cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Uniform Manifold Approximation with Two-phase Optimization
Creators: name: Jeon, Hyeon
name: Ko, Hyung-Kwon
name: Lee, Soohyun
name: Jo, Jaemin
name: Seo, Jinwook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce Uniform Manifold Approximation with Two-phase Optimization (UMATO), a dimensionality reduction (DR) technique that improves UMAP to capture the global structure of high-dimensional data more accurately. In UMATO, optimization is divided into two phases so that the resulting embeddings can depict the global structure reliably while preserving the local structure with sufficient accuracy. In the first phase, hub points are identified and projected to construct a skeletal layout for the global structure. In the second phase, the remaining points are added to the embedding preserving the regional characteristics of local areas. Through quantitative experiments, we found that UMATO (1) outperformed widely used DR techniques in preserving the global structure while (2) producing competitive accuracy in representing the local structure. We also verified that UMATO is preferable in terms of robustness over diverse initialization methods, number of epochs, and subsampling techniques.
description: IEEE VIS 2022. Hyeon Jeon and Hyung-Kwon Ko equally contributed to this work
(201485) John 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.
Complex-order Reset Control System
Creators: name: Karbasizadeh, Nima
name: HosseinNia, S. Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: According to the well-known loop shaping method for the design of controllers, the performance of the controllers in terms of step response, steady-state disturbance rejection and noise attenuation and robustness can be improved by increasing the gain at lower frequencies and decreasing it at higher frequencies and increasing the phase margin as much as possible. However, the inherent properties of linear controllers, the Bode's phase-gain relation, create a limitation. In theory, a complex-order transfer function can break the Bode's gain-phase relation; however, such transfer function cannot be directly implemented and should be approximated. This paper proposes a reset element and a tuning method to approximate a Complex-Order Controller (CLOC) and, through a simulation example, shows the benefits of using such a controller.
Genome evolution, genetic diversity and molecular breeding of Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea Screb.)
Creators: name: Hand, Melanie
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 Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
A Nonlinear Car-following Controller Design Inspired By Human-driving Behaviors to Increase Comfort and Enhance Safety
Creators: name: Qin, Wubing B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper investigates the car-following problem and proposes a nonlinear controller that considers driving comfort, safety concerns, steady-state response and transient response. This controller is designed based on the demands of lower cost, faster response, increased comfort, enhanced safety and elevated extendability from the automotive industry. Design insights and intuitions are provided in detail. Also, theoretical analysis are performed on plant stability, string stability and tracking performance of the closed-loop system. Conditions and guidelines are provided on the selection of control parameters. Comprehensive simulations are conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed controller in different driving scenarios.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
(201486) Charlotte Agnes Hall
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.
Cosmological constant corrections to the photon sphere and black hole shadow radii
Creators: name: Adler, Stephen L.
name: Virbhadra, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the equations determining the photon sphere radius and the black hole shadow radius, and calculate the cosmological constant corrections arising when the dark energy action has the usual form, and when dark energy arises from a Weyl scaling invariant dark energy action. For black hole targets of the Event Horizon Telescope, the corrections are very small.
description: 5 pages
Profinite rigidity and surface bundles over the circle
Creators: name: Bridson, Martin R.
name: Reid, Alan W.
name: Wilton, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E18, 57M27, 20E26

description: If $M$ is a compact 3-manifold whose first betti number is 1, and $N$ is a compact 3-manifold such that $π_1N$ and $π_1M$ have the same finite quotients, then $M$ fibres over the circle if and only if $N$ does. We prove that groups of the form $F_2\rtimes\mathbb{Z}$ are distinguished from one another by their profinite completions. Thus, regardless of betti number, if $M$ and $N$ are punctured torus bundles over the circle and $M$ is not homeomorphic to $N$, then there is a finite group $G$ such that one of $π_1M$ and $π_1N$ maps onto $G$ and the other does not.
