cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Photobiomodulation of lymphatic drainage and clearance: Perspective strategy for augmentation of meningeal lymphatic functions
Creators: name: Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Oxana
name: Abdurashitov, Arkady
name: Dubrovsky, Alexander
name: Klimova, Maria
name: Agranovich, Ilana
name: Terskov, Andrey
name: Shirokov, Alexander
name: Vinnik, Valeria
name: Kuzmina, Anna
name: Lezhnev, Nikita
name: Blokhina, Inna
name: Shnitenkova, Anastassia
name: Tuchin, Valery
name: Rafailov, Edik
name: Kurths, Jurgen
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Optica
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disease control
subject: Nanorods
subject: Clearing functions
subject: Confocal imaging
subject: Lymphatic functions
subject: 530
subject: 610

description: There is a hypothesis that augmentation of the drainage and clearing function of the meningeal lymphatic vessels (MLVs) might be a promising therapeutic target for preventing neurological diseases. Here we investigate mechanisms of photobiomodulation (PBM, 1267 nm) of lymphatic drainage and clearance. Our results obtained at optical coherence tomography (OCT) give strong evidence that low PBM doses (5 and 10 J/cm2) stimulate drainage function of the lymphatic vessels via vasodilation (OCT data on the mesenteric lymphatics) and stimulation of lymphatic clearance (OCT data on clearance of gold nanorods from the brain) that was supported by confocal imaging of clearance of FITC-dextran from the cortex via MLVs. We assume that PBM-mediated relaxation of the lymphatic vessels can be possible mechanisms underlying increasing the permeability of the lymphatic endothelium that allows molecules transported by the lymphatic vessels and explain PBM stimulation of lymphatic drainage and clearance. These findings open new strategies for the stimulation of MLVs functions and non-pharmacological therapy of brain diseases.
OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES FOR TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Creators: name: GROUT, V.M.
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1988

description: This thesis deals with various facets of the optimisation problem for telecommunication networks and proposes a number of new techniques for their solution. The necessary essentials, Graph Theory, Complexity Theory and Telecommunication Principles, are investigated. The relevant graphs are enumerated and the requirements of suitable optimisation algorithms for certain graphical problems are established. The Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) is introduced. the variety of telecommunications traffic as well as the practical requirements of a connection topology are discussed. The fundamental Network Optimisation Problem (NJP) is defined and analysed. Simple exhaustive methods of solution are considered together with partial solution algorithms and simplification methods. Centralised networks with and without concentrators are introduced. Extensions and modifications are proposed for some techniques and existing practical methods of dealing with the NOP are investigated. A number of new ideas are proposed for the practical solution of the NOP. Reduction methods are presented for replacing large unmanageable networks with smaller ones, on which optimisation can take place. Fixed topology techniques are introduced for initial tandem switch selection purposes and perturbation methods are considered which can be applied to such an initial solution. Lookahead methods of link removal are introduced for the purposes of determining the tandem interconnection network together with the traffic routeing strategy. A composite method is proposed incorporating all of these concepts and the results of a number of numerical experiments upon actual network problem; are presented. the extension of the proposed techniques to other areas of problem solving and optimisation is considered. In particular, a new method for the solution of the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem (ETSP) is presented. A brief discussion is undertaken, in conclusion, concerning the practical difficulties of the NOP and The restrictions this placed upon solution algorithms of various types.
The Opium for the Poor Is Opium. Medicare Providers in States with Low Income Prescribe High Levels of Opiates
Creators: name: Tarnow, Eugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The majority of Medicare opioid prescriptions originate with family practice and internal medicine providers. I show that the average number of Medicare opium prescriptions by these providers vary strongly by state and that 54% of the variance is accounted for by the state median household income. I also show that there is a very similar relationship in opioid claims per capita and per Medicare recipient. In all cases Alabama is the state with the most claims and Hawaii is the state with the least claims.
