cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Anatomical pancreatic variants in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm patients: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Johansson, Katarina
name: Mustonen, Harri
name: Seppänen, Hanna
name: Lehtimäki, Tiina E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Odds ratio of being an IPMN patient with widespread cyst disease compared with the presence of the duct of Santorini or ansa pancreatica.
Older age, traumatic brain injury, and naturalistic assessment of prospective memory
Creators: name: McLean, Sarah Louise
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 Neuropsychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Prospective memory (ProM), the realization of delayed intentions, is a pervasive aspect of real-life memory processes due to its practical applications. ProM is considered a complex process, comprising several interrelated components. Given the central importance of ProM, surprisingly little experimental and theoretical investigations on the topic have been conducted particularly in older adult and neuropsychological patients. This study investigated whether commonly reported impairments in ProM after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in older age, are related to discreet difficulties at selected stages of prospective remembering (i.e. planning, timely execution, accuracy in execution, and retention) of a complex naturalistic intention. The study also examined the ability of acute injury variables and commonly used neuropsychological measures to predict prospective memory performance at six months post-injury. 31 older adults (≥65 years old) six months post mild-moderateTBI and 31 healthy older adults completed a naturalistic complex prospective memory task (the Picnic Task) that allowed for the separate assessment of the four components of ProM. Furthermore, cognitive functioning was assessed using standard neuropsychological tests of executive functioning and retrospective memory. There were no differences between groups in the planning or retention components of ProM. In contrast, the participants with a TBI performed worse than the healthy control group in timely execution, and accuracy of execution. Results revealed the componentspecific influence of executive functions on the process of naturalistic ProM and showed that ProM performance can be predicted by early neuropsychological assessment. The implications of groups difference in performance and the importance of executive functioning for ProM in TBI is discussed.
Polarized Absorption Spectra of Single-Walled 4 Å Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in Channels of an AlPO4-5 Single Crystal
Creators: name: Chan, C. T.
name: Li, Z. M.
name: Liu, H. J.
name: Tang, Z. K.
name: Wang, N.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The Radio Spectral Energy Distribution and Star Formation Rate Calibration in Galaxies
Creators: name: Tabatabaei, F. S.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Krause, M.
name: Dumas, G.
name: Meidt, S.
name: Beck, R.
name: Damas-Segovia, A.
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Mulcahy, D. D.
name: Groves, B.
name: Bolatto, A.
name: Dale, D.
name: Galametz, M.
name: Sandstrom, K.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Calzetti, D.
name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Hunt, L. K.
name: De Looze, I.
name: Pellegrini, E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the radio continuum emission from the KINGFISH sample of nearby galaxies to understand the energetics and origin of this emission. Effelsberg multi-wavelength observations at 1.4GHz, 4.8GHz, 8.5GHz, and 10.5GHz combined with archive data allow us, for the first time, to determine the mid-radio continuum (1-10 GHz, MRC) bolometric luminosities and further present calibration relations vs. the monochromatic radio luminosities. The 1-10 GHz radio SED is fitted using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique leading to measurements for the nonthermal spectral index and the thermal fraction f_th with mean values of alpha_nt=0.97+-0.16 (0.79+-0.15 for the total spectral index) and f_th= 10% +- 9% at 1.4 GHz. The MRC luminosity changes over ~3 orders of magnitude in the sample. The thermal emission is responsible for ~23% of the MRC on average. We also compare the extinction-corrected diagnostics of star formation rate with the thermal and nonthermal radio tracers and derive the first star formation calibration relations using the MRC radio luminosity. The nonthermal spectral index flattens with increasing star formation rate surface density, indicating the effect of the star formation feedback on the cosmic ray electron population in galaxies. Comparing the radio and IR SEDs, we find that the FIR-to-MRC ratio could decrease with star formation rate, due to the amplification of the magnetic fields in star forming regions. This particularly implies a decrease in the ratio at high redshifts, where mostly luminous/star forming galaxies are detected.
description: 29 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 3 of Anatomical pancreatic variants in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm patients: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Johansson, Katarina
name: Mustonen, Harri
name: Seppänen, Hanna
name: Lehtimäki, Tiina E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Location of the cysts in IPMN patients.
