cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEFT: Exploiting Gradient Norm Difference between Model Layers for Scalable Gradient Sparsification
Creators: name: Yoon, Daegun
name: Oh, Sangyoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gradient sparsification is a widely adopted solution for reducing the excessive communication traffic in distributed deep learning. However, most existing gradient sparsifiers have relatively poor scalability because of considerable computational cost of gradient selection and/or increased communication traffic owing to gradient build-up. To address these challenges, we propose a novel gradient sparsification scheme, DEFT, that partitions the gradient selection task into sub tasks and distributes them to workers. DEFT differs from existing sparsifiers, wherein every worker selects gradients among all gradients. Consequently, the computational cost can be reduced as the number of workers increases. Moreover, gradient build-up can be eliminated because DEFT allows workers to select gradients in partitions that are non-intersecting (between workers). Therefore, even if the number of workers increases, the communication traffic can be maintained as per user requirement. To avoid the loss of significance of gradient selection, DEFT selects more gradients in the layers that have a larger gradient norm than the other layers. Because every layer has a different computational load, DEFT allocates layers to workers using a bin-packing algorithm to maintain a balanced load of gradient selection between workers. In our empirical evaluation, DEFT shows a significant improvement in training performance in terms of speed in gradient selection over existing sparsifiers while achieving high convergence performance.
description: International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2023. Code: https://github.com/kljp/deft
title: BASIL Biochemistry Curriculum
Creators: name: Ringer McDonald, Ashley
name: Bernstein, Herbert J.
name: Daubner, S. Colette
name: Goodman, Anya
name: Irby, Stefan M.
name: Koeppe, Julia R.
name: Mills, Jeffrey L.
name: O'Handley, Suzanne F.
name: Pikaart, Michael
name: Roberts, Rebecca
name: Sikora, Arthur
name: Craig, Paul A.
Publisher: name: The BASIL Biochemistry Consortium
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: biochemistry
subject: undergraduate labs
subject: computational methods
subject: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
subject: structural biology

description: This curriculum from the BASIL (Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry Laboratory) biochemistry consortium aims to get students to transition from thinking like students to thinking like scientists. Students will explore proteins with known structure but unknown function using computational analyses and wet-lab techniques. BASIL is designed for undergraduate biochemistry lab courses, but can be adapted to first year (or even high school) settings, as well as upper-level undergraduate or graduate coursework. It is targeted to students in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, or related majors. Further details about the BASIL biochemistry consortium can be found on the BASIL blog. The curriculum is flexible and can be adapted to match the available facilities, the strengths of the instructor and the learning goals of a course and institution. These lessons are often used as part of upper-level laboratory coursework with at least one semester of biochemistry as a pre-requisite or co-requisite. The lab has been designed for classes ranging from 10-24 students (working in teams of two or three) per lab section. This lesson can be adapted to laboratory courses for introductory biology, cell and molecular biology, or advanced biology labs.
description: This work is supported by NSF IUSE 1503811, 1503699, 1502720, 1503676, 1503710, 1503798, 1503734, 1709170, 1709805, 1709592, 1710583, 1709355, 1709278, and 1710051
Immersive and Distributed Technologies for Simulation and Industrial Innovation
Creators: name: GOTELLI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Today innovative technologies allow to develop new performing systems; therefore, also complex in terms of interactions among components and emerging behaviors. Usually, in these systems it is necessary not only to properly design and engineer the single component, but even the whole system, as well as the interactions with humans devoted to operate or to supervise with it; from this point of view digital technologies and simulation models are crucial and they allow to identify new and high performing configurations as well as requirements for man machine interface, innovative strategies and training programs. Indeed, in many cases the humans represent a critical element of the system itself as it is evident when we address the crew of a vessel or of a plane. Consequently, the human factors and digital technologies that enable people to develop new use cases and improve decision making are an essential component to drive innovation and design new systems; in this Thesis different cases have been investigated by using innovative simulation models and studying the application of digital technologies. The first case is about an innovative immersive simulation system for training the crew of NH90 aircraft; the simulator is based on virtual reality technologies (e.g. head mounted display) integrated with an electromechanical motion platform, this layout creates an interactive and immersive training equipment, able to guarantee high quality training as well as compact and transportable quite low-cost solution. Furthermore, it has been developed an automated system to collect data about the user’s response time to visual stimuli and it has been analyzed the possible negative training risk related to adopt these technologies in terms of impacts on human factors as well as on the simulation sickness phenomenon. Furthermore, the application of Internet of Things and Cloud technologies will be analyzed to highlight relevant aspects of real use cases in the industrial sector.Indeed, a functional study of the application of IoT to optimize resources in the industrial sector is presented with the proposition of a cloud architecture to automate the recognition of technical documentation.
