cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Long range spin supercurrents in ferromagnetic CrO$_2$ using a multilayer contact structure
Creators: name: Anwar, M. S.
name: Veldhorst, M.
name: Brinkman, A.
name: Aarts, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: e report measurements of long ranged supercurrents through ferromagnetic and fully spin-polarized CrO$_2$ deposited on TiO$_2$ substrates. In earlier work, we found supercurrents in films grown on sapphire but not on TiO$_2$. Here we employed a special contact arrangement, consisting of a Ni/Cu sandwich between the film and the superconducting amorphous Mo$_{70}$Ge$_{30}$ electrodes. The distance between the contacts was almost a micrometer, and we find the critical current density to be significantly higher than found in the films deposited on sapphire. We argue this is due to spin mixing in the Ni/Cu/CrO$_2$ layer structure, which is helpful in the generation of the odd-frequency spin triplet correlations needed to carry the supercurrent.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
Dynamics of Successive Minor Hysteresis Loops
Creators: name: Windsor, Y. W.
name: Gerber, A.
name: Karpovski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cumulative growth of successive minor hysteresis loops in Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy was studied in the context of time dependent magnetization reversal dynamics. We show that in disordered ferromagnets, where magnetization reversal involves nucleation, domains' expansion and annihilation, differences between the time dependencies of these processes are responsible for accumulation of nuclei for rapid domain expansion, for the asymmetry of forward and backward magnetization reversals and for the respective cumulative growth of hysteresis loops. Loops stop changing and become macroscopically reproducible when populations of upward and downward nucleation domains balance each other and the respective upward and downward reversal times stabilize.
Additional file 2 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues: a new way to quit smoking? (SKIP)—a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Lengsfeld, Sophia
name: Burkard, Thilo
name: Meienberg, Andrea
name: Jeanloz, Nica
name: Coynel, David
name: Vogt, Deborah R.
name: Hemkens, Lars G.
name: Speich, Benjamin
name: Zanchi, Davide
name: Erlanger, Tobias E.
name: Christ-Crain, Mirjam
name: Winzeler, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. VAS smoking urge.
The free energy of N=2 supersymmetric AdS_4 solutions of M-theory
Creators: name: Gabella, Maxime
name: Martelli, Dario
name: Passias, Achilleas
name: Sparks, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that general N=2 supersymmetric AdS_4 solutions of M-theory with non-zero M2-brane charge admit a canonical contact structure. The free energy of the dual superconformal field theory on S^3 and the scaling dimensions of operators dual to supersymmetric wrapped M5-branes are expressed via AdS/CFT in terms of contact volumes. In particular, this leads to topological and localization formulae for the coefficient of N^{3/2} in the free energy of such solutions.
description: 17 pages; v2: typos fixed and references added
TIJORAT BANKLARINING QIMMATLI QOG'OZLAR BOZORIDAGI FAOLIYATI
Creators: name: Nazarov, Elbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada tijorat banklarining qimmatli qog'ozlar bozoridagi faoliyati haqida fikr mulohazalar keltirilgan bo'lib bunda tijorat banklarining qimmatli qog'ozlarni saqlash sotish yoki sotib olish kabi jarayonlar haqida tushunchalar keltirib o'tilgan.
The Decision Usefulness Of Comprehensive Income Reporting In Canada
Creators: name: Deol, Harjinder
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Accounting
subject: Comprehensive Income
subject: Value Relevance
subject: Decision Usefulness

description: In this study, I empirically investigate the decision usefulness of mandatory reporting of comprehensive income in Canada under the erstwhile Accounting Handbook Section 1530 (HB1530). Comprehensive income (CI) equals the sum of Net Income (NI) and Other Comprehensive Income (OCI). I operationalize the concept of decision usefulness in two ways: (i) value relevance, and (ii) association with analysts’ earnings forecasts. As a theoretical framework, I draw upon Ohlson’s (1999) discussion of the attributes of transitory earnings: forecasting irrelevance, unpredictability, and value irrelevance. Ohlson pointed out that the existence of any two attributes implies the third. That is, if an earnings item is irrelevant for forecasting future abnormal earnings, and if current numbers do not predict future ones (that is, if the earnings item is unpredictable), then it must be value irrelevant. Drawing upon a sample of firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, I employ a multivariate regression approach to test whether OCI and its individual components (namely, unrealized gains and losses on cash flow hedges - HEDGE, unrealized gains and losses on available for sale investments – SEC, and foreign currency translation adjustment on foreign subsidiaries – FOREX) possess forecasting relevance, predictability and value relevance. As a specification check, I also include a component of OCI under United States GAAP, minimum pension adjustment, PENADJ, to see if it possesses the same attributes as do components of OCI under HB1530. I also test for the association of OCI and its components with analysts’ earnings forecasts. I find that aggregate OCI and some of its individual components are relevant in forecasting future abnormal earnings, predictable, and incrementally value relevant. Aggregate OCI as well as some of its components are also able to predict future net income and operating cashflows. Aggregate OCI and some of its components are also significantly associated with analysts’ earnings forecasts. Finally, some components of OCI are negatively significantly associated with analysts’ forecast errors. These results suggest that Ohlson’s (1999) description of transitory earnings might not apply to OCI, and that the reporting of comprehensive income in Canada did enhance the decision usefulness of accounting numbers. iii Additional analyses establish that the results are robust to differences observed for size, industry and macro economic variables such as interest rates, exchange rates and the rate of GDP growth. A significantly negative bias is observed for the period of adoption, but this could be attributed to the economic recession of 2007-2008.
