cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
Creators: name: Cardinale, Alison
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Coleridge
Romanticism
Education

description: As a prelude to a consideration of poetry shaping the soul – a purpose of which Coleridge was consistently mindful – it is necessary to consider Socrates’ figure of ‘the soul of the lyric poet’ as a bee in Plato’s Ion. The visible tip of Plato’s paradox and its implications for necessity and creative free will emerges in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’. In my essay, the crucial ambivalence I identify in that poem, mindful of the passage from Ion, turns on the extent to which an inspired soul has more freedom over the poetic process of creation than a bee has in its instinctive gathering of nectar. A further issue for the figuring of the lyric poet as a ‘bee’ emerges if one considers Von Frisch’s theory of the waggle dance of the bee and its implications for speaker competence in relation to grammar. The question is whether or not the rules of generative grammar need to be understood or merely respected at some level by a competent speaker. Are the rules, or principles, governing poetic method accessible to propositional formulation, or are they more like know-how than know-what? This raises the analogous question of whether the lyric poet is competent in the rules governing composition, in the sense of being cognisant and able to articulate them, or whether he or she is inspired and versifying beyond free will? Is verse produced by a rigidly determined adherence to rules of which the poet is unaware and which he or she is unable to articulate? My essay is an inquiry into whether knowledge of the rules of poetic composition is commensurate with the articulation of propositional knowledge. Given this, the emphasis in the treatment of ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ is on the operation of Coleridge’s theorised methodological principles at the level of structure and poetic form. What distinguishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a lyric poet from a dancing bee, or even a run-of-the-mill linguistically competent speaker, is his capacity to theorise the structural principles of his own lyric performance.
Additional file 1 of Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness
Creators: name: Reigada, Carla
name: Sandgren, Anna
name: Rivas, Sonia
name: Carvajal, Ana
name: Hermida-Romero, Santiago
name: Benítez, Edgar
name: Ripoll, Guillem
name: Olza, Inés
name: Centeno, Carlos
name: Gómez, Beatriz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material
Within-host evolution and immigration of Escherichia coli in the human gastrointestinal tract
Creators: name: Dixit, Ojas V. A.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: Several studies have shown that when a human host harbours two or more strains of E. coli, the second strain is significantly more likely to be a member of the same phylogroup than to be a member of a different phylogroup. Such an outcome may be the consequence of a within host evolution event or due an independent immigration/establishment event. To determine the relative importance of these two types of events in determining E. coli diversity in a host, a large collection of E. coli that consisted of up to 100 isolates recovered from each of 69 patients undergoing colonoscopies was used. Whole genome sequence data was available for 174 isolates selected to represent one example of every REP-fingerprint type identified in a patient. Sequence type characterisation and single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis revealed that 83% of the strains observed in the host population were a consequence of immigration/establishment events. Restricting the analysis to those hosts harbouring two or strains belonging to the same phylogroup revealed that in about half of these cases the presence of a second strain belonging to the same phylogroup was the consequence of an independent immigration/establishment event. Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis coupled with the assumption of a mutation rate of 1.1 nucleotides/year indicated a residence time for those strains inferred to have evolved within the host of 1.2 years and a maximum estimated residence time of 11 years. This study has shown that when a host harbours two strains of the same phylogroup, then in about half of such cases, this is due to the immigration and establishment of strains and not within host evolution. Thus, the results of this study show that despite hosts being regularly exposed to a diversity of E. coli through the food that they eat, factors related to the host, at least in part, determines what E. coli strains succeed in establishing.
Systematics of radial and angular-momentum Regge trajectories of light non-strange q\bar{q}-states
Creators: name: Masjuan, Pere
name: Arriola, Enrique Ruiz
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reanalyze the radial (n) and angular-momentum (J) Regge trajectories for all light-quark states with baryon number zero listed in the 2011 edition of the Particle Data Tables. The parameters of the trajectories are obtained with linear regression, with weight of each resonance inversely proportional to its half-width squared, $(Γ/2)^2$. That way we are side-stepping possible channel-dependent and model-dependent extractions of the resonance parameters and are able to undertake an error analysis. The method complies to the fact that the pole position of the resonance is typically shifted from channel-dependent extractions by $\simΓ/2$. This is also a feature of the large-$N_c$ limit of QCD, where the masses change by $ Γ/2$ when evolving from $N_c=3$ to $N_c=\infty$. Our value for the slope of the radial Regge trajectories is $a=1.35(4) GeV^2$. We discuss the fundamental issue whether the masses of the light-quark non-strange states fit into a universal pattern $M_{nJ}^2 = a(n+J) +b$, as suggested by Afonin, and also predicted by some holographic models. Our joint linear-regression analysis in the $(n,J,M^2)$ Regge planes indicates, at a statistically significant level of 4.5 standard deviations, that the slopes of the radial Regge trajectories are larger from the angular-momentum slopes. Thus no strict universality of slopes occurs in the light non-strange meson spectra.
