cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση των μηχανισμών αυτοφαγίας και του ρόλου τους στην νευροεκφύλιση
Creators: name: Κακαλέ, Γεωργία Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αυτοφαγία
Νευροεκφύλιση
Νευροεκφυλιστικές νόσοι
Autophagy
Neurodegeneration
Neurodegenerative diseases

description: Τα κύτταρα έχουν την ικανότητα να λαμβάνουν ερεθίσματα από το περιβάλλον, τα οποία ρυθμίζουν μια ποικιλία σηματοδοτικών μονοπατιών στο εσωτερικό του κυττάρου. Οι μηχανισμοί αυτοί είναι υπεύθυνοι για την επιβίωση την ανάπτυξη και τον πολλαπλασιασμό των κυττάρων, ενώ απουσία τέτοιων ερεθισμάτων οδηγεί το κύτταρο σε προγραμματισμένο κυτταρικό θάνατο. Η αυτοφαγία είναι μια μορφή προγραμματισμένου κυτταρικού θανάτου που ενεργοποιείται για την απομάκρυνση κατεστραμμένων μορίων και οργανιδίων από το κύτταρο, ή και σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις και την καταστροφή ολόκληρου του κυττάρου. Υπάρχουν πολλές κατηγορίες αυτοφαγίας, τόσο γενικές, όσο και ειδικές, οι οποίες ενεργοποιούνται ανάλογα με το μόριο προς αυτοφαγία. Διαταραχές των μηχανισμών της αυτοφαγίας έχουν συνδεθεί με μεγάλο αριθμό ασθενειών στον άνθρωπο. Η εργασία αυτή επικεντρώνεται στη σχέση της αυτοφαγίας με τις νευροεκφυλιστικές νόσους, ασθένειες του νευρικού συστήματος, που προκύπτουν από τη σταδιακή καταστροφή των νευρικών κυττάρων, τα οποία δε διαθέτουν την ικανότητα αναγέννησης στον οργανισμό. Επιπλέον, αναφέρονται οι μηχανισμοί παθογένεσης των 3 πιο γνωστών νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων, της νόσου Parkinson, Alzheimer και Πλάγια Μυατροφική Σκλήρυνση, καθώς και τα μόρια και τα μονοπάτια της αυτοφαγίας που συμβάλλουν στην εξέλιξή τους. Τέλος, αναφέρονται κάποια μόρια τα οποία βρίσκονται υπό μελέτη και πιθανά να αποτελούν θεραπευτικές οδούς, ενεργοποιώντας τα μονοπάτια της αυτοφαγίας.
description: Cells can receive stimuli from the environment, which regulate a variety of signaling pathways within the cell. These mechanisms are responsible for cell survival, growth, and proliferation, while the absence of such stimuli leads the cell to programmed cell death. Autophagy is a form of programmed cell death that is triggered to remove damaged molecules and organelles from the cell, or in some cases to destroy the entire cell. There are many classes of autophagy, both general and specific, which are activated depending on the molecule to be autophagy. Disorders of autophagy mechanisms have been linked to many diseases in humans. This paper focuses on the relationship between autophagy and neurodegenerative diseases, diseases of the nervous system resulting from the gradual destruction of nerve cells, which lack the capacity to regenerate in the body. In addition, the pathogenesis mechanisms of the three most well-known neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's, Alzheimer’s, and ALS, are described, as well as the molecules and pathways of autophagy that contribute to their development. Finally, some molecules that are under investigation and may be potential therapeutic pathways, activating autophagy pathways, are mentioned.
(201492) Frances Anne Maitland
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.
Small $x$ gluon shadowing from LHC data on coherent $\mathrm{J/}ψ$ photoproduction
Creators: name: Contreras, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section for coherent $\mathrm{J/}ψ$ photoproduction in Pb-Pb collisions is the sum of two contributions, one from low-, the other from high-energy photon-nucleus interactions. A novel method to disentangle both contributions allowing one to extract the coherent photo-nuclear cross section for coherent $\mathrm{J/}ψ$ production, $σ_{γ\rm Pb}$, is presented. The utility of the method is demonstrated using measurements from peripheral and ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. Applying the proposed method to the available data it is possible to obtain $σ_{γ\rm Pb}$ up to a photon-lead centre-of-mass energy of 470 GeV, which corresponds to $x$ of 4.4x10$^{-5}$. To illustrate a possible use of the extracted photo-nuclear cross sections, the corresponding nuclear suppression factors are computed and they are compared to predictions of gluon shadowing calculated in the leading-twist approximation approach.
