cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Second-generation Turkish Australian Muslim women: family, marriage and identity
Creators: name: Caliskan, Zuhal
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study focuses on second-generation Turkish-Australian Muslim women who formed their ethnic and religious identities within certain contexts. This study examines the views of 14 second-generation married Turkish-Australian Muslim women regarding issues of family, community, ethnicity, gender and marriage partner choices. It provides insight into some of the complex and diverse ways they define their experience of modernisation, cultural values and practices such as marriage, family and community values in Australia. It explores themes relating to issues of gender, Muslim women, Islam and Western theory on gender and Islam. The findings in the thesis indicate that the cultural and religious identities of the women emerged heavily influenced by family and social forces that exist in and around their lives. In particular, it shows how parents use cultural and religious tools to draw boundaries around ideal and stigmatized gender norms around their daughters' identification. This highlights how daughters learn to govern and control their social behaviours which contribute to how marriage partner choices are determined. Thus, it demonstrates the importance of social inclusion and social integration amongst their ethnic society which manages the ways in which they move about and give meaning to their socially stratified world. The thesis also highlights that ethnic identity is a complex process in which the participants utilise social, cultural and religious resources simultaneously to negotiate multiple identities. The different interpretations of social practices within vast parameters of ethnic, cultural and religious boundaries indicate there is the need to re-examine theoretical notions of ethnicity, gender and religion in order to better understand their constructed identities. The thesis demonstrates how the participants resist parental and community expectations while negotiating ways to construct their Turkish-Australian Muslim identities while residing in Australia.
Tradeoff Relation between Information and Disturbance in Quantum Measurement
Creators: name: Shitara, Tomohiro
name: Kuramochi, Yui
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When we extract information from a system by performing a quantum measurement, the state of the system is disturbed due to the backaction of the measurement. Numerous studies have been performed to quantitatively formulate tradeoff relations between information and disturbance. We formulate a tradeoff relation between information and disturbance from an estimation-theoretic point of view, and derive an inequality between them. The information is defined as the classical Fisher information obtained by the measurement, and the disturbance is defined as the average loss of the quantum Fisher information. We show that pure and reversible measurements achieve the equality of the inequality. We also identify the necessary condition for various divergences between two quantum states to satisfy a similar relation. The obtained relation holds not only for the quantum relative entropy but also for the maximum quantum relative entropy.
description: 5 pages
Análisis cuantitativo de la reutilización textual en las comedias colaboradas (Moreto)
Creators: name: Losada Palenzuela, José Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: "Análisis cuantitativo de la reutilización textual en las comedias colaboradas (Moreto)", Presentation at the international conference, La práctica teatral colaborativa en el Siglo XVII (Alicante, Spain, 13-15 de octubre 2022)
"I prefer their early stuff" : the effects of online music journalism on the authority of the popular music critic
Creators: name: Takru, Radhika
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the impact of the internet on the practice of music journalism focussing specifically on how the advent of online music journalism has had an effect on the authority of the popular music critic. While the practice of popular music journalism has received a fair amount of scholarly attention, research on the subject has not kept pace with the advances in media technology. Currently, there are few studies on popular music journalism that take into consideration how the practice has changed and been affected by the mainstream adoption of the internet. This thesis thus contributes towards filling this void in academic literature on online journalism, music journalism and popular culture. In order to answer its research question, the thesis looks into the functions that have, in the past, defined the role of a music critic, and establishes the authority of the popular music critic through the prototypes of Lester Bangs, Stephen Wells, and Robert Christgau, before going on to analyse and contrast the features of online music journalism with those of print journalism. These analyses are supplemented with examples of different kinds of online journalism - leading the thesis to draw out the three major traits specific to online music journalism that serve as a threat to the traditional authority of the popular music critic.
