cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Characterization of the redox environment in protein refolding processes
Creators: name: Deuschitz, Dominik
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Galactose Oxidase
subject: Refolding
subject: Characterization
subject: Control strategies
subject: Bubble-free aeration
subject: Modeling
subject: Dissolved Oxygen
subject: Redox Environment

description: Protein refolding, is often done via an empirical approach rather than a Quality by Design approach. Quality by Design aims to improve process understanding and robustness by identifying critical process parameters and, ideally, linking them to desired critical quality attributes. The redox potential represents an interesting parameter for a possible process analytical technology tool, since the formation of disulfide bonds occurs via a redox reaction and since in vivo folding processes are reported to be influenced by the redox potential. Oxygen is a cost-effective oxidant and, furthermore,it can support the formation of disulfide bonds, so its effect was also investigated. Inorder to avoid the influence of air/water interfaces, bubble free control strategies for the dissolved oxygen were developed. In this work, the control of the redox potential was carried out exclusively via the dissolved oxygen, since no alternative oxidant couldbe found for the galactose oxidase. Consequently, the parameters were not considered independently of each other. With the developed control strategies, several reactor runs were performed under controlled conditions. A decrease in activity was observed with increasing dissolved oxygen as well as increasing redox potential. Only under oxygen-free conditions and a low redox potential, an increase in activity could be measured over several hours. Both parameters could not be mathematically linked to the activity, but further critical process parameters were found, which probably allow a linkage. The dissolved oxygen or the redox potential show an influence on the enzymatic activity and should, in refolding processes, therefore be observed or controlled.Since both parameters could not be considered independently and they correlate with each other, the influence cannot be attributed exactly. Another parameter that turned out to be promising is the free thiol concentration, which is composed of the cysteines of the protein and the cysteamine of the refolding buffer. In the future, this parameter could possibly be determined by a model that takes into account the redox potential,the dissolved oxygen and the amount of reductant used, which could lead to a better understanding of the process.i
Examining flow through performance: the Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Philippines
Creators: name: Maiquez, Reagan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This project aims to study flow through an auto-ethnography of performance of an annual cultural event. Every third week of January, Catholic devotees celebrate the feast of the Santo Niño, Jesus Christ figured as a child and king, on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. This religious event has been reinvigorated for more than three decades and is now called the Sinulog Festival. Sinulog, in the Cebuano language means to flow forcefully or move like currents. Events in this festival also evoke flow in the parades of dancing groups, devotees, religious icons, tourists, and spectacles. In this research, I describe the Sinulog from a number of perspectives and define flow as a multi-dimensional concept. My analysis explains flow not with a transnational view but at the micro-level or containment of performances at five different venues. These are the basilica, the streets during a parade and a religious procession, in a sports stadium, and inside an open area of a mall. My research suggests that a higher level of abstraction of this flow-movement emerges out of the participation of an engaged public as they performed a religious act or panaad. I witnessed this religious engagement as a massive and flowing performance of a mass-ritual, spectacular and pious processions, and a spectatorship of religious images within a shopping mall. Another form of abstraction comes from the witnessing of the dances and performances that served a commemorative function for a community during the Sinulog. Finally, flow can also be abstracted as a movement and engagement of people in an event through its live and mediated witnessing as shown by the celebratory dance of a local politician in a sports stadium. This research contributes to an understanding of flow or mobility within a local and grounded level, particularly in a festivity that occurs on an island of the larger Philippine archipelago.
Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 with companions: a double transiting system for EPIC 220674823
Creators: name: Adams, Elisabeth R.
name: Jackson, Brian
name: Endl, Michael
name: Cochran, William D.
name: MacQueen, Phillip J.
name: Duev, Dmitry A.
name: Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
name: Salama, Maïssa
name: Ziegler, Carl
name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivas
name: Law, Nicholas M.
name: Riddle, Reed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two transiting planets have been identified orbiting K2 target EPIC 220674823. One object is an ultra-short-period planet (USP) with a period of just 0.57 days (13.7 hours), while the other has a period of 13.3 days. Both planets are small, with the former having a radius of R_p1=1.5 R_E and the latter R_p2=2.5 R_E. Follow-up observations, including radial velocity (with uncertainties of 110 m/s) and high-resolution adaptive optics imagery, show no signs of stellar companions. EPIC 220674823 is the 12th confirmed or validated planetary system in which an ultra-short-period planet (i.e., having an orbital period less than 1 day) is accompanied by at least one additional planet, suggesting that such systems may be common and must be accounted for in models for the formation and evolution of such extreme systems.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, accepted to AJ
Lectures on Bridgeland Stability
Creators: name: Macrì, Emanuele
name: Schmidt, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05 (Primary), 14-02, 14D20, 14H60, 14J60, 18E30 (Secondary)

description: In these lecture notes we give an introduction to Bridgeland stability conditions on smooth complex projective varieties with a particular focus on the case of surfaces. This includes basic definitions of stability conditions on derived categories, basics on moduli spaces of stable objects and variation of stability. These notes originated from lecture series by the first author at the summer school "Recent advances in algebraic and arithmetic geometry", Siena, Italy, August 24-28, 2015 and at the school "Moduli of Curves", CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, February 22 - March 4, 2016.
description: 59 pages, 3 figures. Third version: Small corrections
Waterways converging: a study of water
Creators: name: Stone, Elisa Jayne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: An exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the La Trobe Art Institute, School of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Practice-based thesis.
The effect of explicit instructions on the relationship between intelligence and divergent thinking
Creators: name: Forthmann, Boris
name: Miroshnik, Kirill G.
name: Karwowski, Maciej
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: intelligence
subject: broad retrieval ability
subject: fluid intelligence
subject: explicit instructions
subject: crystallized intelligence
subject: divergent thinking

description: In the present study, we aim to expand what is known about the role of broad cognitive abilities in DT performance by investigating their relative contribution to quantity and quality indicators of DT under varying instructional conditions. More concretely, we plan to reveal a differential impact of fluid intelligence (Gf), crystallized intelligence (Gc), and broad retrieval ability (Gr) on DT indicators (fluency, originality, and flexibility) and dynamics of creative ideation under various DT instructions, including hybrid ones (e.g., “be fluent,” “be-fluent-original,” “be-fluent-original-flexible,” etc.). Thus, our study will contribute to the creativity literature at least in two ways—methodologically and theoretically. From a methodological point of view, it will possibly tell us whether there are any differences between traditional (e.g., “be original”) and hybrid instructions (e.g., “be-flexible-original”). Theoretically, the current study will advance our knowledge on the role of cognitive control in creative cognition. Based on the reviewed literature, we expect to find that the involvement of various cognitive abilities will vary depending on DT task demands.
Edge quantum criticality and emergent supersymmetry in topological phases
Creators: name: Li, Zi-Xiang
name: Jiang, Yi-Fan
name: Yao, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proposed as a fundamental symmetry describing our universe, spacetime supersymmetry (SUSY) has not been discovered yet in nature. Nonetheless, it has been predicted that SUSY may emerge in low-energy physics of quantum materials such as topological superconductors and Weyl semimetals. Here, by performing state-of-the-art sign-problem-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of an interacting 2D topological superconductor, we show convincing evidences that the N=1 SUSY emerges at its edge quantum critical point (EQCP) while its bulk remains gapped and topologically nontrivial. Remarkably, near the EQCP, we find that the edge Majorana fermion acquires a mass which is identical with that of its bosonic superpartner. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation that fermions and bosons have equal dynamically-generated masses, a hallmark of emergent SUSY. We further discuss experimental signatures of such EQCP and the associated edge SUSY.
