cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Earth rotation and time-domain reconstruction of polarization states for continuous gravitational waves from a known pulsar
Creators: name: Kuwahara, Naoto
name: Asada, Hideki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider effects of the Earth rotation on antenna patterns of a ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detector in a general metric theory that allows at most six polarization states (two spin-0, two spin-1 and two spin-2) in a four-dimensional spacetime. By defining the cyclically averaged antenna matrix for continuous GWs from a known pulsar, we show that waveforms for each polarization state can be uniquely reconstructed in time domain from a given set of the strain outputs at a single detector. Constraining the propagation speed of extra polarization modes, if they coexist with the transverse-traceless modes, is also discussed. We examine also possible effects due to the length-of-day modulation as well as a secular change in the pulsar spin period.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, non-sinusoidal waveforms added, Earth and pulsar spin modulations discussed, pulsar glitch mentioned, computational cost estimated, accepted for PRD
Point Source Detection and Flux Determination with PGWave
Creators: name: Principe, Giacomo
name: Malyshev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the largest uncertainties in the Point Source (PS) studies, at Fermi-LAT energies, is the uncertainty in the diffuse background. In general there are two approaches for PS analysis: background-dependent methods, that include modeling of the diffuse background, and background-independent methods. In this work we study PGWave, which is one of the background-independent methods, based on wavelet filtering to find significant clusters of gamma rays. PGWave is already used in the Fermi-LAT catalog pipeline for finding candidate sources. We test PGWave, not only for source detection, but especially to estimate the flux without the need of a background model. We use Monte Carlo (MC) simulation to study the accuracy of PS detection and estimation of the flux. We present preliminary results of these MC studies.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, published in proceedings for the Gamma 2016 conference
Transgressive desires: The influence of surrealism and cultural readings of nature on installation art practice
Creators: name: Rogers, Sue
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of a Master of Visual Arts by research to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Latrobe University, Bundoora.
Investigation of lactic acid production by pressurized liquid hot water from cultivated Miscanthus × giganteus
Creators: name: Gunes, Kaniye
name: Sargin, Sait
name: Celiktas, Melih Soner
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The production of lactic acid, a polylactic acid monomer from energy crop Miscanthus × giganteus lignocellulosic biomass cultivated in Izmir was investigated. Liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment was carried out at a temperature range of 140–200 °C, pressure 100 to 200 bar and reaction time of 15–45 min at a fixed flow rate of 2 mL/min using D-optimal experimental plan. The optimum conditions were elicited as 140 °C, 100 bar and 45 minutes, yielding the highest reducing sugar content of 77.32 mg/g, whereas 1.25 mg/mL arabinose and 1.35 mg/mL xylose as monomeric sugars. Subsequently, the enzymatic hydrolysis was applied to the solid fraction. The optimum conditions for enzymatic hydrolysis were determined as 5% (w/v) solid/liquid ratio, 20 FPU/mL enzyme loading and 72 hours, revealing the highest amount of reducing sugar as 200 mg/mL. LHW hydrolysate was used as a production medium for lactic acid manufacturing in submerged fermentation by Rhizopus oryzae. The maximum lactic acid content was found to be 6.8 g/L at 24 hours, whereas the lactic acid yield was 0.28 g/L.h. The sequential design of LHW, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis and submerged lactic acid fermentation can be utilized in industry, contributing to the bioeconomy.
(201599) Lydia Frances Turner
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.
Ruelle zeta function at zero for surfaces
Creators: name: Dyatlov, Semyon
name: Zworski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the Ruelle zeta function for a negatively curved oriented surface vanishes at zero to the order given by the absolute value of the Euler characteristic. This result was previously known only in constant curvature.
description: 17 pages. Added Remark 2 on page 1 and revised following the referee's suggestions. To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae
The limits of hope : soldier settlement in Victoria, 1915-1938
Creators: name: Lake, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Flexible resources for quantum metrology
Creators: name: Friis, Nicolai
name: Orsucci, Davide
name: Skotiniotis, Michalis
name: Sekatski, Pavel
name: Dunjko, Vedran
name: Briegel, Hans J.