CR-submanifolds of Some Lorentzian Manifolds and K-manifolds
Creators: name: Karmakar, Payel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C15, 53C20, 53C25, 53C40, 53C50

description: In this paper I have studied about CR(Cauchy-Riemann)-submanifolds of Lorentzian Concircular Structure manifold ((LCS)n-manifold), Lorentzian Para-Sasakian(LP)-cosymplectic manifold, S-manifold and Generalized Kenmotsu (GKM) manifold. I have discussed some results regarding distribution, structure vector field, totally geodesic submanifold, leaf etc.. I have obtained results on totally umbilical contact CR-submanifold where the anti-invariant distribution has some properties. Next, I have studied some results about D-totally geodesic CR-submanifold (D is the distribution), a contact CR-submanifold, D(perp)-totally geodesic CR-submanifold, xi-horizontal CR-submanifold where the distribution is integrable (here xi is the structure vector field). Also I have proved some results on D-umbilic CR-submanifold, mixed totally geodesic CR-submanifold, foliate xi-horizontal mixed totally geodesic CR-submanifold, leaf of the distribution, totally geodesic leaf, CR-product etc.. I have given an example of a CR-submanifold of an (LCS)n-manifold and at last, I have given an example of a GKM manifold.
A toy model for background independent string field theory
Creators: name: Grigoriev, Maxim
name: Meyer, Adiel
name: Sachs, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study gauge theories of background fields associated to BRST quantized spinning particle models and identify background-independent algebraic structures which allow to systematically reduce the spectrum of fields and subject some of them to dynamical equations of motion. More specifically, we construct a manifestly background-independent extension of the model based on $N=2$ spinning particle. The resulting system describes an on-shell spin-1 field coupled to off-shell background fields including metric and dilaton. Tensoring with a given Lie algebra results in a non-abelian extension of the model.
description: added a detailed explanation below equation (2.9) and (4.17)
THE REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM AQUATIC SYSTEMS BY IRON OXYHYDROXIDES
Creators: name: Marsh, John Graham
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1983

description: Surveys of dissolved Fe, Mn and As in the River Tamar, Devon, indicated general removal from the water column at low salinities. Manganese and As showed evidence of remobilisation at higher salinities. Total and non-detrital sediment extracts confirmed a remobilisation chemistry for Mn and non-detrital As, and a redox couple between Mn and As was considered. Spatial-temporal analysis of sediment data indicated both physical and chemical processes were involved in the estuarine transport of these elements. Studies of synthetic and natural Fe precipitates indicated that speciation of the Fe source and temperature of formation influenced the surface area and nature of the precipitate formed. The presence of non-authigenic Fe coatings on sedimentary particles was demonstrated. Chemical models of synthetic and natural Fe oxyhydroxides were used to study As adsorption as a function of pH, temperature and precipitate age. Uptake of As (V) onto fresh Fe (III)-derived material was rapid and related to precipitate formation. Adsorption by fresh Fe (II) precipitates was pH dependent in freshwater and in seawater followed two kinetic regimes. Adsorption was 1st order at pH <7.6, dependent on the slow oxidation of Fe (II), and 2nd order at pH >7.6, where the adsorption process was rate determining. General agreement was found with natural precipitates. The overall adsorption behaviour of aged Fe (II) and Fe (III) precipitates suggested a physical process and an electrostatic adsorption model was proposed. Aged Fe (II) material did not adsorb As (III) and an Fe (III) - As (III) redox model was developed to account for the general slowness of As (III) adsorption. Natural aged precipitates showed complex adsorption behaviour, confirmed by precipitate characterisation studies which indicated a mixed oxide composition. The estuarine behaviour of As was interpreted in terms of the adsorption models and estuarine surveys. A model illustrating the timescales of As adsorption and desorption within an estuary was developed, and used to elucidate the anomalous behaviour of dissolved Fe, Mn and As in the River Carnon, Cornwall.
