cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A hypothesis for the color bimodality of Jupiter Trojans
Creators: name: Wong, Ian
name: Brown, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most enigmatic and hitherto unexplained properties of Jupiter Trojans is their bimodal color distribution. This bimodality is indicative of two sub-populations within the Trojans, which have distinct size distributions. In this paper, we present a simple, plausible hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the two Trojan color sub-populations. In the framework of dynamical instability models of early Solar System evolution, which suggest a common primordial progenitor population for both Trojans and Kuiper belt objects, we use observational constraints to assert that the color bimodalities evident in both minor body populations developed within the primordial population prior to the onset of instability. We show that, beginning with an initial composition of rock and ices, location-dependent volatile loss through sublimation in this primordial population could have led to sharp changes in the surface composition with heliocentric distance. We propose that the depletion or retention of H$_{2}$S ice on the surface of these objects was the key factor in creating an initial color bimodality. Objects that retained H$_{2}$S on their surfaces developed characteristically redder colors upon irradiation than those that did not. After the bodies from the primordial population were scattered and emplaced into their current positions, they preserved this primordial color bimodality to the present day. We explore predictions of the volatile loss model - in particular, the effect of collisions within the Trojan population on the size distributions of the two sub-populations - and propose further experimental and observational tests of our hypothesis
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in AJ
Chinese Nurses in German Nursing Homes: A Bourdieusian Perspective on Migration Motivation
Creators: name: Trautner, Julia
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: International nurse migration is a well discussed topic in the Asian context. While the Philippines, for example, is often the focus of the discourse, there is also already a profound base of literature on Chinese nurse migration. Much has been written about Chinese nurses in Australia or Singapore, but little is known about them working in Europe. Why is it that Chinese nurses can be found working in German nursing homes? What motivates them to live so far away from their home country and work in a nursing home setting? This article criticizes the fact that motivations for nurse migration have mostly been studied from an economic push-and-pull perspective with weak explanatory power when it comes to individual motivations. Thus this qualitative study conducted among nine Chinese nurses working in German nursing homes breaks new ground by employing a Bourdieusian sociological approach to researching motivations for migration. It finds that instead of economic considerations, aspects of cultural capital like mobility, working and living conditions, or education are central to the decision to migrate among those nurses. This article shows that all nine nurses leveraged their “nursing capital” to free themselves from the influence of others and so change their life trajectories.
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WHY BLOCKCHAIN?.pdf
Creators: name: Oladehinde, Ayomide Elijah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Research, science and technology policy

description:
 Blockchain technology has witnessed a remarkable surge in popularity in recent years, captivating industries and revolutionizing traditional systems. This paper explores the reasons behind the growing significance of blockchain and its transformative potential across various sectors. By offering enhanced security, transparency, and decentralization, blockchain has become a catalyst for change, disrupting established business models and redefining trust. Through the elimination of intermediaries, automation of processes, and the power of smart contracts, blockchain holds immense promise in streamlining operations and reducing costs. The paper concludes by emphasizing the need to explore the vast potential and possibilities that blockchain offers, urging individuals and organizations to embrace this groundbreaking technology as we venture into a decentralized future.
Wofür steht die JNU und wem gehört ihr Campus? – Der symbolische Deutungskampf um den Campus der Jawaharlal Nehru Universität
Creators: name: Schnieder-Krüger, Anna
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2023

description: This article examines how the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has changed since 2016 (materially and structurally) and how these developments influence everyday life on the campus. I argue that these changes represent a negotiation process around the symbolism of JNU, which links to the understanding of the idea of nationality as well as the idea of a university. This article shows how the JNU university administration (and furthermore the government) strategically attempts to intervene in the campus space and thereby change the idea represented by JNU. Further, I look at resistant patterns of action and reinterpretation as well as transmedia memory practices used by students to sustain an inter-generational narrative of JNU as a utopian space based on the identity markers “excellent teaching” and “anti-establishment culture.” In this context, I understand the university and its campus as a space that is discursively and materially constructed through narrative, collective memory practices, and everyday tactics. Starting from an apparent micro-event in campus life, I argue that the campus has become a symbolic battlefield in the ongoing fight over spaces, bodies, and memories. Everyday practices of resistance are used to counter state- directed techniques of control.
