cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Violent political extremism and the socio-political dynamics of affect
Creators: name: Smith, Debra Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation argues that understanding violent political extremism requires an understanding of how emotion contributes to the many decisions that lead to a violent political act. It demonstrates how emotion underpins the creation of exclusivist identity groups that sit in opposition to the status quo, how they contribute to the development of beliefs that allow for violent ideologies to appear credible, and how they shape a morality that legitimises violence as a political tactic. Drawing on interviews conducted with former members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), and supplemented with interviews conducted with people who have been involved in, supported, or have worked with people convicted of violence in the name of Islam, this dissertation demonstrates how emotion operates both across and within the social, ideological, and motivational realms of human interaction in ways that help determine political action. It takes a step back from a ‘process model’ approach to understanding violent political behaviour, instead working from the assumption that the decision to engage in political violence is not a linear one. Rather, it involves complex interactions within different parts of a person’s life that culminate in a readiness to use violence as a political tactic. Using extracts from the interviews, six characteristics of emotion are established; their referential nature, their connection to value judgments, their cognitive and physiological components, their ability to be misleading, their mobilising potential, and their social embeddedness. This provides a foundation for demonstrating how violent political extremists experience their emotions politically, and in ways that are often incompatible with dominant norms and expectations. This, it is argued, contributes to a rupture in the extremist’s relationship with broader society and the subsequent development of an alternative morality that releases them from seeing conventional rules and laws as valid or legitimate, thereby establishing the moral basis on which new standards of behaviour become defensible. By making this argument, this dissertation confronts a persistent problem in Terrorism Studies regarding the nature and influence of emotion on terrorist behaviour. Emotions inevitably inform and underpin the many relationships, beliefs, and actions that lead to violent political activism. This thesis demonstrates how this knowledge can be integrated into theories of political violence without resorting to pathologising terrorist behaviour as irrational.
The kingship of Edward III of England: 1327-77
Creators: name: Barlow, Thomas William
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized
History

description: This thesis examines Edward III of England’s idea of kingship. Edward III has long been viewed as chivalric monarch. Edward heartily embraced chivalry and combat but he did so with the aim of stabilising England after the disastrous reign of his father Edward II. This chivalric, charismatic, action based kingship is apparent in Edward III’s use of chivalric orders and how he employed contemporary values and virtues both to challenge the nature of nobility in England and to secure political power for himself and his family. Edward’s kingship is best examined through the fourteenth-century chronicles. These texts not only recorded Edward’s actions but also commented on them. The chronicles contain a contemporary portrait of Edward as he most likely wished to be seen; that is to say as a virtuous, warrior king. Edward’s idea of kingship laid the foundation in the English psyche that there was a singular quality to England, something that set Englishmen apart from the rest of Christendom. That idea stuck. It became an important part of the ideologies of successive rulers and Parliaments who called upon national pride to achieve their goals. Because of this Edward III’s idea of kingship is an important part of the development of English sovereignty and contributed to the formation of the English nation.
Property rights and benefit sharing: a case study of the Barotse Floodplain of Zambia
Creators: name: Chomba, Machaya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The study sought to expose the underlying complexity of benefit sharing of ecosystem goods and services among multiple actors, using the Barotse Floodplains located in Zambia as a case study. This was based on the premise that an appreciation of theories on property rights has not been adequately used to understand and implement benefit sharing arrangements for natural resources governance. The study involved developing a conceptual framework as an analytic tool to better examine the complexity of benefit sharing from the perspective of bundles of property rights. Benefit sharing was conceptualized as the creation and regulation of relationships between decision making and benefit distribution processes. This framework highlighted the role of rights at the operational and collective levels in enforcing allocation of ecosystem goods and services as well decision making processes among actors. The design of the study was descriptive, longitudinal and qualitative. The temporal dimension of the study was between 1936 and 2012 categorized according to eras that were defined by existing benefit sharing authority – traditional, state and collaborative. Data collection techniques used in the study included in-depth interviews and documentary sources. Thematic analysis using QSR NVIVO software was used for coding and data analysis. The study revealed an overwhelming variation of benefit sharing outcomes between eras as a result of varying configuration of bundles of property rights. The variation in eras illustrates a critical relationship between the establishment and enforcement of bundles of property rights and benefit sharing outcomes. This consequently provides insights into the consequences of failing to recognize, establish and enforce bundles of rights in benefit sharing arrangements. In this way, the case study illustrates how property rights offer a theoretical perspective through which to better understand benefit sharing arrangements involving socio-ecological systems. This is especially the case in contexts in which utilization of a shared ecosystem services is susceptible to externalities that make governance difficult and complex.