description: 17 pages, no figures. v2 minor corrections. This is the final version accepted for publication
Intra-urban migration and urban residential structure in Melbourne
Creators: name: Humphreys, J.S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 28/2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Promotionsordnung der Fakultät für Mathematik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 26. November 2013
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 28, 2013
Error-detected generation and complete analysis of hyperentangled Bell states for photons assisted by quantum-dot spins in double-sided optical microcavities
Creators: name: Wang, Guan-Yu
name: Ai, Qing
name: Ren, Bao-Cang
name: Li, Tao
name: Deng, Fu-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an error-detected block, assisted by the quantum-dot spins in double-sided optical microcavities. With this block, we propose three error-detected schemes for the deterministic generation, the complete analysis, and the complete nondestructive analysis of hyperentangled Bell states in both the polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom of two-photon systems. In these schemes, the errors can be detected, which can improve their fidelities largely, far different from other previous schemes assisted by the interaction between the photon and the quantum-dot-cavity system. Our scheme for the deterministic generation of hyperentangled two-photon systems can be performed by repeat until success. These features make our schemes more useful in high-capacity quantum communication with hyperentanglement in the future.
description: 12 pages, 8 figure
Utilities associated with stoma-related complications: peristomal skin complications and leakages
Creators: name: Rolls, Natasha
name: Yssing, Cecilie
name: Bøgelund, Mette
name: Håkan-Bloch, Jonas
name: de Fries Jensen, Lasse
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Peristomal skin complications (PSCs) and leakages are major issues for people living with a stoma. The purpose of this study is to understand how these stoma-linked complications impact health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a UK population. The study used time trade-off (TTO) methodology to quantify health state utilities associated with two stoma-related complications: PSC and leakages. Respondents assessed 10 different health states with different PSC severity levels (no, mild, moderate or severe PSC) and frequencies of leakage events (2, 12 or 48 leakages onto clothes per year, and no leakage due to a digital solution). The average disutility value for each health state was also assessed. The study was conducted via a web-based survey in the UK adult general population. The analysis included 758 respondents. Respondents considered living with a stoma with no PSC to be more favorable than the other health states. Severe pain, itching and/or burning (PIB) was associated with the largest disutility compared to no PSC. The disutility (0–1 scale) compared to no PSC was 0.287 (p < .0001), 0.106 (p < .0001) and 0.025 (p=.0005) for PIB scores of 8, 5 and 2, respectively, on a 1–10 scale. More frequent leakage events were associated with lower utility. The utility decreases compared to no PSC were 0.114 (p < .0001), 0.057 (p < .0001) and 0.022 (p < .0001) for 48, 12 and 2 leakage events per year, respectively. The health state with a digital notification solution that notifies the user before a leakage event happens was considered as good as no PSC. Experiencing mild, moderate, and severe levels of PSC or leakage onto clothes is associated with a significant reduction in HRQoL compared to no PSC and/or no leakage. Stoma appliances that reduce the skin complications or keep leakage from reaching the clothes are likely to improve HRQoL.
From a nobody to a somebody: the story of John Manners
Creators: name: Xanthos, Shirley Ann
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of History & European Studies, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Form and meaning in Chinese : an analysis of Mandarin syntax after the Becker-Platt model of tagmemics
Creators: name: Hu, Jerome Pai-hua
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201482) Isabella Louisa West
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.
Surface code fidelity at finite temperatures
Creators: name: Novais, E.
name: Stanforth, A. J.
name: Mucciolo, Eduardo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dependence of the fidelity of the surface code in the presence of a single finite-temperature massless bosonic environment after a quantum error correction cycle. The three standard types of environment are considered: super-Ohmic, Ohmic, and sub-Ohmic. Our results show that, for regimes relevant to current experiments, quantum error correction works well even in the presence of environment-induced, long-range inter-qubit interactions. A threshold always exists at finite temperatures, although its temperature dependence is very sensitive to the type of environment. For the super-Ohmic case, the critical coupling constant separating high- from low-fidelity decreases with increasing temperature. For both Ohmic and super-Ohmic cases, the dependence of the critical coupling on temperature is weak. In all cases, the critical coupling is determined by microscopic parameters of the environment. For the sub-Ohmic case, it also depends strongly on the duration of the QEC cycle.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Beyond the written word : preaching and theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus
Creators: name: Howard, Peter Francis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Design, Modeling and Control for a Tilt-rotor VTOL UAV in the Presence of Actuator Failure
Creators: name: Mousaei, Mohammadreza
name: Geng, Junyi
name: Keipour, Azarakhsh
name: Bai, Dongwei
name: Scherer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Enabling vertical take-off and landing while providing the ability to fly long ranges opens the door to a wide range of new real-world aircraft applications while improving many existing tasks. Tiltrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a better choice than fixed-wing and multirotor aircraft for such applications. Prior works on these aircraft have addressed aerodynamic performance, design, modeling, and control. However, a less explored area is the study of their potential fault tolerance due to their inherent redundancy, which allows them to tolerate some degree of actuation failure. This paper introduces tolerance to several types of actuator failures in a tiltrotor VTOL aircraft. We discuss the design and modeling of a custom tiltrotor VTOL UAV, which is a combination of a fixed-wing aircraft and a quadrotor with tilting rotors, where the four propellers can be rotated individually. Then, we analyze the feasible wrench space the vehicle can generate and design the dynamic control allocation so that the system can adapt to actuator failures, benefiting from the configuration redundancy. The proposed approach is lightweight and is implemented as an extension to an already-existing flight control stack. Extensive experiments validate that the system can maintain the controlled flight under different actuator failures. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first study of the tiltrotor VTOL's fault-tolerance that exploits the configuration redundancy. The source code and simulation can be accessed at https://theairlab.org/vtol.