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Life and Genuine Character of the Rev. Dr. S---t written by himself
Creators: name: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Parody
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1053849

description: Denounced by Swift as a spurious edition of "verses on the death of Dr. Swift, written by himself, No. 1731" (but not published till 1739). May be parody on his own work, written by him. Cf. his Correspondence, ed. by F.E. Ball, v. 4, 1913, p. 428-429. Included among his genuine works in Jackson's Bibliography. Prose works of J. Swift, ed. by T. Scott. v. 12, 1908.
Exericse intolerance and mitochondrial dysfunction in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Creators: name: Haji, Gulammehdi Soheil
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The aim of this thesis was to evaluate mechanisms that are of potential interest in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive pulmonary Disease (COPD) and associated symptoms; and subsequently to identify targets that may be relevant in the management of patients with structural and functional abnormalities of the pulmonary and skeletal muscle systems. Dynamic hyperinflation (DH) is a recognised feature in the aetiology of dyspnoea and exercise limitation in COPD and strategies to improve DH by offsetting intrinsic positive end expiratory pressure (PEEPi) may improve exercise performance. Here the role of the upper airway was evaluated using continuous laryngoscopy during exercise. Increased laryngeal narrowing in COPD patients was associated with markers of disease severity such as lung function, hyperinflation indices and exercise performance, suggesting that patients may use this strategy to create PEEPi thus reducing flow limitation. This novel insight supports potential therapeutic benefits of upper airway strategies to improve gas exchange and act as a gateway to optimising tissue oxygen delivery. Oxygen uptake (VO2) plays a vital role in maintaining mitochondrial homeostasis and is the measured parameter at the end of a metabolic gas exchange cardio-pulmonary exercise test. Mitochondria play a crucial role in maintaining the cellular oxidant-antioxidant balance. Mitochondrial function in airway and muscle compartments was evaluated in COPD patients and controls; and there was found to be evidence of airway mitochondrial dysfunction in patients with COPD compared to control subjects and a strong association with clinical phenotype. Similar changes were found in the pulmonary system of mice exposed to ozone and these were partially reversed with a mitochondria targeted antioxidant. Skeletal muscle mitochondrial function was not impaired in COPD despite a comparable oxidative stress burden to that found in the pulmonary system. Targeting the mitochondria may provide therapeutic options for airway related symptoms in patients with COPD
Universal Continuous Variable Quantum Computation Without Cooling
Creators: name: Lau, Hoi-Kwan
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the limitations to the quantum computing capability of a continuous-variable system is determined by our ability to cool it to the ground state, because pure logical states, in which we accurately encode quantum information, are conventionally pure physical states that are constructed from the ground state. In this work, we present an alternative quantum computing formalism that encodes logical quantum information in mixed physical states. We introduce a class of mixed-state protocols that are based on a parity encoding, and propose an implementation of the universal logic gates by using realistic hybrid interactions. When comparing with the conventional pure-state protocols, our formalism could relax the necessity of, and hence the systemic requirements of cooling. Additionally, the mixed-state protocols are inherently resilient to a wider class of noise processes, and reduce the fundamental energy consumption in initialisation. Our work broadens the candidates of continuous-variable quantum computers.
Rank three geometry and positive curvature
Creators: name: Fang, Fuquan
name: Grove, Karsten
name: Thorbergsson, Gudlaugur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An axiomatic characterization of buildings of type $\CC_3$ due to Tits is used to prove that any cohomogeneity two polar action of type $\CC_3$ on a positively curved simply connected manifold is equivariantly diffeomorphic to a polar action on a rank one symmetric space. This includes two actions on the Cayley plane whose associated $\CC_3$ type geometry is not covered by a building.