Subject to suffering: economies of suffering in Kierkegaard and Levinas
Creators: name: Cuff Snow, Samuel Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines and compares the respective economies of suffering in the work of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95). The term economy is employed to describe the interconnection between suffering and subjectivity: inherent to the way in which suffering is delineated is a conception of the human subject. The point of departure for this understanding of suffering and subjectivity is Levinas's essay "Useless Suffering" (1982), in which he provides a phenomenological analysis of what he coins "useless suffering" and sets this analysis in service of his ethical philosophy. This thesis builds upon Levinas's essay to develop a critique of what is argued is Kierkegaard's economy of usefull suffering. Accordingly, part one takes Johannes Climacus's deliberations on religious suffering in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript as the basis for an investigation of a range of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous and non-pseudonymous works. Read in conjunction with other key concepts or figures in his authorship such as the existential stages, irony, "the moment" [Øieblikket], faith, and the upbuilding, it is demonstrated that suffering is in Kierkegaard's account teleological and transformational. Suffering is an inherent dimension of the individual, existing subject's relationship to the absolute telos, and the subject transforms itself and is transformed in suffering. In this way, Kierkegaard's economy of suffering is governed by a logic of utility and concomitantly positions the suffering subject as an active individual. Part two is anchored by a close reading of "Useless Suffering" and other important texts from Levinas's corpus, including Time and the Other, Totality and Infinity, and Otherwise than Being. Drawing on the concepts of infinity, passivity, sensibility, and substitution in these other works, it is argued that useless suffering is transcendent in the Levinasian sense. As such, Levinas's economy of suffering is grounded on the absence of utility, positions the subject as radically passive, and, as a consequence, serves as a critique of the Kierkegaardian economy. In other words, the economies of suffering in Kierkegaard and Levinas are fundamentally opposed.
Sleep Duration and Neurocognitive Function in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Zee, Phyllis C.
name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Rundek, Tatjana
name: Sacco, Ralph L.
name: González, Hector M.
name: Penedo, Frank J.
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Wright, Clinton B.
name: Daviglus, Martha
name: Tarraf, Wassim
name: Ramos, Alberto R.
name: Davis, Sonia
name: Redline, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To evaluate the association between sleep duration and neurocognitive function in a representative sample of middle-aged to older Hispanic/Latino adults in the US. We tested the hypothesis that sleep duration has a nonlinear, inverted U-shaped association with neurocognitive function.
Quantitative information flow under generic leakage functions and adaptive adversaries
Creators: name: Boreale, M.
name: Pampaloni, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We put forward a model of action-based randomization mechanisms to analyse quantitative information flow (QIF) under generic leakage functions, and under possibly adaptive adversaries. This model subsumes many of the QIF models proposed so far. Our main contributions include the following: (1) we identify mild general conditions on the leakage function under which it is possible to derive general and significant results on adaptive QIF; (2) we contrast the efficiency of adaptive and non-adaptive strategies, showing that the latter are as efficient as the former in terms of length up to an expansion factor bounded by the number of available actions; (3) we show that the maximum information leakage over strategies, given a finite time horizon, can be expressed in terms of a Bellman equation. This can be used to compute an optimal finite strategy recursively, by resorting to standard methods like backward induction.
description: Revised and extended version of conference paper with the same title appeared in Proc. of FORTE 2014, LNCS
Peliosanthes serrulata Rodriguez 1934
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Peliosanthes
Peliosanthes serrulata

description: Peliosanthes serrulata Rodriguez (1934a: 96)
 Material cited in the protologue:―Cochinchine île de Phu Quoc (Pierre 6689); Cambodge Kampot (Chevalier 31.824).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Cambodia. Province de Kampot, environs de Kampot, forêt du Pnom Kumchay, 15–19 March 1914, A. Chevalier 31824 (P, barcode P 00214607!).
 Other original material examined:― Vietnam. Cochinchina, in insula Phu Quoc, February 1874, L. Pierre 6688 (P, barcode P 00214608). [Illustration]: A sheet of drawings made by E. Delpy in June 1904 of an infructescence and its parts from Pierre 6688, attached to P 00214608. Two of the drawings are reproduced in Rodriguez (1934b: 671, fig. 66-11–12).
 Note:― Peliosanthes serrulata was published by Rodriguez (1934a) based on two syntypes, Chevalier 31824 and Pierre 6688. The former is in flower, while the latter is in fruit. In the protologue, he described many floral characters, hence the specimen Chevalier 31824 is designated as the lectotype. Drawings of this species in Rodriguez (1934b: 671) are based on the lectotype (fig. 66-9–10) and on P 00214608 (fig. 66-11–12). A small paper packet to keep the fragments of Pierre 6688 is attached to the sheet of Chevalier 31824.
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
ARDC Institutional Underpinnings Framework
Creators: name: ARDC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: RDM, University, Framework, data management, research data management

description: The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is releasing a draft version of the research data management framework from the Institutional Underpinnings program.

