cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The geomorphic and hydrological character, behaviour and function of an intact upland swamp, Budderoo Plateau, New South Wales, Australia
Creators: name: Gough, Jessica
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Upland swamps are a form of topogenous mire which occur on the plateaux areas of southeastern Australia. These systems are well recognised for their ecological value and their functional role in the hydrodynamics of the catchments in which they occur. However, little is known about the internal hydrological functioning of upland swamps and how this relates to their geomorphic structure and evolution. Upland swamps are currently vulnerable to widespread and ongoing degradation as a result of landuse change, longwall mining, dewatering, peat mining and urbanisation. With this in mind, the aims of this study are to supplement the current knowledge on the geomorphic evolution and physical characteristics of upland swamps of Eastern Australia, and to provide baseline data on their internal hydrological functioning. The sedimentological, geomorphic, hydraulic and hydrological properties of an intact upland swamp on the Budderoo Plateau NSW are investigated. The geomorphic structure of the swamp is simple, and is comprised of four distinct geomorphic zones: the central swamp, the headwater marginal swamp, the valley marginal swamp, and the hillslope zones. The results of this study indicate that the development of the swamp was uniform and consisted of a sequence of mineral deposition (up to 1 m thick overlying bedrock) followed by a subsequent phase of organic accumulation up to 3.3 m thick. The organic accumulation has produced a layer of upper fibric organic fines and lower sapric organic fines. Each of these sedimentary units has different hydrological behaviours (rates of water transfer and discharge) that drive the overall function of the swamp in response to rainfall of various magnitudes and duration. Three hydrological response regimes have been identified in the functioning of this swamp. These regimes are characterised by different peak and recession responses to rainfall. The form of the hydrograph produced is controlled by antecedent water table position (i.e. which sedimentary layers are saturated) and the amount, timing and duration of rainfall. Depending on antecedent moisture conditions, the swamp can be operating either as a store for water or as a rapid conduit for water throughflow and overland flow. It therefore has a dual function in terms of flow generation in response to rainfall. These findings are consistent with those established within the Australian literature on upland swamps and within the broader international peatland literature.
Investigating reading difficulties in the middle school years
Creators: name: Stirling, Sharee.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Exciton and trion dynamics in atomically thin MoSe2 and WSe2: effect of localization
Creators: name: Schmidt, D.
name: Godde, T.
name: Schmutzler, J.
name: Aßmann, M.
name: Debus, J.
name: Withers, F.
name: Alexeev, E. M.
name: Del Pozo-Zamudio, O.
name: Skrypka, O. V.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Bayer, M.
name: Tartakovskii, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed investigation of the exciton and trion dynamics in naturally doped MoSe2 and WSe2 single atomic layers as a function of temperature in the range 10-300K under above band-gap laser excitation. By combining time-integrated and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy we show the importance of exciton and trion localization in both materials at low temperatures. We also reveal the transition to delocalized exciton complexes at higher temperatures where the exciton and trion thermal energy exceeds the typical localization energy. This is accompanied with strong changes in PL including suppression of the trion PL and decrease of the trion PL life-time, as well as significant changes for neutral excitons in the temperature dependence of the PL intensity and appearance of a pronounced slow PL decay component. In MoSe2 and WSe2 studied here, the temperatures where such strong changes occur are observed at around 100 and 200 K, respectively, in agreement with their inhomogeneous PL linewidth of 8 and 20 meV at T~10K. The observed behavior is a result of a complex interplay between influences of the specific energy ordering of bright and dark excitons in MoSe2 and WSe2, sample doping, trion and exciton localization and various temperature-dependent non-radiative processes.
