cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Joint mortality modelling and forecasting: a new joint model based on the Wang transform
Creators: name: Xu, Jianhui
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Mortality models are mathematical approaches used to facilitate understanding and analysis of mortality patterns and trends, and to provide a basis for mortality forecasting. In an environment in which mortality is continuing to decline, there is considerable interest in developing mortality models that are flexible enough to capture variations in mortality by age, time and various other factors, and robust enough to produce reliable forecasts. Over recent years, there has been growing interest in the development of joint mortality models. Joint models aggregate similar populations to jointly fit and forecast mortality. Such models are able to incorporate the relationships among multiple populations and to ensure that forecast relationships remain reasonable over the long-term. However, existing models – both individual and joint – do suffer from shortcomings. This research develops a new model of mortality forecasting - the joint Wang transform (JWT) model - which aims to address shortcomings and improve upon existing models. As a joint model, the JWT model is able to capitalise on information from similar populations and to ensure that sensible relationships are maintained in the forecasts for such populations The JWT model allows for a flexible rate of mortality decline over time, which is more realistic than the fixed rate of mortality decline assumed in other widely-used methods. The JWT model has a simple form, reducing the risk of over-parameterization and of unreliable forecasts. The JWT model has flexibility yet builds in constraints, such as ensuring non-divergence of forecasts and hence appears to be appropriate for modelling and forecasting across multiple populations. This research applies the JWT model and seven existing individual and joint models to fit and forecast the mortality of 13 countries. The joint models are applied by pooling both "across country" separately for each sex, and "across sex" separately for each individual country. Model performance is evaluated by considering goodness of fit, forecasting accuracy, and ability to ensure a sensible relationship between forecasts of similar countries in the long-term (primarily avoiding forecast divergence). In the analyses of both data sets, the JWT model produces the best forecast accuracy of all eight models according to the evaluation measures. While the evaluation has been conducted only for a selection of developed countries and has compared only a selection of models, the strong performance of the JWT model suggests its potential for further use and evaluation.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CONCEPT, STRUCTURE AND LEGAL REGULATION
Creators: name: Yoqubova, Umidaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The study examines management as a multi-level process of coordination and control, and also analyzes its legal and social aspects. Particular attention is paid to public administration, its functions, structure and role in regulating social processes. The key characteristics of state power and its influence on law and order and the development of society are identified.
A model of adaptive decision making from representation of information environment by quantum fields
Creators: name: Bagarello, F.
name: Khrennikov, A.
name: Haven, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the mathematical model of decision making (DM) of agents acting in a complex and uncertain environment (combining huge variety of economical, financial, behavioral, and geo-political factors). To describe interaction of agents with it, we apply the formalism of quantum field theory (QTF). Quantum fields are of the purely informational nature. The QFT-model can be treated as a far relative of the expected utility theory, where the role of utility is played by adaptivity to an environment (bath). However, this sort of utility-adaptivity cannot be represented simply as a numerical function. The operator representation in Hilbert space is used and adaptivity is described as in quantum dynamics. We are especially interested in stabilization of solutions for sufficiently large time. The outputs of this stabilization process, probabilities for possible choices, are treated in the framework of classical DM. To connect classical and quantum DM, we appeal to Quantum Bayesianism (QBism). We demonstrate the quantum-like interference effect in DM which is exhibited as a violation of the formula of total probability and hence the classical Bayesian inference scheme.
description: in press in Philosophical Transactions A
title: Психодиагностика: теоретические основы
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Опевалова Е.В.
Publisher: name: Амурский гуманитарно-педагогический государственный университет, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: Учебное пособие содержит краткое изложение теоретических основ психодиагностики как науки в практической деятельности психолога. В приложениях даны задания для самоконтроля, примерный перечень вопросов к экзамену и справочный материал о наиболее известных тестах. В каждом разделе приведен библиографический список и терминологический минимум. Предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Психодиагностика» по направлениям подготовки высшего образования 44.03.02 «Психолого-педагогическое образование», 37.03.01 «Психология». Кроме того, учебное пособие будет полезно студентам других специальностей и направлений, изучающих данную дисциплину.
