cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The participation of developing countries in the dispute settlement system of the WTO
Creators: name: Al.Shraideh, Saleh Adnan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: International trade relations have become much more legalised under the World Trade Organization (WTO) than under the former international trade system created pursuant to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) of the WTO clearly represents a shift toward a rule-oriented, legalistic and adjudicative approach, which is intended to enhance that status of, and confidence in, the WTO dispute settlement system. The approach is likely to ensure greater stability and predictability in the system by encouraging precise decisions on the merits of disputes and discouraging infractions. Its greater binding effect serves as a powerful disincentive to those Members who have a propensity to favour unilateral measures to solve international trade disputes. This is particularly beneficial for developing countries that sought a system which recognises their disadvantaged position compared to the greater bargaining and retaliatory power of developed countries. However, despite the positive assessment of the WTO dispute settlement system, the functioning of the system is working against the interest of developing countries in having an efficient dispute settlement system that considers their needs and deals fairly with their disputes. This thesis examines the participation of developing countries in the dispute settlement system of the WTO, and argues that they are in a disadvantageous position compared to their developed counterparts. The system's failure to effectively address or efficiently deal with this position is an evidence of its bias against and deficiency towards developing countries' participation. The thesis focuses on the problematic issues developing countries face throughout their use of the system. It also considers the role that the DSU has played in addressing these issues and the efficiency of that role in restraining and limiting their effect on developing countries' participation in the system. The thesis analyses some ideas on the reform of the DSU that have been proposed through WTO negotiations or literature, and discusses their applicability on the current dispute settlement system. Finally, the thesis employs these proposals along with its discussion on the subject to introduce a reformed model of the DSU which is more sensitive to developing countries' concerns in the system in order to help providing an understanding of how such modifications could be carried out in future reforms on the DSU.
The sensitivity of rapidly rotating Rayleigh--Bénard convection to Ekman pumping
Creators: name: Plumley, Meredith
name: Julien, Keith
name: Marti, Philippe
name: Stellmach, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the heat transfer, as measured by the nondimensional Nusselt number $Nu$, on Ekman pumping for rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection in an infinite plane layer is examined for fluids with Prandtl number $Pr = 1$. A joint effort utilizing simulations from the Composite Non-hydrostatic Quasi-Geostrophic model (CNH-QGM) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the incompressible fluid equations has mapped a wide range of the Rayleigh number $Ra$ - Ekman number $E$ parameter space within the geostrophic regime of rotating convection. Corroboration of the $Nu$-$Ra$ relation at $E = 10^{-7}$ from both methods along with higher $E$ covered by DNS and lower $E$ by the asymptotic model allows for this range of the heat transfer results. For stress-free boundaries, the relation $Nu-1 \propto (Ra E^{4/3} )^α $ has the dissipation-free scaling of $α= 3/2$ for all $E \leq 10^{-7}$. This is directly related to a geostrophic turbulent interior that throttles the heat transport supplied to the thermal boundary layers. For no-slip boundaries, the existence of ageostrophic viscous boundary layers and their associated Ekman pumping yields a more complex 2D surface in $Nu(E,Ra)$ parameter space. For $E<10^{-7}$ results suggest that the surface can be expressed as $Nu-1 \propto (1+ P(E)) (Ra E^{4/3} )^{3/2}$ indicating the dissipation-free scaling law is enhanced by Ekman pumping by the multiplicative prefactor $(1+ P(E))$ where $P(E) \approx 5.97 E^{1/8}$. It follows for $E<10^{-7}$ that the geostrophic turbulent interior remains the flux bottleneck in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. For $E\sim10^{-7}$, where DNS and asymptotic simulations agree quantitatively, it is found that the effects of Ekman pumping are sufficiently strong to influence the heat transport with diminished exponent $α\approx 1.2$ and $Nu-1 \propto (Ra E^{4/3} )^{1.2}$.