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor NR1 subunit gene (GRIN1) G1001C polymorphism and susceptibility to schizophrenia: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Saadat, Mostafa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: case-control study
subject: genetic polymorphism
subject: GRIN1
subject: meta-analysis
subject: 610

description: A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify all case-control studies investigating the association between GRIN1 G1001C polymorphism and schizophrenia susceptibility (MIM: 138249; dbSNP: rs 11146020). A total of 6 eligible studies (including 1639 schizophrenia cases and 1489 controls) were identified for the meta-analysis. Including all studies, there was significant heterogeneity between studies. In overall the GC (OR=1.00, 95 % CI: 0.0.85-1.19) and CC (OR=1.09, 95 % CI: 0.67-1.79) genotypes were not associated with schizophrenia risk compared with the GG genotype. In one study patients were diagnosed using DSM-IIIR criteria and in another study the genotypic frequencies of control subjects showed significant deviation from the expected frequencies according to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. After excluding these studies from the meta-analysis, the heterogeneity between studies dramatically decreased. Statistical analysis showed that the GC genotype compared with the GG genotype significantly increased the risk of schizophrenia (OR=1.85, 95 % CI: 1.43-2.42, P<0.0001). The CC versus GG genotype significantly increased the schizophrenia risk (OR=2.46, 95% CI: 1.17-6.84, P=0.017). There was significant linear trend for presence of 0, 1, and 2 of the C allele and risk of schizophrenia (χ2=25.45, P<0.0001). In conclusion, the C variant allele may be associated with an increased risk for developing schizophrenia.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 9, 2010
$6π$ Josephson effect in Majorana box devices
Creators: name: Zazunov, A.
name: Buccheri, F.
name: Sodano, P.
name: Egger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Majorana devices featuring a competition between superconductivity and multi-channel Kondo physics. Our proposal extends previous work on single-channel Kondo systems to a topologically nontrivial setting of non-Fermi liquid type, where topological superconductor wires (with gap $Δ$) represent leads tunnel-coupled to a Coulomb-blockaded Majorana box. On the box, a spin degree of freedom with Kondo temperature $T_K$ is nonlocally defined in terms of Majorana states. For $Δ\gg T_K$, the destruction of Kondo screening by superconductivity implies a $4π$-periodic Josephson current-phase relation. Using a strong-coupling analysis in the opposite regime $Δ\ll T_K$, we find a $6π$-periodic Josephson relation for three leads, with critical current $I_c\approx eΔ^2/ \hbar T_K$, corresponding to the transfer of fractionalized charges $e^*=2e/3$.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure + supplementary material (3 pages); final version, accepted to PRL
Tag questions and gender in medical consultations
Creators: name: Harres, Annette
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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Mixed electroweak-QCD corrections to $e^+e^-\to HZ$ at Higgs factory
Creators: name: Sun, Qing-Feng
name: Feng, Feng
name: Jia, Yu
name: Sang, Wen-Long
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: The prospective Higgs factories, exemplified by ILC, FCC-ee and CEPC, plan to conduct the precision Higgs measurements at the $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy around 250 GeV. The cross sections for the dominant Higgs production channel, the Higgsstrahlung process, can be measured to a (sub-) percent accuracy. Merely incorporating the well-known next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections appears far from sufficient to match the unprecedented experimental precision. In this work, we make an important advancement toward this direction by investigating the mixed electroweak-QCD corrections to $e^+e^-\to HZ$ at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) for both unpolarized and polarized $Z$ boson. The corrections turn out to reach one percent level of the Born-order results, thereby must be incorporated in the future confrontation with the data.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; version accepted for publication in PRD RC
(201295) Richard Maggs
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.