description: 15 pages, 25 figures
The In Vitro Development of a Metabolomic Test for Response to Antineoplastic Drugs
Creators: name: Amin, Shahil
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Oncology
subject: Response Biomarker
subject: Metabolomics
subject: Cancer
subject: RECIST
subject: Assessing Response
subject: Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
subject: Adaptive Biomarker
subject: Systemic Therapy
subject: Antineoplastic Agents

description: Background: Only a fraction of patients benefit from any given chemotherapeutic. An assay that enables early identification of individuals who are/are not benefiting from a drug would be useful. We postulate that a response to systemic therapy is associated with characteristic changes in extracellular metabolites. Methods: Multiple tumor cell lines were exposed to a variety of chemotherapeutics. Supernatants collected at baseline and at 72 hours were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify metabolomic changes. An MTT assay was used to quantify growth inhibition. Results: We identified 23 candidate metabolites that change with response to therapy, independent of cell and drug type. This model had a sensitivity and specificity of 0.714 and 0.813 respectively in an ROC analysis. Conclusions: The candidate metabolites identified will be assessed in clinical samples from patients treated with systemic therapy. Identification of response-related changes in the circulating metabolome may represent a novel means of detecting response to chemotherapy.
Uniform Boundary Harnack Principle for Rotationally Symmetric Levy processes in General Open Sets
Creators: name: Kim, Panki
name: Song, Renming
name: Vondracek, Zoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J45, 60J25, 60J50

description: In this paper we prove the uniform boundary Harnack principle in general open sets for harmonic functions with respect to a large class of rotationally symmetric purely discontinuous Lévy processes.
description: 21 Pages
Production et prononciation des consonnes liquides /R/ et /l/ du français standard chez des apprenants non francophones. Le cas du cours de phonologie à l’Université de Calgary.
Creators: name: Allen, Veronica
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: consonnes liquides /R/ et /l/
subject: français standard
subject: apprenants non francophones
subject: phonologie

description: This thesis focuses on the pronunciation of non-francophone university students enrolled in a phonology course (FREN 489.01) by analyzing the oral production of two phonemes of standard French, /R/ and /l/. This is done to determine whether or not they achieve a more native like pronunciation. We will analyze a corpus of learners enrolled in the course mentioned above and a control group of students not enrolled in this course by using recorded speech samples, questionnaires and evaluations of the recorded speech samples by a group of francophones. We also propose to do a comparative study of the study group’s results with the results of the control group in order to determine whether the phonology course helped learners improve their pronunciation. In addition to analysing production at the segmental level, we will also discuss production at the suprasegmental level, particularly in regards to accent, intonation and fluency. By learning the fundamental elements of language and the differences between their L1 (first language) and L2 (second language), students can deepen their connection and understanding of culture and its language in both oral and written formats.
