cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Confidentiality agreements and the protection of trade secrets: does it have to be all or nothing?
Creators: name: Kapnoullas, Steve
name: Clarke, Bruce
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Maggbury v Hafele, the High Court of Australia had to consider whether a perpetual restraint of trade clause in a confidentiality agreement was valid. The majority judgement, which refused to enforce the restraint, has been subject to criticism that it potentially puts confidentiality agreements at risk and hinders innovation. In spite of the criticism the authors of this article argue that the High Court decision was correct and that Maggbury provides valuable lessons for those drafting confidentiality agreements and seeking to protect trade secrets.
Spatial refractive index sensor using whispering gallery modes in an optically trapped microsphere
Creators: name: Zijlstra, Peter
name: Van Der Molen, Karen L.
name: Mosk, Allard P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The authors propose the use of an optically trapped, dye doped polystyrene microsphere for spatial probing of the refractive index at any position in a fluid. Using the dye embedded in the microsphere as an internal broadband excitation source the authors eliminated the need for a tunable excitation source. They measured the full width at half maximum and frequency spacing of the transverse electric and transverse magnetic resonances as a function of the refractive index of the immersion fluid. The authors achieved a sensitivity of 5×10-4 in refractive index, even when the exact size of the microsphere was not known.
Developing future leaders: the contribution of talent management
Creators: name: Blass, Eddie
name: Orbea, Angelita
name: Knights, Ann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Talent Management is more than HRM, leadership development initiatives or succession planning. It is the collective approach to recruiting, retaining and developing talent within the organisation for its future benefit, and extends beyond the domains listed above to include strategy, organisational culture, and change management. While much has been written in the form of 'how to do' and '10 steps to talent management', the picture emerging is more complex than that. Drawing on a series of in-depth case studies into the talent management processes of 7 complex, multinational organisations, this paper discusses the contribution that talent management can actually make to the development of future leaders in an organisation. Key developmental dimensions emerged from the case studies requiring decisions to be made as to an organisations development approach, assessment, and implementation plans. For example, will talent follow the same but accelerated approach to leadership development in the organisation, or will they have a specialist route? Where is the focus of the organisation's development plans---do they focus on strengths or address individual's weaknesses? While organisations may have clear ideas about where they lie on these dimensions they are not always aware of the consequences. For example, an unintended consequence of an accelerated talent development path could be the arrested moral development of the talented individuals that are developed. In the moral development literature, one study found that the amount of work experience an individual had, correlated with levels of ethical behaviour, such that the more experienced an individual is, the more ethical their behaviour is likely to be. Another found that seniority within the company hierarchy seems to lower the levels of ethical decision making, such that the more senior within the organisation a person becomes, the less ethical their decisions become. Taking these two findings in parallel suggests that some talent management ideas might actually lead to the development of less ethical leaders in the future. If an organisation has an accelerated talent management system which results in people being fast-tracked through the ranks of promotions, they could actually be raising their seniority levels while reducing the amount of experience they have at each level, and thus contributing to a downward trend in ethical considerations and decision making. This paper draws on the literature and case studies of organisations talent management initiatives to offer a critical perspective of the role that talent management is really playing in developing the future leaders of organisations.
Population and multiculturalism: immigration, integration and crime
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This chapter analyses aspects of the Greens’ policies on population, multiculturalism and justice. These include 63 sub-points: some admirable, others questionable. The focus is on the latter group, particularly those relevant to population growth and migrant settlement.