name: Dür, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum metrology offers a quadratic advantage over classical approaches to parameter estimation problems by utilizing entanglement and nonclassicality. However, the hurdle of actually implementing the necessary quantum probe states and measurements, which vary drastically for different metrological scenarios, is usually not taken into account. We show that for a wide range of tasks in metrology, 2D cluster states (a particular family of states useful for measurement-based quantum computation) can serve as flexible resources that allow one to efficiently prepare any required state for sensing, and perform appropriate (entangled) measurements using only single qubit operations. Crucially, the overhead in the number of qubits is less than quadratic, thus preserving the quantum scaling advantage. This is ensured by using a compression to a logarithmically sized space that contains all relevant information for sensing. We specifically demonstrate how our method can be used to obtain optimal scaling for phase and frequency estimation in local estimation problems, as well as for the Bayesian equivalents with Gaussian priors of varying widths. Furthermore, we show that in the paradigmatic case of local phase estimation 1D cluster states are sufficient for optimal state preparation and measurement.
description: 9+18 pages, many figures
(201600) Eustace Sherrard
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.
Parity Violation in Proton-Proton Scattering at 221 MeV
Creators: name: Berdoz, A. R.
name: Birchall, J.
name: Bland, J. B.
name: Bowman, J. D.
name: Campbell, J. R.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Die andere Seite der Ladentheke
Creators: name: Rüther, Daniela
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2022

description: Wir begegnen ihnen jeden Tag beim Einkauf, aber beachtet werden sie kaum:
Verkäuferinnen in den Großbetrieben des Lebensmitteleinzelhandels. Zu Beginn der Corona-Krise erlebten sie eine bis dahin nicht erfahrene Anerkennung. Sie wurden als 'systemrelevant' aufgewertet und als 'Heldinnen des Alltags' gefeiert: Eine Wertschätzung, die den Frauen an der Kasse selten zu Teil wird. Es waren und sind vor allem Frauen, die dort arbeiten. Der Verkaufsberuf ist in der Bevölkerung nicht gut angesehen. Nach einer Umfrage des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung von 2017 rangiert er auf der Skala der Beliebtheit an letzter Stelle. Insofern verwundert es nicht, dass die Geschichte des Verkaufspersonals in den Großfilialbetrieben des Lebensmitteleinzelhandels noch nicht geschrieben ist. Die boomende Konsumgeschichte hat vor allem die Menschen vor der Ladentheke, die Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten untersucht, nicht jedoch diejenigen, die dahinterstanden und die Waren an den Mann und – im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel vor allem – an die Frau brachten. Das soll sich jetzt ändern. Ein jüngst gestartetes, von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft finanziertes Projekt am Lehrstuhl von Professor Dr. Maren Lorenz (Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit und Geschlechtergeschichte) an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum erforscht „Die andere Seite der Ladentheke“ und nimmt die Verkäuferinnen in den Großfilialbetrieben des Lebensmitteleinzelhandels in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in den Blick.
description: blog interdisziplinäre geschlechterforschung
Effects of non-standard interaction on microscopic black holes from ultra-high energy neutrinos
Creators: name: Alok, Ashutosh Kumar
name: Sarkar, Trisha
name: Yadav, Shweta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the universe has more than 4-dimensions, the TeV scale gravity theories predict formation of microscopic black holes due to interaction of ultra high energy neutrinos coming from some extragalactic origin with the nucleons present in the Earth's atmosphere. The decay of these black holes can generate high multiplicity events which can be detected through neutrino telescopes. Ultra high energy neutrinos can also produce events without the formation of black holes which can be distinguished from the black hole events depending on their topological structure. In this work we study the effects of non-standard interaction on the production of these shower events. We find that new physics has inconsequential impact on the number of events produced through the generation of black holes. For events produced without the formation of black holes, new physics can only provide a marginal deviation. Therefore a large enhancement in the number of shower events over the standard model prediction can provide unambiguous signatures of TeV scale gravity in the form of microscopic black hole production.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Domain Adversarial Spatial-Temporal Network: A Transferable Framework for Short-term Traffic Forecasting across Cities
Creators: name: Tang, Yihong
name: Qu, Ao
name: Chow, Andy H. F.
name: Lam, William H. K.
name: Wong, S. C.