description: Extended version including more details. Results unchanged. Accepted for publication by PRC
Formulae of $\imath$-divided powers in ${\bf U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$, III
Creators: name: Chen, Xinhong
name: Wang, Weiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The $\imath$-divided powers (depending on a parity) form the $\imath$canonical basis for the split rank 1 $\imath$quantum group and they are a basic ingredient for $\imath$quantum groups of higher rank. We obtain closed formulae for the structure constants for multiplication of the $\imath$-divided powers. Closed formulae for the comultiplication of the $\imath$-divided powers are also obtained. These structure constants are integral and positive.
description: 21 pages, v2, results upgraded to general parameters, accepted for publication
Aspects of British policy towards Ceylon, with special reference to British parliamentary attitudes, 1917-1931
Creators: name: Jayasinghe, Nanda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Chiral optical Tamm states at the boundary of the medium with helical symmetry of the dielectric tensor [In Russian]
Creators: name: Timofeev, Ivan V.
name: Vetrov, Stepan Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new optical state is described both analytically and numerically at the boundary of a chiral medium with continuous helical symmetry of the dielectric tensor. The tangential wave number is assumed to be zero. The state appears to be localized near the boundary. It does not transfer energy along this boundary and falls off exponentially with the distance from the boundary. The field penetration into chiral medium is blocked at wavelengths close to the helical pitch and corresponding to the photonic band gap. The polarization of light near the boundary has the same sign of chirality as the helical medium. It is shown that the homogeneous environment, or the substrate must exhibit the anisotropic metallic reflection. Spectral manifestation of the state is determined by the angle between the optical axes at the interface. A realistic example is considered at the boundary of a cholesteric liquid crystal and a metal-dielectric anisotropic nanocomposite.
description: In Russian, 5 pages, 2 figures
Culture, identity and experiences of early motherhood of ethnic Indian immigrant women in Melbourne, Australia: an ethnographic study
Creators: name: Maharaj, Natasha
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 Mother and Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
3D tomographic analysis of the order-disorder interplay in the Pachyrhynchus congestus mirabilis weevil
Creators: name: Djeghdi, Kenza
name: Steiner, Ullrich
name: Wilts, Bodo D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bright colors of Pachyrhynchus weevils originate from complex dielectric nanostructures within their elytral scales. In contrast to previous work exhibiting highly ordered single-network diamond-type photonic crystals, we here show by combining optical microscopy and spectroscopy measurements with 3D FIB tomography that the blue scales of P. congestus mirabilis differ from that of an ordered diamond structure. Through the use of FIB tomography on elytral scales filled with Pt by electron beam-assisted deposition, we reveal that the red scales of this weevil possess a periodic diamond structure, while the network morphology of the blue scales exhibit diamond morphology only on the single scattering unit level with disorder on longer length scales. Full wave simulations performed on the reconstructed volumes indicate that this local order is sufficient to open a partial photonic bandgap even at low dielectric constant contrast between chitin and air in the absence of long-range or translational order. The observation of disordered and ordered photonic crystals within a single organism opens up interesting questions on the cellular origin of coloration and studies on bio-inspired replication of angle-independent colors.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Αξιολόγηση Ακουστικής Επεξεργασίας σε ελληνόφωνα παιδιά που τραυλίζουν
Creators: name: Ιωαννίδου, Ελευθερία Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ακουστική επεξεργασία
Τραυλισμός
Υπεροχή δεξιού ωτός
Auditory processing
Stuttering
Right ear advantage

