cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamical phase diagram of spin chains with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Halimeh, Jad C.
name: Zauner-Stauber, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an infinite Matrix Product State (iMPS) technique based on the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP), we study two major types of dynamical phase transitions (DPT) in the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model (TFIM) with long-range power-law ($\propto1/r^α$ with $r$ inter-spin distance) interactions out of equilibrium in the thermodynamic limit -- \textit{DPT-I}: based on an order parameter in a (quasi-)steady state, and \textit{DPT-II}: based on non-analyticities (cusps) in the Loschmidt-echo return rate. We construct the corresponding rich dynamical phase diagram, whilst considering different quench initial conditions. We find a nontrivial connection between both types of DPT based on their critical lines. Moreover, and very interestingly, we detect a new DPT-II dynamical phase in a certain range of interaction exponent $α$, characterized by what we call \textit{anomalous cusps} that are distinct from the \textit{regular cusps} usually associated with DPT-II. Our results provide the characterization of experimentally accessible signatures of the dynamical phases studied in this work.
description: Journal article. 6 pages and 7 figures
Economic studies of Australia's allied mental health services under Medicare: Innovation, diffusion and geographic distribution
Creators: name: Fluitsma, Joyce
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The purpose of this thesis is to bring a recent innovation in mental health services in Australia under the lens of economics. The innovation is the Medicare-financing of the services of private fee-for-service allied mental health services. Following the 1990s reforms in Australia’s mental health services sector, some key economic implications of bringing allied mental health services under the Medicare financing scheme are examined, with a particular emphasis on innovation and regional diffusion. The services under study here are of the four allied mental health provider groups that have become financed under Medicare; these groups are the clinical psychologists, general psychologists, occupational therapists and social workers. Their funding through Medicare resulted from a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) initiative in 2006. The allied mental health professions in Australia have undergone an expansion this century, in accordance with all allied health professions now brought under the umbrella of Medicare. This thesis examines only allied mental health services; allied mental health services are not a special case, although some important differences which relate to mental health services are highlighted. This thesis reports empirical results on various measurements of service utilisation and regional distribution using State and Territory data. Two measures are applied: the Herfindahl-Hirschman measure of concentration of service-type and the Coefficient of Variation measure of spatial dispersion. Also, to detect regional differences in diffusion, equations on time series data for each Australian State and Territory are statistically estimated on data on service utilisation per 1,000 population. By applying economic analysis of both a conceptual and empirical kind, the thesis proposes to shed some light on the effects and complexity of this financing innovation within these allied professions, and Australia’s mental health policies for the care of mentally ill people. Thus, the intention of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding and knowledge of the outcomes of mental health services across Australia, and in regional and remote areas in particular.
Self‐healing materials in a circular economy
Creators: name: Haines‐Gadd, Merryn
name: Charnley, Fiona
name: Encinas‐Oropesa, Adriana
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: self-healing materials
subject: product longevity
subject: circular economy
subject: repair
subject: product design

description: There are materials currently being developed that have the ability to self-healing or self-repair. While from a materials innovation perspective this technology delivers new and interesting functionalities, for product lifetime extension research, this provides an exciting opportunity to explore how this might facilitate product longevity. Utilising a literature review, this paper investigates what are the key benefits that self-healing material might offer product lifetime extension. Considering two main perspectives of product longevity, i.e. technical and service lifetime, five key benefits were identified. It is proposed that self-healing systems can help to: Enhance Physical Durability, Maintain Efficiency, Increase Reliability, Enhance Aesthetic Resilience and Reduce Cost and Risk of Future Repair. Lastly, to fully validate these factors future research and field testing of these technologies would need to be conducted to fully realise their product longevity potential.