name: Ma, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate real-time traffic forecast is critical for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and it serves as the cornerstone of various smart mobility applications. Though this research area is dominated by deep learning, recent studies indicate that the accuracy improvement by developing new model structures is becoming marginal. Instead, we envision that the improvement can be achieved by transferring the "forecasting-related knowledge" across cities with different data distributions and network topologies. To this end, this paper aims to propose a novel transferable traffic forecasting framework: Domain Adversarial Spatial-Temporal Network (DASTNet). DASTNet is pre-trained on multiple source networks and fine-tuned with the target network's traffic data. Specifically, we leverage the graph representation learning and adversarial domain adaptation techniques to learn the domain-invariant node embeddings, which are further incorporated to model the temporal traffic data. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to employ adversarial multi-domain adaptation for network-wide traffic forecasting problems. DASTNet consistently outperforms all state-of-the-art baseline methods on three benchmark datasets. The trained DASTNet is applied to Hong Kong's new traffic detectors, and accurate traffic predictions can be delivered immediately (within one day) when the detector is available. Overall, this study suggests an alternative to enhance the traffic forecasting methods and provides practical implications for cities lacking historical traffic data.
(201602) Harriett Miles
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.
Frank M. Shillaker field notes (1943) : notes from Chezacut, B.C.
Creators: name: Shillaker, Frank M.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biology--Fieldwork
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715645
subject: Zoological surveys
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1737955
subject: Bird populations
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/832929
subject: Birds--Ecology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/832993
subject: Birds
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/832970

description: This field journal recorded bird census over summer by day in 1943. Note on cover reads: observation with 2 miles of lot 1315 Coast Range 3 Chezacut B.C., F. M. Shillaker. Frank M. Shillaker was a colleague up in Chezacut who owned the local store and bought from the trappers. He was an naturalist too and provided some of the early European accounts of wildlife there. He gave his journals to Dr. Cowan.
A corpus-driven study of Turkish-English language contact in Australia
Creators: name: Kurtböke, Nebiye Petek
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Extracting work from a single reservoir in the non-Markovian underdamped regime
Creators: name: Paredes-Altuve, Oscar
name: Medina, Ernesto
name: Colmenares, Pedro J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive optimal-work finite time protocols for a colloidal particle in a Gaussian well in the general non-Markovian underdamped regime in contact with a single reservoir. Optimal work protocols with and without measurements of position and velocity are shown to be linear in time. In order to treat the underdamped regime one must address forcing the particle at the start and at the end of a protocol, conditions which dominate the short time behaviour of the colloidal particle. We find that for protocols without measurement the least work by an external agent decreases linearly for forced start-stop conditions while those only forced at starting conditions are quadratic (slower) at short times, while both decrease asymptotically to zero for quais-static processes. When measurements are performed protocols with start-end forcing are still more efficient at short times but can be overtaken by start-only protocols at a threshold time. Measurement protocols derive work from the reservoir but always below the predicted by the Sagawa's generalization of the second law. Velocity measurement protocols are more efficient in deriving work than position measurements.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Mean curvature flow of graphs in Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes with perpendicular Neumann boundary condition
Creators: name: Lira, Jorge
name: Roing, Fernanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the longtime existence for the mean curvature flow problem with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition in a Generalized Robertson Walker (GRW) spacetime that obeys the null convergence condition. In addition, we prove that the metric of such a solution is conformal to the one of the leaf of the GRW in asymptotic time. Furthermore, if the initial hypersurface is mean convex, then the evolving hypersurfaces remain mean convex during the flow.
description: 30 pages. This paper sheds light on the relations with the paper arXiv:arch-ive/2202.02424 due to G. Gentile and B. Vertman. They study the prescribed mean curvature flow of non-compact spacelike hypersurfaces in a Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime (GRW), whereas we study the mean curvature flow of compact hypersurfaces in a GRW with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition
Development of a novel Pichia pastoris expression platform via genomic integration of lipase gene for sustained release of methanol from methyloleate
Creators: name: Kashyap, Amuliya
name: Saini, Kuldeep
name: Saini, Meenu
name: Khasa, Yogender Pal
name: Gupta, Rani
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A novel Lip+ Pichia pastoris expression platform was developed by integrating lipase Lip2 from Yarrowia lipolytica under constitutive Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAP) promoter. Effective expression of reporter protein amylase from Bacillus licheniformis was achieved utilizing methyloleate in Lip+Amy+host. Lipase hydrolyzed methyloleate into methanol that sustained PAOX1 induction, and oleic acid, which was readily utilized as a carbon source. The protein expression achieved in presence of methyloleate was comparable to methanol-induced cells, along with an increase in productive biomass. In Lip+Amy+ host, total amylase production of 220.9 ± 13 U/mg biomass was achieved at 96 h using methyloleate supplemented every 24 h. While 206.0 ± 17 U/mg biomass was obtained at 108 h in an Amy+ host induced with methanol every 12 h. Further, lipase expression neither affected growth nor added additional burden on the cellular machinery and no oleic acid accumulation was observed at any time point due to its emulsification and efficient utilization by lipase positive host. Similar results obtained with the second reporter protein γ-cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) from Evansella caseinilytica validated the platform. An alternate lipase Lip11 from Y. lipolytica was also employed in developing a Lip+ host to validate disparity between lipase background and PAOX1 induction in presence of methyloleate.
