cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Depthwise Convolution for Multi-Agent Communication with Enhanced Mean-Field Approximation
Creators: name: Xie, Donghan
name: Wang, Zhi
name: Chen, Chunlin
name: Dong, Daoyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-agent settings remain a fundamental challenge in the reinforcement learning (RL) domain due to the partial observability and the lack of accurate real-time interactions across agents. In this paper, we propose a new method based on local communication learning to tackle the multi-agent RL (MARL) challenge within a large number of agents coexisting. First, we design a new communication protocol that exploits the ability of depthwise convolution to efficiently extract local relations and learn local communication between neighboring agents. To facilitate multi-agent coordination, we explicitly learn the effect of joint actions by taking the policies of neighboring agents as inputs. Second, we introduce the mean-field approximation into our method to reduce the scale of agent interactions. To more effectively coordinate behaviors of neighboring agents, we enhance the mean-field approximation by a supervised policy rectification network (PRN) for rectifying real-time agent interactions and by a learnable compensation term for correcting the approximation bias. The proposed method enables efficient coordination as well as outperforms several baseline approaches on the adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) task and the StarCraft II multi-agent challenge (SMAC).
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3230701
Women in an upland Javanese village : gender, class and work
Creators: name: Martin-Schiller, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Comparing Responses to Sexual Rejection and Sexual and Relationship Well-being in Couples Coping with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder and Community Couples
Creators: name: Rosen, Natalie
name: Impett, Emily
name: Schwenck, Gracielle
name: Bergeron, Sophie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study includes two samples, couples coping with low sexual desire (i.e., Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder) and community control couples, that are part of two larger projects: Study 1 and the Study 2, respectively. The aim of the current study is to compare couples with low sexual desire and community couples to determine if: (a) there are differences in reports of sexual rejection responses across the two groups, (b) there is an association between sexual rejection responses and each partner’s sexual and relationship well-being, and (c) if the links between sexual rejection responses and well-being are stronger or weaker in couples coping with Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder vs. community couples.
Magnetorotational instability in neutron star mergers: impact of neutrinos
Creators: name: Guilet, Jerome
name: Bauswein, Andreas
name: Just, Oliver
name: Janka, Hans-Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The merger of two neutron stars may give birth to a long-lived hypermassive neutron star. If it harbours a strong magnetic field of magnetar strength, its spin-down could explain several features of short gamma-ray burst afterglows. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been proposed as a mechanism to amplify the magnetic field to the required strength. Previous studies have, however, neglected neutrinos, which may have an important impact on the MRI by inducing a viscosity and drag. We investigate the impact of these neutrino effects on the linear growth of the MRI by applying a local stability analysis to snapshots of a neutron star merger simulation. We find that neutrinos have a significant impact inside the hypermassive neutron star, but have at most a marginal effect in the torus surrounding it. Inside the hypermassive neutron star, the MRI grows in different regimes depending on the radius and on the initial magnetic field strength. For magnetic fields weaker than $10^{13}-10^{14}\,{\rm G}$, the growth rate of the MRI is significantly reduced due to the presence of neutrinos. We conclude that neutrinos should be taken into account when studying the growth of the MRI from realistic initial magnetic fields. Current numerical simulations, which neglect neutrino viscosity, are only consistent, i.e. in the adopted ideal regime, if they start from artificially strong initial magnetic fields above $\sim10^{14}\,{\rm G}$. One should be careful when extrapolating these results to lower initial magnetic fields, where the MRI growth is strongly affected by neutrino viscosity or drag.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, added a section and a figure to discuss the dependence of the results on the rotation frequency profile
(201496) William Henry Homfray
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The influence of long-term exposure to dialect variation on representation specificity and word learning in toddlers.