(200982) Mary Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Incorporating doubly resonant $W^\pm$ data in a global fit of SMEFT parameters to lift flat directions
Creators: name: Berthier, Laure
name: Bjørn, Mikkel
name: Trott, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the double pole contribution to two to four fermion scattering through $W^{\pm}$ currents at tree level in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We assume all fermions to be massless, $\rm U(3)^5$ flavour and $\rm CP$ symmetry. Using this result, we update the global constraint picture on SMEFT parameters including LEPII data on these charged current processes, and also include modifications to our fit procedure motivated by a companion paper focused on $W^{\pm}$ mass extractions. The fit reported is now to 177 observables and emphasises the need for a consistent inclusion of theoretical errors, and a consistent treatment of observables. Including charged current data lifts the two-fold degeneracy previously encountered in LEP (and lower energy) data, and allows us to set simultaneous constraints on 20 of 53 Wilson coefficients in the SMEFT, consistent with our assumptions. This allows the model independent inclusion of LEP data in SMEFT studies at LHC, which are projected into the SMEFT in a consistent fashion. We show how stronger constraints can be obtained by using some combinations of Wilson coefficients, when making assumptions on the UV completion of the Standard Model, or in an inconsistent analysis. We explain why strong bounds at the per-mille or sub-per-mille level on some combinations of Wilson coefficients in the Effective Lagrangian can be artificially enhanced in fits of this form in detail. This explains some of the different claims present in the literature.
description: 27 pages + appendix, 9 fig, Acknowledgement updated with grant numbers
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Peer-Based Intervention in Reducing Body Dissatisfaction and its Risk Factors Among Young Adolescent Females
Creators: name: Dunstan, Candice Jennifer
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Non-Fermi-Liquid Scaling in Ce(Ru0.5Rh0.5)2Si2
Creators: name: Grempel, D. R.
name: Miyako, Y.
name: Ocio, M.
name: Tabata, Y.
name: Taniguchi, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Οικονομική αξιολόγηση φωτοβολταϊκού σταθμού 400kw, στο Ρέθυμνο

Creators: name: Κουτρακης Δημητριος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επικεντρώνεται στην οικονομική ανάλυση ενός φωτοβολταϊκού σταθμού ισχύος 400 kW στην περιοχή του Ρεθύμνου. Απώτερος στόχος είναι η παρουσίαση συγκρίσιμων στοιχείων μαναδίαίου κόστους παραγωγής ενέργειας και κατ’ επέκταση να παρέχει μια αξιόπιστη βάση για τη λήψη αποφάσεων σχετικά με την εγκατάσταση του φωτοβολταϊκού συστήματος. Η εργασία ξεκινά με μια λεπτομερή ανάλυση των τεχνικών απαιτήσεων για την εγκατάσταση του φωτοβολταϊκού σταθμού, όπως η αξιολόγηση της ηλιοφάνειας, η κλιματική συνθήκη και η τοπογραφία της περιοχής. Στη συνέχεια, πραγματοποιείται ο υπολογισμός κριτηρίων αξιολόγησης επενδύσεων και του μοναδιαίου κόστους ενέργειας. Στη συνέχεια πραγματοποιείται ανάλυση ευαισθησίας. Τα δεδομένα προέρχονται από ένα φωτοβολταϊκό πάρκο ισχύος 80 kW στην αντίστοιχη περιοχή, κατά τη διάρκεια των 10 ετών λειτουργίας του.
Practical analysis of commodity, consumer-grade bioplastics and their behavior when exposed to moisture, organic agents 2
Creators: name: Maniá, Stefano
name: Manià, Ava
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry
Polymers and plastics
Additive manufacturing
Industrial engineering
Chemical engineering design
Other chemical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This work is focused on the testing of Polylactic Acid (PLA) samples, to better clarify its supposed behiavior when subjected to humidity, specificially for applications in the additive manufacturing industry. The goal of the described tests is to understand the behavior of the polymer and monitor any changes in its mechanical and chemical properties. This paper also can be used as reference when considering the usage of said plastics for industrial solutions, production, or general purpose applications of the material.
 Authored by Ava Manià. All rights reserved.