description: 9 pages, 14 figures
Poster: Towards Practical Brainwave-based User Authentication
Creators: name: Fallahi, Matin
name: Arias-Cabarcos, Patricia
name: Strufe, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Authentication
EEG
Biometric
Recognition

description: Brainwave measuring devices have transitioned from specialized medical tools to user-friendly and economically accessible consumer products. This shift has opened new avenues for pervasive services, with applications spanning brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), disease detection, criminal trials, and, notably, authentication in computer security. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals, being difficult to steal and revocable, present an attractive biometric option. However, the practical deployment of these signals is hindered by security threats, usability issues, and privacy concerns. To this end, we expect to improve the overall performance of authentication systems using consumer-grade devices, gain a better understanding of user attitudes toward this type of authentication, and protect the user’s privacy against unauthorized use of samples collected during enrollment and verification.
Additional file 1: of The asymmetric cell division machinery in the spiral-cleaving egg and embryo of the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Creators: name: Nakama, Aron
name: Hsien-Chao Chou
name: Schneider, Stephan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Asymmetric Cell Division Genes: Review of the four categories of ACD genes including proposed functions, references, and four supplementary tables (Tables S1â 4) that list each gene. Category 1: Cortical Domain Establishment; Category 2: Spindle Orientation; Category 3: Polarity Complexes; Category 4: Cell-cell adhesion and Cell recognition complexes, respectively. (PDF 260Â kb)
תבניות קלות לבנייה
Creators: name: תבניות קלות לבנין
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: הנדסת טפסות משמשת בבניין מודרני כדי לוודא את איכות הפרויקטים על ידי יציקת בטון וחומרים אחרים. מומחים בייצור תבניות בנייה מייצרים דגמים פשוטים להרכיב ומזרזים את תהליך הבנייה. מכיוון שהן עמידות וקלות לשימוש, תבניות האור המתכתיות המיוחדות במינה הן נהדרות לפרויקטים מסובכים בקנה מידה גדול. ניתן להשיג טפסים לבטון, בטון פלסטי ועוד סוגי בטון מיוחד. תבניות אלו דואגות שהמבנה יהיה מדויק ועקבי, מה שחשוב לאבטחה. לדוגמה, תבניות בטון עשויות להיות מדויקות מאוד, מה שאפשר להציב יסודות ומאפיינים אדריכליים קשים אחרים בצורה מושלמת. מגדלי תמיכה כמו מגדלי אקרו חשובים לבניית בטיחות וביטחון. מגדלים אלה יכולים להחזיק עומסים גדולים ולהכיל תבניות בזמן שהם נוצרים. עבור פרויקטים גדולים של בנייה, המסגרת צריכה להישמר יציבה על ידי Acro Towers שהם אמינים וחזקים. על ידי יישור ומיקום קפדני של תבניות, תבניות ראסטה מגדילות את הפרודוקטיביות והדיוק. לדיוק ואחידות, דגמים אלו חשובים מאוד, במיוחד כאשר יצוקים הרבה דברים בבת אחת או שוב ושוב. הנדסת טפסות משתמשת הן ביצירתיות והן בשכל הישר כדי ליצור דגמים ומבני תמיכה בפרויקטי בנייה באיכות גבוהה. כל תבנית מיוצרת לפי הזמנה, ממגדלי תמיכה ועד תבניות קלות מאלומיניום. זה מבטיח שכל עבודתו תהיה אמינה ומדויקת. איכות ורעיונות חדשים הם המניעים את ההתקדמות בענף הבנייה, מציבים סטנדרטים חדשים ביצועים ויעילות.תבניות קלות לבנין תבניות קלות לבנין

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Virtual Worlds—Real Decisions: Model- and Visualization-based Tools for Landscape Planning in Switzerland
Creators: name: Walz, Ariane
name: Gloor, Christian
name: Bebi, Peter
name: Fischlin, Andreas
name: Lange, Eckart
name: Nagel, Kai
name: Allgöwer, Britta
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: Swiss Alps
subject: landscape planning
subject: visualization
subject: modeling
subject: computer-based tools
subject: National Research Program NRP48

description: Prominent construction projects in Switzerland, such as the Sawiris luxury resort in Andermatt planned by Orascom Hotels & Development, Cairo (Egypt), or the idea of a hotel and apartment tower at Schatzalp, Davos, demonstrate how rapidly Alpine landscapes may undergo major changes. Decisions on whether or not such changes are supported by policymakers should be based on the best information available and in agreement with the local population to ensure long-term sustainable development. The present article investigates the potential and limitations of computer-based tools to support such decisions in the area of landscape planning, with a particular focus on Alpine landscapes.