description: Published version in PRL
INVESTIGATION INTO PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY COBALT-CHROMIUM FILMS WITH APPLICATION TO WINCHESTER COMPUTER DISCS
Creators: name: MAHVAN, NADER
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1988

description: RF-sputtered CoCr films have been characterized for a variety of deposition conditions, and the most effective parameters which bring about perpendicular anisotropy have been evaluated. In particular bias sputtering has been noted for its role in improving the crystallographic orientation and magnetic properties when applied to the substrate at certain values, hence the root mechanism of the observed improvement has been, as far as possible , investigated . These investigations have, in particular, focused on the extent to which impurity gases are likely to effect the magnetic properties of sputtered films, as well as quantifying the gas contents of the films using as yet unexploited (in this area) method of thermal desorption experiments. In a further attempt to quantify tolerable level of impurity species in the sputtering environment , impurity gases of nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, which are commonly present even in high vacuum systems, were intentionally introduced in the sputtering chamber and their effects on both magnetic and crystallographic properties of CoCr were noted . To measure the perpendicular and in-plane magnetic properties of CoCr , a combined polar-transverse Kerr magneto- optic system was costructed , through which direct magnetic measurement of CoCr/NiFe becomes feasible . This method was further exploited to compare volume and surface magnetic properties of CoCr , as measured using a V.S.M and this M-O system. Finally , a CoCr/NiFe W1nchester disc was fabricated on which a recording experiment was successfully performed.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.09/2009
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Berufungsordnung der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 22. Juni 2009
description: Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelor-Studiengang Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 22. Juni 2009
description: Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelor-Studiengang Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 22. Juni 2009
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 9, 2009
Globalised football fandom: identity of Viking, Persib Bandung supporters
Creators: name: Prabasmoro, Tisna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research explores globalisation and Indonesian football. Understanding that football around the globe has transformed rapidly in the past few decades, with the rise of mega clubs, global competition, rising income, TV coverage, and Internet, the research considers what these changes mean for Persib, a legendary football club in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, as well as for their fanatic supporters known as bobotoh, particularly Viking – the largest group of Persib fans. It analyses the development of Persib by focusing on local and national mass media and the development of media technologies. Given the financial, technological and organizational changes of Persib and the application of FIFA football regulations to Indonesian football, this research argues that Persib has been significantly affected by international patterns of globalisation. The findings also indicate that in their development bobotoh have been innovative in their responses to the commercialization of the club. Unlike the Western culture of football fandom, bobotoh have transformed themselves from a group providing a space for small informal Persib-related gatherings to a serious business endeavour, supporting and accommodating their members with Viking and Persib-related merchandises. Also, it is argued that as bobotoh has continuously associated themselves with a football fan group socially recognized as a group glorifying masculine traits in which they use Viking and other groups of Persib supporters as their vehicles for self-identification, socialization, and expression of their private and collective identities.
(201086) Elizabeth Gordon Brodie Russell
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.
Made in Melbourne: the rise and fall of the domestic appliance industry in twentieth-century Melbourne
Creators: name: Sharpe, Simone
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: For much of the twentieth century, Melbourne was an important centre of Australian domestic appliance manufacturing. Yet, by the 1990s, most manufacturers had either closed down or moved their operations interstate or overseas. Received wisdom has it that the Whitlam Government’s 25 per cent across-the-board tariff cuts in 1973 – and subsequent cuts to industry protection – were to blame. But, while this may help to explain why the Australian manufacture of appliances and other consumer durables continues to decline, it does not explain why Melbourne was hit particularly hard. This thesis is an historical examination of the domestic appliance industry in Melbourne, using case studies of some of the industry’s largest companies – the early pioneers such as Hecla Electrics, Electronic Industries (Astor and Radio Corporation), General Industries (Metters KFB) and A. G. Healing, the foreign-owned global survivor Electrolux, and later arrivals Vulcan and Kambrook – to find reasons for its rise and fall in the twentieth century. Using annual reports, interviews, advertisements, photographs and the products themselves, this thesis argues that external circumstances – such as imports, tariffs, world wars, and economic booms and busts – were only partially responsible for the industry’s demise. Instead, it is asserted that the internal decisions and actions of the owners and managers of these companies were often as much, if not more, responsible for their successes and ultimate failures; and hence those of this now diminished industry.