Causal relationships in economic growth: Wagner's law, the case of Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Bagadeem, Salim Aljawid
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Economics to the School of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
The noun phrase in Bengali
Creators: name: Gangopadhyay, Malaya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ultrafast Magnetic Switching of GdFeCo with Electronic Heat Currents
Creators: name: Wilson, R. B.
name: Gorchon, Jon
name: Yang, Yang
name: Lambert, Charles-Henri
name: Salahuddin, Sayeef
name: Bokor, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the magnetic response of Au/GdFeCo bilayers to optical irradiation of the Au surface. For bilayers with Au thickness greater than 50 nm, the great majority of energy is absorbed by the Au electrons, creating an initial temperature differential of thousands of Kelvin between the Au and GdFeCo layers. The resulting electronic heat currents between the Au and GdFeCo layers last for several picoseconds with energy flux in excess of 2 TW m-2, and provide sufficient heating to the GdFeCo electrons to induce deterministic reversal of the magnetic moment.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
The Mean Metal-line Absorption Spectrum of DLAs in BOSS
Creators: name: Mas-Ribas, Lluís
name: Miralda-Escudé, Jordi
name: Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
name: Arinyo-i-Prats, Andreu
name: Noterdaeme, Pasquier
name: Petitjean, Patrick
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: York, Donald G.
name: Ge, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mean absorption spectrum of the Damped Lyman alpha population at $z\sim 2.6$ by stacking normalized, rest-frame shifted spectra of $\sim 27\,000$ DLAs from the DR12 of BOSS/SDSS-III. We measure the equivalent widths of 50 individual metal absorption lines in 5 intervals of DLA hydrogen column density, 5 intervals of DLA redshift, and overall mean equivalent widths for an additional 13 absorption features from groups of strongly blended lines. The mean equivalent width of low-ionization lines increases with $N_{\rm HI}$, whereas for high-ionization lines the increase is much weaker. The mean metal line equivalent widths decrease by a factor $\sim 1.1-1.5$ from $z\sim2.1$ to $z \sim 3.5$, with small or no differences between low- and high-ionization species. We develop a theoretical model, inspired by the presence of multiple absorption components observed in high-resolution spectra, to infer mean metal column densities from the equivalent widths of partially saturated metal lines. We apply this model to 14 low-ionization species and to AlIII, SIII, SiIII, CIV, SiIV, NV and OVI. We use an approximate derivation for separating the equivalent width contributions of several lines to blended absorption features, and infer mean equivalent widths and column densities from lines of the additional species NI, ZnII, CII${}^{*}$, FeIII, and SIV. Several of these mean column densities of metal lines in DLAs are obtained for the first time; their values generally agree with measurements of individual DLAs from high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra when they are available.
description: Resubmitted after referee revision. Added evolution of metal-line equivalent widths with redshift (Section 5). Added assessment of result dependencies on sample and methodology. Comparison of relative abundances of DLAs vs Milky Way ISM and halo (Figure 16). Publicly available videos of composite quasar and DLA spectra realizations here: https://github.com/lluism/
(201459) William Russell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Absence of an Abrupt Phase Change from Polycrystalline to Amorphous in Silicon with Deposition Temperature
Creators: name: Abelson, J. R.
name: Gerbi, J. E.
name: Gibson, J. M.
name: Treacy, M. M. J.
name: Voyles, P. M.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The Growth Rate of Tri-Colored Sum-Free Sets
Creators: name: Kleinberg, Robert
name: Sawin, Will
name: Speyer, David E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be an abelian group. A tri-colored sum-free set in $G^n$ is a collection of triples $({\bf a}_i, {\bf b}_i, {\bf c}_i)$ in $G^n$ such that ${\bf a}_i+{\bf b}_j+{\bf c}_k=0$ if and only if $i=j=k$. Fix a prime $q$ and let $C_q$ be the cyclic group of order $q$. Let $θ= \min_{ρ>0} (1+ρ+\cdots + ρ^{q-1}) ρ^{-(q-1)/3}$. Blasiak, Church, Cohn, Grochow, Naslund, Sawin, and Umans (building on previous work of Croot, Lev and Pach, and of Ellenberg and Gijswijt) showed that a tri-colored sum-free set in $C_q^n$ has size at most $3 θ^n$. Between this paper and a paper of Pebody, we will show that, for any $δ> 0$, and $n$ sufficiently large, there are tri-colored sum-free sets in $C_q^n$ of size $(θ-δ)^n$. Our construction also works when $q$ is not prime.