Additional file 11: of Protein kinase Ds promote tumor angiogenesis through mast cell recruitment and expression of angiogenic factors in prostate cancer microenvironment
Creators: name: Xu, Wanfu
name: Qian, Jiabi
name: Zeng, Fangyin
name: Li, Songyu
name: Guo, Wenjing
name: Chen, Liping
name: Li, Guihuan
name: Zhang, Zhishuai
name: Wang, Qiming
name: Deng, Fan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S9. NF-ÎşB and JNK inhibitor antagonized SCF, CCL5 and CCL11 mRNA level induced by PKD2 or PKD3 overexpression in DU145 cells (PDF 1352 kb)
Asteroseismology and Gaia: Testing Scaling Relations Using 2200 Kepler Stars with TGAS Parallaxes
Creators: name: Huber, Daniel
name: Zinn, Joel
name: Bojsen-Hansen, Mathias
name: Pinsonneault, Marc
name: Sahlholdt, Christian
name: Serenelli, Aldo
name: Aguirre, Victor Silva
name: Stassun, Keivan
name: Stello, Dennis
name: Tayar, Jamie
name: Bastien, Fabienne
name: Bedding, Timothy R.
name: Buchhave, Lars A.
name: Chaplin, William J.
name: Davies, Guy R.
name: Garcia, Rafael A.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Mathur, Savita
name: Mosser, Benoit
name: Sharma, Sanjib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparison of parallaxes and radii from asteroseismology and Gaia DR1 (TGAS) for 2200 Kepler stars spanning from the main sequence to the red giant branch. We show that previously identified offsets between TGAS parallaxes and distances derived from asteroseismology and eclipsing binaries have likely been overestimated for parallaxes
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ. Electronic versions of Tables 1 & 2 are available as ancillary files (sidebar on the right), and source codes are available at https://github.com/danxhuber/isoclassify
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0315
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0315, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0315, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Additional file 1 of Association of delayed chemoradiotherapy with elevated Epstein-Barr virus DNA load and adverse clinical outcome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Huang, Cheng-Long
name: Fang, Xue-Liang
name: Mao, Yan-Ping
name: Guo, Rui
name: Li, Wen-Fei
name: Xu, Si-Si
name: Ma, Jun
name: Chen, Lei
name: Tang, Ling-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Figure S1 and Table S1.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0194v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0194v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0194v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Sustainability management in energy consumption through optimised operation of HVAC systems in commercial buildings
Creators: name: Bagherzadeh, Fariba
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Sustainability is a multifaceted concept that is being discussed and considered in almost every aspect of our society today. One of the significant business sections where sustainable development could be considered is in buildings. As most activities in buildings are significant contributors in energy considering their size and operating hours, reducing energy demand plays an important role in a building's sustainability. Most of the energy in buildings is used by heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems; so high-level performance of an HVAC system is a critical factor in a building's sustainability. Building management systems (BMS), through using computer hardware and software, manage various functions of a building including but not limited to HVAC systems, which enables monitoring, controlling and optimising the operation of these systems that results in improving energy efficiency (Smiciklas et al. 2012). The aim of this research is to demonstrate the effects of an integrated and comprehensive HVAC operation in the reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions and to establish the potential for achieving a sustainable environment. In this regard, the performance of six chillers and three pumps, as most demanding components of a given HVAC system in terms of energy consumption, have been compared before and of after optimisation. Results show that through appropriate operational management not only the equipment life increase but a significant decrease in the greenhouse gas emissions also will be achieved.