Automatisation de la surveillance des infections associées aux soins : la valorisation des données
Creators: name: Daudé, Alexis
name: Jean-Philippe Rasigade
name: Élodie Couvé-Deacon
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Surveillance informatisée
Infection associée aux soins
Entrepôt de données
Data-mining
Restitution des indicateurs
Gouvernance
Recherche médicale

description: Devant la survenue croissante d’infections associées aux soins, les systèmes de surveillance se développent et leur automatisation croissante encourage la valorisation des données générées. Le recueil en temps réel favorise un retour d’information rapide et innovant à l’échelon local ou à plus grande échelle entre établissements, régions ou pays. L’automatisation du recueil représente une avancée à plusieurs niveaux. Elle favorise la standardisation et l’interopérabilité des données, qui facilitent la mise en œuvre de programmes de surveillance nationaux et améliorent la fiabilité des indicateurs de surveillance que ces programmes génèrent. Une fois standardisées, les données de systèmes différents deviennent comparables et peuvent être centralisées dans un entrepôt de données. À condition de répondre à certaines exigences de qualité, d’exhaustivité et de protection, l’analyse de données de surveillance couplée à un entrepôt de données de santé peut contribuer à la recherche clinique. D’autres utilisations sont envisagées, telles que l’optimisation du codage des séjours, entraînant de multiples bénéfices potentiels en termes de finance, de temps et de fiabilité. La lutte contre l’antibiorésistance peut également bénéficier d’une approche globale combinant toutes les données d’intérêt et identifiant les mesures correctives. Enfin, de tels entrepôts de données peuvent aboutir à une simplification et à une optimisation de la gestion des cas contact lorsqu’un risque de transmission nosocomiale est identifié. Ainsi, des systèmes de surveillance efficaces ont de multiples utilités locales et sont essentiels au niveau national voire international pour l’exploitation d’indicateurs et la détection de tendances.
Bosonic quadratic Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Dereziński, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss self-adjoint operators given formally by expressions quadratic in bosonic creation and annihilation operators. We give conditions when they can be defined as self-adjoint operators, possibly after an infinite renormalization. We also discuss explicit formulas for their infimum. Our main motivation comes from Local Quantum Field Theory, which furnishes interesting examples of bosonic quadratic Hamiltonians that require an infinite renormalization.
description: In the 1st version Theorem 3.11 was incorrect. Main changes in the 2nd version is correction of this mistake and a more detailed introduction
Interpreting the strongly lensed supernova iPTF16geu: time delay predictions, microlensing, and lensing rates
Creators: name: More, Anupreeta
name: Suyu, Sherry H.
name: Oguri, Masamune
name: More, Surhud
name: Lee, Chien-Hsiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present predictions for time delays between multiple images of the gravitationally lensed supernova, iPTF16geu, which was recently discovered from the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF). As the supernova is of Type Ia where the intrinsic luminosity is usually well-known, accurately measured time delays of the multiple images could provide tight constraints on the Hubble constant. According to our lens mass models constrained by the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} F814W image, we expect the maximum relative time delay to be less than a day, which is consistent with the maximum of 100 hours reported by Goobar et al. but places a stringent upper limit. Furthermore, the fluxes of most of the supernova images depart from expected values suggesting that they are affected by microlensing. The microlensing timescales are small enough that they may pose significant problems to measure the time delays reliably. Our lensing rate calculation indicates that the occurrence of a lensed SN in iPTF is likely. However, the observed total magnification of iPTF16geu is larger than expected, given its redshift. This may be a further indication of ongoing microlensing in this system.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, ApjL accepted, minor but important corrections
Oh, I see
Creators: name: Nightingale, David Charles
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts by creative work in conjunction with an exhibition of selected artworks and designs at the Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria 2 – 23 April 2014 to the La Trobe Art Institute, School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Topological Field Theory and Matrix Product States
Creators: name: Kapustin, Anton
name: Turzillo, Alex
name: You, Minyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is believed that most (perhaps all) gapped phases of matter can be described at long distances by Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT). On the other hand, it has been rigorously established that in 1+1d ground states of gapped Hamiltonians can be approximated by Matrix Product States (MPS). We show that the state-sum construction of 2d TQFT naturally leads to MPS in their standard form. In the case of systems with a global symmetry $G$, this leads to a classification of gapped phases in 1+1d in terms of Morita-equivalence classes of $G$-equivariant algebras. Non-uniqueness of the MPS representation is traced to the freedom of choosing an algebra in a particular Morita class. In the case of Short-Range Entangled phases, we recover the group cohomology classification of SPT phases.