description: Υπόβαθρο: Τα άτομα που τραυλίζουν είναι δυνατόν να εμφανίζουν ελλειμματική ακουστική επεξεργασία. Στόχος: Η εξέταση στοιχείων ακουστικής επεξεργασίας σε παιδιά με διάγνωση τραυλισμού. Μεθοδολογία: Χρησιμοποιήθηκε συστοιχία δοκιμασιών ακουστικής επεξεργασίας η οποία περιελάμβανε τις δοκιμασίες αναγνώρισης ομιλίας σε ησυχία και σε θόρυβο, τη δοκιμασία ανίχνευσης κενών, την εξέταση διχωτικής ακοής και τη δοκιμασία αντίληψης ρυθμού. Πληθυσμός: 18 παιδιά ηλικίας 7-12 ετών με φυσιολογική ακοή. Η κλινική ομάδα απαρτίστηκε από 9 παιδιά που παιδιά με διάγνωση τραυλισμού ενώ η ομάδα ελέγχου από 9 παιδιά τυπικής ανάπτυξης. Αποτελέσματα: Η κλινική ομάδα παρουσίασε μειωμένη επίδοση στη δοκιμασία ανίχνευσης κενών (Μ.Ο= 8ms) σε σύγκριση με την ομάδα ελέγχου (Μ.Ο= 6ms). Στη δοκιμασία αντίληψης ρυθμού η κλινική ομάδα εμφάνισε χειρότερη επίδοση (μέσος όρος= 12) συγκριτικά με την ομάδα ελέγχου (Μ.Ο= 14). Οι διαφορές στις επιδόσεις των δύο ομάδων ήταν στατιστικώς σημαντικές τόσο στη δοκιμασία ανίχνευσης κενών (p= 0,02 < 0,05) όσο και στη δοκιμασία αντίληψης ρυθμού (p= 0,03 < 0,05). Συμπεράσματα: Τα παιδιά με διάγνωση τραυλισμού παρουσιάζουν ελλείμματα στην χρονική ανάλυση. Η μειωμένη επίδοση τους στη μη ρυθμική συνθήκη αντανακλά στην ικανότητα τους να χρησιμοποιούν τον ρυθμό ώστε να βελτιώνουν τις επιδόσεις τους σε δοκιμασίες αναγνώρισης ομιλίας σε θόρυβο.
description: Background: People who stutter may have deficient auditory processing. Objective: To examine aspects of auditory processing in children diagnosed with stuttering. Methodology: An auditory processing tests battery was used, including speech recognition tests in quiet and noise, gap detection, dichotic listening, and rhythm perception test. Population: 18 children aged 7-12 years with normal hearing. The clinical group consisted of 9 children with a diagnosis of stuttering, while the control group consisted of 9 typically developing children. Results: The clinical group showed decreased performance on the gap detection task (mean = 8ms) compared to the control group (mean=6ms). In the non-rhythmic condition of the rhythm perception task, the clinical group showed worse performance (mean=12) compared to the control group (mean=14). The differences in performance between the two groups were statistically significant in both the gap detection task (p=0.02 < 0.05) and the rhythm perception task (p=0.03 < 0.05). Conclusion: Children diagnosed with stuttering present deficits in temporal processing. Their reduced performance in the non-rhythmic condition reflects their ability to use rhythm to improve their performance in speech recognition tasks in noise.
title: Home Modifications in Aboriginal Housing
Creators: name: Bridge, Catherine
name: Davy, Laura
name: Millikan, Lyndal
name: Walls, Rachel
Publisher: name: Home Modification Information Clearinghouse
Year: 2012

description: Current housing provision for Aboriginal people is inappropriate due to its lack of cultural relevance, incompatibility with the geographic landscape, poor design and state of disrepair, and its inability to cater to the functional impairment of Aboriginal older people and people with disabilities. Inadequate housing supply, inappropriate home environments and a high incidence of disability and long-term health issues has led to compounded disadvantage, which means that many Aboriginal people with disabilities may face heightened difficulties. The complex relationship between inadequate housing supply, poor housing conditions, overcrowding, and health and disability needs to be explored further in order to design the most effective home environments in remote Aboriginal communities.
description: Acknowledgements Acknowledgement of Country Liability statement Reproduction of material Language use Contents Introduction Background Aims and methods Structure of this report Home environments and health in Aboriginal communities The home environment, home modifications, and wellbeing The home environment, home modifications, and specific health conditions Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases Diseases of the circulatory system Otitis media and glue ear Blindness and ocular impairments Infestation and infection Machado Joseph Disease Cognitive impairments General considerations in designing effective home environments for Aboriginal clients Culturally appropriate housing Home-like environment Importance of country Outdoor living Family and kin groups Housing and healthy living practices Sanitation Hygiene and cleanliness Pest and parasite management Housing and the environment Landscape fit Building and construction materials Conclusion References
Lie algebraic methods in the Riemannian geometry of nilpotent lie groups
Creators: name: Hinic Galic, Ana
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.
(201487) Thomas Pendarves Smith
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.
