cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards an improved method of presenting the Lexiphone code and spelled speech
Creators: name: Suen, Ching Yee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes the effects of dichotic presentations on the reading speed of the users of the Lexiphone - a reading machine for the blind. The dichotic presentations investigated are: a) single delay: one signal to one ear and a delayed version of this signal to the other ear; b) multiple delay: the same signal with three interdelayed versions, two signals coming to each ear. Experiments with the Lexiphone subjects indicated that dichotic presentations (compared with ordinary binaural presentation, i.e. without delay) brought a significant improvement to their reading speed. A similar investigation has also been made on spelled speech which has been proposed to replace the code sounds. The results indicated that multiple delay (as has been found in the case using the Lexiphone subjects) produced a little less improvement than single delay. Nevertheless, both these two dichotic presentations produced an improvement on the intelligibility of the material. The effect of the word length (number of letters contained in a word), on the intelligibility of spelled speech was also analyzed, it showed that the word length has a great effect; it was found that the percent correctness decreases with the word length. This effect also seems to be due to the longer time required to perceive the word from the spelling, thus it is suggested that a longer pause should be provided for those words with a large number of letters. Confusions of some letter sounds were observed when spelled speech was compressed, these are the consonant sounds which are articulated either at the same place or in the same manner.
Służba wojskowa kleryków w latach 1959-1980. Jerzy Popiełuszko - alumn żołnierz
Creators: name: Paszkowski, Stanisław
Publisher: name: Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
Year: 2020

description: Brak abstraktu
description: Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, Vol 18 No 1 (2010)
The curriculum design and development process : a consideration of the curriculum process within a centralised-decentralised decision making frame
Creators: name: Milton, KG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The provision of school curricula is a continuing concern. There is debate on what form a curriculum should take, what it should contain and by whom it should be constructed. Recently, education systems have allowed curriculum decision making to be partially decentralised. This has forced upon systems and ,schools the need for a thorough analysis and understanding of the processes of curriculum development and evaluation, and of the effects, of centralised and de-centralised decision-making on these processes. Moreover, there is a need to set the analysis outcomes within the centralised-decentralised decision making frame so that attendant resources and support requirements can be anticipated. This dissertation seeks to develop such an analysis and to identify consequent requirements for teacher development.
Additional file 4 of Whole genome sequencing and comparative genomic analyses of Planococcus alpniumensis MSAK28401T, a new species isolated from Antarctic krill
Creators: name: Wang, Yuanyuan
name: Ma, Lingbo
name: He, Jian
name: Liu, Zixuan
name: Weng, Shaoping
name: Wang, Lumin
name: He, Jianguo
name: Guo, Changjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. KEGG database annotated classification statistics.
Claisen-Schmidt, aza-Michael, cyclization via cascade strategy toward microwave promoted synthesis of imidazo[2,1-b]quinazolines
Creators: name: Priya, Duraipandi Devi
name: Roopan, Selvaraj Mohana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Imidazole blended quinazolines are having a wide run of potential applications in synthetic field. In this current investigation, we reported a modern synthesis with the help of non-conventional energy. Optimization parameters have been stabilized utilizing RSM (Response Surface Method) as well as Taguchi models. The yield obtained from the proposed protocol is significantly higher compared to other routine strategies. The products were explored by implies of 1H, 13C-NMR and HR-MS investigation. Interestingly, cyclization & aromatization has been influenced by KOH in a greater extent. It is critical that the imidazo[1,2-b]quinazolines show intense fluorescence emission, significant stokes shift, and high quantum yield.
Performance Analysis of Fixed Broadband Wireless Access in mmWave Band in 5G
Creators: name: Banerjee, Soumya
name: Gochhayat, Sarada Prasad
name: Shetty, Sachin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An end-to-end fiber-based network holds the potential to provide multi-gigabit fixed access to end-users. However, deploying fiber access, especially in areas where fiber is non-existent, can be time-consuming and costly, resulting in delayed returns for Operators. This work investigates transmission data from fixed broadband wireless access in the mmWave band in 5G. Given the growing interest in this domain, understanding the transmission characteristics of the data becomes crucial. While existing datasets for the mmWave band are available, they are often generated from simulated environments. In this study, we introduce a dataset compiled from real-world transmission data collected from the Fixed Broadband Wireless Access in mmWave Band device (RWM6050). The aim is to facilitate self-configuration based on transmission characteristics. To achieve this, we propose an online machine learning-based approach for real-time training and classification of transmission characteristics. Additionally, we present two advanced temporal models for more accurate classifications. Our results demonstrate the ability to detect transmission angle and distance directly from the analysis of transmission data with very high accuracy, reaching up to 99% accuracy on the combined classification task. Finally, we outline promising future research directions based on the collected data.