description: 8 pages
Photoinduced prethermal order parameter dynamics in the two-dimensional large-$N$ Hubbard-Heisenberg model
Creators: name: Osterkorn, Alexander
name: Kehrein, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the microscopic dynamics of competing ordered phases in a two-dimensional correlated electron model, which is driven with a pulsed electric field of finite duration. In order to go beyond a mean-field treatment of the electronic interactions we adopt a large-$N$ generalization of the Hubbard model and combine it with the semiclassical fermionic truncated Wigner approximation as a time evolution method. This allows us to calculate dephasing corrections to the mean-field dynamics and to obtain stationary states, which we interpret as prethermal order. We use this framework to simulate the light-induced transition between two competing phases (bond density wave and staggered flux) and find that the post-pulse stationary state order parameter values are not determined alone by the amount of absorbed energy but depend explicitly on the driving frequency and field direction. While the transition between the two prethermal phases takes place at similar total energies in the low- and high-frequency regimes, we identify an intermediate frequency regime for which it occurs with minimal heating.
description: updated data
Mikrostrukturierte Systeme zur Tageslichtlenkung
Creators: name: Klammt, Stephan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Acryl
subject: Daylighting
subject: Energieeffizienz
subject: Heißprägen
subject: Lichtlenkung
subject: Mikrostrukturtechnik
subject: PMMA
subject: Sunlighting
subject: Tageslicht
subject: 620

description: In dieser Arbeit wird ein mikrostrukturiertes System vorgestellt, welches das Tageslicht zur natürlichen Beleuchtung eines Raumes nutzbar macht. Das Lichtlenksystem bestehend aus PMMA wird im Bereich des Oberlichts im Scheibenzwischenraum eines Fensters angebracht. Eintreffendes Tageslicht wird an die Raumdecke gelenkt und von dort gestreut, wodurch der Raum blendfrei ausgeleuchtet wird. Mit dieser Form der Tageslichtbeleuchtung lässt sich Energie einsparen, lassen sich Betriebskosten senken und das Wohlbefinden der Raumnutzer steigern. Auf Basis zielgerichteter optischer Simulationen wurde für das Lichtlenksystem eine geeignete Strukturkombination identifiziert, die auf der Außenseite mit einer linsenförmigen und auf der Innenraumseite mit einer prismenförmigen Struktur versehen ist. Mit dieser Kombination wird das Licht bereits innerhalb der Platte gestreut, wodurch eine hohe Toleranz gegenüber Fertigungsfehlern erzielt wird. Nur durch diese Eigenschaft wird eine ökonomisch und ökologisch sinnvolle Produktion im Heißprägeverfahren ermöglicht. Prototypen wurden im Labor- (100 x 100 mm²) und im Großformat (1500 x 400 mm²) gefertigt. Die Lichtlenkcharakteristik der Prototypen wurde mit Hilfe eines Lasergoniometers experimentell bestimmt und mit den Simulationsergebnissen abgeglichen. Es zeigte sich eine sehr gute Übereinstimmung. Die Funktionalität der Lichtlenkung weist im Vergleich zu etablierten Systemen eine um mehr als 20 % erhöhte Effizienz auf. Diese Kombination aus hoher Umlenkeffizienz und ökonomischer Massenfertigung ist bislang einzigartig und bietet damit erstmals für ein Tageslichtlenkprodukt das Potenzial einer hohen Marktdurchdringung.