Proximity Effects and Nonequilibrium Superconductivity in Transition-Edge Sensors
Creators: name: Sadleir, John E.
name: Smith, Stephen J.
name: Robinson, Ian K.
name: Finkbeiner, Fred M.
name: Chervenak, James A.
name: Bandler, Simon R.
name: Eckart, Megan E.
name: Kilbourne, Caroline A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently shown that normal-metal/superconductor (N/S) bilayer TESs (superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors) exhibit weak-link behavior.1 Here we extend our understanding to include TESs with added noise-mitigating normal-metal structures (N structures). We find TESs with added Au structures also exhibit weak-link behavior as evidenced by exponential temperature dependence of the critical current and Josephson-like oscillations of the critical current with applied magnetic field. We explain our results in terms of an effect converse to the longitudinal proximity effect (LoPE)1, the lateral inverse proximity effect (LaiPE), for which the order parameter in the N/S bilayer is reduced due to the neighboring N structures. Resistance and critical current measurements are presented as a function of temperature and magnetic field taken on square Mo/Au bilayer TESs with lengths ranging from 8 to 130 μm with and without added N structures. We observe the inverse proximity effect on the bilayer over in-plane distances many tens of microns and find the transition shifts to lower temperatures scale approximately as the inverse square of the in- plane N-structure separation distance, without appreciable broadening of the transition width. We also present evidence for nonequilbrium superconductivity and estimate a quasiparticle lifetime of 1.8 \times 10-10 s for the bilayer. The LoPE model is also used to explain the increased conductivity at temperatures above the bilayer's steep resistive transition.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 3 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues: a new way to quit smoking? (SKIP)—a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Lengsfeld, Sophia
name: Burkard, Thilo
name: Meienberg, Andrea
name: Jeanloz, Nica
name: Coynel, David
name: Vogt, Deborah R.
name: Hemkens, Lars G.
name: Speich, Benjamin
name: Zanchi, Davide
name: Erlanger, Tobias E.
name: Christ-Crain, Mirjam
name: Winzeler, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Clinical study protocol (main study).
Teaching Intermediate Technology Education in Newfoundland and Labrador
Creators: name: Gill, David
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Technology
subject: intermediate technology education
subject: curricular marginalization
subject: teacher professionalism

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the teaching of intermediate technology education within the Newfoundland and Labrador context. As there were no empirical investigations prior to this study, this investigation was important in creating new knowledge that can be utilized by multiple groups that lay claim on intermediate technology in the province. Further, this study firmly placed Newfoundland and Labrador’s implementation of intermediate technology education within the international scholarly community. As such, it has addressed key points concerning teacher experience and belief, professional development, leadership, and curricular marginalization. The main research question for this study focused on what factors support or hinder the capability and capacity of intermediate technology education teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador. From this question, a qualitative exploratory case study design was developed that used an online teacher questionnaire, semi-structured teacher and administrator interviews, and classroom observations as the main data gathering methods. Thematic analysis was then used to develop a rich thick description of the teaching of intermediate technology education in relation to the research questions. The data supported the concept that teacher professionalism was a critical factor in relation to supporting the teaching of intermediate technology education. In contrast, systemic marginalization was observed as a major factor that was a hindrance to the teaching of intermediate technology education. The data helped to inform the development of a conceptual framework that closely models the complex nature of teaching intermediate technology education in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Managing Distributed Software Development in the Virtual Astronomical Observatory
Creators: name: Evans, Janet D.
