cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review Paper on Agri Shop Application Using Android with Java
Creators: name: Smruti Yuvaraj Kalambekar, Akshata Sambhaji Durgule, Pranali Tanaji Patil, Samruddhi Indrajit Deshmukh, Mr.Ranjit.L.Kadam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In today's digital era, the Internet plays a vital role in connecting customers and business owners,enabling them to share various types of information and resources. E-commerce has become a popularway for organizations to establish and grow their businesses online. To support this trend, different typesof e-commerce websites are being developed to facilitate the buying and selling of products and services.This project aims to create a user-friendly web application specifically designed for the online trade ofagricultural products. The primary objective is to assist farmers in purchasing essential items likeVegetables and Fruits. In this web-based marketplace, producers can showcase and promote theirproducts along with detailed descriptions. Farmers can browse through these listings, view product details,and make informed purchasing decisions. Overall, this e-commerce platform will serve as a bridgebetween customer and business owner, streamlining the agricultural supply chain and enhancingaccessibility to essential farming resources through the power of the Internet. The application maintains adatabase containing essential customer details such as name, email, mobile number, location, andpassword. During registration, customer also select their preferred vegetables and fruit. By using this app,farmers can analyze market trends and make informed decisions about good quality products. Thesoftware is developed using Java for backend functionality, Firebase for database management, andAndroid Studio for app development.
Globalisation as lived reality: the expectations, experiences and strategies of Chinese international students in Australia
Creators: name: Qin, Can
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 Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201431) Allen John Grant
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.
Minimum competencies expected of beginning social workers : a comparative study of Sri Lanka, Singapore and Australia
Creators: name: Dissanayake, Dudley
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.
Standard Model-Axion-Seesaw-Higgs Portal Inflation. Five problems of particle physics and cosmology solved in one stroke
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Guillermo
name: Redondo, Javier
name: Ringwald, Andreas
name: Tamarit, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) providing a consistent picture of particle physics from the electroweak scale to the Planck scale and of cosmology from inflation until today. Three right-handed neutrinos $N_i$, a new color triplet $Q$ and a complex SM-singlet scalar $σ$, whose vacuum expectation value $v_σ\sim 10^{11}$ GeV breaks lepton number and a Peccei-Quinn symmetry simultaneously, are added to the SM. At low energies, the model reduces to the SM, augmented by seesaw generated neutrino masses and mixing, plus the axion. The latter solves the strong CP problem and accounts for the cold dark matter in the Universe. The inflaton is comprised by a mixture of $σ$ and the SM Higgs, and reheating of the Universe after inflation proceeds via the Higgs portal. Baryogenesis occurs via thermal leptogenesis. Thus, five fundamental problems of particle physics and cosmology are solved at one stroke in this unified Standard Model - Axion - seesaw - Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model. It can be probed decisively by upcoming cosmic microwave background and axion dark matter experiments.
description: v2. Version accepted for publication at JCAP
Phase matching alters spatial multiphoton processes in dense atomic ensembles
Creators: name: Leszczyński, Adam
name: Parniak, Michał
name: Wasilewski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiphoton processes in dense atomic vapors such as four-wave mixing or coherent blue light generation are typically viewed from single-atom perspective. Here we study the surprisingly important effect of phase matching near two-photon resonances that arises due to spatial extent of the atomic medium within which the multiphoton process occurs. The non-unit refractive index of the atomic vapor may inhibit generation of light in nonlinear processes, significantly shift the efficiency maxima in frequencies and redirect emitted beam. We present these effects on an example of four-wave mixing in dense rubidium vapors in a double-ladder configuration. By deriving a simple theory that takes into account essential spatial properties of the process, we give precise predictions and confirm their validity in the experiment. The model allows us to improve on the geometry of the experiment and engineer more efficient four-wave mixing.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Treatment of obesity with ACE-inhibitory compounds: effects of captopril and culinary herbs and spices, and the interaction effect with dietary salt
Creators: name: Radcliffe, Jessica
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Refined Composite Multiscale Dispersion Entropy and its Application to Biomedical Signals