 The ARDC Institutional Underpinnings program is uniting 25 Australian universities to develop a framework for institutional research data management. This program is developing a coordinated approach to research data across Australia’s universities by co-developing a framework for the management, sharing, retention and disposal of data.
Application of CLEW systems in Small Island Developing States. The Dominican Republic case.
Creators: name: Jarrizon Quevedo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Energy system planinig, CLEW, OSEMOSYS, SIDS

description: This an application of CLEW systems in Small Island Developing States, the Dominican Republic case. The idea is to investigate how could the CLEW system provide insights to long-term planning for sustainable development in Small Island Developing States?
description: Calle Arabia No.4, Arroyo Hondo
Cavity averages for hard spheres in the presence of polydispersity and incomplete data
Creators: name: Schindler, Michael
name: Maggs, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a cavity-based method which allows to extract thermodynamic properties from position information in hard-sphere/disk systems. So far, there are 'available-volume' and 'free-volume' methods. We add a third one, which we call 'available-volume-after-takeout', and which is shown to be mathematically equivalent to the others. In applications, where data sets are finite, all three methods show limitations, and they do this in different parameter ranges. We illustrate the principal equivalence and the limitations on data from molecular dynamics -- In particular, we test robustness against missing data. We have in mind experimental limitations where there is a small polydispersity, say 4% in the particle radii, but individual radii cannot be determined. We observe that, depending on the used method, the errors in such a situation are easily 100% for the pressure and 10kT for the chemical potentials. Our work is meant as guideline to the experimentalist for choosing the right one of the three methods, in order to keep the outcome of experimental data analysis meaningful.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2015-15097-0
Boosted Statistical Mechanics
Creators: name: Testa, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the fundamental principles of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, we give a rigorous, but completely elementary, proof of the relation between fundamental observables of a statistical system when measured relatively to two inertial reference frames, connected by a Lorentz transformation.
description: 8 pages
Neighborhood Factors as Predictors of Poor Sleep in the Sueño Ancillary Study of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Ramos, Alberto R.
name: Dudley, Katherine A.
name: Patel, Sanjay R.
name: Weng, Jia
name: Perreira, Krista
name: Llabre, Maria M.
name: Zee, Phyllis C.
name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Shah, Neomi A.
name: Simonelli, Guido
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Wang, Rui
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: To evaluate whether an adverse neighborhood environment has higher prevalence of poor sleep in a US Hispanic/Latino population.
Stability of the Electroweak Vacuum: Gauge Independence and Advanced Precision
Creators: name: Bednyakov, A. V.
name: Kniehl, B. A.
name: Pikelner, A. F.
name: Veretin, O. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a manifestly gauge-independent analysis of the vacuum stability in the Standard Model (SM) including two-loop matching, three-loop renormalization group evolution, and pure QCD corrections through four loops. All these ingredients are exact, except that light-fermion masses are neglected. We in turn apply the criterion of nullifying the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ Higgs self-coupling and its beta function and a recently proposed consistent method for determining the true minimum of the effective Higgs potential that also avoids gauge dependence. Exploiting our knowledge of the Higgs-boson mass, we derive an upper bound on the pole mass of the top quark by requiring that the SM be stable all the way up to the Planck mass scale and conservatively estimate the theoretical uncertainty. This bound is compatible with Monte Carlo mass quoted by the Particle Data Group at the $1.3σ$ level.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, matches journal version, PRL Editors' Suggestion, featured by Alexander Kusenko as Viewpoint: Are We on the Brink of the Higgs Abyss? in Physics (http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/108)
Climate Change and water stress - A case study for Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Boodoo, Curtis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate Change
CLEWS
OSeMOSYS
Water stress

description: The study aims to answer the following questions: •How will lower levels of precipitation affect power generation, agriculture and land use? •How does lower precipitation affect any Net Zero aspirations? •Can local biofuel production using crops be sustained in a water restricted future?