Authoritarian Developmentalism in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Köpke, Sören
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: After the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009), the victorious Government of Sri Lanka was confronted with the need to “win the peace” and re-build the nation in both material and ideological terms. The rule of Mahinda Rajapaksa (president 2006– 2015), an example of authoritarian populism in power, was characterized by an infrastructure construction frenzy and the attempt to establish national unity on the terms of the Sinhalese Buddhist majority. The post-war period also saw the emergence of new tensions, namely the conflict between Sinhalese Buddhist militants and the Muslim minority, as well as the precarious human rights situation in the formerly secessionist north. Discontent with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s increasingly authoritarian rule and the unsolved problems of the civil war legacy brought his rival Maithripala Sirisena into power in 2015. Sirisena’s attempts to rule on a platform of liberal, more inclusive “good governance” (yahapalana) failed due to power struggles within his alliance and a lack of coherent policymaking. The 2019 Easter Bombings by domestic Jihadist terrorists marked the beginning of a new phase of securization and militarization. With the victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election and the subsequent instatement of Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister, a process of authoritarian consolidation was initiated. The Covid-19 pandemic opened a window of opportunity to reconfirm the leading role of the security forces in handling domestic crises. Yet the country’s ongoing financial and economic crisis, aggravated by debt and the slump in global tourism connected to Covid-19, question the prospect of stability. The social and ethnopolitical contradictions in Sri Lankan society are not addressed by the current authoritarian policies. Therefore, these contradictions are prone to further undermining the long-term consolidation of governance institutions, national identity, and non-sectarian civil society.
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Strategic Leadership Model based on The Four Paths of Accomplishment Culminating in Administrative Effectiveness of Schools under Khon Kaen Primary Educational Service Area Office 2
Creators: name: Phrakhruprachotsaranivit Lommontri
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Model
Strategic Leadership
Four Paths of Accomplishment
Administrative Effectiveness

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 6, 709-722
IT and organisational performance in the Australian banking industry
Creators: name: Lloyd-Walker., Beverly
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes
Creators: name: Balzarotti, Francisco
name: Eilers, Yvan
name: Gwosch, Klaus C.
name: Gynnå, Arvid H.
name: Westphal, Volker
name: Stefani, Fernando D.
name: Elf, Johan
name: Hell, Stefan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce MINFLUX, a concept for localizing photon emitters in space. By probing the emitter with a local intensity minimum of excitation light, MINFLUX minimizes the fluorescence photons needed for high localization precision. A 22-fold reduction of photon detections over that required in popular centroid-localization is demonstrated. In superresolution microscopy, MINFLUX attained ~1 nm precision, resolving molecules only 6 nm apart. Tracking single fluorescent proteins by MINFLUX increased the temporal resolution and the localizations per trace by 100-fold, as demonstrated with diffusing 30S ribosomal subunits in living E. coli. Since conceptual limits have not been reached, we expect this localization modality to break new ground for observing the dynamics, distribution, and structure of macromolecules in living cells and beyond.
description: Equal contributions: Francisco Balzarotti, Yvan Eilers, Klaus C. Gwosch Correspondence to: shell@gwdg.de; Phone +495512012500 Pages: 17 (main paper), Figures: 5
Instabilities of high speed dislocations
Creators: name: Verschueren, Jonas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Despite numerous theoretical and computational works, a clear understanding of dislocations travelling at speeds comparable to those of the speed of sound of the material is lacking. In this thesis, a lattice dynamics model of uniformly moving dislocations is derived and used to uncover the existence of mechanical instabilities at characteristic dislocation speeds. These instabilities are shown to emanate from resonances in the atomic interactions between the dislocation and the lattice vibrations at material-dependent dislocation velocities. We then go on to explain how these resonances may be the onset for an atomistic kinematic generation mechanism, applicable to gliding edges as well as screws. The existence of these instabilities and subsequent kinematic generation mechanism are confirmed in equivalent molecular dynamics simulations of realistic metals. Since resonances are observed to be excited at dislocation speeds far below the shear wave speed of the material, kinematic generation may be more important than previously assumed in moderate and high strain rate phenomena including adiabatic shear banding and industrially relevant processes such as machining, forging and wear.
