cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kinetic turbulence in fast 3D collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Muñoz, P. A.
name: Büchner, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although turbulence has been conjectured to be important for magnetic reconnection, still very little is known about its role in collisionless plasmas. Previous attempts to quantify the effect of turbulence on reconnection usually prescribed Alfvénic or other low-frequency fluctuations or investigated collisionless kinetic effects in just two-dimensional configurations and antiparallel magnetic fields. In view of this, we analyzed the kinetic turbulence self-generated by three-dimensional guide-field reconnection through force-free current sheets in frequency and wavenumber spaces, utilizing 3D particle-in-cell code numerical simulations. Our investigations reveal reconnection rates and kinetic turbulence with features similar to those obtained by current in-situ spacecraft observations of MMS as well as in the laboratory reconnection experiments MRX, VTF and \textsc{Vineta}-II. In particular we found that the kinetic turbulence developing in the course of 3D guide-field reconnection exhibits a broadband power-law spectrum extending beyond the lower-hybrid frequency and up to the electron frequencies. In the frequency space the spectral index of the turbulence appeared to be close to -2.8 at the reconnection X-line. In the wavenumber space it also becomes -2.8 as soon as the normalized reconnection rate reaches 0.1. The broadband kinetic turbulence is mainly due to current-streaming and electron-flow-shear instabilities excited in the sufficiently thin current sheets of kinetic reconnection. The growth of the kinetic turbulence corresponds to high reconnection rates which exceed those of fast laminar, non-turbulent reconnection.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures. Revised version. Published in Physical Review E
Exploring the Role of Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase (Kmo) in Microglial Physiology
Creators: name: Soccoio, Martina Esposito
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As first line of defence, microglia play a critical role in maintaining the central nervous system (CNS) homeostasis. However, constantly activated cells can generate a continuous inflammation that results in neuronal dysfunction and cellular death. Furthermore, microglia express specific enzymes of the kynurenine pathway (KP) which have a strong influence on the pathological dynamics of the CNS. In particular, the activity of kynurenine-3-monooxygenase (KMO) during the immune response causes the production of neurotoxic metabolites. Giving that KMO is predominantly expressed in microglia and that alteration of the immune response in these cells have been established to be partially responsible in the pathology of several neurological diseases, the aim of this study was to better understand microglia physiology by employing pro-and anti-inflammatory molecules and assess possible downstream effects, together with a focus on KP manipulation through KMO in order to investigate whether the inhibition of the enzymatic activity affects microglia immune response and gain insights into the contribution of these players during health and pathological scenarios. In this project it was showed that immune stimulation has a significant impact on the up-regulation of KMO expression as well as specific features of microglia activation, such as production of pro- and anti-inflammatory biomarkers and release of extracellular vesicles. Notably, all these effects were dampened by the addition of dexamethasone (DEXA), highlighting the use of glucocorticoids for diseases associated with neuroinflammation. KMO inhibition did not produce the same hypothesised results, however, a possible novel relationship with the circadian clock has emerged. Transcriptomic analysis supported and extended the data obtained by highlighting enriched pathways activated by tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and those down-regulated in samples co-treated with DEXA. Finally, the findings described here accentuate the importance of species-specific mechanisms that become crucial when results obtained by experiments in animals are translated to human diseases.
Copyright vs contract : the role of fair dealing in the digital age
Creators: name: de Zwart, Melissa June
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Historical Notes: A reappraisal of the reliabality of the 1676 'Compton Census' with respect to Leicester
Creators: name: L Wykes, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 55, 72-77
description: A reappraisal of the reliabality of the 1676 'Compton Census' with respect to Leicester
Review: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Ruthland
Creators: name: L Wykes, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 62, 92-93
description: The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Rutland. Extracted from An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in Central England. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986.
Teaching data science in school: Digital learning material on predictive text systems
Creators: name: Hofmann, Stephanie
name: Frank, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: Data science and especially machine learning issues are currently the subject of lively discussions in society. Many research areas now use machine learning methods, which, especially in combination with increased computer power, has led to major advances in recent years. One example is natural language processing. A large number of technologies and applications that we use every day are based on methods from this area. For example, students encounter these technologies in everyday life through the use of Siri and Alexa but also when chatting with friends they are supported by assistance systems such as predictive text systems that give suggestions for the next word. This proximity to everyday life is used to give students a motivating approach to data science concepts. In this paper we will show how mathematical modeling of data science problems can be addressed with students from tenth grade or higher using digital learning material on predictive text systems.