(201527) James Aberbour Elmslie
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.
(201528) Rose Beatrice Helena Coulson
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.
Robust Regression For Image Binarization Under Heavy Noises and Nonuniform Background
Creators: name: Vo, Garret
name: Park, Chiwoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a robust regression approach for image binarization under significant background variations and observation noises. The work is motivated by the need of identifying foreground regions in noisy microscopic image or degraded document images, where significant background variation and severe noise make an image binarization challenging. The proposed method first estimates the background of an input image, subtracts the estimated background from the input image, and apply a global thresholding to the subtracted outcome for achieving a binary image of foregrounds. A robust regression approach was proposed to estimate the background intensity surface with minimal effects of foreground intensities and noises, and a global threshold selector was proposed on the basis of a model selection criterion in a sparse regression. The proposed approach was validated using 26 test images and the corresponding ground truths, and the outcomes of the proposed work were compared with those from nine existing image binarization methods. The approach was also combined with three state-of-the-art morphological segmentation methods to show how the proposed approach can improve their image segmentation outcomes.
Rainbows without unicorns: Metric structures in theories with Modified Dispersion Relations
Creators: name: Lobo, Iarley P.
name: Loret, Niccoló
name: Nettel, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rainbow metrics are a widely used approach to metric formalism for theories with Modified Dispersion Relations. They have had a huge success in the Quantum Gravity Phenomenology literature, since they allow to introduce momentum-dependent spacetime metrics into the description of systems with Modified Dispersion Relation. In this paper, we introduce the reader to some realizations of this general idea: the original Rainbow metrics proposal, the momentum-space-inspired metric, the standard Finsler geometry approach and our alternative definition of a four-velocity-dependent metric with a massless limit. This paper aims to highlight some of their properties and how to properly describe their relativistic realizations.
description: 10 pages. Discussion on the role of connections was added. Matches published version
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 03/91
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für die Diplomprüfung in Chemietechnik vom 28. Februar 1991
description: Zweitfachvereinbarung über das Zweitfach Hauswirtschaftswissenschaft im Diplomstudiengang Journalistik zwischen dem Institut für Journalistik des Fachbereichs Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Journalistik und Geschichte und dem Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Philosophie und Theologie vom 28. Februar 1991
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 3, 1991
Fabrication of mirror templates in silica with micron-sized radii of curvature
Creators: name: Najer, Daniel
name: Renggli, Martina
name: Riedel, Daniel
name: Starosielec, Sebastian
name: Warburton, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the fabrication of exceptionally small-radius concave microoptics on fused silica substrates using CO2 laser ablation and subsequent reactive ion etching. The protocol yields on-axis near-Gaussian depressions with radius of curvature $\lesssim5$ microns at shallow depth and low surface roughness of 2 angstroms. This geometry is appealing for cavity quantum electrodynamics where small mode volumes and low scattering losses are desired. We study the optical performance of the structure within a tunable Fabry-Perot type microcavity, demonstrate near-coating-limited loss rates (F = 25,000) and small focal lengths consistent with their geometrical dimensions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 13/93
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Elektrotechnik an der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 13, 1993
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 01/94
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Fachbereichsordnung für die Fakultät Raumplanung
description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Verlust eines Dienstsiegels
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 2, 1994
Heat Kernel Asymptotics, Path Integrals and Infinite-Dimensional Determinants
Creators: name: Ludewig, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the short-time expansion of the heat kernel of a Laplace type operator on a compact Riemannian manifold and show that the lowest order term of this expansion is given by the Fredholm determinant of the Hessian of the energy functional on a space of finite energy paths. This is the asymptotic behavior to be expected from formally expressing the heat kernel as a path integral and then (again formally) using Laplace's method on the integral. We also relate this to the zeta determinant of the Jacobi operator, which is another way to assign a determinant to the Hessian of the energy functional. We consider both the near-diagonal asymptotics as well as the behavior at the cut locus.
