cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Turning off quantum duality
Creators: name: Qian, X. -F.
name: Konthasinghe, K.
name: Manikandan, K.
name: Spiecker, D.
name: Vamivakas, A. N.
name: Eberly, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide the first experimental confirmation of a three-way quantum coherence identity possessed by single pure-state photons. Our experimental results demonstrate that traditional wave-particle duality is specifically limited by this identity. As a new consequence, we show that quantum duality itself can be amplified, attenuated, or turned completely off. In the Young double-slit context this quantum coherence identity is found to be directly relevant, and it supplies a rare quantitative backup for one of Bohr's philosophical pronouncements.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Indefinite Kaehler-Einstein metrics on Compact Complex Surfaces
Creators: name: Petean, Jimmy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Indefinite Kaehler solutions of the Einstein equations are studied, and it is almost completely determined which compact complex surfaces admit such metrics.
description: 14 pages, latex
title: Integration of Access Control Requirements into System Specifications
Creators: name: Zafar, Saad
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer data security
subject: Security engineering
subject: Behavior engineering
subject: Integrated graphical model

description: The reliance on computer‐based systems is growing steadily. Information systems span many aspects of our lives. Due to increased reliance on computer‐based systems there is a growing concern about the security and privacy of information available in these systems. As a result, the complexity of data protection and availability requirements of most of the modern applications has also increased. An access control mechanism is one of the key security elements in the implementation of data protection and availability requirements. The effective implementation of access control requirements into the system design is generally hampered by the fact that security requirements are typically analysed in isolation from rest of the systems requirements. This isolation of security and systems engineering leads to a number of integration problems. In general, the effective integration of access control models is affected by four major problems: (1) the informal models may not be formally verified for correctness; (2) the formally specified models may not be easy to understand and validate; and (3) the often specialized formal models use different notation to the specification and design notation; and (4) the overall development does not support the early integration of security requirements into the design process, and the requirements traceability is often lost. For effective integration of security‐related requirements a security engineering method has been developed, which is based on an existing systems development approach called Behavior Engineering (BE). The BE approach uses a graphical notation called Behavior Trees (BT) for specification of requirements. The approach provides a systematic translation of informal requirements into a formal representation. An integrated view of requirements is generated which provides a platform for requirements analysis and design. With tool support the BT model can be simulated and model‐checked for correctness. The extension of BE for security engineering has been augmented by an access control model called BT‐RBAC. The BTRBAC is an integrated graphical model that aims to simplify the formal specification, validation, verification and integration of access control requirements into the system design. The integration of access control requirements is assisted through the use of single notation throughout the development process. Other features of the model include a systematic translation process, early defect detection, requirements traceability and support for requirements transformation into the system design in a traceable manner.
Fluxbranes Delaying Brane-Antibrane Annihilation
Creators: name: Kim, Hongsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By intersecting the RR charged D_p - bar{D}_p pair (p=6, 4, 2, 0) with the RR F7-brane and by intersecting the NSNS charged F1-bar{F1} and NS5-bar{NS5} pairs with the NSNS F6-branes, the possibility of stabilizing the brane-antibrane systems is considered. The behavior of the corresponding supergravity solutions indicates that the RR F7-brane content of the solution plays the role of keeping the brane and the antibrane from annihilating each other completely since the two-brane configuration structure still persists in the vanishing inter-brane distance limit of the supergravity solution. In terms of the stringy description, we interpret this as representing that the RR F7-brane ``delays'' the brane-antibrane annihilation process but only until this non-supersymmetric and hence unstable F7-brane itself decays. Then next, the behavior of the supergravity solutions representing F1-bar{F1} and NS5-bar{NS5} again for vanishing inter-brane separation reveals that as they approach, these ``NS''-charged brane and antibrane always collide and annihilate irrespective of the presence or the absence of the NSNS F6-brane. And we have essentially attributed this to the absence of (open) stringy description of the instability in the ``NS''-charged case. This interpretation may provide a resolution to the contrasting features between the instability of ``R''-charged brane-antibrane systems and that of `NS''-charged ones. Certainly, however, it poses another puzzle that in the ``NS''-charged case, the quantum entity, that should take over the semi-classical instability as the inter-brane distance gets smaller, is missing. This is rather an embarrassing state of affair that needs to be treated with great care.
description: 35 pages, Latex, References added
Enicospilus monostigma
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus monostigma