Between Memories and Taboos: The Formation of Alternative Vietnamese and Myanmarese Spaces of Citizenship and Belonging
Creators: name: Nicolaisen, Franziska Susana
name: Le, Mirjam
name: Fox, Mandy
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: In the postcolonial states of Southeast Asia, governments weaponize their histories to create spaces of legitimate memories for nation-building processes. Local identities that do not conform to the official historiography are silenced. Beyond these state-sanctioned boundaries, however, alternative practices of remembrance are upheld that can challenge the state to produce different forms of belonging, identity, and citizenship. This paper analyzes the creation of opposing spaces of memory and belonging. The case studies include the struggle for meaning and identity between the State of Myanmar and the local population in Rakhine State as well as the inclusion and exclusion of the memory of war in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany. Governments in Myanmar and Vietnam use their respective histories to create patterns of continuity and exclude those defined as outsiders. Memories of local struggles are maintained, practiced, and even celebrated in local communities and the diaspora. Hereby, we point to practices that maintain excluded memories and enable alternative forms of belonging and citizenship to endure.
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From Arabian Nights to China’s Bordeaux: Wine, Local Identity, and Ningxia’s Place within the Chinese Nation
Creators: name: Malzer, Michael
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: Ningxia, a comparatively small and underdeveloped autonomous region for China’s Muslim Hui minority in the country’s northwest, has increasingly received attention as the home of Chinese grape wine in both domestic and international media. This image of Ningxia as a home of wine is comparatively recent, and significant in several regards: first, wine fills a void in Ningxia’s local image-building strategy for tourism and trade, which had emerged from the abrupt abandoning of an earlier strategy of stressing Ningxia’s identity as a Muslim region. Second, wine is an agricultural product that is highly compatible with an urban, modern, and middle-class lifestyle as conceptualized by the dominant party-state discourse. Third, this framing lays claim to a new self-confidence in China’s domestic wine market, which is expected to be able to compete internationally in terms of both quantity and quality. Ningxia wines have been winning a number of international awards in recent years, and the region at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains, belonging to its capital Yinchuan, is aspiring to become an equivalent to France’s Bordeaux, while also building up a distinct Chinese wine identity. As such, Ningxia wine is linked to Chinese nationalism: wine serves as both a global marker of taste and prosperity and source of local identity. Building on theories of nationalism and globalization, this paper traces the discourses surrounding Ningxia wine via ethnographic observations and several interviews conducted during a six-month field stay in Yinchuan in 2019, as well as through analysis of academic discussions, news items, and social media posts.
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South Korea’s Partial Withdrawal from the 2015 Korea–Japan Comfort Women Agreement: Changed National Role Conceptions via Increased Social Influence (2015–2018)
Creators: name: Kim, Bohyun
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: Why did Moon Jae-in’s South Korean government (2017–2022) show highly ambivalent foreign policy behavior around the 2015 comfort women deal with Japan, one of its most important economic and political partners in the East Asian region? This paper pays attention to the possibility of increased social influence on South Korea’s foreign policy around the period of the candlelight movement in 2017, investigating whether this social influence affected South Korea’s national role conceptions. By doing this, the research delivers an empirical contribution to the academic discussion of domestic influence on Korea-Japan historical conflicts. The analysis identifies how the national role conception of South Korea has changed between Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in administrations and analyzes which national roles were vertically addressed during the period after the agreement until its de facto withdrawal. To conclude, it demonstrates that domestic contestation had influence on the change of the Moon government’s national role conception as “civil collaborator” and “diplomatic position re-shaper” simultaneously, which eventually led to South Korea’s ambiguous diplomatic position.