Determinants of academic entrepreneurial intentions in technology transfer process: an empirical test
Creators: name: D'orazio, Pina
name: Monaco, Eleonora
name: Palumbo, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Focusing on the process of creating, discovering, and exploiting technological opportunities created by university research has been a remarkable increasing interest in Academic entrepreneurship as a field of research. The commercialization of university research is today also at the core of many national and local economic policies, including Europe, North America and increasingly Asia (Kroll and Liefner, 2008; Rasmussen, 2008; Shane, 2004). The technology transfer process is an extended course of actions that start with opportunity identification that is clearly an intentional process (Krueger et al., 2000). Moreover technology transfer process involves different groups of interest. According to the Association of University Technology Managers (2004), federal government in the US now provides more than 27.7 dollars billion annually to university researchers to conduct scientific research. This continuing investment expands human knowledge supporting the building of relationships between the different actors involved in the creation of a new business and helps to educate the next generation of science and technology leaders. There is large literature about entrepreneurship in University and technology transfer and the numerous theoretical works investigate the determinants and consequences of university spinoff activity but even though, the most important gap might concern robust empirical studies that investigate this important phenomenon at the individual level (Prodan, I., Drnovsek, M. 2010). We investigate the specific determinants that characterize of academics’ entrepreneurial intention within University context analysing this emergence at individual level. We use empirical data from PhD students employed in the sciences departments of the faculties of one of the most important University in Italy. The paper is structured as follows. We first review prior literature on academic entrepreneurial intention (AEI) and their determinants which are key to the creation of spin-off companies and then present the model grounded in social cognitive theory and hypotheses.
DAAPMath
Creators: name: Maskit, Bernard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A mathematical description of the Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP); including Mean High WRAD (MHW), High WRAD Proportion (HWP) and covariations between measures. These are indicators of the extent to which two measures are simultaneously above their neutral values. The neutral value is .5 for weighted dictionaries, such as WRAD, and is the mean of the dictionary values for the entire text for unweighted dictionaries.
Microhoria gibbipennis Kejval
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria gibbipennis

description: Microhoria gibbipennis Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020
 Microhoria gibbipennis Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020: 131, 136–137, 148–149 (description, figures, assigned to the M. terminata species group).
This species was described recently and does not require supplementary description.
 Ecology. Unknown.
 Distribution. Mersin Province, southern Turkey.
 Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA). Possible S­Anatolian (= Taurian) endemic(9000.08ANAS).
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
Toward a Global Field Guide for Microorganisms
Creators: name: Eisen, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Paper written by Jonathan Eisen for the "Defense Science Studies Group" program from 2004-2005. Published as part of a Proceedings "IDA Paper P-4186" by the Institute for Defense Analysis.
Laser-plasma interaction experiments using high energy, high contrast OPCPA lasers
Creators: name: Robinson, Timothy
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: A high-energy, high-contrast short-pulsed laser system using optical parametric chirped pulse ampliﬁcation has been demonstrated as a platform for performing high intensity laser-matter interaction experiments. The existing Cerberus laser system at Imperial College was upgraded to include an improved stretcher system in its long-pulse OPCPA pump chain, and new optical parametric ampliﬁer stages, including a high-energy single-shot stage, were designed, with the aim of achieving multi-terawatt power levels with optical parametric ampliﬁcation alone once the upgrade is completed. A high-performance optical-limiter for protection of sensitive optical detectors was developed and characterized, and shown to provide orders of magnitude better performance than other systems reported in the literature. This setup was then modiﬁed for use as a supercontinuum light source, analyzed for its spectral stability properties, and shown to be stable in comparison to other supercontinuum sources reported in the literature. A laser pulse contrast diagnostic system incorporating the optical limiter into its architecture was designed, intended to allow measurement over high dynamic ranges and long timescales. An additional diagnostic for time-resolved absolute measurement of strong electromagnetic pulses from laser-plasma interactions using the linear electro-optic eﬀect was demonstrated for the ﬁrst time in the petawatt-regime. This system was tested at Vulcan Petawatt and shown to have favourable experimental noise characteristics in comparison to conventional EMP diagnostics. Furthermore, the electro-optic diagnostic was used to investigate the eﬀects of target geometry on laser-driven EMP generation in the context of experiments with an ion-acceleration component.