Jupiter's Deep Cloud Structure Revealed Using Keck Observations of Spectrally Resolved Line Shapes
Creators: name: Bjoraker, G. L.
name: Wong, M. H.
name: de Pater, I.
name: Ádámkovics, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Technique: We present a method to determine the pressure at which significant cloud opacity is present between 2 and 6 bars on Jupiter. We use: a) the strength of a Fraunhofer absorption line in a zone to determine the ratio of reflected sunlight to thermal emission, and b) pressure-broadened line profiles of deuterated methane (CH3D) at 4.66 microns to determine the location of clouds. We use radiative transfer models to constrain the altitude region of both the solar and thermal components of Jupiter's 5-micron spectrum. Results: For nearly all latitudes on Jupiter the thermal component is large enough to constrain the deep cloud structure even when upper clouds are present. We find that Hot Spots, belts, and high latitudes have broader line profiles than do zones. Radiative transfer models show that Hot Spots in the North and South Equatorial Belts (NEB, SEB) typically do not have opaque clouds at pressures greater than 2 bars. The South Tropical Zone (STZ) at 32 degrees S has an opaque cloud top between 4 and 5 bars. From thermochemical models this must be a water cloud. We measured the variation of the equivalent width of CH3D with latitude for comparison with Jupiter's belt-zone structure. We also constrained the vertical profile of water in an SEB Hot Spot and in the STZ. The Hot Spot is very dry for P<4.5 bars and then follows the water profile observed by the Galileo Probe. The STZ has a saturated water profile above its cloud top between 4 and 5 bars.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Ophiopogon pierrei Rodriguez 1928
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon pierrei

description: Ophiopogon pierrei Rodriguez (1928: 999)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Cambodge: montagne de Cam-Chay, province de Kampot (Pierre no. 6679).
 Type (lectotype, designated by Tanaka 2000a: 78):― Cambodia. Ad montem Cam-Chay in praef. Kampot, April 1874, L. Pierre 6679 (P, barcode P00509917!; iso-: P, barcode P00753537 *!).
 Other original material examined:― Cambodia. Ad montem Cam-Chay in praef. Kampot, May 1874, L. Pierre 6679 (P, barcode P 00753532, P 00753533*). [Illustration]: A sheet of drawings made by E. Delpy in June 1904 of an inflorescence and floral parts from the lectotype, attached to the lectotype. Some of them are reproduced in Rodriguez (1934b: 658, fig. 64-8–12).
 Note:―At P, there are four sheets of L. Pierre 6679, which comprise two different species.Two of them, P 00509917 (lectotype) and P 00753537 (isolectotype), were collected in April 1874, and are identified as Ophiopogon pierrei, whereas two others, P 00753532 and P 00753533*, were collected in May 1874, and are identified as O. intermedius Don (1825: 48) (Tanaka 2000c).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Multiband Semimetallic Electronic Structure of Superconducting Ta2PdSe5
Creators: name: Singh, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the electronic structure and related properties of the superconductor Ta2PdSe5 as determined from density functional calculations. The Fermi surface has two disconnected sheets, both derived from bands of primarily chalcogenide p states. These are a corrugated hole cylinder and and a heavier complex shaped electron sheet. The sheets contain 0.048 holes and a compensating number of electrons per formula unit, making the material a semimetallic superconductor. The results support the presence of two band superconductivity, although a discrepancy in the specific heat is noted. This discrepancy is discussed as a possible consequence of Pd deficiency in samples.
How culturally situated notions of 'Politeness' forms influence the way Saudi postgraduate students write academic english?