Creators: name: Durrant, Samantha
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language development
Accent
Dialect variation

description: Until very recently language development research classified the language learner as belonging to one of two discrete groups – monolingual or bilingual. This thesis explores the hypothesis that this is an insufficient description of language input and that there are sub-groups within the monolingual category based on the phonological variability of their exposure that could be considered akin to that of bilingual toddlers. For some monolingual toddlers, classified as monodialectal, their language exposure is generally consistent, because both of their parents speak the dialect of the local area. Yet for other toddlers, classified as multidialectal, the language environment is more variable, because at least one of their parents speaks with a dialect that differs from the local area. It is considered that by testing this group of multidialectal toddlers it will be possible to explore the effect of variability on language development and how increased variability in the bilingual linguistic environment might be influencing aspects of language development. This thesis approaches the influence of variability from three areas of interest: phonetic specificity of familiar words using a mispronunciation paradigm (Experiments 1 and 2), target recognition of naturally occurring pronunciation alternatives (Experiments 3 and 4) and use of the Mutual Exclusivity strategy in novel word learning (Experiment 5). Results show that there are differences between the two dialect groups (monodialectal and multidialectal) in a mispronunciation detection task but that toddlers perform similarly with naturally occurring pronunciation alternatives and in their application of the Mutual Exclusivity strategy. This programme of work highlights that there is an influence of linguistic variability on aspects of language development, justifying the parallel between bilingualism and multidialectalism.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 06/97
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Satzung des Studentenwerks Dortmund - Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts - vom 31. Mai 1994 i.d.F. vom 1. Oktober 1996
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 6, 1997
(201498) William Honnywill Hall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Toward Smart Moving Target Defense for Linux Container Resiliency
Creators: name: Azab, Mohamed
name: Mokhtar, Bassem
name: Abed, Amr S.
name: Eltoweissy, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents ESCAPE, an informed moving target defense mechanism for cloud containers. ESCAPE models the interaction between attackers and their target containers as a "predator searching for a prey" search game. Live migration of Linux-containers (prey) is used to avoid attacks (predator) and failures. The entire process is guided by a novel host-based behavior-monitoring system that seamlessly monitors containers for indications of intrusions and attacks. To evaluate ESCAPE effectiveness, we simulated the attack avoidance process based on a mathematical model mimicking the prey-vs-predator search game. Simulation results show high container survival probabilities with minimal added overhead.
description: Published version is available on IEEE Xplore at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7796855
Ultrafast optical observation of spin-pumping induced dynamic exchange coupling in ferromagnetic semiconductor/metal bilayer
Creators: name: Liu, X.
name: Liu, P.
name: Yuan, H. C.
name: Shi, J. Y.
name: Wang, H. L.
name: Nie, S. H.
name: Jin, F.
name: Zheng, Z.
name: Yu, X. Z.
name: Zhao, J. H.
name: Zhao, H. B.
name: Lüpke, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin angular momentum transfer in magnetic bilayers offers the possibility of ultrafast and low-loss operation for next-generation spintronic devices. We report the field- and temperature- dependent measurements on the magnetization precessions in Co$_2$FeAl/(Ga,Mn)As by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TRMOKE). Analysis of the effective Gilbert damping and phase shift indicates a clear signature of an enhanced dynamic exchange coupling between the two ferromagnetic (FM) layers due to the reinforced spin pumping at resonance. The temperature dependence of the dynamic exchange-coupling reveals a primary contribution from the ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2203.00293
title: Unterrichtsentwicklung mit zentralen Leistungstests
title: Auf gehaltvolle Rückmeldungen kommt es an!
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Büchter, Andreas
name: Leuders, Timo
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Wie auch andere Bundesländer versucht Nordhrein-Westfalen zurzeit, die Qualität des Fachunterrichts durch ein Bündel von Maßnahmen zu verbessern, die die bundesweit vereinbarte Orientierung an den Ergebnissen des Lernens umsetzen sollen. In der Sekundarstufe I spielen dabei die neuen Kernlehrpläne und die zentralen Lernstandserhebungen in der Jahrgangsstufe 9 (in den Fächern Deutsch, Englisch und Mathematik) eine zentrale Rolle. Während die Kernlehrpläne Kompetenzerwartungen zum Ende von Doppeljahrgangstufen (5/6, 7/8 und 9/10) formulieren und dabei in Mathematik prozessbezogene Kompetenzen (Argumentieren/Kommunizieren, Modellieren, Problemlösen, Werkzeuge Nutzen) gleichberechtigt neben die traditionellen Inhaltsgebiete stellen , sollen Lehrerinnen und Lehrer durch die Lernstandserhebungen eine Rückmeldung zum Leistungsstand ihrer Lerngruppe im Vergleich zu anderen Lerngruppen, die unter ähnlichen Rahmenbedingungen arbeiten, erhalten (vgl. BARZEL u. a. 2005).