name: Plante, Raymond L.
name: Bonaventura, Nina
name: Busko, Ivo
name: Cresitello-Dittmar, Mark
name: D'Abrusco, Raffaele
name: Doe, Stephen
name: Ebert, Rick
name: Laurino, Omar
name: Pevunova, Olga
name: Refsdal, Brian
name: Thomas, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is a product-driven organization that provides new scientific research capabilities to the astronomical community. Software development for the VAO follows a lightweight framework that guides development of science applications and infrastructure. Challenges to be overcome include distributed development teams, part-time efforts, and highly constrained schedules. We describe the process we followed to conquer these challenges while developing Iris, the VAO application for analysis of 1-D astronomical spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Iris was successfully built and released in less than a year with a team distributed across four institutions. The project followed existing International Virtual Observatory Alliance inter-operability standards for spectral data and contributed a SED library as a by-product of the project. We emphasize lessons learned that will be folded into future development efforts. In our experience, a well-defined process that provides guidelines to ensure the project is cohesive and stays on track is key to success. Internal product deliveries with a planned test and feedback loop are critical. Release candidates are measured against use cases established early in the process, and provide the opportunity to assess priorities and make course corrections during development. Also key is the participation of a stakeholder such as a lead scientist who manages the technical questions, advises on priorities, and is actively involved as a lead tester. Finally, frequent scheduled communications (for example a bi-weekly tele-conference) assure issues are resolved quickly and the team is working toward a common vision
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, SPIE 2012 conference
Electronic structure dimensionality of the quantum-critical ferromagnet YbNi$_4$P$_2$
Creators: name: Dai, J.
name: Antezak, A.
name: Broad, W.
name: Thees, M.
name: Zatko, V.
name: Bouwmeester, R. L.
name: Fortuna, F.
name: Fèvre, P. Le
name: Rault, J. E.
name: Horiba, K.
name: Vyalikh, D. V.
name: Kumigashira, H.
name: Kliemt, K.
name: S.
name: Friedemann
name: Krellner, C.
name: Frantzeskakis, E.
name: Santander-Syro, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: YbNi$_4$P$_2$ is the first known ferromagnetic metal showing a second-order quantum phase transition. Current theoretical understanding rules out second order ferromagnetic quantum criticality in centrosymmetric 2D and 3D metals. Thus, studying the electronic structure of YbNi$_4$P$_2$ is of prime fundamental importance. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we experimentally prove the existence of 1D Fermi surface contours. In addition, our results demonstrate that part of the electronic structure of YbNi$_4$P$_2$ is made of states of higher dimensionality, thereby bringing into question the fact that ferromagnetic quantum criticality in centrosymmetric crystals, is exclusively found in 1D systems. Our experimental data show that the electronic structure of YbNi$_4$P$_2$ is a playground of mixed dimensionality, electron correlations, strong hybridization and spin-orbit coupling, all of them providing new insights in understanding the origin of ferromagnetic quantum criticality.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Size distributions of chemically synthesized Ag nanocrystals
Creators: name: Thøgersen, Annett
name: Bonsak, Jack
name: Fosli, Carl Huseby
name: Muntingh, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silver nanocrystals made by a chemical reduction of silver salts (AgNO$_3$) by sodium borohydride (NaBH$_4$) were studied using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and light scattering simulations. For various AgNO$_3$/NaBH$_4$ molar ratios, the size distributions of the nanocrystals were found to be approximately log-normal. In addition, a linear relation was found between the mean nanocrystal size and the molar ratio. In order to relate the size distribution of Ag nanocrystals of the various molar ratios to the scattering properties of Ag nanocrystals in solar cell devices, light scattering simulations of Ag nanocrystals in Si, SiO$_2$, SiN, and Al$_2$O$_3$ matrices were carried out using Mie Plot. These light scattering spectra for the individual nanocrystal sizes were combined into light scattering spectra for the fitted size distributions. The evolution of these scattering spectra with respect to an increasing mean nanocrystal size was then studied. From these findings, it is possible to find the molar ratio for which the corresponding nanocrystal size distribution has maximum scattering at a particular wavelength in the desired matrix.
description: 8 figures
A Unified Generating Function of the q-Genocchi Polynomials with their Interpolation Functions
Creators: name: Araci, Serkan
name: Açikgöz, Mehmet
name: Jolany, Hassan
name: Seo, Jong Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A10, 11B65, 28B99, 11B68, 11B73

description: The purpose of this paper is to construct of the unification q-extension Genocchi polynomials. We give some interesting relations of this type of polynomials. Finally, we derive the q-extensions of Hurwitz-zeta type functions from the Mellin transformation of this generating function which interpolates the unification of q-extension of Genocchi polynomials.