description: Enicospilus monostigma (VOLLENHOVEN 1879)
 Ophion monostigma VOLLENHOVEN 1879. Pinacographia Illustr. p. 57.
 Ophion monostigma: KRIECHBAUMER 1880: 74, ex Pseudophia tyrrhaea CR.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Spain and Yugoslavia.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1682, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
title: Colonialism's Paradox: White Women, 'Race' and Gender in the Contact Zone 1850-1910
Creators: name: Crow, Rebekah
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: White women in Queensland
subject: colonialism
subject: imperialism
subject: Queensland history
subject: race and gender

description: This thesis is both an empirical history of white women in Queensland colonialism and a theoretical history of colonialism and imperialism in the late nineteenth century. It is a feminist history which seeks to fill the gap in our understanding of white women and 'race' in the contact zone in Queensland in the nineteenth century. At this level the thesis restores historical agency to women and reveals women's history as a powerful alternative to traditional colonial histories. It also positions this Queensland history within a global discourse of critical imperial histories that has emerged over the past decade, seeking to understand how British imperialism and Queensland colonialism shaped and informed each other in a two way process. The central themes of the thesis are 'race' and gender. I examine the ways in which white women deploy imperial ideologies of 'race' in the contact zone to position themselves as white women. 'Race' and gender are explored through the ways in which white women negotiated, in their writing, their relationships with Indigenous people and Pacific Islanders on the frontier and in the contact zone. The white women whose texts are examined in this thesis engaged with 'race' difference in their autobiographical accounts and these accounts, on many levels, allow us to rethink colonial history. I argue that colonialism is paradoxical and that white women experienced this colonial paradox in their daily lives and negotiated it in their writing. The white women whose writing is studied here were decent people with good intentions. They were simultaneously humanitarians (to differing degrees) and colonists. They were dependant for their livelihoods upon a violent colonisation and yet they were sympathetic to the Aboriginal people they interacted with. Often they were silenced in their opinions on the violence they witnessed. Writing was a means of navigating these contradictions. White women were in a relatively powerless position in the contact zone and there was little they could do to mitigate the violence that they saw. The tensions that resulted from living in the colonial paradox on frontiers and in the contact zone, of being a colonists and humanitarians, and of living in an uncontrollable existential situation is expressed in the writing of these women. This history offers us a more holistic understanding of the complexity of colonialism in Australia.
Hedychridium benoiti ZIMMERMANN 1956
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Hedychridium
Hedychridium benoiti