First operation of a harmonic lasing self-seeded free electron laser
Creators: name: Schneidmiller, E. A.
name: Faatz, B.
name: Kuhlmann, M.
name: Roensch-Schulenburg, J.
name: Schreiber, S.
name: Tischer, M.
name: Yurkov, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Harmonic lasing is a perspective mode of operation of X-ray FEL user facilities that allows to provide brilliant beams of higher energy photons for user experiments. Another useful application of harmonic lasing is so called Harmonic Lasing Self-Seeded Free Electron Laser (HLSS FEL) that allows to improve spectral brightness of these facilities. In the past, harmonic lasing has been demonstrated in the FEL oscillators in infrared and visible wavelength ranges, but not in high-gain FELs and not at short wavelengths. In this paper we report on the first evidence of the harmonic lasing and the first operation of the HLSS FEL at the soft X-ray FEL user facility FLASH in the wavelength range between 4.5 nm and 15 nm. Spectral brightness was improved in comparison with Self-Amplified Spontaneous emission (SASE) FEL by a factor of six in the exponential gain regime. A better performance of HLSS FEL with respect to SASE FEL in the post-saturation regime with a tapered undulator was observed as well. The first demonstration of harmonic lasing in a high-gain FEL and at short wavelengths paves the way for a variety of applications of this new operation mode in X-ray FELs.
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Pulmonary exacerbations and clinical outcomes in a longitudinal cohort of infants and preschool children with cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Hoppe, Jordana
name: Wagner, Brandie
name: Sagel, Scott
name: Accurso, Frank
name: Zemanick, Edith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Relationship between lung function at 7Â years and Wisconsin cough score at enrollment: A loess curve (grey line) was used to display the association and is plotted with a 95% confidence interval (shaded band). Higher FEV1 percent predicted at school age was associated with a lower Wisconsin cough score at enrollment. The corresponding linear association for the rank transformed variables is indicated by the Spearmanâ s rank-based correlation coefficient in the upper right hand corner. (PDF 83Â kb)
Optimising yeast surface display for identifying cellular targets of natural products
Creators: name: Mehta, Ruchi Dhaval
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: While natural products have long been a valuable source of biologically active compounds, their cellular targets and modes of action are rarely identified. In this project, yeast surface display (YSD) was investigated as a platform technology to rapidly identify the cellular targets of natural products. YSD involves cloning a cDNA library into baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) such that the encoded foreign proteins are expressed fused to the yeast Aga2 surface receptor. Flow cytometry (FACS) is then used to separate yeast cells displaying proteins capable of binding to a fluorescently tagged probe, thereby allowing the cellular targets of the probe to be identified. In Part 1 of this project, a YSD clone displaying the well-studied human protein FKBP was constructed as a positive control. A fluorescently labelled analogue of FK506 (a known inhibitor of FKBP) was then used to optimise a range of FACS parameters for protein-small molecule interactions, including probe concentration, incubation time/temperature, detergent concentration, washing stringency and FACS binning stringency. In Part 2, a YSD cDNA library was constructed from the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. These preliminary studies have laid the groundwork for future YSDstudies to identify the cellular targets of a range of biologically active natural products.
