cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(200841) Jane Kinnersly
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.
High-resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of paired clinical liver tissue samples from hepatocellular cancer and surrounding region.
Creators: name: Fernandes, Wendy M
name: Harris, Nicola
name: Zamalloa, Ane
name: Adofina, Lissette
name: Srinivasan, Parthi
name: Menon, Krishna
name: Heaton, Nigel
name: Miquel, Rosa
name: Zen, Yoh
name: Kelly, Geoff
name: Jarvis, James A
name: Oregioni, Alain
name: Chokshi, Shilpa
name: Riva, Antonio
name: Cox, I Jane
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
classificationCode: Imaging
subject: Imaging

description: The global burden of liver cancer is increasing. Timely diagnosis is important for optimising the limited available treatment options. Understanding the metabolic consequences of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may lead to more effective treatment options. We aimed to document metabolite differences between HCC and matched surrounding tissues of varying aetiology, obtained at the time of liver resection, and to interpret metabolite changes with clinical findings. High-resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (HRMAS-NMR) spectroscopy analyses of N = 10 paired HCC and surrounding non-tumour liver tissue samples were undertaken. There were marked HRMAS-NMR differences in lipid levels in HCC tissue compared to matched surrounding tissue and more subtle changes in low-molecular-weight metabolites, particularly when adjusting for patient-specific variability. Differences in lipid-CH3, lipid-CH2, formate, and acetate levels were of particular interest. The obvious differences in lipid content highlight the intricate interplay between metabolic adaptations and cancer cell survival in the complex microenvironment of liver cancer. Differences in formate and acetate might relate to bacterial metabolites. Therefore, documentation of metabolites in HCC tissue according to histology findings in patients is of interest for personalised medicine approaches and for tailoring targeted treatment strategies.
Connecting Nature Deliverable 19: An interim report on the Connecting Nature Enterprise Accelerator Programmes that will be commencing within front-runner cities
Creators: name: McQuaid, Siobhán
name: Dick, Gillian
name: Dziubala, Agnieszka
name: Vos, Peter
name: Collier, Marcus J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nature-based solutions
Co-creation
Reflexive monitoring
Connecting Nature
Front-runner cities
Urban transitioning
Connecting Nature Framework
Impact Assessment
Connecting Nature Enterprise Accelerator
Nature-based Enterprise

description: This is a report on the Connecting Nature Enterprise Accelerator Programmes that will be commencing within front-runner cities in 2019. Deliverable 19 is the output from Task 6.3: Enterprise Acceleration Programmes. This task started in Month 1 of the project and will continue through to M60, the end of the project. The task is led by the Centre for Social Innovation in Trinity Business School (TCD) with initial input during the first reporting period from the city partners and Horizon Nua.
description: Suggested citation: McQuaid, S., Dick, G., Dziubala, A., Vos, P., & Collier, M.J. (2019). Connecting Nature Deliverable 19: An interim report on the Connecting Nature Enterprise Accelerator Programmes that will be commencing within front-runner cities. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7501898
First contact: Interaction of an antifungal plant defensin with cell surfaces
Creators: name: Payne, Jennifer Angeline Elizabeth
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Eulichas jakli Hajek, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas jakli

description: Eulichas jakli Hájek, sp. nov.
(Figs. 22, 42, 62, 82)
Type locality. Indonesia, southern Kalimantan, Kandangan district, 17 km NE of Loksado.
Type material. Holotype 3 (NMPC), labelled: “ INDONESIA / S. Kalimantan / Kandangan district // 17 km NE Loksado / 15.11.[19]97/15.1.[19]98 / St. Jákl lgt [printed]”.
Description. Habitus elongate, fusiform. Body colouring brown. Pale part of setation consists of recumbent brownish-yellow setae covering uniformly head, pronotum and ventral part, and forming typical ocellations on elytra (Fig. 22).
Measurements. Male: 21 mm.
Head punctation consists of sparse moderately large setigerous punctures. Antenna long, slender, last antennomere filiform with apical elongation, 4.71 times as long as wide (Fig. 42), its ventral side smooth.