description: Hedychridium benoiti ZIMMERMANN 1956
 Hedychridium benoiti n.sp.: ZIMMERMANN 1956: 143 (descr., Madagascar), 159 (cat.).
 Hedychridium benoiti ZIMMERMANN 1956: ZIMMERMANN 1961: 302 (tax., biol., Madagascar), 319 (cat.).
 Hedychridium benoiti ZIMMERMANN 1956: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 188 (cat.).
 Hedychridium benoiti ZIMMERMANN 1956: MADL 2008: 90 (cat., Madagascar).
 Host: Tachysphex sp. (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Mahajanga: Mahatazana – Prov. Antananarivo: Antananarivo – Prov. Toliara: Behara, Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 867, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
SAIN: Self-Attentive Integration Network for Recommendation
Creators: name: Yun, Seoungjun
name: Kim, Raehyun
name: Ko, Miyoung
name: Kang, Jaewoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the growing importance of personalized recommendation, numerous recommendation models have been proposed recently. Among them, Matrix Factorization (MF) based models are the most widely used in the recommendation field due to their high performance. However, MF based models suffer from cold start problems where user-item interactions are sparse. To deal with this problem, content based recommendation models which use the auxiliary attributes of users and items have been proposed. Since these models use auxiliary attributes, they are effective in cold start settings. However, most of the proposed models are either unable to capture complex feature interactions or not properly designed to combine user-item feedback information with content information. In this paper, we propose Self-Attentive Integration Network (SAIN) which is a model that effectively combines user-item feedback information and auxiliary information for recommendation task. In SAIN, a self-attention mechanism is used in the feature-level interaction layer to effectively consider interactions between multiple features, while the information integration layer adaptively combines content and feedback information. The experimental results on two public datasets show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models by 2.13%
description: SIGIR 2019
Lycopene - Molecule of the Month January 2020 [Archived version]
Creators: name: May, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This is the Molecule of the Month entry for January 2020 about lycopene. It is a pdf archive version of the HTML webpage.
LEVERAGING STATISTICAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUES IN FINANCIAL AUDITING TO IMPROVE COMPLIANCE, ACCURACY, AND TRUST IN REPORTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Creators: name: Jerryson Ameworgbe Gidisu*, Mbonigaba Celestin**, Wisdom Tetteh Dometi*, Augustine Teye Amezuwey*, Abigail Agyeiwaah Ansah* &  Elkanah Frederick Ayittey*
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study investigates the impact of leveraging statistical sampling techniques in financial auditing to enhance compliance, accuracy, and stakeholder trust. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, integrating structured interviews with auditors and survey data from accounting firms across multiple industries. Quantitative analysis includes a chi-square test for compliance evaluation (χ² = 24.7, p < 0.05), regression analysis on audit accuracy (R² = 0.85, β = 0.74, p < 0.01), and a t-test for stakeholder trust levels (t = 5.68, p < 0.001), demonstrating a significant improvement in financial reporting quality. Findings reveal that the adoption of statistical sampling increased from 45% in 2020 to 72% in 2024, while audit accuracy improved from 80% to 90% over the same period. Compliance rates rose from 70% to 85%, and stakeholder trust in audited statements increased from 65% to 80%. The overall Pearson correlation coefficient (r = 0.89, p < 0.001) indicates a strong positive relationship between statistical sampling and financial audit effectiveness. The study concludes that statistical sampling enhances financial statement reliability but requires continuous adaptation to regulatory changes and technological advancements. Recommendations include integrating AI-driven sampling tools, enhancing auditor training, improving transparency, and implementing standardized compliance frameworks.
Sobolev mapping of some holomorphic projections
Creators: name: Edholm, L. D.
name: McNeal, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32A36, 32A25, 32W05

description: Sobolev irregularity of the Bergman projection on a family of domains containing the Hartogs triangle is shown. On the Hartogs triangle itself, a sub-Bergman projection is shown to satisfy better Sobolev norm estimates than its Bergman projection.
A renormalization approach to the Liouville quantum gravity metric
Creators: Falconet, Hugo Pierre
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Quantum gravity--Mathematics
subject: Gaussian Markov random fields
subject: String models

description: This thesis explores metric properties of Liouville quantum gravity (LQG), a random geometry with conformal symmetries introduced in the context of string theory by Polyakov in the 80’s. Formally, it corresponds to the Riemannian metric tensor “e^{γh}(dx² + dy²)” where h is a planar Gaussian free field and γ is a parameter in (0, 2). Since h is a random Schwartz distribution with negative regularity, the exponential e^{γh} only makes sense formally and the associated volume form and distance functions are not well-defined. The mathematical language to define the volume form was introduced by Kahane, also in the 80’s. In this thesis, we explore a renormalization approach to make sense of the distance function and we study its basic properties.
More accurate tests for the statistical significance of result differences
Creators: name: Yeh, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Statistical significance testing of differences in values of metrics like recall, precision and balanced F-score is a necessary part of empirical natural language processing. Unfortunately, we find in a set of experiments that many commonly used tests often underestimate the significance and so are less likely to detect differences that exist between different techniques. This underestimation comes from an independence assumption that is often violated. We point out some useful tests that do not make this assumption, including computationally-intensive randomization tests.
description: 7 pages, uses colacl.sty
Hedychrum LATREILLE 1802
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Hedychrum