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Latent variable regression and applications to planetary seismic instrumentation
Creators: name: Stott, Alexander Edward
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The work presented in this thesis is framed by the concept of latent variables, a modern data analytics approach. A latent variable represents an extracted component from a dataset which is not directly measured. The concept is first applied to combat the problem of ill-posed regression through the promising method of partial least squares (PLS). In this context the latent variables within a data matrix are extracted through an iterative algorithm based on cross-covariance as an optimisation criterion. This work first extends the PLS algorithm, using adaptive and recursive techniques, for online, non-stationary data applications. The standard PLS algorithm is further generalised for complex-, quaternion- and tensor-valued data. In doing so it is shown that the multidimensional algebras facilitate physically meaningful representations, demonstrated through smart-grid frequency estimation and image-classification tasks. The second part of the thesis uses this knowledge to inform a performance analysis of the MEMS microseismometer implemented for the InSight mission to Mars. This is given in terms of the sensor's intrinsic self-noise, the estimation of which is achieved from experimental data with a colocated instrument. The standard coherence and proposed delta noise estimators are analysed with respect to practical issues. The implementation of algorithms for the alignment, calibration and post-processing of the data then enabled a definitive self-noise estimate, validated from data acquired in ultra-quiet, deep-space environment. A method for the decorrelation of the microseismometer's output from its thermal response is proposed. To do so a novel sensor fusion approach based on the Kalman filter is developed for a full-band transfer-function correction, in contrast to the traditional ill-posed frequency division method. This algorithm was applied to experimental data which determined the thermal model coefficients while validating the sensor's performance at tidal frequencies 1E-5Hz and in extreme environments at -65C. This thesis, therefore, provides a definitive view of the latent variables perspective. This is achieved through the general algorithms developed for regression with multidimensional data and the bespoke application to seismic instrumentation.
AP-1 Imprints a Reversible Transcriptional Programme of Senescent Cells
Creators: name: Martínez-Zamudio, Ricardo Iván
name: Roux, Pierre-François
name: Freitas, José Américo N L F De
name: Robinson, Lucas
name: Doré, Gregory
name: Herbig, Utz
name: Bischof, Oliver
name: Gil, Jesus
name: Sun, Bin
name: Schmitt, Clemens A.
name: Milanovic, Maja
name: Belenki, Dimitri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cellular senescence, cell fate transition, epigenome dynamics, transcriptome dynamics, transcription factor network, enhancer, epigenetic bookmarking, multidimensional profiling

description: Senescent cells affect many physiological and pathophysiological processes. While select genetic and epigenetic elements for senescence induction have been identified, the dynamics, epigenetic mechanisms and regulatory networks defining senescence competence, induction and maintenance remain poorly understood, precluding the deliberate therapeutic targeting of senescence for health benefits. Here, we examined the possibility that the epigenetic state of enhancers determines senescent cell fate. We explored this by generating time-resolved transcriptomes and epigenome profiles during oncogenic RAS-induced senescence and validating central findings in different cell biology and disease models of senescence. Through integrative analysis and functional validation, we reveal links between enhancer chromatin, transcription factor recruitment and senescence competence. We demonstrate that activator protein 1 (AP-1) 'pioneers' the senescence enhancer landscape and defines the organizational principles of the transcription factor network that drives the transcriptional programme of senescent cells. Together, our findings enabled us to manipulate the senescence phenotype with potential therapeutic implications.
Identity, Conflict, and Social Movement Activism in Bangladesh’s Nation-Building Politics
Creators: name: Shewly, Hosna J.
name: Gerharz, Eva
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: In the last half a century, the search for a Bangladeshi national identity has been driven and contested by different forces and political imageries. This paper looks at the interrelations between nation-building policies and social-movement activism. Since its independence in 1971, the country has been caught up in debates surrounding Bengali, Bangladeshi, and Muslim identities and activism in its nation- building process, leading to multiple exclusions along ethnic, religious, gender, and class lines. Identity formation in postcolonial society has mainly relied on constructing majority populations with shared commonalities, such as religion, language, heritage, or social traditions. We show how state initiatives in crafting a so-called natural identity and homogeneity in the name of nation-building have turned into counterproductive and politically profit-oriented projects, masking inequalities and persecution. We propose that achieving a sophisticated understanding of the nation- building process requires paying attention to the causes, outcomes, and influences of social and political movements. We also posit that nation-building is a protracted process of political integration that often remains unfinished, even decades after a nation has gained its independence.