Meditation App Development
Creators: name: Deligence Technologies
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Meditation App Development | Meditation4SoulCreate your custom meditation app with Deligence Technology, the top Meditation app development Company . Explore our expertise in creating feature-rich apps with innovative solutions.Meditation4soul is a dynamic flutter app development available for iOS and Android that can completely transform the experience of meditation, mindfulness, and yoga. Meditation4Soul was developed to enhance mental well-being and cultivate mindfulness among people for solutions for meditation app development.Our dynamic Flutter application and admin panel can fulfill the specific requirements of businesses whether you are a business venture, yoga trainer, mindfulness coach, or business owner who wants to take care of the mental health of their employees.Meditation4soul is a ready-to-use app, the best meditation app development with customizable according to your business requirements and is jammed with some amazing features.
title: Combustion dynamics of premixed swirling flames with different injectors
Creators: name: Gatti, Marco
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: Lean premixed (LPM) combustion systems achieve low pollutant emission levels, with compact flames and high power densities, but are highly sensitive to dynamic phenomena, e.g, flashback, blowout and thermoacoustic instabilities, that hinder their practical application. Most LPM gas turbine combustors use swirling flows to stabilize compact flames for efficient and clean combustion. A better knowledge of the mechanisms of steady and unsteady combustion of lean premixed swirled mixtures is then of practical, as well as fundamental interest. This thesis is a contribute towards the achievement of this goal. A burner, made of several components with variable geometry, was specifically designed for this scope. An experimental analysis was conducted to investigate the main parameters leading to a reduction of the sensitivity of LPM systems to dynamic phenomena. The diagnostics applied include flame transfer function (FTF) measurements, laser diagnostics (LDV and PIV) and flame imaging. Large eddy simulations were also exploited to elucidate the mechanisms behind the experimental observations.
Additional file 13: of Research protocol: Cisplatin-associated ototoxicity amongst patients receiving cancer chemotherapy and the feasibility of an audiological monitoring program
Creators: name: J. Paken
name: C. Govender
name: V. Sewram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Information document for patients. (PDF 308Â kb)
FRATELLO LAW
Creators: name: FRATELLO LAW
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Intense keV isolated attosecond pulse generation by orthogonally polarized multicycle midinfrared two-color laser field
Creators: name: Li, Guicun
name: Zheng, Yinghui
name: Zeng, Zhinan
name: Li, Ruxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the generation of intense keV attosecond pulses in an orthogonally polarized multicycle midinfrared two-color laser field. It is demonstrated that multiple continuum-like humps, which have a spectral width of about twenty orders of harmonics and an intensity of about one order higher than adjacent normal harmonic peaks, are generated under proper two-color delays, owing to the reduction of the number of electron-ion recollisions and suppression of inter-half-cycle interference effect of multiple electron trajectories when the long wavelength midinfrared driving field is used. Using the semiclassical trajectory model, we have revealed the two-dimensional manipulation of the electron-ion recollision process, which agrees well with the time frequency analysis. By filtering these humps, intense isolated attosecond pulses are directly generated without any phase compensation. Our proposal provides a simple technique to generate intense isolated attosecond pulses with various central photon energies covering the multi-keV spectral regime by using multicycle driving pulses with high pump energy in experiment.
description: 11 pages,5 figures, research article
Quarantine Station North Head 1900-1984: a history of place
Creators: name: Kelleher, Carmel Patricia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In 1984 the Quarantine Station North Head – the oldest, largest and longest serving station in Australia - was closed and handed over to the New South Wales Government. In the following years the material degradation of the site threatened its survival, despite the promise of government funds to conserve its heritage value. After the site was leased to the heritage tourism group Mawland Hotel Management in 2006, it re-emerged as QSTATION, a retreat and conference facility where, via interactive experiences from dramatic performances and ghost tours, visitors could pay to learn something of the cultural and historical significance of the site. Packaged for public consumption and Mawland’s financial viability, the history of the station was compromised. Sandwiched between a ghoulish nineteenth century past which had little relevance to the station as a place of protection and work on the one hand, and a broader historiographical meta-narrative linking quarantine to policies, particularly in Australia and the Asia-pacific region, of restrictive immigration, nationhood, and white Australia, the twentieth century story, particularly the human face of quarantine is lost. This is exacerbated by the view that the station was in complete decline following the drop in maritime quarantines after the mid-1930s. Yet the twentieth century history of the site is a rich story of continued protective activity from the threat of disease, effective disinfection of imported goods and provision of temporary accommodation for diverse groups affected by war, natural disaster and immigration policies. This thesis aims to recover the twentieth century story by focussing on the history of the station as a history of place which allows us to consider the human face of quarantine in the built environment. Far from a ghostly site, the station was place of work, life and death, of shelter and refuge against the backdrop of some of the most important social and political changes in the nation’s twentieth century history.
