass of irreducible meandric systems, via the moment-cumulant formula from free probability theory. We show that the generating function, after an appropriate change of variable, is a rational function, and we bound its degree. Exact expressions for the generating functions are obtained for $r \leq 6$, as well as the asymptotic behavior of the meandric numbers for general $r$.
description: Minor revision. 22 pages. To view supplementary material, please download and extract the file listed under "Other formats"
Fig. S2. Monthly tracks of the 8 juvenile emperor penguins tagged at Atka Bay in 2019. from Juvenile emperor penguin range calls for extended conservation measures in the Southern Ocean
Creators: name: Houstin, Aymeric
name: Zitterbart, Daniel P.
name: Heerah, Karine
name: Eisen, Olaf
name: Planas-Bielsa, Víctor
name: Fabry, Ben
name: Le Bohec, Céline
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sea ice concentration is shown for the last day of each month. Sea ice extent is indicated by the green lines for the 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th of each month as indicated by the gradient color scale from dark green (4th) to light green (25th).
Dynamics in Steady State In Vitro Acto-Myosin Networks
Creators: name: Sonn-Segev, Adar
name: Bernheim-Groswasser, Anne
name: Roichman, Yael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: It is well known that many biochemical processes in the cell such as gene regulation, growth signals and activation of ion channels, rely on mechanical stimuli. However, the mechanism by which mechanical signals propagate through cells is not as well understood. In this review we focus on stress propagation in a minimal model for cell elasticity, actomyosin networks, which are comprised of a sub-family of cytoskeleton proteins. After giving an overview of th actomyosin network components, structure and evolution we review stress propagation in these materials as measured through the correlated motion of tracer beads. We also discuss the possibility to extract structural features of these networks from the same experiments. We show that stress transmission through these networks has two pathways, a quickly dissipative one through the bulk, and a long ranged weakly dissipative one through the pre-stressed actin network.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, Topical review
Probing the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of two interacting atoms
Creators: name: Keller, Tim
name: Fogarty, Thomás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of two interacting atoms in a one-dimensional harmonic trap after a quench by a tightly pinned impurity atom. We make use of an approximate variational calculation called the Lagrange-mesh method to solve the Schrödinger equation as a function of inter-particle interaction and impurity quench strength. We investigate the out-of-equilibrium dynamics by calculating the Loschmidt echo which quantifies the irreversibility of the system following the quench, while its probability distribution after long times can be used to identify distinct dynamical regimes. These quantities are related to the spectral function which describes the full dynamical spectrum, and we show through a thorough examination of the parameter space the existence of distinct scattering states and collective oscillations. This work demonstrates how these dynamics are strongly dependent on the interaction strength between the atoms and may be tuned to reach the orthogonality catastrophe in few-body systems.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
The social control of school non-attendance
Creators: name: Mulvany, Julie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Zur Abscheidung saurer Schadgase in Schlauchfilteranlagen
Creators: name: Vietmeier, Jörg
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Rauchgasreinigung
subject: SO2
subject: HCI
subject: Schlauchfilter
subject: 660

description: In dieser Arbeit wird die Abscheidung von im Rauchgas enthaltenen gasförmigen und partikulären Verunreinigungen nach dem Trockensorptionsverfahren sowohl theoretisch als auch experimentell in einer technischen Anlage untersucht. Bei diesem Verfahren werden Schadgase an festen Additiven gebunden und vorzugsweise in Oberflächenfiltern abgeschieden. Die Abscheidung saurer Schadgase mit Calciumhydroxid wurde in zahlreichen Arbeiten in Laborreaktoren untersucht. Die wesentlichen hieraus gewonnenen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Druckverluste in den anfiltrierten Kalkfilterschichten mit wachsendem Feuchtegehalt deutlich absinken, der SO2-Abscheidegrad mit steigender relativer Feuchte stark ansteigt und die Anwesenheit von Chlorwasserstoff im Reaktionssystem durch Bildung hygroskopischen Calciumchlorids die SO2-Abscheidung erheblich verbessert. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung des Einflusses der Verweilzeit, der Rauchgaszusammensetzung und der Temperatur auf die Abscheidung saurer Schadgase in einer technisch betriebenen Schlauchfilteranlage. Ein weiteres Ziel ist die Überprüfung der Übertragbarkeit der Laboruntersuchungen in den technischen Maßstab. Die Ergebnisse der Laboruntersuchungen werden mit der technischen Anlage bestätigt. Verweilzeituntersuchungen und Simulationen der Strömung in der Versuchsanlage deuten jedoch im Gegensatz zu den Verhältnissen in Laborreaktoren auf inhomogene Anströmungen der Filterelemente und damit auf den Einfluss des komplexen Strömungsfeldes hin. Bei der Übertragung von im Labormaßstab gewonnenen Ergebnissen auf technische Schlauchfilteranlagen sind verschiedene Punkte zu beachten: Erstens erfolgt die Staub- und Schadgasabscheidung simultan, d.h. dass sich die Dicke der reaktiven Staubschicht während des Prozesses verändert. Zweitens wird i. d. R. bei Erreichen des maximalen Druckverlustes nur ein Teil der gesamten Filterfläche abgereinigt, so dass lokal unterschiedliche Filtrationswiderstände und damit auch Filtrationsgeschwindigkeiten auftreten. Unter Vernachlässigung der inhomogenen Strömung im Rohgasraum können die an der Filteranlage gemessenen Verläufe der Reingaskonzentration mit dem in dieser Arbeit vorgeschlagenen Modell qualitativ wiedergegeben werden. Die verwendeten Modellparameter werden durch die von Naffin im Labormaßstab durchgeführten Untersuchungen bestimmt. Die verbleibenden Unterschiede zwischen den Messungen und dem Modell sind eine Folge der inhomogenen Anströmung und des ungleichmäßigen Kuchenaufbaus. Zusätzlich verbleibt ein unbekannter Anteil des Staubes auch nach der Abreinigung auf den Filterelementen. Die Kopplung der realen strömungs- und reaktionstechnischen Vorgänge bei der Simulation von Schlauchfilteranlagen lassen weitere Optimierungspotentiale vor allem bezüglich der Gestaltung der An- und Umströmung der Filterflächen erkennen.
(201512) Elizabeth Julia Stretton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.