Iconic Architectural Heritage in Banda Aceh: Remembering and Conservation in Post-Disaster Contexts
Creators: name: Dewi, Cut
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Architectural heritage
conservation
memory
disaster context

description: The aims of this thesis are threefold. Firstly, it aims to contribute to an ongoing re-theorization of the idea of architectural heritage. Secondly, it aims to examine the social and cultural roles of architectural heritage, and the importance of both architectural form and function in the post disaster context of Banda Aceh. Thirdly, it aims to reconsider to how architectural reconstruction and conservation maybe conducted in an Islamic context and in the face of disaster. To do this I draw on debates from within the critical heritage studies movement that argues that heritage is a cultural performance linked to activities of remembering and identity formation. This definition requires us to move beyond the idea that heritage is merely material, and asks us to acknowledge the importance of understanding how material culture is used. However, in debates over the idea of heritage as performance, the importance of materiality, of form, can be obscured. Thus, I argue that the relationship between form and function should be central in understanding the significance and nature of architectural heritage. It is in the interrelationship of form and function, of material and its use, that architecture becomes a cultural tool in the facilitation of the activity of remembering and identity formation. The thesis examines these issues with particular reference to remembering and identity formation in terms of cultural resilience in the face of natural disaster, drawing on examples from Banda Aceh post the 2004 Tsunami. In exploring the relationship between form and function, the thesis uses an architectural anthropological method which documents both architectural spaces and the social activities in and around them. I argue that traditional architectural conservation, including adaptive reuse that stresses the importance of building form, misunderstands the nature of heritage values, particularly in post-disaster contexts. Instead, the thesis offers the idea of adaptive reform where by function is privileged to the extent that form may be altered, even completely changed, to accommodate the resurrection of traditional uses and cultural meanings. It is argued that this is particularly important in both post-disaster and Southeast Asian cultural contexts, especially in regard to Islamic culture where materiality is viewed as impermanent.
Slow light in molecular aggregates nanofilms
Creators: name: Cabrera-Granado, E.
name: Díaz, E.
name: Calderón, Oscar G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study slow light performance of molecular aggregates arranged in nanofilms by means of coherent population oscillations (CPO). The molecular cooperative behavior inside the aggregate enhances the delay of input signals in the GHz range in comparison with other CPO-based devices. Moreover, the problem of residual absorption present in CPO processes, is removed. We also propose an optical switch between different delays by exploiting the optical bistability of these aggregates.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Sex differences and sex steroids influence on the presentation and severity of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy of patients with type 1 diabetes
Creators: name: Nattero-Chávez, Lía
name: Insenser, María
name: Quintero Tobar, Alejandra
name: Fernández-Durán, Elena
name: Dorado Avendaño, Beatriz
name: Fiers, Tom
name: Kaufman, Jean-Marc
name: Luque-Ramírez, Manuel
name: Escobar-Morreale, Héctor F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Selected variables from study population including microangiopathy subtype, antihypertensive therapy, markers of subclinical inflammation, and lipid profiles. Table S2. Sex steroid profile as a function of sex, age, and CAN status. Table S3. Correlations among sex steroids and autonomic function tests in men and women stratified by age.
Our House is on Fire
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: On this page you will find the score materials, previous recordings, reviews, program notes and performance instruction for the music composition entitled
Our House is On Fire

For toy piano, percussion and bass with spoken word.Commissioned by Clocked out 2019.
You will need the Decibel ScorePlayer app on iPad to perform this peice (see below).

PROGRAM NOTE“Our House on Fire” was the opening line of a speech by Greta Thunberg, a 16year old Swedish activist, at the World Economic Forum in Geneva in early 2019. The speech is a desperate yet clear plea for action on global warming, and the spoken text in the piece is taken from her speech, which is published in the Guardian newspaper.
INSTRUCTIONS
Each instrument in this work does what is not normal that it do: sustained, dark tones on the toy piano, sustained, variable and difficult to control cymbal and bass sounds. These are interspersed with more ‘native’ sounds: but the work explores the idea of trying to change, challenging systems do things they were not necessarily designed to do, pushing up against established systems.
Red is for percussion, blue is for the toy piano, pink is for the low tone, which can also be played on a synthesiser or bass guitar with effects to sustain the sound. Crosses are stick hits on the cymbals, round dots are soft hits on cymbals or notes on the toy piano or bass.
The width of the line indicates of dynamic. Words in Italics should be spoken by the performers – in any order and density – and should be spoken into something (e.g. bowl, container of some kind).
NOTE FOR PERFORMERS
The majority of my compositions use scores that are read on an iPad tablet computer, using the Decibel ScorePlayer, an application available on the App Store . Any fixed media is embedded in the score, and some feature automated functions. In the case of ensemble works, multiple iPads can be networked on a LAN or over the Internet so parts can be read in a synchronised way. You should upload the score file (ending with.dsz) to your iPad from your computer via AirDrop on an Apple, or cable from a PC. Instructions on how to do this and using the Decibel ScorePlayer, more generally are included in the Application, which ships with five other scores. Thus my works have different versions of the score, as you may see above. A PDF/PNG file of the score ‘image’, a DSZ file to upload onto the iPad for performance, and for some less complex scores, a video version. Hardcopies are also available from my publisher. You can find out more about the Decibel ScorePlayer, and how to make your own scores for it, here.