Applicazione di tecniche DoE e RSM per la stima degli effetti del trattamento plasma e laser su giunti incollati
Creators: name: SACCARO, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: The path undertaken during these three years of Ph.D. focused on two main areas of study: - identifying the effect of low-pressure plasma (LPP) surface treatment parameters on the lap shear strength of adhesive bonded joints made using different substrates. - To determine the optimal laser treatment settings as a surface preparation method for CFRP before bonding. A ytterbium-doped fiber laser source was used in combination with a scanning system. Specifically, for the first point under investigation, four different polymer substrates were considered: 5- and 7-layer carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs), polyamide 6 and 6.6 (PA6 and PA6.6). To study the effects of the two input parameters, namely power and treatment time, two-level factorial designs were used for each substrate type. The analysis was carried out considering different types of processing gas. The objective function studied was the tensile strength (TSS) of bonded joints. For each set of joints, shear strength values were compared using the DoE approach in order to detect any systematic behavior between different substrates. Finally, it was possible to identify the set-up parameters that gave the best performance in terms of shear strength, considering any equivalent conditions from a statistical point of view. This aspect is particularly important in view of the optimization of production cycle processes; in fact, it allows the maximization of joint efficiency by limiting the energy cost for treatment. In the second part of the study, DoE was used to model the tensile shear strength (TSS) of glued joints and to study the effects of varying three parameters, namely power, pitch and lateral overlap. The analysis was performed considering different focal distances. For each set of joints, shear strength values were modeled using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) in order to identify the best performing set-up parameters, considering any statistically equivalent condition. Regression models also allow prediction of joint behavior for parameter settings not tested experimentally. This is particularly important in view of process optimization of the production cycle; in fact, it allows maximizing the efficiency of the joint while limiting the energy cost for treatment. In order to achieve the results obtained, I had the opportunity to join a proven working group composed of Prof. Lucia Cassettari and Chiara Mandolfino, among others, and to complete a Ph.D. course that, in addition to having contributed to the achievement of important goals in the field of research, has undoubtedly led to an increase in the know-how and skills I developed in my previous graduate studies.
Prediction of relative solvent accessibility by support vector regression and best-first method
Creators: name: Ghafuri, Hossein
name: Meshkin, Alireza
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Feature selection method
subject: physicochemical properties of amino acids
subject: PSI-BLAST
subject: support vector regression
subject: 610

description: Since, it is believed that the native structure of most proteins is defined by their sequences, utilizing data mining methods to extract hidden knowledge from protein sequences, are unavoidable. A major difficulty in mining bioinformatics data is due to the size of the datasets which contain frequently large numbers of variables. In this study, a two-step procedure for prediction of relative solvent accessibility of proteins is presented. In a first “feature selection” step, a small subset of evolutionary information is identified on the basis of selected physicochemical properties. In the second step, support vector regression is used to real value prediction of protein solvent accessibility with these custom selected features of evolutionary information. The experiment results show that the proposed method is an improvement in average prediction accuracy and training time.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 9, 2010
Biodiversity and multifunctionality in global drylands
Creators: name: Maestre, F. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: biodiversity, drylands, ecosystem functioning

description: Slides of the presentation given at the Symposium on Above- and Below-Ground Biodiversity for Sustainable Ecosystems organized by Agroscope on behalf of the "Digging Deeper" Biodiversa project and held on 14 November 2019.