Environmental health in Padang, West Sumatra after a major earthquake
Creators: name: Fanany, David
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: The earthquake that struck the city of Padang, West Sumatra on September 30, 2009 exposed a range of issues surrounding disaster management, environmental health, and development. This research is a case study of environmental health issues that developed following the earthquake, but that have links to the New Order [Orde Baru] period that ended in 1997. This period of Indonesia’s history was characterised by highly centralized administration, strong focus on development, and rapid urbanization and technological upgrading. The period of Reformation [Reformasi] that followed was socially turbulent and resulted in the inception of Regional Autonomy in 2001, under which a range of functions were devolved to kabupaten (county-level administrative areas) and city governments. While giving a great deal of latitude to local governments, Regional Autonomy has seen inexperienced local administrations struggle to develop the capacity to manage their own economy, education, health care, and other functions. This thesis focuses on key environmental health issues, including dengue fever, provision of water, disaster management and the reestablishment of services. It makes use of a range of sources including government records and reports, media coverage, and social media. The social and political forces that have influenced efforts to develop disaster management policy and procedures are analysed using a policy stream approach that takes into account public, cultural, and media impacts. It is expected that the results of this project will provide insight into the nature of environmental health in West Sumatra and Indonesia in general, and will be relevant to other parts of the Malay world and Southeast Asia. Further, it is hoped that this case study Environmental Health Issues in Padang, West Sumatra After a Major Earthquake iv will serve as a model for the study of environmental health in developing countries, and will have implications for sustainable development and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Public Health & Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Unifying left-right symmetry and 331 electroweak theories
Creators: name: Reig, Mario
name: Valle, José W. F.
name: Vaquera-Araujo, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a realistic theory based on the $\mathrm{SU(3)_c \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes SU(3)_R \otimes U(1)_{X}}$ gauge group which requires the number of families to match the number of colors. In the simplest realization neutrino masses arise from the canonical seesaw mechanism and their smallness correlates with the observed V-A nature of the weak force. Depending on the symmetry breaking path to the Standard Model one recovers either a left-right symmetric theory or one based on the $\mathrm{SU(3)_c \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes U(1)}$ symmetry as the "next" step towards new physics.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Published version
(200979) Mary Ann Stoneham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
BCS pairing state of a Dilute Bose Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Creators: name: Luo, Dekun
name: Yin, Lan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-component Bose gas with a symmetric spin-orbit coupling, and find that two atoms can form a bound state with any intra- or inter-species scattering length. Consequently, in the dilute limit, the Bardeen-Cooper-Shrieffer (BCS) pairing state of bosons can be formed with weakly-attractive inter-species and repulsive intra-species interactions. The quasiparticle excitation energies are anisotropic due to spin-orbit coupling. This BCS paring state is energetically favored over Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of atoms at low densities. As the density increases, there is a first-order transition from the BCS to BEC states.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, a few corrections and changes
(200981) Ellen Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cooperative vehicles for traffic congestion management: a multiagent approach
Creators: name: Desai, Prajakta
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This research aims to alleviate the problem of road traffic congestion by enabling efficient distribution of vehicles in a road network. The approach called Congestion Avoidance and Route Allocation using Virtual Agent Negotiation (CARAVAN) is based on multiagent systems, wherein the vehicles act as intelligent agents (autonomous software entities) and undertake cooperative route allocation via inter-agent communication and negotiation. The vehicle agents in the local vicinity communicate with each other and undertake cooperative route allocation before every designated decision point (junction) along their route. The vehicle agents use intervehicular communication to exchange their route preference information and undertake distributed processing to arrive at an initial allocation of routes. The allocation is improved via trading of routes which takes place in the form of “deals”, enacted by every agent virtually and in an autonomous, iterative and distributed manner, thereby reducing the communication requirements. The deals, being simple in nature, incur low computation overhead but at the same time generate efficient route allocations. CARAVAN is an “anytime algorithm”- which means that it can be interrupted at any time for obtaining the solution within the given time-frame. CARAVAN is evaluated by integrating VanetMobiSim, used for vehicular mobility simulation, and JADE, used to simulate the behaviour of vehicle agents. The algorithm is extensively investigated for a variety of small and large synthetic and real-road networks of varying topologies. Overall, CARAVAN offers 13% to 43% reduction in travel time (depending on the simulation conditions) as compared to the Shortest Path Algorithm. The performance of the algorithm in terms of travel time reduction is evaluated for a wide range of algorithmic, environmental and agent-related parameters and compared with other non-cooperative algorithms thereby demonstrating the adaptive nature of the algorithm and the ability of its local coordination strategy to contribute towards achieving regulation of the overall traffic.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