The legality of human cloning : an analysis of the legal arguments for and against a ban on reproductive cloning from a eugenics/human rights viewpoint
Creators: name: Wilson, Debra J
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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(502841) Patience Thompson
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.
Effective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning
Creators: name: Rossi, Alessio
name: Pappalardo, Luca
name: Cintia, Paolo
name: Iaia, Marcello
name: Fernandez, Javier
name: Medina, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.8
subject: 62-07

description: Injuries have a great impact on professional soccer, due to their large influence on team performance and the considerable costs of rehabilitation for players. Existing studies in the literature provide just a preliminary understanding of which factors mostly affect injury risk, while an evaluation of the potential of statistical models in forecasting injuries is still missing. In this paper, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to injury forecasting in professional soccer that is based on GPS measurements and machine learning. By using GPS tracking technology, we collect data describing the training workload of players in a professional soccer club during a season. We then construct an injury forecaster and show that it is both accurate and interpretable by providing a set of case studies of interest to soccer practitioners. Our approach opens a novel perspective on injury prevention, providing a set of simple and practical rules for evaluating and interpreting the complex relations between injury risk and training performance in professional soccer.
Trade Flat, Money Scarce, Spirits Low'
Creators: name: L Wykes, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 64, 39-56
description: Autobiographical sources left by businessmen are rare for the first half of the nineteenth century, as indeed for all periods. Thus the personal journal kept by the Leicester hosier John Kirby from 1813 until his death in 1848 is of interest, particularly for the details it gives concerning the experiences of the small businessman during the difficult economic conditions that followed the end of the Napoleonic War.' The journal is of further importance for the insight it gives into the lives and concerns of a newly emerging middle class. It also provides evidence on the attitudes and experiences of that most important of Victorian groups, the Nonconformist family.
Suicide Reporting in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Mestas, Manina
name: Arendt, Florian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638) to provide a descriptive account of the quality of suicide reporting back then. We found that much of the sensational reporting of the nineteenth century was characterized by presenting vivid details on the suicide method, specific location, and personal details, such as the deceased’s name, occupation, and exact address. To put these findings into context, we compared them to twenty-first-century suicide reporting (N = 300 articles). We found that the quality of reporting has improved since then, containing less Werther-effect-facilitative elements, however, the reports still fail to adhere to modern-day guidelines of responsible reporting.
The deficiencies of the private law's responses to fraud : an analysis of areas for reform
Creators: name: Thomas, Susan Barkehall
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Multivariate Gaussian and Student$-t$ Process Regression for Multi-output Prediction
Creators: name: Chen, Zexun
name: Wang, Bo
name: Gorban, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gaussian process model for vector-valued function has been shown to be useful for multi-output prediction. The existing method for this model is to re-formulate the matrix-variate Gaussian distribution as a multivariate normal distribution. Although it is effective in many cases, re-formulation is not always workable and is difficult to apply to other distributions because not all matrix-variate distributions can be transformed to respective multivariate distributions, such as the case for matrix-variate Student$-t$ distribution. In this paper, we propose a unified framework which is used not only to introduce a novel multivariate Student$-t$ process regression model (MV-TPR) for multi-output prediction, but also to reformulate the multivariate Gaussian process regression (MV-GPR) that overcomes some limitations of the existing methods. Both MV-GPR and MV-TPR have closed-form expressions for the marginal likelihoods and predictive distributions under this unified framework and thus can adopt the same optimization approaches as used in the conventional GPR. The usefulness of the proposed methods is illustrated through several simulated and real data examples. In particular, we verify empirically that MV-TPR has superiority for the datasets considered, including air quality prediction and bike rent prediction. At last, the proposed methods are shown to produce profitable investment strategies in the stock markets.