Social justice engagement and action for the common good: a study of younger Australians
Creators: name: Bond, Sharon
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 Social Sciences (Sociology & Anthropology), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Hysteresis and phase transitions in a lattice regularization of an ill-posed forward-backward diffusion equation
Creators: name: Helmers, Michael
name: Herrmann, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A33, 35R25, 37L60, 74N20, 74N30

description: We consider a lattice regularization for an ill-posed diffusion equation with trilinear constitutive law and study the dynamics of phase interfaces in the parabolic scaling limit. Our main result guarantees for a certain class of single-interface initial data that the lattice solutions satisfy asymptotically a free boundary problem with hysteretic Stefan condition. The key challenge in the proof is to control the microscopic fluctuations that are inevitably produced by the backward diffusion when a particle passes the spinodal region.
description: 37 pages, several figures; revised version with enhanced introduction and several minor improvements
Selective law enforcement : police and court discretion in the processing of male and female juvenile offenders
Creators: name: Hancock, Linda
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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Quantitative equidistribution of Galois orbits of small points in the N-dimensional torus
Creators: name: D'Andrea, Carlos
name: Narváez-Clauss, Marta
name: Sombra, Martín
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G50 (Primary), 11K38, 43A25 (Secondary)

description: We present a quantitative version of Bilu's theorem on the limit distribution of Galois orbits of sequences of points of small height in the $N$-dimensional algebraic torus. Our result gives, for a given point, an explicit bound for the discrepancy between its Galois orbit and the uniform distribution on the compact subtorus, in terms of the height and the generalized degree of the point.
description: Revised version accepted for publication in Algebra & Number Theory, 23 pages, amslatex
Effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effect up to fourth Post-Minkowskian order in effective-one-body theory
Creators: name: Jing, Jiliang
name: Deng, Weike
name: Long, Sheng
name: Wang, Jieci
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of the scattering angles, we obtain an effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effects up to fourth post-Minkowskian order, which is the foundation of the effective-one-body theory. We note that there are freedoms for the parameters of the effective metric because one equation corresponds to two parameters for each post-Minkowskian order. Accordingly, in order to construct a self-consistent effective-one-body theory in which the Hamiltonian, radiation-reaction forces and waveforms for the ``plus" and ``cross" modes of the gravitational wave should be based on the same physical model, we can fix these freedoms by requiring the null tetrad component of the gravitationally perturbed Weyl tensor $Ψ_4^B$ to be decoupled in the effective spacetime.
description: 17 pages
D5.1 - Methodologies, tools, data models and communication protocols for assessing the environmental impact
Creators: name: Valta, Katerina
name: Tekes, Stavros
name: Thornton, Kieran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Indicators
Key Performance Indicators
Environmental impact
Air Quality
Air Pollution
NO
NO2
PM10
CO
O3
Precipitation data
Groundwater level
Water level in sewer system
Flooding maps
Run-off
Water pollution
Water quality
H4-N
SO4
Cl
BOD
NO3
COD
TDS
TN
TP
Fecal Coliform
Total Coliform
pH
Cd
Cr
Pb
Cu
Zn
Fe
rational method
linear reservoir
garden streets
garden roofs

description: Deliverable 5.1 formulates the environmental models for each specific pilot (city) based on: the internal characteristics of each pilot, the availability of environmental data in each pilot, and the environmental science. The development of D5.1 was based on the overall approach that the environmental widget will help policy makers during policy implementation, by providing visualizations of meaningful environmental indicators relevant to each specific pilot, and during policy assessment, by providing visualizations of KPIs revealing the environmental impact of the proposed measure or policy for each pilot. In particular, D5.1 describes the environmental data model and the dependencies among certain types of measurements for the four pilot cities of CUTLER. It also identifies the various KPIs that will help the policy makers to measure the environmental impact by revealing insights around comparisons among different sensor readings or by visualizing change for a specific type of measurement.