Additional file 4 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues: a new way to quit smoking? (SKIP)—a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Lengsfeld, Sophia
name: Burkard, Thilo
name: Meienberg, Andrea
name: Jeanloz, Nica
name: Coynel, David
name: Vogt, Deborah R.
name: Hemkens, Lars G.
name: Speich, Benjamin
name: Zanchi, Davide
name: Erlanger, Tobias E.
name: Christ-Crain, Mirjam
name: Winzeler, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Clinical study protocol (SKIP fMRI).
Depositional Architecture of Confined Meander Belt Deposits, Lower Cretaceous Grand Rapids Formation, east-central Alberta
Creators: name: Coderre, Adam B.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Grand Rapids Formation
subject: confined meander belt
subject: downstream accretion
subject: counter point bars

description: The Cretaceous Grand Rapids Formation in east-central Alberta is comprised ofprograding deltaic to marginal marine deposits incised by fluvial to marine-influenced fluvial bodies at several stratigraphic levels. Facies mapping and a high-resolution allostratigraphic framework are used to map the 3D distribution of marginal marine units and fluvial bodies. A confined fluvial meander belt in the Colony Allomember is studied in detail using a high-resolution data set of densely spaced wells and seismic time slices. Sediment distribution within the meander belt is particularly fine-grained (i.e., siltstone-dominated), despite indications that discharge was substantial due to the large scale of channels and point bars imaged in seismic data. The fine-grained character of the meander belt is likely a result of: (1) a propensity for muddy counter point bar preservation at the expense of sandy point bar deposits; and (2) limited supply of sand to the depositional system.
Effect of Encoding Method on the Distribution of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Creators: name: Mora, Luis A.
name: Amaya, Jhon E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the evaluation of the effect of the method of ECG signal encoding, based on nonlinear characteristics such as information entropy and Lempel-Ziv complexity, on the distribution of cardiac arrhythmias. Initially proposed a procedure electrocardiographic gating to compensate for errors inherent in the process of filtering segments. For the evaluation of distributions and determine which of the different encoding methods produces greater separation between different kinds of arrhythmias studied (AFIB, AFL, SVTA, VT, Normal's), use a function based on the dispersion of the elements on the centroid of its class, the result being that the best encoding for the entire system is through the method of threshold value for a ternary code with E = 1 / 12.
description: The original Spanish version of this article was presented in the III International Congress of Mechatronics Engineering - UNAB, Bucaramanga, Colombia. October 2011. http://catic.unab.edu.co/3congresomecatronica/
Additional file 5 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues: a new way to quit smoking? (SKIP)—a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Lengsfeld, Sophia
name: Burkard, Thilo
name: Meienberg, Andrea
name: Jeanloz, Nica
name: Coynel, David
name: Vogt, Deborah R.
name: Hemkens, Lars G.
name: Speich, Benjamin
name: Zanchi, Davide
name: Erlanger, Tobias E.
name: Christ-Crain, Mirjam
name: Winzeler, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Clinical study protocol (SKIP Energy).
Second Generation Multi-Resolution Techniques for Edge Detection and Feature Extraction from 8-Bands High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Creators: name: ELSHARKAWY, AHMED SHAWKY
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Multi-resolution techniques
subject: Satellite imagery
subject: Edge detection
subject: Classification

description: Urban mapping is one of the most important tasks in military and civilian applications. Since the launching of high resolution satellite imagery; such as IKONOS, QUICKBIRD, WorldView-2 and their high spatial and high spectral resolution are much appreciated for urban mapping, as high spatial resolution provides better geometric quality while high spectral resolution provides better object identification. If we add the reliability and unmatched coverage area, compared to other sensors, with the previous advantages so we are using the optimum tool for urban planning and mapping purposes. Current scientific efforts in image and signal processing fields have led to more powerful and reliable tools for fast and efficient analysis and handling of large amounts of data sets currently available from the new satellite missions. This thesis contributes to this development by introducing an innovative combination of various methods from image processing and the new eight bands from the WorldView-2 to derive reliable information for land use and land cover types. In this thesis, data from WorldView-2 satellite for Ismailia city, EGYPT, is used. The study area was selected to cover the main necessary classes to produce an urban classification map. A new multi-layer classification algorithm using the traditional NDVI and two new NDVI like ratio were used to separate between six main classes; water, vegetation, shadow, bare soil, asphalt and buildings. A new technique based on second generation curvelet transforms was used to detect edges and was compared with wavelet and traditional canny operator. Both approaches; the multi-layer classification algorithm and curvelet transforms, were integrated to enhance the quality of the classification. A calibration process preceded the proposed algorithms and succeeded together in extracting the desired classes with a high accuracy in an almost automatic procedure without user intervention. Shorelines were also extracted using the new algorithm and the relative bathymetry of the water way of the Suez Canal and the Temsah Lake were derived using innovated band ratios with the new spectral bands.