Integrating conservation and development in a Papua New Guinean community : Kamiali - a case study
Creators: name: Martin, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators
Creators: name: Karnaukhov, Igor N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The system of spinless fermions on a hexagonal lattice is studied . We have considered tight-binding model with the hopping integrals between the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor lattice sites, that depend on the direction of the link. The links are divided on three types depending on the direction, the hopping integrals are defined by different phases along the links. The energy of the system depends on the phase differences, the solutions for the phases, that correspond to the minimums of the energy, lead to a topological insulator state with the nontrivial Chern numbers. We have analyzed distinct topological states and phase transitions, the behavior of the chiral gapless edge modes, have defined the Chern numbers. The band structure of topological insulator (TI) is calculated, the ground-state phase diagram in the parameter space is obtained. We propose a novel mechanism of realization of TI, when the TI state is result of spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry due to nontrivial stable solutions for the phases that determine the hopping integrals along the links and show that the Haldane model can be implemented in real compounds of the condensed matter physics.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Quantum spectral clustering algorithm for unsupervised learning
Creators: name: Li, Qingyu
name: Huang, Yuhan
name: Jin, Shan
name: Hou, Xiaokai
name: Wang, Xiaoting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clustering is one of the most crucial problems in unsupervised learning, and the well-known $k$-means clustering algorithm has been shown to be implementable on a quantum computer with a significant speedup. However, many clustering problems cannot be solved by $k$-means, and a powerful method called spectral clustering is introduced to solve these problems. In this work, we propose a circuit design to implement spectral clustering on a quantum processor with a substantial speedup, by initializing the processor into a maximally entangled state and encoding the data information into an efficiently-simulatable Hamiltonian. Compared with the established quantum $k$-means algorithms, our method does not require a quantum random access memory or a quantum adiabatic process. It relies on an appropriate embedding of quantum phase estimation into Grover's search to gain the quantum speedup. Simulations demonstrate that our method is effective in solving clustering problems and will serve as an important supplement to quantum $k$-means for unsupervised learning.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures
Last results from the CONNIE collaboration and prospects for next generation of experiments based on Skipper CCD
Creators: name: Moroni, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: CCDs
CEvNS
reactor antineutrinos
neutrinos

description: Presentation at the 2019 Magnificent CEvNS workshop, discussing the last results from the CONNIE collaboration and prospects for next generation of experiments based on Skipper CCD.
The provision and 'effectiveness' evaluation of open space in Australian urban areas
Creators: name: Marriott, K.L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DOING GRIEF WORK WITH CHILDREN: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Creators: name: HARDY, NICOLA ELIZABETH
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1993

description: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention with 12 bereaved children, aged 8-12. All of the children had been bereaved of a parent within the past 2 years. Due to the small number of children available for inclusion in the study, 6 of the children had previously received individual professional help for grief related issues. The design was a repeated measures pre and post intervention between group design. The study compared the two sub-groups of bereaved children with a group of non-bereaved children who were matched in terms of age and sex. The results indicate that the behaviour of bereaved children was different to that of non-bereaved children. The behaviour of the bereaved children significantly changed following the intervention, becoming more ‘normalised’.
(201494) William Thomas Hall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Etiquette in Australian-Japanese business interaction : a study of a meal situation
Creators: name: Marriott, Helen E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Eigenvalue estimates for a class of elliptic differential operators in divergence form
Creators: name: Gomes, José N. V.
name: Miranda, Juliana F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute estimates for eigenvalues of a class of linear second-order elliptic differential operators in divergence form (with Dirichlet boundary condition) on a bounded domain in a complete Riemannian manifold. Our estimates are based upon the Weyl's asymptotic formula. As an application, we find a lower bound for the mean of the first k eigenvalues of the drifting Laplacian. In particular, we have extended for this operator a partial solution given by Cheng and Yang for the generalized conjecture of Pólya. We also derive a second-Yang type inequality due to Chen and Cheng, and other two inequalities which generalize results by Cheng and Yang obtained for a domain in the unit sphere and for a domain in the projective space.
description: Final version which has been accepted for publication in Nonlinear Analysis
Black-Bounce in $f(T)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Junior, Ednaldo L. B.