Eptesicus rendalli
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus rendalli

description: Eptesicus rendalli (Thomas, 1889). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 3:362. TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia, Bathurst. DISTRIBUTION: Gambia to Somalia, south to Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004026001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
New approach to canonical partition functions computation in $N_f=2$ lattice QCD at finite baryon density
Creators: name: Bornyakov, V. G.
name: Boyda, D. L.
name: Goy, V. A.
name: Molochkov, A. V.
name: Nakamura, Atsushi
name: Nikolaev, A. A.
name: Zakharov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and test a new approach to computation of canonical partition functions in lattice QCD at finite density. We suggest a few steps procedure. We first compute numerically the quark number density for imaginary chemical potential $iμ_{qI}$. Then we restore the grand canonical partition function for imaginary chemical potential using fitting procedure for the quark number density. Finally we compute the canonical partition functions using high precision numerical Fourier transformation. Additionally we compute the canonical partition functions using known method of the hopping parameter expansion and compare results obtained by two methods in the deconfining as well as in the confining phases. The agreement between two methods indicates the validity of the new method. Our numerical results are obtained in two flavor lattice QCD with clover improved Wilson fermions.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Certified randomness between mistrustful players
Creators: name: Miller, Carl A.
name: Shi, Yaoyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that if two players achieve a superclassical score at a nonlocal game $G$, then their outputs are certifiably random - that is, regardless of the strategy used by the players, a third party will not be able to perfectly predict their outputs (even if he were given their inputs). We prove that for any complete-support game $G$, there is an explicit nonzero function $F_G$ such that if Alice and Bob achieve a superclassical score of $s$ at $G$, then Bob has a probability of at most $1 - F_G ( s )$ of correctly guessing Alice's output after the game is played. Our result implies that certifying global randomness through such games must necessarily introduce local randomness.
description: 6 pages. Comments welcome
Health Promotion in Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases
Creators: name: Donev, Doncho
name: Lazarevik, Vladimir
name: Simonovska, Valentina
Publisher: name: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe
Year: 2008

description: A number of internationally recognized studies directed to prevention of the leading non-communicable diseases (NCD) showed evidence of enormous importance of precise defined priorities (population groups and diseases), community based measures of prevention and health intervention organizational and network promotive activities including media involvement and support. Promotion of healthy lifestyles and elimination of the common risk factors for NCD should be considered as high priority in the broad scope of measures of health care. Integrated programs for preventive health care of chronic noncommunicable diseases directed to life style changes, scientific work with monitoring and evaluation, creating supportive environments, multi-sectoral approach in solving health problems and inter-sectoral cooperation within the community with active involvement and participation of the population and developing personal skills are summarizing all principles of organization, integration and overall activities of health care services within the contemporary health care systems.
description: Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 4: Health promotion and disease prevention: A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers, Health Professionals and Decision Makers
Eptesicus sagittula McKean 1978
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus sagittula

description: Eptesicus sagittula McKean et al., 1978. Aust. J. Zool., 26: 535. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, 13 km N.W. Braidwood. DISTRIBUTION: S. E. Australia; Lord Howe IsL A single record from Tasmania (FRA).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Linear radial Regge trajectories for mesons with any quark flavor
Creators: name: Afonin, S. S.
name: Pusenkov, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Regge phenomenology, the radial spectrum of light mesons is given by a linear relation $M_n^2=a(n+b)$, where $a$ is a universal slope, the dimensionless intercept $b$ depends on quantum numbers, and $n$ enumerates the excited states in radial recurrences. The usual extensions of this relation to heavy quarkonia in the framework of hadron string models typically lead to strong nonlinearities which seem to be at variance with the available experimental data. Introducing a radially static string picture of mesons, we put forward a linear generalization $(M_n-m_1-m_2)^2=a(n+b)$, where $m_{1,2}$ are quark masses. The vector channel contains enough experimental states to check this new relation and a good agreement is observed. It is shown that this generalization leads to a simple estimate of current quark masses from the radial spectra.