description: 37 pages, restructured introduction
The Hubble Tension Revisited: Additional Local Distance Ladder Uncertainties
Creators: name: Mortsell, Edvard
name: Goobar, Ariel
name: Johansson, Joel
name: Dhawan, Suhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, we investigated possible systematic uncertainties related to the Cepheid color-luminosity calibration method and their influence on the tension between the Hubble constant as inferred from distances to Type Ia supernovae and the cosmic microwave background as measured with the Planck satellite. Here, we study the impact of other sources of uncertainty in the supernova distance ladder, including Cepheid temperature and metallicity variations, supernova magnitudes and GAIA parallax distances. Using Cepheid data in 19 Type Ia supernova host galaxies from Riess et al (2016), anchor data from Riess et al (2016, 2019, 2021) and a set of re-calibrated Milky Way Cepheid distances, we obtain $H_0 = 71.9\pm 2.2$ km/s/Mpc, $2.0\,σ$ from the Planck value. Excluding Cepheids with estimated color excesses $\hat{E}({\rm V} - {\rm I})=0.15$ mag to mitigate the impact of the Cepheid color-luminosity calibration, the inferred Hubble constant is $H_0 = 68.1\pm 2.6$ km/s/Mpc, removing the tension with the Planck value.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures. Matching version accepted in ApJ
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 02/94
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Studienordnung für den Zusatzstudiengang Organisationspsychologie
description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Änderung der Benutzungsordnung der Zentralbibliothek
description: Siegelordnung om 09.12.1986 der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
description: Verlust eines Dienstsiegels
description: Zweite Satzung zur Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Informatik an der Universität Dortmund vom 31.08.1992
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 2, 1994
Anak-pawis : children of sweat : class and community in a Manila shanty town
Creators: name: Pinches, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-Stroke Survivors
Creators: name: Lee, Min Hun
name: Siewiorek, Daniel P.
name: Smailagic, Asim
name: Bernardino, Alexandre
name: Badia, Sergi Bermúdez i
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic coaches promise the improved engagement of patients on rehabilitation exercises through social interaction. While previous work explored the potential of automatically monitoring exercises for AI and robotic coaches, the deployment of these systems remains a challenge. Previous work described the lack of involving stakeholders to design such functionalities as one of the major causes. In this paper, we present our efforts on eliciting the detailed design specifications on how AI and robotic coaches could interact with and guide patient's exercises in an effective and acceptable way with four therapists and five post-stroke survivors. Through iterative questionnaires and interviews, we found that both post-stroke survivors and therapists appreciated the potential benefits of AI and robotic coaches to achieve more systematic management and improve their self-efficacy and motivation on rehabilitation therapy. In addition, our evaluation sheds light on several practical concerns (e.g. a possible difficulty with the interaction for people with cognitive impairment, system failures, etc.). We discuss the value of early involvement of stakeholders and interactive techniques that complement system failures, but also support a personalized therapy session for the better deployment of AI and robotic exercise coaches.
description: International Journal of Social Robotics (2022)
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 05/94
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Veröffentlichung der Beitragsordnung der Studentenschaft der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 5, 1994
Möglichkeiten von EXCEL in der Statistikausbildung
Creators: name: Borovcnik, Manfred
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das Poster soll einige statistische Konzepte illustrieren und aufzeigen, welche Möglichkeiten eine Tabellenkalkulation bietet, didaktische Ideen umzusetzen. Im Poster werden Ausschnitte aus Sequenzen zum Korrelationskoeffizienten, zum üblichen Zugang zur Beurteilenden Statistik (Alternativtest und Maximum likelihood) sowie zum Resampling-Ansatz gezeigt.