Creators: name: Almalki, Hanan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: An increasing number of Saudi students are pursuing postgraduate degrees in Australian universities, which is partly a result of greater recognition of English as an important language for academic purposes. This has benefited Saudi students, allowing them to study their discipline in academic environments in multi-cultural universities in Australia. However, it has meant that they face certain cross-cultural challenges when communicating in English, especially in academic writing. This study aims to explore Saudi postgraduate students' experiences in writing academic Arabic and academic English in Australian universities, with a special focus on how the Saudi culturally situated notion of “politeness” influences their academic writing in English. Other influences include the impact of religious such “Islam”, Arabic writing conventions and cultural stylistic differences in expressing ideas. To investigate this, a qualitative approach was employed, involving the collection of data from semi-structured interviews. These interviews were conducted individually with four Saudi postgraduate students from the Faculties of Arts and Education. The research findings reveal that, all students have encountered intercultural miscommunication in writing academic English and that they identify religion and culture as factors that influence their academic writing in English. In light of politeness in academic English writing, this study establishes the principle of politeness from Saudi postgraduate students' perspective. Finally, recommendations are provided for academic lecturers so that they can better understand Saudi postgraduate students' experiences in writing academic English.
Ophiopogon subverticillatus Gagnepain ex Rodriguez 1928
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon subverticillatus

description: Ophiopogon subverticillatus Gagnepain ex Rodriguez (1928: 997)
 Material cited in the protologue:― Tonkin, sans localité.
 Type:― Vietnam. Tonkin, cult in Hort. Bot. Paris., June 1905, Labroix s.n. (holotype P, barcode P 00509918!).
 Other original material examined:―[Manuscript with illustration]: An unpublished manuscript by Pierre with drawings of floral parts from the same plant as the holotype titled “ Ophiopogon labroyanus Pierre sp. nov. ”, attached to the holotype.
 Note:―No duplicates of the type specimen are currently found at P. The holotype is annotated in pencil as Ophiopogon subverticillatus (supposedly by Gagnepain).Apart from this, I have not seen any manuscript by Gagnepain that was indicated to exist by Rodriguez.
 Current name:― Ophiopogon longifolius Decaisne (1867 –1868: 182), see Tanaka (1998).
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
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Creators: name: MkW- Vkseizdk"K Eqans1 MkW- Nknklkgsc EkjdM2  MkW- Fnyhi EqGwd3
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: banzk;.kh] tyiznw'k.k] b dksyh] dksfyQkWeZ] VfcZfMVh-

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Dynamics of baryon ejection in magnetar giant flares: implications for radio afterglows, r-process nucleosynthesis, and fast radio bursts
Creators: name: Cehula, Jakub
name: Thompson, Todd A.
name: Metzger, Brian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the impact of a magnetar giant flare (GF) on the neutron star (NS) crust, and the associated baryon mass ejection. We consider that sudden magnetic energy dissipation creates a thin high-pressure shell above a portion of the NS surface, which drives a relativistic shockwave into the crust, heating a fraction of these layers sufficiently to become unbound along directions unconfined by the magnetic field. We explore this process using spherically-symmetric relativistic hydrodynamical simulations. For an initial shell pressure $P_{\rm GF}$ we find the total unbound ejecta mass roughly obeys the relation $M_{\rm{ej}}\sim4-9\times10^{24}\:\rm{g}\:(P_{\rm GF}/10^{30}\:\rm{ergs}\:\rm{cm}^{-3})^{1.43}$. For $P_{\rm{GF}}\sim10^{30}-10^{31}\:\rm{ergs}\:\rm{cm}^{-3}$ corresponding to the dissipation of a magnetic field of strength $\sim10^{15.5}-10^{16}\:\rm{G}$, we find $M_{\rm{ej}}\sim10^{25}-10^{26}\:\rm{g}$ with asymptotic velocities $v_{\rm{ej}}/c\sim0.3-0.6$ compatible with the ejecta properties inferred from the afterglow of the December 2004 GF from SGR 1806-20. Because the flare excavates crustal material to a depth characterized by an electron fraction $Y_e\approx0.40-0.46$, and is ejected with high entropy and rapid expansion timescale, the conditions are met for heavy element $r$-process nucleosynthesis via the alpha-rich freeze-out mechanism. Given an energetic GF rate of roughly once per century in the Milky Way, we find that magnetar GFs could be an appreciable heavy $r$-process source that tracks star formation. We predict that GFs are accompanied by short $\sim$minutes long, luminous $\sim10^{39}\:\rm{ergs}\:\rm{s}^{-1}$ optical transients powered by $r$-process decay ("nova brevis"), akin to scaled-down kilonovae. Our findings also have implications for the synchrotron nebulae surrounding some repeating fast radio burst sources.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. v2: matches the accepted version in MNRAS (only minor edits were made). Videos showing our Fiducial simulation are available at https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10593900 and at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtfS1xXqUmtC2A48QhRvGXxbeMK1vkNnC
The rainbow nation and identity, a coloured story: a reading of Chris Van Wyk’s Shirley, goodness and mercy and Eggs to lay, chickens to hatch
Creators: name: Stoltenkamp, Nicole Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis will focus on how racial identities are constructed. It will look, in particular, at Chris Van Wyk’s memoirs Shirley, Goodness and Mercy (2004) and Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch (2010), which describe the life of the coloured community of Riverlea, a township in Johannesburg, under apartheid. It will investigate both the construction of the category “coloured” and the notion that the term coloured could be a way of defining the undefinable. The thesis explains the theories that can be used to inform the construction of coloured identity, such as Helene Strauss’s justification of the term “creolisation” to describe the coloured identity and Judith Butler’s notion that identity is performative. Such theories can be used to inform an individual’s choice to adopt, perform or reject examples of identity performances, particularly those identities which were imposed on coloured people during apartheid. However, history alone cannot determine an identity; we all have the ability to choose our identities. Because there are so many identities in contemporary South Africa, an individual living in this new society shares a layer of her/his identity with all humanity.