The role of neonatal brain injury and hippocampal development in memory and learning in very preterm 7 year-old children
Creators: name: Omizzolo, Cristina
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Neuropsychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
title: Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumor
Creators: name: Tezel, Zülbiye Eda
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 65-years-old female patient was admitted to the emergency service with a complaint of dizziness for two days. She had a prior history of surgery for endometrium adenocarcinoma. The neurological examination showed no focal neurologic deficit. The patient was referred to the radiology department for further evaluation.

description: 65 years, female
(201296) Elizabeth [Maggs]
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.
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Creators: name: Craggs, Peter D
name: de Carvalho, Luiz Pedro S
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry & Proteomics
Genetics & Genomics
Structural Biology & Biophysics
Infectious Disease
Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
Metabolism
Computational & Systems Biology

description: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a major global health issue and a leading cause of death by a single infectious agent. The global burden of TB is further exacerbated by the continuing emergence and dissemination of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to multiple antibiotics. The need for novel drugs that can be used to shorten the course for current TB drug regimens as well as combat the persistent threat of antibiotic resistance has never been greater. There have been significant advances in the discovery of de novo TB treatments, with the first TB-specific drugs in 45 years approved for use. However, there are still issues that restrict the pipeline of new antitubercular chemotherapies. The rate of failure of TB drug candidates in clinical trials remains high, while the validation of new TB drug targets and subsequent identification of novel inhibitors remains modest.
Ontology-based context-aware messaging systems: concept, methodology and applications
Creators: name: Almagrabi, Alaa Omran
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 Engineering and Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Mind your Ps and Qs: the Interrelation between Period (P) and Mass-ratio (Q) Distributions of Binary Stars
Creators: name: Moe, Maxwell
name: Di Stefano, Rosanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compile observations of early-type binaries identified via spectroscopy, eclipses, long-baseline interferometry, adaptive optics, common proper motion, etc. Each observational technique is sensitive to companions across a narrow parameter space of orbital periods P and mass ratios q = M_comp/M_1. After combining the samples from the various surveys and correcting for their respective selection effects, we find the properties of companions to O-type and B-type main-sequence (MS) stars differ among three regimes. First, at short orbital periods P < 20 days (separations a < 0.4 AU), the binaries have small eccentricities e < 0.4, favor modest mass ratios = 0.5, and exhibit a small excess of twins q > 0.95. Second, the companion frequency peaks at intermediate periods log P (days) = 3.5 (a = 10 AU), where the binaries have mass ratios weighted toward small values q = 0.2-0.3 and follow a Maxwellian "thermal" eccentricity distribution. Finally, companions with long orbital periods log P (days) = 5.5-7.5 (a = 200-5,000 AU) are outer tertiary components in hierarchical triples, and have a mass ratio distribution across q = 0.1-1.0 that is nearly consistent with random pairings drawn from the initial mass function. We discuss these companion distributions and properties in the context of binary star formation and evolution. We also reanalyze the binary statistics of solar-type MS primaries, taking into account that (30+/-10)% of single-lined spectroscopic binaries likely contain white dwarf companions instead of low-mass stellar secondaries. The mean frequency of stellar companions with q > 0.1 and log P (days) < 8.0 per primary increases from 0.50+/-0.04 for solar-type MS primaries to 2.1+/-0.3 for O-type MS primaries. We fit joint probability density functions f(M_1,q,P,e) to the corrected distributions, which can be incorporated into binary population synthesis studies.