description: Genus Hedychrum LATREILLE 1802
Description: LATREILLE 1802: 317.
 Typus generis: Chrysis lucidula FABRICIUS 1775.
Distribution: All zoogeographical regions except Australian Region.
Valid species: 4.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 868, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
Thermodynamic aspects of nanoscale friction
Creators: name: Torche, Paola Carolina
name: Polcar, Tomas
name: Hovorka, Ondrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Developing the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of friction is required for systematic design of low friction surfaces for a broad range of technological applications. Intuitively, the thermodynamic work done by a material sliding along a surface is expected to be partially dissipated as heat and partially transformed into the change of the internal energy of the system. However, general non-equilibrium thermodynamic principles governing this separation are presently unknown. We develop a theoretical framework based on the transition state theory combined with the conventional Prandtl-Tomlinson model, allowing to set explicit expressions for evaluating the heat dissipation and internal energy change produced during the frictional stick-slip motion of a tip of a typical friction force microscope (FFM). We use the formalism to quantify the heat dissipation for a range of parameters relevant to materials in practical applications of nanoscale friction.
Enicospilus unicallosus
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus unicallosus

description: Enicospilus unicallosus (VOLLENHOVEN 1878)
 Ophion unicallosus VOLLENHOVEN 1878. Tijdschr. v. Entom. 21: 167.
 Ophion unicallosus: KRIECHBAUMER 1880: 74, ex Pseudophia tyrrhae CR. and P. lunaris SCHIFF.; MOCSARY 1897: 48, Serbia; STROBL 1904: 54, Croatia.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Canary Islands, Europe, Israel and Uzbekistan.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1682, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
The structure of pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties for a degenerate almost complex structure and symplectic form on S^1 X B^3
Creators: name: Taubes, Clifford Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 52C15

description: A self-dual harmonic 2-form on a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold is symplectic where it does not vanish. Furthermore, away from the form's zero set, the metric with the 2-form give a compatible almost complex structure and thus pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties. Such a subvariety is said to have finite energy when the integral over the variety of the given self-dual 2-form is finite. This article proves a regularity theorem for such finite energy subvarieties when the metric is particularly simple near the form's zero set. To be more precise, this article's main result asserts the following: Assume that the zero set of the form is non-degenerate and that the metric near the zero set has a certain canonical form. Then, except possibly for a finite set of points on the zero set, each point on the zero set has a ball neighborhood which intersects the subvariety as a finite set of components, and the closure of each component is a real analytically embedded half disk whose boundary coincides with the zero set of the form.
description: 112 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol2/paper10.abs.html
Seiberg-Witten Floer Homology and Heegaard Splittings
Creators: name: Marcolli, Matilde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R57, 55N35, 58E05

description: This paper presents the construction of the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology of three-manifolds with non-trivial rational homology, and some properties of the invariant of three-manifolds obtained by computing the Euler characteristic. This new version corrects a mistake and some misprints that appear in the published version (Internat. J. Math., Vol.7, N.5 (1996) 671-696). Various sections are rewritten in more detail.
description: 46 Pages, LaTex, no figures
Local leadership in transition : explaining variation in Indonesian subnational government
Creators: name: Von Luebke, Christian
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2007