Metabolic profiling in chronic venous ulceration
Creators: name: Velineni, Rahul
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: This thesis seeks to determine the potential utility of metabolic profiling in chronic venous ulceration of the lower limb. Venous ulceration is a final common pathway for legs subjected to abnormally sustained and elevated venous pressures either as a consequence of venous obstruction or reflux. What is not clear is how venous abnormalities contribute to the syndrome of tissue loss. This thesis has outlined the present understanding of the pathogenesis of venous ulceration and has sought to outline the role of hypothesis generating metabolic profiling that may be able to shed new light on venous leg ulceration. Methods: After a pilot study and concurrent development of methods. A cohort of patients with venous ulceration was recruited with the appropriate ethical approval for sequential clinical assessments and sampling of urine, serum and ulcer fluid (captured by sterile filter paper discs). Global metabolic profiling using nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry was performed and multivariate statistical analysis was performed according to known clinical variables that have been able to predict ulcer healing in the literature. Results: Multivariate statistical analysis revealed that it was possible to discriminate between clinical prognostic groups based on the global metabolic profile of urine, serum and ulcer fluid. Multiple potential metabolite markers were identified and will be studied in detail in future work in terms of relevance to the pathogenesis of chronic venous ulceration and to prediction of prognosis. Conclusion: This novel work has demonstrated the utility of metabolic profiling in chronic venous ulceration of the lower limb. When stratified for clinical parameters related to prognosis or ulcer healing status a variable metabolic phenotype was identified. Future work will involve the detailed characterisation of the metabolite features responsible for difference between clinical groups, validate the results of this thesis in a larger cohort as a prognostic tool and consider the role of venous ulcer biopsy.
Microhoria halophila Kejval
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria halophila

description: Microhoria halophila Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020
 Microhoria halophila Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020: 131, 136–137, 148–149 (description, figures, assigned to the M. terminata species group).
This species was described recently and does not require supplementary description.
 Ecology. Unknown.
 Distribution. Konya Province, central Turkey.
 Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA). Considered Central Anatolian endemic (3000.09 ANAC).
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
Super-luminous supernovae: seriously worth the superlatives
Creators: name: Cooke, Jeff
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Supernovae are the brilliant, explosive deaths of stars. For a short time, these explosions can outshine an entire galaxy containing billions of stars. A recently discovered rare class of supernovae, termed 'super-luminous supernovae', are the most luminous and most energetic of these explosions. They are 10 to 100 times brighter and more powerful than 'normal' supernovae.
Essays in empirical asset pricing
Creators: name: Wang, Tianyu
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: I study questions related to risk premia in international equity markets and broad asset classes,and the role of financial intermediaries – market makers (dealers) and institutional investors – inshaping the price dynamics. This thesis consists of four essays.In the first essay, we study the importance of foreign institutional investors in the capital alloca-tion process worldwide. we find that stocks that are held more by foreign institutional investorshave more informative prices unconditionally and conditional on the samelevel of local institu-tional ownership. Foreign investors contribute to price informativeness about as much as localinvestors, especially for stocks in non-U.S. countries. The magnitude of the effect is robust tovarious endogeneity concerns.In the second essay, we use a unique transaction-level dataset on over-the-counter foreign ex-change derivatives – forwards, swaps and cross-currency swaps – to study the failure of textbookno-arbitrage condition in FX markets, the covered interest rate parity (CIP). Empirically, weshow that the newly introduced regulatory requirement on the balance sheet contributes to theviolation of CIP. We solve the endogeneity issue by using an exogenous variation arising from theimplementation of UK leverage ratio framework.In the third essay, we construct a strategy that buys securities with low past overnight returns andsell securities with high past overnight returns generates sizeable out-of-sample excess returns andSharpe ratios. This strategy outperforms the conventional short-term reversal strategy for majorinternational equity markets and futures written on equity indices, interest rates, commodities,and currencies. we find that the cross-sectional return volatility explains the returns from thisstrategy consistent with time-varying limits to arbitrage. In contrast, traditional risk factors failto price these excess returns.In the last essay, we carry out the first cross-country analysis of the correlation risk premium.we examine the statistical properties of the implied and realized correlation in European equitymarkets and relate the resulting premium to the US equity market correlation risk and a globalcorrelation risk factor. We find evidence of strong co-movement of correlation risk premia inEuropean and US equity markets. The results support the hypothesis that a global correlationrisk factor exists and that it is priced in international equity optionmarkets. Finally, we documentthe relationship between the correlation risk premium on macroeconomic policy uncertainty andother uncertainty measures.