Coherence Pursuit: Fast, Simple, and Robust Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Rahmani, Mostafa
name: Atia, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a remarkably simple, yet powerful, algorithm termed Coherence Pursuit (CoP) to robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As inliers lie in a low dimensional subspace and are mostly correlated, an inlier is likely to have strong mutual coherence with a large number of data points. By contrast, outliers either do not admit low dimensional structures or form small clusters. In either case, an outlier is unlikely to bear strong resemblance to a large number of data points. Given that, CoP sets an outlier apart from an inlier by comparing their coherence with the rest of the data points. The mutual coherences are computed by forming the Gram matrix of the normalized data points. Subsequently, the sought subspace is recovered from the span of the subset of the data points that exhibit strong coherence with the rest of the data. As CoP only involves one simple matrix multiplication, it is significantly faster than the state-of-the-art robust PCA algorithms. We derive analytical performance guarantees for CoP under different models for the distributions of inliers and outliers in both noise-free and noisy settings. CoP is the first robust PCA algorithm that is simultaneously non-iterative, provably robust to both unstructured and structured outliers, and can tolerate a large number of unstructured outliers.
A chemoenzymatic approach to the synthesis of glycopeptide antibiotic analogues
Creators: name: Cryle, Max
name: TAILHADES, JULIEN
name: Zhoa, Yongwei
name: Ho, Candance
name: Greule, Anja
name: Ahmed, Iftekhar
name: Schoppet, Melanie
name: Kultarni, Ketav
name: Goode, Robert J. A.
name: Schittenhelm, Ralf B.
name: J. De Voss, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proteins and peptides
Natural products and bioactive compounds
Organic chemical synthesis

description: Abstract: The glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are important antibiotics that are highly challenging to synthesise due to their unique and heavily crosslinked structure. Given this, the synthetic production and diversification of this key compound class remains impractical. Furthermore, the possibility of biosynthetic reengineering of GPAs is not yet feasible as the selectivity of the biosynthetic crosslinking enzymes for altered substrates is largely unknown. Here, we show that the combination of peptide synthesis with enzymatic cyclisation enables the formation of novel examples of GPAs and provides an indication of the utility of these crucial enzymes. By accessing the biosynthetic process in vitro, we identify peptide modifications that are enzymatically tolerated and can also reveal the mechanistic basis for substrate intolerance where present. Using this approach, we next specifically activate modified residues within GPAs for functionalisation at previously inaccessible positions, offering the possibility of late-stage chemical functionalisation after GPA cyclisation is complete.
Fractional disclination charge and discrete shift in the Hofstadter butterfly
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuxuan
name: Manjunath, Naren
name: Nambiar, Gautam
name: Barkeshli, Maissam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of crystalline symmetries, topological phases of matter acquire a host of invariants leading to non-trivial quantized responses. Here we study a particular invariant, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}$, for the square lattice Hofstadter model of free fermions. $\mathscr{S}$ is associated with a $\mathbb{Z}_M$ classification in the presence of $M$-fold rotational symmetry and charge conservation. $\mathscr{S}$ gives quantized contributions to (i) the fractional charge bound to a lattice disclination, and (ii) the angular momentum of the ground state with an additional, symmetrically inserted magnetic flux. $\mathscr{S}$ forms its own `Hofstadter butterfly', which we numerically compute, refining the usual phase diagram of the Hofstadter model. We propose an empirical formula for $\mathscr{S}$ in terms of density and flux per plaquette for the Hofstadter bands, and we derive a number of general constraints. We show that bands with the same Chern number may have different values of $\mathscr{S}$, although odd and even Chern number bands always have half-integer and integer values of $\mathscr{S}$ respectively.
description: 6+14 pages. Minor edits to the main text and the appendix
Implications of the Milky Way travel velocity for dynamical mass estimates of the Local Group
Creators: name: Chamberlain, Katie
name: Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
name: Besla, Gurtina
name: Cunningham, Emily C.