Parallel self-testing of (tilted) EPR pairs via copies of (tilted) CHSH
Creators: name: Coladangelo, Andrea W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Device-independent self-testing allows a verifier to certify that potentially malicious parties hold on to a specific quantum state, based only on the observed correlations. Parallel self-testing has recently been explored, aiming to self-test many copies (i.e. a tensor product) of the target state concurrently. In this work, we show that $n$ EPR pairs can be self-tested in parallel through $n$ copies of the well known CHSH game. We generalise this result further to a parallel self-test of $n$ tilted EPR pairs with arbitrary angles, and finally we show how our results and calculations can also be applied to obtain a parallel self-test of $2n$ EPR pairs via $n$ copies of the Mermin-Peres magic square game.
description: 35 pages. Added references, corrected typos
(201525) Alexander Elmslie
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.
The history of agriculture in the Port Phillip region, 1835-1880
Creators: name: Peel, Lynnette Jean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Birationality and Landau-Ginzburg models
Creators: name: Clarke, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new technique for approaching birationality questions that arise in the mirror symmetry of complete intersections in toric varieties. As an application we answer affirmatively and conclusively the question of Batyrev-Nill (2008) about the birationality of Calabi-Yau families associated to multiple mirror nef-partitions. This completes the progress in this direction made by Li's breakthrough (2016). In the process, we obtain results in the theory of Borisov's nef-partitions (1993) and provide new insight on the geometric content of the multiple mirror phenomenon.
description: Accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Upper bounds on device-independent quantum key distribution rates in static and dynamic scenarios
Creators: name: Kaur, Eneet
name: Horodecki, Karol
name: Das, Siddhartha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we develop upper bounds for key rates for device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) protocols and devices. We study the reduced cc-squashed entanglement and show that it is a convex functional. As a result, we show that the convex hull of the currently known bounds is a tighter upper bound on the device-independent key rates of standard CHSH-based protocol. We further provide tighter bounds for DI-QKD key rates achievable by any protocol applied to the CHSH-based device. This bound is based on reduced relative entropy of entanglement optimized over decompositions into local and non-local parts. In the dynamical scenario of quantum channels, we obtain upper bounds for device-independent private capacity for the CHSH based protocols. We show that the device-independent private capacity for the CHSH based protocols on depolarizing and erasure channels is limited by the secret key capacity of dephasing channels.
description: 24 pages
Closing the Distance: Identity and Self-Representation in the Japanese Literature of Three Korean Writers in Japan: Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong
Creators: name: Foxworth, Elise
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The theme of cultural identity is topical in the academy and society at large but it is especially significant for the Korean diaspora in Japan. This thesis investigates the means by which Japan-based second-generation Korean novelists Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong characterize ‘zainichi Korean identity’ in six semi-autobiographical novels written in Japanese between 1957 and 1972. I argue that a close reading of The Death of the Crow (1957) and The Extraordinary Ghost Story of Mandogi (1971) by Kim Sok Pom, The Cloth Fuller (1971) and For Kayako (1970) by Lee Hoe Sung , and Frozen Mouth (1966) and Delusions (1971) by Kim Ha Gyong allows for an in-depth understanding of the experiences of Koreans born in Japan before 1945 and the effects of racial oppression on minority identity formation.
D1.7 DECO activity Report (Year 3-4)
Creators: name: García Lera, Miranda
name: Lostrangio, Carla
name: Pazos-Vidal, Serafin
name: Assante, Massimiliano
name: Bartalesi, Valentina
name: Coro, Gianpaolo
name: Pagano, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Exploitation
Communication

description: The deliverable D1.7 DECO Activity Report (Years 3 and 4) is conceived as a self-evaluation exercise that has the ultimate purpose of reporting and assessing the communication, dissemination and exploitation activities of the MOVING project.

This deliverable follows D1.4 DECO Activity Report (Years 1 and 2), and it is grounded on the final MOVING Strategy on Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation and Outreach developed in February 2024 (D1.6 DECO Strategy – final). In particular, this deliverable has two specific objectives:

Analyse the performance of communication, dissemination and exploitation activities implemented by the project in years 3 and 4 and its contribution to achieving MOVING’s objectives and Key Performance Indicators.