description: 10 pages, published in Discrete Analysis
First Observation of the Decay KL --> pi0e+egamma
Creators: name: Arenton, M.
name: Alavi-Harati, A.
name: Alexopoulos, T.
name: Arisaka, K.
name: Averitte, S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Intentional dreaming: a phenomenological inquiry into the therapist's experience of creating in psychotherapy
Creators: name: Gibson, Cheryl A.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Science (Counselling and Psychotherapy) Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences La Trobe University Bundoora.
(201460) Susanna Howell
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.
Mount Currie instrumental enrichment workshop
Creators: name: Face To Face Media
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Wallace, Connie
subject: Stager, Verna
subject: Indigenous peoples--Languages
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2003266
subject: Cognition in children--Testing
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/866512
subject: Hudec, Frank A.
subject: Nelson, Georgina
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Wallace, Eleanor L.
subject: St’át’imc Nation
subject: Ucwalmícwts language
subject: Wallace, Gloria
subject: Mediated learning experience
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1763178
subject: Wallace, Sherry
subject: John, Terri
subject: Harding. Tracy
subject: Joe, Jeanette
subject: Feuerstein, Reuven
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/157273
subject: Down syndrome--Social aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897237
subject: Saul, Bernita
subject: O’Callaghan, David
subject: Teachers' workshops
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1144542
subject: Nelson, Felicity
subject: Indigenous peoples
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/970213
subject: Cognition in children--Social aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/866508
subject: Joseph, Lois
subject: Linger, Mona
subject: Leo, Erica
subject: Mámaya7
subject: Tsínay̓a7
subject: Kubik, Roberta
subject: Williams, Burt
subject: Racism in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1737534
subject: Lil'wat Nation
subject: Language revival
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/992415
subject: Mernett, Maisie

description: Production material features part of a multi-day workshop for teachers and parents on Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) conducted by Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams in Mount Currie. The first section features Wanosts’a7 and participants working through and discussing class exercises. This section runs from the beginning of tape VR71, and continues until the end of tape VR73. The second section features a discussion centring around Feuerstein’s theory of structural cognitive modifiability (SCM). The discussion also touches on cognitive testing; Feuerstein’s work with children with Down syndrome; how beliefs and prejudices shape educational opportunities and outcomes; institutional racism; mediated learning experience; revitalization of the Líl̓wat language, Ucwalmícwts; and Wanosts’a7 work at the Vancouver School District with Indigenous students and families. This section runs from the beginning of tape VR74, and continues until the end of tape VR76. There is no tape VR75. The final section features participants working on exercises while Wanosts’a7 provides guidance, along with Wanosts’a7’s closing remarks for the day. This section runs from the beginning of tape VR77, and continues until 13:52 on tape VR78. Additional material of the exterior and schoolyard of Sir William MacDonald Elementary can be found following the final section. The school has since been renamed χpey̓ Elementary School.
Boson/Fermion Janus Particles
Creators: name: Tsekov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamically, bosons and fermions differ by their statistics only. A general entropy functional is proposed by superposition of entropic terms, typical for different quantum gases. The statistical properties of the corresponding Janus particles are derived by variation of the weight of the boson/fermion fraction. It is shown that di-bosons and anti-fermions separate in gas and liquid phases, while three-phase equilibrium appears for poly-boson/fermion Janus particles.
description: The paper is dedicated to the 1100th anniversary from the passing of St. Clement of Ohrid (840-916), the patron of the University of Sofia
Victorian agriculture and the role of government, 1880-1914
Creators: name: Frost, Lionel Edwin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Laser-driven recollisions under the Coulomb barrier
Creators: name: Keil, Th.
name: Popruzhenko, S. V.