description: Accepted in ApJS; this version includes the updated figures, text, and equations as it appears in the accepted version; a Monte Carlo code that generates a population of zero-age MS single stars and binaries according to the corrected joint distribution f(M_1,q,P,e) is available upon request via email
D5.1 - Methodologies, tools, data models and communication protocols for assessing the environmental impact
Creators: name: Valta, Katerina
name: Tekes, Stavros
name: Thornton, Kieran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Indicators
Key Performance Indicators
Environmental impact
Air Quality
Air Pollution
NO
NO2
PM10
CO
O3
Precipitation data
Groundwater level
Water level in sewer system
Flooding maps
Run-off
Water pollution
Water quality
H4-N
SO4
NO3
Cl
BOD
COD
TDS
TN
TP
Fecal Coliform
Total Coliform
pH
Cd
Cr
Pb
Cu
Zn
Fe
rational method
linear reservoir
garden streets
garden roofs

description: Deliverable 5.1 formulates the environmental models for each specific pilot (city) based on: the internal characteristics of each pilot, the availability of environmental data in each pilot, and the environmental science. The development of D5.1 was based on the overall approach that the environmental widget will help policy makers during policy implementation, by providing visualizations of meaningful environmental indicators relevant to each specific pilot, and during policy assessment, by providing visualizations of KPIs revealing the environmental impact of the proposed measure or policy for each pilot. In particular, D5.1 describes the environmental data model and the dependencies among certain types of measurements for the four pilot cities of CUTLER. It also identifies the various KPIs that will help the policy makers to measure the environmental impact by revealing insights around comparisons among different sensor readings or by visualizing change for a specific type of measurement.
A remark on Schwarz's topological field theory
Creators: name: Adams, David H.
name: Prodanov, Emil M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard evaluation of the partition function $Z$ of Schwarz's topological field theory results in the Ray--Singer analytic torsion. Here we present an alternative evaluation which results in Z=1. Mathematically, this amounts to a novel perspective on analytic torsion: it can be formally written as a ratio of volumes of spaces of differential forms which is formally equal to 1 by Hodge duality. An analogous result for Reidemeister combinatorial torsion is also obtained.
description: 9 pages, latex, to appear in Lett. Math. Phys
An array of symmetric multifunctional MEMS sensors for improved autonomous vehicle avionics
Creators: name: van der Velden, Stephen Paul
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 Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201293) Francis Maggs
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.
Defect driven shapes in nematic droplets: analogies with cell division
Creators: name: Leoni, Marco
name: Manyuhina, Oksana V.
name: Bowick, Mark J.
name: Marchetti, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Building on the striking similarity between the structure of the spindle during mitosis in living cells and nematic textures in confined liquid crystals, we use a continuum model of two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal droplets, to examine the physical aspects of cell division. The model investigates the interplay between bulk elasticity of the microtubule assembly, described as a nematic liquid crystal, and surface elasticity of the cell cortex, modelled as a bounding flexible membrane, in controlling cell shape and division. The centrosomes at the spindle poles correspond to the cores of the topological defects required to accommodate nematic order in a closed geometry. We map out the progression of both healthy bipolar and faulty multi-polar division as a function of an effective parameter that incorporates active processes and controls centrosome separation. A robust prediction, independent of energetic considerations, is that the transition from a single cell to daughters cells occurs at critical value of this parameter. Our model additionally suggests that microtubule anchoring at the cell cortex may play an important role for successful bipolar division. This can be tested experimentally by regulating microtubule anchoring.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Supporting files for the Bipolaris maydis ( isolated strain: BM1 ) genome sequencing project
Creators: name: Wang, Yafei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Southern corn leaf blight (SCLB) caused by Bipolaris maydis is one of the important leaf diseases on corn plants. The disease will not only reduce the yield of corn, but also reduce the quality of the grain. The disease often causes problems in tropical and subtropical corn growing areas in the southeastern United States and parts of Asia and Africa. The disease is particularly serious in humid regions of the world, and can cause nearly 70% of production losses. B. maydis is an ascomycete fungus that can produce toxins that attack mitochondria and weaken the ability of plants to obtain energy. The infected corn tissue was covered with spots and chlorosis, so the yield was severely affected. High-resolution genome sequencing of B. maydis is essential for understanding the molecular mechanism of the pathogen's infection and cultivating resistant varieties against the pathogen. Here, we describe the improved genome assembly of B. maydis with fewer contigs obtained by PacBio sequencing, which will be helpful for understanding the molecular mechanism of the pathogen's infection and cultivating resistant varieties against the pathogen.See the NCBI database for additional information about this genome. Raw reads from PacBio and Illumina sequencing have been deposited in NCBI SRA database and the accession number is PRJNA743729. This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession JAHUAA000000000.