name: Garavito-Camargo, Nicolás
name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
name: Petersen, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total mass of the Local Group (LG) is a fundamental quantity that enables interpreting the orbits of its constituent galaxies and placing the LG in a cosmological context. One of the few methods that allows inferring the total mass directly is the "Timing Argument," which models the relative orbit of the Milky Way (MW) and M31 in equilibrium. The MW itself is not in equilibrium, a byproduct of its merger history including the recent pericentric passage of the LMC, and recent work has found that the MW disk is moving with a lower bound "travel velocity" of $\sim 32~{\rm km}~{\rm s}^{-1}$ with respect to the outer stellar halo. Previous Timing Argument measurements attempt to account for this non-equilibrium state, but have been restricted to theoretical predictions for the impact of the LMC specifically. In this paper, we quantify the impact of a travel velocity on recovered LG mass estimates using several different compilations of recent kinematic measurements of M31. We find that incorporating the measured value of the travel velocity lowers the inferred LG mass by 10--12\% compared to a static MW halo. Measurements of the travel velocity with more distant tracers could yield even larger values, which would further decrease the inferred LG mass. Therefore, the newly measured travel velocity directly implies a lower LG mass than from a model with a static MW halo and must be considered in future dynamical studies of the Local Volume.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures; Published in ApJ; updated to match published version
Reactivity of E ₄ (E ₄ =P ₄ , As ₄ , AsP ₃ ) towards Low‐Valent Al(I) and Ga(I) Compounds
Creators: name: Haimerl, Maria
name: Piesch, Martin
name: Yadav, Ravi
name: Roesky, Peter W.
name: Scheer, Manfred
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: aluminium · gallium · main group compound · nacnacligands · yellowarsenic
subject: 540 Chemie

description: The reactivity of yellow arsenic and the interpnictogen compound AsP3 towards low-valent group 13 compounds was investigated. The reactions of [LAl] (1, L=[{N(C6H3iPr2-2,6)C(Me)}2CH]−) with As4 and AsP3 lead to [(LAl)2(μ,η1:1:1:1-E4)] (E4=As4 (3 b), AsP3 (3 c)) by insertion of two fragments [LAl] into two of the six E−E edges of the E4 tetrahedra. Furthermore, the reaction of [LGa] (2) with E4 afforded [LGa(η1:1-E4)] (E4=As4 (4 b), AsP3 (4 c)). In these compounds, only one E−E bond of the E4 tetrahedra was cleaved. These compounds represent the first examples of the conversion of yellow arsenic and AsP3, respectively, with group 13 compounds. Furthermore, the reactivity of the gallium complexes towards unsaturated transition metal units or polypnictogen (En) ligand complexes was investigated. This leads to the heterobimetallic compounds [(LGa)(μ,η2:1:1-P4)(LNi)] (5 a), [(Cp’’’Co)(μ,η4:1:1-E4)(LGa)] (E=P (6 a), As (6 b), Cp’’’=η5-C5H2tBu3) and [(Cp’’’Ni)(η3:1:1-E3)(LGa)] (E=P (7 a), As (7 b)), which combine two different ligand systems in one complex (nacnac and Cp) as well as two different types of metals (main group and transition metals). The products were characterized by crystallographic and spectroscopic methods.
Iterative regularization via dual diagonal descent
Creators: name: Garrigos, Guillaume
name: Rosasco, Lorenzo
name: Villa, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C25, 49N45, 49N15, 68U10, 90C06

description: In the context of linear inverse problems, we propose and study a general iterative regularization method allowing to consider large classes of regularizers and data-fit terms. The algorithm we propose is based on a primal-dual diagonal {descent} method. Our analysis establishes convergence as well as stability results. Theoretical findings are complemented with numerical experiments showing state of the art performances.
description: 41 pages, 13 figures. 4-pages version of the paper available at http://opt-ml.org/papers/OPT2016_paper_19.pdf
(201490) William Green
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.
Texts as action in the history of political theory
Creators: name: Janssen, Peter Lambert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Cross-sectional and prospective relationships between maternal feeding practices and overeating behaviours in young children
Creators: name: Noonan, Michelle Ann
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Learning Data-Driven PCHD Models for Control Engineering Applications
Creators: name: Junker, Annika
name: Timmermann, Julia
name: Trächtler, Ansgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The design of control engineering applications usually requires a model that accurately represents the dynamics of the real system. In addition to classical physical modeling, powerful data-driven approaches are increasingly used. However, the resulting models are not necessarily in a form that is advantageous for controller design. In the control engineering domain, it is highly beneficial if the system dynamics is given in PCHD form (Port-Controlled Hamiltonian Systems with Dissipation) because globally stable control laws can be easily realized while physical interpretability is guaranteed. In this work, we exploit the advantages of both strategies and present a new framework to obtain nonlinear high accurate system models in a data-driven way that are directly in PCHD form. We demonstrate the success of our method by model-based application on an academic example, as well as experimentally on a test bed.
description: accepted for: 14th IFAC Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Control Systems (ALCOS 2022) \c{opyright} 2022 the authors. This work has been accepted to IFAC for publication under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND
The crystal clock : illusions of time in Shakespeare's plays
Creators: name: James, David Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Sensitive neutron detection method using delayed coincidence transitions in existing iodine-containing detectors
Creators: name: Yakushev, E.