Pronotum trapezoidal, ca. 1.95 times as wide as long. Sides almost straight with indistinct obtuse angle behind the middle, hind angles prominent (Fig. 62). The disc convex. Punctation consists of sparse moderately coarse setigerous punctures on the disc, which become slightly coarser and denser laterally.
Elytra with numerous longitudinal rows of moderately large punctures, and fine interstitial setigerous punctures.
Ventral part with fine punctures, which are sparse medially and become larger and denser laterally. Last abdominal ventrite laterally regularly rounded to apex.
Male. Aedeagus with phallobase of the same length as parameres. Parameres broad, with twisted apex; their distal part relatively long. Median lobe narrowly lanceolate, exceeding parameres (Fig. 82).
Female. Unknown.
Differential diagnosis. E. jakli sp. nov. could be easily distinguished from all other species of the E. fasciolata complex based on small body length, the very thin and long last antennomere, and characteristic shape of aedeagus with long distal part (between apex and subapical hook) of parameres.
Distribution. So far known only from the type locality in southern Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Etymology. The new species is dedicated to its collector, my friend Stanislav Jákl (Praha, Czech Republic), a specialist on Cetoniidae.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří, 2009, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) II. E. dudgeoni species group, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2192 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189396
Temporal logics and lived experiences of time in refugee displacement, transit and settlement: The case of Ethiopian-Australians in Melbourne
Creators: name: TEFERA, GOSHU WOLDE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cultural geography
Human geography not elsewhere classified
Sociology not elsewhere classified
Anthropology not elsewhere classified
Race, ethnicity and law

description: This thesis explores how Ethiopian refugees in Melbourne understood, negotiated, and experienced time throughout their migration journeys. Using 52 semi-structured interviews, the thesis shows that participants’ migratory experiences were mediated, not just by space and time, but by a range of what I call temporal logics – the internal cognitive and socio-cultural imprints that refugees carry within them about how time is, and should be, organised and lived through. Temporal logics determined the ways in which the participants made sense of their present, reconstructed their past and aspired their future. The thesis makes significant conceptual, methodological, analytical and policy-related contributions.
Uncovering the relation of a scalar resonance to the Higgs boson
Creators: name: Carmona, Adrian
name: Goertz, Florian
name: Papaefstathiou, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the associated production of a scalar resonance with the standard model Higgs boson. We demonstrate via a realistic phenomenological analysis that couplings of such a resonance to the Higgs boson can be constrained in a meaningful way in future runs of the LHC, providing insights on its origin and its relation to the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. Moreover, the final state can provide a direct way to determine whether the new resonance is produced predominantly in gluon fusion or quark-anti-quark annihilation. The analysis focusses on a resonance coming from a scalar field with vanishing vacuum expectation value and its decay to a photon pair. It can however be straightforwardly generalised to other scenarios.
description: 17 pages, 29 figures. Version matches published version
Practices and challenges within complex and culturally diverse school communities: learning from parent, teacher and principal perspectives
Creators: name: Gurr, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology to the Department of Psychology and Counselling, School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 11/79
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung der Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
description: Vorläufige Promotionsordnung der Abteilung Maschinenbau: Berichtigung zur Amtlichen Mitteilung Nr. 9/79 vom 6. 7. 1979
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 11, 1979
(200843) George Attwood
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.
Some reminiscences of old Victoria
Creators: name: Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Local history
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411631
subject: Cities and towns
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/861748
subject: City and town life
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/862081
subject: Voyages and travels
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1169308

description: Describes Victoria, British Columbia as it was in the last half of the 19th century. Signed by Dingley Dell who wrote the included biography of Fawcett. Includes information about the author growing up in Victoria, Victoria's first Directory, history of the streets, churches, and fire department among many other topics. The plates include images of different streets, buildings, people, and scenes.
title: Watermelon :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Watermelon
Group identity.