Investigation of thermal properties of blast furnace slag to improve process energy efficiency
Creators: name: Yasipourtehrani, Sara
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Blast furnace slag (BFS) is the main by-product of iron making and is produced in large amounts worldwide. Analysing the properties of BFS, such as viscosity and heat exchange, at high-temperature conditions will help improve energy efficiency during the process. One of the steps in the iron making process is to heat the pig iron up to 1500°C for the next phase of steel-making. During this heating, a significant amount of energy is transferred to the BFS, and utilising some of this heat energy from the slag to contribute to heating pig iron would achieve energy efficiency. To improve energy usage, it is necessary to understand behaviour of the slags with differing compositions at varying temperatures. This knowledge is also important to assess the slag for further applications, such as use as concrete or cementitious material; however, the cooling process is known to have a significant effect on the end product properties and determine the end use of the slag. This study determines the thermal properties of selected slag samples using several in-situ experimental techniques. By comparing the chemical composition of the slags and their thermal behaviour, the effect of magnesium oxide and aluminium oxide was evident. Besides, the content of silicon dioxide had an effect on crystallization temperature and network strength.
The effect of social comparison and body adaptation on body dissatisfaction and size perception
Creators: name: Ledger, Jessica
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The concept of body image incorporates two main aspects: perception and attitudes. Recent perception research has focused on how extended exposure to extreme body shapes can change perceptions of our own and other people's bodies, a process known as adaptation, while research into attitudinal aspects of body image has investigated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and social comparison - the process of comparing oneself to another. However, body image research has yet to investigate the relationship between adaptation and social comparison. In this study, we examined how the extent to which participants made social comparisons and the direction of their social comparisons affected change in perceived body size and change in body satisfaction, in a sample of 67 women aged between 18 and 35. Participants adjusted the shape of manipulated images of themselves to the size they perceived to be their current shape before and after exposure to adaptation images that varied in body fat (high or low) and facial attractiveness (high or low).Contrary to our hypotheses, we found no relationship between participants' state appearance comparisons and change in perceived body size and although participants who made upwards comparisons selected a larger body shape than participants who made downward comparisons, this difference was not significant. As shown in previous research and in line with our hypotheses, participants who made upwards comparisons towards the adaptation images became more dissatisfied and participants who made downwards comparisons did not experience a change of body satisfaction and participants that made upwards comparisons to low body fat adaptors became more dissatisfied with their body. These findings provide preliminary evidence to suggest that perception and attitudes may not be independent of each other and effects on one can alter the other - abstract.
Analytic analysis of auxetic metamaterials through analogy with rigid link systems
Creators: name: Rayneau-Kirkhope, Daniel
name: Zhang, Chengzhao
name: Theran, Louis
name: Dias, Marcelo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in advanced additive manufacturing techniques has stimulated the growth of the field of mechanical metamaterials. One area particular interest in this subject is the creation of auxetic material properties through elastic instability. This paper focuses on a novel methodology in the analysis of auxetic metamaterials through analogy with rigid link lattice systems. Our analytic methodology gives extremely good agreement with finite element simulations for both the onset of elastic instability and post-buckling behaviour including Poisson's ratio. The insight into the relationships between mechanisms within lattices and their mechanical behaviour has the potential to guide the rational design of lattice based metamaterials.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Study on Precursor Activity of the X1.6 Flare in the Great AR 12192 with SDO, IRIS, and Hinode
Creators: name: Bamba, Y.
name: Lee, K. S.
name: Imada, S.
name: Kusano, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical properties and its contribution to the onset of solar flare are still unclear although chromospheric brightening is considered a precursor phenomenon of flare. Many studies suggested that photospheric magnetic field changes cause destabilization of large-scale coronal structure. We aim to understand how a small photospheric change contributes to a flare and to reveal how the intermediary chromosphere behaves in the precursor phase. We analyzed the precursor brightening of the X1.6 flare on 2014 October 22 in the AR 12192 using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Hinode/EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) data. We investigated a localized jet with the strong precursor brightening, and compared the intensity, Doppler velocity, and line width in C II, Mg II k, Si IV lines by IRIS and He II, Fe XII, Fe XV lines by Hinode/EIS. We also analyzed photospheric magnetic field and chromospheric/coronal structures using Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). We found a significant blueshift (~ 100 km/s), which is related to the strong precursor brightening over a characteristic magnetic field structure, and the blueshift was observed at all the temperature. This might indicate that the flow is accelerated by Lorentz force. Moreover, the large-scale coronal loop that connects the foot-points of the flare ribbons was destabilized just after the precursor brightening with the blueshift. It suggests that magnetic reconnection locally occurred in the lower chromosphere and it triggered magnetic reconnection of the X1.6 flare in the corona.