Modulation of frequency-dependent EEG connectivity in Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Tropini, Giorgia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Traditional models of Parkinson's disease (PD) have emphasized the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic projections to the basal ganglia (BG). Since the advent of deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for PD that allows direct BG recordings, it has become apparent that PD is also characterized by abnormal oscillatory activity within BG-thalamocortical loops. Altered β band activity in particular has been shown to correlate with bradykinesia and rigidity, and appears to be suppressed by both levodopa medication and high-frequency subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS. However, recent animal studies have suggested that the primary site of DBS action is the cortex, thus implying that cortical areas might play a greater role than previously recognized in the modulation of abnormal PD rhythms. This thesis aimed to investigate cortical connectivity modulation in frequency bands (α, β) that have been described in oscillatory models of PD, and to understand the effects of levodopa on connectivity. We utilized a sparse Multivariate Autoregressive (mAR)-based Partial Directed Coherence (PDC) method to assess frequency-dependent EEG connectivity in PD subjects and controls performing a visually guided task previously shown to modulate abnormal oscillatory activity in the STN of PD patients. In addition, we utilized traditional spectral analysis to evaluate task-dependent power modulation in five electrode regions of interest. While spectral analysis revealed power modulation differences between PD and control subjects, it showed relatively modest differences between regions. In contrast, PDC-based analysis revealed complex, region-dependent alterations of directional connectivity in PD subjects as compared to normal subjects. Connectivity was particularly altered posteriorly, suggesting abnormalities in visual and visuo-motor processing. Moreover, connectivity measures correlated with motor Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scores (UPDRS) in PD subjects withdrawn from medication. Levodopa administration only partially restored connectivity, and in some cases resulted in further exacerbation of abnormalities. Overall, we suggest that the use of a PDC-based method might be ideally suited to investigate temporally-sensitive, directional connectivity changes in both the healthy and the diseased state using non-invasive EEG. Our findings have implications for the investigation of abnormal rhythms not only in PD, but also in other conditions characterized by altered oscillatory activity, such as epilepsy or schizophrenia.
The Effect of Potential and Actual Paternity on Positive Male-Infant Behaviour in Ursine Colobus
Creators: name: Fox, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Colobus vellerosus
subject: Sexual Conflict
subject: Paternity Testing
subject: Kin recognition
subject: Male Infanticide
subject: Paternal Care

description: I aimed to investigate the interplay between paternal care and male infanticide in primates. I examined the effects of potential and actual paternity on positive male infant interactions in wild ursine colobus. I collected behavioural data on 12 adult and sub-adult males. Infants that were conceived when a male was sexually active and present in the infant’s group were considered potential offspring of that male. I used DNA from fecal samples to determine paternity for 12 of the 16 infants in my study groups. Positive male-infant behaviour occurred at higher rates between males and potential offspring than males and unlikely offspring, and occurred more with infants than juveniles. These findings support the hypothesis that positive male-infant behaviour reflects paternal care, which possibly evolved in response to male infanticide. Paternity did not predict positive male-infant behaviour, suggesting that females may be successfully confusing paternity through polyandrous mating in the current conditions.
Shadow of Mill
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: On this page you will find the score materials, previous recordings, reviews, program notes and performance instruction for the music composition entitled
 The Shadow of MillThis is a music composition for cello and subtone in three movements, composed between 2017 and 2018. It is dedicated to Tristen Parr, who played the premiere. You will need the Decibel ScorePlayer app on iPad to perform this piece (see below).