name: Rozov, S.
name: Drokhlyansky, A.
name: Filosofov, D.
name: Kalaninova, Z.
name: Timkin, V.
name: Ponomarev, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter explains a new, highly sensitive method for the detection of neutrons, which uses the T$_{1/2}=845$ ns delay in the decay of $^{128}$I at the 137.8 keV energy level, resulting from the capture of thermal neutrons by iodine nuclei in NaI and CsI scintillation detectors. The use of delayed coincidence techniques with a several $μ{\rm s}$ time frame for delayed events allows for the highly effective discrimination of neutron events from any existing background signals. A comparison of ambient neutron measurements between those identified through the suggested method from a cylindrical, ø$\, 63 \, {\rm mm}\times 63\, {\rm mm}$ NaI(Tl) scintillator and those from a low-background proportional $^3$He counter experimentally demonstrates the efficacy of this neutron detection method. For an isotropic, $4π$, thermal neutron flux of 1 ${\rm n}\, {\rm cm}^{-2}\, {\rm s}^{-1}$, the absolute sensitivity of the NaI detector was found to be $6.5 \pm 1\, {\rm counts}\, {\rm s}^{-1}$ with a background of $0.8\, {\rm events}\, {\rm day}^{-1}$ and a delay time frame of $Δ{\rm t}=1\, μ$s. The proposed method can provide low-background experiments, using NaI or CsI, with measurements of the rate and stability of incoming neutron flux to a greater accuracy than 10$^{-8}\, {\rm n}\, {\rm cm}^{-2}\, {\rm s}^{-1}$.
description: accepted for publication / NIM A
Exploiting anthracycline-dna adduct formation to enhance anthracycline anticancer activity
Creators: name: Ugarenko, Michal
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 La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201488) Sarah Amelia King
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 ambiguous moral world of Iris Murdoch's later novels
Creators: name: Jaffrey, Jacqueline Gloria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Proximity Operators of Discrete Information Divergences
Creators: name: Gheche, Mireille El
name: Chierchia, Giovanni
name: Pesquet, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Information divergences allow one to assess how close two distributions are from each other. Among the large panel of available measures, a special attention has been paid to convex $φ$-divergences, such as Kullback-Leibler, Jeffreys-Kullback, Hellinger, Chi-Square, Renyi, and I$_α$ divergences. While $φ$-divergences have been extensively studied in convex analysis, their use in optimization problems often remains challenging. In this regard, one of the main shortcomings of existing methods is that the minimization of $φ$-divergences is usually performed with respect to one of their arguments, possibly within alternating optimization techniques. In this paper, we overcome this limitation by deriving new closed-form expressions for the proximity operator of such two-variable functions. This makes it possible to employ standard proximal methods for efficiently solving a wide range of convex optimization problems involving $φ$-divergences. In addition, we show that these proximity operators are useful to compute the epigraphical projection of several functions of practical interest. The proposed proximal tools are numerically validated in the context of optimal query execution within database management systems, where the problem of selectivity estimation plays a central role. Experiments are carried out on small to large scale scenarios.
FuncPipe: A Pipelined Serverless Framework for Fast and Cost-efficient Training of Deep Learning Models
Creators: name: Liu, Yunzhuo
name: Jiang, Bo
name: Guo, Tian
name: Huang, Zimeng
name: Ma, Wenhao
name: Wang, Xinbing
name: Zhou, Chenghu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Training deep learning (DL) models in the cloud has become a norm. With the emergence of serverless computing and its benefits of true pay-as-you-go pricing and scalability, systems researchers have recently started to provide support for serverless-based training. However, the ability to train DL models on serverless platforms is hindered by the resource limitations of today's serverless infrastructure and DL models' explosive requirement for memory and bandwidth. This paper describes FuncPipe, a novel pipelined training framework specifically designed for serverless platforms that enable fast and low-cost training of DL models. FuncPipe is designed with the key insight that model partitioning can be leveraged to bridge both memory and bandwidth gaps between the capacity of serverless functions and the requirement of DL training. Conceptually simple, we have to answer several design questions, including how to partition the model, configure each serverless function, and exploit each function's uplink/downlink bandwidth. In particular, we tailor a micro-batch scheduling policy for the serverless environment, which serves as the basis for the subsequent optimization. Our Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming formulation automatically and simultaneously configures serverless resources and partitions models to fit within the resource constraints. Lastly, we improve the bandwidth efficiency of storage-based synchronization with a novel pipelined scatter-reduce algorithm. We implement FuncPipe on two popular cloud serverless platforms and show that it achieves 7%-77% cost savings and 1.3X-2.2X speedup compared to state-of-the-art serverless-based frameworks.
description: Accepted by ACM SIGMETRICS 2023
(201483) Henry Rutherford Smith
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.