‘Coolie’ voices: oral history on a Sumatran tea estate
Creators: name: Lamb, Nicole
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study is a cross-cultural oral history which is based primarily on the life narratives of elderly plantation workers in the Regency of Kerinci in Sumatra. The community in question are Javanese who took up contracts to work on a Dutch-owned tea estate between 1926 and 1957. It is unusual to have the chance to explore attitudes towards the colonial relationship as seen by those on the lowest rungs of society. Oral history techniques and ethnographic fieldwork methods make it possible, however, to illuminate the lives of a category of colonial subjects whose voices are rarely heard, the so-called ‘coolies’. Careful analysis of individual life narratives is used here to test and unsettle the popular image, found in many literary and scholarly works, of the ‘coolie’ as a passive victim of the imperial machine. The primary aim of this study is to explore the remembered past of a community of people who experienced many of the traumatic events which gave rise to Indonesian independence, but whose situation and perspective left them outside the flow of what might be termed the ‘national narrative’. Rather than a tool of colonial oppression, the Dutch estate emerges in these life stories as a more benign source of ‘sufficiency’ (cukupan), the wherewithal to maintain life and health. Elderly narrators recalled their lives according to a pattern of oscillation between times of chaos and of comfort and this periodisation was intimately linked in their narratives to the presence or absence of their Dutch employers.
Coherence depletion in the Grover quantum search algorithm
Creators: name: Shi, Hai-Long
name: Liu, Si-Yuan
name: Wang, Xiao-Hui
name: Yang, Wen-Li
name: Yang, Zhan-Ying
name: Fan, Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of quantum coherence depletion (QCD) in Grover search algorithm (GA) by using several typical measures of quantum coherence and quantum correlations. By using the relative entropy of coherence measure ($\mathcal{C}_r$), we show that the success probability depends on the QCD. The same phenomenon is also found by using the $l_1$ norm of coherence measure ($\mathcal{C}_{l_1}$). In the limit case, the cost performance is defined to characterize the behavior about QCD in enhancing the success probability of GA, which is only related to the number of searcher items and the scale of database, no matter using $\mathcal{C}_r$ or $\mathcal{C}_{l_1}$. In generalized Grover search algorithm (GGA), the QCD for a class of states increases with the required optimal measurement time. In comparison, the quantification of other quantum correlations in GA, such as pairwise entanglement, multipartite entanglement, pairwise discord and genuine multipartite discord, cannot be directly related to the success probability or the optimal measurement time. Additionally, we do not detect pairwise nonlocality or genuine tripartite nonlocality in GA since Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and Svetlichny's inequality are not violated.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
title: Gender in Multimedia-Projekten
title: Perspektiven für die Umsetzung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kamphans, Marion
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 14. Jahrgang 2003 Heft 1
Behavioral and cortical responses to electric and acoustic stimulation in partial hearing cochlear implant model
Creators: name: Benovitski, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by published work to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Animal behavioral studies make a significant contribution to hearing research and provide vital information that is not available from human subjects. Animal psychoacoustics is usually time consuming and labor intensive; in addition, animals may become stressed, especially if restraints or negative reinforcers such as electric shocks are used. To address these issues, a novel psychoacoustic experiment was designed and vigorously tested. Measured frequency discrimination thresholds were stable, repeatable, and comparable with previously published results. The same psychoacoustic experimental setup was used to study chronic performance of partially deafened cats using a cochlear implant. Four cats were systematically tested on different reference frequencies with intracochlear electrical stimulation turned on and off. We were able to show, for the first time, that cats can utilize information provided by a cochlear implant in performing a behavioral frequency discrimination task (3-way ANOVA, p is less than 0.001). Behavioral performance recorded during the chronic experiment was also compared to neural activation patterns in primary auditory cortices of the same animals. A new data analysis technique allowing direct comparison of these psychoacoustical and electrophysiological recordings was developed using signal detection theory’s d-prime (d’). Consistent with our previous report of improved behavioral discrimination with combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS) compared to acoustic alone, the cortical d’ was significantly higher for EAS compared to acoustic stimulation alone (3-way ANOVA, pair x on-off condition, p = 0.03). However, there was no correlation between behavioral performance and cortical d’ (Pearson: ρ = 0.3, P is greater than 0.3). The thesis describes a technique to perform behavioral and neurophysiological comparison of electric and acoustic stimulation of the cochlea in partially hearing subjects. This is of particular importance as more people with significant amount of residual hearing receive a combination of acoustic and electric auditory stimulation via hybrid cochlear implants.