Absolute Measurements and Theoretical Calculations of Photoionization Cross Sections along the Isonuclear Sequence of Multiply Charged Barium Ions
Creators: name: Bizau, J.-M.
name: Blancard, C.
name: Cubaynes, D.
name: Esteva, J.-M.
name: Wuilleumier, F. J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Credible Christian participation in public discourse towards a just society : social, philosophical and theological obstructions and opportunities
Creators: name: Burke, Christine Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Spectral partitioning in equitable graphs
Creators: name: Barucca, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graph partitioning problems emerge in a wide variety of complex systems, ranging from biology to finance, but can be rigorously analyzed and solved only for a few graph ensembles. Here, an ensemble of equitable graphs, i.e. random graphs with a block-regular structure, is studied, for which analytical results can be obtained. In particular, the spectral density of this ensemble is computed exactly for a modular and bipartite structure. Kesten-McKay's law for random regular graphs is found analytically to apply also for modular and bipartite structures when blocks are homogeneous. Exact solution to graph partitioning for two equal-sized communities is proposed and verified numerically, and a conjecture on the absence of an efficient recovery detectability transition in equitable graphs is suggested. Final discussion summarizes results and outlines their relevance for the solution of graph partitioning problems in other graph ensembles, in particular for the study of detectability thresholds and resolution limits in stochastic block models.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Surface-bulk coupling in a Bi$_2$Te$_3$ nanoplate grown by van der Waals epitaxy
Creators: name: Li, Xiaobo
name: Meng, Mengmeng
name: Huang, Shaoyun
name: Tan, Congwei
name: Zhang, Congcong
name: Peng, Hailin
name: Xu, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an experimental study of the effect of coherent surface-bulk electron scattering on quantum transport in a three-dimensional topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ nanoplate. The nanoplate is grown via van der Waals epitaxy on a mica substrate and a top-gated Hall-bar device is fabricated from the nanoplate directly on the growth substrate. Top-gate voltage dependent measurements of the sheet resistance of the device reveal that the transport carriers in the nanoplate are of n-type and that, with decreasing top gate voltage, the carrier density in the nanoplate is decreased. However, the mobility is increased with decreasing top-gate voltage. This mobility increase with decreasing carrier density in the nanoplate is demonstrated to arise from a decrease in bulk-to-surface electron scattering rate. Low-field magnetotransport measurements are performed at low temperatures. The measured magnetoconductivity of the nanoplate shows typical weak anti-localization (WAL) characteristics. We analyze the measurements by taking surface-bulk inter-channel electron scattering into account and extract dephasing times $τ_ϕ$, diffusion coefficients $D$ of electrons at the top surface and in the bulk, and the surface-bulk scattering times $τ_{SB}$ as a function of top-gate voltage and temperature. It is found that the dephasing in the nanoplate arises dominantly from electron-electron scattering with small energy transfers. It is also found that the ratio of $τ_ϕ$/$τ_{SB}$ (a measure of the surface-bulk electron coherent coupling) is decreased with decreasing gate voltage or increasing temperature. We demonstrate that taking the surface-bulk coherent electron scattering in our Bi$_2$Te$_3$ nanoplate into account is essential to understand quantum transport measurements at low temperatures.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, Supplementary Materials
Being up to date : Foucault, Sartre and postmodernity
Creators: name: Levy, Neil
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Large Nondipole Effects in the Angular Distributions of K-Shell Photoelectrons from Molecular Nitrogen
Creators: name: Focke, P.
name: Hemmers, O.
name: Lindle, D. W.