Hands-on: Adding simple constraints on the clicSAND interface
Creators: name: Tan, Naomi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supporting 'data prep' template to add simple constraints to a model on clicSAND. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aAjHKVhwI&lc=UgwjO-7Kc_lPRXDWlb94AaABAg
A Categorial Semantic Representation of Quantum Event Structures
Creators: name: Zafiris, Elias
name: Karakostas, Vassilios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The overwhelming majority of the attempts in exploring the problems related to quantum logical structures and their interpretation have been based on an underlying set-theoretic syntactic language. We propose a transition in the involved syntactic language to tackle these problems from the set-theoretic to the category-theoretic mode, together with a study of the consequent semantic transition in the logical interpretation of quantum event structures. In the present work, this is realized by representing categorically the global structure of a quantum algebra of events (or propositions) in terms of sheaves of local Boolean frames forming Boolean localization functors. The category of sheaves is a topos providing the possibility of applying the powerful logical classification methodology of topos theory with reference to the quantum world. In particular, we show that the topos-theoretic representation scheme of quantum event algebras by means of Boolean localization functors incorporates an object of truth values, which constitutes the appropriate tool for the definition of quantum truth-value assignments to propositions describing the behavior of quantum systems. Effectively, this scheme induces a revised realist account of truth in the quantum domain of discourse. We also include an appendix, where we compare our topos-theoretic representation scheme of quantum event algebras with other categorial and topos-theoretic approaches.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures
The question of irreducibility in the critical thought of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes
Creators: name: Cash, Conall John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis concerns the work of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes as practitioners and theorists of criticism. Through an analysis of aspects of their work, it is argued that the thought of each writer depends crucially on what I call the notion of irreducibility. Criticism, for both Benjamin and Barthes, entails attending to an element that is irreducible to the formal appearance of the object of criticism and to what can be directly known of this object. A binary is established in the thought of each between the object as given, which can be possessed within knowledge and the properties of which criticism can tabulate, and something greater which acts upon the given object but which cannot be shown or represented within it, and which criticism itself cannot know but can only mark the presence of. This irreducible element functions in Benjamin on a speculative or ontological level as an immanent totality or truth defining existence as such; in Barthes, it is defined as an historical or experiential real that resists the modes of its apprehension provided by culture. In both cases it carries two valences: it is understood as entirely incommensurable with formal and knowable appearance, unable to be represented and taken in as an object; and it is understood as immanent to the appearing and knowable form of the object of criticism - not something outside the object, but invisibly or unrecognisably present within it. The effort to estrange the object of criticism (whether defined as a particular cultural form such as a literary text or a photograph, or, in the case of Benjamin's "Theological-Political Fragment," as the sphere of earthly existence as such) from an assumed stability and enclosed totality entails a critique of two modes of thought which are assumed to make all things knowable: representation and intentionality. The irreducible, for Barthes and for Benjamin, cannot be intended and cannot be brought to representation, for it is itself constitutively irreducible to form. Criticism, for both writers, entails an immersion in the given object which works to bring out its profound entwinement with that which is irreducible to its knowable form, divesting it of its assumed completion by recalIing to it this ineradicable remainder. In so doing, criticism alIows its object to be rethought, raising the question of how culture and its particular objects or products might differently bear their relationship to the irreducible as an unknowable totality or truth, without this relation ever being completed or resolved, without the irreducible being brought to any final identity with the present.
Status of Diurnal and Semi-diurnal EOP variations in IERS conventions.
Creators: name: Gipson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: UT1, Polar Motion, IERS

description: I present a brief history of models of EOP variation in the IERS Conventions with a particular focus on diurnal and semi-diurnal variation of UT1 and Polar Motion. I summarize the work and recommendations of the IERS Working Group on Diurnal and Semi-Diurnal EOP variation. I conclude with a summary of the status of the update to the IERS Conventions.
Tooth loss and obstructive sleep apnea signs and symptoms in the US population
Creators: name: Essick, Greg K.
name: Sanders, Anne E.
name: Slade, Gary D.
name: Akinkugbe, Aderonke A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between tooth loss and signs and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in a representative sample of the general US population.