Women, psychotherapy and psychosocial identity
Creators: name: Hallebone, Erica L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Impurity effects on spin dynamics in magnetic and superconducting iron pnictides and chalcogenides
Creators: name: Surmach, M. A.
name: Portnichenko, P. Y.
name: Park, J. T.
name: Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A.
name: Sun, D. L.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Lin, C. T.
name: Inosov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we summarize the effects of magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities on the spin dynamics in Febased superconductors and their parent compounds. The effects of chemical substitution, vacancies, and disorder on the suppression or stabilization of superconductivity and spin-density-wave phases are reviewed in the context of recent neutron-spectroscopy measurements of spin excitations. We also present new results on the structure of magnetic fluctuations in BaFe2As2 single crystals doped with Mn local moments and discuss them in relationship to the previously reported (pi, pi) branch of checkerboard magnetic excitations.
description: Feature article for the "Special Issue on Iron-Based High Temperature Superconductors" to appear in Physica Status Solidi (b); 16 pages, 22 figures, v4: corrected typos, optimized figures, updated references
E-learning and digital games: the potential contribution to mathematics education in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Yamani, Hanaa Abdulrahim
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 Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Digitally inclined young people surround themselves with new technologies. The effect of this on society is profound and creates challenges for policies in business, commerce and education. The integration of information and communications technology (ICT) in classroom settings is of vital importance for the kinds of future citizens needed. One learning method to emerge is elearning through digital games. However, in the context of Saudi Arabia, teachers face complexities when using e-learning material, and digital games are still largely absent from Saudi classrooms. This research focused on third generation e-learning—specifically, the use of digital games. To familiarise Saudi students with the use of digital games, a combination of e-learning materials with digital games was employed in mathematics classes. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research consisted of two main sequential phases. Phase One relied on quantitative methods, including an ICT survey, pre-test and post-test. Phase Two employed a qualitative approach consisting of semi-structured interviews and field notes. Due to the gender segregation in Saudi education, this research was conducted in schools for girls. A total of 111 female students voluntarily participated from two primary schools—one public and one private. In both schools, the study involved grade six students. An experimental design was employed to answer the research questions. The quantitative results indicated that the control groups and experimental groups had the same mathematics knowledge before the experiment was conducted. However, the results of the post-test revealed that there was a significant improvement in mathematics achievement among those students who were taught with the new method instead of the traditional method. These findings offer the first indication of the effects of e-learning and digital games as new teaching approaches on students’ academic performance in mathematics education in Saudi Arabia. The conclusion from this study is that e-learning in the form of digital gaming pedagogy is an effective tool for enhancing students’ mathematics knowledge, compared to traditional teaching methods, in Saudi primary schools. In order to harness the power of e-learning and digital games in mathematics education in Saudi primary schools, some recommendations and suggestions for future research are part of this study’s outcomes.
Possible strange hidden-charm pentaquarks from $Σ_c^{(*)}\bar{D}_s^*$ and $Ξ^{(',*)}_c\bar{D}^*$ interactions
Creators: name: Chen, Rui
name: He, Jun
name: Liu, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the one-boson-exchange model, we investigate the $Λ_c\bar{D}_s^*$, $Σ_c\bar{D}_s^*$, $Σ_c^*\bar{D}_s^*$, $Ξ_c\bar{D}^*$, $Ξ_c'\bar{D}^*$, and $Ξ_c^*\bar{D}^*$ interactions by considering the one-eta-exchange and/or one-pion-exchange contributions. We further predict the existence of hidden-charm molecular pentaquarks. Promising candidates for hidden-charm molecular pentaquarks include a $Ξ_c'\bar{D}^*$ state with $0(\frac{1}{2}^-)$ and the $Ξ_c^*\bar{D}^*$ states with $0(\frac{1}{2}^-)$ and $0(\frac{3}{2}^-)$. Experimental searches for these predicted hidden-charm molecular pentaquarks are an interesting future research topic for experiments like LHCb.