name: Sellin, I. A.
name: Wang, H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Efficient exploration of cosmology dependence in the EFT of LSS
Creators: name: Cataneo, Matteo
name: Foreman, Simon
name: Senatore, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most effective use of data from current and upcoming large scale structure~(LSS) and CMB observations requires the ability to predict the clustering of LSS with very high precision. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) provides an instrument for performing analytical computations of LSS observables with the required precision in the mildly nonlinear regime. In this paper, we develop efficient implementations of these computations that allow for an exploration of their dependence on cosmological parameters. They are based on two ideas. First, once an observable has been computed with high precision for a reference cosmology, for a new cosmology the same can be easily obtained with comparable precision just by adding the difference in that observable, evaluated with much less precision. Second, most cosmologies of interest are sufficiently close to the Planck best-fit cosmology that observables can be obtained from a Taylor expansion around the reference cosmology. These ideas are implemented for the matter power spectrum at two loops and are released as public codes. When applied to cosmologies that are within 3$σ$ of the Planck best-fit model, the first method evaluates the power spectrum in a few minutes on a laptop, with results that have 1\% or better precision, while with the Taylor expansion the same quantity is instantly generated with similar precision. The ideas and codes we present may easily be extended for other applications or higher-precision results.
description: 38 pages, 22 figures. Extended explanations and matches accepted version on JCAP. Codes available at http://web.stanford.edu/~senatore/
Rapid response reagents for the detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Creators: name: Choong, Ee Ken
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 Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease endemic to Northern Australia and Southeast Asia. Clinical infection can progress rapidly, in serious cases resulting in septicaemia that leads to death within 48 hours if left untreated (up to 50% of all diagnosed cases). Therefore rapid diagnosis of melioidosis is critical. Current culture[-]based identification techniques are time-and-labour-intensive, while new molecular detection techniques achieved limited success. Therefore, this study aims to develop novel rapid response reagents towards B. pseudomallei for detection and diagnosis applications. This project investigates the development of an integrated process to generate novel high-affinity protein reagents towards B. pseudomallei that incorporates recombinant B. pseudomallei antigen expression and subsequent biopanning of the shark antibody variable domain (VNAR) and 20-mer peptide chains phage display libraries. Six B. pseudomallei surface proteins were identified as potential target antigens of which four proteins, flagellin, pilin, Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) and a hemagglutinin-like protein, were successfully produced recombinantly using Escherichia coli cells. These four recombinant proteins were subjected to biopanning using the phage display libraries to generate the novel binding reagents. Novel VNAR and peptide binders were success[s]fully isolated towards B. pseudomallei OmpA and the purification and extensive characterisation of the novel binding reagents using various techniques are presented. The ability of the respective VNAR and peptide binders to bind to B. pseudomallei OmpA were examined by ELISA, and the stability and kinetics of binding interactions were determined using column shift binding assay and surface plasmon resonance. Additionally, efforts were made to elucidate the structural basis for the binding interactions by subjecting the B. pseudomallei antigens and the respective binders to crystallization and co-crystallisation trials. The results achieved in this study demonstrate the feasibility of generating novel binding reagents towards B. pseudomallei antigens in an integrated process and form the foundation for further development of novel binders using alternative phage display libraries.
Magnetic dispersive micro-solid-phase extraction using Fe3O4@AC-DZ nanosorbent for the determination of Cr(VI) in water samples
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Susan
name: Bijaem, Tahereh Mohammadi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: A selective, sensitive, simple, and fast method for pre-concentration and determination of trace amounts of Cr(VI) in an aqueous solution was developed. Fe3O4 magnetic functionalized activated carbon modified with dithizone (Fe3O4@AC-DZ) nanoparticles as an adsorbent was synthesized and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The sorbent was employed in dispersive micro solid-phase extraction (D-μSPE) of Cr(VI) from aqueous samples. Then, the analyte was desorbed by NaOH solution at pH = 10 and determined spectrophotometrically using diphenylcarbazide reagent. Some significant factors influencing extraction of the analyte were examined and optimized. Under the optimum conditions, the linear concentration range was 10–5000 µg L−1 Cr(VI) with a limit of detection and limit of quantification 8.3 and 27.4 µg L−1, respectively, with the preconcentration factor of 9. The relative standard deviation for five replicate measurements of Cr(VI) concentration at 100 µg L−1 was 3.0%. Also, the efficiency of the extraction method in the presence of interfering ions was investigated. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of Cr(VI) in four type of water samples.