name: Rodrigues, Manuel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study new solutions of black bounce spacetimes formulated in $f(T)$ gravity in four dimensions. First, we present the case of a diagonal tetrad, where a constraint arises in the equations of motion, which is divided into the cases of null torsion, constant torsion, and Teleparallel. The Null Energy Condition (NEC) is still always violated, which implies that the other energy conditions are violated. The solutions are regular in all spacetime and the solution with null torsion exhibits discontinuity between the energy conditions outside and inside the event horizon. Second, we present the case of non-diagonal tetrads. This case is divided into a Simpson-Visser type model and a quadratic model. The NEC continues to be violated, implying a violation of the other energy conditions. The solutions are regular in all spacetimes. An interesting result is that due to the possibility that the area associated with the metric is different from $4πr^2$, the no-go theorem established in the usual $f(T)$ is violated, appearing the new possibility $g_{00}=-g^{11}$, for the components of the metric.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 11/97
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Änderung der Studienordnung für den Lehramtsstudiengang Chemie an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II" vom 18. März 1997
description: Amtlicher Teil: Dienstvereinbarung zur Verlängerung der probeweisen Einführung der gleitenden Arbeitszeit in den Dezernaten 2 und 3 der Zentralverwaltung der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 11, 1997
Blowup polynomials and delta-matroids of graphs
Creators: name: Choudhury, Projesh Nath
name: Khare, Apoorva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26C10, 05C31 (primary), 15A15, 05C12, 05C50 (secondary)

description: For every finite simple connected graph $G = (V,E)$, we introduce an invariant, its blowup-polynomial $p_G(\{ n_v : v \in V \})$. This is obtained by dividing the determinant of the distance matrix of its blowup graph $G[{\bf n}]$ (containing $n_v$ copies of $v$) by an exponential factor. We show that $p_G({\bf n})$ is indeed a polynomial function in the sizes $n_v$, which is moreover multi-affine and real-stable. This associates a hitherto unexplored delta-matroid to each graph $G$; and we provide a second unexplored one for each tree. As another consequence, we obtain a new characterization of complete multipartite graphs, via the homogenization at $-1$ of $p_G$ being completely/strongly log-concave, i.e., Lorentzian. (These results extend to weighted graphs.) Finally, we show $p_G$ is indeed a graph invariant, i.e., $p_G$ and its symmetries (in the variables ${\bf n}$) recover $G$ and its isometries, respectively.
description: 12 pages, final version. This is an extended abstract of arXiv:2105.12111, accepted in FPSAC 2022
Quantum corrections to the thermodynamics of rotating charged BTZ black hole in gravity's rainbow
Creators: name: Lütfüoğlu, B. C.
name: Hamil, B.
name: Dahbi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this manuscript, we investigate the thermal properties of the rotating charged BTZ black hole under the gravity's rainbow (GR) and generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) formalism. At first, we study the GR-corrected thermal quantities according to the usual Heisenberg algebra. Then, we consider a deformed algebra that leads to a change in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and compare the Hawking temperature, entropy, thermodynamical volume, pressure, and heat capacity functions with the previous results. Thus, we understand and interpret the quantum effects on the BTZ black hole.
description: 12 Figures, Typos have been fixed. Missing references and information have been fixed
The horsetralian legend : mythologizing horse and rider in Australia, 1788-1915
Creators: name: Mantle, Nan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201497) Robert Rankin Hutchinson
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.
Form factors of $B\toπ\ellν$ and a determination of $|V_{ub}|$ with Möbius domain-wall-fermions
Creators: name: Colquhoun, Brian
name: Hashimoto, Shoji
name: Kaneko, Takashi
name: Koponen, Jonna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a fully relativistic lattice fermion action, we compute the form factors of the semileptonic decay $B\toπ\ellν$, which is required for the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We employ the Möbius domain-wall fermion formalism for the generation of lattice ensembles with 2+1 sea quark flavours as well as for the valence heavy and light quarks. We compute the form factors at various values of the lattice spacing and multiple light and heavy quark masses, and extrapolate the results to the physical point. We combine our lattice results with the available experimental data to obtain $|V_{ub}| = (3.93\pm 0.41)\times 10^{-3}$.