Thesis with publications.
title:   Establishment and Verification of a SARS CoV2 Antibody Detection Assay Comparing Venous and Mitra Samples
Creators: name: Mayer, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the need for highly-specific, wide-spread, and rapid serological testing surged. In this study, we showed very strong positive correlation between venous blood collection and Mitra home sampling kits for the detection of anti- spike IgGs using an in-house ELISA protocol (based on a protocol from Mt. Sinai). This study demonstrates the utility of using at-home, patient-centric testing to enhance the sero-surveillance methods currently in place for viral tracking and monitoring.
description: © 2022 Stephen C. Mayer
title: Die Teilnehmende Beobachtung als Methode für die Hochschulforschung und Hochschuldidaktik
title: ein Plädoyer
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Münst, Agnes Senganata
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 15. Jahrgang 2004 Heft 2
Dihadron Production at LHC: BFKL Predictions for Cross Sections and Azimuthal Correlations
Creators: name: Celiberto, Francesco G.
name: Ivanov, Dmitry Yu.
name: Murdaca, Beatrice
name: Papa, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of the inclusive production of a pair of hadrons (a "dihadron" system), having high transverse momenta and separated by a large interval of rapidity, is presented. This process has much in common with the widely discussed Mueller--Navelet jet production and can be also used to access the BFKL dynamics at proton colliders. Large contributions enhanced by logarithms of energy can be resummed in perturbation theory within the BFKL formalism in the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The experimental study of dihadron production would provide with an additional clear channel to test the BFKL dynamics. The first theoretical predictions for cross sections and azimuthal angle correlations of the two hadrons produced with LHC kinematics are presented.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; presented by F.G. Celiberto at "Diffraction 2016", International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, Acireale (Catania, Sicily), Sept. 2-8, 2016; to be published in the conference proceedings by AIP
Information carrying capacity of a cosmological constant
Creators: name: Simidzija, Petar
name: Martin-Martinez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the exchange of information in different cosmological backgrounds when sender and receiver are timelike separated and communicate through massless fields (without the exchange of light-signals). Remarkably, we show that the dominance of a cosmological constant makes the amount of recoverable information imprinted in the field by the sender extremely resilient: it does not decay in time or with the spatial separation of sender and receiver, and it actually increases with the rate of expansion of the Universe. This is in stark contrast with the information carried by conventional light-signals and with previous results on timelike communication through massless fields in matter dominated cosmologies.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. RevTeX 4.1. v2: Minor typos corrected and updated to match published version (including minor title change)
(200977) Maria Eaton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Reunión de Coordinación de la Red LILACS 2021 - II Reunión - Tema: Herramientas para conecer mejor el estado actual de su país/área temática y establecer las metas del año
Creators: name: BIREME/OPS/OMS
name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: LILACS database
LILACS network coordination
LILACS methodology

description: II Reunión de Coordinación LILACS - 13 Abril 2021 Tema: Herramientas para conecer mejor el estado actual de su país/área temática y establecer las metas del año
‘The river practically covers it’: finding subversive spaces in the Pioneer Valley 1860-2010s
Creators: name: Haynes, Gabriella