description: A talk presented at QUARKS-2016
Foraging ecology of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti
Creators: name: Schultheiss, Patrick
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Melophorus bagoti is a solitary foraging desert ant of Central Australia. As part of a major endeavour to study insect navigation it has recently attracted considerable attention, calling for an intimate knowledge of its foraging ecology. This thesis examines foraging traits on the colony level, and investigates the strategies that are used by foragers when searching for resources. Foraging activity is limited to a window of ca. 50-70°C soil surface temperature, when foragers scavenge opportunistically for food items. Although seemingly capable of laying chemical trails when moving the colony, recruitment behaviour towards large food sources appears to work without the use of pheromone trails. When unable to locate a single target, like a food source or the nest entrance, foragers engage in a systematic search. The size of their search paths is flexible, which allows them to increase search efficiency. To this end, several different cues are used, which inform the foragers of the whereabouts of the target. In food searches, size depends on the type of food, and matches the natural distribution pattern of food items. In nest searches, size depends on the accuracy of the path integrator, which is a navigational tool that accumulates errors. In addition, it depends on the presence of visual navigation cues in the surrounding panorama, and on the amount of information that can be derived from these visual cues. Interestingly, presence or absence of visual cues also changes the movement pattern of searching foragers. Taken together, these results demonstrate how closely searching behaviour is linked with a forager's navigational toolkit, and with its environment.
An evaluation of the You Can Do It! Education Mentoring Programme
Creators: name: McGavin, Dianne Susan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Spatiotemporal Mobile Data Traffic Prediction Using Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory: The case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Demisse, Hailemariam
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Globally, exponential data growth is observed with mobile traffic generated from devices like tablets, smartphones and other devices. Likewise, Addis Ababa city's cellular network data traffic is increasing exponentially. To absorb this high traffic demand ethio telecom, the telecom service provider in the city continuously expands and optimizes the cellular network. Having knowledge of the growing data traffic demand in advance at a given time and space will assist ethio telecom's planning strategy and optimization. Recently, few studies are conducted to forecast Addis Ababa city's Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) network traffic using statistical time series models and neural network models. However, the studies deal with only time-domain forecasting and recommend to do from a spatial point of view. Moreover, another study modeled the spatiotemporal mobile data traffic, which can capture the space and time variation of UMTS data traffic in the city; the study recommends the need of spatiotemporal data traffic prediction. In this thesis, a deep neural network model, specifically Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM), is used for spatiotemporal data traffic demand prediction of Addis Ababa city. Three months' real dataset from 739 base stations is collected and preprocessed from ethio telecom's UMTS network. After defining geographical grids, the ConvLSTM model is applied, which can capture spatial correlations through convolution operators and temporal dynamics through the LSTM network for prediction. The proposed model can predict up to six hours of future data traffic with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.37. Additionally, the predicted data traffic demand is analyzed with respect to blocked data traffic at a given space and time which gives significant insight to the optimization processes like load balancing.
Eptesicus serotinus Schreber 1774
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus serotinus

description: Eptesicus serotinus Schreber, 1774. Saugethiere, 1:167. REVIEWED BY: E. Vernier (EV). TYPE LOCALITY: France. DISTRIBUTION: W. Europe through S. Asiatic Russia to Himalayas, Thailand and China, north to Korea; Taiwan; S. England; N. Africa; most islands in Mediterranean. COMMENT: Includes sodalis; see Corbet, 1978:57. Includes horikawai; see Jones, 1975, Quart. J. Taiwan Mus., 28: 189. Revised by Gaisler, 1970, Acta Sei. Nat. Brno, 4(6):1 —56. See comment under fuscus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004027001 as E. serotinus. 5301405014004028001 as E. sodalis.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Gaisler, J. 1970. The bats (Chiroptera) collected in Afghanistan by the Czechosloslovak Expeditions of 1965 - 1967. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Academiae Scientarium Bohemoslovacea (Brno), n. s., 4 (6): 1 - 56."]}
Enhancement of critical temperature in fractal metamaterial superconductors
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