description: 34 pages, 20 figures, 12 tables. Plus supplemental material: 20 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables. Updated to reflect minor changes in published version, including additional references
"Despite everything it's the best job I've ever had": the experience of being a school psychologist in Victorian government schools
Creators: name: Marston, Sharon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Science (Counselling and Psychotherapy) to the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
China's increasing contributions to global mental health research: A scoping review
Creators: name: Su, Ying
name: Li, Yaxi
name: Bueber, Marlys
name: Fei, Deng
name: Liu, Zhaorui
name: Luo, Guoshuai
name: Li, Xuping
name: Yanan, Luo
name: Dongyang, Liu
name: Phillips, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This scoping review will document changes in the type, quantity, and quality of mental health research in China over recent decades and identify China's changing contribution to global mental health research over the same time period. Based on all English-language publications from 1990 to 2021 related to mental health issues available on Scopus (over 1.5 million research articles and reviews) we will use three separate application programming interfaces (API) for Scopus to extract detailed information about the identified articles and reviews. The review will address three specific issues: 1) Compare changes from 1990 to 2021 in the annual proportions and characteristics of research articles and reviews about mental health issues from (a) institutions in China, (b) institutions in both China and other countries (i.e., China's international collaborative projects), and (c) institutions from countries other than China. 2) Compare changes from 1990 to 2021 in the characteristics, type of research considered (i.e., clinical, basic science, epidemiological, health service, other), citation counts, and impact factors of the journal in which papers are published of a random selection of 15 articles and 15 reviews from each year for each of the three sources of documents (i.e.,'China', 'China+Other', and 'Other'). And 3) describe the specific contributions and the impact on global mental health research of the three most highly cited articles and three most highly cited reviews from each of the three sources of documents for each year from 1990 through 2021.
SynWoodScape: Synthetic Surround-view Fisheye Camera Dataset for Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Sekkat, Ahmed Rida
name: Dupuis, Yohan
name: Kumar, Varun Ravi
name: Rashed, Hazem
name: Yogamani, Senthil
name: Vasseur, Pascal
name: Honeine, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Surround-view cameras are a primary sensor for automated driving, used for near-field perception. It is one of the most commonly used sensors in commercial vehicles primarily used for parking visualization and automated parking. Four fisheye cameras with a 190° field of view cover the 360° around the vehicle. Due to its high radial distortion, the standard algorithms do not extend easily. Previously, we released the first public fisheye surround-view dataset named WoodScape. In this work, we release a synthetic version of the surround-view dataset, covering many of its weaknesses and extending it. Firstly, it is not possible to obtain ground truth for pixel-wise optical flow and depth. Secondly, WoodScape did not have all four cameras annotated simultaneously in order to sample diverse frames. However, this means that multi-camera algorithms cannot be designed to obtain a unified output in birds-eye space, which is enabled in the new dataset. We implemented surround-view fisheye geometric projections in CARLA Simulator matching WoodScape's configuration and created SynWoodScape. We release 80k images from the synthetic dataset with annotations for 10+ tasks. We also release the baseline code and supporting scripts.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022). An initial sample of the dataset is released in https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N5rrySiw1uh9kLeBuOblMbXJ09YsqO7I
A STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE, DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION OF PHAGOCYTIC CELLS IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF FISH
Creators: name: PARISH, NICOLE M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1981

description: Dogfish leucocytes were characterised by histochemistry, light and electron microscopical methods and qualitative phagocytic studies. This enabled the recognition of the major phagocytic cells and their role in the immune response of the fish was further evaluated. In addition to in vitro and in vivo studies of phagocytosis, the phagocytic cells were examined for certain surface properties such as the presence of Fe and C3 receptors. Attempts were also made to demonstrate delayed hypersensitivity by in VIVO skin tests and in vitro migration inhibition tests. All the major leucocytic elements found in mammals were demonstrated in dogfish blood together with some, as yet, unidentified cells. The main phagocytic cells of the blood were the neutrophil and the monocyte. Clearance of antigen and other particulate material from the circulation was effected chiefly by the spleen and to a lesser extent by the gill. In contrast to mammals, the liver showed no phagocytic activity. Although in vitro studies indicated that the identified phagocytes were efficient at endocytosing antigenic material, in VIVO clearance studies showed that low numbers of viable bacteria and yeasts persisted in the circulation for long periods after injection. This suggests a functional deficiency in the phagocytic ability of dogfish compared to higher vertebrates. This may however be augmented by natural elements in their circulation. Delayed hypersensitivity reactions and possession of receptors (which may mediate cellular interactions) were not demonstrated in fish. This may suggest a less sophisticated system is operating in these fish compared with mammals or conversely that these phenomena can not be demonstrated by the methods employed in this study.