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is an examination of the way that spaces considered ‘marginal’ by settler society reflect and embody the construction and contention of race over time. It is primarily focussed on the riverbanks and rocky hillsides occupied by the Australian South Sea Islander community and others considered ‘alien’ during the White Australia era of the first half of the twentieth century. To fully explore these spaces, it also covers a broader time period from the first intervention of a white settler on Yuibera land in 1860 to the contemporary landscape in Mackay in the 2010s. Focussing on the area known as the Pioneer Valley around Mackay, Queensland, the first part of the thesis demonstrates that communities considered ‘non-white’ existed within a racialised settler-colonial landscape. It shows how long-term, non-Indigenous spaces were targeted and framed by settlers in specific ways relating to these categories, and were also influenced by the tropical landscape and the uneven and incomplete roll out of settlement in that context. Using a range of sources including an archive of Informal Leases never before analysed, the second part of the thesis also uncovers the different ways that South Sea Islander, Chinese and other communities read, negotiated and adapted to official and implied forms of racialised space. It demonstrates how those communities did this through direct protest, autonomous networks, and alternative pathways and maps, particularly utilising what are termed here ‘stubborn tropical places’. Through their daily actions and adaptations, these communities pushed against settler entitlement to space in tropical Queensland. This thesis finds that rather than simply living on the margins of settler society, excluded communities created spaces which allowed for their survival and persistence in an era where settlers no longer saw a place for them. The result is that this thesis presents a previously unexplored history of subversive spaces, showing how through an unequal exchange with settlers, South Sea Islanders and other non-settler groups have shaped the historical landscape and present spaces of Queensland.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Languages, Histories and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Lernausgangslage und Rahmenbedingungen zum Schreiben im Mathematikunterricht der Eingangsstufe der Hauptschule
Creators: name: Ehret, Carola
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Über die Bedeutung des Schreibens als Werkzeug im mathematischen Lernprozess herrscht weitgehende Einigkeit im didaktischen Diskurs. Wie können diese Erkenntnisse, insbesondere in der Arbeit mit schwächeren Lernenden, Eingang in die Unterrichtspraxis finden? Über ein Schuljahr hinweg werden 5. Klassen an drei Werkrealschulen bei der Umsetzung begleitet. In einer Eingangsdiagnostik wurden mit standardisierten und informellen Methoden die Voraussetzungen für das mathematische Schreiben erhoben und verschiedene Leistungsprofile ausfindig gemacht. Den Rahmen für die Studie bieten Lernumgebungen des Schulbuchs "mathewerkstatt".
Learning Deep Architectures for Interaction Prediction in Structure-based Virtual Screening
Creators: name: Gonczarek, Adam
name: Tomczak, Jakub M.
name: Zaręba, Szymon
name: Kaczmar, Joanna
name: Dąbrowski, Piotr
name: Walczak, Michał J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a deep learning architecture for structure-based virtual screening that generates fixed-sized fingerprints of proteins and small molecules by applying learnable atom convolution and softmax operations to each compound separately. These fingerprints are further transformed non-linearly, their inner-product is calculated and used to predict the binding potential. Moreover, we show that widely used benchmark datasets may be insufficient for testing structure-based virtual screening methods that utilize machine learning. Therefore, we introduce a new benchmark dataset, which we constructed based on DUD-E and PDBBind databases.