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Feeling Embodied: The Cartesian Passions in Early Modern English Philosophy
Creators: name: SIPOWICZ, MAKSYMILIAN MAREK
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: History of philosophy

description: This thesis investigates the early reception in England of René Descartes’ Les passions de l’âme (1649). It argues through a series of engagements with early modern philosophers influenced by this text that Cartesian subject is an embodied one, that is, a human being whose mind and body are intimately united, and whose emotions play an important role in its betterment and wellbeing.
CAPITAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF LARGE INDUSTRIAL FIRMS IN MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Faith
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/781 on 27.03.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: Using large-company panel data, this thesis empirically analyses investment decisions in major European countries. We particularly concentrate on three issues: the taxation of capital in the EU, the role of agency costs of debt on investment decisions, and the empirical analyses of the investment-uncertainty relationship. First, based on a dynamic system in capital and Tobin's q ratio, some simplified analytical results are derived to simulate various tax policy effects on investment. Also, for a single investment project, a model is developed to consider jointly the role of uncertainty and irreversibility in the taxation of capital. The simulation results cast doubt on the tax competition view for the domestic investment case. Second, using a Euler equation approach, an investment equation is derived to test the possible effects of agency/financial distress costs of debt on investment for UK, German and French firms. The results reveal that the agency/financial distress cost of debt does matter for the highly leveraged firms. Further, an alternative model is derived in a q theory framework to test this negative effect. The model is tested for the UK firms, and similar results are obtained. Third, by considering the product structure of firms, the firm-level investment-uncertainty relationship is tested for UK firms. Unlike previous empirical findings, the results support the two opposing views in this field. Additionally, using vector autoregression analysis, a statistical account of the aggregate investment-uncertainty relation is given for the UK. An important observation is that although the exchange rate uncertainty has negative effects on machinery and equipment investment, it has no effect on construction investment.
Connecting Nature Deliverable 10: Submission of financing applications/development of financial partnerships/establishment of financing platforms to facilitate accelerated nature-based solution delivery
Creators: name: McQuaid, Siobhán
name: Collier, Marcus J.
name: Dick, Gillian
name: Dziubala, Agnieszka
name: Kelly, Sean
name: Fletcher, Isobel
name: Madajczyk, Natalia
name: Osipiuk, Agnieszka
name: Quartier, Mien
name: van De Sijpe, Katrien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nature-based solutions
Financing and business models
Connecting Nature
Urban
Fast-follower cities
Front-runner cities
Urban transitioning
Connecting Nature Framework

description: Connecting Nature aims to support cities in securing financing to support the large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions. This report provides an update on the progress of three Connecting Nature city partners in securing financing for large-scale nature-based solution exemplars in their city.
(200836) John Glaisyer
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.
Exploring the benefits of wearable electronic vision enhancement systems for people with age-related macular degeneration. A randomised crossover trial
Creators: name: Latham, Keziah
name: Crossland, Michael
name: Miller, Andrew
name: Macnaughton, Jane
Publisher: name: Anglia Ruskin University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Optometry
Rehabilitation

description: Exploring the benefits of wearable electronic vision enhancement systems for people with age-related macular degeneration. A randomised crossover trial
MPEC 2023-O14 : 2023 NB2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 NB2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
From sound to waves to territories
Creators: name: Bruggemeier, Jan Hendrik
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation undertakes a quest for a poetics of responsibility in the age of the Anthropocene. I aim to extend the concept of a poetics of responsibility beyond the literary discussion, within which the term was originally coined by ecocritical theorist Greg Garrad. My thesis achieves this through tracing sound and radio waves from outer space, to the inside of the human body, and along crossspecies boundaries to the deepest depths of the ocean. Reference is made to the theoretical work of Michel de Certeau and media arts practice under the wider label of tactical media. I argue that critical reflections of political media arts practice occurring at the nexus of politics and technology can make an important contribution to the quest for a poetics of responsibility. This argument draws on works that incorporate sonic and radio related practices from the early 20th century radio amateur movement as well as the work of contemporary media arts practitioners including Natalie Jeremijenko, Marko Peljhan and my own. My argument is epistemologically informed by philosopher Jacques Rancière’s theories concerning the political dimension inherent in the aesthetic and vice versa. It also references the work of media theorist Geert Lovink, a key figure in establishing the concept of tactical media. In order to understand the merger of creative practice and theory in tactical media, I employ the notion of fluid thinking in waves -- depicting art making as the tactical pondering over aesthetic experience, technological possibilities and political context. Drawing on my own artistic exploration in a series of works titled unrelated relatedness, I suggest that the combination of technological and sensory perceptions in media arts practice can extend and refine the human sense of situated awareness and shift how we as humans understand our position on this planet.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by creative work to the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(200838) Cuthbert Glaisyer
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.