name: Bauer, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoelectron spectra obtained from the ab initio solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation can be in striking disagreement with predictions by the strong-field approximation (SFA) not only at low energy but also around twice the ponderomotive energy where the transition from the direct to the rescattered electrons is expected. In fact, the relative enhancement of the ionization probability compared to the SFA in this regime can be several orders of magnitude. We show for which laser and target parameters such an enhancement occurs and for which the SFA prediction is qualitatively good. The enhancement is analyzed in terms of the Coulomb-corrected action along analytic quantum orbits in the complex-time plane, taking soft recollisions under the Coulomb barrier into account. These recollisions in complex time and space prevent a separation into sub-barrier motion up to the "tunnel exit" and subsequent classical dynamics. Instead, the entire quantum path up to the detector determines the ionization probability.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX 4.1
(201461) Samuel Plumbe
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.
Wealth without power : an ethnographic account of the elite women of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Forster, Michele
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Development and the 'informal' sector : a study of pedlars and trishaw riders in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
Creators: name: Forbes, Dean Keith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Electric Current Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization
Creators: name: Wilson, R. B.
name: Yang, Yang
name: Gorchon, Jon
name: Lambert, Charles-Henri
name: Salahuddin, Sayeef
name: Bokor, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the magnetic response of Co/Pt multilayers to picosecond electrical heating. Using photoconductive Auston switches, we generate electrical pulses with 5.5 picosecond duration and hundreds of pico-Joules to pass through Co/Pt multilayers. The electrical pulse heats the electrons in the Co/Pt multilayers and causes an ultrafast reduction in the magnetic moment. A comparison between optical and electrically induced demagnetization of the Co/Pt multilayers reveals significantly different dynamics for optical vs. electrical heating. We attribute the disparate dynamics to the dependence of the electron-phonon interaction on the average energy and total number of initially excited electrons.
First Measurement of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integral for 1H from 200 to 800 MeV
Creators: name: Ahrens, J.
name: Altieri, S.
name: Annand, J. R. M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Arends, H.-J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
(201462) Ann Serena Payne
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.
Kilonovae
Creators: name: Metzger, Brian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mergers of double neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole (BH)-NS binaries are promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for Advanced LIGO and future GW detectors. The neutron-rich ejecta from such merger events undergoes rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis, enriching our Galaxy with rare heavy elements like gold and platinum. The radioactive decay of these unstable nuclei also powers a rapidly evolving, supernova-like transient known as a "kilonova". Kilonovae provide an approximately isotropic electromagnetic counterpart to the GW signal, which also provides a unique and direct probe of an important, if not dominant, r-process site. This handbook reviews the history and physics of kilonovae, leading to the current paradigm of week-long emission with a spectral peak at near-infrared wavelengths. Using a simple light curve model to illustrate the basic physics, I introduce potentially important variations on this canonical picture, including: ~day-long optical ("blue") emission from lanthanide-free components of the ejecta; ~hours-long precursor UV/blue emission, powered by the decay of free neutrons in the outermost ejecta layers; and enhanced emission due to energy input from a long-lived central engine, such as an accreting BH or millisecond magnetar. I assess the prospects of detecting kilonovae following future GW detections of NS-NS/BH-NS mergers in light of the recent follow-up campaign of the LIGO binary BH-BH mergers.