Language processing and language development : the case of Arabic as a second language
Creators: name: Mansouri, Fethi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy characteristics of skyrmionic spin structures exhibiting various topologies
Creators: name: Palotás, Krisztián
name: Rózsa, Levente
name: Simon, Eszter
name: Udvardi, László
name: Szunyogh, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correct identification of topological magnetic objects in experiments is an important issue. In the present work we report on the characterization of metastable skyrmionic spin structures with various topological charges ($Q=-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2$) in the (Pt$_{1-x}$Ir$_{x}$)Fe/Pd(111) ultrathin magnetic film by performing spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) calculations. We find that an out-of-plane magnetized tip already results in distinguished SP-STM contrasts for the different skyrmionic structures corresponding to their symmetries. Our work also establishes an understanding of the relationship between in-plane SP-STM contrasts and skyrmionic topologies through an investigation of the variation of the in-plane angle between the spins along the perimeter of the structures, which can be characterized by the local vorticity or linear density of the winding number. For spin structures exhibiting a uniform sign of the local vorticity throughout the whole skyrmionic area, we demonstrate that (i) $|Q|$ can be determined from a single SP-STM image taken by any in-plane magnetized tip, and (ii) an in-plane tip magnetization rotation provides the sign of $Q$ independently of the sign of the effective spin polarization in the tunnel junction. We also discuss cases where the local vorticity is changing sign. Finally, by increasing the Ir content of the PtIr overlayer, we find an appearing secondary outer ring in-plane SP-STM contrast that is indicative of attractive skyrmions or antiskyrmions.
description: 9 pages manuscript, 8 figures
Pillar[4]arene[1]quinone-based pseudo[3]rotaxanes by cooperative Host-Guest binding
Creators: name: Kiruthika, Jeyavelraman
name: Boominathan, Muniyappan
name: Srividhya, Sankar
name: Ajitha, Veeramani
name: Arunachalam, Murugan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Formation of pseudo[3]rotaxane assemblies by P4Q1 and H with bis-imidazolium and bis-pyridinium guests was established by NMR spectral analyses and high-resolution mass spectrometric analyses. Cooperativity in the formation of pseudo[3]rotaxane assemblies was thoroughly investigated from the binding constant values derived from 1H NMR titration experiments. The results indicated the preferential 1:1 host-guest binding of pillar[4]arene[1]quinone and 2:1 host-guest binding by functionalized pillar[4]arene[1]quinone via positive cooperativity. The presence of hydrogen bonding functional groups attached to the quinone motif of pillar[4]arene[1]quinone facilitated the inclusion formation, which resulted in the formation of pseudo[3]rotaxanes.
Functional data analysis with increasing number of projections
Creators: name: Fremdt, Stefan
name: Horváth, Lajos
name: Kokoszka, Piotr
name: Steinebach, Josef G.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: functional data
subject: principal components
subject: normal approximation
subject: increasing dimension
subject: change in mean
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Functional principal components (FPC’s) provide the most important and most extensively used tool for dimension reduction and inference for functional data. The selection of the number, d, of the FPC’s to be used in a specific procedure has attracted a fair amount of attention, and a number of reasonably effective approaches exist. Intuitively, they assume that the functional data can be sufficiently well approximated by a projection onto a finite–dimensional subspace, and the error resulting from such an approximation does not impact the conclusions. This has been shown to be a very effective approach, but it is desirable to understand the behavior of many inferential procedures by considering the projections on subspaces spanned by an increasing number of the FPC’s. Such an approach reflects more fully the infinite–dimensional nature of functional data, and allows to derive procedures which are fairly insensitive to the selection of d. This is accomplished by considering limits as d → ∞ with the sample size. We propose a specific framework in which we let d → ∞ by deriving a normal approximation for the partial sum process ⌊Xdu⌋ j=1 ⌊XNx⌋ i=1 i,j , 0 ≤ u ≤ 1, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, where N is the sample size and i,j is the score of the ith function with respect to the jth FPC. Our approximation can be used to derive statistics that use segments of observations and segments of the FPC’s. We apply our general results to derive two inferential procedures for the mean function: a change–point test and a two–sample test. In addition to the asymptotic theory, the tests are assessed through a small simulation study and a data example.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;48/2013
QCMA hardness of ground space connectivity for commuting Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Gosset, David
name: Mehta, Jenish C.