description: 6 pages, 16 figures, Published in ICNC 22
AdS_3 x S^3 x S^3 x S^1 Solutions of Type IIB String Theory
Creators: name: Donos, Aristomenis
name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Sparks, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a recently constructed class of local solutions of type IIB supergravity that consist of a warped product of AdS_3 with a seven-dimensional internal space. In one duality frame the only other non-vanishing fields are the NS three-form and the dilaton. We analyse in detail how these local solutions can be extended to globally well-defined solutions of type IIB string theory, with the internal space having topology S^3 x S^3 x S^1 and with properly quantised three-form flux.
description: Comments on marginal deformations clarified and typos fixed. Published version
An ontological comparison and evaluation of data modelling frameworks
Creators: name: Milton, SK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Data modelling frameworks are used to construct models of reality for use in information systems, computer science and software engineering. Currently, there is a plethora of data modelling frameworks each possessing a view of the world, in that each data modelling framework has a distinct set of terms that are used to create models of reality. We are interested in finding a unifying framework in which to compare and study data modelling frameworks. We turn to the study of ontologies to find a theory with potential as a unifying framework. Ontologies are studied in philosophy and are concerned with 'what there is'. An ontology defines the categorial structure of reality and the terms that are fundamental for describing reality. Consequently, ontologies are ideally suited to comparing and evaluating data modelling frameworks, and an ontology has the potential to provide a unifying framework for data modelling frameworks. In this thesis we consider using ontology in this role and examine using a specific commonsense realistic ontology from philosophy in the role of a unifying framework. We are seeking to establish the nature and degree of synonymity between the world view of a pragmatically selected ontology and of several representative data modelling frameworks. We propose and apply two qualitative methods to help us. By applying these methods, we can begin to understand the efficacy of our approach and the generality of using an ontology as a unifying framework. We have found that there is reasonable commonality between the world view of the selected ontology and that of the data modelling frameworks we have studied. However, we have found areas in which specific data modelling frameworks do not match the world view of the ontology. We have also found areas in which aspects of specific data modelling frameworks are not supported by the selected ontology. Most notably, we have found grounds to question the rigid class hierarchies common in many object modelling frameworks. However, all data modelling frameworks appear capable of being extended to support the selected ontology. We have reason to believe that the selected ontology is thus an excellent candidate for further investigation as a unifying framework.
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and H^{\pm\pm}\to {l'}^\pm l^\pm Decays in the Higgs Triplet Model
Creators: name: Petcov, S. T.
name: Sugiyama, H.
name: Takanishi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between the neutrinoless double beta ((ββ)_{0 ν}-) decay effective Majorana mass, |M_{ee}|, and the branching ratios of the decays H^{\pm\pm}\to l^\pm {l'}^\pm, l,{l'}= e,μ, of the doubly charged Higgs boson H^{\pm\pm} is analysed within the Higgs Triplet Model of neutrino mass generation. We work in the version of the model with explicit breaking of the total lepton charge conservation, in which H^{\pm\pm}\to l^\pm {l'}^\pm, l,{l'} = e,μ,τ, are the dominant decay modes of H^{\pm\pm}. It is assumed also that H^{\pm\pm} are relatively light so that they can be produced at LHC and the branching ratios of interest measured. Taking into account the current and prospective uncertainties in the values of the neutrino mixing parameters most relevant for the problem studied - the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle θ_{23} and the CHOOZ angle θ_{13}, and allowing the lightest neutrino mass and the CP violating Dirac and Majorana phases to vary in the intervals [0, 0.3 eV] and [0, 2π], respectively, we derive the regions of values of BR(H^{\pm\pm}\to e^\pm e^\pm) and BR(H^{\pm\pm}\to e^\pm μ^\pm) for which |M_{ee}|\geq 0.05 eV, or |M_{ee}| < 0.05 eV. This is done for neutrino mass spectrum with normal ordering, inverted ordering and in the case when the type of the spectrum is not known, and i) without using the possible additional data on BR(H^{\pm\pm}\to μ^\pm μ^\pm), ii) using prospective data on BR(H^{\pm\pm}\to μ^\pm μ^\pm). In the latter case results for several values of BR(H^{\pm\pm}\to μ^\pmμ^\pm) are presented.