Entangling mechanical vibrations of two massive ferrimagnets by fully exploiting the nonlinearity of magnetostriction
Creators: name: Qian, Hang
name: Fan, Zhi-Yuan
name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement in the motion of macroscopic objects is of significance to both fundamental studies and quantum technologies. Here we show how to entangle the mechanical vibration modes of two massive ferrimagnets that are placed in the same microwave cavity. Each ferrimagnet supports a magnon mode and a low-frequency vibration mode coupled by the magnetostrictive force. The two magnon modes are, respectively, coupled to the microwave cavity by the magnetic dipole interaction. We first generate a stationary nonlocal entangled state between the vibration mode of the ferrimagnet-1 and the magnon mode of the ferrimagnet-2. This is realized by continuously driving the ferrimagnet-1 with a strong red-detuned microwave field and the entanglement is achieved by exploiting the magnomechanical parametric down-conversion and the cavity-magnon state-swap interaction. We then switch off the pump on the ferrimagnet-1 and, simultaneously, turn on a red-detuned pulsed drive on the ferrimagnet-2. The latter drive is used to activate the magnomechanical beamsplitter interaction, which swaps the magnonic and mechanical states of the ferrimagnet-2. Consequently, the previously generated phonon-magnon entanglement is transferred to the mechanical modes of two ferrimagnets. The work provides a scheme to prepare entangled states of mechanical motion of two massive objects, which may find applications in various studies exploiting macroscopic entangled states.
description: Accepted to Quantum Sci. Technol
‘Horstory’ Hooves and Steel: Warhorse in Conflict
Creators: name: McMinn, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Art to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This exegesis is composed of both visual and written elements that explore the theoretical underpinnings of conceptualising the suffering and fate of the Australian horse in war. The written component of the thesis is a narrative investigation into the way visual arts practice might be used as a tool for reflection and critically inquiry into war histories, disjuncture, subordination and animal suffering. The studio practice explores the image of the horse suffering in war though a visual exploration inspired by the emotive content and material aesthetic found in Light Horse soldiers World War I diaries, letters and memorabilia. In particular, the stories found in the writings by World War I Light Horse soldier and Australian author Ion Idriess became the driving force behind the final outcomes of my studio research. Approximately 39,300 horses were sent to the Middle East during the Palestine Campaigns of WWI.1 The overarching narrative ‘all the horses were shot’ symbolises the soldier’s loss and consequential occurrences of the World War I Palestine Campaign. Upon reflection though a contemporary lens, the role of the Australian horse World War I in war becomes disturbing. A confronting image of the horse’s experience in war emerges in certain Light Horse Soldiers’ graphic eyewitness accounts. Atrocities are clearly depicted in Ion Idriess’ vivid illustrations of the way in which the horse experienced war. An altered form in the horses’ body shape and demeanour is described by Idriess, demonstrating a shift in its previous natural state as it is forced to inhabit extraordinary circumstances. Imagery describing the form of and shape of the horse as it charged into direct gunfire, was shot or suffered a bomb blast, fell to the ground with exhaustion and suffered illness and injury, hunger, thirst and fatigue assisted in formulating an artistic response within the studio research. Utilising emotive and aesthetic aspects of history some artists respond intuitively to historical material and content to uncover unseen facets of the past and reveal elements that may otherwise remain hidden. The creative act of utilising my drawing practice as a way to visually probe the soldiers’ descriptions sought to determine an aesthetic understanding of the look and shape of body of the horse as it suffered in war. This aesthetic investigation led to a renewed interpretation of the existing imagery surrounding the role of the Australian horse in war. In employing drawing as a way to critically engage with this image, a visual form particular to the Australian horses’ suffering and fate in war emerged within the marks, traits, traces and scribbles.