description: 21 pages including 2 tables, 9 figures
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Acquisition and persistence of strain-specific methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and their determinants in community nursing homes
Creators: name: Batina, Nataliya
name: Crnich, Christopher
name: Dรถrte Dรถpfer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Averaged Bayesian network that includes recent antibiotic use and strain-specific acquisition and carriage events. The network was built by averaging 500 networks learned from bootstrap resampling of the data. The averaged network included only significant arcs. T and C followed by a 4-digit sequence indicate acquisition and carriage events for the associated strains discriminated at the 95% similarity threshold, respectively. AB, antibiotic use in the past 3 months (0 = Non-exposed, 1 = Exposed). (DOCX 17 kb)
Discrete integrable systems, Darboux transformations, and Yang-Baxter maps
Creators: name: Bilman, Deniz
name: Konstantinou-Rizos, Sotiris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lecture notes are devoted to the integrability of discrete systems and their relation to the theory of Yang-Baxter (YB) maps. Lax pairs play a significant role in the integrability of discrete systems. We introduce the notion of Lax pair by considering the well-celebrated doubly-infinite Toda lattice. In particular, we present solution of the Cauchy initial value problem via the method of the inverse scattering transform, provide a review of scattering theory of Jacobi matrices, and give the Riemann-Hilbert formulation of the inverse scattering transform. On the other hand, the Lax-Darboux scheme constitutes an important tool in the theory of integrable systems, as it relates several concepts of integrability. We explain the role of Darboux and Bäcklund trasformations in the theory of integrable systems, and we show how they can be used to construct discrete integrable systems via the Lax-Darboux scheme. Moreover, we give an introduction to the theory of Yang-Baxter maps and we show its relation to discrete integrable systems. Finally, we demonstrate the construction of Yang-Baxter maps via Darboux transformations, using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation as illustrative example.
description: 54 pages, 13 Figures. Book chapter, accepted for publication in CRM Springer Series, for the ASIDE 2016 summer school in Montreal, June 27 - July 1, 2016
Additional file 1: of A systematic review of neonatal treatment intensity scores and their potential application in low-resource setting hospitals for predicting mortality, morbidity and estimating resource use
Creators: name: Jalemba Aluvaala
name: Collins, Gary
name: Michuki Maina
name: Berkley, James
name: English, Mike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Summary of prognostic models for predicting in-hospital neonatal mortality. Comparison of predictors and outcomes of neonatal prognostic models included in published reviews. (DOCX 15Â kb)
A comparative study of fluid-particle coupling methods for fully resolved lattice Boltzmann simulations
Creators: name: Rettinger, Christoph
name: Rüde, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The direct numerical simulation of particulate systems offers a unique approach to study the dynamics of fluid-solid suspensions by fully resolving the submerged particles and without introducing empirical models. For the lattice Boltzmann method, different variants exist to incorporate the fluid-particle interaction into the simulation. This paper provides a detailed and systematic comparison of two different methods, namely the momentum exchange method and the partially saturated cells method by Noble and Torczynski. Three subvariants of each method are used in the benchmark scenario of a single heavy sphere settling in ambient fluid to study their characteristics and accuracy for particle Reynolds numbers from 185 up to 365. The sphere must be resolved with at least 24 computational cells per diameter to achieve velocity errors below 5%. The momentum exchange method is found to be more accurate in predicting the streamwise velocity component whereas the partially saturated cells method is more accurate in the spanwise components. The study reveals that the resolution should be chosen with respect to the coupling dynamics, and not only based on the flow properties, to avoid large errors in the fluid-particle interaction.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables
Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Acquisition and persistence of strain-specific methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and their determinants in community nursing homes
Creators: name: Batina, Nataliya
name: Crnich, Christopher
name: Dรถrte Dรถpfer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Minimal BIC Forest for MRSA strains distinguished at 95% strain similarity threshold. The network shows the conditional dependence structure between strain-specific acquisition and carriage events and the candidate risk factors. (DOCX 15 kb)
Faster Algorithms for Weighted Recursive State Machines
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Kragl, Bernhard
name: Mishra, Samarth
name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pushdown systems (PDSs) and recursive state machines (RSMs), which are linearly equivalent, are standard models for interprocedural analysis. Yet RSMs are more convenient as they (a) explicitly model function calls and returns, and (b) specify many natural parameters for algorithmic analysis, e.g., the number of entries and exits. We consider a general framework where RSM transitions are labeled from a semiring and path properties are algebraic with semiring operations, which can model, e.g., interprocedural reachability and dataflow analysis problems. Our main contributions are new algorithms for several fundamental problems. As compared to a direct translation of RSMs to PDSs and the best-known existing bounds of PDSs, our analysis algorithm improves the complexity for finite-height semirings (that subsumes reachability and standard dataflow properties). We further consider the problem of extracting distance values from the representation structures computed by our algorithm, and give efficient algorithms that distinguish the complexity of a one-time preprocessing from the complexity of each individual query. Another advantage of our algorithm is that our improvements carry over to the concurrent setting, where we improve the best-known complexity for the context-bounded analysis of concurrent RSMs. Finally, we provide a prototype implementation that gives a significant speed-up on several benchmarks from the SLAM/SDV project.