$Z$ boson production in $p+$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS Collaboration has measured the inclusive production of $Z$ bosons via their decays into electron and muon pairs in $p+$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are made using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 29.4 nb$^{-1}$ and 28.1 nb$^{-1}$ for $Z \rightarrow ee$ and $Z \rightarrow μμ$, respectively. The results from the two channels are consistent and combined to obtain a cross section times the $Z \rightarrow \ell\ell$ branching ratio, integrated over the rapidity region $|y^{*}_{Z}|<3.5$, of 139.8 $\pm$ 4.8 (stat.) $\pm$ 6.2 (syst.) $\pm$ 3.8 (lumi.) nb. Differential cross sections are presented as functions of the $Z$ boson rapidity and transverse momentum, and compared with models based on parton distributions both with and without nuclear corrections. The centrality dependence of $Z$ boson production in $p+$Pb collisions is measured and analyzed within the framework of a standard Glauber model and the model's extension for fluctuations of the underlying nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section.
description: 20 pages plus author list (36 pages total), 9 figures, 3 tables, published version, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2013-09/
Reproductive obligations
Creators: name: Krohn, Phillip Bernard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It seems that we can neither harm nor benefit anyone by creating him (Derek Parfit, 1984 on the Non-Identity Problem), and that reproductive decisions, if they have any moral value at all, are at best neutral and at worst incommensurable relative to each other. This sharply contrasts with the moral intuitions we have regarding reproductive choices, and leaves a large area of human endeavour about which morality can say nothing meaningful at all. A theory based on a de dicto conception of future persons, first advanced by Caspar Hare (2007) and further developed here, avoids these anomalies — and has reassuring consequences for some other moral questions. Such a theory also lends strong, albeit qualified, support to the eugenic claims of such as John Harris (esp. 2007) and Julian Savulescu (esp. 2001). Any act that creates a person creates a set of duties to that person; those duties all consist in not making choices which, relative to the alternative, do not disadvantage the person so created; if the reproductive acts between which we are choosing might be said to be creating the same de dicto person, then those choices are covered by those negative duties to that person. There are many theoretical and practical problems with the sort of reproductive libertarianism advocated by the “new eugenicists”, which if anything are more pressing on the de dicto theory. However, I argue that by casting reproductive obligations as negative obligations, the de dicto theory suggests an account of reproductive obligation that acknowledges the theoretical objections and avoids the negative practical consequences of eugenic libertarianism.
An auditionees' practical toolkit for the preparation of a professional violoncello audition in Australia with focus on Haydn's Cello Concerto No.2 in D Major Hob. Vllb/2: Movements 1 & 2
Creators: name: Tcheupdjian, Amy Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

description: This research project is an exploration of the preparation and process involved in successfully auditioning for a professional violoncello position in an Australian Symphony Orchestra. The aim of this research project is to serve as a guide for an applicant preparing for a successful audition. A professional audition is a unique high-pressure situation. An applicant is instantly assessed on a variety of skills, with lasting impressions being formed from the moment the panel hears the first note. This thesis will discuss the literature surrounding this topic, as well as, findings from interviews with professional Australian orchestral cellists. Furthermore, I will provide a 'toolkit' for the aspiring professional. This will examine the audition process, looking into the criteria assessed during an audition, and performance outcomes. Finally, Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major will be discussed to illustrate the various factors that a cellist must deliberate before undertaking a professional audition with this work.