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Considerations about Chopper Configuration at a time-of-flight SANS Instrument at a Spallation Source
Creators: name: Jaksch, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In any neutron scattering experiment the measurement of the position of the scattered neutrons and their respective velocities is necessary. In order to do so, a position sensitive detector as well as a way to determine the velocities is needed. Measuring the velocities can either be done by using only a single wavelength and therefore velocity or by creating pulses, where the start and end time of each pulse is known and registering the time of arrival at the detector, which is the case we want to consider here. This pulse shaping process in neutron scattering instruments is usually done by using a configuration of several choppers. This set of choppers is then used to define both the beginning and the end of the pulse. Additionally there is of course also a selection in phase space determining the final resolution that can be achieved by the instrument. Taking into account the special requirements of a specific instrument, here a small-angle neutron scattering instrument, creates an additional set of restrictions that have to be taken into account. In this manuscript a chopper configuration for two possible settings, namely a maximum flux and a high-resolution mode will be presented.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Characteristics of Directly Expanded Hog Data Outliers
Creators: name: Rumburg, Scot
name: Rumburg, Scot
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: robust estimator
subject: outlier component
subject: outlier cutoff value
subject: non-overlap
subject: frame-year
subject: expansion factor

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts quarterly multiple frame (MF) hog inventory surveys, using both a list and an area sampling frame. The MF survey direct expansion (DE) estimator for hogs is used as an indication by the National Board. A Robust Estimator (RE) is also currently being used by the National Board to augment the survey direct expansion total hog estimate. The first component of the RE is a DE non-outlier component. The second component of the RE is an average outlier component determined using data from several surveys. This report examines characteristics of those outlier records that are fundamental to computing the RE’s outlier component. Individual characteristics for outlier non-overlap (NOL) records for five states were studied. Three major causes of NOL outlier occurrence were found. They include increased expansion factors due to subsampling in follow-on surveys, the transitory and varying nature of hog production, and the location of hog operations on land with little or no agriculture. Individual list and NOL hog operation often produced more than one outlier within a frame-year. Results indicate that at the state level, some survey frame-year outlier totals and number of outliers occurring differ significantly. (The frame-year runs from June through May.) At the national level, no significant effects were found. Also, distributional differences for outliers were found between states. This is due in large part to the outlier cutoff values assigned each state. With no trends in outliers at the national level, the Robust Estimator should continue to be used without modification. However, the presence of a frame-year effect in outlier totals and outlier number of occurrences at the state level not only justifies the need for the RE but implies a modified RE might be investigated to help in making state level estimates. State level outlier cutoff values should be investigated in an attempt to locate optimum values for the RE’s ability to measure state and national board estimates.
Effects of land use on local biodiversity on islands and mainlands worldwide
Creators: name: Sánchez Ortiz, Katia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Land-use change is a major driver of biodiversity change; while it increases many species’ extinction risk and often causes a loss of local diversity, it also promotes the establishment of novel alien and native species. All these processes change the species composition of assemblages. Global syntheses rarely compare the effects of land-use change across different ecological systems, limiting our ability to identify which systems are most affected. Islands and mainlands often face different human pressures and harbour very different species assemblages. Importantly, many islands harbour native species that are particularly sensitive to human pressures and they tend to be more vulnerable than mainlands to invasions by alien species. In this thesis, I model a global collation of site-level biodiversity data from sites facing different land uses and related pressures to answer three questions. Does the change in species composition caused by land-use change differ between islands and mainlands? Have land-use change and related pressures decreased biodiversity integrity more on islands than on mainlands? How do land use and related pressures affect the diversity of alien and native species on islands? My results highlight particular cases where land-use change causes a greater change in local species assemblages on islands than on mainlands. Based on the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII), I also show that, on average, land-use change and related pressures have reduced biotic integrity more on islands than on mainlands, mainly because island species are more sensitive to human pressures. The chapters underpinning these findings represent the first global analyses to include a wide range of taxa while comparing biodiversity responses on islands and mainlands to land-use change. Additionally, through analyses focusing exclusively on islands, I show that land-use change reduces both local richness and total abundance of island native species but increases both the number and abundance of alien species. My results highlight the sensitivity of island natives to human pressures and attest to the establishment of alien species on islands, particularly in disturbed habitats and on more isolated islands. They support calls for stronger efforts to protect islands’ unique biodiversity. This thesis also contributes to the development of a new implementation of BII, improving on the statistical modelling approach used recently to estimate BII globally. In a final analysis integrating results from the different chapters, I show that this improved approach yields estimates that reflect the intactness of native biodiversity more accurately than previous estimates. Most of this improvement is attributable to the use of a more stringent definition for sites whose biota is assumed to have been minimally impacted by people, which was facilitated by a more efficient use of the underlying assemblage data.