The discipline without a name : a history of industrial design in Australia, with particular reference to the period 1930-1975
Creators: name: Jackson, Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 07/2002
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Fachbereichsrahmenordnung der Universität Dortmund vom 18. April 2002
description: Amtlicher Teil: Fakultätsordnung für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Dortmund vom 19. Dezember 2001
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Instituts für Beschleunigerphysik und Synchrotronstrahlung des Fachbereichs Physik der Universität Dortmund vom 24.04.2002
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 7, 2002
Διερεύνηση της κατανόησης των οργανικών βάσεων από τους φοιτητές του τμήματος Χημείας
Creators: name: Καμηνιώτη, Ελένη Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Θεωρίες Οξέων- Βάσεων
Αμμωνία
Εναλλακτικές αντιλήψεις φοιτητών
Acid- Base theories
Ammonia
Students’ misconceptions

description: Οι ηλεκτρολύτες και συγκεκριμένα τα οξέα και οι βάσεις, αποτελούν κατηγορίες ενώσεων γνωστές από παλιά. Για την περιγραφή τους διατυπώθηκαν κάποιες θεωρίες, ήδη από τα τέλη του 19ου αιώνα. Ωστόσο οι σύγχρονες θεωρίες που σχετίζουν τον όξινο ή βασικό χαρακτήρα κάποιων ενώσεων με την ηλεκτρονιακή τους δομή δεν φαίνεται να είναι πλήρως κατανοητές από μαθητές και φοιτητές που διδάσκονται τα συγκεκριμένα αντικείμενα. Στη μελέτη αυτή θα διερευνηθεί ο βαθμός στον οποίο γίνεται κατανοητή η συμπεριφορά της αμμωνίας ως βασικού σώματος καθώς θα τεθεί το ερώτημα της περιγραφής της βασικής της συμπεριφοράς στα πλαίσια των γνωστών θεωριών περί οξέων και βάσεων. Τα απαντητικά δελτία που θα συγκεντρωθούν θα εξεταστούν ως προς το ποιες θεωρίες θεωρούνται αυθόρμητα από τους φοιτητές ως θεωρίες περί οξέων και βάσεων καθώς και κατά πόσο αυτή η γνώση επεκτείνεται πέρα από την αναφορά στους συγκεκριμένους ορισμούς. Θα ζητηθεί δηλαδή η γραφή, σε κάθε περίπτωση, μιας χημικής εξίσωσης που να αποδίδει τον βασικό χαρακτήρα της αμμωνίας. Οι γνώμες που θα εκφράσουν οι πρωτοετείς φοιτητές θα απηχούν τις γνώσεις που έχουν συγκεντρώσει από τη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση ενώ για τους φοιτητές των άλλων ετών σπουδών θα είναι μια απεικόνιση του κατά πόσο το πρόγραμμα σπουδών του τμήματος πετυχαίνει να διαμορφώσει τις αντιλήψεις τους σχετικά με το αντικείμενο αυτό.
description: Electrolytes, namely acids and bases are groups of compounds known since the ancient times. Their behavior has been theorized upon since late 19th century. However, the current theories relating the acidic or basic behavior to the electronic structure of the compounds seems to be not well understood by students at the secondary and advanced level of education who attend related courses. In the current study we will investigate the extent to which the basicity of ammonia is understood within the framework of the established acid and base theories. The answering sheets collected will be examined as of which theories are recalled spontaneously by the students as related to acids and bases and as of to which extent the relevant knowledge covers more than memorizing the definitions provided. An appropriate chemical equation will be required to be written explaining the basic character of ammonia. The beliefs reported by first year students will be mirroring the knowledge acquired during their secondary education curriculum whereas for the students of the rest of the undergraduate course it will be an imprint of the effect that the school of Chemistry curriculum exerts on their scientific background.
Global topology of Weyl semimetals and Fermi arcs
Creators: name: Mathai, Varghese
name: Thiang, Guo Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a manifestly topological classification scheme for generalised Weyl semimetals, in any spatial dimension and with arbitrary Weyl surfaces which may be non-trivially linked. The classification naturally incorporates that of Chern insulators. Our analysis refines, in a mathematically precise sense, some well-known 3D constructions to account for subtle but important global aspects of the topology of semimetals. Using a fundamental locality principle, we derive a generalized charge cancellation condition for the Weyl surface components. We analyse the bulk-boundary correspondence under a duality transformation, which reveals explicitly the topological nature of the resulting surface Fermi arcs. We also analyse the effect of moving Weyl points on the bulk and boundary topological semimetal invariants.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, JPhysA Highlight in 2017, Free access in 2018
(201484) Henrietta Ann Kirkpatrick
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.