This recording has been made by Monash University under the express terms of an education license between it, AMCOS and ARIA, and may only be used as authorised by Monash University pursuant to the terms of that license.
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NO REPRODUCTION PERMITTED
Compartmentation of cGMP signaling in induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes during prolonged culture.
Creators: name: Faleeva, Maria
name: Diakonov, Ivan
name: Srivastava, Prashant
name: Ramuz, Masoud
name: Calamera, Gaia
name: Andressen, Kjetil Wessel
name: Bork, Nadja
name: Tsansizi, Lorenza
name: Cosson, Marie-Victoire
name: Bernardo, Andreia Sofia
name: Nikolaev, Viacheslav
name: Gorelik, Julia
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: Model organisms
Signalling & Oncogenes
Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells
Computational & Systems Biology

description: The therapeutic benefit of stimulating the cGMP pathway as a form of treatment to combat heart failure, as well as other fibrotic pathologies, has become well established. However, the development and signal compartmentation of this crucial pathway has so far been overlooked. We studied how the three main cGMP pathways, namely, nitric oxide (NO)-cGMP, natriuretic peptide (NP)-cGMP, and β3-adrenoreceptor (AR)-cGMP, mature over time in culture during cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC-CMs). After introducing a cGMP sensor for Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) microscopy, we used selective phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibition to reveal cGMP signal compartmentation in hPSC-CMs at various times of culture. Methyl-β-cyclodextrin was employed to remove cholesterol and thus to destroy caveolae in these cells, where physical cGMP signaling compartmentalization is known to occur in adult cardiomyocytes. We identified PDE3 as regulator of both the NO-cGMP and NP-cGMP pathway in the early stages of culture. At the late stage, the role of the NO-cGMP pathway diminished, and it was predominantly regulated by PDE1, PDE2, and PDE5. The NP-cGMP pathway shows unrestricted locally and unregulated cGMP signaling. Lastly, we observed that maturation of the β3-AR-cGMP pathway in prolonged cultures of hPSC-CMs depends on the accumulation of caveolae. Overall, this study highlighted the importance of structural development for the necessary compartmentation of the cGMP pathway in maturing hPSC-CMs.
A genealogy of convex solids via local and global bifurcations of gradient vector fields
Creators: name: Domokos, Gábor
name: Holmes, Philip
name: Lángi, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 52A15, 53A05, 53Z05

description: Three-dimensional convex bodies can be classified in terms of the number and stability types of critical points on which they can balance at rest on a horizontal plane. For typical bodies these are nondegenerate maxima, minima, and saddle-points, the numbers of which provide a primary classification. Secondary and tertiary classifications use graphs to describe orbits connecting these critical points in the gradient vector field associated with each body. In previous work it was shown that these classifications are complete in that no class is empty. Here we construct 1- and 2-parameter families of convex bodies connecting members of adjacent primary and secondary classes and show that transitions between them can be realized by codimension 1 saddle-node and saddle-saddle (heteroclinic) bifurcations in the gradient vector fields. Our results indicate that all combinatorially possible transitions can be realized in physical shape evolution processes, e.g. by abrasion of sedimentary particles.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures
Ophiopogon tonkinensis Rodriguez 1928
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ophiopogon
Ophiopogon tonkinensis

description: Ophiopogon tonkinensis Rodriguez (1928: 998).
 Material cited in the protologue:― Tonkin: Province de Lang-son, environs de Van Linh (Mlle Colani in herb. Petelot, sans no.).
 Type:― Vietnam. Tonkin: Province de Lang-son, environs de Van Linh, forêt, elev. 100 m, 25 November 1926, Melle El. Colani s.n., in herb. Pételot (holotype P, barcode P 00509925!).
 Note:―The holotype has a label inscribed by Rodriguez with the specific name. No duplicates of the type specimen are currently found at P.