Creators: name: Azami, Hamed
name: Rostaghi, Mostafa
name: Abasolo, Daniel
name: Escudero, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiscale entropy (MSE) is a widely-used tool to analyze biomedical signals. It was proposed to overcome the deficiencies of conventional entropy methods when quantifying the complexity of time series. However, MSE is undefined for very short signals and slow for real-time applications because of the use of sample entropy (SampEn). To overcome these shortcomings, we introduce multiscale dispersion entropy (DisEn - MDE) as a very fast and powerful method to quantify the complexity of signals. MDE is based on our recently developed DisEn, which has a computation cost of O(N), compared with O(N2) for SampEn. We also propose the refined composite MDE (RCMDE) to improve the stability of MDE. We evaluate MDE, RCMDE, and refined composite MSE (RCMSE) on synthetic signals and find that these methods have similar behaviors but the MDE and RCMDE are significantly faster than MSE and RCMSE, respectively. The results also illustrate that RCMDE is more stable than MDE for short and noisy signals, which are common in biomedical applications. To evaluate the proposed methods on real signals, we employ three biomedical datasets, including focal and non-focal electroencephalograms (EEGs), blood pressure recordings in Fantasia database, and resting-state EEGs activity in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The results again demonstrate a similar behavior of RCMSE, MDE and RCMDE, although the RCMDE and MDE are significantly faster and lead to larger differences between physiological conditions known to alter the complexity of the physiological recordings. To sum up, MDE and RCMDE are expected to be useful for the analysis of physiological signals thanks to their ability to distinguish different types of dynamics.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Should I stay or should I go? A latent threshold approach to large-scale mixture innovation models
Creators: name: Huber, Florian
name: Kastner, Gregor
name: Feldkircher, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper proposes a straightforward algorithm to carry out inference in large time-varying parameter vector autoregressions (TVP-VARs) with mixture innovation components for each coefficient in the system. We significantly decrease the computational burden by approximating the latent indicators that drive the time-variation in the coefficients with a latent threshold process that depends on the absolute size of the shocks. The merits of our approach are illustrated with two applications. First, we forecast the US term structure of interest rates and demonstrate forecast gains of the proposed mixture innovation model relative to other benchmark models. Second, we apply our approach to US macroeconomic data and find significant evidence for time-varying effects of a monetary policy tightening.
The agitation for prohibition in England : a study of the political activity and influence of the United Kingdom Alliance, 1871-1895
Creators: name: Dingle, Anthony Edward
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.
Keyword search in xml data
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tuan Khanh
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 Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Keyword searches in XML data have attracted much attention because it can liberate users from the steep learning curve of query languages and the schemas of XML data. However, due to the inherent ambiguity of keyword queries, using keyword searches to query XML data poses several challenges. This thesis proposes approaches to deal with the three main problems in XML keyword searches: identifying relevant results of a query; result ranking for top-k query; and keyword searching over multiple XML databases. First, this thesis introduces a novel semantics called dominant lowest common ancestor (DLCA) to define relevant results of XML keyword searches. Ranking criteria are proposed, and algorithms are introduced to rapidly identify the dominant results. The experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the superiority of our work in comparison with some state-of-the-art approaches in the literature. Second, this thesis also proposes an approach to tackle the many-result problem which is caused by short and ambiguous keyword queries. It proposes a ranking function by applying principles of probabilistic models with a consideration of data dependencies in XML data. An algorithm is developed to efficiently retrieve top-k results based on the well-known threshold algorithm. The empirical results show that the proposed approach outperforms existing approaches in a variety of situations. Finally, this thesis proposes an approach to resolve the problem of searching over multiple XML data sources to avoid the high cost of searching in numerous, potentially irrelevant data sources. The approach summarizes the data sources as succinct synopses for the rapid filtering of non-promising sources. A ranking function is introduced to effectively rank the relevance of the data source to the given query. Experiments are conducted to confirm the superiority of the proposed approach.
(201434) Miriam Falkner
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.