Indonesian women's popular fiction : readers' responses in their literary and social context
Creators: name: Hendrarti, Ignatia Maria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Human health risk assessment of bisphenol A released from polycarbonate drinking water bottles and carbonated drinks exposed to sunlight in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ugboka, Uchechukwu Grace
name: Ihedioha, Janefrances Ngozi
name: Ekere, Nwachukwu Romanus
name: Okechukwu, Franca Obiageli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This study investigated the release of a known endocrine disruptor—bisphenol A (BPA), in drinking water and carbonated drinks stored in polycarbonate bottles and exposed to sunlight with a view of assessing the health risk involved in their consumption. BPA in the samples was extracted using solid-phase extraction method and determined with high performance liquid chromatography equipped with ultra-violet detector. Results showed that there were significant increase (p < 0.05) in BPA concentration of bottled water and carbonated drink exposed at 1, 3, 7 and 21 days. Also, there were enrichment of BPA levels ranging 31–868% in the bottled water and 17–920% carbonated drinks from 1 to 60 days when compared with the control. However, BPA migrating rate decreases with increase in exposure duration and later remains fairly constant as exposure duration progresses. The chronic daily intake of BPA in carbonated drinks and bottled water were low. The health risk index of BPA in polycarbonate bottled carbonated drinks and water was less than one in both adult and child and thus, there may be no probable adverse health effect on consumers of such products. However, caution should be taken as BPA is also released from other food packaging materials.
The political economy of immigration and multicultural policies under Labor during the 1980s and early 1990s
Creators: name: Healy, Ernest
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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6d Dirac fermion on a rectangle; scrutinizing boundary conditions, mode functions and spectrum
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Yukihiro
name: Hasegawa, Kouhei
name: Nishiwaki, Kenji
name: Sakamoto, Makoto
name: Tatsumi, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify possible boundary conditions of a 6d Dirac fermion $Ψ$ on a rectangle under the requirement that the 4d Lorentz structure is maintained, and derive the profiles and spectrum of the zero modes and nonzero KK modes under the two specific boundary conditions, (i) 4d-chirality positive components being zero at the boundaries and (ii) 2d-chirality positive components being zero at the boundaries. In the case of (i), twofold degenerated chiral zero modes appear which are localized towards specific directions of the rectangle pointed by an angle parameter $θ$. This leads to an implication for a new direction of pursuing the origin of three generations in the matter fields of the standard model, even though triple-degenerated zero modes are not realized in the six dimensions. The emergence of the angle parameter $θ$ originates from a rotational symmetry in the degenerated chiral zero modes on the rectangle extra dimensions since they do not feel the boundaries. In the case of (ii), this rotational symmetry is promoted to the two-dimensional conformal symmetry though no chiral massless zero mode appears. We also discuss the correspondence between our model on a rectangle and orbifold models in some details.
description: 26 pages, 2 tables (v1); 39 pages, 3 tables, accepted to Nuclear Physics B (v2)
Ακανθοκυτταρικό επιθηλίωμα άκρας χειρός – Βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση
Creators: name: Κατσάνος, Βασίλειος Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ακανθοκυτταρικό επιθηλίωμα
Άκρα χείρα
Άνω άκρο
SCC, squamous cell carcinoma
Hand
Upper extremity

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη της βιβλιογραφίας για το ακανθοκυτταρικό επιθηλίωμα άκρας χειρός. Πραγματοποιήθηκε έρευνα στο pubmed 200 άρθρων με κριτήρια: ακανθοκυτταρικό επιθηλίωμα, πρωτοπαθείς όγκοι άκρας χειρός. Από αυτά έγινε μελέτη 15 άρθρων από το 2015 μέχρι και το 2022. Έγινε μελέτη της βιβλιογραφίας και των κατευθυντήριων οδηγιών του 2022 για την διάγνωση, την αντιμετώπιση και παρακολούθηση τω ασθενών βάσει Ν.C.C.N, και B.A.D. Στην εργασία παρουσιάστηκαν περιληπτικά τα χαρακτηριστικά των πρωτοπαθών όγκων άκρας χειρός και αναλυτικά τα χαρακτηριστικά του ακανθοκυτταρικού επιθηλιώματος. Πραγματοποιήθηκε ανασκόπηση των νέων παραγόντων κινδύνου εμφάνισης του ακανθοκυτταρικού επιθηλιώματος, της διερεύνησης, διάγνωσης και θεραπείας της συγκεκριμένης νόσου.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of literature considering the hand squamous cell carcinoma. A pubmed research was done with the key words: scc, hand squamous cell carcinoma and upper extremity tumors. 200 articles were found and 15 of them, from the period of 2015 to 2022 were reviewed. N.C.C.N. and B.A.D. quidelines of 2002 were also reviewed considering the diagnosis, treatment and follow – up of patients with hand SCC. In the thesis, a literature review was done about the new data found about the risk factors of squamous cell carcinoma at hand, the diagnosis methods, the treatment and follow up of the patients.