Some aspects of the completion of administration of a deceased estate
Creators: name: Sundberg, Ross Alan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Bardon Park Meeting-House
Creators: name: L Wykes, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 64, 31-34
description: Under the terms of the Toleration Act of 1689, Protestant Dissenters were given freedom to worship in public provided they registered their meeting places with the bishop, archdeacon or with the justices at the court of quarter sessions. In addition, ministers had to make certain declarations and take the prescribed oaths. The use of the surviving record of registration of Nonconformist meeting places by historians is not without problems, in particular because the Act made no provisions for the cancellation of registration, especially in cases of temporary use. Furthermore, the record itself may not be complete, for there is evidence that buildings known to have been employed for Nonconformist worship were not registered, or in some cases that the evidence for the application has not survived. In addition, the denominational descriptions of the individual congregations using the different meeting places are also very partial. Nonetheless, the surviving record of registration provides an invaluable account of the state of organised dissent in the early years after toleration, and also of its development in the subsequent generation as congregations began building meeting-houses to replace the barns and cottages they had previously used as places for worship.
Suicide Reporting in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Mestas, Manina
name: Arendt, Florian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638) to provide a descriptive account of the quality of suicide reporting back then. We found that much of the sensational reporting of the nineteenth century was characterized by presenting vivid details on the suicide method, specific location, and personal details, such as the deceased’s name, occupation, and exact address. To put these findings into context, we compared them to twenty-first-century suicide reporting (N = 300 articles). We found that the quality of reporting has improved since then, containing less Werther-effect-facilitative elements, however, the reports still fail to adhere to modern-day guidelines of responsible reporting.
The historical and constitutional framework of the concept of religious freedom in India
Creators: name: Srivastava, Dhirendra Kumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(502840) George Trotter
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.
Uniqueness of the von Neumann continuous factor
Creators: name: Ara, Pere
name: Claramunt, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 16E50, Secondary: 16D70

description: For a division ring $D$, denote by $\mathcal M_D$ the $D$-ring obtained as the completion of the direct limit $\varinjlim_n M_{2^n}(D)$ with respect to the metric induced by its unique rank function. We prove that, for any ultramatricial $D$-ring $\mathcal B$ and any non-discrete extremal pseudo-rank function $N$ on $\mathcal B$, there is an isomorphism of $D$-rings $\overline{\mathcal B} \cong \mathcal M_D$, where $\overline{\mathcal B}$ stands for the completion of $\mathcal B$ with respect to the pseudo-metric induced by $N$. This generalizes a result of von Neumann. We also show a corresponding uniqueness result for $*$-algebras over fields $F$ with positive definite involution, where the algebra $\mathcal M_F$ is endowed with its natural involution coming from the $*$-transpose involution on each of the factors $M_{2^n}(F)$.
description: 23 pages. Final version
(502839) George Trotter
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.
Tunable spin dynamics in chiral soliton lattice
Creators: name: Tokushuku, Kunio
name: Kishine, Jun-ichiro
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamics of a chiral soliton lattice (CSL) in a classical one-dimensional spin chain coupled to the conduction electrons under an electric field. The CSL has attracted much interest because its period can be easily controlled by an external magnetic field. We clarify the dependence of the CSL dynamics on its period. A collective coordinate and an SU(2) gauge method are used for the analysis. It turns out that the velocity of the CSL becomes slower as the period becomes longer. We also mention a relation between the velocity and the magnetic resistance.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
(502838) Jane Watson
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 Reluctant Businessman
Creators: name: L Wykes, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 69, 71-85
description: Detailed accounts of eighteenth-century businessmen are uncommon and evidence relating to their personal motivation is even more unusual. John Coltman of St Nicholas Street was not only one of the leading manufacturers in the Leicester hosiery trade, but also active in scientific and antiquarian studies. He lacked, however, the drive and ambition usually associated with the successful businessman. The survival of a substantial collection of records and contemporary memoirs provides a rare opportunity to examine Coltman's business attitudes and behaviour.