description: published in Living Reviews in Relativity
Consistency in Vulnerability Assessments of Wheat to Climate Change—A District-Level Analysis in India
Creators: name: Dhamija, Vanshika
name: Shukla, Roopam
name: Gornott, Christoph
name: Joshi, PK
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agriculture
subject: Climate vulnerability
subject: Composite index
subject: India
subject: Regression analysis
subject: Wheat
subject: 333.7
subject: 690

description: In India, a reduction in wheat crop yield would lead to a widespread impact on food security. In particular, the most vulnerable people are severely exposed to food insecurity. This study estimates the climate change vulnerability of wheat crops with respect to heterogeneities in time, space, and weighting methods. The study uses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework of vulnerability while using composite indices of 27 indicators to explain exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. We used climate projections under current (1975–2005) conditions and two future (2021–2050) Representation Concentration Pathways (RCPs), 4.5 and 8.5, to estimate exposure to climatic risks. Consistency across three weighting methods (Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Equal Weights (EWs)) was evaluated. Results of the vulnerability profile suggest high vulnerability of the wheat crop in northern and central India. In particular, the districts Unnao, Sirsa, Hardoi, and Bathinda show high vulnerability and high consistency across current and future climate scenarios. In total, 84% of the districts show more than 75% consistency in the current climate, and 83% and 68% of the districts show more than 75% consistency for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 climate scenario for the three weighting methods, respectively. By using different weighting methods, it was possible to quantify “method uncertainty” in vulnerability assessment and enhance robustness in identifying most vulnerable regions. Finally, we emphasize the importance of communicating uncertainties, both in data and methods in vulnerability research, to effectively guide adaptation planning. The results of this study would serve as the basis for designing climate impacts adjusted adaptation measures for policy interventions.
Digging up people for coal : a history of Yallourn
Creators: name: Fletcher, Meredith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Asymptotic behaviour for a class of non-monotone delay differential systems with applications
Creators: name: Faria, Teresa
name: Obaya, Rafael
name: Sanz, Ana M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K25, 34K12, 34K27, 34K20, 92D25

description: The paper concerns a class of $n$-dimensional non-autonomous delay differential equations obtained by adding a non-monotone delayed perturbation to a linear homogeneous cooperative system of ordinary differential equations. This family covers a wide set of models used in structured population dynamics. By exploiting the stability and the monotone character of the linear ODE, we establish sufficient conditions for both the extinction of all the populations and the permanence of the system. In the case of DDEs with autonomous coefficients (but possible time-varying delays), sharp results are obtained, even in the case of a reducible community matrix. As a sub-product, our results improve some criteria for autonomous systems published in recent literature. As an important illustration, the extinction, persistence and permanence of a non-autonomous Nicholson system with patch structure and multiple time-dependent delays are analysed.
description: 26 pages, J Dyn Diff Equat (2017)
Corporate social responsibility in government-linked companies (GLCS) Malaysia: The influence of the silver book
Creators: name: Tuan Ismail, Tuan Nooriani
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment Of the requirements for the degree of (Doctor of Philosophy) to the School of Management, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Forward K+ Production in Subthreshold pA Collisions at 1.0 GeV
Creators: name: Büscher, M.
name: Junghans, H.
name: Koptev, V.
name: Nekipelov, M.
name: Sistemich, K.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Interplay between Diets, Health, and Climate Change
Creators: name: Pradhan, Prajal
name: Kropp, Jürgen P.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Diet shifts
subject: Dietary patterns
subject: Embodied emissions
subject: Emission intensity
subject: Healthy diets
subject: Sustainable diets
subject: 333.7
subject: 690

description: The world is facing a triple burden of undernourishment, obesity, and environmental impacts from agriculture while nourishing its population. This burden makes sustainable nourishment of the growing population a global challenge. Addressing this challenge requires an understanding of the interplay between diets, health, and associated environmental impacts (e.g., climate change). For this, we identify 11 typical diets that represent dietary habits worldwide for the last five decades. Plant-source foods provide most of all three macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, and fat) in developing countries. In contrast, animal-source foods provide a majority of protein and fat in developed ones. The identified diets deviate from the recommended healthy diet with either too much (e.g., red meat) or too little (e.g., fruits and vegetables) food and nutrition supply. The total calorie supplies are lower than required for two diets. Sugar consumption is higher than recommended for five diets. Three and five diets consist of larger-than-recommended carbohydrate and fat shares, respectively. Four diets with a large share of animal-source foods exceed the recommended value of red meat. Only two diets consist of at least 400 gm/cap/day of fruits and vegetables while accounting for food waste. Prevalence of undernourishment and underweight dominates in the diets with lower calories. In comparison, a higher prevalence of obesity is observed for diets with higher calories with high shares of sugar, fat, and animal-source foods. However, embodied emissions in the diets do not show a clear relation with calorie supplies and compositions. Two high-calorie diets embody more than 1.5 t CO 2 eq/cap/yr, and two low-calorie diets embody around 1 t CO 2 eq/cap/yr. Our analysis highlights that sustainable and healthy diets can serve the purposes of both nourishing the population and, at the same time, reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