Electrical charging effects on the sliding friction of a model nano-confined ionic liquid
Creators: name: Capozza, Rosario
name: Benassi, Andrea
name: Vanossi, Andrea
name: Tosatti, Erio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements suggest the possibility to exploit ionic liquids (ILs) as smart lubricants for nano-contacts, tuning their tribological and rheological properties by charging the sliding interfaces. Following our earlier theoretical study of charging effects on nanoscale confinement and squeezout of a model IL, we present here molecular dynamics simulations of the frictional and lubrication properties of that model under charging conditions.First we describe the case when two equally charged plates slide while being held together to a confinement distance of a few molecular layers.The shear sliding stress is found to rise as the number of IL layers decreases stepwise. However the shear stress shows, within each given number of layers, only a weak dependence upon the precise value of the normal load, a result in agreement with data extracted from recent experiments.We subsequently describe the case of opposite charging of the sliding plates, and follow the shear stress when the charging is slowly and adiabatically reversed in the course of time, under fixed load. Despite the fixed load, the number and structure of the confined IL layers changes with changing charge, and that in turn drives strong friction variations. The latter involve first of all charging-induced freezing of the IL film, followed by a discharging-induced melting, both made possible by the nanoscale confinement. Another mechanism for charging-induced frictional changes is a shift of the plane of maximum shear from mid-film to the plate-film interface, and viceversa. While these occurrences and results invariably depend upon the parameters of the model IL and upon its specific interaction with the plates, the present study helps identifying a variety of possible behavior, obtained under very simple assumptions, while connecting it to an underlying equilibrium thermodynamics picture.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures
The concept of the drives in Hegel's philosophy
Creators: name: Muldoon, James Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis analyses the concept of the drives in Hegel's philosophy and seeks to demonstrate the importance and centrality of the concept to Hegel's thought and the ways in which a focus on this concept transforms our understanding of the Hegelian project. The central argument of this thesis is that, contrary to Kojeve's influential reading, Hegel's dialectic involves the ceaseless continuation of the drives and not their final reconciliation and conclusion. His primary lesson is not how all forms of difference and otherness can be reconciled but how subjects could learn to live in a modem condition of alienation, fragmentation and loss. Hegel's central philosophical problem of overcoming the divisions of modern life becomes a question of how one can live with a continuation of the drives. This thesis demonstrates how the drives can be rendered intelligible in a double register: the moral and the metaphysical. In the first instance, the drives can be understood in the moral sphere, as the basic sensuous inclinations, impulses and desires of human beings. On the other hand, Hegel's dialectic philosophy itself is moved by a certain drive that is internal to the structure of his thinking. There is a dynamism and movement to Hegel's philosophy that appears in different ways throughout his work, but always in a sense that is traceable back to an idea of force, compulsion or drive. Chapter one analyses the drives in the moral sense in Hegel's pre-Jena writing, while chapter two analyses the drives in the metaphysical sense in the Phenomenology. The final chapter of this thesis will trace Hegel's combination of these two separate instances of the drives into a single schema. In the Philosophy of Right, the metaphysical drive, considered in the Phenomenology as an attribute of Spirit, is embodied in the concept of the will. There is a metaphysical drive towards freedom in the will as it attempts to actualise itself in concrete form. However, its realisation and actualisation in the institutions and practices of modem life only comes about through what Hegel refers to as a "purification of the drives." This is a process of the transformation of the anthropological drives as they are rationalised and denatured through the development of habit in the individual. Hegel provides a highly developed analysis of the education, development and integration of individuals through a mixture of ideology, work and institutional learning that runs parallel with his account of a metaphysical drive for freedom. The realisation and institutionalisation of freedom in modem societies is shown to be intimately connected to a process of "re-naturing" human beings and transforming their immediate and natural drives into fully mediated cultural ones.
Conformal anomaly c-coefficients of superconformal 6d theories
Creators: name: Beccaria, Matteo
name: Tseytlin, Arkady A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose general relations between the conformal anomaly and the chiral (R-symmetry and gravitational) anomaly coefficients in 6d (1,0) superconformal theories. The suggested expressions for the three type B conformal anomaly c-coefficients complement the expression for the type A anomaly a-coefficient found in arXiv:1506.03807. We check them on several examples -- the standard (1,0) hyper and tensor multiplets as well as some higher derivative short multiplets containing vector fields that generalize the superconformal 6d vector multiplet discussed in arXiv:1506.08727. We also consider a family of higher derivative superconformal (2,0) 6d multiplets associated to 7d multiplets in the KK spectrum of 11d supergravity compactified on S^4. In particular, we prove that (2,0) 6d conformal supergravity coupled to 26 tensor multiplets is free of all chiral and conformal anomalies. We discuss some interacting (1,0) superconformal theories, predicting the c-coefficients for the "E-string" theory on multiple M5-branes at E_8 9-brane and for the theory describing M5-branes at an orbifold singularity. Finally, we elaborate on holographic computation of subleading corrections to conformal anomaly coefficients coming from R^2+R^3 terms in 7d effective action, revisiting, in particular, the (2,0) theory case.