Greek conjunctions in non-literary Coptic in the Late Byzantine/Early Islamic period
Creators: name: Cook, Samuel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Despite the long history of loanword studies in Coptic, little is known about lexical borrowing in non-literary texts. Furthermore, little research has been conducted on the borrowing of Greek function words into the Egyptian language. This study examines the use of Greek loanwords in non-literary Coptic texts through a focus on three classes of Greek conjunctions – enclitic conjunctions, subordinating conjunction and coordinating conjunctions. Data from this study is drawn from legal texts and letters from the Theban region, composed in the 7th and 8th centuries. The results from this study have important implications for our understanding of Greek and Egyptian language contact, the language of non-literary texts, and scribal practices in Late Antique Egypt. In particular, the presence of Greek conjunctions appears to be closely tied to the formulaic sections of documents. In many cases there appears to be a preference outside of these formulae for native Egyptian constructions. Furthermore, the uneven distribution of words within and outside of these formulae suggest certain Greek conjunctions were more integrated into the language of non-literary Coptic texts than others whose use may be influenced be the structure of earlier Greek documents.
Simulation of weak polyelectrolytes: A comparison between the constant pH and the reaction ensemble method
Creators: name: Landsgesell, Jonas
name: Smiatek, Jens
name: Holm, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reaction ensemble and the constant pH method are well-known chemical equilibrium approaches to simulate protonation and deprotonation reactions in classical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. In this article, we show similarity between both methods {under certain conditions}. We perform molecular dynamics simulations of a weak polyelectrolyte in order to compare the titration curves obtained by both approaches. Our findings reveal a good agreement between the methods when the reaction ensemble is used to sweep the reaction constant. Pronounced differences between the reaction ensemble and the constant pH method can be observed for stronger acids and bases in terms of adaptive pH values. These deviations are due to the presence of explicit protons in the reaction ensemble method which induce a screening of electrostatic interactions between the charged titrable groups of the polyelectrolyte. The outcomes of our simulation hint to a better applicability of the reaction ensemble method for systems in confined geometries and titrable groups in polyelectrolytes with different pK$_\text{a}$ values.
description: 3 figures
Measurement of the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in liquid argon using a two-phase detector with electroluminescence gap
Creators: name: Bondar, A.
name: Buzulutskov, A.
name: Dolgov, A.
name: Grishnyaev, E.
name: Nosov, V.
name: Oleynikov, V.
name: Polosatkin, S.
name: Shekhtman, L.
name: Shemyakina, E.
name: Sokolov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of ionization yields in noble-gas liquids is relevant to the energy calibration of nuclear recoil detectors for dark matter search and coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments. In this work we further study the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in liquid Ar, using a two-phase detector with an electroluminescence gap and DD neutron generator. The ionization yields of nuclear recoils in liquid Ar were measured at 233 keV and electric fields of 0.56 and 0.62 kV/cm; their values amounted to 5.9 $\pm$ 0.8 and 7.4 $\pm$ 1 e$^-$/keV, respectively. The characteristic dependences of the ionization yield on energy and electric field were determined, while comparing the results obtained to those at lower energies and higher fields.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Submitted to the Proceedings of the Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics (INSTR17) Conference. To be published in JINST
Additional file 5 of A framework to find the logic backbone of a biological network
Creators: name: Maheshwari, Parul
name: RĂŠka Albert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Table 1, containing the list of all nodes of the network and their states in the epithelial and mesenchymal states. (DOCX 6 kb)
3D nature of ZrTe$_5$ band structure measured by high-momentum-resolution photoemission spectroscopy
Creators: name: Xiong, H.