Draw lessons, identify areas of improvements, and design actions and follow-up steps to be taken by the project to improve the communication, dissemination and exploitation activities.

The first three Sections of this deliverable provides an introduction to the scope of the document, a contextualization of the project and an overview of the methodology used to monitor and assess the communication, dissemination and outreach activities.

Section 4 describes communication, dissemination and outreach activities carried out by the MOVING project and its partners in Years 3 and 4 of the implementations. This section details the products, channels and methods used by the project, as well as synergies occurred with external channels and media to outreach a larger audience.

Section 5 provides a summary of engagement through the MOVING CODE Taskforce, and support provided to ensure more regional and local communication activities.

Section 6 assesses the impact of the project’s communication, dissemination and outreach activities against its initial targets. Figures provides an overall successful picture of the project’s impacts across all channels and products. 

Section 7 concludes with the MOVING Exploitation Plan, providing a roadmap for the use of the project’s results by partners in the medium and long run. The Exploitation Plan revolves around three Key Exploitable Results prioritized by the MOVING partners in view of their valuable contribution to increase the resilience and sustainability of Mountain Value Chains.
A rational problem from elementary number theory
Creators: name: Wintsche, Gergely
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 510

description: We solve a bit more then the half of the XV.th. proposition of Leonardo Pisano who was also named as Fibonacci. We do it using only elementary tools of number theory. Our problem is explicitly what square number and the sum of a p prime of the form 4k+1 give a square number again.
PROCESS-PROPERTY-FABRIC ARCHITECTURE RELATIONSHIPS IN FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES
Creators: name: PEARCE, NEIL ROBERT LEWARNE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: The use of fibre-reinforced polymer matrix composite materials is growing at a faster rate than GDP in many countries. An improved understanding of their processing and mechanical behaviour would extend the potential applications of these materials. For unidirectional composites, it is predicted that localised absence of fibres is related to longitudinal compression failure. The use of woven reinforcements permits more effective manufacture than for unidirectional fibres. It has been demonstrated experimentally that compression strengths of woven composites are reduced when fibres are clustered. Summerscales predicted that clustering of fibres would increase the permeability of the reinforcement and hence expedite the processing of these materials. Commercial fabrics are available which employ this concept using flow-enhancing bound tows. The net effect of clustering fibres is to enhance processability whilst reducing the mechanical properties. The effects reported above were qualitative correlations. Gross differences in the appearance of laminate sections are apparent for different weave styles. For the quantification of subtle changes in fabric architecture, the use of automated image analysis is essential. Griffm used Voronoi tessellation to measure the microstructures of composites made using flow-enhancing tows. The data was presented as histograms with no single parameter to quantify microstructure. This thesis describes the use of automated image analysis for the measurement of the microstructures of woven fibre-reinforced composites, and pioneers the use of fractal dimensions as a single parameter for their quantification. It further considers the process-property- structure relationships for commercial and experimental fabric reinforcements in an attempt to resolve the processing versus properties dilemma. A new flow-enhancement concept has been developed which has a reduced impact on laminate mechanical properties.
TimeAdapt: Tracking Genetic Adaptation of Populations Using Time-Series Genomic Data
Creators: name: De Navascués, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2017 (funded) The aim of this proposal is to develop statistical methods for inference of demography and adaptation from genetic data collected at several times along the history of the population. In particular, I will target genomic data obtained from human remains from archaeological sites of hunter-gatherers, early farmers and Pontic-steppe herder groups and current European populations. The originality of my proposal is to address the the joint inference of neutral and selective forces acting on populations. In order to achieve this, I will take advantage of recent advances (the use of random forests in approximate Bayesian computation) that alleviate the computational burden of these inferences. The methods developed will be relevant to the community of evolutionary biologists in general and for human evolutionary biologist and archaeologists. The results will further clarify the genetics of the Neolithic transition in Europe, particularly regarding the role of adaptation and admixture. These results will be disseminated to the scientific community in the standard way (conferences, peer-reviewed journals and software implementing the methods) and to the general public through short animated films. The main training goal of the fellowship is to acquire experience in the analysis of high throughput sequencing data in a model organism (sensu lato), gaining international experience. This will increase my chances to lead research projects and further advance my career. The Jakobsson Lab will be the ideal place to achieve all these objectives because of its expertise in theoretical population genetics, human evolutionary biology and ancient DNA.