Automorphisms of minimal entropy on supersingular K3 surfaces
Creators: name: Brandhorst, Simon
name: González-Alonso, Víctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 14J28, Secondary: 14J50, 14G17

description: In this article we give a strategy to decide whether the logarithm of a given Salem number is realized as entropy of an automorphism of a supersingular K3 surface in positive characteristic. As test case it is proved that $\log λ_d$, where $λ_d$ is the minimal Salem number of degree $d$, is realized in characteristic $5$ if and only if $d\leq 22$ is even and $d\neq 18$. In the complex projective setting we settle the case of entropy $\log λ_{12}$ left open by McMullen, by giving the construction. A necessary and sufficient test is developed to decide whether a given isometry of a hyperbolic lattice, with spectral radius bigger than one, is positive, i.e. preserves a chamber of the positive cone.
description: 26 pages, added matrices representing the automorphisms as ancillary data
Romantic love in everyday life : an exploration into its social construction in contemporary Western society
Creators: name: Diemer, Kristin M.
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.
Microglia morphologies in the mouse ischemic brain from Characterization of microglia behaviour in healthy and pathological conditions with image analysis tools
Creators: name: Martinez, Aleix
name: Hériché†, Jean-Karim
name: Calvo, Maria
name: Tischer, Christian
name: Otxoa-de-Amezaga, Amaia
name: Pedragosa, Jordi
name: Bosch, Anna
name: Planas, Anna M.
name: Petegnief, Valérie
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplementary Figure 1
Disclosure in Annual Reports: An Agency Theoretic Perspective in an International Setting
Creators: name: Bin Ramli, Mohd Ismail
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/851 on 06.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: Over the recent years 'transparency' or better information disclosure has been the buzzword of various corporate governance bodies due to the failures of the system of corporate governance, which arise from an agency relationship. However, there are arguments by 'free market' advocates suggesting that information is voluntarily disclosed. This study discusses and compares the disclosure of information relating to directors' behaviour in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Sweden. These countries were selected because they represent the developed countries with different accounting systems. Furthermore, they are also the board member countries of IASC and OECD. 'Transparency' relating to directors' behaviour for the six countries were measured using disclosure indices, i.e. the disclosure point average for dichotomous, modified dichotomous weighted dichotomous and weighted modified dichotomous indices. These weighted indices were established by analysing survey responses of investment analysts. The results show that there were significant differences in the disclosure of information relating to directors' behaviour among the six countries. There is also a very low level of 'transparency' in all the countries except the United Kingdom. These results suggest that information relating to directors' behaviour is not voluntarily disclosed and therefore regulation is necessary in order for it to be more transparent as suggested by the various corporate governance bodies.
A Study on Assessing Awareness Levels of Sustainable Investment in Mutual Funds
Creators: name: Jholia Oinam, Madhu Druva Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the adoption drivers and barriers faced by investors in ESG mutual funds. The research examines investor awareness levels and their influence on ESG fund adoption, alongside attitudes toward sustainable investing. Through a structured questionnaire, the study gathers insights into the motivations, concerns, and perceptions shaping ESG investment decisions. Additionally, it identifies key obstacles such as lack of knowledge, perceived lower returns, and regulatory uncertainties that hinder widespread adoption. The findings aim to enhance understanding of investor behavior in sustainable finance, providing valuable insights for fund managers and policymakers seeking to promote ESG investments in India.
Dossier de prensa de Manopla
Creators: name: Hernando, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Dossier de prensa relativo al desarrollo expuesto en “Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication “ . Hernando, M., Morillo, C., Guffanti, D. and Brunete, A.. Int Journal of Social Robotics (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00963-1.
Australian farmers : sources of social heterogeneity
Creators: name: Dickins, Richard L.
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.