name: Sobota, J. A.
name: Yang, S. -L.
name: Soifer, H.
name: Gauthier, A.
name: Lu, M. -H.
name: Lv, Y. -Y.
name: Yao, S. -H.
name: Lu, D.
name: Hashimoto, M.
name: Kirchmann, P. S.
name: Chen, Y. -F.
name: Shen, Z. -X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed a systematic high-momentum-resolution photoemission study on ZrTe$_5$ using $6$ eV photon energy. We have measured the band structure near the $Γ$ point, and quantified the gap between the conduction and valence band as $18 \leq Δ\leq 29$ meV. We have also observed photon-energy-dependent behavior attributed to final-state effects and the 3D nature of the material's band structure. Our interpretation indicates the gap is intrinsic and reconciles discrepancies on the existence of a topological surface state reported by different studies. The existence of a gap suggests that ZrTe$_5$ is not a 3D strong topological insulator nor a 3D Dirac semimetal. Therefore, our experiment is consistent with ZrTe$_5$ being a 3D weak topological insulator.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Experimental observation of the geostrophic turbulence regime of rapidly rotating convection
Creators: name: Bouillaut, Vincent
name: Miquel, Benjamin
name: Julien, Keith
name: Aumaître, Sébastien
name: Gallet, Basile
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The competition between turbulent convection and global rotation in planetary and stellar interiors governs the transport of heat and tracers, as well as magnetic-field generation. These objects operate in dynamical regimes ranging from weakly rotating convection to the `geostrophic turbulence' regime of rapidly rotating convection. However, the latter regime has remained elusive in the laboratory, despite a worldwide effort to design ever-taller rotating convection cells over the last decade. Building on a recent experimental approach where convection is driven radiatively, we report heat transport measurements in quantitative agreement with this scaling regime, the experimental scaling-law being validated against direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the idealized setup. The scaling exponent from both experiments and DNS agrees well with the geostrophic turbulence prediction. The prefactor of the scaling-law is greater than the one diagnosed in previous idealized numerical studies, pointing to an unexpected sensitivity of the heat transport efficiency to the precise distribution of heat sources and sinks, which greatly varies from planets to stars.
An analysis of star formation with Herschel in the Hi-GAL Survey. II. The tips of the Galactic bar
Creators: name: Veneziani, M.
name: Schisano, E.
name: Elia, D.
name: Noriega-Crespo, A.
name: Carey, S.
name: Di Giorgio, A.
name: Fukui, Y.
name: Maiolo, B. M. T.
name: Maruccia, Y.
name: Mizuno, A.
name: Mizuno, N.
name: Molinari, S.
name: Mottram, J. C.
name: Moore, T. J. T.
name: Onishi, T.
name: Paladini, R.
name: Paradis, D.
name: Pestalozzi, M.
name: Pezzuto, S.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Plume, R.
name: Russeil, D.