Degraded Broadcast Channel with Secrecy Outside a Bounded Range
Creators: name: Zou, Shaofeng
name: Liang, Yingbin
name: Lai, Lifeng
name: Poor, H. Vincent
name: Shamai, Shlomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The $K$-receiver degraded broadcast channel with secrecy outside a bounded range is studied, in which a transmitter sends $K$ messages to $K$ receivers, and the channel quality gradually degrades from receiver $K$ to receiver 1. Each receiver $k$ is required to decode message $W_1,\ldots,W_k$, for $1\leq k\leq K$, and to be kept ignorant of $W_{k+2},\ldots,W_K$, for $k=1,\ldots, K-2$. Thus, each message $W_k$ is kept secure from receivers with at least two-level worse channel quality, i.e., receivers 1, $\ldots$, $k-2$. The secrecy capacity region is fully characterized. The achievable scheme designates one superposition layer to each message with binning employed for each layer. Joint embedded coding and binning are employed to protect all upper-layer messages from lower-layer receivers. Furthermore, the scheme allows adjacent layers to share rates so that part of the rate of each message can be shared with its immediate upper-layer message to enlarge the rate region. More importantly, an induction approach is developed to perform Fourier-Motzkin elimination of $2K$ variables from the order of $K^2$ bounds to obtain a close-form achievable rate region. An outer bound is developed that matches the achievable rate region, whose proof involves recursive construction of the rate bounds and exploits the intuition gained from the achievable scheme.
description: submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Whereof Literature Cannot Speak: Transcendental Blasphemy in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable and Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl
Creators: name: KARVEH, ELHAM JALALI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
Philosophy not elsewhere classified
Literary theory

description: Blasphemy is traditionally understood as uttering specific propositions which are taken to be offensive to God or to religion. My research challenges this definition through close readings of Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable, and Sadegh Hedayat’s novel The Blind Owl. I introduce the term ‘transcendental blasphemy’, which considers whether traditional blasphemy is even possible in a given literary world. I prove that in these two novels traditional blasphemy is impossible, and the novels themselves are both pious and radically blasphemous at the same time. This provides a new account of literary blasphemy in complex texts.
Unraveling the hardness of a borophene-based compound
Creators: name: Szwacki, N. Gonzalez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional systems have strengthened their position as one of the key materials for novel applications. Very recently, boron joined the distinguished group of elements that are confirmed to possess 2D allotropes, named borophenes. In this work, we explore the stability and hardness of the highest boride of tungsten, which is regarded as built of borophenes separated by metal atoms. We show that WB$_{3+x}$ has Vickers hardnesses approaching 40 GPa only for small values of $x$. The insertion of extra boron atoms is, in general, detrimental for WB$_{3}$ in terms of hardness since leads to the formation of quasi-planar boron sheets that are less tightly connected with the adjacent W layers. Very high concentrations of boron ($x \approx 1$), give rise to a soft (Vickers hardness of about 8 GPa) and unstable $hP$20-WB$_{4}$ structure that can be considered as built of quasi-planar boron $α$-sheets separated by graphitic W layers. On the other hand, we show that the formation of tungsten vacancies brings on structures, e.g. W$_{0.75}$B$_{3+x}$, with Vickers hardnesses that are less sensitive to variations in the boron content and are close in value to the experimentally reported load-independent values above 20 GPa.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables
title: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze im Datenmanagement am Beispiel eines Energieversorgers
Creators: name: Schwab, Alex
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 650 Management
subject: 004 Informatik

description: Daten sind für jedes Unternehmen die treibende Kraft und die konsistenteste Quelle für qualifizierte Entscheidungsprozesse. Für die optimale Nutzung der vorliegenden Daten über alle Geschäftsbereiche hinweg wird das Datenmanagement benötigt, jedoch bringt dessen Einführung große Herausforderungen mit sich. Wird es nicht eingeführt bzw. umgesetzt hat dies Folgen für das Unternehmen wie z. B. Wettbewerbsnachteile und hohe Kosten. Ziel dieser Bachelorarbeit ist es von Datenmanagement, den Nutzen aufzuzeigen, die Herausforderungen zu identifizieren und Lösungsansätze zu untersuchen bzw. eigene zu entwickeln. Das Ergebnis ist eine Untersuchung und ein Vergleich des Nutzens, der Herausforderungen sowie der Lösungsansätze im Datenmanagement, zwischen Literatur und einem Anwendungsfall.