Adaptive Network Coding Schemes for Satellite Communications
Creators: name: Gharsellaoui, Ala Eddine
name: Ghanem, Samah A. M.
name: Tarchi, Daniele
name: Vanelli-Coralli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose two novel physical layer aware adaptive network coding and coded modulation schemes for time variant channels. The proposed schemes have been applied to different satellite communications scenarios with different Round Trip Times (RTT). Compared to adaptive network coding, and classical non-adaptive network coding schemes for time variant channels, as benchmarks, the proposed schemes demonstrate that adaptation of packet transmission based on the channel variation and corresponding erasures allows for significant gains in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency. We shed light on the trade-off between energy efficiency and delay-throughput gains, demonstrating that conservative adaptive approaches that favors less transmission under high erasures, might cause higher delay and less throughput gains in comparison to non-conservative approaches that favor more transmission to account for high erasures.
description: IEEE Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 14th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC), 2016
Phillip Island Tours Australia
Creators: name: Phillip Island Tours Australia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Geographic variation in male agonistic display among three populations of the lizard Amphibolurus muricatus: the role of habitat structure, predation risk and temperature
Creators: name: Barquero, Marco D.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Signal diversification is often the product of sexual or natural selection and may be accompanied by genetic differentiation or reflect a plastic response to environmental variables. Visual displays of lizards performed during communication with conspecifics can be affected by a multitude of factors including habitat light and habitat structure, predators, and the thermal environment. Widely-ranging species occupying different habitat types and environmental conditions including predator type and density are predicted to exhibit greater variation in signal form and function.This geographic variation can manifest itself in differences in communication and even population-level aggression and dominance. I use an agamid lizard from Australia, the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus) to: 1) examine geographic variation of intrinsic features such as genetic structure, morphology, performance capacities, body temperature and signaling behaviour; 2) determine the variation of extrinsic factors such as the characteristics of the habitats, predation risk and ambient temperature experienced by these populations; and 3) establish the relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic factors and the repercussions for the communicative system of the species. I sampled three populations (Yarratt State Forest, Royal National Park and Cann River State Forest) across the range of the species (at least 280 km apart) and collected data in the field on morphological traits and body temperatures of lizards, as well as the structure and complexity of the habitat. I also performed lab experiments to record the variation in signaling behaviour, performance capacities and preferred body temperature of animals. I found that individuals from two more closely-related populations were alsomore similar in morphology and field body temperatures than lizards from a third, more distant population. All three populations differed in performance capacities and characteristics of the signaling behaviour. Variation in visual displays and habitat use was unrelated to habitat structure and complexity. Predation risk and thermal environment were highly variable along the distribution of the Jacky dragon and both factors have an effect on the properties of the signaling behaviour. No significant differences in aggression were found during intra- and inter-population contests, although one population seemed to be dominant over the others and different rules among populations seemed to govern the outcome of contests. I argue that display variation might be a consequence of behavioural plasticity and that, despite difference in genetic structure, morphology and behaviour, the species retains a communicative cohesion.
Accretion Disk Assembly During Common Envelope Evolution: Implications for Feedback and LIGO Binary Black Hole Formation
Creators: name: Murguia-Berthier, Ariadna
name: MacLeod, Morgan
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
name: Antoni, Andrea
name: Macias, Phillip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During a common envelope episode in a binary system, the engulfed companion spirals to tighter orbital separations under the influence of drag from the surrounding envelope material. As this object sweeps through material with a steep radial gradient of density, net angular momentum is introduced into the flow, potentially leading to the formation of an accretion disk. The presence of a disk would have dramatic consequences for the outcome of the interaction because accretion might be accompanied by strong, polar outflows with enough energy to unbind the entire envelope. Without a detailed understanding of the necessary conditions for disk formation during common envelope, therefore, it is difficult to accurately predict the population of merging compact binaries. This paper examines the conditions for disk formation around objects embedded within common envelopes using the `wind tunnel' formalism developed by MacLeod et al. (2017). We find that the formation of disks is highly dependent on the compressibility of the envelope material. Disks form only in the most compressible of stellar envelope gas, found in envelopes' outer layers in zones of partial ionization. These zones are largest in low-mass stellar envelopes, but comprise small portions of the envelope mass and radius in all cases. We conclude that disk formation and associated accretion feedback in common envelope is rare, and if it occurs, transitory. The implication for LIGO black hole binary assembly is that by avoiding strong accretion feedback, common envelope interactions should still result in the substantial orbital tightening needed to produce merging binaries.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Luxury Designer Handbags
Creators: name: Luxury Designer Handbags
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Creators: name: Towing, Elite gta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Verifying the Integrity of Hyperlinked Information Using Linked Data and Smart Contracts
Creators: name: Braun, Christoph
name: Käfer, Tobias
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2019

description: We present an approach to verify off-chained information using Linked Data, Smart Contracts, and RDF graph hashes stored on a Distributed Ledger. We use the notion of a Linked Pedigree, i.e. a decentralised dataset for storing hyperlinked information, as modelling foundation. We evaluate our approach by comparing different ways to build the Smart Contract. We develop a cost model and show, based on our implementation, that for managing multiple Linked Pedigree instances, a single larger Smart Contract is superior to multiple smaller Smart Contracts for supply chains shorter than 50 participants.
MOESM2 of A method to generate the surface cell layer of the 3D virtual shoot apex from apical initials
Creators: name: Kucypera, Krzysztof
name: Lipowczan, Marcin
name: Piekarska-Stachowiak, Anna
name: Nakielski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. The block diagram showing the iteration method used in the model.
The beta Pictoris association: Catalog of photometric rotational periods of low-mass members and candidate members
Creators: name: Messina, S.
name: Millward, M.
name: Buccino, A.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Medhi, B. J.
name: Jofre', E.
name: Petrucci, R.
name: Pi, Q.
name: Hambsch, F. -J.
name: Kehusmaa, P.
name: Harlingten, C.
name: Artemenko, S.
name: Curtis, I.
name: Hentunen, V. -P.
name: Malo, L.
name: Mauas, P.
name: Monard, B.
name: Serrano, M. Muro
name: Naves, R.
name: Santallo, R.
name: Savuskin, A.
name: Tan, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We intended to compile the most complete catalog of bona fide members and candidate members of the beta Pictoris association, and to measure their rotation periods and basic properties from our own observations, public archives, and exploring the literature. We carried out a multi-observatories campaign to get our own photometric time series and collected all archived public photometric data time series for the stars in our catalog. Each time series was analyzed with the Lomb-Scargle and CLEAN periodograms to search for the stellar rotation periods. We complemented the measured rotational properties with detailed information on multiplicity, membership, and projected rotational velocity available in the literature and discussed star by star. We measured the rotation periods of 112 out of 117 among bona fide members and candidate members of the beta Pictoris association and, whenever possible, we also measured the luminosity, radius, and inclination of the stellar rotation axis. This represents to date the largest catalog of rotation periods of any young loose stellar association. We provided an extensive catalog of rotation periods together with other relevant basic properties useful to explore a number of open issues, such as the causes of spread of rotation periods among coeval stars, evolution of angular momentum, and lithium-rotation connection.
description: Forthcoming article, Received: 20 June 2016 / Accepted: 09 September 2016; 40 pages, 2 figures. The online figures A1-A73 are available at CDS
Early-type galaxy stellar populations in the near-infrared
Creators: name: Baldwin, Christina
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Stellar population synthesis (SPS) models are key to interpreting the spectral energy distributions of galaxies. While different models typically agree at optical wavelengths, these same models give vastly different predictions in the near-infrared, mainly due to different treatments of late-stage stellar evolution, in particular the Thermally Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch (TP-AGB) phase. This thesis tests three popular SPS models, with a focus on evaluating the differing treatments of this phase. To this end, we obtain high quality near infrared spectroscopy of a sample of galaxies with well-known spectral properties. These galaxies were selected from the ATLAS 3D sample to span a large range of ages, but other physical properties such as velocity dispersion do not vary significantly within the sample, allowing age-dependent phases such as the TP-AGB to be studied. We measure the strengths of the CN index at 1.1 μm and the CO index at 2.29 μm and compare these with the predictions of the Bruzual and Charlot (2003), Maraston and Strömbäck (2011), and Conroy et al. (2009); Conroy and Gunn (2010) SPS models. We also perform full spectral fitting of these same models to the data. We find that none of the models can accurately predict the strengths of either the CN or CO indices. Furthermore, we find that the age estimates obtained by fitting single stellar populations (SSPs) to the near infrared data do not correlate with those obtained from the optical or with those obtained by each other. The inclusion of multiple stellar populations alleviates some issues found with SSP fitting, however all models are found to have certain fundamental inaccuracies in the near-infrared regime.
Distributed polymer optical fibre sensors for advancing radiotherapy
Creators: name: Olugbenga Jeremiah, Olusoji
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This thesis presents the use of polymer optical fibre for enhancing the measurement of radiation dose in radiotherapy. The methods of sensing with this fibre depend on the direct alteration of the inherent characteristics of the fibre. The alterations used are radiation-induced attenuation (RIA) and radiation-induced refractive index change (RIRIC). This thesis aims to investigate how polymer optical fibre (POF) reacts to low doses of radiation from X-ray and proton, and how this can be utilized to measure the dose in real-time during radiotherapy. The response to neutrons was also investigated as they are contaminants that exist at high energy radiation. The fibre was evaluated with various radiation sources at different facilities, including TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) in Spain and Galway Clinic in Galway, Ireland. The results revealed that perfluorinated polymer optical fibre was a suitable material for developing a system that can measure the dose at a specific point on a fibre, as it had high sensitivity and repeatability over a wide range of wavelengths. It is more sensitive than undoped polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) fibre. The sensitivity of PMMA fibre was enhanced by adding Trans-4-Stilbene Methanol (TS) as a dopant. Fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) were embedded in different types of polymer fibre, such as benzyl-dimethylketal (BDK) doped PMMA, diphenyl disulfide (DPDS) doped PMMA and cyclic transparent amorphous fluoropolymer (CYTOP® ) and tested with X-ray and proton. They showed a Bragg wavelength shift (BWS) that was proportional to the dose received. The FBGs in BDK doped PMMA show a better consistency in their BWS as compared to other POFs. The FBGs demonstrated a good potential for measuring the dose at discrete points along the fibre and are therefore applicable for quasi-distributed dosimetry application. This study contributes to the advancement of photonics in the development of optical dosimeters in radiotherapy.
Agricultural Finance Markets in Transition: Rural Small Business Finance - Evidence from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances
Creators: name: Gustafson, Cole
name: Gustafson, Cole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: business
subject: finances
subject: rural
subject: small
subject: survey

description: The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm’s organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of metro and rural small businesses. While many financial characteristics are similar, rural small businesses do own more land and depreciable assets, and have lower inventory and other current assets when compared with urban firms. Rural firms have relatively similar access to technology and financial services, although utilization varies. Both metro and rural small businesses rely on a wide variety of sources for financing, although rural small businesses have significantly more mortgages, loans from shareholders, and other types of loans, but fewer credit cards. Nonparametric rank order statistical methods were required because normality assumptions were violated due to asymmetric distribution of small firms.