description: 14 pages, references added and minor clarifications made
The isospin dependent nucleon-nucleon inelastic cross section in the nuclear medium
Creators: name: Li, Qingfeng
name: Li, Zhuxia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calculation of the energy-, density-, and isospin-dependent $Δ$ production cross sections in nucleon-nucleon (NN) scattering $σ^*_{NN\rightarrow NΔ}$ has been performed within the framework of the relativistic BUU approach. The N$Δ$ cross sections are calculated in Born approximation taking into account the effective mass splitting of the nucleons and $Δ$s in asymmetric matter. Due to the different mass splitting for neutron, proton and differently charged $Δ$s, it is shown that, similar to the NN elastic ones, the reductions of N$Δ$ inelastic cross sections in isospin-asymmetric nuclear medium are different from each other for all the individual channels and the effect is largest and of opposite sign for the $Δ^{++}$ and $Δ^{-}$ states. This approach is also compared to calculations without effective mass splitting and with splitting derived from Dirac-Brueckerner (DB) calculations. The isospin dependence of the N$Δ$ cross sections is expected to influence the production of $π^+$ and $π^-$ mesons as well as their yield ratio, and thus affect the use of the latter quantity as a probe of the stiffness of the symmetry energy at supranormal densities.
description: 17 pages including 4 figures. Accepted by Phys. Lett. B
All the colours of the dark: genre, modernity and the Italian giallo film
Creators: name: Kannas, Alexia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This project uses the Italian giallo film to investigate and reflect upon the complexity of film genre as a system. Produced principally in Italy between 1960 and 1985, the giallo’s status as a culturally valuable artefact has, since this time, been ignored, contested and reviewed. This diachronic approach to the study of the historically marginalised genre seeks to uncover the multiple sites of meaning-production that exist within and around giallo films, foregrounding particularly the mechanics of film genre and the development of new audiences as sites of critical shifting. The project argues that under sustained investigation, these sites begin to function as apertures through which the giallo genre begins to express a complex and unsettling critique of the conditions of late-modernity. By asking what it has meant, historically, to consider a group of films as a genre, the study positions the giallo film as a perpetual irritant to the project of genre criticism as a classificatory exercise. It also considers the problems inherent in the recent critical trend which classifies the films as filone (vein, tradition or formula), thereby eliding the difficulty of coming to terms with genre as a system. Instead, this project argues for a new conceptualisation of film genre that, based on the mechanics of the kaleidoscope, is able to account for both difference and repetition, while continuing to function as an active producer of meaning. It also asks how the giallo genre’s more recent audiences have, via the unprecedented availability of this material through online networks and new technologies, interacted with this system to participate in meaning-making processes. Having undertaken these critical shifts, the giallo emerges as a genre fundamentally concerned with the conditions of late-modernity. This preoccupation is articulated across and through the many layers of the genre and its films, from their narratives of detection to their highly stylised use of film form. This approach to the giallo as a late-modern text draws on the critical theory of both Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer and their writing on the detective novel. Specifically, it considers the way city space is rendered in the giallo film in light of the relentless progress of modernity, as well as the way in which this space facilitates urban experiences and ways of looking which build upon and extend those described by Benjamin and Kracauer. Finally, the thesis argues that the giallo genre is a body of films that, using the strategies of modernist cinema, conjure the irreparably fragmented and ambiguous state of the world on the eve of modernity’s collapse.
(201087) Francis Whitworth Russell
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.