description: Data is the driving force for every company and the most consistent source for qualified decision-making processes. Data management is needed to make the best use of the available data across all business units, but its implementation brings major challenges. If it is not introduced or implemented, this has consequences for the company, such as competitive disadvantages and high costs. The aim of this thesis is to show the benefits of data management, to identify the challenges and to investigate and develop solutions. The result is an investigation and comparison of the benefits, challenges and solutions in data management between literature and a use case.
Local and global analysis of endocrine regulation as a non-cyclic feedback system
Creators: name: Taghvafard, Hadi
name: Proskurnikov, Anton V.
name: Cao, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To understand the sophisticated control mechanisms of the human's endocrine system is a challenging task that is a crucial step towards precise medical treatment of many disfunctions and diseases. Although mathematical models describing the endocrine system as a whole are still elusive, recently some substantial progress has been made in analyzing theoretically its subsystems (or axes) that regulate production of specific hormones. Many of the relevant mathematical models are similar in structure to (or squarely based on) the celebrated Goodwin's oscillator. Such models are convenient to explain stable periodic oscillations at hormones' level by representing the corresponding endocrine regulation circuits as cyclic feedback systems. However, many real hormonal regulation mechanisms (in particular, testosterone regulation) are in fact known to have non-cyclic structures and involve multiple feedbacks; a Goodwin-type model thus represents only a part of such a complicated mechanism. In this paper, we examine a new mathematical model of hormonal regulation, obtained from the classical Goodwin's oscillator by introducing an additional negative feedback. Local stability properties of the proposed model are studied, and we show that the local instability of its unique equilibrium implies oscillatory behavior of almost all solutions. Furthermore, under additional restrictions we prove that almost all solutions converge to periodic ones.
description: Provisionally accepted by Automatica
IDENTITY IN ITS RELATION TO INTENTION: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF VIETNAMESE STUDENTS AT A VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY THROUGH MIXING OF ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE
Creators: name: Kieu, Hang Kim Anh
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Education, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Giddens’s structuration theory and his argument about identity have been widely explored in many fields. However, there are no studies which draw a connection between them and how this relates to the construction process of identity. The present thesis proposes that such a connection results in a view of identity that sees identity in its relation to intention. This thesis presents a theoretical argument that such a view of identity can provide a useful explanation for how identities are constructed. It also offers a methodology and empirical support for this view of identity. This primarily qualitative study explores the identities constructed by Vietnamese students through their mixing of English and Vietnamese. It employs two data collection methods, namely diaries and follow-up interviews. The diaries are used to identify the participants’ intentions and their associated acts of mixing English with Vietnamese and to discover contextual factors possibly influencing the construction of these intentions. The interviews are used to clarify the intentions reported in the diaries to determine the degree with which these intentions are related to identity and to explore the construction processes which are involved. The findings provide an understanding of how these Vietnamese students construct both shared and individual identities in the dialectic relationship between social influences and themselves and show how an individual connects his/her acts into a united and meaningful whole, shedding light on Giddens’s idea about the continuity of identity. The present thesis ends with some suggestions for those who are concerned about the phenomenon of mixing English with Vietnamese among Vietnamese young people.