 "Shadow of Mill presents audiences with an open-ended reflection on the issue of settlement and racism in Australia." Eduardo Cossio, Cool Perth Nights. PROGRAM NOTE
This work is a reflection on the white Australia policy enacted in 1901. The title is taken from Phil Griffith’s paper “Towards White Australia: The Shadow of Mill and the spectre of slavery in the 1802 debates on Chinese Immigration” published in 2002. The piece explores the idea of this Policy, printed on paper of today, interacting with the cello: sensuously rubbed and grated against the body and strings of the instrument as a representative of the European Culture imported into Australia. But this instrument is not played as originally intended. It is detuned, struck and played with two bows, all the time underpinned by subtle 'undertones'.
The second movement was commissioned by Gabriella Smart for the APRA|AMC Art Awards in Sydney, 2017. The first and third movements were written for the Summers Night Project in 2018. NOTE FOR PERFORMERS You will also need to print a copy of the White Australia Policy to use in performance, you can find it on the Internet.
The majority of my compositions use scores that are read on an iPad tablet computer, using the Decibel ScorePlayer, an application available on the App Store . Any fixed media is embedded in the score, and some feature automated functions. In the case of ensemble works, multiple iPads can be networked on a LAN or over the Internet so parts can be read in a synchronised way. You should upload the score file (ending with.dsz) to your iPad from your computer via AirDrop on an Apple, or cable from a PC. Instructions on how to do this and using the Decibel ScorePlayer, more generally are included in the Application, which ships with five other scores. Thus my works have different versions of the score, as you may see above. A PDF/PNG file of the score ‘image’, a DSZ file to upload onto the iPad for performance, and for some less complex scores, a video version. Hardcopies are also available from my publisher. You can find out more about the Decibel ScorePlayer, and how to make your own scores for it, here. PERFORMANCES
2nd movement premiered APRA AMC Art Music Awards, 2017, by Tristen Parr.
Full three movements premiered as part of Summers Nights, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, July 2018 by Tristen Parr.
Magnetized neutron star atmospheres: beyond cold plasma approximation
Creators: name: Suleimanov, V. F.
name: Pavlov, G. G.
name: Werner, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All the neutron star (NS) atmosphere models published so far have been calculated in the "cold plasma approximation", which neglects the relativistic effects in the radiative processes, such as cyclotron emission/absorption at harmonics of cyclotron frequency. Here we present new NS atmosphere models which include such effects. We calculate a set of models for effective temperatures T_eff =1-3 MK and magnetic fields B \sim 10^{10}-10^{11} G, typical for the so-called central compact objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants, for which the electron cyclotron energy E_{c,e} and its first harmonics are in the observable soft X-ray range. Although the relativistic parameters, such as kT_eff /(m_e c^2) and E_{c,e} /(m_e c^2), are very small for CCOs, the relativistic effects substantially change the emergent spectra at the cyclotron resonances, E \approx sE_{c,e} (s=1, 2,...). Although the cyclotron absorption features can form in a cold plasma due to the quantum oscillations of the free-free opacity, the shape and depth of these features change substantially if the relativistic effects are included. In particular, the features acquire deep Doppler cores, in which the angular distribution of the emergent intensity is quite different from that in the cold plasma approximation. The relative contributions of the Doppler cores to the equivalent widths of the features grow with increasing the quantization parameter b_eff = E_{c,e}/kT_eff and harmonic number s. The total equivalent widths of the features can reach \sim 150-250 eV; they increase with growing b_eff and are smaller for higher harmonics.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ, corrected title
Stabilized Annotations for Mobile Remote Assistance
Creators: name: Fakourfar, Omid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computer Science

description: Recent mobile technology has provided new opportunities for creating remote assistance systems. However, mobile support systems present a particular challenge: both the camera and display are held by the user, leading to shaky video. When pointing or drawing annotations, this means that the desired target often moves, causing the gesture to lose its intended meaning. To address this problem, this thesis investigates an annotation stabilization technique, which allows annotations to stick to their intended location. I studied two different forms of annotation systems, with both tablets and head-mounted displays. To differentiate my work from the prior research, I considered a number of task factors that might influence system performance in remote assistance scenarios. My analysis suggests that stabilized annotations and head-mounted displays are only beneficial in certain situations. I conclude with reflections on system limitations and potential future work.