Alamandael
Creators: name: Allan, Lewis Peterson
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 English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Alamandael is a generically hybrid novel that utilises the forms of Gothic horror, science fiction and detective fiction. The tale is set in contemporary Melbourne, and follows the struggle between a Nazi vampire (Reinhard) and a genetically-altered Australian vampire hunter (Alex). There are three main plotlines to the story: the revenge plot, the love plot, and the ambition plot. The revenge plot follows Reinhard’s quest to eliminate a group of Catholic priests who murdered his father, who was also a vampire. The love plot centres on Alex and her lesbian relationship with an American exchange student, Lily. The ambition plot relates to the title character, the angel Alamandael. After the completion of his revenge quest, Reinhard sees the angel as a vehicle to power, and she inspires his megalomaniacal quest to restore Hitler’s Reich. Reinhard hatches a plot to unseat the Australian government and seize power for himself; his plans are opposed and ultimately defeated by Alex and her allies. The companion essay Of Fathers, Sons and Unholy Spirits: Frankenstein, Dracula, Alamandael explores the relationship between nineteenth-century Gothic literature and twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction. Narratives in both forms rely heavily on technology, and it is this link between the genres that is examined. The essay focuses particularly on the ways in which these technological narratives portray the marginalised figures of the woman and the Jew. Alamandael radically alters the racial morality of earlier Gothic novels by locating the central source of anxiety in the figure of a Nazi, rather than a Jew; and the implications of this are examined. In conclusion, I explore the ways in which Alamandael has attempted to develop or transgress the limits of the Gothic genre, and the ways in which those same limits and expectations may have circumscribed my efforts.
Dear Old Pal of Mine, by Harold Robe and Gitz Rice
Creators: name: Robe, Harold A. (Harold Athol), 1881-1946
name: Rice, Gitz
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: War songs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170625
subject: Popular music
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1071422
subject: War--Songs and music
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170405
subject: World War (1914-1918)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746

description: The cover and first page of Dear Old Pal of Mine, words by Harold Robe, music by Gitz Rice. "Dear old pal of mine" was Rice's greatest hit and describes a soldier lamenting his absence from his girlfriend. This song was popularized by the singer John McCormack, who adapted it as his signature tune. (from Moogk, Edward B. Rice, Gitz (Ingraham). Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. 2nd Edition. 1992) Lieutenant Gitz Rice was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1891 and studied at the McGill conservatory in Montreal. He joined the Army's First Canadian contingent as a gunnery officer and served in Europe during the war. In 1917 he became officer in charge of musical entertainment for the Canadian troops. He was well known for a number of patriotic songs he wrote during World War I.
Cultural Consensus Analysis of Stakeholder Beliefs toward Coastal Restoration in Southeast Louisiana
Creators: name: Jenner, Eric
name: Walsh, Sarah
name: Mason, Elyse
name: Gilchrist, Caroline
name: Demby, Hilary
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Coastal land loss is a singular threat to the people, economies, and biodiversity of Louisiana. Though opinion polls indicate broad support for restoration efforts, aspects of current plans remain contentious for some stakeholders. We used cultural consensuses analysis (CCA) to go beneath the surface of restoration policy debates and identify shared beliefs about coastal land loss and restoration efforts among select occupational stakeholder groups in Louisiana. Three latent consensus groups, spanning stakeholder groupings, were identified. Data indicate broad consensus on core beliefs related to the peril of land loss and the urgency of action. And though staunch disagreement exists, there is some evidence that differences are not wholly intractable. These findings highlight a need to better understand the nature of beliefs and the frames that motivate those beliefs in policy debates and offer CCA as avenue for doing so.
Are Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Caused by Blue Supergiant Collapsars, Newborn Magnetars, or White Dwarf Tidal Disruption Events?