description: 21 pages, 10 figs
Training choice-making behaviours of adults with intellectual disabilities
Creators: name: Morgan, MJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the daily choice-making behaviours of adults with intellectual disabilities in order to develop a training program for improving these behaviours following the three-stage model of choice developed by Zilber, Rawlings and Shaddock (1994). It begins with the development of the Daily Choice Questionnaire (DCQ), which quantifies choice behaviours in each of the three stages: Option Recognition, Evaluation and Selection, and Acting on the Selection. This instrument was used to assess the impact of resident, environmental, and support worker characteristics on the expression of the choice behaviours of 43 adults with intellectual disabilities living in 11 group homes. This analysis indicated that resident characteristics, particularly measures of ability, most influenced choice behaviours. The DCQ was then used to evaluate a number of approaches for training choice-making. These involved intervention with either the resident (skills training), the support worker (opportunity training), or both. Involving the same participants as the previous study, the combined approach proved to be the most effective, both in increasing the frequency of opportunities and follow-through of choices. Although there were few other effects on choice behaviours, some of the negative effects of using opportunity or skills training in isolation were apparently prevented by the combined use of both forms of training. In the last two studies, 79 residential support workers rated 59 group home residents on their availability of choice in 16 daily choice areas. These ratings were used to develop a model of choice availability that describes the relationships between resident disability, support worker attitudes to the choice skills of residents, and choice availability. One of the key implications of this model is that choice availability is a consequence of both general resident ability, and support worker perceptions of the development and teachability of choice skills. This finding reinforces the need to train both the resident and the support worker in order to influence the availability of choice. Resident choice availability ratings were then compared to similar ratings for 198 individuals without an intellectual disability. These individuals ranged in age between four months and 56 years, and lived in family homes of between three and five people. Equations were developed to predict the age-equivalent choice availability as a function of the level of disability. These can be used to set goals for increased choice availability consistent with normalisation. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for further refinement of a combined opportunity and skills training approach to improve the choice behaviours of adults with an intellectual disability.
Highly efficient synthesis of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles from thioamides utilizing tetra(n-butyl)ammonium peroxydisulfate
Creators: name: Lee, Kieseung
name: Lee, Richard S.
name: Kim, Yong Hae
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A new synthetic approach to 1,2,4-thiadiazoles using tetra(n-butyl)ammonium peroxydisulfate via oxidative dimerization of thioamides is described. This new oxidative protocol is simple, highly efficient, and allows the practical synthesis of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles from various primary thioamides in good to excellent yields.
Isotropic magnetometry with simultaneous excitation of orientation and alignment CPT resonances
Creators: name: Ben-Kish, A.
name: Romalis, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic magnetometers have very high absolute precision and sensitivity to magnetic fields but suffer from a fundamental problem: the vectorial or tensorial interaction of light with atoms leads to "dead zones", certain orientations of magnetic field where the magnetometer loses its sensitivity. We demonstrate a simple polarization modulation scheme that simultaneously creates coherent population trapping (CPT) in orientation and alignment, thereby eliminating dead zones. Using $^{87}$Rb in a 10 Torr buffer gas cell we measure narrow, high-contrast CPT transparency peaks in all orientations and also show absence of systematic effects associated with non-linear Zeeman splitting.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Upgrading a trickling filter wastewater treatment plant to biological nutrient removal standard
Creators: name: Morgan, SJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Selfs Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hobart was upgraded to biological nutrient removal standard in early 1997. The upgrade incorporated the existing trickling filter and anaerobic digesters. The new nutrient removal capability is provided by the BioDenipho process, and is supported by prefermentation and alum dosing of the digested sludge sidestream. This study reviews the development of wastewater treatment processes and the history of sewage treatment and collection in Hobart leading to this upgrade. All of the major processes at the Plant are reviewed as to how each impacts and is impacted by nutrient removal processes. Results from the first 18 months of operation of the plant following commissioning of nutrient removal are discussed, along with some of the factors affecting performance. Prefermentation has been found to be critical in achieving good biological phosphorus removal. A solids residence time of 5 days in a combined activated primary tank and sidestream prefermenter system has provided good performance. Use of existing rock trickling filters in a combined carbonaceous removal and nitrification role has permitted a smaller BNR reactor volume and a plant with greater flexibility for treating high influent loads or flows. The anaerobic digestion of phosphorus rich activated sludge led to a solubilisation of about 30% of the phosphorus entering the digesters. Alum dosing of the digested, sludge prior to the belt filter press at 1 to 1 1:1 molar (Al:P) ratio has been effective at reducing return of phosphorus to the main process to less than 1%.