Bound States via Higgs Exchanging and Resonant Di-Higgs
Creators: name: Kang, Zhaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard model (SM)-like Higgs boson $h$ has spin zero and light mass around weak scale, so it has the potential to mediate a new and relatively strong force for the particle $ϕ$ in the new physics (NP) sector; then $ϕ$ may form bound state $B_h$ via exchanging $h$. This phenomena may arise in a wide context, for instance composite Higgs, supersymmetry (SUSY) and radiative neutrino (or more widely in the models with a strong Higgs portal for triggering classical scale symmetry breaking or strong first-order phase transition). For illustration we focus on two typical examples, the stop/sbottom sector and an inert Higgs doublet. Furthermore, we point out that $B_h$ must give rise to a clear resonant di-Higgs signature, which recently has been extensively searched for at the large hadron collider (LHC). Moreover, Higgs radiative decay such as to di-photon probably will be significantly modified provided that $ϕ$ is charged or/and colored.
description: PLB version with minor corrections
Delivery of pDNA to lung epithelial cells using PLGA nanoparticles formulated with a cell-penetrating peptide: understanding the intracellular fate
Creators: name: Reis, Larissa Gomes dos
name: Lee, Wing-Hin
name: Svolos, Maree
name: Moir, Lyn M.
name: Jaber, Rima
name: Engel, Andrea
name: Windhab, Norbert
name: Young, Paul M.
name: Traini, Daniela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
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: Cancer

description: The combination of nanoparticles (NPs) and cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) represents a new opportunity to develop plasmid DNA (pDNA) delivery systems with desirable properties for lung delivery. In this study, poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) NPs containing pDNA were formulated with and without CPP using a double-emulsion technique. NPs were characterized in regards of size, surface charge, release profile, pDNA encapsulation efficiency and pDNA integrity. Cellular uptake, intracellular trafficking, uptake mechanism and pDNA expression were assessed in both A549 and Beas-2B cells. Manufactured PLGA-NPs efficiently encapsulated pDNA with approximately 50% released in the first 24 h of incubation. Addition of CPP was essential to promote NP internalization in both cell lines, with 83.85 ± 1.2% and 96.76 ± 1.7% of Beas-2B and A549 cells, respectively, with internalized NP–DNA–CPP after 3 h of incubation. Internalization appears to occur mainly via clathrin-mediated endocytosis, with other pathways also being used by the different cell lines. An endosomal-escape mechanism seems to happen in both cell lines, and eGFP expression was observed in Beas-2B after 96 h of incubation. In summary, the NP–DNA–CPP delivery system efficiently encapsulated and protected pDNA structure and is being investigated as a promising tool for gene delivery to the lungs.
Plasmon localization by adatoms in gold atomic wires on Si(775)
Creators: name: Mamiyev, Z.
name: Tegenkamp, C.
name: Pfnür, H.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 1D plasmons
subject: plasmon spectroscopy
subject: surface states
subject: surface structure
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Self-organized gold chains on vicinal Si(111) surfaces represent prototype examples of quasi-one-dimensional objects that are stabilized by hybridization with Si surface states. Their plasmons contain important information about the unoccupied bandstructure close to the Fermi level. Using Si(775)-Au as an example, we report here the modifications of the plasmon dispersion by the simple atomic adatom species H and O. Using a combination of low energy electron diffraction and high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, we study the interconnection between plasmonic excitation and the corresponding local surface structure. Both adsorbates do not destroy metallicity, but, similar to Si(553)-Au, atomic hydrogen enhances dimerization of the Au chains, which at small concentrations counteracts the disorder introduced by random adsorption. This effect, most likely caused by electron donation of H to the surface states, is missing in case of adsorbed oxygen, so that only the effect of disorder is observed. For both adsorbates increasing disorder as a function of adsorbate concentration finally results in plasmon localization and opening of a band gap.