The use of hormonal strategies to improve the safety of in vitro fertilisation
Creators: name: Clarke, Sophie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is an increasingly used therapy for patients suffering with infertility. In 2014 67,608 cycles were undertaken in the UK, representing an increase of 4.8% from 2013. However, IVF is not without its complications. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious condition affecting 2-6% of all IVF cycles completed, and is related to the hormonal trigger used to induce oocyte maturation during IVF. Recently kisspeptin, a hypothalamic neuropeptide, has emerged as a potential alternative trigger. However, it has a short half-life, meaning that the duration of its effect on serum luteinising hormone (LH) is less than that observed during the endogenous menstrual cycle. In this thesis, I therefore first explore whether the addition of a second injection of kisspeptin-54 10hrs after the first during IVF treatment results in prolonged LH action in a population of women at high risk of OHSS. I demonstrate that greater numbers of patients achieve a clinically acceptable mature oocyte yield in those receiving two injections of kisspeptin-54 without an increase in rates of OHSS. However, whilst kisspeptin holds therapeutic promise, it has yet to be compared to conventional methods. I undertook a retrospective study comparing rates of OHSS in women at high risk of the condition following different triggers of oocyte maturation. I demonstrate that symptoms, signs and diagnosis of OHSS are greatest following hCG and least following kisspeptin. Finally, having observed that prolongation of LH exposure increases the proportion of women achieving a clinically effective oocyte yield, I investigate the effect of a kisspeptin analogue, kisspeptin-9a, on gonadotrophin secretion in healthy women, demonstrating a unique profile in LH secretion, which requires further studies to identify fully its effects but which may have use during IVF treatment. In summary, this thesis explores the use of kisspeptin during IVF treatment, further demonstrating its promise as a therapeutic trigger, and investigating for the first time the potential of a kisspeptin analogue, kisspeptin-9a.
Microhoria impavida Kejval
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria impavida

description: Microhoria impavida Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020
 Microhoria impavida Kejval in Kejval & Chandler, 2020: 131, 139–140, 148–149 (description, figures, assigned to the M. terminata species group).
This species was described recently and does not require supplementary description.
 Ecology. Unknown.
 Distribution. Balikesir Province, westernTurkey.
 Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA). Considered W­Anatolian endemic (3000.03 ANAW).
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
Development of a viscoelastic tuned mass damper to reduce walking induced vibrations in building floors
Creators: name: Saidi, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Excessive floor vibration due to human excitations has become a significant serviceability concern for office floors in the last two decades. The use of lightweight and high strength materials, nominal furniture and open layouts have resulted in lighter floors with less damping and hence an increase in vibration related problems. In office floors, this may lead to unacceptable floor response due to walking excitation and hence annoyance problems. When excessive vibrations are encountered in existing floors, there are few options available as remedial actions. If a change of floor layout or stiffening is not practical, the use of a Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) to increase floor damping is one of the attractive possible solutions. Currently, conventional viscous Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) to treat floors experiencing small displacements due to walking is not practically available. The main aim of this research was to develop a cost effective and simple TMD that can deal with floor systems with small vibration displacements. A new innovative TMD in the form of a cantilever beam with an end mass was developed to suppress floor vibrations. The cantilever beam consists of a viscoelastic layer constrained by two constraining layers. The new viscoelastic TMD can be fitted within the false floor or false ceiling spaces. Based on extensive analytical modelling, Finite Element (FE) analysis, laboratory testing and investigation of a real office floor, the following conclusions could be made: i) the new viscoelastic TMD is simple and cost effective as it can be constructed from commercially available rubber. ii) an analytical model was developed which can be used to design the new TMD for floor applications. As expected, the performance of the viscoelastic TMD is highly dependent on the geometry and properties of the materials used in its construction particularly the dissipation loss factor of the rubber as it acts as the damping element of the TMD. iii) prototype viscoelastic TMDs were tested on simply supported steel and concrete beams and it was found that the viscoelastic TMDs were very efficient in reducing the levels of vibration generated from a mechanical shaker and human excitations. iv) for full scale floors where a single damper may be too large to fit in the available space, multiple damper solutions were developed and tested. The multiple dampers can be located at one spot or distributed. v) the viscoelastic TMD solution in the form of multiple distributed dampers was successfully applied to a real office floor experiencing excessive vibrations. The new TMD was able to reduce the vibrations by at least a factor of 1/3. The new viscoelastic damper offers design engineers a non intrusive and cost efficient solution to reduce excessive vibrations in floor systems. In a distributed form, the TMDs can be reasonably small in size and easily tuned.