PERFORMANCES
 Premiered 4th August , 2018 in Brisbane, Queensland at Griffith Conservatorium, by Clocked Out with Cat Hope5th August, 2018 at Laugavin, the Piano Mill, NSW by Clocked Out with Cat Hope
BC Research and Teaching University Representatives Interpreting and Implementing Provincial Policy, in Relation to the Transfer System Mandate for Baccalaureate Education: Case Study Research
Creators: name: Smalcel Pederson, Kristine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Administration
subject: Education--Higher
subject: Education--Sociology of
subject: Transfer Credit
subject: Mobility
subject: Meaning
subject: Baccalaureate
subject: organizational culture
subject: Case Study

description: This qualitative dual case study examined how administrators from two universities in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) implemented provincial policy at their university’s transfer credit and undergraduate level. The universities selected for the study were instrumental cases, facilitating understanding and insight of the institutions and their administrators as well as the public post-secondary system in general. The case universities represented two types of higher education institution in the BC post-secondary system that are important to baccalaureate education; namely, one research university and one new university-title and teaching institution. I explored interpretations of baccalaureate education, transfer credit, and related students’ experiences from multiple perspectives in a higher education organizational culture system. For the participants in the research, defining transfer, transfer mandates, and policy were personal, often historically derived concepts. For some participants, it was a limited, traditional definition; others demonstrated a wide understanding of transfer as part of the larger mobility concept. The research illuminated individual understanding of the research questions, reinforced known challenges, and identified opportunities for policy, practice, and research. My assumptions that students were highly regarded by case study participants and their institutions was supported in the research, but participants reflected confusion and frustration with the transfer credit process, for various reasons. The participants from the case universities represented multiple perspectives and interpretations, and the system was correspondingly complex.
Integrated Sachs-Wolfe tomography with orthogonal polynomials
Creators: name: Jürgens, Gero
name: Schäfer, Bjoern Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topic of this article are tomographic measurements of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect with specifically designed, orthogonal polynomials which project out statistically independent modes of the galaxy distribution. The polynomials are contructed using the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation method. To quantify the power of the iSW-effect in contraining cosmological parameters we perfom a combined Fisher matrix analysis for the iSW-, galaxy- and cross-spectra for wCDM cosmologies using the survey characteristics of PLANCK and EUCLID. The signal to noise ratio has also been studied for other contemporary galaxy surveys, such as SDSS, NVSS and 2MASS. For the cross-spectra our tomographic method provides a 16% increase in the signal to noise ratio and an improvement of up to 30% in conditional errors on parameters. Including all spectra, the marginalised errors approach an inverse square-root dependence with increasing cumulative polynomial order which underlines the statistical independence of the weighted signal spectra.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
What is the topology of a Schwarzschild black hole?
Creators: name: Monte, Edmundo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topology of Schwarzschild's black hole through the immersion of this space-time in spaces of higher dimension. Through the immersions of Kasner and Fronsdal we calculate the extension of the Schwarzschild's black hole.
description: 7 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1102.4468
Ancestor, book, church : how Nigerian literature responds to the missionary encounter
Creators: name: Ney, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Ancestor, Book, Church reinserts into Nigerian literary history the texts generated by the nineteenth-century Anglican missionary incursion into Yorubaland, in the southwest of today’s Nigeria. I demonstrate how these early texts – in Yoruba and in English, written by Europeans and by Africans – and the histories and modes of thought that they reflect can be used as resources for understanding contemporary African literatures. Thus I argue against those who would dismiss the missionary text as absolutely foreign to and the missionary encounter as strictly an interruption of an “authentic” African cultural history. In much of Nigeria during the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries the first literacy training was provided by missionaries, whose goal in teaching the ABCs was typically to lead indigenous people away from ancestral beliefs, through books, to the church. Yet this ideal linear sequence is inadequate as a description of what was in practice a complex, dialogical process. Sometimes the education and technologies associated with books enabled writers to reconfigure and revivify ancestral beliefs, to incorporate them into a revised form of Christianity, or to turn towards secularity. In all cases, I argue, literature in Nigeria engaged and engages with the legacy of missionary Christianity. I find evidence for this engagement not only in the contextual and thematic dimensions of literary texts but also, and especially, in a mode of signification exemplified by the English missionaries’ favourite fictional text, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a translation of which was also the first work of extended fiction to be written in Yorubaland. Ancestor, Book, Church reads nineteenth-century missionary texts and twentieth-century literary texts together as instances of the ways that Nigerians think and believe. It builds therefore upon research by anthropologists and scholars of religions, which it presents in the first chapter, and then moves into a literary analysis, informed by postcolonial theory, of the Nigerian writers Samuel Ajayi Crowther, D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka.