A jet-driven dynamo (JEDD) from jets-inflated bubbles in cooling flows
Creators: name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I suggest that the main process that amplifies magnetic fields in cooling flows in clusters and group of galaxies is a jet-driven dynamo (JEDD). The main processes that are behind the JEDD is the turbulence that is formed by the many vortices formed in the inflation processes of bubbles, and the large scale shear formed by the propagating jet. It is sufficient that a strong turbulence exits in the vicinity of the jets and bubbles, just where the shear is large. The typical amplification time of magnetic fields by the JEDD near the jets and bubbles is approximately hundred million years. The amplification time in the entire cooling flow region is somewhat longer. The vortices that create the turbulence are those that also transfer energy from the jets to the intra-cluster medium, by mixing shocked jet gas with the intra-cluster medium gas, and by exciting sound waves. The JEDD model adds magnetic fields to the cyclical behavior of energy and mass in the jet-feedback mechanism (JFM) in cooling flows.
description: MNRAS, in press
No polarization–Expected Values of Climate Change Impacts among European Forest Professionals and Scientists
Creators: name: Persson, Johannes
name: Blennow, Kristina
name: Gonçalves, Luísa
name: Borys, Alexander
name: Dutcă, Ioan
name: Hynynen, Jari
name: Janeczko, Emilia
name: Lyubenova, Mariyana
name: Martel, Simon
name: Merganic, Jan
name: Merganičová, Katarína
name: Peltoniemi, Mikko
name: Petr, Michal
name: Reboredo, Fernando H.
name: Vacchiano, Giorgio
name: Reyer, Christopher P.O.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Climate change impacts
subject: Decision-making
subject: Homogeneity of expected values
subject: Risk perception
subject: Strength of expected values
subject: Value polarization
subject: 333.7
subject: 690

description: The role of values in climate-related decision-making is a prominent theme of climate communication research. The present study examines whether forest professionals are more driven by values than scientists are, and if this results in value polarization. A questionnaire was designed to elicit and assess the values assigned to expected effects of climate change by forest professionals and scientists working on forests and climate change in Europe. The countries involved covered a north-to-south and west-to-east gradient across Europe, representing a wide range of bio-climatic conditions and a mix of economic–social–political structures. We show that European forest professionals and scientists do not exhibit polarized expectations about the values of specific impacts of climate change on forests in their countries. In fact, few differences between forest professionals and scientists were found. However, there are interesting differences in the expected values of forest professionals with regard to climate change impacts across European countries. In Northern European countries, the aggregated values of the expected effects are more neutral than they are in Southern Europe, where they are more negative. Expectations about impacts on timber production, economic returns, and regulatory ecosystem services are mostly negative, while expectations about biodiversity and energy production are mostly positive.
Social stratification and religious affiliation in Japan
Creators: name: Filus, Dorothea Magdalena
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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Education and Disaster Vulnerability in Southeast Asia: Evidence and Policy Implications
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Roman
name: Blecha, Daniela
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disaster risk reduction
subject: Disaster vulnerability
subject: Education
subject: Policy implications
subject: Review
subject: Southeast Asia
subject: 333.7
subject: 690

description: This article summarizes the growing theoretical and empirical literature on the impact of education on disaster vulnerability with a focus on Southeast Asia. Education and learning can take place in different environments in more or less formalized ways. They can influence disaster vulnerability as the capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from natural hazard in direct and indirect ways. Directly, through education and learning, individuals acquire knowledge, abilities, skills and perceptions that allow them to effectively prepare for and cope with the consequences of disaster shocks. Indirectly, education gives individuals and households access to material, informational and social resources, which can help reducing disaster vulnerability. We highlight central concepts and terminologies and discuss the different theoretical mechanisms through which education may have an impact. Supportive empirical evidence is presented and discussed with a particular focus on the role of inclusiveness in education and challenges in achieving universal access to high-quality education. Based on situation analysis and best practice cases, policy implications are derived that can inform the design and implementation of education and learning-based disaster risk reduction efforts in the region.