Genetic interactions from first principles
Creators: name: Fernandez-de-Cossio, Jorge
name: Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz, Jorge
name: Perera, Yasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We derive a general statistical model of interactions, starting from probabilistic principles and elementary requirements. Prevailing interaction models in biomedical researches diverge both mathematically and practically. In particular, genetic interaction inquiries are formulated without an obvious mathematical unity. Our model reveals theoretical properties unnoticed so far, particularly valuable for genetic interaction mapping, where mechanistic details are mostly unknown, distribution of gene variants differ between populations, and genetic susceptibilities are spuriously propagated by linkage disequilibrium. When applied to data of the largest interaction mapping experiment on Saccharomyces Cerevisiae to date, our results imply less aversion to positive interactions, detection of well-documented hubs and partial remapping of functional regions of the currently known genetic interaction landscape. Assessment of divergent annotations across functional categories further suggests that positive interactions have a more important role on ribosome biogenesis than previously realized. The unity of arguments elaborated here enables the analysis of dissimilar interaction models and experimental data with a common framework.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures in the main text and 7 other figures
An investigation of reading as a measure for clinical visual assessment in normal and amblyopic vision
Creators: name: Maeni, Yahya A.S.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates binocular reading performance in individuals with amblyopia and the contribution of motor and sensory functions to reading in amblyopes. Despite a considerable body of research on reading in individuals with amblyopia, little information available about reading performance when measured with standardised logarithmic charts under habitual binocular conditions. Further, there is limited research on the aspects underlying the associated reading difficulties. Therefore, this thesis is a novel investigation into reading in amblyopia and aspects related to this function. The thesis comprises five empirical studies exploring whether reading performance differs between amblyopes and visually normal controls. The comparability of logarithmic reading charts was examined on visually normal participants in study 1. The results suggest that these charts yield comparable outcomes. Study 2 explored reading performance in amblyopia and showed that reading in amblyopia is limited, relative to controls. Study 3 tested the effect of induced monocular blur on reading and revealed that the severity of monocular visual impairment adversely affects reading performance. Study 4 suggests that convergence insufficiency can affect reading but may not be a contributor to reading difficulties in amblyopes. Study 5 indicates impaired eye-movement control during reading in amblyopia, with word-length effect being more pronounced in amblyopes than among controls. Overall, these studies enrich our knowledge of reading performance in adults with amblyopia, shedding light on the visual aspects of this difficulty and highlighting the important areas to be addressed in future research.
Truth or dare? : the interrelatedness of the efficiency of the CISG, influences on lawyers' choice of law and interpretation
Creators: name: Spagnolo, Lisa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The normal closure of big Dehn twists, and plate spinning with rotating families
Creators: name: Dahmani, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the normal closure of a big power of one or several Dehn twists in a Mapping Class Group. We prove that it has a presentation whose relators consists only of commutators between twists of disjoint support, thus answering a question of Ivanov. Our method is to use the theory of projection complexes of Bestvina Bromberg and Fujiwara, together with the theory of rotating families, simultaneously on several spaces.
description: 32 pages
Nutty black holes in galileon scalar-tensor gravity
Creators: name: Brandelet, A.
name: Brihaye, Y.
name: Delsate, T.
name: Ducobu, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Einstein gravity supplemented by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet term provides an example of model of scalar-tensor gravity where hairy black holes do exist. We consider the classical equations within a metric endowed with a NUT-charge and obtain a two-parameter family of nutty-hairy black holes. The pattern of these solutions in the exterior and the interior of their horizon is studied in some details. The influence of both -- the hairs and the NUT-charge -- on the lightlike and timelike geodesics is emphasized.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, (New/improved version, similar results)
Coaching with Vygotsky- The application of Vygotskian concepts to improve coaches’ practice within rugby union
Creators: name: Gardner, Ian
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: As far back as 2003, Cushion, Armour, and Jones (2003) critiqued sport coaching as a coach led, one dimensional repetitive cycle based on physical development and technique. From personal experience of coaching rugby union for over twenty five years it seems little has changed. Nevertheless, within sport coaching research over the past ten years, there has been a greater focus on pedagogy with an increased recognition of the social, relational elements to learning (Jones & Thomas, 2015; Jones, Thomas, Nunes, & Filho, 2018). Subsequently, the work of Lev Vygotsky has been suggested for use within coaching practice, but at present, little empirical research related to his work exists. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to enhance rugby union coaches’ theoretical understanding and application of Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian concepts to improve athlete learning. Consequently, the study used the notions related to contextual understanding, procedural knowledge and how language and metaphor are used as mediation tools to develop coaches’ and subsequently players’ scientific concept formation. In order to facilitate the coaches’ pedagogical knowledge and develop their coaching practice, action research (AR) was deemed the most appropriate methodology. Two coaches were purposefully recruited to participate in the AR process, they were selected because they were already coaching within the university rugby programme in which I was head coach. The AR process lasted six months incorporating four AR cycles, each comprising of 5-6 weeks. Data was collected via four methods: (1) Voice recorded observations, transcribed into field notes; (2) Semi structured interviews with the coaches at the beginning and the end of the AR process; (3) Coaches’ written reflections; and (4) End of AR cycle, focus group discussions with the coaches. Reflexive thematic analysis was utilised to evaluate the findings, with results suggesting improvement in both coaches’ practice, with one coach describing the change in his practice as transformational. Improvements related to providing contextual, game related practices that varied pressure on the players. Furthermore, evidence suggested significant improvement in the use of instruction and questioning, with club metaphors becoming part of the coaches’ everyday language. Additionally, data also suggested improvements in the players’ scientific concept formation. The study contributes to the developing body of empirical evidence, promoting Vygotskian pedagogy as a credible theoretical lens to develop coaching practice.