Creators: name: Ioka, Kunihito
name: Hotokezaka, Kenta
name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts (ulGRBs) are a new population of GRBs with extreme durations of $\sim 10^{4}$ s. Leading candidates for their origin are blue supergiant collapsars, magnetars, and white dwarf tidal disruption events (WD-TDEs) caused by massive black holes (BHs). Recent observations of supernova-like (SN-like) bumps associated with ulGRBs challenged both the WD-TDE and the blue supergiant models because of the detection of SNe and the absence of hydrogen lines, respectively. We propose that WD-TDEs can accommodate the observed SN-like bumps if the fallback WD matter releases energy into the unbound WD ejecta. The observed ejecta energy, luminosity, and velocity are explained by the gravitational energy, Eddington luminosity, and escape velocity of the formed accretion disk, respectively. We also show that the observed X-rays can ionize the ejecta, eliminating lines. The SN-like light curves (SN 2011kl) for the ulGRB 111209A are consistent with all three models, although a magnetar model is unnatural because the spin-down time required to power the SN-like bump is a hundred times longer than the GRB. Our results imply that TDEs are a possible energy source for SN-like events in general and for ulGRBs in particular.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Body image in children: gender and age differences, and relationships with sports participation
Creators: name: Nava Buenfil, Fernanda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Health to the School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Recent evidence has emerged suggesting that children can experience body image concerns. This is of particular concern given the relationship between body image disturbances and disordered eating, obesity, depression and low self esteem. Thus, there is a need for more research examining multiple dimensions of body image that are relevant for both girls and boys. Specifically, issues about desire for muscularity, height satisfaction, and social physique anxiety have been examined rarely in younger populations. Further, given the potential benefits of sport and physical activity for children, research is required to clarify the relationship between body image and participation in sports in children. The primary aim of this research was to contribute to the knowledge base of body image in children by examining age and gender differences on multiple dimensions of body image that are relevant to boys and girls. A secondary aim of this research was to identify possible associations between various dimensions of body image and participation in sports in children. It was hypothesised that there would be gender and age differences in measures relating to body image, and that aspects of body image would influence children‟s participation in sports. Three hundred and thirty nine boys and girls from grades 3 to 6 from a representative sample of 13 Catholic elementary schools in the North and West metropolitan region of Melbourne, Australia, participated in the study. Results from the examination of a wide spectrum of body image dimensions, including body size satisfaction, body esteem, desire for muscularity, height satisfaction, and social physique anxiety, showed that there were differences with respect to age and gender. There were no differences in body image for participants in aesthetic and non-aesthetic sports.
Microglia morphologies in the mouse ischemic brain from Characterization of microglia behaviour in healthy and pathological conditions with image analysis tools
Creators: name: Martinez, Aleix
name: Hériché†, Jean-Karim
name: Calvo, Maria
name: Tischer, Christian
name: Otxoa-de-Amezaga, Amaia
name: Pedragosa, Jordi
name: Bosch, Anna
name: Planas, Anna M.
name: Petegnief, Valérie
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplementary Figure 1
Rewriting the romance : gender, sexuality and narrative in contemporary lesbian poetics
Creators: name: Diamond, Fleur
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.
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management
Creators: name: Usher, Emily M.
name: Church, Sarah P.
name: Getson, Jackie M.
name: Prokopy, Linda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Policymakers, practitioners, and governing bodies increasingly recognize the critical role stakeholder engagement plays in successful environmental planning and decision-making. Although stakeholder engagement can improve project outcomes, identifying best practices for stakeholder engagement that apply to diverse topics and settings can be a challenge. Informed by our experience using Q methodology (QM) in five stakeholder meetings in agricultural watershed across the United States, this paper highlights our use of QM as an engagement tool and provides insights for future use. It demonstrates how QM addresses fundamental stakeholder engagement principles and provides guidance on using QM in stakeholder meetings. While we acknowledge inherent QM limitations regarding stakeholder participation and competent facilitators, we used QM to provide a flexible meeting structure that allowed participants to develop opinions and safely engage with peers and decision makers on complex and, at times, controversial topics.HIGHLIGHTSInsights on the use of Q methodology as a meeting facilitation toolOverview of how to use Q methodology for in stakeholder meetingsDetails how Q methodology can fulfill stakeholder engagement best practices Insights on the use of Q methodology as a meeting facilitation tool Overview of how to use Q methodology for in stakeholder meetings Details how Q methodology can fulfill stakeholder engagement best practices
An Efficient Uplink Multi-Connectivity Scheme for 5G mmWave Control Plane Applications
Creators: name: Giordani, Marco
name: Mezzavilla, Marco
name: Rangan, Sundeep
name: Zorzi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential of orders of magnitude increases in capacity for next-generation cellular systems. However, links in mmWave networks are susceptible to blockage and may suffer from rapid variations in quality. Connectivity to multiple cells - at mmWave and/or traditional frequencies - is considered essential for robust communication. One of the challenges in supporting multi-connectivity in mmWaves is the requirement for the network to track the direction of each link in addition to its power and timing. To address this challenge, we implement a novel uplink measurement system that, with the joint help of a local coordinator operating in the legacy band, guarantees continuous monitoring of the channel propagation conditions and allows for the design of efficient control plane applications, including handover, beam tracking and initial access. We show that an uplink-based multi-connectivity approach enables less consuming, better performing, faster and more stable cell selection and scheduling decisions with respect to a traditional downlink-based standalone scheme. Moreover, we argue that the presented framework guarantees (i) efficient tracking of the user in the presence of the channel dynamics expected at mmWaves, and (ii) fast reaction to situations in which the primary propagation path is blocked or not available.
description: Submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
(201429) Jane Sarah Neal
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.