description: 8 pages,3 figures. To be published in Chinese Physics C
'The last of lands, and the first' : renewing the frontier ideal in Antarctica and inland Australia
Creators: name: Hains, Brigid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression predicts response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Azim, Hamdy A.
name: Shohdy, Kyrillus S.
name: Elghazawy, Hagar
name: Salib, Monica M.
name: Almeldin, Doaa
name: Kassem, Loay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: In patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), PD-L1 expression has been demonstrated to predict response to immunotherapy. It is unclear whether PD-L1 expression measured with currently available validated assays can predict chemotherapy response in patients with non-metastatic TNBC. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies to assess the PD-L1 expression as a predictor of response to chemotherapy in non-metastatic TNBC using validated assays. The primary endpoint was pathological complete response (pCR) rate to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Secondary endpoints included the prevalence of PD-L1 expression in non-metastatic TNBC and its impact on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). Moreover, RNA sequence data from the TCGA breast cancer cohort was used to define the relationship between PDCD1 and response to chemotherapy and prognosis. Results: Nineteen studies were eligible for the meta-analysis with a total of 2403 patients with non-metastatic TNBC disease. The PD-L1-positive cohort had a significantly higher likelihood of achieving pCR with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (pooled odds ratio =1.95; 95% CI= 1.39-2.73, p <0.0001). In studies which reported long-term outcomes, PD-L1 positivity was associated with significantly better DFS and OS compared to PD-L1 negative patients (pooled hazard ratio= 0.51; 95% CI= 0.35-0.74, p< 0.0001 and 0.51; 95% CI= 0.27-0.94, p = 0.031, respectively). Transcriptomic data suggested that PD-L1 expression is a surrogate marker for the upregulation of key immune-related genes that mediate response to chemotherapy in TNBC. Conclusion: This analysis clearly shows that patients with PD-L1 positive TNBC respond better to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and are associated with better survival outcomes compared to patients with PD-L1 negative tumors. The newly distinct quadruple negative breast cancer (QNBC) subtype should be defined as the BC subtype with the poorest outcome in the non-metastatic setting, highlighting the need for more aggressive therapy approaches.
The intertextual body : Zola, Hardy, and the rotten apple
Creators: name: Gormley, Patricia Coe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201288) Florence E Webb
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.
MYSTAT: A compact potentiostat/galvanostat for general electrochemistry measurements
Creators: name: Irving, Paul
name: Cecil, Robert
name: Yates, M. Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: electrochemistry, cyclic voltammetry, amperometry, battery testing, sensors

description: An open-source potentiostat/galvanostat instrument design is introduced that provides the ability to take accurate measurements over a current range of ±200 mA and a potential range of ±12 V. The improved capability of the instrument compared to the previously published design upon which it is based makes it suitable for performing a wider range of electrochemical measurements including the ability to use larger working electrodes, study of high current density processes, study of electrochemistry in nonaqueous solutions and use in high voltage processes such as electrophoretic deposition. The instrument can be controlled from any computer capable of running the Python programming language, including a low-cost Raspberry Pi. Unlike many commercial potentiostat designs, the instrument is completely open-source, giving researchers the ability to modify the hardware and software as needed for custom measurement techniques. The low cost makes the instrument attractive for research and teaching laboratories in which multiple electrochemical measurements need to be carried out in parallel.
Electromagnetic transmittance in alternating material-metamaterial layered structures
Creators: name: Carrera-Escobedo, V. H.
name: Rosu, H. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the transfer matrix method we examine the parametric behavior of the transmittance of TE and TM electromagnetic plane waves propagating in frequency range which are far from the absorption bands of a periodic multilayered system. We focus on the dependence of the transmittance on the frequency and angle of incidence of the electromagnetic wave for the case in which the periodic structure comprises alternating material-metamaterial layers of various permittivities and permeabilities. A specific example of high transmittance at any angle of incidence in the visible region of the spectrum is identified
description: 10 pages, 11 figures