name: Smolyaninova, Vera N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractal metamaterial superconductor geometry has been suggested and analyzed based on the recently developed theoretical description of critical temperature increase in epsilon near zero (ENZ) metamaterial superconductors. Considerable enhancement of critical temperature has been predicted in such materials due to appearance of large number of additional poles in the inverse dielectric response function of the fractal. Our results agree with the recent observation (Fratini et al. Nature 466, 841 (2010)) that fractal defect structure promotes superconductivity.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Brisbane Anglicans: 1842-1875
Creators: name: Le Couteur, Howard Philip
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The mid-nineteenth century was marked by a rapid expansion of the Church of England throughout the British Empire, much of the impetus coming from missionary societies and ecclesiastical and political elites in England. In particular, High Churchmen promoted the extension of the episcopate to provide the colonies with a complete Anglican polity, and in an effort to transmit to the colony something of the Anglican/English culture they valued. The means used were the Colonial Bishoprics Fund (CBF) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), both of which were supported by a Tory paternalist elite in England. This study concerns the foundation of the Diocese of Brisbane in 1859, which was a part of this expansion, and which was effected during the brief Tory administration of Lord Derby. It is unsurprising then, that the first Bishop of Brisbane, the Right Reverend E.W. Tufnell, came from the Tory High Church tradition. The clergy he took to the diocese were of a similar theological and social outlook.--The period from the proclamation of free settlement in the Moreton Bay District in 1842 to the departure of the bishop for retirement in England in 1874, was a period of rapid population growth, immigrants arriving mainly from Britain and Ireland. The policy of the imperial government was to try to balance the emigration from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales in proportion to their population and religious denomination. This meant that Anglicans were not as strongly represented in the colonial population as in England; emigrants from the other three countries being much less likely to be Anglicans. The bulk of those arriving in Queensland were working class or petit bourgeois, so consequently the socio-economic structure of Anglicanism in Queensland did not reflect that in England. Moreover, by the time the first Anglican bishop arrived in Brisbane, all state support for religious purposes was withdrawn. The Church of England in Queensland had to adapt to these significant differences of context.--Drawing on parish and diocesan records, the records of SPG, CBF and other organisations in England, personal documents (diaries and letters) and newspapers, this survey of Anglicanism in Brisbane diocese in the early colonial period, charts some of the ways Anglicans devised to create a distinctively Anglican community. The gendered roles of Anglican men and women; the various ways in which parishes came into being, were administered and financed; and the creation of a diocesan synod all bear testimony to the adaptability of Anglicans to their colonial context. Though the framework of this study is provided by the institutional church, diocesan records are sparse, and much of the content concerns the Anglican laity. This has provided an opportunity to explore heretofore neglected aspects of Anglicanism. It is a small beginning in the writing of a 'bottom-up' history of the Anglican Church in Australia.
Transforming images: participatory video and social change in Fiji
Creators: name: Harris, Usha Sundar
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents an ethnographic case study of a participatory video (PV) workshop which the author conducted with rural women in Fiji and discusses its implications for dialogue and community building in a post-conflict society. Participatory video is explored as a " lived experience" through ways in which community producers integrate local knowledge, networks, norms and practices in the production process and programme content. Social networks and community relations are discussed within a broader framework of social capital. Participatory action research (PAR) was the primary methodology employed for the facilitation of the video workshop while visual ethnography, in the form of video documentation, was used for collecting and interpreting the findings. The enthnographic footage shot by the researcher has been edited into an 82-minute audio-visual presentation and submitted as the findings chapter on DVD. A six-minute promotional video, and 30-minute members' video produced by the women have been presented on two other DVDs as outcomes of the research project and are owned by the community. This study found that rural women in Fiji used social capital - their relationships and social networks - as a key element in video production to highlight community needs and linkages. Active engagement in PV production allowed rural women to access bonding networks as well extend bridging ties with other communities by visiting each other's homes and exchanging information, thus widening their social relations and their understanding of the wider community in which they reside. Through their content creation the women reflected the interconnections and community relations between various ethnic groups occurring at the subaltern level in Fiji.