The rise of Sinhalese language nationalism : a study in the sociology of language
Creators: name: Dharmadasa, Karuna Nayaka Ovitigalese
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.
Collapse and Revival for a slightly anharmonic Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Bakman, Alexandra
name: Veksler, Hagar
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of quantum collapse and revival is a fascinating interference phenomenon. In this paper the phenomenon is demonstrated analytically and numerically for a simple system, a slightly anharmonic Hamiltonian. The initial wave-function is a displaced ground state of a harmonic oscillator. Possible experimental realizations for cold atoms are discussed in detail.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
Quantum chemical and experimental studies on the extraction of acid blue 80 and acid red 1 from their aquatic environment using tetrabutylammonium bromide based deep eutectic solvents
Creators: name: Thamby, Beevi Fathima Mohamed
name: Santhi, Vivek Mariappan
name: Ramalingam, Anantharaj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
classificationCode: 29999
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this study, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy, HOMO–LUMO energy gap, chemical potential (µ), electronegativity (χ), electrophilicity index (ω), global hardness (η), and global softness (s) of dyes; acid blue 80 (AB80), acid red 1 (AR1) and deep eutectic solvents: tetrabutylammonium bromide with glycerol {[TBAB][Gly]}, tetrabutylammonium bromide with decanoic acid {[TBAB][DA]} and tetrabutylammonium bromide with oleic acid {[TBAB][OA]} were predicted and calculated using quantum chemical calculation. The polarity of all the studied molecules also predicted in terms of screening charge density and plotted sigma profile and sigma potential. Further, the extraction experiment was conducted for the extraction of acid blue 80 (AB80) and acid red 1 (AR1) using tetrabutylammonium bromide with decanoic acid {[TBAB][DA]} and tetrabutylammonium bromide with oleic acid {[TBAB][OA]} as the potential solvent. The process was characterized by means of distribution coefficient and efficiency. Finally, the extraction process feasibility was studied and discussed in terms of ΔGT0, ΔHT0, and ΔST0.
Myth, creativity and society in the poetry of James McAuley, A.D. Hope and Francis Webb
Creators: name: Delmonte, Rodolfo
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 structural study of liposome formation
Creators: name: Mubin, Muhammad Shamsul Huda
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 Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Liposomes are self-assembled phospholipid bilayer vesicles which are equally important for basic research and application in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. Whereas liposomes are already in extensive use in a range of areas, curiously some basic properties of thermodynamic relevance are yet to be described unambiguously. In this thesis I investigated temporal and thermal behavior of liposomes made of three different lipid compositions including (i) dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), (ii) mixture of DMPC and cholesterol, and (iii) DMPC and dimyristoylphsophatidylglycerol (DMPG). By using dynamic light scattering I demonstrated that, at normal human body temperature, equilibrium size distributions of liposomes evolve over time. The time needed for achieving equilibrium sizes varied depending on the compositions of the lipids. Liposome sizes decrease towards equilibrium for neat DMPC and a mixture of DMPC and cholesterol. In contrast, size distributions of liposomes made of DMPC mixed with 25% DMPG increase to some extent before achieving equilibrium. DMPC/DMPG liposomes showed reproducible size trends at higher (above 250C) temperatures upon temperature ramping between 17-37 0C in spite of a degree of fluctuations near the main phase transition temperature. Stable size distributions were typically bimodal. The possibility of lipid mimetic luminescent labelling of phospholipid membranes for microscopic imaging of liposomes aggregates was also investigated. Two lipid mimetic ruthenium and iridium complexes, which have two alkyl chains of nine carbons, were successfully incorporated into phospholipid membranes. Control experiments with their analogues, one hydrophilic and the other lipohilic, proved that the lipid mimetic metal complexes are indeed lipid mimetic. Fluorescent microscopic imaging revealed that only 0.5 mole % (relative to lipid) of these complexes already provided sufficient luminescence for optical imaging of liposomes. Confocal laser microscopic imaging of labelled liposomes yielded unprecedented structural detail revealing that inter bilayer attraction between lipid structure is stronger than the Coulombic repulsion from the head group charges. Synchrotron small angle X-ray scattering data showed that the use of luminescent ruthenium and iridium complexes for labelling liposomes did not change the lamellar spacing of lipid membranes. Thus a truly biomimetic labelling was achieved.