Supplementary document for Subwavelength grating couplers for an ultrathin silicon waveguide - 7368916.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Jiaqi
name: Wu, Guoxian
name: Chen, Si
name: Zhang, Zunyue
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Li, Xu
name: Ding, Penghao
name: Tan, Chuxian
name: Du, Yu
name: Geng, Youfu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
When Opposites Attract, Repel and Deceive (Beyond The Boundary - Chapter 3)
Creators: name: Hasselman, Fred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology

description: 3rd Chapter of Beyond the Boundary
title: Comprior: facilitating the implementation and automated benchmarking of prior knowledge-based feature selection approaches on gene expression data sets
Creators: name: Perscheid, Cindy
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Reproducible benchmarking is important for assessing the effectiveness of novel feature selection approaches applied on gene expression data, especially for prior knowledge approaches that incorporate biological information from online knowledge bases. However, no full-fledged benchmarking system exists that is extensible, provides built-in feature selection approaches, and a comprehensive result assessment encompassing classification performance, robustness, and biological relevance. Moreover, the particular needs of prior knowledge feature selection approaches, i.e. uniform access to knowledge bases, are not addressed. As a consequence, prior knowledge approaches are not evaluated amongst each other, leaving open questions regarding their effectiveness. Results We present the Comprior benchmark tool, which facilitates the rapid development and effortless benchmarking of feature selection approaches, with a special focus on prior knowledge approaches. Comprior is extensible by custom approaches, offers built-in standard feature selection approaches, enables uniform access to multiple knowledge bases, and provides a customizable evaluation infrastructure to compare multiple feature selection approaches regarding their classification performance, robustness, runtime, and biological relevance. Conclusion Comprior allows reproducible benchmarking especially of prior knowledge approaches, which facilitates their applicability and for the first time enables a comprehensive assessment of their effectiveness
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät; 010
Semantic Objects Please Application Developers with GraphQL and Facilitate Quality Knowledge Graphs
Creators: name: Momtchev, Vassil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The knowledge graphs help enterprises to organize the knowledge of a highly decentralized and distributed systems. At the same time, they need to preserve the organization's agility, changing requirements, and not deliver another silos application. Semantic Objects, part of the Ontotext Platform, enables the software architects to transparently integrate data modeling and ontology technology stacks with the GraphQL and API query protocols. The result is a platform that combines the comprehension of SPARQL engine with the scalability of MongoDB and search capabilities of Elastic and provides GraphQL interfaces that allow federation of 3rd party (non-semantic) silos application.
Positioning Bayesian inference as a particular application of frequentist inference and vice versa
Creators: name: Bartels, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Probability

description: Bayesian and frequentist inference are sometimes positioned as two mutually exclusive alternatives for analysing data and drawing conclusions. Here, a framework is proposed to position Bayesian inference as a particular application of frequentist inference and vice versa. As a result Bayesian inference and frequentist inference can be seen as two special cases of the more general problem of predicting future observations based on existing observations. In this light Bayesian and frequentist inference appear as two complementary and compatible approaches to relate data to probability models. The two approaches ask different questions. For a given problem, one may decide which of the questions to ask and whether to use any one of the two or combine both approaches.