description: Why do some local governments perform well, while others perform badly? This question, which frames the analysis of the present study, connects to a wider puzzle in recent development debates. Many post-authoritarian regimes that have embarked on pronounced decentralization and local democracy reforms display, if anything, declining government performance over the last ten years. The persistence of bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption, irrespective of efforts to 'move governments closer to people', calls for a deeper inquiry into the dynamics of local decision-making after decentralization has come to pass. Indonesia provides a unique study case in this respect. Indonesia's rapid regime change, from centralized authoritarian to decentralized democratic rule, has brought about a large variation in subnational policy outcomes. This is particularly evident in strongly diverging tax, license and corruption practices across 440 newly empowered district governments. These marked 'business-climate' variations make it possible to test two contending explanations for government performance: (1) 'societal pressure' which is advocated as an essential reform mechanism in the good-governance debate and (2) 'government leadership' which emerges as a key determinant in recent policy­ reform literatures. Based on eight district cases (comprising 1000 business surveys and 120 in­ depth interviews) and multivariate regression analyses (using data from 200 districts), I demonstrate that societal pressure is less significant in explaining local policy outcomes than government leadership. In Indonesia's early transition to democracy, reform pressures by local firms and district councilors were found to be largely absent due to collective action problems and dysfunctional political incentives. Conversely, local government leaders were found to be the primary driving force for local business climates. In good cases, government leaders skillfully used their office powers - motivated by direct elections and career aspirations - to forge reform coalitions and supervise local bureaucracies. In response to the 'good governance' debate, these empirical findings signal that government leadership can be an effective, and often underestimated, reform mechanism, which compensates for weak societal pressures in early transition periods.
Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Hedychrum
Hedychrum alluaudi

description: Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904
 Hedychrum alluaudi n.sp.: du BUYSSON 1904: 258 (descr., Madagascar).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: du BUYSSON 1910: 125 (key, cat).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: BISCHOFF 1913: 18 (cat.).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: ZIMMERMANN 1956: 160 (cat., Madagascar).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: ZIMMERMANN 1961: 303 (Madagascar), 304 (tax.), 319 (cat.).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 210 (cat.).
 Hedychrum alluaudi du BUYSSON 1904: MADL 2008: 90 (cat., Madagascar).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Vallée de Fanjahira (Isaka).
Endemic.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 868, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
title: Improving the uptake of multi-agency and third-party policing partnerships: facilitators, barriers and the role of legal levers
Creators: name: Van Felius, Margo
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multi-agency policing partnerships
subject: legal levers
subject: case studies

description: Multi-agency policing partnerships enable police agencies to address underlying social issues that contribute to crime and allow for longer-term solutions and potentially crime reductions. The success of these initiatives depends on how well police initiate and conduct these engagements. However, the concept of policing partnerships is not well understood and under-theorised. A better understanding of the process and system of engagement in these partnerships is needed. This is the central aim of this thesis: to identify and explore key factors and processes that facilitate or hinder multi-agency policing partnership implementation and engagement. In addition to identifying and exploring the key factors and processes in partnerships, the role of legal levers held by non-policing partners is informed by the third-party policing literature. The selection and engagement of non-police agencies and individuals because of the availability of legal levers to perform a crime prevention or control role underpins third-party policing theory. However, it is often assumed in this theory that police are aware, have knowledge and understanding of the legal levers available to partners and that the application of these legal levers is co-opted or coerced, by police. Whether these assumptions occur in such a clear manner has received limited attention in the literature. This is the second aim of the thesis: to gain an understanding of the role and use of legal levers in multi-agency policing partnerships, and particularly examine whether police conceptualise partnerships based on the availability of legal levers or partners, or whether legal levers come into play during formation, and to what extent they play a role in the maintenance of the partnership. To explore these two aims an international case study methodology was applied. Three case studies of partnerships addressing different crime and social issues across Australia and England were selected. The partnerships focused on addressing: 1) domestic and family violence in South Brisbane, Queensland, in the Community Coordinated Response (CCR) group; 2) alcohol-fuelled violence in North Brisbane, Queensland, in the Liquor Industry Accord Group (LIAG); and 3) minimising the risk of harm that serious violent and sexual offenders pose in England in the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). Using the collective case study method provided the opportunity to explore a third aim: to understand the perceptions and expectations of the police in multi-agency policing partnerships and to explore to what extent partnerships involving police vary across jurisdictions and partnership types. A total of 55 semi-structured interviews with police and partner agencies across 33 agencies, along with extensive documentary analysis were conducted.
Ion-induced interactions in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
Creators: name: Michelsen, Andreas Bock
name: Valiente, Manuel
name: Zinner, Nikolaj
name: Negretti, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the physics of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid of spin-polarized fermions superimposed on an ion chain. This compound system features (attractive) long-range interspecies interactions. By means of density matrix renormalization group techniques we compute the Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid parameter and speed of sound as a function of the relative atom/ion density and the two quantum defect parameters, namely, the even and odd short-range phases which characterize the short-range part of the atom-ion polarization potential. The presence of ions is found to allow critical tuning of the atom-atom interaction, and the properties of the system are found to depend significantly on the short-range phases due to the atom-ion interaction. These latter dependencies can be controlled, for instance, by manipulating the ions' internal state. This allows modification of the static properties of the quantum liquid via external driving of the ionic impurities.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, similar to published version
Experimental guided spherical harmonics based head-related transfer function modeling
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengqiu
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: HRTF modeling
HRTF individualization
HRTF measurement
functional representation
series expansion
Karhunen-Loeve expansion
principal component analysis
spherical harmonics