Studies on graduate unemployment in Malaysia : unemployment duration, labour market outcomes and psychological impact of unemployment
Creators: name: Lim., Hock-Eam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse
Creators: name: Dyson, Humphrey, -1633
name: Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633
name: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Early works
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411636
subject: Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919811
subject: Cities and towns
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/861748
subject: Antiquities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/810745
subject: Historic buildings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/957723
subject: Architecture
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/813346
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Travel
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1155558
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815
subject: Buildings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/840962

description: First published in 1598, this survey provides a detailed account of the buildings, social conditions and customs of London in Elizabethan times. A second edition was produced in 1603. The third edition published in 1618 had additions by Anthony Munday. A fourth edition with additions by Munday and Humphrey Dyson appeared in 1633.
Politics of Belonging and Exclusion: Nation-Building in Contemporary Asia
Creators: name: Brandt, Carmen
name: Fiedler, Anna Julia
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: The present special issue is the outcome of a call for papers by members of the ASIEN editorial board. Across six contributions — four research articles and two research notes — various perspectives on and aspects of nation-building in Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam are discussed. The diversity of these countries highlights how challenging a systematic comparison would be. Additionally, each contribution focuses on a particular aspect of nation-building, nationalism, and/or national belonging. Hence, the six pieces illustrate that there are many different and at times highly contested factors crucial to the success or failure of nation-building.
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A Long-Term View of Thai Nationalisms: From Royal to Civic Nationalism?
Creators: name: Malitz, David M.
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2023

description: This article offers a history of Thai nationalisms, drawing on primary sources as well as the secondary literature on the country’s political history. Rejecting a linear evolution of Thai nationalist ideas, it traces the development of very different political imaginations of a Siamese/Thai political community from the early nineteenth century through the student protests of 2020/2021. It does not consider, therefore, these recent demands for reform of the country’s monarchy to represent a radical rupture with established Thai political culture. Rather, the student protests constitute a new iteration of a long-standing trend of contesting official nationalisms in the country. This is evident in the students’ own symbolic embracing of the history of the Siamese Revolution of 1932. For analytical purposes, the article employs a twofold approach. As such, it differentiates between inclusive and exclusive imaginations of the national community on the one hand and between its democratic versus autocratic political organization on the other.
description: Asien, Nr. 164/165 (2022): ASIEN (Juli/Oktober)
Applications of genetic data to identify cardiovascular disease mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Creators: name: Gill, Dipender
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Recent years have offered a wealth of genetic association data, with a concurrent explosion in the availability of methods for exploring causal effects through randomly allocated genetic variants that serve as proxies for traits of interest. This thesis investigates the state of this field within the remit of cardiovascular disease. Following an introduction into cardiovascular disease and Mendelian randomization (MR), the research focuses on dietary, social and pharmacological exposures as demonstrative examples for highlighting the breadth of techniques that can be harnessed towards understanding underlying mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Both two-sample and one-sample MR analyses are performed, using genetic summary data from large-scale consortia and the UK Biobank. Sample sizes for individual analyses typically exceed tens of thousands of participants. A diverse array of MR methods are employed, appropriate to the setting and objective of each analysis. Considering systemic iron status as a diet-related trait, genetic instruments are identified with consequent MR analyses supporting a protective effect on risk of cardiovascular outcomes related to atherosclerosis but a detrimental effect on outcomes related to thrombosis arising from stasis of blood. Phenome-wide association study further highlights effects of systemic iron status outside the remit of cardiovascular disease. In the investigation of social factors, MR mediation analysis techniques are applied to identify the pathways by which education affects cardiovascular disease risk, with multivariable MR further used to disentangle the direct effects of education and intelligence respectively. In the investigation of pharmacological exposures, genetic instruments for antihypertensive drugs are identified and validated by comparing against corresponding estimates from clinical trials. Phenome-wide association study is used to identify possible side-effects and repurposing opportunities, with a potential detrimental effect of calcium channel blockers identified on risk of diverticulosis. The final section provides an overview of the current state of applied MR, as well as future perspectives.