name: Strafella, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the physical and evolutionary properties of prestellar and protostellar clumps in the Herschel Infrared GALactic plane survey (Hi-GAL) in two large areas centered in the Galactic plane and covering the tips of the long Galactic bar at the intersection with the spiral arms. The areas fall in the longitude ranges 19 < l < 33 and 340 < l < 350, while latitude is -1 < b < 1. Newly formed high mass stars and prestellar objects are identified and their properties derived and compared. A study is also presented on five giant molecular complexes at the further edge of the bar. The star-formation rate was estimated from the quantity of proto-stars expected to form during the collapse of massive turbulent clumps into star clusters. This new method was developed by applying a Monte Carlo procedure to an evolutionary model of turbulent cores and takes into account the wide multiplicity of sources produced during the collapse. The star-formation rate density values at the tips are 1.2 +- 0.3 10-3 Msol/yr/kpc2 and 1.5+-0.3 10-3 Msol/yr/kpc2 in the first and fourth quadrant, respectively. The same values estimated on the entire field of view, that is including the tips of the bar and background and foreground regions, are 0.9+-0.2 10-3 Msol/yr/kpc2 and 0.8+-0.2 10-3 Msol/yr/kpc2. The conversion efficiency is approximately 0.8% in the first quadrant and 0.5% in the fourth quadrant, and does not show a significant difference in proximity of the bar. The star forming regions identified through CO contours at the further edge of the bar show star-formation rate densities larger than the surrounding regions but their conversion efficiencies are comparable. Our results suggest that the star-formation activity at the bar is due to a large amount of dust and molecular material rather than being due to a triggering process.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Autism in the classroom: a conversation-analytic study of lesson beginnings in special education
Creators: name: Yeo, Siang Lee
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects a large number of children. It is characterised by deficits in social communication, and fixated interests and repetitive behaviours. In recent years, an increasing number of studies have empirically explored how the deficits associated with ASD affect everyday communication, and participation in life activities. This study continues in this tradition, and explores how a group of children with ASD engage in classroom interactions. The primary data set of this study is audio and video recordings of classroom interactions involving three Year 5/6 students aged 11-12 years, and two of their teachers in a special education centre. Conversation analysis (CA) is employed to describe the organisation of lesson beginnings in these interactions. The analyses describe how children and teachers collaborate in this activity, and document a number of recurrent courses of action, including greetings, topic talk, and occasioning of task incipiency. This study demonstrates that greetings in lesson beginnings formalise orientation between the teachers and students. Topic talk in lesson beginnings provides an opportunity to undertake talk unrelated to the lesson, and is a significant aspect of student participation. Finally, when teachers occasion task incipiency, they move the lesson beginnings towards lesson tasks, and exert their deontic authority. These findings reveal how lesson beginnings are systematically constructed through specific social actions, and are oriented to by the participants. Such insights could be used to structure teacher reflection and examine their interactional implications, vis-à-vis the students’ idiosyncratic interactional competencies. This study also highlights the communicative opportunities provided for in lesson beginnings, particularly spates of topic talk, during which the students undertake various complex actions in order to achieve their interactional agenda. Lastly, this study contributes to conversation-analytic research by describing how children with ASD interact in class, and more specifically emphasising their communication strengths as well as abilities.
Additional file 4 of Higher recall in metagenomic sequence classification exploiting overlapping reads
Creators: name: Girotto, Samuele
name: Comin, Matteo
name: Pizzi, Cinzia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This file contains figures showing the top 5 dominant species in several real samples. In SRS015072 (mid-vagina) we found that Lactobacillus is dominant, as in [11] and other studies cited by the same paper. Pseudomonas and Desulfotomaculum were detected as in [11] but we also found Azotobacter, Streptococcus [21, 22] and Mycoplasma that do not appear in [11]. In SRS019120 (saliva) we found Streptococcus, Haemophilus, Prevotella and Neisseria that appear also in [10, 11, 20] and also the Azotobacter genus as in mid-vagina datasets. In SRS023847 (anterior nares) the Propionibacterium and Staphylococcus is present as in [11], but with a different percentage (Propionibacterium from 61.5% in [11] to 46,10% in CLIOR). Mycoplasma appears in the result of SRS023847 with about the same abundance of Propionibacterium. This genus is not present in [11] and in our experiments with Clark-l is present in a small percentage (only about 0,42%). We can guess that there are some reads that overlap for this genus so they create some groups and the winner take all method allows to find them. In SRS023847 appear also Azotobacter, as in the previous datasets, and Bacillus, which do not appear in [11] but is an important pesticide and easily inhalable. (PDF 385 kb)
A Proof Theory for Model Checking: An Extended Abstract
Creators: name: Heath, Quentin
name: Miller, Dale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1; I.2.3; D.2.4

description: While model checking has often been considered as a practical alternative to building formal proofs, we argue here that the theory of sequent calculus proofs can be used to provide an appealing foundation for model checking. Since the emphasis of model checking is on establishing the truth of a property in a model, we rely on the proof theoretic notion of additive inference rules, since such rules allow provability to directly describe truth conditions. Unfortunately, the additive treatment of quantifiers requires inference rules to have infinite sets of premises and the additive treatment of model descriptions provides no natural notion of state exploration. By employing a focused proof system, it is possible to construct large scale, synthetic rules that also qualify as additive but contain elements of multiplicative inference. These additive synthetic rules -- essentially rules built from the description of a model -- allow a direct treatment of state exploration. This proof theoretic framework provides a natural treatment of reachability and non-reachability problems, as well as tabled deduction, bisimulation, and winning strategies.