description: In this thesis we investigate the experimental guided spherical harmonics based Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) modeling where HRTFs are parameterized as frequency and source location. We focus on efficiently representing the HRTF variations in sufficient detail by mathematical modeling and the experimental measurements. The goal of this work is towards an optimal functional HRTF modeling taking into account the demands of decreasing the computational cost and alleviating the HRTF interpolation and/or extrapolation in the headphone based binaural systems. To represent HRTF by models, we firstly consider the high variability of HRTFs among individuals caused by the differentiation of the scattering effects of the individual bodies on the sound waves. We conduct a series of statistical analyses on an experimental HRTF database of human subjects to reveal the correlation between the physical features of human beings, especially pinna, head, and torso, and the corresponding HRTFs. The strategy enables us to identify a minimal set of physical features which strongly influence the HRTFs in a direct physical way. We next consider the continuity of the HRTF representation in both spatial and frequency domain. We define a functional HRTF model class in which the HRTF spatial representation has been justified to be well approximated by a finite number of spherical harmonics while HRTF frequency representation remains the focus of this thesis. In order to seek an efficient representation for HRTF frequency portion, we derive a metric that is able to numerically evaluate the efficiency of different complete orthonormal bases. We show that the complex exponentials form the most efficient basis. Given the identified basis, we then provide a solution to determine the dimensionality of the representation. To represent HRTF by measurements, we firstly consider the required angular resolution and the most suitable sampling scheme taking into account the two dimensional angular direction and the wide audio frequency range. We review the spherical harmonic analysis of the HRTF from which the least required number of spatial samples for HRTF measurement is derived. Considering how the HRTF data should be sampled on the sphere, we propose a list of requirements for the determination of the HRTF measurement grid. In addition to explaining how to measure the HRTF over sphere according to the identified scheme, we propose a fast spherical harmonic transform algorithm. We next consider the feasible experimental setup for a non-anechoic situation, that is, the measurements can be made when there is some reverberation. We emphasize on the design of the test signal and the post-processing to extract HRTFs.
Inhomogeneous tachyon decay, light-cone structure and D-brane network problem in tachyon cosmology
Creators: name: Mukohyama, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate light-cone structure on the world-volume of an unstable D-brane with a tachyon decaying inhomogeneously by using a field theoretical description. It is shown that (i) light-cones governing open strings are narrower than those governing closed strings and will eventually collapse inward in all directions except at kinks, where the tachyon remains at the top of its potential; and that (ii) light-cones governing open strings at a kink will be narrowed only in the direction perpendicular to the kink surface. It is also shown that (iii) future-directed light-cones governing open strings near a kink are tilted towards the kink, compared with those governing closed strings. The result (i) implies that open strings except at kinks are redshifted, compared with closed strings, and will eventually cease to be dynamical. On the other hand, the result (ii) shows that open strings on a kink surface can move freely along the kink surface and are dynamical but do not feel the existence of the spatial dimension perpendicular to the kink surface. The result (iii) indicates that open strings near a kink have tendency to move towards the kink. Hence, the light-cone structure vividly illustrates how open strings behave during the dynamical formation of a kink. We also discuss about a possibility that the early universe has a network of various dimensional D-branes, black-branes and tachyon matter. A problem associated with the network and a possible solution to the problem are discussed.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure; references added, typos corrected
Neuromorphic Hardware learns to learn
Creators: name: Bohnstingl, Thomas
name: Scherr, Franz
name: Pehle, Christian
name: Meier, Karlheinz
name: Maass, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyperparameters and learning algorithms for neuromorphic hardware are usually chosen by hand. In contrast, the hyperparameters and learning algorithms of networks of neurons in the brain, which they aim to emulate, have been optimized through extensive evolutionary and developmental processes for specific ranges of computing and learning tasks. Occasionally this process has been emulated through genetic algorithms, but these require themselves hand-design of their details and tend to provide a limited range of improvements. We employ instead other powerful gradient-free optimization tools, such as cross-entropy methods and evolutionary strategies, in order to port the function of biological optimization processes to neuromorphic hardware. As an example, we show that this method produces neuromorphic agents that learn very efficiently from rewards. In particular, meta-plasticity, i.e., the optimization of the learning rule which they use, substantially enhances reward-based learning capability of the hardware. In addition, we demonstrate for the first time Learning-to-Learn benefits from such hardware, in particular, the capability to extract abstract knowledge from prior learning experiences that speeds up the learning of new but related tasks. Learning-to-Learn is especially suited for accelerated neuromorphic hardware, since it makes it feasible to carry out the required very large number of network computations.
title: Musicking practices in community building: Exploring, affirming, and celebrating sociomusical cultures in the Slovenian-Australian diaspora
Creators: name: Jones, Tanya M
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: community building
subject: musicking
subject: communities of musical practice
subject: Slovenia
subject: diaspora