The formation of an environmental education network in southern Thailand: an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) analysis
Creators: name: Kongprasit, Sunisa
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 Education, Outdoor and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: 2022 Methods-of-Payment Survey Report: Cash Use Over 13 Years
Creators: name: Henry, Chris
name: Rusu, Doina
name: Shimoda, Matthew
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We present results from the 2022 Methods-of-Payment Survey, including updated payment shares based on a three-day shopping diary. We highlight long-term trends in cash holdings, management and use observed across results from previous surveys in 2009, 2013 and 2017. We also review recent trends relating to the COVID-19 pandemic using data from 2020 and 2021. We assess various factors associated with long-term trends in cash use.
description: Nous présentons les résultats de l’enquête sur les modes de paiement de 2022, y compris les parts des paiements actualisées au moyen de journaux d’achats de trois jours. Nous faisons ressortir les tendances à long terme observées dans les enquêtes de 2009, 2013 et 2017 en ce qui concerne la détention, la gestion et l’utilisation de l’argent comptant. Nous examinons aussi des tendances plus récentes en lien avec la pandémie de COVID-19 à l’aide de données de 2020 et 2021. Enfin, nous étudions divers facteurs associés aux tendances à long terme quant à l’utilisation de l’argent comptant.
(201088) Jane Anne Catherine Brodie
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.
Positioning Bangsawan for a contemporary Malaysian audience with a new framework for transmitting Rahman B.'s conventions
Creators: name: Deenerwan, Marlenny
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: More recently, and particularly since 2000, the actual structure of a Bangsawan performance in Malaysia has been a source of contention. As someone who has followed the development of the art form over the last fifteen years, I believe that the absence of written sources of Bangsawan's structure and conventions is the main factor behind this prolonged dispute. Resources on Bangsawan's structure and conventions have fully depended on oral transmission, without any written documents to serve as references. Thus, this research seeks to establish a series of conventions as a guideline for a contemporary Bangsawan performance. Following the first stage of my fieldwork (February to May 2013), a series of Bangsawan conventions was produced, based on the practice of Rahman B., a Bangsawan guru who was awarded National Artiste by Malaysian government in 2003 for his timeless contributions in the development of the Bangsawan art form. As practice-led research, a live performance was created and performed to test and measure these conventions. Five nights of performances were staged from 13 to 15 December 2013 in Panggung Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur City Theatre), with a duration of 120 minutes. The production involved 50 cast and crew, consisting of young performers selected through an audition process on 25 and 26 July 2013. The practice-led component of this project involved a full theatre-making process, divided into three stages: pre-production (July-August 2013), production (August-December 2013), and post-production (December 2013). My role in this performance project is mainly as a scriptwriter, designer, and production maker. An original script was completed based on the internationally known of The Arabian Nights with the title in Malay: Bangsawan Hikayat Seribu Satu Malam (Bangsawan One Thousand and One Nights). The story was adapted to the taste of a contemporary Malaysian audience while retaining the strong influence of Middle East cultures. The aesthetic and creative sides of the production were wholly designed within the framework of Rahman B.'s conventions. As practice led research, I have used Robin Nelson's PaR model to describe how the process informing my practice can be positioned academically. The main outcome of this project is the establishment of a set of conventions as an alternative guide for contemporary Bangsawan practitioners in Malaysia. In addition to producing written conventions, building these into a live performance with fifty young performers was also a ground breaking outcome. The production process of nearly five months provided performers with a deeper understanding of the art form. With the existence of a group of trained young practitioners, the conventions can in the future be applied and practiced more effectively and continuously.