description: 32 pages, v4: Added footnotes 8, 25, 26 clarifying that the available data leads to a 1-parameter family of the conformal anomaly coefficients c_1, c_2 as functions of chiral anomaly coefficients; the results for c_i in recent arXiv:1702.03518 also belong to this family
Longitudinal associations among asthma control, sleep problems, and health-related quality of life in children with asthma: a report from the PROMIS® Pediatric Asthma Study
Creators: name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Huang, I-Chan
name: Thompson, Lindsay A.
name: Li, Zheng
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Shenkman, Elizabeth A.
name: Gross, Heather E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Few studies have investigated the complex relationship among asthma control, sleep problems, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among children with asthma. This study aimed to test the longitudinal effect of asthma control status on asthma-specific HRQOL through the mechanism of nighttime sleep quality and daytime sleepiness.
Separating decision tree complexity from subcube partition complexity
Creators: name: Kothari, Robin
name: Racicot-Desloges, David
name: Santha, Miklos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The subcube partition model of computation is at least as powerful as decision trees but no separation between these models was known. We show that there exists a function whose deterministic subcube partition complexity is asymptotically smaller than its randomized decision tree complexity, resolving an open problem of Friedgut, Kahn, and Wigderson (2002). Our lower bound is based on the information-theoretic techniques first introduced to lower bound the randomized decision tree complexity of the recursive majority function. We also show that the public-coin partition bound, the best known lower bound method for randomized decision tree complexity subsuming other general techniques such as block sensitivity, approximate degree, randomized certificate complexity, and the classical adversary bound, also lower bounds randomized subcube partition complexity. This shows that all these lower bound techniques cannot prove optimal lower bounds for randomized decision tree complexity, which answers an open question of Jain and Klauck (2010) and Jain, Lee, and Vishnoi (2014).
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Phase structure with nonzero $Θ_{\rm QCD}$ and twisted mass fermions
Creators: name: Horkel, Derek P.
name: Sharpe, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the phase diagram and chiral condensate for lattice QCD with two flavors of twisted-mass fermions in the presence of nondegenerate up and down quarks, discretization errors and a nonzero value of $Θ_{\rm QCD}$. Although such a theory has a complex action and cannot, at present, be simulated, the results are needed to understand how to tune to maximal twist in the presence of electromagnetism, a topic discussed in a companion paper. We find that, in general, the only phase structure is a first-order transition of finite length. Pion masses are nonvanishing throughout the phase plane except at the endpoints of the first-order line. Only for extremal values of the twist angle and $Θ_{\rm QCD}$ ($ω=0$ or $π/2$ and $Θ_{\rm QCD}=0$ or $π$) are there second-order transitions.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures Introduction expanded, results unchanged, consistent with published version
Ilex guangxica Doweld 2022, nom. nov.
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Aquifoliales
Aquifoliaceae
Ilex
Ilex guangxica

description: Ilex guangxica Doweld, nom. nov.
 ≡ Ilex oblonga Tseng (1981: 23) non Ilex oblonga Reid (1920: 130).
 Type:— CHINA. Guangxi Province, Jinxiu Yaozu Zizhixian, Yaoshan, C . Wang 4 0697 (holotype, HC).
 Eponymy:—From locus classicus, Guanxi Province of China.
 Notes:—The extant species Ilex oblonga Tseng is accepted in the modern flora of China with no recognized synonyms (Chen & Feng 1999; Chen et al. 2008). However, the extant species is a later illegitimate homonym of the fossil-species Ilex oblonga Reid, which was established on the seeds from the Pleistocene sediments of England. Hence, a new replacement name is validated here for the extant species.