(201455) Sarah Russell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The growth and characterisation of the dilute nitride InGaAsN
Creators: name: Hashim, Hashimah
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Influence of substrate dimensionality on the growth mode of epitaxial 3D-bonded GeTe thin films: From 3D to 2D growth
Creators: name: Hilmi, Isom
name: Lotnyk, Andriy
name: Gerlach, Jürgen W.
name: Schumacher, Philipp
name: Rauschenbach, Bernd
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 2D growth
subject: Defects
subject: GeTe
subject: Phase change materials
subject: TEM
subject: X-ray diffraction
subject: 600
subject: 690

description: The pseudo-binary line of Sb2Te3-GeTe contains alloys featuring different crystalline characteristics from two-dimensionally (2D-) bonded Sb2Te3 to three-dimensionally (3D-) bonded GeTe. Here, the growth scenario of 3D-bonded GeTe is investigated by depositing epitaxial GeTe thin films on Si(111) and Sb2Te3-buffered Si(111) substrates using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). GeTe thin films were grown in trigonal structure within a temperature window for epitaxial growth of 210–270 °C on unbuffered Si(111) substrates. An unconventional growth onset was characterized by the formation of a thin amorphous GeTe layer. Nonetheless, the as-grown film is found to be crystalline. Furthermore, by employing a 2D-bonded Sb2Te3 thin film as a seeding layer on Si(111), a 2D growth of GeTe is harnessed. The epitaxial window can substantially be extended especially towards lower temperatures down to 145 °C. Additionally, the surface quality is significantly improved. The inspection of the local structure of the epitaxial films reveals the presence of a superposition of twinned domains, which is assumed to be an intrinsic feature of such thin films. This work might open a way for an improvement of an epitaxy of a 3D-bonded material on a highly-mismatched substrate (e.g. Si (111)) by employing a 2D-bonded seeding layer (e.g. Sb2Te3).
A kilobit hidden SNFS discrete logarithm computation
Creators: name: Fried, Joshua
name: Gaudry, Pierrick
name: Heninger, Nadia
name: Thomé, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We perform a special number field sieve discrete logarithm computation in a 1024-bit prime field. To our knowledge, this is the first kilobit-sized discrete logarithm computation ever reported for prime fields. This computation took a little over two months of calendar time on an academic cluster using the open-source CADO-NFS software. Our chosen prime $p$ looks random, and $p--1$ has a 160-bit prime factor, in line with recommended parameters for the Digital Signature Algorithm. However, our p has been trapdoored in such a way that the special number field sieve can be used to compute discrete logarithms in $\mathbb{F}\_p^*$ , yet detecting that p has this trapdoor seems out of reach. Twenty-five years ago, there was considerable controversy around the possibility of back-doored parameters for DSA. Our computations show that trapdoored primes are entirely feasible with current computing technology. We also describe special number field sieve discrete log computations carried out for multiple weak primes found in use in the wild. As can be expected from a trapdoor mechanism which we say is hard to detect, our research did not reveal any trapdoored prime in wide use. The only way for a user to defend against a hypothetical trapdoor of this kind is to require verifiably random primes.
(201457) Rowland Plumbe
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.