A coherent phonon-induced hidden quadrupolar ordered state in Ca$_2$RuO$_4$
Creators: name: Ning, H.
name: Mehio, O.
name: Li, X.
name: Buchhold, M.
name: Driesse, M.
name: Zhao, H.
name: Cao, G.
name: Hsieh, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrafast laser excitation provides a means to transiently realize long-range ordered electronic states of matter that are hidden in thermal equilibrium. Recently, this approach has unveiled a variety of thermally inaccessible ordered states in strongly correlated materials, including charge density wave, ferroelectric, magnetic, and intertwined charge-orbital ordered states. However, more exotic hidden states exhibiting higher multipolar ordering remain elusive owing to the challenge of directly manipulating and detecting them with light. Here we demonstrate a method to induce a dynamical transition from a thermally allowed to a thermally forbidden spin-orbit entangled quadrupolar ordered state in Ca$_2$RuO$_4$ by coherently exciting a phonon that is strongly coupled to the order parameter. Combining probe photon energy-resolved coherent phonon spectroscopy measurements with model Hamiltonian calculations, we show that the dynamical transition is manifested through anomalies in the temperature, pump excitation fluence, and probe photon energy dependence of the strongly coupled phonon. With this procedure, we introduce a general pathway to uncover hidden multipolar ordered states and to control their re-orientation on ultrashort timescales.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Casimir densities for a plate in de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Vardanyan, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of a plate in the de Sitter spacetime. Robin boundary condition for the field operator is assumed on the plate. The vacuum expectation values are presented as the sum of two terms. The first one corresponds to the geometry of de Sitter bulk without boundaries and the second one is induced by the presence of the plate. We show that for non-conformal fields the vacuum energy-momentum tensor is non-diagonal with the off-diagonal component corresponding to the energy flux along the direction perpendicular to the plate. In dependence of the parameters, this flux can be either positive or negative. The asymptotic behavior of the field squared, vacuum energy density and stresses near the plate and at large distances is investigated.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, figure 1 changed, figure 3 and references added, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav
Synthesis and cytotoxicity of novel (E)-2-phenylchroman-4-one-O-((1-substituted-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methyl) oxime derivatives
Creators: name: Gutam, Madhu
name: Mokenapelli, Sudhakar
name: Yerrabelli, Jayaprakash Rao
name: Banerjee, Somesh
name: Roy, Partha
name: Chitneni, Prasad Rao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: A series of new flavanone-triazole hybrids (7a–m) were synthesized from flavanone oximes (6a–c) via multistep synthetic strategy, involving Cu (I) catalyzed azide, alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition by Click reaction. All the synthesized compounds were tested for their cytotoxicity against HCT-15, HeLa, NCI-H522, and HEK-293 (normal cell line) cell lines. Compounds 6a, 7a, 7b, 7d, 7e, 7j, and 7m showed the significant cytotoxicity, wherein compound 7b showed potential cytotoxicity against NCI-H522 cell line and compounds 6a and 7a were offensive with HEK-293 in their toxicity profile.
Conservation laws of inviscid non-isentropic compressible fluid flow in n>1 spatial dimensions
Creators: name: Anco, Stephen C.
name: Dar, Amanullah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work giving a classification of kinematic and vorticity conservation laws of compressible fluid flow for barotropic equations of state (where pressure is a function only of the fluid density) in $n>1$ spatial dimensions is extended to general non-isentropic equations of state in which the pressure is also a function of the dynamical entropy (per unit mass) of the fluid. Two main results are obtained. First, we find that apart from the familiar conserved integrals for mass, momentum, energy, angular momentum and Galilean momentum, and volumetric entropy, additional kinematic conserved integrals arise only for non-isentropic equations of state given by a generalized form of the well-known polytropic equation of state with dimension-dependent exponent $γ=1+2/n$, such that the proportionality coefficient is an arbitrary function of the entropy (per unit mass). Second, we show that the only vorticity conserved integrals consist of a circulatory entropy (which vanishes precisely when the fluid flow is irrotational) in all even dimensions. In particular, the vorticity integrals for helicity in odd dimensions and enstrophy in even dimensions are found to be no longer conserved for any non-isentropic equation of state.
description: 24 pages; minor corrections to eqns (5.9)& (5.1) in published version
Highly efficient synthesis of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles from thioamides utilizing tetra(n-butyl)ammonium peroxydisulfate
Creators: name: Lee, Kieseung
name: Lee, Richard S.
name: Kim, Yong Hae
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A new synthetic approach to 1,2,4-thiadiazoles using tetra(n-butyl)ammonium peroxydisulfate via oxidative dimerization of thioamides is described. This new oxidative protocol is simple, highly efficient, and allows the practical synthesis of 1,2,4-thiadiazoles from various primary thioamides in good to excellent yields.