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2022, New names of Ilex and Ilexpollenites (Aquifoliaceae), extant and fossil: Addendum Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes II. Aquifoliaceae, pp. 143-146 in Phytotaxa 531 (2) on pages 143-144, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.531.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5869344
The West-East-oriented cemeteries of Egypt: a contextual approach to religious identity
Creators: name: Younger, Alice
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: From the late third to fourth century, a new type of burial practice evolved in Egypt that is currently attested at Kellis, el-Bagawat and North Saqqara. The key practices of this type include the interment of one wrapped individual in an unelaborate pit grave with a west-east orientation, the presence of infants and foetuses and the provision of few or no grave-goods. The deceased was in a supine position with the hands over the pelvis or beside the body. Body treatment, if present, was devoid of evisceration. It has been argued that this new type of burial practice reflects a change in religious identity, from pagan to Christian. These innovative burial practices are found not just in Egypt, but in Turkey, Jordan, Europe and Britain. In the Egyptian, British and European contexts, alternative interpretations of the change of burial practice have been advanced. It has been suggested that those buried in such cemeteries could have initially been pagans and Christians just adopted these practices later. Alternatively, these burials may have been those of the poor. In order to resolve this issue, these cemeteries require further study. Material from such cemeteries is now available from the above-mentioned sites. At Kellis, the excavation of the settlement has yielded considerable evidence, including papyri, concerning the local religious context of the cemeteries. This thesis also tests various theories and methods for their applicability to the establishment of religious identity from burial data. In order to establish whether the new practices represented a continuation of pagan practice, Chapter 1 examines the burial characteristics of earlier, Egyptian necropoleis. Chapter 2 presents a statistical analysis of the burial practices of the west-east-oriented cemeteries of Kellis 2 and el-Bagawat and incorporates a qualitative analysis of the North Saqqara burials. The analyses establish the key characteristics of this burial type. Chapter 3 investigates the identity of those interred in the west-east-oriented cemeteries by using the methods of a ranked comparison of pagan and west-east-oriented burial practices, a ranking of the cemeteries for effort expenditure and wealth and a ranked comparison of the early, putative Christian cemeteries of Britain and Egypt. The settlement evidence is also discussed. The results confirm that those who used the new type of burial practice were probably Christians, whose practices displayed their new religious identity in opposition to that of pagans. This is not to say that this was the only expression of Christian identity in burial practice at this time. A critical assessment of the theories and methods used concludes that they may be of relevance in further studies, which seek to determine religious identity from an analysis of the burial data, particularly where texts are unavailable.
Aborigines, law and the settler state: the Gove land rights case and political change, 1968 – 1972
Creators: name: Viney, Fiona Marjorie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis I consider the influence of the Gove land rights case on Australian culture and political discourse between 1968 and 1972. For much of the twentieth century Australian governments did not recognise indigenous polities or rights. But in the early 1970s this changed. In this thesis I argue that the Gove land rights case played a critical role in this development and seek to explain why and how this occurred. Most importantly, I suggest that the ideas articulated by lawyers and anthropologists throughout this case not only constructed a certain notion of Aboriginal difference but that this eventually changed the way that the federal Liberal-Country Party government, led by Prime Minister William McMahon, thought about its Aboriginal policy, and that this prompted it to formulate an Aboriginal land rights policy. In doing so I draw into question the account of historians who have argued that this government's support for an assimilation policy led it to reject the notion of land rights for Aboriginal groups. I suggest that these historians have failed to grasp the impact of the Gove land rights case and have overlooked the novelty of the conservative federal government's response to this. I also assess the influence that a redemptive legal narrative about 'native title' had upon the Australian press, the public and political leaders after the highly publicised defeat of the Yolngu people's case in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. I argue that this made it difficult for the McMahon government to articulate the reservations it had about a land rights scheme and to propose an alternative approach to Aboriginal policy. Finally, I suggest that the redemptive native title narrative and the related ideas about the nature of Aborigines that were initially articulated by the lawyers for the Yolngu plaintiffs in the Gove case still constrain settler Australian conversations about Aborigines and Aboriginal policy.
Gluino LOSP with Axino LSP
Creators: name: Raby, Stuart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we have presented a novel version of "long-lived" gluinos in supersymmetric models with the gluino the lightest ordinary supersymmetric particle [LOSP] and axino LSP. Within certain ranges of the axion decay constant $f_a < 1 \times 10^{10}$ GeV, the gluino mass bounds are reduced to less than 1000 GeV. The best limits can be obtained by looking for decaying R-hadrons in the detector where the gluino decays to a gluon and axino in the calorimeters. SUSY models with a gluino LOSP can occur over a significant region of parameter space in either {\em mirage-mediation} or general gauge-mediated SUSY breaking models. The gluino LOSP is not constrained by cosmology, but in this scenario the axion/axino may be good dark matter candidates.