On the Importance of Regularisation & Auxiliary Information in OOD Detection
Creators: name: Mitros, John
name: Mac Namee, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural networks are often utilised in critical domain applications (e.g. self-driving cars, financial markets, and aerospace engineering), even though they exhibit overconfident predictions for ambiguous inputs. This deficiency demonstrates a fundamental flaw indicating that neural networks often overfit on spurious correlations. To address this problem in this work we present two novel objectives that improve the ability of a network to detect out-of-distribution samples and therefore avoid overconfident predictions for ambiguous inputs. We empirically demonstrate that our methods outperform the baseline and perform better than the majority of existing approaches while still maintaining a competitive performance against the rest. Additionally, we empirically demonstrate the robustness of our approach against common corruptions and demonstrate the importance of regularisation and auxiliary information in out-of-distribution detection.
description: Fixing errors
(201526) Hannah Murray
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.
Gaussian and bootstrap approximations for high-dimensional U-statistics and their applications
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaohui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 62E17, secondary 62F40

description: This paper studies the Gaussian and bootstrap approximations for the probabilities of a non-degenerate U-statistic belonging to the hyperrectangles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the dimension $d$ is large. A two-step Gaussian approximation procedure that does not impose structural assumptions on the data distribution is proposed. Subject to mild moment conditions on the kernel, we establish the explicit rate of convergence uniformly in the class of all hyperrectangles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that decays polynomially in sample size for a high-dimensional scaling limit, where the dimension can be much larger than the sample size. We also provide computable approximation methods for the quantiles of the maxima of centered U-statistics. Specifically, we provide a unified perspective for the empirical bootstrap, the randomly reweighted bootstrap, and the Gaussian multiplier bootstrap with the jackknife estimator of covariance matrix as randomly reweighted quadratic forms and we establish their validity. We show that all three methods are inferentially first-order equivalent for high-dimensional U-statistics in the sense that they achieve the same uniform rate of convergence over all $d$-dimensional hyperrectangles. In particular, they are asymptotically valid when the dimension $d$ can be as large as $O(e^{n^c})$ for some constant $c \in (0,1/7)$. (Full abstract can be found in the paper.)
description: This paper is accepted for publication in the Annals of Statistics and it supersedes the arXiv preprint "Gaussian approximation for the sup-norm of high-dimensional matrix-variate U-statistics and its applications" (arXiv:1602.00199)
The Fermionic Signature Operator and Quantum States in Rindler Space-Time
Creators: name: Finster, Felix
name: Murro, Simone
name: Röken, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fermionic signature operator is constructed in Rindler space-time. It is shown to be an unbounded self-adjoint operator on the Hilbert space of solutions of the massive Dirac equation. In two-dimensional Rindler space-time, we prove that the resulting fermionic projector state coincides with the Fulling-Rindler vacuum. Moreover, the fermionic signature operator gives a covariant construction of general thermal states, in particular of the Unruh state. The fermionic signature operator is shown to be well-defined in asymptotically Rindler space-times. In four-dimensional Rindler space-time, our construction gives rise to new quantum states.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX, more details on self-adjoint extension (published version)
AI on Society_Waisuddin.pdf
Creators: name: Ansari, Waisuddin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sociology and social studies of science and technology

description: This article provides a comprehensive overview of the main ethical issues related to the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human society. AI is the use of machines to do things that would normally require human intelligence. In many areas of human life, AI has rapidly and significantly affected human society and the ways we interact with each other. It will continue to do so. Along the way, AI has presented substantial ethical and socio-political challenges that call for a thorough philosophical and ethical analysis. Its social impact should be studied so as to avoid any negative repercussions. AI systems are becoming more and more autonomous, apparently rational, and intelligent. This comprehensive development gives rise to numerous issues. In addition to the potential harm and impact of AI technologies on our privacy, other concerns include their moral and legal status (including moral and legal rights), their possible moral agency and patienthood, and issues related to their possible personhood and even dignity. It is common, however, to distinguish the following issues as of utmost significance with respect to AI and its relation to human society, according to three different time periods: (1) short-term (early 21st century): autonomous systems (transportation, weapons), machine bias in law, privacy and surveillance, the black box problem and AI decision-making; (2) mid-term (from the 2040s to the end of the century): AI governance, confirming the moral and legal status of intelligent machines (artificial moral agents), human-machine interaction, mass automation; (3) long-term (starting with the 2100s): technological singularity, mass unemployment, space colonisation.