Ian McTaggart-Cowan field notes (1931-1932) : mammals of Vancouver and Cariboo
Creators: name: McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Birds
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/832970
subject: Hunting
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/964162
subject: Zoological surveys
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1737955
subject: Voyages and travels
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1169308
subject: Biology--Fieldwork
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715645
subject: Scientific expeditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108847
subject: Mammals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1006948

description: This field journal is about summer trip to Cariboo and hunting around Black Mountain North Vancouver with Patrick McTaggart-Cowan before heading off to Berkeley.
Supporting information file
Creators: name: Ingold, Alexander
name: Darci-Maher, Nicholas
name: Yang, Edison
name: Sorenson, Reed
name: Sieburth, Leslie
name: Groover, Andrew
name: Menon, Rajesh
Publisher: name: AIP Publishing
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

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The surface energy balance of a tropical island and its interaction with maritime continent thunderstorms
Creators: name: Beringer, Jason
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Minimum quantum run-time characterization and calibration via restless measurements with dynamic repetition rates
Creators: name: Tornow, Caroline
name: Kanazawa, Naoki
name: Shanks, William E.
name: Egger, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performance of a quantum processor depends on the characteristics of the device and the quality of the control pulses. Characterizing cloud-based quantum computers and calibrating the pulses that control them is necessary for high-fidelity operations. However, this time intensive task eats into the availability of the device. Here, we show restless measurements with a dynamic repetition rate that speed-up calibration and characterization tasks. Randomized benchmarking is performed 5.3 times faster on the quantum device than when an active reset is used and without discarding any data. In addition, we calibrate a qubit with parameter scans and error-amplifying gate sequences and show speed-ups of up to a factor of forty on the quantum device over active reset. Finally, we present a methodology to perform restless quantum process tomography that mitigates restless state preparation errors. These results reduce the footprint of characterization and calibration tasks. Quantum computers can thus either spend more time running applications or run calibrations more often to maintain gate fidelity.
Bold-hearted Masculinism and Mega-Projects: the Courageous and the Cowards in Populist Anti-environmentalist Discourse in Turkey
Creators: name: Akkaraca Kose, Melike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental Discourse
Turkish Environmental Policy
Turkish Political Discourse
Gender Discourse
Emotion Discourse

description: Paper Presentation at the 28th International Conference of Europeanists (CES), Lisbon Portugal This presentation has been prepared as a part of EMOFORTE Project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.896311 Bold-hearted Masculinism and Mega-Projects: the Courageous and the Cowards in Populist Anti-environmentalist Discourse in Turkey Mega-construction projects in Istanbul such as the ‘third bridge’, ‘third airport’ and ‘Canal Istanbul’ have become important tools to consolidate the hegemonic power of the governing party (AKP). They are instrumentalized in the populist masculine performances of the President Erdogan as the materializations of his power and pride as a political leader. Contesting discourses against these neo-liberal mega-projects due to their potential for massive ecological impact are encountered by the gendered articulations of the ‘opponents’ which question their masculinity and attribute them negative ‘feminine’ traits. This gendered portrayal of the ‘others’ are reinforced by the emotions in the antagonistic discourse legitimizing the infrastructural developmentalism against rising environmental concerns. While the line between the political power and the machoistic charisma of Erdogan is blurred, the dissidents are blamed with the cowardice and weakness. Furthermore, the cowards of the mega projects are not limited to the national dissidents but extends to the developed countries of the West by attributing them emotions such as fear and jealousy. In this paper, I propose to focus on the emotions embedded in the gendered political discourses in the context of environment and claim that emotions are an effective discursive component of the populism combined with hegemonic masculinity. Benefiting from the post-structural discourse analysis, this study explores how the emotional antagonistic representations such as ‘the courageous vs. the cowards’ affectively charge the anti-environmentalist discourses and contribute to the populist masculine performances in Turkish politics.