description: This dissertation addresses ongoing and future developments in Slovenian musicking in a South-East Queensland community, investigating community building as it facilitates and is facilitated by sociomusical cultures. Established and emergent fields of knowledge cultivate new understandings relevant to diasporic music studies, which are especially pertinent to ongoing discussions surrounding Australian interculturalism, and culture exploration, affirmation, and celebration between home and host lands. This research has been formed with a view to contributing both to theoretical scholarship, and to efforts to explore, affirm, and celebrate diasporic identities and cultures within diasporas. It focusses on community building, contributing new knowledge to understanding the term by exploring data generated within the case study diasporic community through observational journals, interviews, and focus group methods in the context of real events produced by or for a South-East Queensland Slovenian community. Histories and literature from the South-East Queensland Slovenian community, together with the author's own Slovenian background, are corroborated to form the foundation of this study. Emerging strongly from this research is the understanding that musicking involves people, community, and sociocultural relationships doing music across diverse modes of participation. Some of these modes and roles include performing and listening, music event management and attendance as peripheral participation, and the role of the community member within the community, among other contexts. While each member musics in these situations – regardless of role in or mode of participation – they are also doing the practice of community building in their own sociocultural context. A diasporic community like that of the South-East Queensland Slovenian community provides an opportunity to observe the way music explores, affirms, and celebrates sociomusical cultures and identities as it supports, facilitates, and is facilitated by community building.
Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets
Creators: name: Melamed, I. Dan
name: Resnik, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; I.2.7; J.5