Modeling of a Wind Turbine Rotor-Blade System and its Applications
Creators: name: Ju, Dayuan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Wind Turbine
subject: blade vibration
subject: coupling
subject: fluid structure interaction
subject: estimation

description: In order for wind energy to become a viable replacement for fossil fuels, recent years have seen an intense effort to address wind turbine efficiency and cost. A significant amount of attention has been placed on innovative blade design, advanced control strategies, and cost reduction, for example by minimizing turbine downtime through preventative maintenance. An accurate model can help in turbine system design, validation, performance evaluation, and optimization. It can also become an integral part of model-based control and model-based machine health condition monitoring solutions. This thesis develops a dynamics model for a rotor blade system in horizontal axis wind turbines. Although there exists the well-known FAST model, its great advantage of being general purpose also poses great limitations. For example, it does not enable root cause analysis in machine health monitoring solutions. This thesis proposes to improve model accuracy by including additional coupling terms. Our model was validated against FAST while suppressing the coupling terms. By including the fine details of the coupling between the rotor gross motion and the blade elastic deformation, blade vibration as a result of load distribution or blade health condition can be observed from rotor behavior with much greater sensitivity. With the proposed model, we designed an observer in order to estimate the wind speed from the rotor-blade dynamics response, which will help improve wind turbine performance. We have also demonstrated the use of our model to investigate the relation between rotor-blade motion and the generator behavior. The result is helpful in developing effective techniques for detecting faulty blades from generator signals.
Factor Graphs for Computer Vision and Image Processing
Creators: name: Mutimbu, Lawrence Dzidzai
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Factor graphs
maximum a-posteriori inference
defogging
segmentation
ensembled pixelwise illuminant estimation
evidence combining
simplicial spanning tree

description: Factor graphs have been used extensively in the decoding of error correcting codes such as turbo codes, and in signal processing. However, while computer vision and pattern recognition are awash with graphical model usage, it is some-what surprising that factor graphs are still somewhat under-researched in these communities. This is surprising because factor graphs naturally generalise both Markov random fields and Bayesian networks. Moreover, they are useful in modelling relationships between variables that are not necessarily probabilistic and allow for efficient marginalisation via a sum-product of probabilities. In this thesis, we present and illustrate the utility of factor graphs in the vision community through some of the field’s popular problems. The thesis does so with a particular focus on maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in graphical structures with layers. To this end, we are able to break-down complex problems into factored representations and more computationally realisable constructions. Firstly, we present a sum-product framework that uses the explicit factorisation in local subgraphs from the partitioned factor graph of a layered structure to perform inference. This provides an efficient method to perform inference since exact inference is attainable in the resulting local subtrees. Secondly, we extend this framework to the entire graphical structure without partitioning, and discuss preliminary ways to combine outputs from a multilevel construction. Lastly, we further our endeavour to combine evidence from different methods through a simplicial spanning tree reparameterisation of the factor graph in a way that ensures consistency, to produce an ensembled and improved result. Throughout the thesis, the underlying feature we make use of is to enforce adjacency constraints using Delaunay triangulations computed by adding points dynamically, or using a convex hull algorithm. The adjacency relationships from Delaunay triangulations aid the factor graph approaches in this thesis to be both efficient and competitive for computer vision tasks. This is because of the low treewidth they provide in local subgraphs, as well as the reparameterised interpretation of the graph they form through the spanning tree of simplexes. While exact inference is known to be intractable for junction trees obtained from the loopy graphs in computer vision, in this thesis we are able to effect exact inference on our spanning tree of simplexes. More importantly, the approaches presented here are not restricted to the computer vision and image processing fields, but are extendable to more general applications that involve distributed computations.
Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums
Creators: name: Bailis, Peter
name: Venkataraman, Shivaram
name: Franklin, Michael J.
name: Hellerstein, Joseph M.
name: Stoica, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data store replication results in a fundamental trade-off between operation latency and data consistency. In this paper, we examine this trade-off in the context of quorum-replicated data stores. Under partial, or non-strict quorum replication, a data store waits for responses from a subset of replicas before answering a query, without guaranteeing that read and write replica sets intersect. As deployed in practice, these configurations provide only basic eventual consistency guarantees, with no limit to the recency of data returned. However, anecdotally, partial quorums are often "good enough" for practitioners given their latency benefits. In this work, we explain why partial quorums are regularly acceptable in practice, analyzing both the staleness of data they return and the latency benefits they offer. We introduce Probabilistically Bounded Staleness (PBS) consistency, which provides expected bounds on staleness with respect to both versions and wall clock time. We derive a closed-form solution for versioned staleness as well as model real-time staleness for representative Dynamo-style systems under internet-scale production workloads. Using PBS, we measure the latency-consistency trade-off for partial quorum systems. We quantitatively demonstrate how eventually consistent systems frequently return consistent data within tens of milliseconds while offering significant latency benefits.
description: VLDB2012
Welfare and Environmental Effects of Subsidies and Import Tariffs in North–South Trade in Renewable Energy Equipment
Creators: name: Wei, Wenjie
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Renewable energy equipment
Environmental goods
Trade and environment
Environmental subsidies
Strategic trade policy

description: The recent China–EU and China–USA trade disputes over solar panels have no end in sight. This thesis attempts to examine the welfare and environmental effects of upstream and downstream environmental subsidies as well as an upstream trade policy, using a model where a developed country (the North) imports renewable energy equipment from a newly industrialised country (the South). Chapter 1 develops a two-country, three-good model to investigate the welfare and environmental effects of unilateral Northern policies – consisting of a downstream feed-in tariff premium for residential renewable electricity generation and an upstream import tariff on renewable energy equipment. We consider two market structures in the equipment sector – a Southern monopoly and an asymmetric Cournot international duopoly producing a homogeneous product. We show, inter alia, that domestic feed-in tariff premium always increases the endogenous Northern import tariff, and vice versa. Pollution externality reinforces rather than necessitates the policy complementarity. Chapter 2 conducts numerical simulations to illustrate Chapter 1 and address issues not solvable analytically. We study both market structures and generate a Northern policy mix. Then we shift to bilateral policies by introducing a Southern cost-reducing R&D subsidy. We find that the counter-intuitive net installation-dampening effect of the Northern FIT premium in the monopoly case is driven by its strong indirect price-raising effect, since the premium induces a higher optimal domestic import tariff. We also compare the equilibrium levels of policies, welfare and pollution harm across cooperative and non-cooperative strategies, as well as the Northern policy mix and Northern single policy scenarios. Chapter 3 theoretically extends Chapter 1 by considering three main alternative renewable energy policy instruments. Specifically, we examine how a Southern R&D subsidy and a Northern output subsidy interact with the Northern FIT premium and import tariff. Then we explore the effect of trade protection in the presence of a binding emissions target or a binding renewable energy share target. Emissions are unaffected under a binding emissions target, but interestingly, they are decreasing in the degree of trade protection under a binding renewable energy share target.
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Benzimidazole Resistance in the Parasitic Nematodes Haemonchus contortus and Haemonchus placei
Creators: name: Chaudhry, Umer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Parasitology

description: The benzimidazoles are one of the most important anthelmintic drug classes used to control parasitic nematodes in domestic animals and humans. They have been intensively used in the livestock sector for over 30 years resulting in widespread resistance in small ruminant parasite species such as Haemonchus contortus. The work presented in this thesis investigates the molecular genetics of benzimidazole resistance in H. contortus and the closely related species Haemonchus placei. The major focus is on India and Pakistan, two regions that were considered to be potentially informative as to how resistance mutations arise and spread due to resistance being at a relatively early stage. Chapter II, explores parasite populations in small ruminants in the Punjab region of Pakistan showing that co-infections with the two species were relatively common and that interspecies F1 hybrids were present in several populations. This raises the possibility of introgression of anthelmintic resistance genes from one species to another. Chapter III, presents a study in southern India which provides phylogenetic evidence that the F200Y (TAC) mutation has arisen multiple independent times in the region. In contrast, the E198A (GCA) mutation appears to have arisen and spread from a single origin. This is the first genetic evidence of the spread of an anthelmintic resistance mutation between locations for any parasitic nematode species to date. Chapter IV compares the molecular genetics of benzimidazole resistance in H. contortus populations under intense drug selection pressure on small ruminant government farms in Pakistan with parasite populations that are under minimal selection pressure in neighbouring rural areas. Overall, the results of this work are consistent with the hypothesis that the F200Y (TAC) isotype-1 -tubulin mutation appears by recurrent mutation during selection as well as being present in the standing genetic variation present prior to the onset of selection. Finally, Chapter V, presents evidence that benzimidazole resistance is at an early stage of emergence in H. placei from cattle in the southern and mid-west USA. This raises a significant concern that clinical resistance could emerge quite quickly as more benzimidazoles are used in cattle as is the current trend.