Two long-term intermittent pulsars discovered in the PALFA Survey
Creators: name: Lyne, A. G.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Allen, B.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Brazier, A.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Cardoso, F.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Knispel, B.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Lynch, R.
name: Madsen, E.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Parent, E.
name: Patel, C.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Scholz, P.
name: Seymour, A.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Spitler, L. G.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J.
name: Wharton, R. S.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of two long-term intermittent radio pulsars in the ongoing Arecibo PALFA pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Telescope, extended observations of these pulsars over several years at Jodrell Bank Observatory have revealed the details of their rotation and radiation properties. PSRs J1910+0517 and J1929+1357 show long-term extreme bi-modal intermittency, switching between active (ON) and inactive (OFF) emission states and indicating the presence of a large, hitherto unrecognised, underlying population of such objects. For PSR J1929+1357, the initial duty cycle was fON=0.008, but two years later this changed, quite abruptly, to fON=0.16. This is the first time that a significant evolution in the activity of an intermittent pulsar has been seen and we show that the spin-down rate of the pulsar is proportional to the activity. The spin-down rate of PSR J1929+1357 is increased by a factor of 1.8 when it is in active mode, similar to the increase seen in the other three known long-term intermittent pulsars.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ
National unity and gender difference in Georgian traditional song-culture : ideologies and practices
Creators: name: Tsitsishvili, Nino
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Echofilter: A Deep Learning Segmentation Model Improves the Automation, Standardization, and Timeliness for Post-Processing Echosounder Data in Tidal Energy Streams
Creators: name: Lowe, Scott C.
name: McGarry, Louise P.
name: Douglas, Jessica
name: Newport, Jason
name: Oore, Sageev
name: Whidden, Christopher
name: Hasselman, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Understanding the abundance and distribution of fish in tidal energy streams is important to assess risks presented by introducing tidal energy devices to the habitat. However tidal current flows suitable for tidal energy are often highly turbulent, complicating the interpretation of echosounder data. The portion of the water column contaminated by returns from entrained air must be excluded from data used for biological analyses. Application of a single conventional algorithm to identify the depth-of-penetration of entrained air is insufficient for a boundary that is discontinuous, depth-dynamic, porous, and varies with tidal flow speed. Using a case study at a tidal energy demonstration site in the Bay of Fundy, we describe the development and application of a deep machine learning model with a U-Net based architecture. Our model, Echofilter, was highly responsive to the dynamic range of turbulence conditions and sensitive to the fine-scale nuances in the boundary position, producing an entrained-air boundary line with an average error of 0.33m on mobile downfacing and 0.5-1.0m on stationary upfacing data, less than half that of existing algorithmic solutions. The model's overall annotations had a high level of agreement with the human segmentation, with an intersection-over-union score of 99% for mobile downfacing recordings and 92-95% for stationary upfacing recordings. This resulted in a 50% reduction in the time required for manual edits when compared to the time required to manually edit the line placement produced by the currently available algorithms. Because of the improved initial automated placement, the implementation of the models permits an increase in the standardization and repeatability of line placement.
Carl, Cowan and Beebe field notes (1941-1944) : British Columbia
Creators: name: Carl, G. Clifford (George Clifford), 1908-1970
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mammals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1006948
subject: Amphibians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/807900
subject: Birds
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/832970
subject: Scientific expeditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108847
subject: Animals--Identification
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/809509

description: This field notes includes the field journal by Carl, Cowan and Beebe in 1941-1944. It discribes birds, mammals and amphibians in British Columbia.
(201597) Robert Blair
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.
Cones of special cycles of codimension 2 on orthogonal Shimura varieties
Creators: name: Zuffetti, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be an orthogonal Shimura variety associated to a unimodular lattice. We investigate the polyhedrality of the cone $\mathcal{C}_X$ of special cycles of codimension 2 on $X$. We show that the rays generated by such cycles accumulate towards infinitely many rays, the latter generating a non-trivial cone. We also prove that such an accumulation cone is polyhedral. The proof relies on analogous properties satisfied by the cones of Fourier coefficients of Siegel modular forms. We show that the accumulation rays of $\mathcal{C}_X$ are generated by combinations of Heegner divisors intersected with the Hodge class of $X$. As a result of the classification of the accumulation rays, we implement an algorithm in SageMath to certify the polyhedrality of $\mathcal{C}_X$ in some cases.
description: 52 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, proof of Theorem 5.6 shortened, minor correction of Proposition 8.1. All main results unchanged
Constructing Suiyuan : the politics of Northwestern Territory and development in early twentieth century China
Creators: name: Tighe, Justin Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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