Dennis Hopper: Maestro of Film Art
Creators: name: Batsakis, Joanna Elena
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Performing arts not elsewhere classified
Art history, theory and criticism not elsewhere classified

description: This film studies thesis examined Dennis Hopper, one of the most creative, abstract, affecting, heroic, strange, and fearless artists to ever exist in Hollywood history. Although he is known for directing the decade-defining films 'Easy Rider' and ‘Colors’, Hopper was also an accomplished visual artist. This thesis investigated how Hopper's career as a photographer, painter, and sculptor (as well as his passion for art collecting, including works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel) influenced the visual design for each of the six films he directed between 1969 and 1990.
Two- and Three-Body Kinematical Correlation in the Dissociative Recombination of H +3
Creators: name: Kreckel, H.
name: Krohn, S.
name: Lammich, L.
name: Lange, M.
name: Levin, J.
name: Schwalm, D.
name: Strasser, D.
name: Vager, Z.
name: Wester, R.
name: Wolf, A.
name: Zajfman, D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Looking for Violenta: Shakespeare’s “jealous” women
Creators: name: Allan, Gayle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis explores representations of jealousy in Shakespeare’s plays, highlighting the differences between male and female expressions of jealous behaviour by focusing on the different approaches Shakespeare takes in representing jealous women. Early modern theories of jealousy are examined within the social, biological and psychological framework of the period. Some of the early modern observations about jealousy bear a close resemblance to our contemporary understanding of the emotion, and both clearly agree on the key jealousy trigger — the imminent severance of a person’s primary social bond. In the early modern period, traditional expressions of jealousy are largely concerned with the male experience which had very different social and cultural implications for men and women. Shakespeare’s plays famously include jealous and vengeful men like Othello, Leontes and Posthumus Leonatus, whose jealousy drives them to lash out violently at their wives. The plays also include women who display similar jealous behaviour when confronted with unfaithful partners, but their actions often have disastrous results for the women themselves, and the erring men rarely suffer. Early modern theories surrounding melancholy (the humour responsible to jealousy) offer a safer alternate reaction for women, that of dotage or constancy. This reaction to abandonment and betrayal can be seen in Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, and Imogen in Cymbeline. While the strategies of both a jealous and constant response to the jealousy trigger has some similarities, the eventual outcomes are quite different. The disparity in outcomes can been seen in the fates of Julia, Helena and Imogen, where their expression of constancy is presented as a more advantageous response, allowing the women to reaffirm and reconnect the social bonds that have been threatened, without transgressing social mores, and succeeding in their ultimate goal of restoring former relationships.
(200837) Ellen Shepherd
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.
Criticality in Formal Languages and Statistical Physics
Creators: name: Lin, Henry W.
name: Tegmark, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We show that the mutual information between two symbols, as a function of the number of symbols between the two, decays exponentially in any probabilistic regular grammar, but can decay like a power law for a context-free grammar. This result about formal languages is closely related to a well-known result in classical statistical mechanics that there are no phase transitions in dimensions fewer than two. It is also related to the emergence of power-law correlations in turbulence and cosmological inflation through recursive generative processes. We elucidate these physics connections and comment on potential applications of our results to machine learning tasks like training artificial recurrent neural networks. Along the way, we introduce a useful quantity which we dub the rational mutual information and discuss generalizations of our claims involving more complicated Bayesian networks.
description: Replaced to match final published version. Discussion improved, references added
Experimental Observation of the Topological Structure of Exceptional Points
Creators: name: Dembowski, C.
name: Gräf, H.-D.
name: Harney, H. L.
name: Heine, A.
name: Heiss, W. D.
name: Rehfeld, H.