Stochastic Optimal Control based on Value-Function Approximation using Sinc Interpolation
Creators: name: Weissel, Florian
name: Huber, Marco F.
name: Brunn, Dietrich
name: Hanebeck, Uwe D.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: An effcient approach for solving stochastic optimal control problems is to employ dynamic programming (DP). For continuous-valued nonlinear systems, the corresponding DP recursion generally cannot be solved in closed form. Thus, a typical approach is to discretize the DP value functions in order to be able to carry out the calculation. Especially for multidimensional systems, either a large number of discretization points is necessary or the quality of approximation degrades. This problem can be alleviated by interpolating the discretized value function. In this paper, we present an approach based on optimal low-pass interpolation employing sinc functions (sine cardinal). For the important case of systems with Gaussian mixture noise (including the special case of Gaussian noise), we show how the calculations required for this approach, especially the nontrivial calculation of an expected value of a Gaussian mixture random variable transformed by a sinc function, can be carried out analytically. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed interpolation scheme by an example from the field of Stochastic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (SNMPC).
Quasi-lattice approximation of statistical systems with strong superstable interactions. Correlation functions
Creators: name: Rebenko, Alexei
name: Tertychnyi, Maksym
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B05, 82B21

description: A continuous infinite system of point particles interacting via two-body strong superstable potential is considered in the framework of classical statistical mechanics. We define some kind of approximation of main quantities, which describe macroscopical and microscopical characteristics of systems, such as grand partition function and correlation functions. The pressure of an approximated system converge to the pressure of the initial system if the parameter of approximation $a\to 0$ for any values of an inverse temperature $β>0$ and a chemical activity $z$. The same result is true for the family of correlation functions in the region of small z
description: 25 pages
Australia in Asia and the Pacific (AAP) at Fahan
Creators: name: Naqvi, MJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Major objectives of the Social Studies syllabuses in Years 9 - 12 within schools of the Education Department of Tasmania are to enable young people to become socially, culturally and Asia literate in the 1990's. Teachers at Fahan School have not been involved in the recent development of the Social Studies syllabuses for the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) because Social Studies as such is not taught at Fahan. The school has traditionally preferred to include Social Studies content in the Senior (secondary) School within the subject disciplines of History and Geography. However, teachers have held parallel concerns with teachers in other schools regarding the content of courses. During 1987 teachers at Fahan perceived an Australian and Asian literacy gap in curriculum offerings at the school and courses were devised to fill that gap under various banners between 1988 and 1992 Australian Studies in Year 9 from 1988 - 1990, Asian Studies in Year 9 and Australia in Asia and the Pacific (AAP) in 1992. AAP, within Education Department.Schools, is an extension of the Years 9 and 10 Social Sciences into Years 11 and 12. (In Year 9 the Social Sciences are termed Australian Studies and in Year 10 they are termed World Studies). AAP at Fahan was also conceived from the implementation of Australian Studies in Year 9 and the planning of World Studies in Year 10. In 1991, a year when no Social Studies courses were taught in the Fahan Senior School; a document entitled AUSTRALIAN STUDIES AT FAHAN by Jane Naqvi investigated the question \Is our Fahan leaver a culturally literate Australian?\" This was done by examining the content of all Social Studies units K - 6 (Junior School)-and all History and Geography units 7 - 12 (Senior School). The conclusions reached included the notion that modification of curricula was necessary to develop greater social cultural and Asian literacy amongst Fahan students. The document which was submitted as a paper for EED 806 Curriculum Design and Development in the M. Ed. Studies program of the University of Tasmania in November 1991 instigated the introduction of AAP at Fahan in 1992 and the re-offering of Australian Studies into Year 9 for 1993 (but the latter will not go ahead due to low numbers electing to undertake it). It is also a precursor to much of the thinking in this document AAP AT FAHAN which has two main objectives : ‚Äö to document the development of AAP as a subject for the TCE in general and as a viable subject for Fahan School in particular ‚Äö to put theory into practice through reflection of teaching in 1992 and planning for teaching in 1993."