Allostructions re-revisited
Creators: name: Zehentner, Eva
Publisher: name: Constructions
Year: 2023

description: This paper critically reflects on the concept of ‘allostructions’ as proposed in Cappelle (2006) and further developed in Perek (2012, 2015), among others, as a crucial and influential notion for any constructionist approach to (syntactic) alternations. The main focus here is on open questions that persist regarding the specific theoretical assumptions underlying the idea of allostructions and constructemes, as well as empirical challenges that might be met when discussing alternation phenomena in allostructional terms.
description: Constructions, Bd. 15 Nr. 1 (2023): Special Issue "35 Years of Constructions" (Editors: Lotte Sommerer & Stefan Hartmann)
Chiral mesoporous silica prepared with supramolecular templated and their separation properties
Creators: name: Huang, Yanan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Supramolecular templates represent a unique class of pore forming agent that can result in the transcription of chiral properties to the mesopore surface, during the synthesis of mesoporous silica. To design new chiral mesoporous silica materials it is important to understand the supramolecular interactions governing the self-assembly process. Chiral mesoporous materials offer opportunities in asymmetric catalysis and separation applications, with potential to improve enantioselectivity. The work presented in this thesis is organized around three themes: (i) the supramolecular synthesis of chiral mesoporous silica and the characterisation of chiral properties, (ii) their application for chiral separation, (iii) and mechanistic studies of chiral adsorption and enantioselectivity. Mesoporous silica particles are prepared using templates guanosine monophosphate (GMP) and folic acid (FA) resulting in NGM-1 and NFM-1 materials, respectively. Both of these have 2D hexagonal structure with p6mm symmetry, in their calcined form. We study and describe the interaction between the template and the different silica precursors: 3-aminopropyltriethoxy silane and tetraethyl orthosilicate in order to obtain optimal synthetic parameters, such as reactant composition, pH, stirring rate, etc. This thesis investigates any solvophobic effects on the self-assembly process and chirality of the mesopores. Characterization methods such as powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, nitrogen adsorption isotherms, circular dichroism and thermogravimetric analysis are employed to follow the development of morphological, textural and chirality changes of the materials prepared. Optimized NGM-1 and NFM-1 are used to assess the enantioseparation of D- and L- enantiomers by a range of model molecules, without the need for surface functionalization, i.e. relying solely on the surface properties. The chiral selectivity and kinetics of the mesoporous materials are measured by CD, UV-Vis spectroscopy and TGA. Results confirm that the NGM-1 and NFM-1 have opposite enantiomeric selectivity. Finally, the mechanism of chiral adsorption within mesoporous silica NGM-1 and NFM-1, are investigated. A model is proposed that accounts for the different pathways of individual enantiomers to form an adsorbed monolayer as well as to fill the pores of NGM-1 and NFM-1.
Modelling stratospheric transport and global ozone
Creators: name: Li., Shuhua
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Study of crystal-field splitting in ultrathin CePt$_5$ layers by Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Halbig, B.
name: Bass, U.
name: Geurts, J.
name: Zinner, M.
name: Fauth, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-temperature electronic properties of rare-earth intermetallics are substantially influenced by the symmetry and magnitude of the crystal electric field. The direct spectroscopic analysis of crystal field splitting can be challenging, especially in low-dimensional systems, because it requires both high spectral resolution and pronounced sensitivity. We demonstrate the eligibility of electronic Raman spectroscopy for this purpose by the direct determination of the $4f$ level splitting in ultra-thin ordered CePt$_5$ films down to 1.7 nm thickness on Pt(111). Crystal field excitations of Ce $4f$ electrons give rise to Raman peaks with energy shifts up to $\approx$ 25 meV. Three distinct peaks occur which we attribute to inequivalent Ce sites, located (i) at the interface to the substrate, (ii) next to the Pt-terminated surface, and (iii) in the CePt$_5$ layers in between. The well-resolved Raman signatures allow us to identify a reduced crystal field splitting at the interface and an enhancement at the surface, highlighting its strong dependence on the local atomic environment.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
MPEC 2023-N18 : COMET P/2015 T3 = P/2023 M3 (PANSTARRS)
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: COMET P/2015 T3 = P/2023 M3 (PANSTARRS)

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.