description: 4 pages, 0 figures
An exploration of sustainable development in SADC member states – the role of BRICS (2001 – 2014)
Creators: name: Nyabereka, Melba
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In 2000, the World Bank published a report entitled Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? In this report the argument was made that this was indeed possible and cited the continent’s great economic potential, but only if the challenges of governance, conflict, state building, poverty, inequality and human development were addressed. So far, the 21st Century has witnessed the continent become progressively more engaged and economically active, evidenced by increased trade and investment between the continent and partners across the globe. This has led to, inter alia, a marginal decrease in poverty, however, the continent remains largely underdeveloped with high rates of inequality in most areas. This highlights the need to ensure that this escalated economic integration and engagement is both beneficial and sustainable for African states. In Southern Africa a large contributor to development in the new millennium has been the engagement of the BRICS. This engagement has revealed new avenue paths to development. This has supplemented the traditional western engagement through Bretton Woods’ institutions and effectively fostered new relationships and created access to markets that were not as accessible before. The study investigates the role that BRICS engagement has played in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe through aid, investment and trade; which are the cooperative’s main areas of engagement on the continent. This is done by documenting changes in the respective economies, societies, environments and governance in relation to cooperation with the BRICS. This investigation found that the individual BRICS states have had differing impacts on sustainable development elements in each of the case studies – with both positive and negative results. However, as a whole the cooperative offers promising and solid options for the development of Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It is evident though that better management of these partnerships is required on the part of the case study states to ensure that these engagements are beneficial in both the short and long term. The investigation also found that good governance is an arguably crucial element of sustainable development in the case study states. This is supported by the fact that the political aspect of BRICS engagement has encouraged the maintenance of the status quo in Angola and Zimbabwe, and the weakness in governance of all three case studies – clearly illustrated by their stunted development.
Syria's chemical weapons and United States-Russian intervention: diplomacy in action?
Creators: name: Tatenda Jane Dzvarai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: On August 21, 2013, a relatively large-scale chemical weapons attack was executed
 in the Ghouta area of Damascus, Syria. This incident was the culmination of a series of chemical attacks perpetrated by the Assad regime. Syria's use of chemical weapons violated its treaty commitments and customary international law, especially the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention that explicitly bans the use of chemical weapons. The attacks caused tensions within the United Nations Security Council, especially between the United States and Russia. The motives and interests of these countries differed to such an extent that it led to a stalemate in responding to the chemical weapons attacks. While the United States called for limited military intervention to punish Assad for the use of chemical weapons as well as to deter any future use of these weapons through a process of degrading, Russia met the United States’ push for action with fierce opposition. The question therefore is, how did the United States and Russia manage to finally foster consensus and cooperation in Syria amidst their diverging positions?
The main aim of this research is to examine the role that diplomacy played in addressing Syria’s chemical weapons use during its civil war. In order to provide an investigation into the role of diplomacy, the study will evaluate and review key diplomatic strategies that explain the diplomatic process through which the United States and Russia dealt with Syria’s use of chemical weapons. Three possible diplomatic strategies are identified, namely, multilateral diplomacy, disarmament diplomacy and coercive diplomacy. The thesis will argue that the strategy eventually adopted by the United States and Russia to get Syria to a state of compliance was a case of coercive diplomacy. As such, the thesis specifically examines the concept of coercive diplomacy and how it has been utilised in dealing with Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile.
An investigation into narrative as a compositional approach
Creators: name: Toppi, Antonio
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This folio of seven musical works explores compositional approaches to narrative. Central to this project has been the study of narrative in the literary sense and its musical representation and manifestations. My compositional approach was informed by an understanding of narrative that developed through interdisciplinary readings in literature, literary theory and musicology. The compositions offer a variety of approaches to how non-musical narratives may be expressed in music. Three of the compositions are chamber works for recorder, flute, piano and bass viola da gamba that musically realise stories from Ovid's Metamorphosis. The three theatre excerpts belonging to the musical play In the Beginning .. .In the End .. explore stories inspired by real situations. The accompaniment of these works consists of flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, violoncello, keyboard and percussion. The voice is incorporated as either a soloist, in a quartet or in a choral group. The seventh work is an electronic realisation of the personal narratives of my four grandparents' lives in Italy during and post World War 2, and travel to Australia in the 1970s. The seven compositions are accompanied by a critical commentary that provides insight on narrative in both the literary and musical senses, and the musical influences that have guided my investigation. Details on my compositional techniques are included to outline how narrative has been worked into my approach.