Numerical Solution of an Inverse Problem in Size-Structured Population Dynamics
Creators: name: Jauffret, Marie Doumic
name: Perthame, Benoît
name: Zubelli, Jorge P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30, 35F15, 92D25

description: We consider a size-structured model for cell division and address the question of determining the division (birth) rate from the measured stable size distribution of the population. We propose a new regularization technique based on a filtering approach. We prove convergence of the algorithm and validate the theoretical results by implementing numerical simulations, based on classical techniques. We compare the results for direct and inverse problems, for the filtering method and for the quasi-reversibility method proposed in [Perthame-Zubelli].
title: Podcast: Einführung in Oracle SQL Command Line (SQLcl)
Creators: name: Lambert, Jens
name: Hochschule Düsseldorf
Publisher: name: Hochschule Düsseldorf
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: Als Einführung in die Benutzung der Software SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) von Oracle werden folgende Aktionen erklärt: Anmelden, Ausgeben von Tabellen und ihren Metadaten, Verwenden der Befehlshistorie, Formatieren der Ausgabe, Speichern, Bearbeiten und Wiederverwenden von Befehlen sowie das Anlegen von Logdateien. Vorausgesetzt werden geringe Vorkenntnisse von relationalen Datenbankmanagementsystemen mit SQL. Das Video wurde im Rahmen des Projektes EILD.nrw entwickelt, gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit der Digitalen Hochschule NRW (DH.NRW) in der Förderlinie „OERContent.nrw“ (Open Education Resources).
How groups can foster consensus: The case of local cultures
Creators: name: Groeber, Patrick
name: Schweitzer, Frank
name: Press, Kerstin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A local culture denotes a commonly shared behaviour within a cluster of firms. Similar to social norms or conventions, it is an emergent feature resulting from the firms' interaction in an economic network. To model these dynamics, we consider a distributed agent population, representing e.g. firms or individuals. Further, we build on a continuous opinion dynamics model with bounded confidence ($ε$), which assumes that two agents only interact if differences in their behaviour are less than $ε$. Interaction results in more similarity of behaviour, i.e. convergence towards a common mean. This framework is extended by two major concepts: (i) The agent's in-group consisting of acquainted interaction partners is explicitly taken into account. This leads to an effective agent behaviour reflecting that agents try to continue to interact with past partners and thus to keep sufficiently close to them. (ii) The in-group network structure changes over time, as agents can form new links to other agents with sufficiently close effective behaviour or delete links to agents no longer close in behaviour. Thus, our model provides a feedback mechanism between the agents' behaviour and their in-group structure. Studying its consequences by means of agent-based computer simulations, we find that for narrow-minded agents (low $ε$) the additional feedback helps to find consensus more often, whereas for open-minded agents (high $ε$) this does not hold. This counterintuitive result is explained by simulations of the network evolution.
Osmotic Pressure and Swelling Behavior of Ionic Microcapsules
Creators: name: Alziyadi, Mohammed O.
name: Denton, Alan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ionic microcapsules are hollow shells of hydrogel, typically 10-1000 nm in radius, composed of cross-linked polymer networks that become charged and swollen in a good solvent. The ability of microcapsules to swell/deswell in response to changes in external stimuli (e.g., temperature, pH, ionic strength) suits them to applications, such as drug delivery, biosensing, and catalysis. Equilibrium swelling behavior of ionic microcapsules is determined by a balance of electrostatic and elastic forces. The electrostatic component of the osmotic pressure of a microcapsule -- the difference in pressure between the inside and outside of the particle -- plays a vital role in determining swelling behavior. Within the spherical cell model, we derive exact expressions for the radial pressure profile and for the electrostatic and gel components of the osmotic pressure of a microcapsule, which we compute via Poisson-Boltzmann theory and molecular dynamics simulation. For the gel component, we use the Flory-Rehner theory of polymer networks. By combining the electrostatic and gel components of the osmotic pressure, we compute the equilibrium size of ionic microcapsules as a function of particle concentration, shell thickness, and valence. We predict concentration-driven deswelling at relatively low concentrations at which steric interactions between particles are weak, and demonstrate that this response can be attributed to crowding-induced redistribution of counterions. Our approach may help to guide the design and applications of smart, stimuli-responsive colloidal particles.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Arbitrary multi-site two-photon excitation in four dimensions
Creators: name: Daria, Vincent Ricardo
name: Stricker, Christian
name: Bowman, Richard
name: Redman, Stephen
name: Bachor, Hans-A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate dynamic and arbitrary multisite two-photon excitation in three dimensions using the holographic projection method. Rapid response (fourth dimension) is achieved through high-speed noniterative calculation of the hologram using a video graphics accelerator board. We verify that the projected asymmetric spot configurations have sufficient spatiotemporal photon density for localized two-photon excitation. This system is a significant advance and can be applied to time-resolved photolysis of caged compounds in biological cells and complex neuronal networks, nonlinear microfabrication and volume holographic optical storage.
description: 10 pages including 4 figures
Osmotic Swelling Behavior of Surface-Charged Ionic Microgels
Creators: name: Alziyadi, Mohammed O.
name: Denton, Alan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, ionic microgels have garnered much attention due to their unique properties, especially their stimulus-sensitive swelling behavior. The tunable response of these soft, permeable, compressible, charged colloidal particles is increasingly attractive for applications in medicine and biotechnologies, such as controlled drug delivery, tissue engineering, and biosensing. The ability to model and predict variation of the osmotic pressure of a single microgel with respect to changes in particle properties and environmental conditions proves vital to such applications. In this work, we apply both nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory and molecular dynamics simulation to ionic microgels (macroions) in the cell model to compute density profiles of microions (counterions, coions), single-microgel osmotic pressure, and equilibrium swelling ratios of spherical microgels whose fixed charge is confined to the macroion surface. The basis of our approach is an exact theorem that relates the electrostatic component of the osmotic pressure to the microion density profiles. Close agreement between theory and simulation serves as a consistency check to validate our approach. We predict that surface-charged microgels progressively deswell with increasing microgel concentration, starting well below close packing, and with increasing salt concentration, in qualitative agreement with experiments. Comparison with previous results for microgels with fixed charge uniformly distributed over their volume demonstrates that surface-charged microgels deswell more rapidly than volume-charged microgels. We conclude that swelling behavior of ionic microgels in solution is sensitive to the distribution of fixed charge within the polymer-network gel and strongly depends on bulk concentrations of both microgels and salt ions.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Decomposition of splitting invariants in split real groups
Creators: name: Kaletha, Tasho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To a maximal torus in a quasi-split semi-simple simply-connected group over a local field of characteristic 0, Langlands and Shelstad construct a cohomological invariant called the splitting invariant, which is an important component of their endoscopic transfer factors. We study this invariant in the case of a split real group and prove a decomposition theorem which expresses this invariant for a general torus as a product of the corresponding invariants for simple tori. We also show how this reduction formula allows for the comparison of splitting invariants between different tori in the given real group.
description: 22 pages
Purchasing power by income class within the metropolitan Vancouver market for single family dwellings
Creators: name: Rooney, William John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The urban market for detached homes, in comparison with most other commercial and industrial markets, is highly decentralized. Typically, no single firm controls more than a small portion of the total market. Therefore typical firms within the market possess neither the resources nor the motivation necessary for the undertaking of extensive market studies. The result is that empirical descriptive data relating to these markets is almost totally lacking. Metropolitan Vancouver is no exception to this general pattern. This study is designed to furnish empirical data relating to the Metropolitan Vancouver market for detached dwellings. Hopefully, the analysis contained herein will permit some insight into the above market.
Relations between dynamo-region geometry and the magnetic behavior of stars and planets
Creators: name: Goudard, Laure
name: Dormy, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geo and solar magnetic fields have long been thought to be very different objects both in terms of spatial structure and temporal behavior. The recently discovered field structure of a fully convective star is more reminiscent of planetary magnetic fields than the Sun's magnetic field (Donati J.-F. et al., Science, 311 (2006) 633), despite the fact that the physical and chemical properties of these objects clearly differ. This observation suggests that a simple controlling parameter could be responsible for these different behaviors. We report here the results of three-dimensional simulations which show that varying the aspect ratio of the active dynamo region can yield sharp transition from Earth-like steady dynamos to Sun-like dynamo waves.
Progressive Gaussian Mixture Reduction
Creators: name: Huber, Marco F.
name: Hanebeck, Uwe D.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: For estimation and fusion tasks it is inevitable to approximate a Gaussian mixture by one with fewer components to keep the complexity bounded. Appropriate approximations can be typically generated by exploiting the redundancy in the shape description of the original mixture. In contrast to the common approach of successively merging pairs of components to maintain a desired complexity, the novel Gaussian mixture reduction algorithm introduced in this paper avoids to directly reduce the original Gaussian mixture. Instead, an approximate mixture is generated from scratch by employing homotopy continuation. This allows starting the approximation with a single Gaussian, which is constantly adapted to the progressively incorporated true Gaussian mixture. Whenever a user-defined bound on the deviation of the approximation cannot be maintained during the continuation, further components are added to the approximation. This facilitates significantly reducing the number of components even for complex Gaussian mixtures.