MPEC 2024-B159 : 2021 VK96
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2021 VK96

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Supplementary document for Imaging fine structures of the human trabecular meshwork in vivo using a custom design goniolens and OCT gonioscopy - 6523158.pdf
Creators: name: Martins, Alessandra Carmichael
name: Gast, Thomas
name: king, brett
name: Walker, Brittany
name: Sobczak, Marcelina
name: Burns, Stephen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ophthalmology and Optometry not elsewhere classified

description: Fabricating an index-matched 3D printed goniolens for high resolution imaging
Eptesicus somalicus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus somalicus

description: Eptesicus somalicus (Thomas, 1901). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 8:32. TYPE LOCALITY: Somalia, Northwest Province, Hargeisa. DISTRIBUTION: Guinea-Bissau to Somalia, south to Namibia and South Africa. COMMENT: Includes zuluensis; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:404, 405. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004029001 as E. somalicus. 5301405014004032001 as E. zuluensis.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444."]}
Um inquérito sobre o futuro da Acta Pediátrica Portuguesa
Creators: name: Gomes, António
name: Videira Amaral, João M.
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Objectivo. Durante os últimos anos têm sido levantadas e discutidas em diversos artigos algumas questões relacionadas com constrangimentos editoriais da Acta Pediátrica Portuguesa (APP). O objectivo deste estudo é descrever de modo sucinto os principais comentários dos leitores sobre o futuro da referida revista.
Método. Foi elaborado um questionário incluindo quatro perguntas simples e espaço para comentários, acessível no sítio electrónico da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria, permitindo envio das respostas através de correio electrónico: 1 - Justifica-se a APP?; 2 - Entende que revista poderia ser editada de 3 em 3 meses em vez de 2 em 2 meses?; 3 - Entende que a APP poderia ser devotada predominantemente à formação contínua?; 4 - Entende que a APP se funda com outra publicação já existente, implicando, no entanto, a extinção do título/“marca” marca APP?
Resultados e comentários. Setenta leitores responderam ao questionário. Tendo em consideração as limitações do estudo, nomeadamente em relação com o pequeno número de respondentes, optou-se por referir apenas alguns dos comentários e críticas mais frequentes: “A APP deve manter-se (~98%) afigurando-se útil para as novas gerações e médicos internos, com possibilidade de publicações apesar das vulnerabilidades editoriais”; “Deficiências graves do secretariado levando os autores a submeter os manuscritos a revistas indexadas”; “Demoras inexplicáveis do processo editorial”; “ Falta de indexação em plataforma internacional conduzindo à submissão a revistas indexadas”. Enfim, o Conselho editorial concorda totalmente com os depoimentos e comentários e com a necessidade de reforçar o secretariado com recursos mais proactivos e diversificados (actualmente a ser implementados). Torna-se fundamental a cooperação de todos os leitores (nomeadamente na revisão de manuscritos submetidos) sendo provável que a recente indexação na plataforma SciELO possa actuar como estímulo (assim espera o Conselho Editorial) para a melhoria.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 41 n.º 6 (2010)
Smart viscoelastic and self-healing characteristics of graphene nano-gels
Creators: name: Dhar, Purbarun
name: Katiyar, Ajay
name: Maganti, Lakshmi Sirisha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Readily synthesizable nano-graphene and poly ethylene glycol based stable gels have been synthesized employing an easy refluxing method and exhaustive rheological and viscoelastic characterizations have been performed to understand the nature of such complex gel systems. The gels exhibit shear thinning response with pronounced yield stress values which is indicative of a microstructure where the graphene nanoflakes intercalate with the polymer chains and form a pseudo spring damper network. Experimentations on the thixotropic behavior of the gels indicate that the presence of the G nanoflakes leads to immensely augmented structural stability capable of withstanding severe impact shears. Further information about the localized interactions of the G nanoflakes with the polymer chains is revealed from the amplitude and frequency sweep analyses in both linear and nonlinear viscoelastic regimes. Massively enhanced cross over amplitude values are recorded and several smart effects such as enhanced elastic behavior at increasing forcing frequencies are registered. Structural resonance induced disruption of the elastic behavior is observed for the gels for a given range of frequency and the proposition of resonance has been justified mathematically. It is observed that post this resonance bandwidth, the gels are able to self-heal and regain their original elastic behavior back without any external intervention. More detailed information on the viscoelastic nature of the gels has been obtained from creep and recovery compliance tests and justifications for the spring damper microstructure has been obtained. Smart features such as enhanced stress relaxation behavior with increasing strain have been observed and the same explained based on the proposed microstructure.
Eptesicus tatei Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus tatei

description: Eptesicus tatei Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, p. 158. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Darjeeling. DISTRIBUTION: N.E. India.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Eptesicus tenuipinnis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus tenuipinnis

description: Eptesicus tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872). Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 263. TYPE LOCALITY: " Guinea ". DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Kenya, south to Angola and Zaire. COMMENT: E. bicolor is tentatively included here by Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2:43, but may be an older name for Pipistrellus anchietai; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:404. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014004030001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444."]}
In-planta studies of magnesium chelatase
Creators: name: Farmer, Phyllis Renee
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis is a key metabolic process in plants, not only because it leads to the production of heme, an essential co-factor for many enzymes, as well as chlorophylls, pigments necessary to the photosynthetic process, but also because this pathway has been implicated in retrograde signaling, a process by which the chloroplast exerts control over nuclear genes with products localized in the plastid. To date there has been extensive research in the characterization and activity of the enzymes involved in the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, as well as regulation of, and flux through the pathway. -- In this field, studies utilizing plants generally employ seedlings and/or the use of herbicides such as norflurazon or lincomycin. However, interpreting the data from these studies can be ambiguous, because the use of herbicides and the process of seedling development both result in large pleiotropic effects. There has been relatively little work done to investigate magnesium chelatase in mature plants, after transition to autotrophic growth. The primary aim of the work presented in this thesis is to investigate the mechanism of magnesium chelatase activity in mature plants. This has been done in planta using Agrobacterium mediated transient over-expression of magnesium chelatase subunits CHLI, CHLD and CHLH. -- Over-expression of CHLD leads to severe chlorosis in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf tissue, comparable to that seen when a mutant of CHLI is over-expressed. Based on over-expression of CHLD deletion mutants, the chlorotic phenotype is attributable to the N-terminal half of the protein. CHLD induced chlorosis is almost completely rescued upon co-infiltration with CHLI, and interaction of the two subunits appears to involve a region of the C-terminal half of CHLD homologous to the Integrin I domain. Upon co-infiltration of CHLI with a CHLD construct mutagenized at the metal ion-dependent adhesion site (MIDAS), chlorosis is still observed.
The role of the foreign language teacher in motivating boys in secondary schools
Creators: name: Pavy, Sarah.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Critical slowing down and hyperuniformity on approach to jamming
Creators: name: Atkinson, Steven
name: Zhang, Ge
name: Hopkins, Adam B.
name: Torquato, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter that is poised at a critical point at which density or volume-fraction fluctuations are anomalously suppressed at infinite wavelengths. Recently, much attention has been given to the link between strict jamming and hyperuniformity in frictionless hard-particle packings. Doing so requires one to study very large packings, which can be difficult to jam properly. We modify the rigorous linear programming method of Donev et al. [J. Comp. Phys. 197, 139 (2004)] in order to test for jamming in putatively jammed packings of hard-disks in two dimensions. We find that various standard packing protocols struggle to reliably create packings that are jammed for even modest system sizes; importantly, these packings appear to be jammed by conventional tests. We present evidence that suggests that deviations from hyperuniformity in putative maximally random jammed (MRJ) packings can in part be explained by a shortcoming in generating exactly-jammed configurations due to a type of "critical slowing down" as the necessary rearrangements become difficult to realize by numerical protocols. Additionally, various protocols are able to produce packings exhibiting hyperuniformity to different extents, but this is because certain protocols are better able to approach exactly-jammed configurations. Nonetheless, while one should not generally expect exact hyperuniformity for disordered packings with rattlers, we find that when jamming is ensured, our packings are very nearly hyperuniform, and deviations from hyperuniformity correlate with an inability to ensure jamming, suggesting that strict jamming and hyperuniformity are indeed linked. This raises the possibility that the ideal MRJ packings have no rattlers. Our work provides the impetus for the development of packing algorithms that produce large disordered strictly jammed packings that are rattler-free.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
The effect of mechanical strain on properties of lubricated tablets compacted at different pressures
Creators: name: Pawar, Pallavi
name: Joo, Hee
name: Callegari, Gerardo
name: Drazer, German
name: Cuitino, Alberto M.
name: Muzzio, Fernando J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A full factorial design of experiments was used to study the effect of blend shear strain on the compaction process, relative density and strength of pharmaceutical tablets. The powder blends were subjected to different shear strain levels (integral of shear rate with respect to time) using an ad hoc Couette shear cell. Tablets were compressed at different compaction forces using an instrumented compactor simulator, and compaction curves showing the force-displacement profiles during compaction were obtained. Although the die-fill blend porosity (initial porosity) and the minimum in-die tablet porosity (at maximum compaction) decreased significantly with shear strain, the final tablet porosity was surprisingly independent of shear strain. The increase in the in-die maximum compaction with shear strain was, in fact, compensated during post-compaction relaxation of the tables, which also increased significantly with shear strain. Therefore, tablet porosity alone was not sufficient to predict tablet tensile strength. A decrease in the 'work of compaction' as a function of shear strain, and an increase in the recovered elastic work was observed, which suggested weaker particle-particle bonding as the shear strain increased. For each shear strain level, the Ryskewitch Duckworth equation was a good fit to the tensile strength as a function of tablet porosity, and the obtained asymptotic tensile strength at zero porosity exhibited a 60% reduction as a function of shear strain. This was consistent with a reduced bonding efficiency as the shear strain increased.
Three-dimensional sand ripples as the product of vortex instability
Creators: name: Franklin, Erick de Moraes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional sand ripples can be observed under steady liquid flows in both nature and industry. Some examples are the ripples observed on the bed of rivers and in petroleum pipelines conveying sand. Although of importance, the formation of these patterns is not completely understood. There are theoretical and experimental evidence that aquatic ripples grow from two-dimensional bed instabilities, so that a straight vortex is formed just downstream of their crests. The proposition of Raudkivi (2006), that three-dimensionality has its origin in a vortex instability, is employed here. This paper presents a linear stability analysis of the downstream vortex in order to obtain the transverse scales of three-dimensional ripples. The obtained wavelength is compared with experimentally observed ripples.
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Eptesicus vulturnus Thomas 1914
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus
Eptesicus vulturnus

description: Eptesicus vulturnus Thomas, 1914. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 13:440. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Tasmania. DISTRIBUTION: C. Queensland; S.E. Australia; Tasmania. COMMENT: Includes pygmaeus; see McKean et al., 1978, Aust. J. Zool., 26:532.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Euderma H. Allen 1892
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Euderma

description: Euderma H. Allen, 1892. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., 43: 467. REVIEWED BY: B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014005000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
[Emil Spillmann (1853-1917)]
Creators: name: Wernle, P.
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1917
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Spillmann, Emil
subject: Zürich
subject: Basel

description: Sonderdruck aus: Basler Nachrichten. 1917, Nr. 41, Beilage
Home education : the curriculum is life
Creators: name: Trevaskis, Rosanne Catherine.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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X-CNN: Cross-modal Convolutional Neural Networks for Sparse Datasets
Creators: name: Veličković, Petar
name: Wang, Duo
name: Lane, Nicholas D.
name: Liò, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose cross-modal convolutional neural networks (X-CNNs), a novel biologically inspired type of CNN architectures, treating gradient descent-specialised CNNs as individual units of processing in a larger-scale network topology, while allowing for unconstrained information flow and/or weight sharing between analogous hidden layers of the network---thus generalising the already well-established concept of neural network ensembles (where information typically may flow only between the output layers of the individual networks). The constituent networks are individually designed to learn the output function on their own subset of the input data, after which cross-connections between them are introduced after each pooling operation to periodically allow for information exchange between them. This injection of knowledge into a model (by prior partition of the input data through domain knowledge or unsupervised methods) is expected to yield greatest returns in sparse data environments, which are typically less suitable for training CNNs. For evaluation purposes, we have compared a standard four-layer CNN as well as a sophisticated FitNet4 architecture against their cross-modal variants on the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets with differing percentages of the training data being removed, and find that at lower levels of data availability, the X-CNNs significantly outperform their baselines (typically providing a 2--6% benefit, depending on the dataset size and whether data augmentation is used), while still maintaining an edge on all of the full dataset tests.
description: To appear in the 7th IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), 8 pages, 6 figures. Minor revisions, in response to reviewers' comments
Development of a children's memory questionnaire
Creators: name: Drysdale, Karen Ann
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ) (Sunderland, Harris & Baddeley, 1983) was examined for its suitability to assess children's memory function. The parents of 226 school children (aged from 6 to 12 years) completed the EMQ in relation to their children. A factor analysis conducted on these data revealed a structure similar to that found in adult EMQ data (Comish, 2000; Richardson & Chan, 1995) including factors associated with memory for everyday activities, expressive and receptive language, and visuo-spatial orientation. The validity of the EMQ was further assessed using 101 of these children in the 6, 8 and 10 years - age groups who completed subtests of the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Leaming (WRAML) (Sheslow & Adams, 1990). In the 10 years age group aspects of verbal memory tests correlated moderately with the EMQ. There were only very low and unreliable correlations in the 8 years age group and in the 6 years age group aspects of visual memory correlated moderately with the EMQ. Preliminary data on the diagnostic utility of the EMQ for children with memory deficits was collected by comparing EMQ performance between school children and a clinical group with ADHD and/or learning disorders. Although there was a significant difference between the means on the EMQ between the school and clinical groups, diagnostic indicators demonstrated that the EMQ had poor positive predictive power in this situation and miscategorized 40% of the school group.
Euderma maculatum
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Euderma
Euderma maculatum

description: Euderma maculatum (J. A. Allen, 1891). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 195. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, Los Angeles Co., Santa Clara Valley, Castac Creek mouth. DISTRIBUTION: S. W. Canada and W. United States to Queretaro (Mexico). COMMENT: Reviewed by Watkins, 1977, Mamm. Species, 77:1-4. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014005001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Watkins, L. C. 1977. Euderma maculatum. Mammalian Species, 77: 1 - 4."]}
On the initial- and boundary-value problem for 2D micropolar equations with only angular velocity dissipation
Creators: name: Jiu, Quansen
name: Liu, Jitao
name: Wu, Jiahong
name: Yu, Huan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper focuses on the initial- and boundary-value problem for the two-dimensional micropolar equations with only angular velocity dissipation in a smooth bounded domain. The aim here is to establish the global existence and uniqueness of solutions by imposing natural boundary conditions and minimal regularity assumptions on the initial data. Besides, the global solution is shown to possess higher regularity when the initial datum is more regular. To obtain these results, we overcome two main difficulties, one due to the lack of full dissipation and one due to the boundary conditions. In addition to the global regularity problem, we also examine the large-time behavior of solutions and obtain explicit decay rates.
description: 29 pages