Du MES au Fonds monétaire européen?. Revue ECU/EURO, N°53 (2018)
Creators: name: Castellarin, Emanuel
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: European Stability Mechanism
subject: Mécanisme européen de stabilité
subject: European Monetary Fund
subject: Fonds monétaire européen
subject: Financial Stability
subject: Stabilité financière
subject: Single Resolution Fund
subject: Fonds de résolution unique

description: In December 2017, the European Commission proposed a Council Regulation to replace the ESM by a European Monetary Fund (EMF). Its main purpose is to insert this new organ within the Union’s institutional system, with limited changes to the ESM framework. In December 2018, the Eurogroup, with the approval of the Euro Summit, took up some elements of the Commission’s proposal in order to prepare amendments to the ESM treaty. The use of ESM funds is progressively becoming clearer and can improve the material coherence of the Union’s policies, in particular with regard to the programmes’ conditionality and to the creation of a backstop to the Single Resolution Fund. On the other hand, at the institutional level, the legal basis of the future EMF, its impact on the institutional balance and its implications for relations between Member States raise several questions. Unsurprisingly, the Eurogroup does not intend to adopt any major changes on these issues, which are nonetheless to be borne in mind in debates on Eurozone governance in the years to come.
The Very Young Type Ia Supernova 2012cg: Discovery and Early-Time Follow-Up Observations
Creators: name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Ganeshalingam, Mohan
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Li, Weidong
name: Barth, Aaron J.
name: Carson, Daniel J.
name: Childress, Michael
name: Clubb, Kelsey I.
name: Cucchiara, Antonino
name: Graham, Melissa L.
name: Marion, G. H.
name: Nguyen, My L.
name: Pei, Liuyi
name: Tucker, Brad E.
name: Vinko, Jozsef
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Worseck, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On 2012 May 17.2 UT, only 1.5 +/- 0.2 d after explosion, we discovered SN 2012cg, a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in NGC 4424 (d ~ 15 Mpc). As a result of the newly modified strategy employed by the Lick Observatory SN Search, a sequence of filtered images was obtained starting 161 s after discovery. Utilizing recent models describing the interaction of SN ejecta with a companion star, we rule out a ~1 M_Sun companion for half of all viewing angles and a red-giant companion for nearly all orientations. SN 2012cg reached a B-band maximum of 12.09 +/- 0.02 mag on 2012 June 2.0 and took ~17.3 d from explosion to reach this, typical for SNe Ia. Our pre-maximum brightness photometry shows a narrower-than-average B-band light curve for SN 2012cg, though slightly overluminous at maximum brightness and with normal color evolution (including some of the earliest SN Ia filtered photometry ever obtained). Spectral fits to SN 2012cg reveal ions typically found in SNe Ia at early times, with expansion velocities >14,000 km/s at 2.5 d past explosion. Absorption from C II is detected early, as well as high-velocity components of both Si II 6355 Ang. and Ca II. Our last spectrum (13.5 d past explosion) resembles that of the somewhat peculiar SN Ia 1999aa. This suggests that SN 2012cg will have a slower-than-average declining light curve, which may be surprising given the faster-than-average rising light curve.
description: re-submitted to ApJL, 4 figures, 1 table
Determinants of Risk in Bear-Train Interactions
Creators: name: Burley, Brianna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Forestry and Wildlife

description: Railway-caused bear mortality is a concern in the Canadian Mountain National Parks. This research examined the behavioral responses of bears and oncoming trains to better understand what bears perceive as ‘risky’ in bear-train encounters. I used videos of bear-train interactions to measure site-specific variables at bear-train encounter sites to explain a bear’s flight initiation distance (FID) and Flee Speed from an oncoming train. I found that a bear’s FID to an oncoming train was best explained by an interaction between Train Speed and Slope, and between Longitudinal Visibility and Perpendicular Visibility, and that their Flee Speed was best explained additively by Species (bear), Train Speed, the bear’s distance from the track and the between-side difference in Delta Density of Overhead Vegetation. These results can be used to help make site-specific mitigations to areas of the railway where a bear might deem the location more ‘risky’.
Additional file 1 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
title: World History Connected, Vol. 18 No. 1: Winter 2021
title: Winter 2021
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: World History Connected
Publisher: name: World History Connected
Year: 2023

description: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912. Bonnie G. Smith. Women in World History: 1450 to the Present. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Eric Paul Roorda, editor, The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Person: Jan Kozlowski and the Russian Revolution Missing in Action: Africans in History Textbooks Digital Guide to Resources on Latin America and World History Eating Jamaica: How Food is Used as a Tool to Create and Reinforce Cultural Identity Little House on the Prairie in Sonora: Borderlands, the Comcáac, and World History From the Margins to the Centre: Brazil in Atlantic and World History Too Despacito: Reflections on Teaching Latin America in the Global Context Introduction to the Forum: Updating the Role of Latin America in World History Brief Summary of the Issue
Optimal, scalable forward models for computing gravity anomalies
Creators: name: May, Dave A.