The role of the contract of employment in public employment in England and Australia : with particular reference to discipline and dismissal
Creators: name: Smith, Graham F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(502837) William Thornton
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.
Enhanced neutrino emissivities in pseudoscalar-mediated Dark Matter annihilation in Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Cermeño, M.
name: Pérez-García, M. A.
name: Lineros, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate neutrino emissivities from self-annihilating dark matter ($χ$) in the dense and hot stellar interior of a (proto)neutron star. Using a model where dark matter interacts with nucleons in the stellar core through a pseudoscalar boson ($a$) we find that the neutrino production rates from the dominant reaction channels $χχ\rightarrow ν\barν$ or $χχ\rightarrow a a$, with subsequent decay of the mediator $ a \rightarrow ν\barν$, could locally match and even surpass those of the standard neutrinos from the modified nuclear URCA processes at early ages. We find that the emitting region can be localized in a tiny fraction of the star (less than a few percent of the core volume) and the process can last its entire lifetime for some cases under study. We discuss the possible consequences of our results for stellar cooling in light of existing dark matter constraints.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Matches published version
Maverick litigants : a history of vexatious litigants in Australia 1930-2007
Creators: name: Smith, Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The regulation of insider trading in Australia and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Skoyles, Kathryn J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Approaching the Dark Sector through a bounding curvature criterion
Creators: name: Hernandez, X.
name: Sussman, R. A.
name: Nasser, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the observations of dynamical tracers and the trajectories of lensed photons at galactic scales within the context of General Relativity (GR), requires the introduction of a hypothetical dark matter dominant component. The onset of these gravitational anomalies, where the Schwarzschild solution no longer describes observations, closely corresponds to regions where accelerations drop below the characteristic $a_{0}$ acceleration of MOND, which occur at a well established mass-dependent radial distance, $R_{c}\propto (GM/a_{0})^{1/2}$. At cosmological scales, inferred dynamics are also inconsistent with GR and the observed distribution of mass. The current accelerated expansion rate requires the introduction of a hypothetical dark energy dominant component. We here show that for a Schwarzschild metric at galactic scales, the scalar curvature, K, multiplied by $(r^{4}/M)$ at the critical MOND transition radius, $r=R_{c}$, has an invariant value of $κ_{B}=K(r^{4}/M)=28Ga_{0}/c^{4}$. Further, assuming this condition holds for $r>R_{c}$, is consistent with the full spacetime which under GR corresponds to a dominant isothermal dark matter halo, to within observational precision at galactic level. For a FLRW metric, this same constant bounding curvature condition yields for a spatially flat spacetime a cosmic expansion history which agrees with the $Λ$CDM empirical fit for recent epochs, and which similarly tends asymptotically to a de Sitter solution. Thus, a simple covariant purely geometric condition identifies the low acceleration regime of observed gravitational anomalies, and can be used to guide the development of { extended} gravity theories at both galactic and cosmological scales.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Adjusted criterion now allows for a geometric identification of the MOND a0 constant, is consistent with rotation curve and lensing observations at galactic scales, and with the recent accelerated expansion of the universe at cosmological scales. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
(502836) Thomas Thornton
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.
Mass-redshift Degeneracy for Gravitational-wave Sources in the Vicinity of a Supermassive Black Hole
Creators: name: Chen, Xian
name: Li, Shuo
name: Cao, Zhoujian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Retrieving the mass of a gravitational-wave (GW) source is a fundamental but difficult problem because the mass is degenerate with redshift. In astronomy, three types of redshift exist, namely cosmological, Doppler, and gravitational redshift, but the latter two are normally too weak to affect the observation. In this Letter, we show that the current astrophysical models allow binary black holes (BBHs) to merge within $10$ Schwarzschild radii of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We find that in this case both the Doppler and gravitational redshift are significant, and in the most extreme condition they could increase the "apparent" black-hole mass and distance by a factor of $1.9-3.4$. We show that such a factor is consistent with the distribution in the distance-mass diagram of the ten BBHs detected so far by LIGO/Virgo. We also discuss the difficulties of this redshift scenario caused by the low event rate predicted by the current models, as well the potential solutions.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Sir Robert Shirley and the English Revolution in Leicestershire
Creators: name: Lacy, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 58, 25-35
description: It is usually stated, following Nichols, that Shirley's last imprisonment in the Tower, was the result of his Church building activities in defiance of Cromwell's Puritanism. However, on closer investigation this is not the whole truth.