title: Toxicity Reduction after Craniospinal Irradiation via Helical Tomotherapy in Patients with Medulloblastoma: A Unicentric Retrospective Analysis
Creators: name: Öztunali, Anil
name: Elsayad, Khaled
name: Scobioala, Sergiu
name: Channaoui, Mohammed
name: Haverkamp, Uwe
name: Grauer, Oliver Martin
name: Sträter, Dirk Ronald
name: Brentrup, Angela
name: Stummer, Walter
name: Kerl, Kornelius Tobias
name: Eich, Hans-Theodor
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Objectives: Recent trials with craniospinal irradiation (CSI) via helical Tomotherapy (HT) demonstrated encouraging medulloblastoma results. In this study, we assess the toxicity profile of different radiation techniques and estimate survival rates. Materials and Methods: We reviewed the records of 46 patients who underwent irradiation for medulloblastoma between 1999 and 2019 (27 conventional radiotherapy technique (CRT) and 19 HT). Patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics, as well as treatment outcomes—local control rate (LCR), event-free survival (EFS), and overall survival (OS)—were reviewed. Acute and late adverse events (AEs) were evaluated according to the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (RTOG/EORTC) criteria. Results: In total, 43 courses of CSI and three local RT were administered to the 46 patients: 30 were male, the median age was 7 years (range 1–56). A median total RT dose of 55 Gy (range 44–68) and a median CSI dose of 35 Gy (range, 23.4–40) was delivered. During follow-up (median, 99 months), six patients (13%) developed recurrence. The EFS rate after 5 years was 84%. The overall OS rates after 5 and 10 years were 95% and 88%, respectively. There were no treatment-related deaths. Following HT, a trend towards lower grade 2/3 acute upper gastrointestinal (p = 0.07) and subacute CNS (p = 0.05) toxicity rates was detected compared to CRT-group. The risk of late CNS toxicities, mainly grade 2/3, was significantly lower following HT technique (p = 0.003). Conclusion: CSI via HT is an efficacious treatment modality in medulloblastoma patients. In all, we detected a reduced rate of several acute, subacute, and chronic toxicities following HT compared to CRT.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
The effects of calorie restriction: An exploration of addiction and the electrophysiological responses in the nucleus accumbens
Creators: name: Guccione, Lisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
$B^0_s$-$\bar B^0_s$ Oscillations as a New Tool to Explore CP Violation in $D_s^\pm$ Decays
Creators: name: Fleischer, Robert
name: Vos, K. Keri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CP violation in $B^0_s$-$\bar B^0_s$ oscillations is expected at the $10^{-5}$ level in the Standard Model but could be enhanced by New Physics. Using $B^0_s\to D_s^-\ell^+ν_\ell$ decays, LHCb has recently reported the new result $(0.39\pm0.33)\times10^{-2}$ of the corresponding observable $a^s_{\rm sl}$. We point out that other current $B$ decay data imply $a^s_{\rm sl} = (0.004 \pm 0.075)\times10^{-2}$. In view of this strong constraint, we propose to use $B^0_s\to D_s^-\ell^+ν_\ell$ and similar flavor-specific decays as a new tool to determine both the production asymmetry between $B^0_s$ and $\bar B^0_s$ mesons, and the CP asymmetry in the subsequent $D^\pm_s$ decays. The former serves as input for analyses of CP violation in $B^0_s$ channels, with significant room for improvement, while the latter offers an exciting laboratory for New Physics.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, improved discussion and presentation, to appear in Physics Letters B
Thick branes in Born-Infeld determinantal gravity in Weitzenböck spacetime
Creators: name: Yang, Ke
name: Yu, Hao
name: Zhong, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By adopting the idea of Born-Infeld electromagnetism, the Born-Infeld determinantal gravity in Weitzenböck spacetime provides a way to smooth the Big Bang singularity at the classical level. We consider a thick braneworld scenario in the higher-dimensional extension of this gravity, and investigate the torsion effects on the brane structure and gravitational perturbation. For three particular parameter choices, analytic domain wall solutions are obtained. They have a similar brane configuration that the brane thickness becomes thinner as the spacetime torsion gets stronger. For each model, the massless graviton is localized on the brane with the width of localization decreasing with the enhancement of the spacetime torsion, while the massive gravitons propagate in the bulk and contribute a correction term proportional to ${1}/{(k r)^{3}}$ to the Newtonian potential. A sparsity constraint on the fundamental 5-dimensional gravitational scale is estimated from the gravitational experiment. Moreover, the parameter ranges in which the Kaluza-Klein gravitons are tachyonic free are analyzed.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures