cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Approval of Basic Engineering
Creators: name: I.FAST WP12 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The main result of the task reported in MS59 is approval of basic engineering validated by design office. Basic engineering has been based on documents elaborated by licensed designers according to the requirements of construction permit following Polish Law, adopting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (2011/92/EU as amended by 2014/52/EU), Assumptions for basic engineering were elaborated and are reported in DELIVERABLE: D12.2 report which cover laboratory research with use of two types of electron accelerators. The technology has reach TRL4 at this stage. Basic engineering covers all technological and technical aspects of both systems two stage biogas plant equipped in electricity generator and sludge hygenization installation equipped in an electron accelerator. The final product of the system is safe organic fertilizer based on WWTP sludge. Electricity supply for the accelerator is provided from generator using biogas as a fuel. Development technology solves ecological problem related to the hazard waste disposal and follows EU Circular Economy principle. In the era of circular economies, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are viewed as resource recovery facilities.
description: {"references": ["I.FAST MS59"]}
Embryo Watching: How IVF Has Remade Biology
Creators: name: Franklin, Sarah
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: In addition to being one of the most iconic of the new reproductive technologies introduced in the late twentieth century, in vitro fertilization is also a technology of representation – a looking glass into conception, a window onto early human development, and as such a new form of public spectacle. Still a rapidly expanding global biomedical service sector, IVF technology is also the source of new images of human origins, and thus offers a new visual grammar of coming into being. This lecture explores these connections, and argues that the micromanipulation imagery associated with IVF, and now a routine feature of news coverage and popular debate of NRTs, also introduces a new connection between cells and tools, thus returning us to one of the oldest sociological questions – the question concerning technology. Moving between IVF as a technology of reproduction, and a visual technology, enables us to revisit a series of broad sociological questions concerning technology, reproduction, genealogy and the future of biological control from the unique perspective offered by the conversion of the human embryo into both a tool and a lens.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Tilting modules of affine quasi-hereditary algebras
Creators: name: Fujita, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss tilting modules of affine quasi-hereditary algebras. We present an existence theorem of indecomposable tilting modules when the algebra has a large center and use it to deduce a criterion for an exact functor between two affine highest weight categories to give an equivalence. As an application, we prove that the Arakawa-Suzuki functor [Arakawa-Suzuki, J. of Alg. 209 (1998)] gives a fully faithful embedding of a block of the deformed BGG category of $\mathfrak{gl}_{m}$ into the module category of a suitable completion of degenerate affine Hecke algebra of $GL_{n}$.
description: 25 pages, v2: minor modifications
(200663) James Holmes Furneaux
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

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

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

The principal aim of this project is to carefully elucidate a niche and role of aesthetic artistic Bildung in Kant’s educational architectonic. The cultivation of taste, on the face of it, prepares a Kantian agent for morality. However, would our understanding of this order change, if first, Kant’s theory of artistic expression were interpreted in a more inclusive fashion and, second, if we were to seriously consider Kant’s proposition at KdU 5: 356 that genuine taste presupposes the development of moral ideas and moral feeling? The proposed project fills this lacuna and, in doing so, I gradually explore the aesthetic element in Kant’s culture of the mind.
Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion
Creators: name: Perrotta, Manuela
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: In the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations and even of nature and life itself. Reproductive biomedicine is embedded in the ongoing construction of our wider social imagination, producing a re-imagining of the “facts of life”. Here, we can see how biomedical knowledge fosters a reframing of material bodily tissues. The same biological material can assume a different ontological status according to the sociomaterial processes in which it is embedded. Exploring the process of bioobjectification of embryos in an Italian context, this introduction describes how the equation between embryos and human life itself emerges inside and outside of labs and illustrates how the biomedical conceptualization of embryos is strongly dominated by moral and ethical concerns.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
CEO turnover, shareholder wealth and equity volatility
Creators: name: Farah, Paul
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 Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This thesis consists of three essays on chief executive officer (CEO) turnover, transparency of CEO turnover announcements, CEO succession plans, market reactions, and equity volatility using a sample of US firms during the 2003–2012 period. Essay 1, presented in chapter 2, develops two implicit reasons for firing a CEO, which are performance-related in the case of past underperformance and non-performance–related in the case of past outperformance. This chapter finds that firms that fire their CEOs for non-performance–related reasons tend to experience a deterioration in their performance, while firms that fire their CEOs for performance-related reasons experience an improvement in their performance. Moreover, it finds that firm value is positively related to the degree of transparency of the stated reasons. Overall, this chapter contributes to the literature by providing new evidence that power struggle and information asymmetry affect firm value. Essay 2, presented in chapter 3, examines under-explored special cases of interim and late successions. This chapter finds that the choice of a successor as an outsider or an insider plays a major role in determining the righteousness of the board of director’s (BOD) decision to employ an interim period. This chapter finds that employing an interim period of CEO search is mostly beneficial for firms. Overall, this chapter contributes to the literature by providing new evidence that the lack of CEO succession planning can be overcome by successor choice. Essay 3, presented in chapter 4, examines the relationship between the nature of CEO successions and subsequent market volatility. Chapter 4 finds that an increase in post-turnover equity volatility is most likely a result of doubts regarding the ability of the new CEO in implementing a change in the business strategy. Moreover, this chapter also highlights an arguably important benefit of having the executive powers shared between the CEO and the chairman, which is lessened uncertainty regarding the ability of a newly appointed CEO. Overall, the chapter contributes to the literature by providing new evidence that equity volatility is affected by a potential need for a change in business strategy following CEO turnover.
A robust scheme for the implementation of the quantum Rabi model in trapped ions
Creators: name: Puebla, Ricardo
name: Casanova, Jorge
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the technique known as concatenated continuous dynamical decoupling (CCD) can be applied to a trapped-ion setup for a robust implementation of the quantum Rabi model in a variety of parameter regimes. These include the case where the Dirac equation emerges, and the limit in which a quantum phase transition takes place. We discuss the applicability of the CCD scheme in terms of the fidelity between different initial states evolving under an ideal quantum Rabi model and their corresponding trapped-ion realization, and demonstrate the effectiveness of noise suppression of our method.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures
Müssen wir filtern
Creators: name: Müller, Harald
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 020

description: Jede öffentlich zugängliche Einrichtung, in der Kinder und Jugendliche Zugang zu Druck- und AV-Medien haben, muß die einschlägigen Vorschriften hinsichtlich des Jugendmedienschutzes beachten. Regelungen hierzu finden sich im Strafgesetzbuch (StGB) und im Gesetz über jugendgefährdende Schriften und Medieninhalte (GjSM). Durch das Informations- und Kommunikationsdienstegesetz (IuKDG) wurde das Internet in den Regelungsbereich des Jugendmedienschutzes miteinbezogen. Im GjSM ist jetzt von technischen Vorkehrungen" die Rede. Bedeutet dies nun, daß Bibliotheken auf jeden Fall Filtersoftware einsetzen müssen? Von Informatikern wird Filtersoftware technisch gesehen als Störfaktor angesehen, die weder perfekt funktioniert, noch gegen Hacker-Tricks abgesichert ist. Was bedeuten diese immer wieder vorgebrachten Einwände für die Rechtslage? Der Vortrag wird einerseits die zu beachtenden Rechtsvorschriften zum Jugendmedienschutz vorstellen, aus denen klare Handlungsanweisungen für Bibliotheken abgeleitet werden. Andererseits wird er sich mit den Auswirkungen der behaupteten Unzulänglichkeiten von Filtersoftware auf die rechtliche Situation des Jugendschutzes befassen.
(200656) Henry Herbert Edwards
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.
(200657) William Edwards
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.
Socioemotional Wealth and Family Firms’ Internationalisation
Creators: name: ALI, ROSHNI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: International business

description: This thesis explored family firms (FFs) internationalisation. I used socioemotional wealth because it captures the non-financial nature of FFs. I conducted thirty-five interviews with a sample of manufacturing firms in West Bengal, India, and utilised an interpretive case study approach. I used Template analysis to analyse the data. My findings illustrate that a family’s joint living, goodwill, networks, emotional consequences, and planned succession—affect the internationalisation of FFs. Sustainable capital is also an important aspect in FFs’ internationalisation, combining financial and non-financial criteria for the internationalisation These findings contribute to our understanding of the ‘reference point’ of behavioral agency theory.
Untangling the Octopus vulgaris species complex using a combined genomic and morphological approach
Creators: name: Amor, Michael Douglas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria.

Benthic octopuses (family Octopodidae) are a highly valuable global fisheries resource (worth >$US1/2 billion per annum). However, taxonomic relationships within the Octopodidae remain unresolved, which impedes their appropriate management. The type species of the genus Octopus, Octopus vulgaris, has historically been considered cosmopolitan. Recent studies, however, suggest O. vulgaris may represent a complex of morphologically similar, yet genetically distinct, species (the “Octopus vulgaris complex”). My thesis aims to investigate the species-level relationships within the O. vulgaris complex. In chapter two, I found congruence between morphological and mitochondrial DNA-based evidence, suggesting that allopatric populations of O. tetricus from the east and west coasts of Australia are distinct species. In addition, Asian O. vulgaris formed a monophyletic clade with both Australian species, which was distinct from other O. vulgaris populations. In chapters three and four, I investigate the species-level diversity within the O. vulgaris complex using unprecedented levels of morphological and genomic data, respectively, resulting in the most comprehensive global-scale investigation of this group to date. Discrete differences in morphology successfully delimited three species within the O. vulgaris complex; (1) Mediterranean/NE Atlantic and South Africa (2) southern Brazil and (3) Asia. Genome-wide evidence obtained via next generation sequencing provided greater species-level resolution in comparison to those using mtDNA, supporting the distinction of South African O. vulgaris, and highlighting the limitations of mtDNA for resolving relationships within the group. In chapter five, I investigated the ancestral biogeography of the O. vulgaris group and found the ancestor was a widespread species. Furthermore, speciation of extant taxa was most likely driven by the sequential isolation of the eastern-most populations over the past 8 Ma. These results have significant taxonomic implications for the O. vulgaris group. As the majority of octopus fisheries worldwide are in decline, the findings of this thesis may inform the implementation of appropriate management strategies.
Rotation Forms and Local Hamiltonian Monodromy
Creators: name: Efstathiou, K.
name: Giacobbe, A.
name: Mardešić, P.
name: Sugny, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37Jxx

description: The monodromy of torus bundles associated to completely integrable systems can be computed using geometric techniques (constructing homology cycles) or analytic arguments (computing discontinuities of abelian integrals). In this article we give a general approach to the computation of monodromy that resembles the analytical one, reducing the problem to the computation of residues of polar 1-forms. We apply our technique to three celebrated examples of systems with monodromy (the champagne bottle, the spherical pendulum, the hydrogen atom) and to the case of non degenerate focus-focus singularities, re-obtaining the classical results. An advantage of this approach is that the residue-like formula can be shown to be local in a neighborhood of a singularity, hence allowing the definition of monodromy also in the case of non-compact fibers. This idea has been introduced in the literature under the name of scattering monodromy. We prove the coincidence of the two definitions with the monodromy of an appropriately chosen compactification.
Paradoxical Leadership and Public Service Motivation in Vietnam: The Roles of Confucian Values, Political Ideologies and Organisational Structure
Creators: name: NGUYEN, THI THANH TAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public administration
Organisational behaviour
Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Political theory and political philosophy

description: The thesis investigates the impact of Confucian values on public managers’ paradoxical leadership and public service motivation under the constraints of political ideologies and organisational structures in Vietnam. Analyses of interview data with twenty managers and survey data with 206 manager-employee dyads show that Confucian values are positively related to paradoxical leadership which, in turn, facilitates public service motivation. Practically, the thesis recommends that in order to improve public institution effectiveness in Vietnam, leadership selection and development in public institutions should emphasize the dynamic effects of Confucian values, Capitalist and Socialist ideologies, and centralised structures.
Bayesian mixtures for cluster analysis and flexible modeling of distributions
Creators: name: Fritsch, Arno
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Finite mixture
subject: Dirichlet process
subject: Bayesian statistics
subject: Cluster analysis
subject: MCMC
subject: Adjusted rand index
subject: Goalkeepers performance
subject: Gene expression data
subject: 310

description: Finite mixture models assume that a distribution is a combination of several parametric distributions. They offer a compromise between the interpretability of parametric models and the flexibility of nonparametric models. This thesis considers a Bayesian approach to these models, which has several advantages. For example, using only weak prior information, it can solve problems with unbounded likelihood functions, that can occur in mixture models. The Bayesian approach also allows an elegant extension of finite to (countable) infinite mixture models. Depending on the application, the components of mixture models can either be viewed as just a means to the flexible modeling of a distribution or as defining subgroups of a population with different parametric distributions. Regarding the former case consistency results for Bayesian mixtures are stated. An example concerning the flexible modeling of a random effects distribution in a logistic regression is also given. The application considers the goalkeeper's effect in saving a penalty. In the latter case mixture models can be used for clustering. Bayesian mixtures then allow the estimation of the number of clusters at the same time as the cluster-specific parameters. For cluster analysis the standard approach for fitting Bayesian mixtures, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), unfortunately leads to inferential difficulties. The labels associated with the clusters can change during the MCMC run, a phenomenon called label-switching. The problem gets severe, if the number of clusters is allowed to vary. Existing methods to deal with label-switching and a varying number of components are reviewed and new approaches are proposed for both situations. The first consists of a variant of the relabeling algorithm of Stephens (2000). The variant is more general, as it applies to drawn clusterings and not drawn parameter values. Therefore it does not depend on the specific form of the component distributions. The second approach is based on pairwise posterior probabilities and is an improvement of a commonly used loss function due to Binder (1978). Minimization of this loss is shown to be equivalent to maximizing the posterior expected Rand index with the true clustering. As the adjusted Rand index is preferable to the raw index, the maximization of the posterior expected adjusted Rand is proposed. The new approaches are compared to the previous methods on simulated and real data. The real data used for cluster analysis are two gene expression data sets and Fisher's iris data.
title: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
title: Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal Of Science & Technology Studies
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: SPECIAL ISSUE Re-conceiving Life in the Labs: The Emerging Meanings of Cells in the Italian Reproductive Biomedicine and Beyond
description: David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011...211-215 Cécile Méadel, Quantify the public. History of audience measures of radio and television, Economica, 2010...207-210 Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa, Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age, The MIT Press, 2011...205-207 Adrián Cannellotto and Erwin Luchtenberg (eds.), Medicalization and Society: Critical Readings on the Social Construction of Diseases, UNSAM Edita, 2010...203-205 Sophy Houdart and Olivier Thiery (eds.), Humans and Non-Humans: How to Repopulate Social Sciences, La Découverte, 2011...199-202 Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Heidi Mork Lomell and Svein Hammer (eds.), The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society, Routledge, 2010...196-198 Roberto Abadie, The Professional Guinea Pig. Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subject, Duke University Press, 2010...191-196 Elizabeth B. Silva, Technology, Culture, Family. Influences on Home Life, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010...188-191 Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production, Amsterdam University Press, 2011...185-187 STS in a (Post)Socialist Context. Science and Technology Studies in Croatia...165-181 The Italian Pathways of Stem Cells...145-163 (Not) Making “Hexternologous”. Fertilization The Italian ART Law and its paradoxes...133-144 “Sidestepping the Embryo”. The Cultural Meaning and Political Uses of Ethical Stem Cells...111-131 Neither Gametes nor Children. Italian Prospective Parents and the Variable Meaning of Donor Embryos...87-109 Substances, Knowledge, Gaze. The Bio-aesthetics of Reproductive Technology in a Sicilian Fertility Clinic...69-85 Law, Biopolitics and Reproductive Citizenship: The Case of Assisted Reproduction in Italy...45-67 Embryo Watching: How IVF Has Remade Biology...23-43 Creating Human Life Itself: The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion...7-21 Editors' Note...5-6 Smile of a Stem Cell: A Dialogue between Science and Society (Cover's Comment)
A study of psychological aspects of public elementary and secondary school enrollment in Corpus Christi, Texas
Creators: name: Hufstedler, Virginia Lee, 1912-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1950
Subjects: subject: Public schools
subject: Texas
subject: Corpus Christi
subject: Public school enrollment
subject: Public school attendance
subject: Psychological aspects
subject: Public schools--Texas--Corpus Christi
subject: School enrollment--Texas--Corpus Christi
subject: School enrollment--Texas--Corpus Christi--Psychological aspects
subject: School attendance--Texas--Corpus Christi
subject: School attendance--Texas--Corpus Christi--Psychological aspects

description: The extent to which children of Corpus Christi, Texas, do not enroll in school or withdraw after enrollment has come to be recognized as a serious problem by residents of the city interested in social welfare. Local parent-teacher associations have sponsored programs at which information was given to members concerning the extent of nonenrollment. Civic clubs have asked representatives from the local schools to discuss the problem before their members. Social workers in their contacts with children have dealt many times with nonenrollment in school. The Juvenile Department, in its annual report, pointed to the fact that a high percentage of children arrested were not enrolled in school. The Council of Community Agencies, in a study of social problems of the city in 1945, called attention to the number of children out of school. This report suggested that the Special Children’s Committee of the Community Council encourage and sponsor studies of school enrollment and attendance. … The Special Children’s Committee and the Superintendent of Schools, who was also a member of the Special Children’s Committee, requested the head of the Guidance Department to undertake a detailed study of the problem. This research is a result of that request
(200659) William Wilson
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 Institutional Approach For Understanding The HRM-CSR Nexus In Pakistan
Creators: name: Nasir, Saba
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human resources management

description: This research study investigates the nature of the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Pakistani organisations. This research, utilising an exploratory qualitative research methodology, found evidence of both one-way and two-way relationships between HRM and CSR. HRM mainly works as an employee advocate, leader and functional expert in Pakistani organisations. The role of HRM was mostly administrative rather strategic in many CSR-related issues. The operational nature of the HRM-CSR nexus can be attributed to the dynamic influence of multiple institutional isomorphic forces, specific to Pakistan, that interact with each other to collectively shape the HRM-CSR nexus.
A (gravitational) toy story
Creators: name: Barreto, W.
name: de Oliveira, H. P.
name: Rodriguez-Mueller, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequently in Physics, insights and conclusions can be drawn from simple, idealized models. The discovery of critical behavior in the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field leads to the simulation of binary black holes, from its coalescence to merging and ringdown. We refined a toy model to explore black hole formation as these events unfold to revisit the instability of a gravitational kink. We confirmed a conjecture related to a mass gap, for critical behavior at the threshold of black hole formation. We find a critical exponent twice the standard value. Surprisingly, this larger critical exponent is also present in the multiple critical behavior for the black hole formation from a massless scalar field in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. What is the meaning of this mass gap? Does it have physical relevance?
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; updated version to appear in Int. J. Modern Phys. D
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 18
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Ergänzung zu: Grundsätze für die Vorbereitung und Aufstellung von Vorschlägen zur Besetzung von Planstellen und anderen freien Stellen für Hochschullehrer gem. §10 HSchG
description: Richtlinien für die Gewährung einer Beihilfe zu den Druckkosten der Dissertationen
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 18
MAX_824143 D10.5 Final report on CoE governing bodies acvity
Creators: name: Neri, Luisa
name: Ferretti, Andrea
name: Bartolacelli, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: materials modelling software
HCP
exascale

description: The deliverable D10.5 “Final report on CoE governing bodies acvity” of the MAX materials at the Exascale project presents the acvity of Tasks T10.1 Establishing and supporng the CoE governance and T10.2 Operaonal management of the CoE. In the following, the acvies of the governing bodies, of the management team, the assessment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and an analysis of the risk management is given. The overall acvity of the Centre of Excellence has proceeded smoothly in the 46 months, for the management experience in large projects and the proacve collaboraons of all partners.
Understanding abused women’s needs, identifying their goals and using the stages of change to enhance health professionals’ care for women experiencing intimate partner violence
Creators: name: Reisenhofer, Sonia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (by published work) to the Judith Lumley Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.

AIM AND BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant contributor to the burden of disease experienced by women, their families and community. Abused women often seek assistance from health care professionals however there is an ongoing mismatch between health care women seek and receive. This research sought to understand women’s experiences of IPV-related health care and with this knowledge explored how health professionals can best support abused women. METHODS This two-part study used mixed methods. It includes situational analysis (Clarke, 2005) for qualitative analysis of interviews with abused women and multinomial logistic regression with data from an RCT (n equals 225) of a clinical intervention in primary care over two years (WEAVE) (Hegarty et al., 2010). RESULTS Qualitative: Women often reported judgmental and damaging health care experiences. Care that enhanced women’s self-esteem and self-efficacy, named experiences as IPV, and allowed women to make decisions at their own pace was reported as being most helpful. Quantitative: Prochaska and DiClemente’s (1986) stages of change can be applied to abused women’s change making behaviours and used by health professionals to evaluate and support women’s readiness and capacity for change in the context of IPV. Additionally, using women centred goals may provide a more realistic means of measuring success of IPV-related health care, especially in the short term. Depression and anxiety persisted in women for up to 2 years after ending abusive relationships, highlighting the need for longer term support. Higher levels of self-efficacy were associated with women being in later (preparation/action or maintenance) stages of change. CONCLUSION Women and their families may be better supported by health care professionals who build women’s self-efficacy and use women-centred goals. Health professionals can use stages of change to work with abused women to plan, implement and measure outcomes of health care for affected women.
(200660) Martha Wilson
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.
Possible Instability of the Fermi sea of metals against surface plasma oscillations
Creators: name: Deng, Hai-Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a generic formalism for studying the energy conversion processes in bounded metals. Using this formalism we show that in the collision-less limit the Fermi sea of metals should experience an instability against surface plasma oscillations, which opens for the latter an intrinsic self-ampli cation channel. The origin of the instability is clari ed as arising from novel effects resulting from the translation symetry breaking due to the very presence of surface. The ampli cation rate of this channel is analytically evaluated on the basis of energy conservation and the effects of losses are discussed. In particular, the unique role played by the surface in energy conversion is unveiled. In contrast with common wisdom and in line with observations, Landau damping is shown as always overcompensated and therefore poses no serious issues in sub-wavelength plasmonics.
description: Published version, 10 pages, 2 figs
miR-29a KO vs WT mRNA_gene.FPKM.xls
Creators: name: Ma, peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sequence analysis

description: Transcriptome sequencing results of cochlea in miR-29a+/+ and miR-29a-/- mice.
Adequacy and Sustainability of the Australian Retirement System using Modelling and Optimisation
Creators: name: WANG, YUNXIAO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Optimisation
Econometric and statistical methods
Other economics not elsewhere classified
Financial mathematics
Operations research

description: The global shift from defined-benefit (DB) to defined-contribution (DC) pensions schemes has placed significant risks and responsibilities from the pension provider onto the individual. Households are now expected to properly manage their own retirement savings and investment portfolios, as well as face further complex and unfamiliar decisions when choosing how to spend their DC savings and secure retirement income. This thesis provides a comprehensive study of Australia’s maturing DC-type retirement income system, using modelling and optimisation techniques to evaluate the adequacy and sustainability of a system that is under growing pressure from increasing longevity and deteriorating dependency ratios.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 26
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Richtlinien für die Aufstellung von Promotionsordnungen
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 26
Accounting and accountability for financial, social and environmental issues within public-private partnerships
Creators: name: McDonald‐Kerr, Lachlan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The emergence of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a preferred model for delivery of public infrastructure is profoundly connected to public sector reforms in many countries. Under the banners of “neoliberalism” and “New Public Management” (NPM), these reforms have redefined the nature and role of public institutions and produced major reconfigurations in public accountability. The novel conception of accountability associated with PPPs has been a major source of contention and remains poorly understood. This thesis explores accountability in relation to public policy frameworks underpinning PPP decision‐making processes, examining tensions between public and private logics, values and principles, in the context of policy frameworks, reporting, and decision‐making for PPPs. It investigates how financial, social and environmental issues are reported on and accounted for within contemporary PPP policy in the Australian state of Victoria–a recognised leader in PPP sphere. A range of accountability issues pertaining to public disclosures are examined in a case study setting. The analysis leads to numerous key conclusions. First, the public policy framework exhibits many problems of financial accountability within PPPs–including accuracy, manipulability, and reliability of evaluation tools. Second, the policy framework entrenches calculative approaches to social and environmental accounting, encouraging an output‐focused perspective on accountability that aligns with the logics, values and principles of neoliberalism and NPM. Third, the case analysis finds only limited and partial evidence and explanation supporting decision‐making in financial, social and environmental arenas. Finally, contemporary public decision-making processes surrounding PPPs assign significant importance (and power) to financial factors, even though the accounting for these issues is contentious. The contributions of the thesis relate to the investigation of a phenomenon otherwise overlooked in prior research, the derivation of insights into contemporary financial, social and environmental accounting and accountability, and the demonstration of the utility of research informed by silent and shadow accounting principles.
OneFlorida Certified Database 03/24/2023
Creators: name: Weinbrenner, Donald
name: Hunter, Catherine
name: Kidder, Beth
name: Robinson, Temple
name: Harris, Cynthia
name: Jones, Carrie
name: Green, Leon
name: Rogers, Brant
name: Smith, Eric
name: Mandal, Prabir
name: Reams, Renee
name: Cavicchia, Philip
name: Jordan, Melissa
name: Burness, Laura
name: Carlson, Todd
name: Chandran, Haneesh
name: McCain, Lance
name: Mitchell, Susan
name: Robinson, Patricia
name: Shrivalle, Katelynn
name: Dusan, Shauni
name: Richard, Tere
name: Smith, Steven
name: Durant, TaWanda
name: Eden, Joni
name: Joyce, Jeffrey
name: McDonnell, Grant
name: O'Neal, Donna
name: Carretta, Henry
name: Martinez, Joel
name: Moya, Keiser
name: Paul, Ludmilla
name: Quintana, Carlos
name: Frase, Alison
name: DeLeon, Veronica
name: Desrouleaux, Dorice
name: McCafferty, Jennifer
name: Moy, Pedro
name: Perez, Michael
name: Reddy, Raj
name: Sanchez, Maylee
name: Salyakina, Daria
name: Senior, Jerome
name: Taylor, Thomas
name: Nadglowski, Joseph
name: Candelario, Jorge L.
name: Mohr, Deanna
name: Petrone, Matt
name: Ramirez, Gabriela
name: Urbina, Zaida
name: Viera, Adael
name: Walker, Kathleen
name: Barfiled, Chris
name: Blair, Cynthia
name: Herman, Kristin
name: Ladle, Devin
name: Thomas, Richard
name: Watson, Dean
name: Baralt, Claire
name: Bell, Debora J
name: Bian, Jiang
name: Bottini, Tina
name: Boyd, Erica L
name: Byrne, Barry J
name: Carek, Peter J
name: Cottler, Linda B
name: Deason, Dick
name: DeHoff, Rhonda Marsha
name: Enani, Mahmoud
name: Evans, Christy M
name: Frening, Debbie
name: JR, Thomas J George,
name: Gramig, Lavina L
name: Gutter, Michael S
name: Handberg, Eileen Mary
name: Hogan, William
name: Ilavala, Neeharika
name: Janicke, David
name: Jones, Ross
name: Krieger, Janice
name: Lepanto, Rachel L
name: Lipori, Gigi
name: Loiacono, Alex
name: Magoc, Tanja
name: Galvan-Miyoshi, Yankuic
name: Manini, Lizabeth M
name: Markham, Merry Jennifer
name: Shaw, Katie
name: McMichael, Barbara C
name: Millay, Tamara Ann
name: Nelson, David R
name: Pepine, Carl J
name: Ranka, Deepa
name: Rodriguez, Lylly F
name: Schmidt, Erik
name: Shenkman, Elizabeth Ann
name: Smith, Myra
name: Vogtle, Candice
name: Weaver, Michael
name: White, Sonya
name: Xu, Howard
name: Bassols-Marin, Carrie
name: Bookman, Richard
name: Carrasquillo, Olveen
name: Dominguez, Eliana
name: Giobio, Marie
name: Jayaweera, Dushyantha
name: Dominguez, Sheela
name: Puram, Deepthi
name: Ransford, Daru
name: Taghioff, Peyman
name: Tsinoremas, Nick
name: Anderson, Matthew
name: Brownlee, William
name: Badal, Michael
name: Patel, Nishit
name: Morris, Sherry
name: Clifford, Gari
name: Deshpande, Nita
name: Kamaleswaran, Rishi
name: Obertone, Tracy
name: Patzer, Rachel
name: Robichaux, Chad
name: Teunis, Larissa
name: Wyatt, Matthew
name: Womack, Jason
name: Guzman, Alfredo
name: Burkholder, Greer
name: Willig, James
name: Mugavero, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health surveillance

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Lidov-Kozai Cycles with Gravitational Radiation: Merging Black Holes in Isolated Triple Systems
Creators: name: Silsbee, Kedron
name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a black-hole binary with an external companion can undergo Lidov-Kozai cycles that cause a close pericenter passage, leading to a rapid merger due to gravitational-wave emission. This scenario occurs most often for systems in which the companion has mass comparable to the reduced mass of the binary and the companion orbit has semi-major axis within a factor of $\sim 10$ of the binary semi-major axis. Using a simple population-synthesis model and 3-body simulations, we estimate the rate of mergers in triple black hole systems in the field to be about six per Gpc$^3$ per year in the absence of natal kicks during black hole formation. This value is within the low end of the 90\% credible interval for the total black-hole black-hole merger rate inferred from the current LIGO results. There are many uncertainties in these calculations, the largest of which is the unknown distribution of natal kicks. Even modest natal kicks of $40\mbox{km s}^{-1}$ will reduce the merger rate by a factor of 40. A few percent of these systems will have eccentricity greater than 0.999 when they first enter the frequency band detectable by aLIGO (above 10 Hz).
description: Accepted to ApJ
Dynamic and Simulation-Based Optimization for Portfolio Choice and Derivatives Pricing
Creators: name: VASILEIOS KONTOSAKOS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 10205 Financial Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10401 Applied Statistics

description: This thesis focuses on the development of optimization frameworks to provide solutions to problems in time-varying asset allocation and derivatives pricing. The thesis consists of three essays. In the first, we develop a dynamic programming framework to examine the impact of return predictability and parameter uncertainty on long-term portfolio allocations, impacted by behavioural biases. The second essay deals with the development of a stochastic simulation framework for the pricing of barrier options, further extended in the final chapter where we allow for time-dependent volatility in the price process. In the same chapter, the pricing of credit derivatives is also studied.
An Iu Mien grammar: a tool for language documentation and revitalisation
Creators: name: Arisawa, Tatsuro Daniel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted to the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, and, Department of Languages and Linguistics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics [at] La Trobe University, Melbourne.

This is a grammar of Iu Mien language, spoken by some 46,000 Iu Mien people in Thailand, which has been derived from the data collected by the author whilst living among the villages of Chiang Rai and Phayao provinces between 1994–2015. The thesis comprises three parts: (i) the onomastics found in Chinese-written documents, literature review, Thailand’s National Language Policy draft, (ii) the grammatical descriptions in seventeen chapters, (iii) the representative text and metalanguage in the appendices. The data have been collected through cultural immersion method, the grammar analysed through judicious monolingual discussions with the native speakers to secure description on its own terms, and presented with occasional forays into information structure, Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar; occasionally addressing matters of typology. A grammatical description of Iu Mien is momentous because the existing literature is (i) heavily inclined toward historical linguistics, (ii) a grammar written in English is dated, (iii) many published grammars are sketchy, only written in Chinese, (iv) a recent reference grammar written in Chinese mostly presents the parts-of-speech and sentence patterns with no analyses. The grammar establishes seven operational principles found in the structure of Iu Mien: (1) Topic-Focus orientation, (2) multilayered focus structure with prominence on the sentence final position, (3) verb-medial word order, not necessarily SVO, (4) versatility of verbs used for aspect, modality, multi-verb constructions, etc., (5) vague distinction across “parts-of-speech”, (6) sentence final particles as epistemic grounding elements, (7) culturally affected argument structure, i.e. the relationship between verbs and noun phrases in a sentence. The goal of this thesis is to describe Iu Mien making the grammar accessible both to linguists and also to those in Iu Mien-speaking communities in Thailand, the US, and elsewhere; thus all example sentences are interlinearised tri-scripturally, i.e. IPA, the Romanised script, and the Thai-based Iu Mien orthography.