name: Richter, A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Characterization of the interaction between AMA1 and the binding ligand RON2 in Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Ge, Xiaopeng
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The Plasmodium falciparum antigen apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) is considered a leading malaria vaccine candidate and a potential target of anti-malarial drugs. The interaction between AMA1 and rhoptry neck protein 2 (RON2), both secreted from the invading merozoite, is indispensable for the formation of the moving junction, which is required for a successful parasite invasion. The crystal structure of AMA1 in complex with a RON2L peptide, which corresponds to the binding region in RON2, revealed a stepwise binding mechanism involving a major displacement of the domain II loop (DII loop) in AMA1. In this thesis experiments examining three aspects of the interaction between AMA1 and RON2 are described. Firstly, a phage-display approach was used to identify the AMA1- binding region in PfRON2 as a disulphide-bonded loop located between two predicted transmembrane regions in the C-terminal region of RON2. A peptide corresponding to this region competes with various AMA1-binding ligands and efficiently inhibits host cell invasion. In the second part of this study a 19F NMR approach was developed to detect the conformational change in the DII loop induced by ligand binding to AMA1. All four wildtype tryptophans and tryptophans inserted into the DII loop were replaced by 5- fluorotryptophan. An increase in flexibility of the DII loop caused by binding of the RON2L peptide was reflected in a marked sharpening of the resonance from the inserted 5-fluorotryptophan. A small AMA1-binding molecule isolated from a fragment-based library was shown to induce a similar conformational change. This approach will be valuable in identifying and characterizing therapeutically relevant inhibitors of the AMA1- RON2 interaction. In the last part of the study, mice were immunized with AMA1 in complex with bound ligands (peptides RON2L, R1 and R3) to test the hypothesis that AMA1-ligand complexes would divert antibody responses towards more conserved epitopes in AMA1. Little evidence was found to support this hypothesis but this approach to inducing a broadly protective antibody response to AMA1 should be examined in more detailed experiments.
Das DFG-Projekt 'Aufbau einer Koordinierungsstelle für Online-Hochschulschriften'
Creators: name: Wollschläger, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 020

description: Das DFG-Projekt 'Aufbau einer Koordinierungsstelle für Online-Hochschulschriften' Den Empfehlungen des DFG-Projektes 'Dissertationen Online' folgend, wurde zum 1. Februar 2001 die Koordinierungsstelle DissOnline an Der Deutschen Bibliothek für die Nutzung und Weiterentwicklung der Ergebnisse von 'Dissertationen Online' eingerichtet. Um ein Kompetenznetzwerk aufzubauen und um die nötige Infrastruktur für ein solches zu schaffen, fördert die DFG seit dem 1. Januar 2003 ein Projekt zum 'Aufbau einer Koordinierungsstelle für elektronische Hochschulschriften'. Das Projekt beinhaltet u. a. eine Analyse zur Infrastruktur im Bereich Online-Dissertationen an den deutschen Hochschulen mit Vergleichen von Promotionsordnungen, Geschäftsgängen, Online-Angeboten und -Portalen. Die Analyse der Infrastruktur ist mittlerweile abgeschlossen. Die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage an allen deutschen Hochschulen mit Promotionsrecht und einer weiteren Umfrageaktion unter Promovenden werden detailliert vorgestellt. Noch nicht in allen Fällen ist die Möglichkeit, der Verbreitungspflicht durch Online-Veröffentlichung nachzukommen, durch die Promotionsordnung abgesichert. Es gibt noch eine erhebliche Zahl von Hochschulen, an denen bestimmte Fachbereiche die Möglichkeit zur Online-Veröffentlichung nicht unterstützen und Promovenden nicht über diese Möglichkeit informiert sind, so dass dort Aktivitäten der Koordinierungsstelle sinnvoll sind. Mit den daraus gewonnenen Ergebnissen wird ein interaktives Informationssystem aufgebaut und die Empfehlungen für Promovenden, Fachbereiche, Bibliotheken werden ergänzt und erweitert werden. Die ersten Entwürfe zur Gestaltung des Informationssystems werden vorgestellt und können diskutiert werden. Ein wesentliches Projektziel ist die Zusammenstellung rechtlicher Hinweise, welche u. a. projektbegleitend in Werkverträgen geklärt werden. Ein kurzer Überblick wird die Schwerpunkte aus den Rechtsfragen aufzeigen, die an die Koordinierungsstelle herangetragen werden. Als Ergebnis des Projekts sollen Vorschläge zu einem einheitlichen, praktikablen Verfahren DissOnline in Deutschland stehen, die mit Fachbereichen, Rechenzentren und Bibliotheken diskutiert und abgestimmt werden. Das Projekt läuft bis Ende 2004.