Worry : cognitive and autonomic processes
Creators: name: Low, Frances Anne
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This review discusses some core features of worry and evaluates the relevant empirical studies. The discussion focuses on two features of worry: 1) the selective processing of threat-related cues as part of the profile of worriers; and 2) autonomic rigidity during worry. The selective processing of threat-cues has been investigated with a variety of attention and memory paradigms, with the attention paradigms yielding greater support. However, the conceptual difficulty of separating attentional activity from memory activity has presented problems with inferring specifically an attention or a memory bias to threat-related cues in worriers. Studies which have purported to demonstrate autonomic rigidity during worry contain individual methodological problems. It is concluded that a major issue that applied to many of these studies was the ecological validity of instructing subjects to worry on command in a laboratory environment. The major theoretical framework encompassing these features is also presented to explain the functional nature of worry.
МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ ВЛИЯНИЯ ЗНАЧЕНИЙ ПАРАМЕТРОВ ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЯ ПОТЕНЦИАЛА И ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННОГО СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЯ НА ДОСТИЖИМОСТЬ ЦЕЛЕЙ В ОБЛАСТИ КАЧЕСТВА ПРИ СТУПЕНЧАТОМ ВИДЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ
Creators: name: СТОРУБЛЕВ МАКСИМ ЛЕОНИДОВИЧ
name: ИВАХНЕНКО АЛЕКСАНДР ГЕННАДЬЕВИЧ
name: АНИКЕЕВА ОЛЕСЯ ВЛАДИМИРОВНА
Publisher: name: Известия Тульского государственного университета. Технические науки
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЦЕЛИ В ОБЛАСТИ КАЧЕСТВА
ПОТЕНЦИАЛ
ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННОЕ СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЕ
ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ
QUALITY OBJECTIVES
POTENTIAL
ORGANIZATIONAL RESISTANCE
INTERACTION

description: В работе предложен подход к выявлению области значений параметров, отражающих взаимодействие составляющих потенциала и организационного сопротивления, обеспечивающих достижимость целей в области качества промышленных предприятий при ступенчатом виде управления. Представлены результаты имитационного моделирования такого взаимодействия на примере ЗАО «Салют», определены интервалы предпочтительных значений, при которых достигаются максимальные значения целей. Получены зависимости коэффициентов усиления для целей в области качества от параметров взаимодействия составляющих потенциала и организационного сопротивления.
Study of the action of two naturally-occuring tropolone derivatives on vascular smooth muscle.
Creators: name: Leathem, Ann Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Gamma-thujaplicin (GT) and beta-hydroxy thujaplicin (BHT) are two of the isopropyl derivatives of tropolone found in the heartwood of western red cedar (Thuja plicata D. Don). Several of the tropolones are effective inhibitors of the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT). In this work, the isolated, spirally-cut rabbit thoracic aorta preparation has been used to study possible COMT inhibition as well as other pharmacological properties of the sodium salts of GT and BHT. It was found that GT, BHT and pyrogallol, a known COMT inhibitor, all potentiated the response of the aortic strip to norepinephrine (NE). However, since it was shown that the chelating agent EDTA also potentiated the NE response, the potentiation by GT and BHT could not be attributed to COMT inhibition without further evidence. GT and BHT were found to have a stimulatory effect of their own on aortic smooth muscle tissue. BHT was a more potent agonist than GT. Phenoxybenzamine blocked the stimulatory effects of BHT and GT. This suggested alpha-adrenergic receptor involvement although the halogenoalkylamine blocking agents are not absolutely specific in their action. Cocaine produces a small potentiation of the contraction produced by GT and BHT. This potentiation suggests the involvement of endogenous NE. Cocaine does not cause relaxation of the GT and BHT responses which indicates that GT and BHT differ in mode and perhaps site of action from tyramine. BHT potentiates the tyramine response on the rabbit aortic strip. This may be due to COMT inhibition, increased NE release or merely additive effects. GT was found to produce relaxation of a histamine-induced contraction. This relaxant effect was not prevented by beta-adrenergic blockade and is likely due to a nonspecific depressant effect by GT. Both GT and BHT have produced non-specific blocking effects against NE and histamine as well as acetylcholine throughout this work. In reserpinized preparations, GT no longer produced a contraction of the aortic strip. Instead, a relaxation below normal tone was produced. It would seem that the presence of endogenous NE is required in the tissue stores before GT can cause the strips to contract. GT causes relaxation of tyramine-induced contractions in reserpinized strips. The isolated rabbit thoracic aorta was found not to be a suitable preparation for the pharmacological investigation of COMT inhibition by GT and BHT due to their own agonistic effects on this tissue as well as their nonspecific chelating properties. However, this tissue was useful in providing information on other pharmacological actions of these compounds.