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Deep Natural Language Feature Learning for Interpretable Prediction
Creators: name: Urrutia, Felipe
name: Buc, Cristian
name: Barriere, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a general method to break down a main complex task into a set of intermediary easier sub-tasks, which are formulated in natural language as binary questions related to the final target task. Our method allows for representing each example by a vector consisting of the answers to these questions. We call this representation Natural Language Learned Features (NLLF). NLLF is generated by a small transformer language model (e.g., BERT) that has been trained in a Natural Language Inference (NLI) fashion, using weak labels automatically obtained from a Large Language Model (LLM). We show that the LLM normally struggles for the main task using in-context learning, but can handle these easiest subtasks and produce useful weak labels to train a BERT. The NLI-like training of the BERT allows for tackling zero-shot inference with any binary question, and not necessarily the ones seen during the training. We show that this NLLF vector not only helps to reach better performances by enhancing any classifier, but that it can be used as input of an easy-to-interpret machine learning model like a decision tree. This decision tree is interpretable but also reaches high performances, surpassing those of a pre-trained transformer in some cases.We have successfully applied this method to two completely different tasks: detecting incoherence in students' answers to open-ended mathematics exam questions, and screening abstracts for a systematic literature review of scientific papers on climate change and agroecology.
Analysis of climate-land-energy-water interconnection as a tool for sustainable development: the case of Mexico
Creators: name: Espinoza-Juarez, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: clews
mexico
energy
land
water
climate

description: Presentation of the work developed in the summer school of the Energy Modelling Platform for Latin America and the Carribean (EMP-LAC) 2023 in Costa Rica
Crystal nuclei in melts: A Monte Carlo simulation of a model for attractive colloids
Creators: name: Statt, Antonia
name: Virnau, Peter
name: Binder, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a model for a suspension of hard-sphere like colloidal particles where small nonadsorbing dissolved polymers create a depletion attraction, we introduce an effective colloid-colloid potential closely related to the Asakura-Oosawa model but that does not have any discontinuities. In simulations, this model straightforwardly allows the calculation of the pressure from the Virial formula, and the phase transition in the bulk from the liquid to crystalline solid can be accurately located from a study where a stable coexistence of a crystalline slab with a surrounding liquid phase occurs. For this model, crystalline nuclei surrounded by fluid are studied both by identifying the crystal-fluid interface on the particle level (using suitable bond orientational order parameters to distinguish the phases) and by "thermodynamic" means. I.e., the latter method amounts to compute the enhancement of chemical potential and pressure relative to their coexistence values. We show that the chemical potential can be obtained from simulating thick films, where one wall with a rather long range repulsion is present, since near this wall the Widom particle insertion method works, exploiting the fact that the chemical potential in the system is homogeneous. Finally, the surface excess free energy of the nucleus is obtained, for a wide range of nuclei volumes. From this method, it is established that classical nucleation theory works, showing that for the present model the anisotropy of the interface excess free energy of crystals and their resulting nonspherical shape has only a very small effect on the barrier.
The use of Bartok's ethnomusicological writings as a window to a performance of the composer's Piano Sonata Sz. 80 (1926)
Creators: name: Liston, Daniel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bartok embarked on numerous expeditions to collect and study folksongs. These expeditions were primarily organized by the composer himself and were conducted initially out of personal interest, though his methods and findings were both influential to the burgeoning field of ethnomusicology. The folksongs Bartok collected played a large role in influencing, to various degrees, the content of his compositions, including his Piano Sonata Sz. 80 of 1926. Through the study of both Bartok's articles on folk music and the field recordings these articles are based upon, a performer can gain a strong understanding of the work. This thesis aims to explore these writings in support of a performance-based analysis of the composer's Piano Sonata Sz. 80, with the primary aim of achieving an informed performance outcome.
TDPP: Two-Dimensional Permutation-Based Protection of Memristive Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Zou, Minhui
name: Zhu, Zhenhua
name: Greenberg-Toledo, Tzofnat
name: Leitersdorf, Orian
name: Li, Jiang
name: Zhou, Junlong
name: Wang, Yu
name: Du, Nan
name: Kvatinsky, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The execution of deep neural network (DNN) algorithms suffers from significant bottlenecks due to the separation of the processing and memory units in traditional computer systems. Emerging memristive computing systems introduce an in situ approach that overcomes this bottleneck. The non-volatility of memristive devices, however, may expose the DNN weights stored in memristive crossbars to potential theft attacks. Therefore, this paper proposes a two-dimensional permutation-based protection (TDPP) method that thwarts such attacks. We first introduce the underlying concept that motivates the TDPP method: permuting both the rows and columns of the DNN weight matrices. This contrasts with previous methods, which focused solely on permuting a single dimension of the weight matrices, either the rows or columns. While it's possible for an adversary to access the matrix values, the original arrangement of rows and columns in the matrices remains concealed. As a result, the extracted DNN model from the accessed matrix values would fail to operate correctly. We consider two different memristive computing systems (designed for layer-by-layer and layer-parallel processing, respectively) and demonstrate the design of the TDPP method that could be embedded into the two systems. Finally, we present a security analysis. Our experiments demonstrate that TDPP can achieve comparable effectiveness to prior approaches, with a high level of security when appropriately parameterized. In addition, TDPP is more scalable than previous methods and results in reduced area and power overheads. The area and power are reduced by, respectively, 1218$\times$ and 2815$\times$ for the layer-by-layer system and by 178$\times$ and 203$\times$ for the layer-parallel system compared to prior works.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
$c$-function and central charge of the sine-Gordon model from the non-perturbative renormalization group flow
Creators: name: Bacsó, V.