name: Knepley, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe three approaches for computing a gravity signal from a density anomaly. The first approach consists of the classical "summation" technique, whilst the remaining two methods solve the Poisson problem for the gravitational potential using either a Finite Element (FE) discretization employing a multilevel preconditioner, or a Green's function evaluated with the Fast Multipole Method (FMM). The methods utilizing the PDE formulation described here differ from previously published approaches used in gravity modeling in that they are optimal, implying that both the memory and computational time required scale linearly with respect to the number of unknowns in the potential field. Additionally, all of the implementations presented here are developed such that the computations can be performed in a massively parallel, distributed memory computing environment. Through numerical experiments, we compare the methods on the basis of their discretization error, CPU time and parallel scalability. We demonstrate the parallel scalability of all these techniques by running forward models with up to $10^8$ voxels on 1000's of cores.
description: 38 pages, 13 figures; accepted by Geophysical Journal International
La Constitutionnalisation de l’Union européenne au-delà des États membres: le cas de l’austérité budgétaire. Revue ECU/EURO, N°53 (2018)
Creators: name: Barbier, Cécile
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Integration through law
subject: Intégration par le droit
subject: European Central Bank
subject: Banque centrale européenne
subject: Euro
subject: Austerity
subject: Austerité
subject: Future of the European Union
subject: Avenir de l'Union européenne

description: L’intégration par le droit a caractérisé les premières années de la construction européenne. Les différentes révisions des Traités ont élargi les domaines de compétences de l’Union européenne avec le transfert sans précédent de la politique monétaire à une Banque centrale indépendante, planifié par le Traité de Maastricht. Depuis le déclenchement de la crise financière globale en 2008, les institutions européennes et particulièrement la Banque centrale européenne sont confrontées aux limites de ce traité. Pour répondre à la crise protéiforme qui frappe la zone euro, plusieurs instruments ont été élaborés et appelés à se succéder les uns aux autres. L’incorporation dans le droit de l’Union du Traité instituant le Mécanisme européen de stabilité et de la «substance» du Traité sur la stabilité, la coordination et la gouvernance (ou «Traité budgétaire») devrait doter l’Union européenne d’une plus grande légitimité. L’ombre des politiques d’austérité laisse planer un doute légitime sur cette entreprise juridique.
"Kicking Down Doors" and "Turning Over Stones": Front-line Youth Workers Engaging in Policy Analysis as an Active Advocacy Process
Creators: name: Huntingford, Stasha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Public and Social Welfare
subject: Front-line workers
subject: Policy
subject: Youth Homelessness
subject: Participatory Action Research

description: In this research, front-line youth workers analyzed policy pertaining to youth homelessness. This analysis catalyzed further reflections and actions informed by what we learned in the research, such as the establishment of the School of Social Play. The research process was composed of the following phases: the Preparing the Ground phase, the Immersion phase, as well as the Reflection and Action phases. Focus groups and participant observation were some of the methods used to answer research questions during these phases. One participant in this research identified as a co-researcher at a one-year follow up after the research concluded. This person engaged in a reflective dialogue with me about the research, which is included in the discussion chapter. Workers identified four key principles that would contribute to ending youth homelessness. The first principle concerns the relationship between stigma and homelessness. The second principle emphasizes the importance of relationships, and the third focuses on harms caused by the charity model. The final principle states that services and policies should be directed by youth, as they are the people best able to define what the problem is. In the discussion, I justify my conclusion that youth have much to teach us about challenging authority, critical thinking, and the pursuit of social justice.
Quasiparticle interference in heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5
Creators: name: Akbari, Alireza
name: Thalmeier, Peter
name: Eremin, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quasiparticle interference in the heavy Fermion superconductor CeCoIn_5 as direct method to confirm the d-wave gap symmetry. The ambiguity between d_{xy} and d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry remaining from earlier specific heat and thermal transport investigations has been resolved in favor of the latter by the observation of a spin resonance that can occur only in d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry. However these methods are all indirect and depend considerably on theoretical interpretation. Here we propose that quasiparticle interference (QPI) spectroscopy by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can give a direct fingerprint of the superconducting gap in real space which may lead to a definite conclusion on its symmetry for CeCoIn_5 and related 115 compounds. The QPI pattern for both magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities is calculated for the possible d-wave symmetries and characteristic differences are found that may be identified by STM method.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures