cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Blockchain-based Dynamic Consent for Secondary use of Electronic Medical Records
Creators: name: Rupasinghe, Tharuka
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460999
subject: Information systems not elsewhere classified

description: This research study has explored a novel privacy-preserving dynamic consent management mechanism based on blockchain technology and smart contracts for the secondary use of Electronic Medical Records. The solution enables Data Subjects to actively participate in the consent management process by dynamically managing consent preferences and decisions. It has also explored the feasibility of implementing a transparent and unified consent management infrastructure, where all key stakeholders can collaboratively determine access to data. This research study has contributed to both knowledge and practice through its empirical findings on the suitability of blockchain-based solutions and their socio-technical impact on healthcare.
Evaluation of some non-elementary integrals involving sine, cosine, exponential and logarithmic integrals: Part I
Creators: name: Nijimbere, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A36, 33C15, 30E15

description: The non-elementary integrals $\text{Si}_{β,α}=\int [\sin{(λx^β)}/(λx^α)] dx,β\ge1,α\leβ+1$ and $\text{Ci}_{β,α}=\int [\cos{(λx^β)}/(λx^α)] dx, β\ge1, α\le2β+1$, where $\{β,α\}\in\mathbb{R}$, are evaluated in terms of the hypergeometric functions $_{1}F_2$ and $_{2}F_3$, and their asymptotic expressions for $|x|\gg1$ are also derived. The integrals of the form $\int [\sin^n{(λx^β)}/(λx^α)] dx$ and $\int [\cos^n{(λx^β)}/(λx^α)] dx$, where $n$ is a positive integer, are expressed in terms $\text{Si}_{β,α}$ and $\text{Ci}_{β,α}$, and then evaluated. $\text{Si}_{β,α}$ and $\text{Ci}_{β,α}$ are also evaluated in terms of the hypergeometric function $_{2}F_2$. And so, the hypergeometric functions, $_{1}F_2$ and $_{2}F_3$, are expressed in terms of $_{2}F_2$.The exponential integral $\text{Ei}_{β,α}=\int (e^{λx^β}/x^α) dx$ where $β\ge1$ and $α\leβ+1$ and the logarithmic integral $\text{Li}=\int_μ^{x} dt/\ln{t}, μ>1$ are also expressed in terms of $_{2}F_2$, and their asymptotic expressions are investigated. It is found that for $x\ggμ$, $\text{Li}\sim {x}/{\ln{x}}+\ln{\left(\frac{\ln{x}}{\lnμ}\right)}-2-\lnμ\hspace{.075cm} _{2}F_{2}(1,1;2,2;\lnμ)$, where the term $\ln{\left(\frac{\ln{x}}{\lnμ}\right)}-2-\lnμ\hspace{.075cm} _{2}F_{2}(1,1;2,2;\lnμ)$ is added to the known expression in mathematical literature $\text{Li}\sim {x}/{\ln{x}}$.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication by the Ural Math. J
Archives of Indigenous Cultural Centres of the Oceanic Region
Creators: name: De Villiers, Annelie Mercia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 461099
subject: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: Indigenous cultural centres are multi-purpose institutions that play an important role in the continuation, celebration and support of Indigenous cultures around the world. Using a case study approach in the context of participatory action research, I considered how cultural practitioners understand and engage with the archive in the process of doing their work. This primary goal of the research was identified by my participatory action research community partner, the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) of Western Australia. The three case studies investigated were the KALACC, the Polynesian Cultural Centre in Hawaii and the Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta in Vanuatu.
Intrinsic viscosity of a suspension of weakly Brownian ellipsoids in shear
Creators: name: Almondo, G.
name: Einarsson, J.
name: Angilella, J. R.
name: Mehlig, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the angular dynamics of triaxial ellipsoids in a shear flow subject to weak thermal noise. By numerically integrating an overdamped angular Langevin equation, we find the steady angular probability distribution for a range of triaxial particle shapes. From this distribution we compute the intrinsic viscosity of a dilute suspension of triaxial particles. We determine how the viscosity depends on particle shape in the limit of weak thermal noise. While the deterministic angular dynamics depends very sensitively on particle shape, we find that the shape dependence of the intrinsic viscosity is weaker, in general, and that suspensions of rod-like particles are the most sensitive to breaking of axisymmetry. The intrinsic viscosity of a dilute suspension of triaxial particles is smaller than that of a suspension of axisymmetric particles with the same volume, and the same ratio of major to minor axis lengths.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revised version
Between Two Forests: The Social and Topographic Evolution of Medieval Anstey
Creators: name: Courtney, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 77, 35-64
description: This paper originated from background research for the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), relating to developer-funded excavations on a pasture close in Cropston Road, Anstey. Excavations in 1990 and 1992 in this former medieval toft (house and garden) produced residual Saxo-Norman pottery (i.e. from later layers) and post-hole structures of the 12th-14th centuries, followed by evidence for abandonment (Browning and Higgins, this volume) (illus. 3: X). Initial examination of the 1886 Ordnance Survey map indicated that the modern plan of Anstey village held clues to its history. Linking the village's development to a complex history of assarting (woodland clearance) and multiple manors proved to be a complex exercise in detection. Inevitably, the trials and tribulations of such a process, as well as the occasional joyous moments of insight, are hidden beneath the constructed coherence of a finished narrative.
Towards Explainable Software Defect Prediction Models to Support SQA Planning
Creators: name: JIARPAKDEE, JIRAYUS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security
classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis aims to tackle the explainability challenges of software defect prediction models. It first (1) investigates the impact that correlated metrics have on the explanations of defect prediction models; (2) identifies the best-automated feature selection techniques to mitigate correlated metrics for generating the explanations of defect prediction models; and (3) proposes the best model-agnostic techniques to explain the predictions of defect prediction models and generate actionable guidance to support SQA planning on what developers should do and should not do to prevent defects in the future.
On the composition of Berezin-Toeplitz operators on symplectic manifolds
Creators: name: Ioos, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the second coefficient of the composition of two Berezin-Toeplitz operators associated with the $\text{spin}^c$ Dirac operator on a symplectic manifold, making use of the full-off diagonal expansion of the Bergman kernel.
description: accepted for publication in Mathematische Zeitschrift
Mode I fracture toughness of glass fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites after UV and atmospheric plasma treatments
Creators: name: Scarselli, G.
name: Quan, D
name: Prasad, V.
name: Rao, P.S.
name: Hardiman, M.
name: Reid, I.
name: O'Dowd, Noel
name: Murphy, N.
name: Ivankovic, A.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: In the present paper, the mode I fracture toughness properties of a thermoplastic composite resin reinforced with glass fibres are experimentally evaluated. The neat resin is initially characterized in terms of static and mode I fracture toughness properties. Then three sets of panels are manufactured and tested: reference panels made of untreated glass fibres and the thermoplastic resin; UV treated glass fibres reinforced thermoplastic panels and plasma treated glass fibres reinforced thermoplastic panels. The effect of the treatment on the interfacial adhesion strength between fibres and matrix is characterized by a push-out test. An overall increase of the interfacial strength leads to an overall decrease of the composite mode I fracture toughness evaluated by Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) tests. Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy images of the fracture surfaces are acquired and used to obtain a better interpretation of the fracture mechanisms.
Provenance for Secure Propagation of IoT Data
Creators: name: JAIGIRDAR, FARIHA TASMIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security

description: In this thesis, we analyze overall IoT architecture from a security-aware data provenance perspective and propose a novel IoT data provenance model for system security awareness and risk estimation. We propose a protocol for step-wise validation of the security metadata to interpret data trust at any phase of data propagation. We evaluate the feasibility and viability of the study through a proof of concept-based implementation and documentation of security experts' insight on the evidence of security controls using a table-top exercise. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability and adaptability of security-aware provenance graphs in different application settings.
A test of weak separability for multi-way functional data, with application to brain connectivity studies
Creators: name: Lynch, Brian
name: Chen, Kehui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper concerns the modeling of multi-way functional data where double or multiple indices are involved. We introduce a concept of weak separability. The weakly separable structure supports the use of factorization methods that decompose the signal into its spatial and temporal components. The analysis reveals interesting connections to the usual strongly separable covariance structure, and provides insights into tensor methods for multi-way functional data. We propose a formal test for the weak separability hypothesis, where the asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic is a chi-square type mixture. The method is applied to study brain functional connectivity derived from source localized magnetoencephalography signals during motor tasks.
Inference via low-dimensional couplings
Creators: name: Spantini, Alessio
name: Bigoni, Daniele
name: Marzouk, Youssef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the low-dimensional structure of deterministic transformations between random variables, i.e., transport maps between probability measures. In the context of statistics and machine learning, these transformations can be used to couple a tractable "reference" measure (e.g., a standard Gaussian) with a target measure of interest. Direct simulation from the desired measure can then be achieved by pushing forward reference samples through the map. Yet characterizing such a map---e.g., representing and evaluating it---grows challenging in high dimensions. The central contribution of this paper is to establish a link between the Markov properties of the target measure and the existence of low-dimensional couplings, induced by transport maps that are sparse and/or decomposable. Our analysis not only facilitates the construction of transformations in high-dimensional settings, but also suggests new inference methodologies for continuous non-Gaussian graphical models. For instance, in the context of nonlinear state-space models, we describe new variational algorithms for filtering, smoothing, and sequential parameter inference. These algorithms can be understood as the natural generalization---to the non-Gaussian case---of the square-root Rauch-Tung-Striebel Gaussian smoother.
description: 78 pages, 25 figures
Understanding the Design of Playful Gustosonic experiences
Creators: name: WANG, YAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460999
subject: Information systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 330399
subject: Design not elsewhere classified

description: Prior human-computer interaction research shows that overlaying interactive sound to eating can change how we experience food, affecting how and what we eat. However, how to design such gustosonic (i.e. multisensory interactions between sound and the act of eating/drinking) experiences is not well understood. Drawing on the playful aspect of eating, this research designed three playful gustosonic systems (an interactive ice cream cone that makes sound, a dessert for collaborative music-making and straws that play personalized notes) to derive the world’s first understanding of how to design playful gustosonic experiences, enriching how we will experience food in the future.
title: Harold Joseph Bernstein, Division of Chemistry 1947-1978: finding aid
Creators: name: Delgaty, Lynn
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Year: 1993

description: The "Harold Joseph Bernstein, Division of Chemistry 1947-1978" collection is stored in the NRC Archives.
description: La collection "Harold Joseph Bernstein, Division of Chemistry 1947-1978" est conservée dans les Archives du CNRC.
Early Leicestershire Castles
Creators: name: Creighton, Oliver H
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 71, 21-36
description: This paper analyses three aspects of the study of early castles in Leicestershire. Two detailed case-studies of individual castle sites emphasise the often complex and multi-phase nature of their development. Further attention is given to some of the problems in identifying early castles, whilst the final section turns to viewing relationships between early castles and medieval settlement patterns. In all cases it is suggested that castles must be re-integrated within the context of their surrounding landscapes in order to fully understand their role and development.
Minimal models of quantum homotopy Lie algebras via the BV-formalism
Creators: name: Braun, Christopher
name: Maunder, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 16E45, 18G55, 81Q30

description: Using the BV-formalism of mathematical physics an explicit construction for the minimal model of a quantum L-infinity-algebra is given as a formal super integral. The approach taken herein to these formal integrals is axiomatic; they can be approached using perturbation theory to obtain combinatorial formulae as shown in the appendix. Additionally, there exists a canonical differential graded Lie algebra morphism mapping formal functions on homology to formal functions on the whole space. An L-infinity-algebra morphism inverse to this differential graded Lie algebra morphism on the level of homology is constructed as a formal super integral.
description: 23 pages. Updated presentation with thanks to Paul Levy, Jim Stasheff, Ted Voronov, and the anonymous referee at JMP
Vascular Surgery
Creators: name: wazim, naina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320226
subject: Surgery

description: This thesis explores the integration of genomic data into vascular surgery, focusing on how genetic insights can enhance understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of vascular diseases. It reviews the genetic basis of conditions such as atherosclerosis, aneurysms, and venous insufficiency, and examines the impact of advanced sequencing technologies on these areas. The thesis discusses personalized medicine approaches, including how genetic profiles can guide tailored surgical interventions. Additionally, it addresses the challenges and future directions in applying genomics to clinical practice, with case studies illustrating practical applications and research findings. This work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how genomics is reshaping the field of vascular surgery, highlighting both current advancements and potential future developments.
A Modern Architecture for Constraint Modelling Languages
Creators: name: Dekker, Jip Joris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 490304
subject: Optimisation
classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages

description: Real world problems, such as scheduling and routing problems, are often solved by creating high-level models. These high-level models are rewritten to input suitable for dedicated solver programs. This thesis proposes an architecture for the rewriting process that makes it significantly more efficient and its results easier to solve. It also supports solving more challenging real world problems that require solving a sequence of related high-level models. This defines a new state of the art for model rewriting.
Early Castles in the Medieval Landscape of Rutland
Creators: name: Creighton, Oliver H
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 73, 19-33
description: This paper reviews evidence for medieval castles in the historic county of Rutland during the period c. 1066-1216, using a combination of archaeological, historical and topographical data . The siting of individual castle sites is analysed, the possibility of antecedent occupation is explored, and particular attention is devoted to the relationships between castle sites and associated features within the medieval landscape, including parish churches, settlement patterns and manorial earthworks. Throughout, it is emphasised that medieval castles can be understood most appropriately within the context of contemporary rural landscapes and urban townscapes.
On the probabilistic approach to the N-body problem
Creators: name: Romero, Mario
name: Ascasibar, Yago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work discusses the main analogies and differences between the deterministic approach underlying most cosmological N-body simulations and the probabilistic interpretation of the problem that is often considered in mathematics and statistical mechanics. In practice, we advocate for averaging over an ensemble of $S$ independent simulations with $N$ particles each in order to study the evolution of the one-point probability density $Ψ$ of finding a particle at a given location of phase space $(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{v})$ at time $t$. The proposed approach is extremely efficient from a computational point of view, with modest CPU and memory requirements, and it provides an alternative to traditional N-body simulations when the goal is to study the average properties of N-body systems, at the cost of abandoning the notion of well-defined trajectories for each individual particle. In one spatial dimension, our results, fully consistent with those previously reported in the literature for the standard deterministic formulation of the problem, highlight the differences between the evolution of the one-point probability density $Ψ(x,v,t)$ and the predictions of the collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov-Poisson) equation, as well as the relatively subtle dependence on the actual finite number $N$ of particles in the system. We argue that understanding this dependence with $N$ may actually shed more light on the dynamics of real astrophysical systems than the limit $N\to\infty$.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Generalised model-independent characterisation of strong gravitational lenses III: perturbed axisymmetric lenses
Creators: name: Wagner, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing, Einstein rings are generated when the lensing galaxy has an axisymmetric lensing potential and the source galaxy is aligned with its symmetry centre along the line of sight. Using a Taylor expansion around the Einstein radius and eliminating the unknown source, I derive a set of analytic equations that determine differences of the deflection angle of the perturber weighted by the convergence of the axisymmetric lens and ratios of the convergences at the positions of the arcs from the measurable thickness of the arcs. In the same manner, asymmetries in the brightness distributions along an arc determine differences in the deflection angle of the perturber if the source has a symmetric brightness profile and is oriented parallel to or orthogonal to the caustic. These equations are the only model-independent information retrievable from observations to leading order in the Taylor expansion. General constraints on the derivatives of the perturbing lens are derived such that the perturbation does not change the number of critical curves. To infer physical properties such as the mass of the perturber or its position, models need to be inserted. The same conclusions about the scale of detectable masses and model-dependent degeneracies as in other approaches are then found and supported by analysing B1938 as an example. Yet, the model-independent equations show that there is a fundamental degeneracy between the main lens and the perturber that can only be broken if their relative position is known. This explains the degeneracies between lens models already found in simulations from a more general viewpoint. Depending on the properties of the pertuber, this degeneracy can be broken by characterising the surrounding of the lens or by measuring the time delay between quasar images embedded in the perturbed Einstein ring of the host galaxy.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, comments welcome
Embedding, simulation and consistency of $\cal PT$ -symmetric quantum Theory
Creators: name: Huang, Minyi
name: Kumar, Asutosh
name: Wu, Junde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A physical requirement on the Hamiltonian operator in quantum mechanics is that it must generate real energy spectrum and unitary time evolution. While the Hamiltonians are Dirac Hermitian in conventional quantum mechanics, they observe $\cal PT$-symmetry in $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum theory. The embedding property was first studied by Günther and Samsonov to visualize the evolution of unbroken $\cal PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians on $\mathbb C^2$ by Hermitian Hamiltonians on $\mathbb C^4$. This paper investigates the properties of $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum systems including the embedding property. We provide a full characterization of the embedding property in the general case and show that only unbroken $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum systems admit this property in a finite dimensional space. Furthermore, utilizing this property, we establish a physically realizable simulation process of the unbroken $\cal PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians. An observation that the unbroken $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum systems can be viewed as open systems in the conventional quantum mechanics accounts for the consistency of $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum theory.
description: 14 pages, close to published version
title: Statistical thermodynamics lectures given by D.K.C. Macdonald, 1961-1963: finding aid
Creators: name: Delgaty, Lynn
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Year: 1993

description: The "Statistical thermodynamics lectures given by D.K.C. Macdonald, 1961-1963" collection is stored in the NRC Archives.
description: La collection "Statistical thermodynamics lectures given by D.K.C. Macdonald, 1961-1963" est conservée dans les Archives du CNRC.
Følner functions and the generic Word Problem for finitely generated amenable groups
Creators: name: Cavaleri, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F10, 03D40, 43A07, 03B25

description: We introduce and investigate different definitions of effective amenability, in terms of computability of Følner sets, Reiter functions, and Følner functions. As a consequence, we prove that recursively presented amenable groups have subrecursive Følner function, answering a question of Gromov, for the same class of groups we prove that solvability of the Equality Problem on a generic set (generic EP) is equivalent to solvability of the Word Problem on the whole group (WP), thus providing the first examples of finitely presented groups with unsolvable generic EP. In particular, we prove that for finitely presented groups, solvability of generic WP doesn't imply solvability of generic EP.
description: 16 pages
Early Detection of Sepsis in Neonatal and Adult Patients Using Machine Learning Approaches - Aiding Diagnosis for Clinicians
Creators: name: HU, YIFEI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis systematically reviewed the relevant literature, summarised the current research status in computer-aided sepsis detection, and proposed a unified sepsis detection framework. Within this framework, we explored multiple methods, including classic machine learning and deep learning models, in the task of early detection of sepsis in infants and adults, and achieved promising outcomes that are able to assist clinicians in their decision making during the diagnostic process.
Notes: Early Leicestershire Castles: Archaeology and Landscape History. A Roman Signet Ring from Hinckley, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Creighton, Oliver H
name: Wise, Philip J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 72, 154-155
description: Notes: Early Leicestershire Castles: Archaeology and Landscape History
LAP: a Linearize and Project Method for Solving Inverse Problems with Coupled Variables
Creators: name: Herring, James
name: Nagy, James
name: Ruthotto, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65F10, 65F22, 65M32

description: Many inverse problems involve two or more sets of variables that represent different physical quantities but are tightly coupled with each other. For example, image super-resolution requires joint estimation of the image and motion parameters from noisy measurements. Exploiting this structure is key for efficiently solving these large-scale optimization problems, which are often ill-conditioned. In this paper, we present a new method called Linearize And Project (LAP) that offers a flexible framework for solving inverse problems with coupled variables. LAP is most promising for cases when the subproblem corresponding to one of the variables is considerably easier to solve than the other. LAP is based on a Gauss-Newton method, and thus after linearizing the residual, it eliminates one block of variables through projection. Due to the linearization, this block can be chosen freely. Further, LAP supports direct, iterative, and hybrid regularization as well as constraints. Therefore LAP is attractive, e.g., for ill-posed imaging problems. These traits differentiate LAP from common alternatives for this type of problem such as variable projection (VarPro) and block coordinate descent (BCD). Our numerical experiments compare the performance of LAP to BCD and VarPro using three coupled problems whose forward operators are linear with respect to one block and nonlinear for the other set of variables.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Search strategies and list of included studies-Characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of schizotypal personality disorder: A systematic review of case report and case series
Creators: name: Sandoval, Angela
name: Caiza, Kevin
name: Rosas, Julio
name: Chipantiza, Mateo
name: Tipantasig, Luighi
name: Guevara, Judy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mental health services

description: Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) is characterized by perceptual or cognitive distortions, social and interpersonal deficits and eccentric behavior.
 People with SPD traits have shown to have deficits in multiple areas of psychosocial functioning, including executive function, emotion processing, prospective memory, social interaction and social functioning.
 Because SPD has been understudied, is difficult to treat and is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, that’s why the study of SPD is clinically important.
Automatic Real-time Segmentation of the Prostate from Magnetic Resonance and Trans-rectal Ultrasound Images using Deep Learning
Creators: name: HOSSAIN, MD SAZZAD
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis applies novel deep learning techniques to automatically
segment the prostate and its interior zones from magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) and trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) images to a high level
of accuracy. This research will contribute to the development of
3D/augmented reality-guided tools for more accurate prostate biopsies
and treatment. The general contributions of the thesis are twofold: an
improvement in the semantic segmentation of objects in images, and its
application to prostate MRI and TRUS images.
The stability of tightly-packed, evenly-spaced systems of Earth-mass planets orbiting a Sun-like star
Creators: name: Obertas, Alysa
name: Van Laerhoven, Christa
name: Tamayo, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many of the multi-planet systems discovered to date have been notable for their compactness, with neighbouring planets closer together than any in the Solar System. Interestingly, planet-hosting stars have a wide range of ages, suggesting that such compact systems can survive for extended periods of time. We have used numerical simulations to investigate how quickly systems go unstable in relation to the spacing between planets, focusing on hypothetical systems of Earth-mass planets on evenly-spaced orbits (in mutual Hill radii). In general, the further apart the planets are initially, the longer it takes for a pair of planets to undergo a close encounter. We recover the results of previous studies, showing a linear trend in the initial planet spacing between 3 and 8 mutual Hill radii and the logarithm of the stability time. Investigating thousands of simulations with spacings up to 13 mutual Hill radii reveals distinct modulations superimposed on this relationship in the vicinity of first and second-order mean motion resonances of adjacent and next-adjacent planets. We discuss the impact of this structure and the implications on the stability of compact multi-planet systems. Applying the outcomes of our simulations, we show that isolated systems of up to five Earth-mass planets can fit in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star without close encounters for at least $10^9$ orbits.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures. Updates to figures and table 2
Understanding the Use of Mobile Technology in Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams in a Hospital Setting
Creators: name: SPINK, PAMELA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460608
subject: Mobile computing
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration

description: • Mobile technology is increasingly being used in healthcare to provide quality patient care. Healthcare professionals are embracing mobile technologies, as evidenced by substantial research contributions. This study aims to shed some light on the use of mobile technology by a MHCT. Using Activity Theory and its principles of contradictions as a lens, a qualitative study was carried out in a large Australian hospital. Data were collected from four multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Drawing on data collected, this research identified the type of tasks and characteristics of the roles of the MHCT as essential factors in understanding how they use mobile technology.
The Press in Leicester
Creators: name: Crompton, James
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 42, 6-34
description: Provincial newspapers in the nineteenth century could both guide and reflect local public opinion: "Newspapers are first what public opinion makes them; then by a peculiar reaction they make public opinion what they please, so long as they act with discretion and seem to follow while in reality they lead." So wrote one editor; but his view was not supported by the Leicester Chronicle: "obliged as its conductors often are rather to mirror the world as it is than to picture it as it should be - compelled to accompany the main body in the march of improvement instead of going a step in advance, as they frequently would, it may always be assumed that they represent with general fidelity the views of their supporters." Whether newspapers fall into the first or the second category they are still worthy sources for measuring local opinion, and it is the story of the Leicester newspapers in the period from c. 1790 to 1850 that this article will attempt to tell.
Reviews
Creators: name: Crompton, James
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 43, 72-74
description: A THOUSAND YEARS OF NORFOLK CARSTONE. By C. J. W. Messent. Privately printed Norwich, 1967; LEICESTER CLOCK TOWER 1868-1968. By J . E. 0. Wilshere, 1968; LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHITECTS 1700-1850. By J. D. Bennett, 1968; PARISH GUIDE: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. LUKE, GADDESBY. By E. D. Smith. 1968; LEICESTER TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, 1817-1967. By G. P. Cave and Janet Martin, Leicester, 1968.
First and Second Order Asymptotics in Covert Communication
Creators: name: Tahmasbi, Mehrdad
name: Bloch, Matthieu R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the first- and second-order asymptotics of covert communication over binary-input DMC for three different covertness metrics and under maximum probability of error constraint. When covertness is measured in terms of the relative entropy between the channel output distributions induced with and without communication, we characterize the exact first- and second-order asymptotics of the number of bits that can be reliably transmitted with a maximum probability of error less than $ε$ and a relative entropy less than $δ$. When covertness is measured in terms of the variational distance between the channel output distributions or in terms of the probability of missed detection for fixed probability of false alarm, we establish the exact first-order asymptotics and bound the second-order asymptotics. PPM achieves the optimal first-order asymptotics for all three metrics, as well as the optimal second-order asymptotics for relative entropy. The main conceptual contribution of this paper is to clarify how the choice of a covertness metric impacts the information-theoretic limits of covert communications. The main technical contribution underlying our results is a detailed expurgation argument to show the existence of a code satisfying the reliability and covertness criteria.
Local Patch Encoding-Based Method for Single Image Super-Resolution
Creators: name: Zhao, Yang
name: Wang, Ronggang
name: Jia, Wei
name: Yang, Jianchao
name: Wang, Wenmin
name: Gao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods often focus on dictionary learning or network training. In this paper, we discuss in detail a new SR method based on local patch encoding (LPE) instead of traditional dictionary learning. The proposed method consists of a learning stage and a reconstructing stage. In the learning stage, image patches are classified into different classes by means of the proposed LPE, and then a projection matrix is computed for each class by utilizing a simple constraint. In the reconstructing stage, an input LR patch can be simply reconstructed by computing its LPE code and then multiplying the corresponding projection matrix. Furthermore, we discuss the relationship between the proposed method and the anchored neighborhood regression methods; we also analyze the extendibility of the proposed method. The experimental results on several image sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the LPE-based methods.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Investigating the Evolution of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS) and the Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) system in the archaea; novel insights from an uncultivated Asgard archaeon, Odinarchaeum yellowstonii LCB_4
Creators: name: Papatziamou, Dimitra
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Archaea
Asgard
Biochemistry

description: Protein homeostasis is vital for cell viability across all domains of life. In eukaryotes, it is maintained by the Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS) and the autophagy–lysosomal pathway (ALP) (Figure 1). The UPS function is performed by the proteasome, organized into the catalytic 20S core and the regulatory 19S complex. Lysosomal degradation is mediated by the Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) machinery consisting of ESCRT–0, –I, –II and – III subcomplexes and the Vps4 ATPase. In archaea, the UPS also consists of the 20S core, and an associated regulatory ATPase, named the Proteasomal Activating Nucleotidase (PAN). Until recently, only ESCRT–III / Vps4 homologues were reported in archaea. However, a full ESCRT gene complement was found in the metagenomes of “Asgard” archaea, related to those of the eukaryotic systems. The aims of thisstudy were to biochemically reconstitute the UPS and ESCRT pathways of the uncultivated Asgard archaeon, Odinarchaeum yellowstonii LCB_4 (OdinLCB_4) with recombinant expression of OdinLCB_4 proteins, which were characterized structurally (crystallography, Circular Dichroism) and functionally (protein – protein, protein – lipid interactions). Thisthesisreportsthe first catalytically active, biochemically reconstituted, Asgard archaeal 20S core. Proteasomal regulators(including PAN) and other putative homologues were also studied. Moreover, all OdinLCB_4 ESCRT–I, –II and –III proteins were recombinantly expressed, and their interaction with lipids and other ESCRT proteins was investigated. The ESCRT–I proteins formed a stable complex with ubiquitin, but the ESCRT–I and ESCRT–II components did not interact. A crystal structure of ESCRT–II/Vps25 revealed the evolutionarily conservation of tandem winged–helix domains, identified previously in eukaryotic ESCRT–II homologues. Putative UPS – ESCRT cross–talk was also studied and collaborative work on the TACK archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius revealed that CdvB (an ESCRT–III homologue) was degraded by the proteasome, thereby regulating cell division. Thisstudy therefore characterizes key eukaryotic signature protein pathways of Asgard and TACK archaea reinforcing established theories of eukaryogenesis. Future work could unravel the complexity of these mechanisms in archaea and advance our understanding of the evolutionary links between archaea and eukaryotes.
Surface Networks
Creators: name: Kostrikov, Ilya
name: Jiang, Zhongshi
name: Panozzo, Daniele
name: Zorin, Denis
name: Bruna, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study data-driven representations for three-dimensional triangle meshes, which are one of the prevalent objects used to represent 3D geometry. Recent works have developed models that exploit the intrinsic geometry of manifolds and graphs, namely the Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and its spectral variants, which learn from the local metric tensor via the Laplacian operator. Despite offering excellent sample complexity and built-in invariances, intrinsic geometry alone is invariant to isometric deformations, making it unsuitable for many applications. To overcome this limitation, we propose several upgrades to GNNs to leverage extrinsic differential geometry properties of three-dimensional surfaces, increasing its modeling power. In particular, we propose to exploit the Dirac operator, whose spectrum detects principal curvature directions --- this is in stark contrast with the classical Laplace operator, which directly measures mean curvature. We coin the resulting models \emph{Surface Networks (SN)}. We prove that these models define shape representations that are stable to deformation and to discretization, and we demonstrate the efficiency and versatility of SNs on two challenging tasks: temporal prediction of mesh deformations under non-linear dynamics and generative models using a variational autoencoder framework with encoders/decoders given by SNs.
Leicestershire Lollards
Creators: name: Crompton, James
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 44, 11-44
description: Henry Crumpe, an Irish Cistercian, in 1382 wanted a word to describe the Oxford associates of John Wyclif. He chose to call them Lollards, and was as a consequence suspended from all academic exercises and from preaching in the university, on the grounds that he had, thereby, caused a disturbance of the peace, Lollard had the force of a dirty word, but it stuck, and was extended in scope and meaning to cover all English heretics.
Reviews
Creators: name: Crompton, James
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 45, 85-88
description: HISTORY IN LEICESTER. By Colin Ellis; 55 B.C. - A.D. 1969. City of Leicester Publicity Department. 2nd Edition 1969; THE GROWTH OF LEICESTER. Edited by A. E. Brown. Leicester University Press; NOTES ON MEDIEVAL MELTON MOWBRAY 1077- 1507. Compiled by Philip E. Hunt. Palmers Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., 1965; A GUIDE TO LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGY. By Elizabeth Blank. Leicester Museums (1970); WILLIAM GARDINER OF LEICESTER (1770-1853). By Jonathan Wilshere, with introduction by Jack Simmons. Leicester Research Servic.es (1970); KIRBY MUXLOE CHURCH GUIDE. By J. E. 0. Wilshere. Leicester (1970); THE SIEGE OF LEICESTER. By Jonathan Wilshere and Susan Green. Leicester Research Services (1970); LEICESTER TOWNE WAYTES. By J. E. 0. Wilshere. Leicester Research Services (1970); NEW AVENUES IN ENGLISH LOCAL HISTORY. By Alan Everitt. Leicester University Press (1970); SMALL HOUSES IN ENGLAND. By Peter Eden. Historical Association Pamphlet H.75 (1969); A GUIDE TO ST. PETER'S CHURCH, MARKET BOSWORTH. By Kate E. Thorpe. British Publishing Co. Gloucester (1970); LOUGHBOROUGH IN 1770. By Thomas Pochin, ed. by J. D. Bennett. 12pp. The Book House Loughborough (1970).
Reviews
Creators: name: Crompton, James
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 47, 100-100
description: OLD BRAUNSTONE. By Jonathan Wilshere. Leicester Research Services (1973); THE SIEGE OF LEICESTER. By Jonathan Wilshere and Susan Green. Leicester Research Services (1972); A GUIDE TO OAKHAM PARISH CHURCH. By Stephen Haddelsey. 26 pp. 1972; LEICESTER AS IT WAS. By A. Broadfield. Hewdon Publishing, 1972; ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, KINGS NORTON. By J. Brushe. 1973.
Probing the Electroweakino Sector of General Gauge Mediation at the LHC
Creators: name: Kim, Jong Soo
name: Krauss, Manuel E.
name: Martin-Lozano, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider pair-production of electroweakinos promptly decaying to light gravitinos in general gauge mediation scenarios within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Typically the presence of photons and missing transverse momentum is the key signature for this kind of scenarios. We highlight where LHC analyses which have originally been designed to probe different scenarios provide complementary constraints with respect to the dedicated searches and we present the constraints on the parameter space.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. v2: includes 13 TeV results. To appear in PLB
Conceptualisation of an Australasia Open Biomedical Repository from a Knowledge Management System Perspective
Creators: name: Kruesi, Lisa Marie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 461099
subject: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461008
subject: Organisation of information and knowledge resources

description: This research proposed a Knowledge Management System framework integrating the people, process, technology and content elements aligned with processes of the biomedical knowledge life cycle. With the focus on developing a framework to achieve an open biomedical repository, the motivation for the research comes from a desire to remove knowledge from silos. Further to this, is the desire to improve the poor coordination of people, process, technology and content in the biomedical information profession that results in a costly disconnect through to the pipeline that delivers the point-of-care evidence for patient care.