name: Defenu, N.
name: Trombettoni, A.
name: Nándori, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the $c$-function of the sine-Gordon model taking explicitly into account the periodicity of the interaction potential. The integration of the $c$-function along trajectories of the non-perturbative renormalization group flow gives access to the central charges of the model in the fixed points. The results at vanishing frequency $β^2$, where the periodicity does not play a role, are retrieved and the independence on the cutoff regulator for small frequencies is discussed. Our findings show that the central charge obtained integrating the trajectories starting from the repulsive low-frequencies fixed points ($β^2 <8π$) to the infrared limit is in good quantitative agreement with the expected $Δc=1$ result. The behavior of the $c$-function in the other parts of the flow diagram is also discussed. Finally, we point out that also including higher harmonics in the renormalization group treatment at the level of local potential approximation is not sufficient to give reasonable results, even if the periodicity is taken into account. Rather, incorporating the wave-function renormalization (i. e. going beyond local potential approximation) is crucial to get sensible results even when a single frequency is used.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, v1, to be published on Nucl. Phys. B
Peliosanthes dasystachys Diels ex Rodriguez 1934
Creators: name: Tanaka, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Peliosanthes
Peliosanthes dasystachys

description: Peliosanthes dasystachys Diels ex Rodriguez (1934b: 672).
 Material cited in the protologue:― Tonkin: Cho Ganh, coteaux calcaire (Pételot).
 Type (lectotype, designated here):― Vietnam. Tonkin: Coteaux calcaires du Cho Ganh, May 1923, P. A. Pételot 1343 (P, barcode P00753574 *!); iso-: P, barcode P00214600!, P00753575 *!).
 Note:―Both the lectotype and isolectotypes have a label inscribed by Diels with Peliosanthes dasystachys. This species closely resembles P. macrostegia Hance (1885: 328), see Tanaka (2018), so it might represent a heterotypic synonym of the latter. However, further studies based on living plants from the type locality are needed to determine the identity.
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2019, Typification of twelve names in Neolourya, Ophiopogon, and Peliosanthes (Asparagaceae) published by Léopold Rodriguez, pp. 161-166 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13725327
Expanding the bounds of rationality: three optimistic pieces
Creators: name: Bales, Adam Thomas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is composed of three independent chapters on the themes of rationality and rational choice. In chapter 1, I consider the money pump, which is the most prominent argument against the rationality of nontransitive preferences. I argue that the money pump fails to undermine such preferences: instead of condemning an agent's preferences in response to the money pump, we ought to condemn her way of deciding. More specifically, I argue that this should be our default response to the money pump and that a particularly plausible attempt to undermine this default response fails. In chapter 2, I examine resolute choice. An agent chooses in a resolute manner if she makes a plan when first faced with a sequence of decisions and then resolutely sticks to it. It is commonly accepted that resoluteness is a useful characteristic for an agent to possess but also commonly accepted that rationality does not require that agents have the capacity to be resolute. I will dispute this second assumption. I will argue that, given that resoluteness enables agents to avoid undesirable manipulation, we have a prima facie reason to think that rationality requires resoluteness. This argument is well-known but not well-liked. Accordingly, I spend a substantial amount of time defending the strength of this basic argument. In chapter 3, I consider the issue of rational choice given normative uncertainty: that is, I consider how an agent ought to decide if she is uncertain about the normative truths about rationality (rather than uncertain about the empirical truths about the world). In response to this issue, I argue in support of a number of sufficient criteria for choice under such circumstances and show that these criteria provide guidance in a range of interesting cases of normative uncertainty.
Awards: Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Masters Thesis Excellence in 2013.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and 15-Year Cognitive Decline: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Creators: name: Alonso, Alvaro
name: Mosley, Thomas H.
name: Punjabi, Naresh M.
name: MacLehose, Richard F.
name: Bengtson, Lindsay G.S.
name: Lutsey, Pamela L.
name: Shahar, Eyal
name: Gottesman, Rebecca F.
name: Wruck, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Prospective data evaluating abnormal sleep quality and quantity with cognitive decline are limited because most studies used subjective data and/or had short follow-up. We hypothesized that, over 15 y of follow-up, participants with objectively measured obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other indices of poor sleep quantity and quality would experience greater decline in cognitive functioning than participants with normal sleep patterns.
Application of CLEW systems in Small Island Developing States. The Dominican case.
Creators: name: Jarrizon Quevedo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Energy system planinig, CLEW, SIDS, OSEMOSYS.

description: This an application of CLEW systems in Small Island Developing States, the Dominican Republic case. The idea is to investigate how could the CLEW system provide insights to long-term planning for sustainable development in Small Island Developing States?
Spin Pumping in Electrodynamically Coupled Magnon-Photon Systems
Creators: name: Bai, Lihui
name: Harder, M.
name: Chen, Y. P.
name: Fan, X.
name: Xiao, J. Q.
name: Hu, C. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use electrical detection, in combination with microwave transmission, to investigate both resonant and non-resonant magnon-photon coupling at room temperature. Spin pumping in a dynamically coupled magnon-photon system is found to be distinctly different from previous experiments. Characteristic coupling features such as modes anti-crossing, line width evolution, peculiar line shape, and resonance broadening are systematically measured and consistently analyzed by a theoretical model set on the foundation of classical electrodynamic coupling. Our experimental and theoretical approach pave the way for pursuing microwave coherent manipulation of pure spin current via the combination of spin pumping and magnon-photon coupling.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
SU(3) and SU(4) singlet quantum Hall states at $ν=2/3$
Creators: name: Wu, Fengcheng
name: Sodemann, Inti
name: MacDonald, Allan H.
name: Jolicoeur, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an exact diagonalization study of fractional quantum Hall states at filling factor $ν=2/3$ in a system with a four-fold degenerate $n$=0 Landau level and SU(4) symmetric Coulomb interactions. Our investigation reveals previously unidentified SU(3) and SU(4) singlet ground states which appear at flux quantum shift 2 when a spherical geometry is employed, and lie outside the established composite-fermion or multicomponent Halperin state patterns. We evaluate the two-particle correlation functions of these states, and discuss quantum phase transitions in graphene between singlet states with different number of components as magnetic field strength is increased.
description: 5+2 pages, 3 figures
Robust magnetic proximity induced anomalous Hall effect in a room temperature van der Waals ferromagnetic semiconductor based 2D heterostructure
Creators: name: Wu, Hao
name: Yang, Li
name: Zhang, Gaojie
name: Jin, Wen
name: Xiao, Bichen
name: Zhang, Wenfeng
name: Chang, Haixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Developing novel high-temperature van der Waals ferromagnetic semiconductor materials and investigating their interface coupling effects with two-dimensional topological semimetals are pivotal for advancing next-generation spintronic and quantum devices. However, most van der Waals ferromagnetic semiconductors exhibit ferromagnetism only at low temperatures, limiting the proximity research on their interfaces with topological semimetals. Here, we report an intrinsic, van der Waals layered room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor crystal, FeCr0.5Ga1.5Se4 (FCGS), with a Curie temperature as high as 370 K, setting a new record for van der Waals ferromagnetic semiconductors. The saturation magnetization at low temperature (2 K) and room temperature (300 K) reaches 8.2 emu/g and 2.7 emu/g, respectively. Furthermore, FCGS possesses a bandgap of approximately 1.2 eV, which is comparable to the widely used commercial silicon. The FCGS/graphene heterostructure exhibits an impeccably smooth and gapless interface, thereby inducing a robust magnetic proximity coupling effect between FCGS and graphene. After the proximity coupling, graphene undergoes a charge carrier transition from electrons to holes, accompanied by a transition from non-magnetic to ferromagnetic transport behavior with robust anomalous Hall effect. Notably, the anomalous Hall effect remains robust even temperatures up to 400 K.