Autonomy in interpersonal communication : the effects on self-disclosure of field dependence-independence and self-esteem
Creators: name: Pearlman, B.R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Limburgs and Swabian in Australia : a study of the effect of language variety on language maintenance among Dutch and German speakers in Australia
Creators: name: Pauwels, Anna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Small field models with gravitational wave signature supported by CMB data
Creators: name: Wolfson, Ira
name: Brustein, Ram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scale dependence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum in a class of small, single-field models of inflation which lead to a high value of the tensor to scalar ratio. The inflaton potentials that we consider are degree 5 polynomials, for which we precisely calculate the power spectrum, and extract the cosmological parameters: the scalar index $n_s$, the running of the scalar index $n_{\mathrm{run}}$ and the tensor to scalar ratio $r$. We find that for non-vanishing $n_{\mathrm{run}}$ and for $r$ as small as $r=0.001$, the precisely calculated values of $n_s$ and $n_{\mathrm{run}}$ deviate significantly from what the standard analytic treatment predicts. We study in detail, and discuss the probable reasons for such deviations. As such, all previously considered models (of this kind) are based upon inaccurate assumptions. We scan the possible values of potential parameters for which the cosmological parameters are within the allowed range by observations. The 5 parameter class is able to reproduce all of the allowed values of $n_s$ and $n_{\mathrm{run}}$ for values of $r$ that are as high as 0.001. Subsequently this study at once refutes previous such models built using the analytical Stewart-Lyth term, and revives the small field brand, by building models that do yield an appreciable $r$ while conforming to known CMB observables.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures
Steady states and phase transitions in heterogeneous asymmetric exclusion processes
Creators: name: Goswami, Atri
name: Chatterjee, Mainak
name: Mukherjee, Sudip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonequilibrium steady states in totally asymmetric exclusion processes (TASEP) with open boundary conditions having spatially inhomogeneous hopping rates. Considering smoothly varying hopping rates, we show that the steady states are in general classified by the steady state currents in direct analogy with open TASEPs having uniform hopping rates. We calculate the steady state bulk density profiles, which are now spatially nonuniform. We also obtain the phase diagrams in the plane of the control parameters, which though have phase boundaries that are in general curved lines, have the same topology as their counterparts for conventional open TASEPs, independent of the form of the hopping rate functions. This reveals a type of universality, not encountered in critical phenomena. Surprisingly and in contrast to the phase transitions in an open TASEP with uniform hopping, our studies on the phase transitions in the model reveal that all the three transitions are {\em first order} in nature. { We also demonstrate that this model admits delocalised domain walls (DDWs) on the phase boundaries demarcating the generalised low and high density phases in this model. However, in contrast to the DDWs observed in an open TASEP with uniform hopping, the envelopes of the DDWs in the present model are generally curved lines.}
description: 14 pages, 11 figures