description: Workshop on Machine Learning in Computational Biology. 30th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), Barcelona, Spain Extended version published in Computers in Biology and Medicine and available online: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010482517302974
Ethical Dimensions of Corporate Governance Practice in Ghana: Building a Theoretical Perspective
Creators: name: Boadu, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2013
Subjects: Corporate Governance
Governance Practice
Business Ethics
Culture
Grounded Theory

description: Having dominated policy agenda in developed economies for well over three decades, corporate governance is now getting to the top of the policy agenda in developing countries (Abor and Adjasi, 2007). However, the issues of corporate governance have focused on the major shareholders and institutional shareholders of the organization while little or no attention has been paid to public sector and the private enterprises in developing countries. This has been ignored by the literature. This study investigates the ethical dimensions of corporate governance practice in Ghanaian public sector and private enterprises. It aims to understand the phenomena of governance practices in this context and examine its implications for good corporate governance systems in Ghana. Using grounded theory methodology, data was collected from 28 semi structured interviews with board of directors and senior officials, and group discussion of 9 participants, mainly directors and officials involved with Ghanaian corporate governance system. The interviews were informed by the survey of governance practice. Through the constant comparative method of open coding of interviews, categories emerged which were subsumed into main categories during the axial coding. The paradigm model was used to establish the relationship among the categories. This formed the basis for the selective coding which identified the core category and its relationships with the sub-categories, verified to develop the substantive theory of corporate governance systems. The study explored the relationship between culture relativism and universalism and the formal theory in terms of stakeholder theory and shareholder theory. The substantive theory identifies that corporate governance practice in the public sector and private enterprises is influenced by traditional cultural values which has implications for ethical business environment. This study is the first attempt to combine corporate governance, grounded theory and national level culture in public sector and business enterprises, and to offer relevant recommendations for policy-makers. The substantive theory demonstrate that corporate governance systems are socially constructed and as such understanding the behaviour of board of directors is vital for understanding how corporate governance is practiced.. The study contributes to better understanding of governance practice in the public sector organisations and the informal sector
'For fun or profit': women working as home based dressmakers in post war Australian society
Creators: name: Potter, Jenny-Lynn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Sewing as women’s work has long been associated with femininity and domesticity. This thesis explores the experiences of Australian women who sewed within their homes for paying clients in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. I argue that the traditional conceptualisation of separate public and private spheres is inadequate for understanding the reality of their lives and the social significance of their work. In consulting, fitting and sewing clothes, mostly for women and often for special occasions, these dressmakers were situated at the interface of the home and market. Connected by the three strong narrative threads of what they did, how they did it and where they did it, the in-depth examination of these women’s stories reveals how the dressmakers managed their work within their homes. The temporal and spatial boundaries of family life intersected with the formalities of the public world; emotion work crossed from the intimate sphere of family life to the maintenance of client relationships; creativity and skill transcended women’s domestic work; and the clothing they made within their homes assisted the presentation of ‘self’ within the public sphere. Drawing on the findings from oral history interviews with thirteen dressmakers, notebooks, photographs, contemporary magazines and other primary sources, the physical and ideological conditions shaping the dressmakers’ work are examined. The complexity of sewing as women’s work is explored using theory pertaining to both women’s paid and unpaid work, drawing in particular on Glucksmann’s (1995) Total Social Organisation of Labour framework. My analysis shows that by locating their paid work within the home the dressmakers were able to move in and between both spheres, exercising personal agency in the pursuit of their individual desires and family needs, whilst at the same time contributing through their work to the construction of gendered identity, class and culture in post World War Two Australian society.
title: Some studies on mixed molecular compounds
Creators: name: Ahmad, Zainal A.
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Mixed donor π-π* molecular complexes (donor\(_1\) )\(_x\)(donor\(_2\) )\(_{i-x}\)/TCNQ with donors anthracene, chrysene, dibenzofuran, dibenzotniophen, përylene, phenanthrene, phenazine and pyrene, have been prepared, and analysed by spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. Formation of a continuous series of isostructural crystalline mixed complexes with 0
The construction and implementation of a new performance management framework in the Thai public sector: a field study of institutional integration
Creators: name: Sutheewasinnon, Prapaipim
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Accounting, Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis reports on a field study that investigated how and why a performance management system was initiated, implemented and used in the Thai public sector. Drawing from Diffusion of Innovation theory combined with Neo-institutional Sociology and using multi-level case studies of different Thai government departments, the study addresses how and why internal and external forces influence change in the performance management system and how different actors respond to these pressures. Data were collected using several qualitative techniques including interviews with people across all levels of the organisations, study of organisational and web-based documents, and observation of practices. The findings highlight both technical rational choice and legitimacy as the main drivers of the adoption of the new performance management system at the central government level. However, at the government agency level coercive institutional pressure drives the implementation of the system. Institutional entrepreneurs, both individual and organisational, used their social skills and rhetoric to induce government agencies to implement the new performance management system. Further, different agencies responded to the same institutional pressures in different ways. When there was a conflict between external pressures and internal values and interests, organisations tended to decouple practice from policy to buffer their core activities and interests. When organisations responded to the external pressure positively, but did not link the implementation and intended outcomes, they tended to decouple means and ends. The thesis contributes to the existing public sector accounting literature by offering useful insight into how both “structural institutionalism” and “agentic institutionalism” can be integrated with decoupling issues and attributes of innovation for a holistic understanding of management accounting practice. More specifically, this thesis suggests that the adoption, implementation and use of a new performance management system in a public sector organisation are not caused by a single driver, but as a result of multiple drivers arising from both internal and external sources.