Context-Aware Hierarchical Online Learning for Performance Maximization in Mobile Crowdsourcing
Creators: name: Klos, Sabrina
name: Tekin, Cem
name: van der Schaar, Mihaela
name: Klein, Anja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In mobile crowdsourcing (MCS), mobile users accomplish outsourced human intelligence tasks. MCS requires an appropriate task assignment strategy, since different workers may have different performance in terms of acceptance rate and quality. Task assignment is challenging, since a worker's performance (i) may fluctuate, depending on both the worker's current personal context and the task context, (ii) is not known a priori, but has to be learned over time. Moreover, learning context-specific worker performance requires access to context information, which may not be available at a central entity due to communication overhead or privacy concerns. Additionally, evaluating worker performance might require costly quality assessments. In this paper, we propose a context-aware hierarchical online learning algorithm addressing the problem of performance maximization in MCS. In our algorithm, a local controller (LC) in the mobile device of a worker regularly observes the worker's context, her/his decisions to accept or decline tasks and the quality in completing tasks. Based on these observations, the LC regularly estimates the worker's context-specific performance. The mobile crowdsourcing platform (MCSP) then selects workers based on performance estimates received from the LCs. This hierarchical approach enables the LCs to learn context-specific worker performance and it enables the MCSP to select suitable workers. In addition, our algorithm preserves worker context locally, and it keeps the number of required quality assessments low. We prove that our algorithm converges to the optimal task assignment strategy. Moreover, the algorithm outperforms simpler task assignment strategies in experiments based on synthetic and real data.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
The Theatre Royal, Leicester, 1836-1958
Creators: name: Leacroft, Richard
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 34, 39-52
description: Leicester's first "proper theatre" was built in 1750 on the site now occupied in part by the Clock Tower. In 1799 the subscribers decided to erect a new theatre, which was built on the site directly adjoining the Assembly Rooms, and was opened on Monday, 17 March 1800. By 1836 it was considered necessary to replace this building, and it was demolished to make way for the building which was at first variously known as The Theatre or the New Theatre, but by 1851 was referred to in the Directors' Report as The Theatre Royal. This new theatre was sited at right-angles to its predecessor, with its main frontage in Horsefair Street and its stage elevation to the Market Place.
Occupation measure of random walks and wired spanning forests in balls of Cayley graphs
Creators: name: Lyons, Russell
name: Peres, Yuval
name: Sun, Xin
name: Zheng, Tianyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that for finite-range, symmetric random walks on general transient Cayley graphs, the expected occupation time of any given ball of radius $r$ is $O(r^{5/2})$.. We also study the volume-growth property of the wired spanning forests on general Cayley graphs, showing that the expected number of vertices in the component of the identity inside any given ball of radius $r$ is $O(r^{11/2})$.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure; T.Zheng is added as an author due to her key contribution to the improvement on the exponents from the first version
Off-forward gluonic structure of vector mesons
Creators: name: Detmold, W.
name: Pefkou, D.
name: Shanahan, P. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-independent and transversity generalised form factors (GFFs) of the $ϕ$ meson are studied using lattice QCD calculations with light quark masses corresponding to a pion mass $m_π\sim450(5)$ MeV. One transversity and three spin-independent GFFs related to the lowest moments of leading-twist spin-independent and transversity gluon distributions are obtained at six non-zero values of the momentum transfer up to 1.2 GeV$^2$. These quantities are compared with the analogous spin-independent quark GFFs and the electromagnetic form factors determined on the same lattice ensemble. The results show quantitative distinction between the spatial distribution of transversely polarised gluons, unpolarised gluons, and quarks, and point the way towards further investigations of the gluon structure of nucleons and nuclei.
description: Corrections to Eqs. (7), (8) and the unnumbered equation in Appendix B
(502835) John James Tate
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.