The phoenix listening survey - Appendix in Book 'Listening Learning and Work'
Creators: name: Howard, Damien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: hearing loss
auditory processing
otitis meda

description: The Phoenix Listening Survey designed to identify people who have difficulties understanding what is said when there is background noise. It is a useful self report tool to identify if people have some degree of hearing loss or auditory processing problems. Often people are not aware they experience more difficulties than others understanding others in adverse listening environment when they have had early onset ear disease (that leaves them with some degree of hearing loss or auditory processing problems) or they have had auditory processing problems since from birth. The survey helps to quickly screen people for mild to moderate hearing loss and auditory processing problems. To find out more on the impact of these kinds of problems go to http://phoenixtraining.online
The design, construction and performance of a novel solar simulator and hybrid reactor
Creators: name: Ekman, Ben Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A uniquely designed and built high intensity solar simulator using metal halide lamps proved to be a useful and viable tool for controlled indoor high temperature experiments. This apparatus which closely mimics the energy of the sun can focus concentrated energy into a well-insulated reactor cavity where high temperatures exceeding 2000 °C, as required to process metals and materials, were reached. It was demonstrated that continuous 24-hour high temperature operations are feasible when a hybrid solar/electric reactor was used.
Urban Damage Detection in High Resolution Amplitude SAR Images
Creators: name: Brett, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Surrey, UK. Final accepted version. Abstract The majority of the world’s human population lives in towns and cities. High population densities mean that damage and disruption caused by natural disasters and other events have a much greater impact when urban areas are affected. Satellite remote sensing has the potential to play an important role in urban disaster monitoring and management, thanks to its relative immunity to disruption by terrestrial events. When data is required promptly and at short notice, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is of particular interest because of its ability to penetrate atmospheric conditions such as cloud and smoke. This thesis describes some recent contributions in the field of urban SAR, and in particular the exploitation of SAR amplitude images from metre-resolution satellite SAR systems such as TerraSAR-X and COSMO/SkyMed. An efficient curvilinear feature detection algorithm based on the Lindeberg scale-space ridge detector is introduced, and used for extraction of bright lines from SAR images. Two novel feature classification techniques for the detection of buildings are described, based on model selection: one supervised approach using local brightness and ridge strength statistics of bright line points, and one unsupervised approach using shape-dependent statistics of curvilinear features and priors derived from idealised building geometry. Finally, this thesis discusses the successful integration of these methods into an unsupervised tool for earthquake damage detection. The effectiveness of the models, algorithms and software tools is demonstrated and illustrated using SAR data from the COSMO/SkyMed constellation covering the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy and the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The research described in this thesis provides the conceptual basis for a whole new approach to urban feature extraction, classification and change detection, using statistical models for the actual geometry of urban structures.
Proof that the Positive Integers are Finite
Creators: name: Foster, Drew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A short (2-page) proof that the set of positive integers (i.e. {1, 2, 3, ...}) is finite in size, in contrast to contemporary mathematics (i.e. Georg Cantor).
Tensions around introducing co-ordinated care: a case study of co-ordinated care trial
Creators: name: Piterman, Hannah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of the research was to analyse the organisational dynamics surrounding a health care reform implementation process associated with the introduction of coordinated care, which is an Australian Government initiative to introduce structural changes to the funding and delivery of health-care in response to rising health care costs. A longitudinal case study of an implementation team was studied. This included the perceptions and experiences of individuals and institutions within hospitals, the general practice community and Divisions of General Practice. Furthermore, the case study explored organisational structures, decision-making processes and management systems of the Project and included an examination of the difficulties and conflicts that ensued. The broader context of health care reform was also considered. The study found that an effective change management strategy requires clarity around the definition of primary task in health care delivery, particularly when the task is complex and the environment uncertain. This requires a management and support structure able to accommodate the tensions that exists between providing care and managing cost, in a changing and complex system. The case study indicated that where tensions were not managed the functions of providing care and managing costs became disconnected, undermining the integrity of the task and impacting on the effective facilitation of the change process and hence, the capacity of stakeholders to embrace the model of co-ordinated care. Moreover, the micro dynamics of the project team seemed to parallel the macro dynamics of the broader system where economic and health care provision imperatives clash. Through its close analysis of change dynamics, the study provides suggestions for the improved engagement of stakeholders in health care change.