(201480) James Scotland
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.
Constraints on rapidity-dependent initial conditions from charged particle pseudorapidity densities and two-particle correlations
Creators: name: Ke, Weiyao
name: Moreland, J. Scott
name: Bernhard, Jonah E.
name: Bass, Steffen A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the initial three-dimensional spatial configuration of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using centrality and rapidity-dependent measurements of charged particle pseudorapidity densities and two-particle correlations. A cumulant-generating function is used to parametrize the rapidity dependence of local entropy deposition and extend arbitrary boost-invariant initial conditions to nonzero beam rapidities. The model is compared to p+Pb and Pb+Pb single-particle distributions and systematically optimized using Bayesian parameter estimation to extract high-probability initial condition parameters. The optimized initial conditions are then compared to a number of experimental observables including two-particle rapidity correlations, the rapidity dependence of anisotropic flow, and event-plane decorrelations.
description: This version contains major updates including improved Bayesian calibration and results discussion compared to the previous version
Where fish eat birds : feminine identities in a coastal region of Peninsular Malaysia
Creators: name: Healey, Lucinda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A Learning Approach for Joint Design of Event-triggered Control and Power-Efficient Resource Allocation
Creators: name: Termehchi, Atefeh
name: Rasti, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In emerging Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPSs), the joint design of communication and control sub-systems is essential, as these sub-systems are interconnected. In this paper, we study the joint design problem of an event-triggered control and an energy-efficient resource allocation in a fifth generation (5G) wireless network. We formally state the problem as a multi-objective optimization one, aiming to minimize the number of updates on the actuators' input and the power consumption in the downlink transmission. To address the problem, we propose a model-free hierarchical reinforcement learning approach \textcolor{blue}{with uniformly ultimate boundedness stability guarantee} that learns four policies simultaneously. These policies contain an update time policy on the actuators' input, a control policy, and energy-efficient sub-carrier and power allocation policies. Our simulation results show that the proposed approach can properly control a simulated ICPS and significantly decrease the number of updates on the actuators' input as well as the downlink power consumption.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Dynamic response functions and helical gaps in interacting Rashba nanowires with and without magnetic fields
Creators: name: Pedder, Christopher
name: Meng, Tobias
name: Tiwari, Rakesh P.
name: Schmidt, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A partially gapped spectrum due to the application of a magnetic field is one of the main probes of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in nanowires. Such a "helical gap" manifests itself in the linear conductance, as well as in dynamic response functions such as the spectral function, the structure factor, or the tunnelling density of states. In this paper, we investigate theoretically the signature of the helical gap in these observables with a particular focus on the interplay between Rashba spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interactions. We show that in a quasi-one-dimensional wire, interactions can open a helical gap even without magnetic field. We calculate the dynamic response functions using bosonization, a renormalization group analysis, and the exact form factors of the emerging sine-Gordon model. For special interaction strengths, we verify our results by refermionization. We show how the two types of helical gaps, caused by magnetic fields or interactions, can be distinguished in experiments.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, v2 refs added
La Nostra Effige: Dante and the symbolism of the human form
Creators: name: Hadlow, Dean A.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo.