title: Brave men and compassionate women: gender attitudes in England and Finland
Creators: name: Ahmavaara, Anni
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine gender-related attitudes in England and Finland. The thesis investigates the development of these attitudes in children, the effects that age and sex have on these attitudes, and how culture influences the perception of sex and gender roles. Specifically, this thesis explores the attitudes and stereotypes relating to academic ability, occupational choices, family roles and personality traits. Review of literature shows that overall males tend to be more traditional and stereotypical in their gender attitudes than females. In relation to age, it has been found that the older children get, the more flexible they become in their attitudes to the roles of the two sexes. Cross-culturally, very little research has included both English and Finnish samples, but based on international indices of gender equality Finland appears to be more progressive in its gender-related policies than England. In Study One (N=3313) results of secondary analysis on the ISSP data on gender role attitudes are presented. The results show that despite the Finnish perceiving women’s employment as more normative than the British, they also hold traditional family values in a greater esteem. Study Two examines gender attitudes of Finnish and English children and adolescents (N=1856), and the results indicate that the Finnish participants hold more stereotypical attitudes than the English, and that attitudes towards personality traits and occupations are strongly influenced by gender stereotypes across the nationalities and age groups. Studies Three (N=302) and Four (N=304) further examine attitudes towards instrumental and expressive personality traits, occupational stereotypes and ambivalent sexism. Study Five (N=204) compares Finnish adults’ scores on ambivalent sexism to other international samples and examines developmental trends in the endorsement of hostile and benevolent attitudes towards women. It is concluded that despite being viewed as a haven of gender equality, the gender attitudes are more traditional in Finland than in England. Possible reasons for this are discussed, and suggestions for further research outlined. Overall, the research presented suggests that while the 21st century children and adolescents still believe that men and women are innately different, this perception of differences does not directly determine their future aspirations in terms of occupations or parental roles.
Ecstasy use discussion in Dutch current affairs TV programs. A methodological exploration of Automatic Speech Recognition metadata
Creators: name: van der Molen, Berrie Jens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Automatic Speech Recognition
Digital Humanities
Ecstasy
Public Debate Analysis
Television Studies

description: The Netherlands is known for a lenient party drug policy climate and for high ecstasy (MDMA) use prevalence. In 2020, ecstasy use prevalence in The Netherlands was higher than in any other European country. This topic deserves investigation, as recently the question whether the illegal yet widely used party drug should be regulated instead of banned is recurring in political, public and scientific contexts. In this paper, recent Dutch current affairs television programs are analyzed to untangle the reputation of ecstasy in The Netherlands. Research about ecstasy in historical media debates has shown that Automatic Speech Recognition or ASR (speech-to-text) enrichment can be used to explore radio debates in a way that is comparable to how newspaper debates can be researched using Optical Character Recognition metadata, offering great potential for cross-media public debate research: topics can be researched in their socio-historical context across print news and radio news. Now, the CLARIAH Media Suite is unlocking the Dutch digitized public television archive for similar research with searchable ASR metadata. The television programs can be analyzed using techniques such as keyword search, timeline visualization and word frequency lists. This raises a methodological question to go with the question about ecstasy’s reputation: how can the coverage of ecstasy use in a fundamentally visual data archive be effectively explored with search techniques that are based exclusively on the spoken word? Answers are sought by comparing the results of close analysis of relevant television programs with the findings based on ASR metadata analysis.
description: Research fellowship 'Exploring ASR-enriched Television Debates' is funded by CLARIAH (www.clariah.nl)