name: Vidick, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we consider the ground space connectivity problem for commuting local Hamiltonians. The ground space connectivity problem asks whether it is possible to go from one (efficiently preparable) state to another by applying a polynomial length sequence of 2-qubit unitaries while remaining at all times in a state with low energy for a given Hamiltonian $H$. It was shown in [Gharibian and Sikora, ICALP'15] that this problem is QCMA-complete for general local Hamiltonians, where QCMA is defined as QMA with a classical witness and BQP verifier. Here we show that the commuting version of the problem is also QCMA-complete. This provides one of the first examples where commuting local Hamiltonians exhibit complexity theoretic hardness equivalent to general local Hamiltonians.
description: 14 pages, Quantum journal version
Mixture Components Inference for Sparse Regression: Introduction and Application for Estimation of Neuronal Signal from fMRI BOLD
Creators: name: Pidnebesna, Anna
name: Fajnerova, Iveta
name: Horacek, Jiri
name: Hlinka, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sparse linear regression methods including the well-known LASSO and the Dantzig selector have become ubiquitous in the engineering practice, including in medical imaging. Among other tasks, they have been successfully applied for the estimation of neuronal activity from functional magnetic resonance data without prior knowledge of the stimulus or activation timing, utilizing an approximate knowledge of the hemodynamic response to local neuronal activity. These methods work by generating a parametric family of solutions with different sparsity, among which an ultimate choice is made using an information criteria. We propose a novel approach, that instead of selecting a single option from the family of regularized solutions, utilizes the whole family of such sparse regression solutions. Namely, their ensemble provides a first approximation of probability of activation at each time-point, and together with the conditional neuronal activity distributions estimated with the theory of mixtures with varying concentrations, they serve as the inputs to a Bayes classifier eventually deciding on the verity of activation at each time-point. We show in extensive numerical simulations that this new method performs favourably in comparison with standard approaches in a range of realistic scenarios. This is mainly due to the avoidance of overfitting and underfitting that commonly plague the solutions based on sparse regression combined with model selection methods, including the corrected Akaike Information Criterion. This advantage is finally documented in selected fMRI task datasets.
(201491) William Kirkpatrick
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Evidence from the Surface Morphology for Nonlinear Growth of Epitaxial GaAs Films
Creators: name: Adamcyk, M.
name: Ballestad, A.
name: Pinnington, T.
name: Ruck, B. J.
name: Tiedje, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Turning on anion and betaine hosting by a small structural change of a biomimetic cavity: a case study
Creators: name: De Leener, Gaël
name: Over, Diana
name: Reinaud, Olivia
name: Jabin, Ivan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study explores the impact of a small structural modification on a biomimetic receptor. The hosting structure is a calix[6]arene capped by a tetraaza core. Two receptors are compared: one (1) presents three anisole units while the other (2) has three phenols. The latter was obtained with an excellent yield by selective demethylation thanks to a supramolecular strategy. Complexation studies showed that [2.H]+ displays strong affinities for Cl−, NO3−, HSO4−, whereas [1.H]+ is non-responsive. The anions are embedded at the level of the small rim, hydrogen-bonded to the protonated cap and the phenol groups. Ternary complexes are obtained in the presence of ammoniums. Finally, [2.H]+ shows high affinity for small zwitterions presenting a carboxylate and an ammonium groups separated by one or two carbon atom(s), not three, due to multi-point recognition. These results open routes to the design of new receptors for a variety of anionic and zwitterionic guests.
An evaluation of the role of student assistance schemes in the financing of higher education, with particular reference to Australia and the commonwealth Scholarship schemes, 1951-1969
Creators: name: Maglen, Leo Roy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On nonlinear stabilization of linearly unstable maps
Creators: name: Gallay, Thierry
name: Texier, Benjamin
name: Zumbrun, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C05, 37C25, 37C75, 37L15,

description: We examine the phenomenon of nonlinear stabilization, exhibiting a variety of related examples and counterexamples. For Gâteaux differentiable maps, we discuss a mechanism of nonlinear stabilization, in finite and infinite dimensions, which applies in particular to hyperbolic partial differential equations, and, for Fréchet differentiable maps with linearized operators that are normal, we give a sharp criterion for nonlinear exponential instability at the linear rate. These results highlight the fundamental open question whether Fréchet differentiability is sufficient for linear exponential instability to imply nonlinear exponential instability, at possibly slower rate.
description: New section 1.5 and several references added. 20 pages, no figure