Reaction times of monitoring schemes for ARMA time series
Creators: name: Aue, Alexander
name: Dienes, Christopher
name: Fremdt, Stefan
name: Steinebach, Josef G.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: CUSUM statistic
subject: structural break detection
subject: Page's CUSUM
subject: Online monitoring
subject: One-step ahead predictors
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This paper is concerned with deriving the limit distributions of stopping times devised to sequentially uncover structural breaks in the parameters of an autoregressive moving average, ARMA, time series. The stopping rules are defined as the first time lag for which detectors, based on CUSUMs and Page's CUSUMs for residuals, exceed the value of a prescribed threshold function. It is shown that the limit distributions crucially depend on a drift term induced by the underlying ARMA parameters. The precise form of the asymptotic is determined by an interplay between the location of the break point and the size of the change implied by the drift. The theoretical results are accompanied by a simulation study and applications to electroencephalography, EEG, and IBM data. The empirical results indicate a satisfactory behavior in finite samples.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;49/2013
(201481) Betty Gray
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.
A zooarchaeological study of the Haimenkou Site, Yunnan Province, China
Creators: name: Wang, Juan
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 Department of Archaeology, School of Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Environment as artefact : a palaeoecological contribution to the prehistory of southwestern Victoria
Creators: name: Head, Lesley M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Dielectric Mie Voids: Confining Light in Air
Creators: name: Hentschel, Mario
name: Koshelev, Kirill
name: Sterl, Florian
name: Both, Steffen
name: Karst, Julian
name: Shamsafar, Lida
name: Weiss, Thomas
name: Kivshar, Yuri
name: Giessen, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Manipulating light on the nanoscale has become a central challenge in metadevices, resonant surfaces, nanoscale optical sensors, and many more, and it is largely based on resonant light confinement in dispersive and lossy metals and dielectrics. Here, we experimentally implement a novel strategy for dielectric nanophotonics: Resonant subwavelength confinement of light in air. We demonstrate that voids created in high-index dielectric host materials support localized resonant modes with exceptional optical properties. Due to the confinement in air, the modes do not suffer from the loss and dispersion of the dielectric host medium. We experimentally realize these resonant Mie voids by focused ion beam milling into bulk silicon wafers and experimentally demonstrate resonant light confinement down to the UV spectral range at 265 nm (4.68 eV). Furthermore, we utilize the bright, intense, and naturalistic colours for nanoscale colour printing. The combination of resonant dielectric Mie voids with dielectric nanoparticles will more than double the parameter space for the future design of metasurfaces and other micro- and nanoscale optical elements and push their operation into the blue and UV spectral range. In particular, this extension will enable novel antenna and structure designs which benefit from the full access to the modal field inside the void as well as the nearly free choice of the high-index material.
RN-AdS Nontopoligical Solitons in Broken Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs Theory
Creators: name: Honda, Ethan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from numerical simulations of the Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs equations with a broken U(1) symmetry. Coherent nontopological soliton solutions are shown to exist that separate an Anti-de Sitter (AdS) true vacuum interior from a Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) false vacuum exterior. The stability of these bubble solutions is tested by perturbing the charge of the coherent solution and evolving the time-dependent equations of motion. In the weak gravitational limit, the short-term stability depends on the sign of $(ω/ Q) \, \partial_ωQ$, similar to q-balls. The long-term end state of the perturbed solutions demonstrates a rich structure and is visualized using "phase diagrams." Regions of both stability and instability are shown to exist for $κ_g \lesssim 0.015$, while solutions with $κ_g \gtrsim 0.015$ were observed to be entirely unstable. Threshold solutions are shown to demonstrate time-scaling laws, and the space separating true and false vacuum end states is shown to be fractal in nature, similar to oscillons. Coherent states with superextremal charge-to-mass ratios are shown to exist and observed to collapse or expand, depending on the sign of the charge perturbation. Expanding superextremal bubbles induce a phase transition to the true AdS vacuum, while collapsing superextremal bubbles can form nonsingular strongly gravitating solutions with superextremal RN exteriors.