Additional file 1 of The global prevalence of ADHD in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Salari, Nader
name: Ghasemi, Hooman
name: Abdoli, Nasrin
name: Rahmani, Adibeh
name: Shiri, Mohammad Hossain
name: Hashemian, Amir Hossein
name: Akbari, Hakimeh
name: Mohammadi, Masoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
'Thinking it Savors of the Miraculous': The Manitoba Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Growth of Deaf Public Life in Manitoba, 1884-1909
Creators: name: Barron, Sandy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Deaf History
subject: Manitoba
subject: Deaf education
subject: Disability History

description: This study analyzes the role of the Manitoba Institute of the Deaf and Dumb in the growth of deaf communities in Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba. It asserts, using Habermas’s theoretical model of the growth of the public sphere, that while the school was built in response to an educational crisis for deaf school-age children in an emerging region of Canada, it also increasingly served to publicise and advocate for the concerns and politics of deaf people in Manitoba. Through an analysis of government correspondence, newspapers, and publications from the MIDD itself, this study argues that the school contributed to an increased political visibility of people with sensory disabilities in Western Canada between 1889 and 1909.
P/2006 VW139: A Main-Belt Comet Born in an Asteroid Collision?
Creators: name: Novakovic, Bojan
name: Hsieh, Henry H.
name: Cellino, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we apply different methods to examine the possibility that a small group of 24 asteroids dynamically linked to main-belt comet P/2006 VW139, recently discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope, shares a common physical origin. By applying the Hierarchical Clustering and Backward Integration methods, we find strong evidence that 11 of these asteroids form a sub-group which likely originated in a recent collision event, and that this group includes P/2006 VW139. The objects not found to be part of the 11-member sub-group, which we designate as the P/2006 VW139 family, were either found to be dynamically unstable, or these are likely interlopers which should be expected due to the close proximity of the Themis family. As we demonstrated, statistical significance of P/2006 VW139 family is >99 per cent. We determine the age of the family to be 7.5 +/- 0.3 Myr, and estimate the diameter of the parent body to be about 11 km. Results show that the family is produced by an impact which can be best characterized as a transition from catastrophic to cratering regime. The dynamical environment of this family is studied as well, including the identification of the most influential mean motion and secular resonances in the region. Our findings make P/2006 VW139 now the second main-belt comet to be dynamically associated with a young asteroid family, a fact with important implications for the origin and activation mechanism of such objects.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Thrive or survive: prokaryotic life in hypersaline soils
Creators: name: Vera-Gargallo, Blanca
name: Hernández, Marcela
name: Dumont, Marc G.
name: Ventosa, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Barplot of A archaeal and B bacterial phyla represented by more of 1 % of the reads in composite fractions L (comprising individual fractions with buoyant densities in the range 1.690–1.729 g/ml), MH (individual fractions with buoyant densities in the range 1.730–1.749 g/ml), and H (1.750–1.780 g/ml) of each control and treatment, which comprised the following conditions: 2 g of sample + 30 µl of H218O + (i) Light / (ii) Dark /(iii) Light + 5 µM 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) / (iv) Dark + 5 µM DCMU.