(201432) George Tidd
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.
Nonparametric change-point tests for long-range dependent data
Creators: name: Dehling, Herold
name: Rooch, Aeneas
name: Taqqu, Murad S.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Change-point problems
subject: functional limit theorem
subject: long memory
subject: long-range dependent data
subject: nonparametric change-point tests
subject: Wilcoxon two-sample rank test
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We propose a nonparametric change-point test for long-range dependent data, which is based on the Wilcoxon two-sample test. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic under the null-hypothesis that no change occured. In a simulation study, we compare the power of our test with the power of a test which is based on differences of means. The results of the simulation study show that in the case of Gaussian data, our test has only slightly smaller power than the difference-of-means test. For heavy-tailed data, our test outperforms the difference-of-means test.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;27/2011
Developing methods for quantitatively accurate modelling of macromolecules and polymeric materials
Creators: name: MASON, THOMAS GEORGE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Macromolecular materials
Computational chemistry
Theoretical quantum chemistry
Polymers and plastics

description: This thesis includes molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and a variety of polymers, utilising enhanced sampling methods, the use of polarisable forcefields or the inclusion of quantum chemical data in the simulations to improve accuracy. Dynamic viscosities of ionic liquids and diffusion within ion exchange membranes are simulated to within 5% of experimental values.
Representations of history in post-emergency Indian English novels: nation, state and democracy in Indira Gandhi’s India
Creators: name: Merivirta, Raita Marjaana
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 Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In my thesis I examine representations of Indira Gandhi’s first premiership (1966-1977) in the Indian English novels of the 1980s and 1990s. My thesis discusses how Indira Gandhi’s politics and the historical events that took place in India under her watch have been assessed and written about in Indian English novels. The novels under examination are Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel (1989), Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us (1985), and Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey (1991) and A Fine Balance (1995). The main focus of the novels and therefore also of my study is of the 1970s, especially on the personality cult around Indira Gandhi and the disillusionment caused by the darkest hour of the world’s largest democracy, the Emergency. Despite the fact that there have been a number of very well-received novels about the Indira Gandhi years and especially about the Emergency, there have been hardly any studies on them from a politico-historical perspective. My thesis fills this gap and offers new insights on how Indira Gandhi and Indian history and politics from late 1960 till the early 1980s were represented in Indian English novels for the consumption of the growing Indian middle classes as well as for the lucrative Western market and Euro-American readers. I will also look at the novelists’ arguments for and representations of the(ir) idea of the imagined political community that is the Indian nation. I approach my topic from an interdisciplinary perspective combining literary criticism, postcolonial theory and historiography. In the thesis I bring the politics back in my examination of these novels and thus examine them as social and political criticism which reaches all the way to the present day.
Particle representations for stochastic partial differential equations with boundary conditions
Creators: name: Crisan, Dan
name: Janjigian, Christopher
name: Kurtz, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we study a weighted particle representation for a class of stochastic partial differential equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The locations and weights of the particles satisfy an infinite system of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The evolution of the particles is modeled by an infinite system of stochastic differential equations with reflecting boundary condition and driven by independent finite dimensional Brownian motions. The weights of the particles evolve according to an infinite system of stochastic differential equations driven by a common cylindrical noise $W$ and interact through $V$, the associated weighted empirical measure. When the particles hit the boundary their corresponding weights are assigned a pre-specified value. We show the existence and uniqueness of a solution of the infinite dimensional system of stochastic differential equations modeling the location and the weights of the particles. We also prove that the associated weighted empirical measure $V$ is the unique solution of a nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation driven by $W$ with Dirichlet boundary condition. The work is motivated by and applied to the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation and extends the earlier of work of Kurtz and Xiong.