description: In Proceedings LINEARITY 2016, arXiv:1701.04522
Songlines and fault lines: six walks that shaped a nation
Creators: name: Morrison, Glenn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis I argue that persistently representing Central Australia as a frontier prevents Australians from reimagining it as home. Reading for representations of frontier and home, I undertake a critical analysis of six walking narratives that together model place as a palimpsest, thereby articulating a discontinuous history of the Centre's contested spaces since the precolonial era. For the first time, prominent recounted journeys by settler journalists, travel writers and anthropologists are examined alongside an Aboriginal Dreamtime journey along a songline. The comparative and cross-cultural analysis of the texts draw on their shared foundation of walking and writing as means of place-making.In a recent essay, literary editor Julianne Schultz suggests the challenge for Australian writers and journalists is to find ways to allow the various histories of their country to percolate together and inform each other. The purpose is to ‘foster a rich, informed hybrid culture that is not subsumed by myth’ (Schultz 2014). In central Australia, a region often linked to the nation’s identity, one thing stands in the way of such an aim: the hegemonic metaphor of frontier. Curiously, it is this very metaphor that underscores many of the stories defining a popular imagining of ‘what it means to be Australian’. In this thesis I argue that persistently representing Central Australia as a frontier prevents Australians from reimagining it as home. Reading for representations of frontier and home, I undertake a critical analysis of six regional walking narratives that together model place as a palimpsest, thereby articulating a discontinuous history of the Centre’s contested spaces since the precolonial era. For the first time, prominent recounted journeys by settler journalists, travel writers and anthropologists are examined alongside an Aboriginal Dreamtime journey along a songline. The comparative and cross-cultural analysis of the texts draws on their shared foundation of walking and writing as means of place-making. From the six essays emerge a variety of representations for the Centre which, while dominated by the frontier metaphor, betray a distinctive cultural hybridity in the contact zone between settler and Aboriginal Australians. Frontier, the research suggests, is no longer a suitable term to describe Central Australia, and the songlines ― long trivialised by settler Australians’ use of the pejorative Walkabout ― are potentially an important contributor to Australian discourses of hybridity, settler belonging and home. In this way, the work brings a new approach to an ecopoetics of Central Australia. The research advances the underreported role of walking in Australian history and literature, the fledgling writing of Australian places, and builds on recent interest in walking as a critical tool and reading strategy for postcolonial geographies.
title: Transcription d'un entretien auprès d’une mère âgée de 40 ans ayant accouché de son premier enfant dans la ville de Phnom-Penh au Cambodge
Creators: name: Bureau, Eve
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: T-4789
description: L'entretien a été enregistré à l’hôpital Calmette (Phnom-Penh, Cambodge) quelques jours après l’accouchement du premier enfant d'une femme de 40 ans, travaillant dans l’industrie textile. L'enquête débute avec les explications de la mère sur les comportements de son nouveau-né. Elle raconte la première fois qu'elle a donné du lait du commerce à son enfant. L’informatrice explique qu’elle partage la chambre avec d’autres mères et leurs nourrissons. La mère confie que ce sont des membres de sa famille qui lui ont acheté une boîte de lait, le personnel soignant de la maternité lui en a donné une également. Elle souhaite donner son lait maternel à son enfant. Elle précise avoir allaité son enfant les deux premiers jours. Elle raconte qu’elle décrit avoir eu un liquide transparent les premiers jours. L’informatrice explique la perception de la couleur et la consistance du colostrum (rougeâtre ou jaunâtre). Ce sont ses sœurs et ses belles-sœurs qui lui ont parlé du colostrum. Elle explique que le colostrum est produit grâce aux aliments qu'elle a ingérés. Elle n’a pas goûté au colostrum. Dans son entourage proche, elle connaît des mères qui n’ont pas donné le colostrum. L’informatrice parle de sa famille et de ses nombreux frères et sœurs et surtout de l’un de ses frères qui fait des études de médecine. Elle aborde également leurs professions, la situation de ses parents et l'entraide familiale. Son frère étudiant en médecine lui a également donné des conseils sur l’allaitement. L’informatrice explique qu’elle a arrêté de travail durant sa grossesse. Elle raconte également les gestes et les soins qu’elle exerce pour favoriser la montée de lait. Elle rapporte à l’informatrice