Transcending the National Capital Paradigm: The Evolution of Bitumen River Gallery/Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Creators: name: Doyle Wawrzynczak, Anni
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: canberra contemporary art
bitumen river gallery
canberra contemporary art space
canberra
planned federal capital
womens liberation
women in art
canberra women
alison alder
vivienne binns
ex de medici
mandy martin
arts funding
canberra arts funding
contemporary art
national capitals
australian national university school of art
canberra school of art
national capital space
national arts funding

description: This dissertation investigates the fertile tensions in Canberra’s dual status as national capital space and local polis, that dramatically affected the development of a unique contemporary arts practice in the late 1970s. The primary thrust of this thesis is the triumph of local arts practice and community over the powerful nation- building cultural imperatives of a national capital. A complex narrative, informed by rich archival material and interviews, exposes local arts practice as a generative force in Canberra’s cultural development. Here, an examination of the citywide development of local arts and culture from the 1920s to 2001, leads to a case study of the launch and development of Bitumen River Gallery/Canberra Contemporary Art Space from 1978 to 2001. Women are shown to have exerted a profound influence in this important space, in contrast to the trend of the male-dominated art scene in the rest of late twentieth-century Australia. In sum, this dissertation traces the trajectory of arts practice in Canberra as a response to critical social and cultural needs within the national capital space, to a humanising local practice that transcended the capital’s national and international cultural imperatives.
Bayesian Synthesis: Combining subjective analyses, with an application to ozone data
Creators: name: Yu, Qingzhao
name: MacEachern, Steven N.
name: Peruggia, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bayesian model averaging enables one to combine the disparate predictions of a number of models in a coherent fashion, leading to superior predictive performance. The improvement in performance arises from averaging models that make different predictions. In this work, we tap into perhaps the biggest driver of different predictions---different analysts---in order to gain the full benefits of model averaging. In a standard implementation of our method, several data analysts work independently on portions of a data set, eliciting separate models which are eventually updated and combined through a specific weighting method. We call this modeling procedure Bayesian Synthesis. The methodology helps to alleviate concerns about the sizable gap between the foundational underpinnings of the Bayesian paradigm and the practice of Bayesian statistics. In experimental work we show that human modeling has predictive performance superior to that of many automatic modeling techniques, including AIC, BIC, Smoothing Splines, CART, Bagged CART, Bayes CART, BMA and LARS, and only slightly inferior to that of BART. We also show that Bayesian Synthesis further improves predictive performance. Additionally, we examine the predictive performance of a simple average across analysts, which we dub Convex Synthesis, and find that it also produces an improvement.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS444 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Lattice and surface effects in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the Hubbard model
Creators: name: Andre', Patrice
name: Schiro', Marco
name: Fabrizio, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study, by means of the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation, the out of equilibrium dynamics of a half-filled Hubbard-Holstein model of correlated electrons interacting with local phonons. Inspired by pump-probe experiments, where intense light pulses selectively induce optical excitations that trigger a transient out-of-equilibrium dynamics, here we inject energy in the Hubbard bands by a non-equilibrium population of empty and doubly-occupied sites. We first consider the case of a global perturbation, acting over the whole sample, and find evidence of a mean-field dynamical transition where the lattice gets strongly distorted above a certain energy threshold, despite the weak strength of the electron-phonon coupling by comparison with the Hubbard repulsion. Next, we address a slab geometry for a correlated heterostructure and study the relaxation dynamics across the system when the perturbation acts locally on the first layer. While for weak deviations from equilibrium the excited surface is able to relax by transferring its excess energy to the bulk, for large deviations the excess energy stays instead concentrated into the surface layer. This self-trapping occurs both in the absence as well as in the presence of electron-phonon coupling. Phonons actually enforce the trapping by distorting at the surface.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 2 of Thrive or survive: prokaryotic life in hypersaline soils
Creators: name: Vera-Gargallo, Blanca
name: Hernández, Marcela
name: Dumont, Marc G.
name: Ventosa, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. NMDS analysis showing the relationship among the growing A) archaeal, B) bacterial, C) overall communities in each treatment (Light / Dark / Light + 5 μM 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) / Dark + 5 μM DCMU) and binned fraction (L, comprising individual fractions with buoyant densities in the range 1.690–1.729 g/ml; MH, consisting of fractions with buoyant densities in the range 1.730–1.749 g/ml and H, encompassing fractions with buoyant densities in the range 1.750–1.780 g/ml). Differences are based on Bray Curtis dissimilarity calculated at the ASV level. Colors and shapes indicate different treatments and binned fractions.