title: "Ordre de mission" pour René Pérotin établi par Pierre Tanant, état-major des FFI, Vercors, 11 octobre 1944
Creators: name: Chef De Bataillon Pierre Tanant
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Deuxième guerre mondiale, France, Alpes, décès d'un maquisard du Vercors de famille bordelaise

description: "Ordre de mission" pour faciliter le retour à Bordeaux de René Pérotin, père du maquisard mort en service Michel P. (Fressinat) établi par le chef de bataillon Pierre Tanant, état-major des FFI, Vercors, 11 octobre 1944
description: Source: GED Campus Condorcet Fonds Yves Pérotin CNRS-IHTP ARC 143 ; 2MAQ_64
On creating appropriate visual communication for the Tlicho community, stories, and culture
Creators: Raheel Malkan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In 2022, I began a creative collaboration with the Tlicho community, in the region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. As a visual communicator designer and researcher new to the country, I set out to help create an online tool for the Tlicho that would archive as well as visualize traditional Tlicho stories and their history. While I collected the stories for this project, I realized I did not know how to visually represent this community in a culturally appropriate manner. There exists a lot of Pan-Indian imagery and guidance on the web on how to represent indigenous cultures, however, very few projects take into account the different signs, motifs, and visual traditions that give each community its unique visual character. How does any particular First Nation “brand” language look different than a Métis way of visual communication? How can designers identify and use distinct visual systems to create imagery for different Indigenous nations? This question is at the center of my thesis. To address this question, I worked with the Tlicho Dene to determine how to build a community-specific visual identity guideline. While the identity guideline itself will serve as a tool

for future designers working with the Tlicho on visual projects, the process it takes to build this research will be a guide for designers who collaborate with Indigenous nations on visual communication projects.
title: David Ho
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (2 pages). Autre destinataire : Timothy Klemt
Three-dimensional bit optical data storage and micro-fabrication based on photorefractive polymers
Creators: name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Photorefractive polymer is a promising material for optical data storage and another photonic applications. In this paper, we review our recent development of erasable 3D bit optical data storage, the formation of micro-cavities and micro-fabrication of waveguide structures in photorefractive polymers.
Microhoria petraea
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria petraea

description: Microhoria petraea (Pic, 1902)
 Anthicus petraeus Pic, 1902b: 187 (description).
 Anthicus petraeus – Pic 1911a: 67 (checklist, record – “Arabia”); Bodenheimer 1937: 134 (checklist, biogeography).
 Anthicus (Immicrohoria) petraeus – Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist).
 Microhoria petraea – Uhmann et al. 2005: 4, (new combination, biogeography, erroneously mentioned “Petra in southern Jordan ” as the type locality); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist).
 Type material. Not studied.
 New material. Not available.
 Supplementary description of this species is not yet possible. According to the original description, this is moderately large Microhoria of total body length 3 mm, with dorsally rufous forebody and dark elytra with rufous humeri, that externally resembles the Cypriot endemic M. gorgus (Pic 1902). However, according to the original description, the colouration of M. petraea either resembles some specimens of M. breviuscula (Desbrochers des Loges, 1875) and M. terminata (W.L.E. Schmidt, 1842) rather than M. gorgus.
 Ecology. Unknown.
 Distribution. Israel, Jordan, SaudiArabia. This species is originally described from “Arabia Petraea” (that once included Jordan, southern Levant, Sinai Peninsula, and NW Saudi Arabia) without exact locality.
 Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA).
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
title: 02_0998
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Les découvertes du Montchaibeux. Traces d'occupation de lâge du Fer à aujourd'hui = Fundort Montchaibeux. Nutzungsspuren von der Eisenzeit bis Heute
Creators: name: Berger, Raphael
name: Westphal, Tamara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Cette brochure accompagne une petite exposition qui est le résultat d'un projet de recherche en collaboration entre l'Université de Bâle et la Section d'archéologie et paléontologie du canton du Jura (SAP). L'exposition a été réalisée comme travail pratique par Tamara Westphal (Université de Bâle), sous la direction de Robert Fellner (SAP) et en collaboration avec Gaël Comment (JURASSICA).