description: We present methods for evaluating human and automatic taggers that extend current practice in three ways. First, we show how to evaluate taggers that assign multiple tags to each test instance, even if they do not assign probabilities. Second, we show how to accommodate a common property of manually constructed ``gold standards'' that are typically used for objective evaluation, namely that there is often more than one correct answer. Third, we show how to measure performance when the set of possible tags is tree-structured in an IS-A hierarchy. To illustrate how our methods can be used to measure inter-annotator agreement, we show how to compute the kappa coefficient over hierarchical tag sets.
description: preprint is 7 pages, laid out differently than printed version
Black Hole as a Point Radiator and Recoil Effect on the Brane World
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri
name: Stojkovic, Dejan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A small black hole attached to a brane in a higher dimensional space emitting quanta into the bulk may leave the brane as a result of a recoil. We construct a field theory model in which such a black hole is described as a massive scalar particle with internal degrees of freedom. In this model, the probability of transition between the different internal levels followed by emission of massless quanta is identical to the probability of thermal emission calculated for the Schwarzschild black hole. The discussed recoil effect implies that the thermal emission of the black holes, which might be created by interaction of high energy particles in colliders, could be terminated and the energy non-conservation can be observed in the brane experiments.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Letters
Ophion luteus
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ophion
Ophion luteus

description: Ophion luteus (LINNAEUS 1758)
 Ichneumon luteus LINNAEUS 1758. Syst. nat. 10 (1): 506.
 Ophion luteus: MOCSARY 1897: 48, Croatia; STROBL 1904: 53, Croatia; MICHAELSEN 1908: 125, Croatia; KOHL 1908: 125, Croatia; VASIC 1953: 19, ex Euxoa aquilina SCHIFF.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic, Oriental?and Neotropical region.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1683, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Generating new $N = 2$ small black holes
Creators: name: Polini, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the exact symmetries of the $N = 2$ STU model of Sen and Vafa to classify BPS orbits in this theory. Subsequently, we construct examples of small BPS black holes in this model by solving the associated attractor equations, and use duality symmetries as a solution generating technique to construct a two-center bound state of small BPS black holes in asymptotically flat space-time.
description: 20 pages, added further comments, minor corrections
Sorption of polar and non-polar organics and metals onto surfactant-modified zeolite
Creators: name: Ruckgaber, Michael E.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2004
Subjects: Surfactant-modified zeolite
Produced water
Langmuir isotherms

description: Batch equilibrium sorption studies were conducted to evaluate the effect of semi-volatile organic compounds commonly found in produced water on the sorption of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) onto surfactant-modified zeolite (SMZ). The sorption of polar semi-volatile organic compounds and metals commonly found in produced water onto SMZ was also investigated. Batch experiments were performed in a synthetic saline solution that mimicked water from a produced water collection facility in Wyoming. Results indicated that increasing concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds increased BTEX sorption. The sorption of phenol compounds could be described by linear isotherms, but the linear partitioning coefficients decreased with increasing pH, especially above the pKa’s of the compounds. Linear correlations relating partitioning coefficients of phenol compounds with their respective solubilities and octanol-water partitioning coefficients were developed for data collected at pH 7.2. The sorption of chromate, selenate, and barium in synthetic produced water were also described by Langmuir isotherms
A search for supersymmetric phenomena in final states with high jet multiplicity at the ATLAS detector
Creators: Smith, Matthew N.K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Physics
Supersymmetry
Particles (Nuclear physics)--Multiplicity

description: Proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider provide insight into fundamental dynamics at unprecedented energy scales. After the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments completed the Standard Model picture of particle physics in 2012, the focus turned to investigation of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Variations on Supersymmetry, which has strong theoretical underpinnings and a wide potential particle phenomenology, garnered attention in particular. Preliminary results, however, yielded no new particle discoveries and set limits on the possible physical properties of supersymmetric models. This thesis describes a search for supersymmetric particles that could not have been detected by earlier efforts. The study probes collisions with a center of mass energy of 13 TeV detected by ATLAS from 2015 to 2016 that result in events with a large number of jets. This search is sensitive to decays of heavy particles via cascades, which result in at least seven hadronic jets and some missing energy. Constraints on the properties of reclustered large-radius jets are used to improve the sensitivity. The main Standard Model backgrounds are removed using a template method that extrapolates background behavior from final states with fewer jets. No excess is observed over prediction, so limits are set on supersymmetric particle masses in the context of two different theoretical models. Gluino masses below 1500 and 1600 GeV, respectively, are excluded, a significant extension of the limits set by previous analyses.