l'existence de publicités passant à la radio et à la télévision sur le colostrum et les bienfaits qu’il a sur l’enfant. Pour l'informatrice, le lait maternel est meilleur que le lait du commerce. L'informatrice parle de son mariage et du rôle de son mari ainsi que la vie de riziculteur. L'enquêtrice pose ensuite des questions sur le déroulement de l’accouchement. L’informatrice précise que ce sont sa mère, sa sœur et sa nièce qui l’ont accompagnée dans la salle d’accouchement. Elle raconte également qu'elle a eu une épisiotomie. Les pratiques khmères de protection de la mère sont abordées. À la fin de l’enquête la mère s’exprime sur le choix de la maternité de l'hôpital Calmette pour son accouchement et quelques questions sont échangées avec l’enquêtrice au sujet de la qualité du lait maternel en comparaison avec le lait artificiel.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0181
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0181, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
Updated sunspot group number reconstruction for 1749-1996 using the active day fraction method
Creators: name: Willamo, Teemu
name: Usoskin, Ilya G.
name: Kovaltsov, Gennady A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sunspot number series are composed from observations of hundreds of different observers that requires careful normalization of the observers to the standard conditions. Here we present a new normalized series of the number of sunspot groups for the period 1749-1996. The reconstruction is based on the active day fraction (ADF) method, which is slightly updated with respect to the previous works, and a revised database of sunspot group observations. Stability of some key solar observers has been evaluated against the composite series. The Royal Greenwich Observatory dataset appears fairly stable since the 1890s but is about 10% too low before that. A declining trend of 10-15% in the quality of Wolfer's observation is found between the 1880s and 1920s, suggesting that using him as the reference observer may lead to additional uncertainties. Wolf (small telescope) appears fairly stable between the 1860s and 1890s, without any obvious trend. The new reconstruction reflects the centennial variability of solar activity as evaluated using the singular spectrum analysis method. It depicts a highly significant feature of the Modern grand maximum of solar activity in the second half of the 20th century, being a factor 1.33-1.77 higher than during the 18-19th centuries. The new series of the sunspot group numbers with monthly and annual resolution, available also in the electronic format, is provided forming a basis for new studies of the solar variability and solar dynamo for the last 250 years.
description: Published in Astron. Astrophys
Access and equity in work-integrated learning placements: a host organisation perspective
Creators: name: Mackaway, Jacqueline Ann
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Despite recognition that work-integrated learning (WIL) is a valuable strategy to prepare graduates for their futures, not all students who want, or need, a WIL placement gain access to one. This thesis examines equitable student access to placements, specifically the role of organisations and their employees. This exploratory study draws on multiple sources of data using a qualitative approach including: (1) analysis of publically available organisational documents focused on diversity and inclusion; (2) interviews with employees from organisations involved in WIL; and (3) theoretically informed concepts of social inclusion/exclusion, organisational culture, gatekeeping and behavioural ethics. These concepts are used throughout the research process to explore and explain the problem, and to find ways to address it (Layder, 2013). Findings show a complex range of interconnected factors and forces at organisational, occupational and individual employee levels that influence decisions about which students to host. Individuals with specific influence over student access are identified as organisational ‘WIL gatekeepers’ and their decisions are shaped by a range of normative, instrumental and situational factors. The notion of inclusion may be affected by a focus on equal opportunity and merit, or shaped by a lived experience of marginalisation by the Gatekeeper. Purposes for WIL that focus on ‘talent spotting’ and getting work done, create expectations about an ‘ideal intern’ and influence which students are included/excluded. The thesis offers a framework to explicate the complexity of organisational and employee intentions and actions in relation to WIL students, and a set of conditions to help organisations build their inclusive WIL culture and capacity. This thesis argues that universities and industry need to work with intentionality and a shared sense of responsibility to remove barriers so the full potential of WIL can be realised for students, employers, the economy and society more broadly, now and into the future.