Dies ist eine Begleitbroschüre zu einer Kleinausstellung, die das Ergebnis eines gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekts der Universität Basel und der Section d'archéologie et paléontologie du canton du Jura (SAP) ist. Die Ausstellung wurde als Projektarbeit von Tamara Westphal (Universität Basel) unter der Leitung von Robert Fellner (SAP) und in Zusammenarbeit mit Gaël Comment (JURASSICA) konzipiert.
Assessment of the Water Distribution Network of Metu Town Water Supply System, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bogale, Benyam
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Intermittent water distribution is the key problems of many water authorities in developing countries including Ethiopia. Hence, this research was conducted to carry out the assessment of the water distribution network of Metu town existing water supply system which is located in western Oromia region of Ethiopia. To examine the hydraulic performance of the water distribution network, water CAD modeling was adopted. Accordingly, different reviewed reports, percentage of Non-Revenue for water, and discussions with water service personnel were conducted to analyze water losses and leakage management practice in the town. As per the analyzed results; the current maximum water demand in Metu town is estimated at 4,206.93 m3/day, while small reservoirs capacity and low pump efficiency were observed in the town water distribution networks. According to simulated results; the maximum of 203.68m and 199.49m, and minimum of 5.36m and 2.97m water pressure head were examined in the transmission and distribution main, respectively. Further, the analyzed water losses result in Metu town indicates that about 34.64% of production is Non-Revenue Water. Thereby, apparent losses cover 21.12% of total loss and 13.52 % were physical losses. Accordingly, for the case of Metu town apparent losses are more significant, however physical losses contributed considerable volume of lost. In general, rising in water demand, small capacities of existing infrastructures and large volume of water loss were leads to intermittent water distribution in Metu. Hence, most of residences were not satisfied on the town water service. Therefore, it is significant to rehabilitate and improve the water distribution system capacities and providing more attention to water losses reduction policies and strategies are vital for remedial measures. KEY WORD: water distribution network, hydraulic water CAD modeling, water loss, leakage management, Metu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia.
Tension, Compression, and Bending of Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Tubes
Creators: name: Reedlunn, Benjamin
name: Churchill, Christopher
name: Nelson, Emily
name: Shaw, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91308 Solid Mechanics
subject: Mechanical Engineering

description: While many uniaxial tension experiments of shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been published in the literature, relatively few experimental studies address their behavior in compression or bending, despite the prevalence of this latter deformation mode in applications. In this study, superelastic NiTi tubes from a single lot of material were characterized in tension, compression, and pure bending, which allowed us to make direct comparisons between the deformation modes for the first time. Custom built fixtures were used to overcome some long-standing experimental difficulties with performing well-controlled loading and accurate measurements during uniaxial compression (avoiding buckling) and large-rotation bending. In all experiments, the isothermal, global, mechanical responses were measured, and stereo digital image correlation (DIC) was used to measure the evolution of the strain fields on the tube’s outer surface. As is characteristic of textured NiTi, our tubes exhibited significant tension-compression asymmetry in their uniaxial responses. Stress-induced transformations in tension exhibited flat force plateaus accompanied by strain localization and propagation. No such localization, however, was observed in compression, and the stress “plateaus” during compression always maintained a positive tangent modulus. While our uniaxial results are similar to the observations of previous researchers, the DIC strain measurements provided details of localized strain behavior with more clarity and allowed more quantitative measurements to be made. Consistent with the tension-compression asymmetry, our bending experiments showed a significant shift of the neutral axis towards the compression side. Furthermore, the tube exhibited strain localization on the tension side, but no localization on the compression side during bending. This is a new observation that has not been explored before. Detailed analysis of the strain distribution across the tube diameter revealed that the traditional assumption of elementary beam theory, that plane sections remain plane, does not hold. Yet when the strain was averaged over a few diameters of axial length, the tensile and compressive responses input into elementary beam theory predicted the global bending response with reasonable accuracy. While it is encouraging that a simple model could predict the moment-curvature response, we recommend that beam theory be used with caution. The averaged strain field can under/over predict local strains by as much as two-fold due to the localized deformation morphology.