description: 20 pages, 27 figures, 2 tables
Reconstructing a dream : an analysis of home ownership in Australia
Creators: name: Hayward, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The Geometric phase and fractional orbital angular momentum states in electron vortex beams
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Pratul
name: Basu, Banasri
name: Chowdhury, Debashree
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study here fractional orbital angular momentum (OAM) states in electron vortex beams (EVB) from the perspective of geometric phase. We have considered the skyrmionic model of an electron, where it is depicted as a scalar electron orbiting around the vortex line, which gives rise to the spin degrees of freedom. The geometric phase acquired by the scalar electron orbiting around the vortex line induces the spin-orbit interaction, which leads to the fractional OAM states with non-quantized monopole charge associated with the corresponding geometric phase. This involves tilted vortex in EVBs. The monopole charge undergoes the renormalization group (RG) flow, which incorporates a length scale dependence making the fractional OAM states unstable upon propagation. It is pointed out that when EVBs move in an external magnetic field, the Gouy phase associated with the Laguerre-Gaussian modes modifies the geometric phase factor and a proper choice of the radial index helps to have a stable fractional OAM state.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.A
The synergy between two threats: disinformation and Covid-19
Creators: name: Tórtura, Henrique A.
name: Fontanari, José F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The breakdown of trusted sources of information is probably one of the most serious problems today, since in the absence of a common ground, it will be impossible to address the problems that trouble our contemporary world. The Covid-19 pandemic is just a recent situation where the lack of agreed stances has led to failure and hopelessness. In fact, disinformation surrounding the Covid-19 has been a distinctive feature of this pandemic since its very beginning and has hampered what is perhaps the most important initiative to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, viz., an effective communication between scientifically-minded health authorities and the general public. To investigate how disinformation threatens epistemic security, here we propose and solve analytically an evolutionary game-theoretic model where the individuals must accurately estimate some property of their hazardous environment. They can either explore the environment or copy the estimate from another individual, who may display a distorted version of its estimate. We find that the exploration-only strategy is optimal when the environment is relatively safe and the individuals are not reliable. In this doomsday scenario, disinformation erodes trust and suppresses the ability of the individuals to share information with one another.
Constructing of constraint preserving scheme for Einstein equations
Creators: name: Tsuchiya, Takuya
name: Yoneda, Gen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new numerical scheme of evolution for the Einstein equations using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). We derive the discrete evolution equation of the constraint using this scheme and show the constraint preserves in the discrete level. In addition, to confirm the numerical stability using this scheme, we perform some numerical simulations by discretized equations with the Crank-Nicolson scheme and with the new scheme, and we find that the new discretized equations have better stability than that of the Crank-Nicolson scheme.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Catadioptric mobile robot image mosaicing for vehicle undercarriages
Creators: name: Ross, Robert James
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 Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

This thesis investigates and proposes algorithms and techniques to solve the problem of safely imaging the undercarriage of a stationary vehicle to identify explosives or other contraband items. Most current solutions involve humans working very close to vehicles (mirror mounted on a pole), a moving target vehicle (driving over road embedded cameras) or require a high degree of user control (most tele-operated mobile robots). The investigation and work proposed in this thesis uses a mobile robot fitted with a wide angle catadioptric camera system. The catadioptric camera is used to build up a wide-angle image mosaic to provide operators with a view of the easily accessible areas of the vehicle undercarriage. Five main research contributions are described within this thesis: Firstly, a novel binary search pose estimation algorithm is used to identify the pose of the mobile robot with respect to a target vehicle. This is based on the identified locations of each of the target vehicle's tyres and hence allows the robot to plan a path to scan the vehicle. Secondly, an image recognition algorithm is used to identify each of the tyres for a target vehicle from a still photograph and hence assign location-based parameters to each of these tyres for use in the pose estimation algorithm. Thirdly, the use of a catadioptric (wide-angle mirror-based) camera allows larger areas of the target vehicle to be scanned with less scanning traversals. Fourthly, modified optical mouse sensors are characterised and studied as a kinematic- independent solution to augment traditional wheel odometry which is plagued by issues such as wheel slippage. Algorithms to correct for velocity dependency and height induced errors are described and evaluated. Finally, an odometry coupled system is described and evaluated to both significantly improve computational performance for template matching but also to create a rotationally invariant template matching algorithm with which to generate the vehicle mosaic. The contributions are evaluated through simulation, on robotic gantry hardware and through the implementation of a mobile robot which performed imaging underneath both calibration patterns and real target vehicles with simulated contraband devices axed to the undercarriage.