An exploration of composed and improvised wordless singing in performance: skills for the 2Ist century contemporary jazz singer
Creators: name: Catanchin, Helen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The research embodied by this performance was designed to explore and develop the role of wordless singing in my music practice, in both improvised and composed contexts. I have defined wordless singing as any musical vocalisation using non-lexical (not pertaining to language) vocables and utterances, including some extended vocal techniques. By exploring various applications of wordless singing, this research has enhanced my understanding and use of this essential component of my performance practice. As an integral yet discrete element of vocal improvising, singing without words presents unique challenges to vocalists, as well as opportunities, and merits dedicated study and practice in its own right. Singers will often have established relationships between lyrics, their sounds and meanings, and aspects of their performance such as tone, affect, phrasing, contour, dynamics, rhythm and inflections. When making moment-tomoment vocable choices as in improvisation, a singer is often a position of unprecedented autonomy, which in many ways requires redefining of their creative process. This research has focused on promoting musically considered, informed and nuanced vocable choices in my improvisations, that support and work in conjunction with harmonic language. Whether singing, improvising or composing, through my music practice, I primarily aim to create external realisations and expressions of my emotions, thoughts and ideas, many of which transcend the verbal. Composing for wordless voice often enhances my creative and expressive freedom, for uniquely sonic and non-representational explorations of such concepts. In this research, composition has allowed me to focus, control, revise and manipulate my application and examination of specific vocables, as distinct from my improvisatory explorations, which by their nature incorporate significant indeterminacy of vocable use. As a singer and composer of jazz and contemporary improvised music, my original works also provide the most relevant and appropriate vehicles through which to explore and develop an individual approach to wordless singing and improvisation in my practice. I have composed and performed in a live recital, nine works for this purpose, which incorporate wordless singing to varying extents and in a range of musical contexts.
Political communication in Malaysia: a study on the use of new media
Creators: name: Leong, Pauline Pooi Yin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: To gain and retain political power, politicians utilise the mass media to persuade the polity to support them, especially during elections. The Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition has successfully manipulated the mass media in Malaysia to maintain power for the past 57 years, making it one of the longest serving government in the world. The emergence of new media, however, has challenged this status quo. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how new media has influenced the political process and communication strategies in Malaysia, and its subsequent impact on the Malaysian political landscape. Nineteen in-depth interviews were conducted among politicians, bloggers and media consultants from both sides of the political divide, along with direct observation of the use of the new media during elections. The study revealed that new media, especially Web 2.0, has expanded the public sphere and enabled more Malaysians to participate in the democratic process – through information dissemination, mobilization or crowd-sourcing and fund-raising. At the same time, the cyber-warfare between the Barisan Nasional (BN) and the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) caused considerable confusion and disinformation on the polity. The online public sphere was inundated with political propaganda, often resulting in information overload for Internet users, thus affecting their quality of decision-making on political issues. Nonetheless, the emergence of the new media in Malaysia has become the single biggest threat to the BN’s political hegemony on the flow of information. Malaysian voters now expect greater engagement and interactivity with politicians via social media. Malaysian politicians are increasingly forced to be more accountable, transparent and responsive. Malaysian users of social media tend to be better educated and vocal; they can set the agenda for public discussion. This study concluded that the Internet and the use of social media have led to unprecedented complexity in the political communication process in Malaysia. The new media can function as a catalyst for media-savvy political actors working towards gaining power but this may not lead to a more democratic system as a whole. External factors such as the structure of the electoral system and political institutions play a part in determining whether ideas spread by social media can find fertile ground in the polity who can ultimately bring about political change.
Applied learning: a validated theoretical framework
Creators: name: Pridham, Bruce Andrew
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 by published work to the School of Education, Outdoor and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

Thesis with publications.

The thesis – by publication presents and validates a theoretical framework to explain the factors associated with successful applied learning. Validation of the framework occurred in learning settings and contexts that included; higher education; secondary schools; vocational education; and workplaces. I use these diverse cases to demonstrate the utility and portability of the applied learning framework. The validated framework categorised the contributions of learning theory to successful applied learning outcomes at three levels. These are: • micro (individual’s experience of the learning environment); • meso (personal interactions with curriculum as designed and experienced); and • macro (societal, social, historical, political, and economic factors) influences applied learning experiences. Implementation of the model demonstrates how to improve applied learning by addressing the design, development, implementation, presentation and evaluation of learner and teacher practice. The extension of the original applied learning framework provides guidance to educators on ways how best to support learners through their education and working lives. Conceptual advances demonstrated from my work provide the foundations necessary to expand our understandings of how we can influence applied learning for individuals, and best support and maximise learning gains.