(200839) Robert Alfred Penney
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.
An Unrealised Nation: A Political History of the Peranakan Chinese from Colony to Nation, 1945–1957
Creators: name: KEO, BERNARD ZHERN YEIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis investigates the inclusive and multi-ethnic conception of nationhood held by the Peranakan Chinese community of the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore. Tracing the community's political activities from the end of World War II in 1945 to independence in 1957, it restores the political agency of the Peranakan and reconceptualises Malaysian history by challenging the teleological narratives that argue for the inevitability of the communal Malayan nation-state that achieved independence in 1957. By examining the stories of groups like the Peranakan that ‘lost’ in the process of decolonisation this thesis generates new insights on the complications of creating a representative nation-state in the transition between colony and nation.
Doing relationships differently: rural baby boomers negotiate friends-with-benefits relationships
Creators: name: Kirkman, Linda Jane
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe Rural Health School, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

People in midlife and later life are enjoying diverse types of intimate relationships and sexual expression outside hetero-monogamy, yet these relationships are largely invisible and not recognised in planning, policy or health care. In a climate of social and demographic changes, relationship types and ways of living intimate citizenship in Australia are expanding. The focus of this research is rural Australians in midlife: past research on friends-with-benefits relationships (FWBR) has been mostly conducted in North America using convenience college student populations. The experience of 22 Australian rural baby boomers in FWBR is explored using in-depth interviews to identify the effect of the relationships on their wellbeing, their beliefs about sexual health risks, and use of sexual health services. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts provides empirical evidence about midlife relationships. The FWBR was a positive experience with participants reporting independence, increased agency and more enjoyable sexual experiences in midlife. Participants’ beliefs about sexual health risk varied, as did their access to sexual health services. Living in a rural location has implications for privacy, confidentiality and fear of stigma from having a non-traditional relationship, and for some participants health service access is limited. Findings are located in wider fields of social change in relationships, including intimate citizenship; and midlife and older adult sexuality and sexual health. This research contributes empirical evidence that reveals the diversity and complexity of midlife FWBR, and is the basis for policy, practice and research recommendations. Midlife and older adults are expected to contribute to the community and economy well into later life. To ensure optimal wellness, sexual health must be considered in their overall health care and there is a need for community awareness of, and respect for, diverse relationships.
Evidence for a Three-Nucleon-Force Effect in Proton-Deuteron Elastic Scattering
Creators: name: Brack, J.
name: Cadman, R. V.
name: Cummings, W. J.
name: Fedchak, J. A.
name: Fox, B. D.
name: Gao, H.
name: Glöckle, W.
name: Golak, J.
name: Grosshauser, C.
name: Holt, R. J.
name: Jones, C. E.
name: Kamada, H.
name: Kinney, E. R.
name: Miller, M. A.
name: Nagengast, W.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Rényi and Tsallis formulations of separability conditions in finite dimensions
Creators: name: Rastegin, Alexey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Separability conditions for a bipartite quantum system of finite-dimensional subsystems are formulated in terms of Rényi and Tsallis entropies. Entropic uncertainty relations often lead to entanglement criteria. We propose new approach based on the convolution of discrete probability distributions. Measurements on a total system are constructed of local ones according to the convolution scheme. Separability conditions are derived on the base of uncertainty relations of the Maassen-Uffink type as well as majorization relations. On each of subsystems, we use a pair of sets of subnormalized vectors that form rank-one POVMs. We also obtain entropic separability conditions for local measurements with a special structure, such as mutually unbiased bases and symmetric informationally complete measurements. The relevance of the derived separability conditions is demonstrated with several examples.
description: 17 pages, no figures. The version 2 contains a major revision with fixed typos