cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Texts, paratexts, and contexts: a comparative study of English translations of the classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
Creators: name: Qi, Lintao
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates the English translations and adaptations of the sixteenth century classic Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. Acclaimed the ‘No.1 Marvellous Book’ of the Ming dynasty, Jin Ping Mei was banned soon after its appearance, due to the inclusion of graphically explicit sexual descriptions. So far there have been nearly a dozen English adaptations and translations of the novel. Working within the framework of Descriptive Translation Studies, this thesis provides a translational history of Jin Ping Mei in English, supported by various paratexts, including book covers, reviews, and archival materials. It also conducts textual comparisons to uncover the translation norms at work in each of the only two complete translations, namely The Golden Lotus by Clement Egerton and The Plum in the Golden Vase by David Roy, respectively. The notions of agency, habitus and capital are introduced for the examination of the transference of linguistic, literary and cultural aspects of the two translations. The project is the first systematic research effort on the English Translations of Jin Ping Mei. Given its pioneering status and interdisciplinary nature, the data, method and findings of this thesis will potentially enrich the fields of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Chinese Studies.
The cultural and political significance of tiger mothering
Creators: name: Pitt, Nicola Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The ‘Tiger Mothering’ debate was ignited in January 2011 by Amy Chua’s new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011a), and her essay of excerpts in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), ‘Why Chinese mothers are superior’ (8 Jan, 2011b). An instant bestseller, Chua’s book provoked wide discussion around the world on account of her controversial endorsement of strict and disciplined childrearing approaches, which she associated with Chinese parents, and which she contrasted with supposedly ‘Western’ childrearing that she deemed inherently ‘lazy’ and ‘weak-willed’. In a matter of days, Chua’s essay garnered thousands of responses in the online WSJ comments forum, and the story was circulated via various mainstream news media outlets and the blogosphere, where her ideas remained a popular talking point for many months. However, despite the extraordinary reach and impact that the Tiger Mothering story had on the global and cultural imagination, scholars in the social sciences have yet to pay the event any sustained attention. In this thesis, I investigate what was culturally and politically significant about Tiger Mothering, and examine why and how people responded so strongly to Chua’s claims. Undertaking an in-depth qualitative content analysis and discourse study of Chua’s book and a sample of the online news reader comments in the WSJ discussion forum, I find that Tiger Mothering is implicated in at least four distinct sets of meaning. First, my analysis reveals that Chua’s parenting philosophy is not all that different or ‘superior’ to some of the components characterising typical ‘Western’ caregiving approaches. Rather, it can be read as an elaboration and amplification of Western discourses surrounding idealised expectations of childcare. Second, I find that Tiger Mothering can also be construed as a discussion revealing people’s attitudes and understandings towards certain types of caregiving styles. This is indicative of a new form of ‘parenting culture’ wherein parents are encouraged to be actively involved in discussions about what constitutes ‘proper’ childrearing in the contemporary era. Third, there is some evidence to suggest that Tiger Mothering acted as prism which reflected and refracted U.S. concerns over the recent ‘rise’ of China as a world superpower. This aspect of Tiger Mothering provides an opportunity to gauge what some people think about the potential ‘threat’ that China poses to U.S. primacy in the realm of geopolitics. Finally, I find that Tiger Mothering both perpetuates and challenges some of the stereotypical depictions of Asians and Asian Americans. This study demonstrates how Tiger Mothering is a meaningful discursive text that reflects several key social issues and concerns. It also highlights how people communicate and interact in digital spaces, such as news websites, in the twenty-first century.
Patterns in mind: systematicity in the extended mind
Creators: name: Coram, Alicia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One of the most influential recent arguments regarding the nature of the cognitive architecture takes as its starting point the existence of certain patterns in cognitive abilities, termed the systematicity of thought and inference, and concludes that the best explanation of these patterns is a classically computational cognitive architecture that processes language-like mental representations. While most alternative explanations offered for these patterns have accepted some of the central tenets underlying the classical computational account of mind-in particular, the assumption that mental representations are both syntactically and semantically internal- the extended theory of mind explicitly challenges these claims. In this thesis, I consider how the nature of both the cognitive abilities at the heart of the systematicity argument and the psychological resources used to explain these patterns can be reframed from this perspective, providing the basis for an alternative explanation for patterns of systematicity that locates their explanatory structure in a wider cognitive system that includes the structures of public representational schemes. A comparison to a similar strategy employed by Zenon Pylyshyn in his work on imagistic phenomenon provides a framework for understanding, and potentially empirically verifying, the proposed alternative explanation. This explanation is supported by a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence that exists for systematicity, which points to pervasive semantic effects that are not easily reconciled with the classically computational model. Reconsidering the systematicity debate in this way sheds new light on the nature of explanation in psychology and the prospects of the extended theory of mind as a basis for cognitive science.
title: So aktuell wie nie – zum 20. Todestag der Theologin Dorothee Sölle
Creators: name: Janssen, Claudia
name: Schmidt, Uta C.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: In diesem Jahr erinnern Menschen aus theologischen, feministischen, politischen Zusammenhängen an den 20. Todestag von Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, geborene Nipperdey (1929–2003), eine der profiliertesten und bekanntesten Theologinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie war promovierte Theologin und habilitierte Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Als streitbare Intellektuelle ließ sie sich keinem gesellschaftlichen wie theologischen Mainstream zuordnen und verstand ihr Denken und Handeln aus der Shoah heraus. Sie engagierte sich in der Bewegung für den Frieden und gegen die Wiederbewaffnung in der BRD, später gegen den Vietnamkrieg, den Nato-Doppelbeschluss zur Nachrüstung, gegen den Irak-Krieg, gegen Apartheit und Kolonialismus. Ihre Sitzblockaden vor dem Truppenstützpunkt in Mutlangen und dem Giftgasdepot in Waldfischbach brachten ihr Verurteilungen wegen versuchter Nötigung ein. Zusammen mit der Neutestamentlerin Luise Schrottroff (1934–2015) öffnete sie den Horizont für eine feministisch-befreiungstheologische Bibelauslegung.

Einer großen Öffentlichkeit über kirchliche, akademische oder politische Kreise hinaus bekannt wurde Dorothee Sölle durch die Politischen Nachtgebete, die zum ersten Mal auf dem Katholikentag in Essen 1968 durchgeführt wurden. Vorbereitet wurden sie von einer basisdemokratisch organisierten, ökumenischen Gruppe von Christinnen und Christen in Köln, die sich zuvor bereits zum Austausch über Gott und die Welt trafen. Ihr letztes Politisches Nachtgebet am 18. Mai 2002 bereitete Dorothee Sölle zusammen mit den Soziologinnen Maria Mies und Mechthild Höflich (1925–2009) vor. Sie stellten es unter das Motto: „Our World is not for sale“.

Uta C. Schmidt sprach mit Dr. Claudia Janssen, Professorin für Neues Testament und Theologische Geschlechterforschung an der Kirchlichen Hochschule Wuppertal über die Aktualität Dorothee Sölles.
The capitalisation of beauty: changes and continuities in Russian women’s beauty practices, 1970s-2000s
Creators: name: Davidenko, Maria
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Social Sciences and Communications, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Chiral Surface Waves for Enhanced Circular Dichroism
Creators: name: Pellegrini, Giovanni
name: Finazzi, Marco
name: Celebrano, Michele
name: Duò, Lamberto
name: Biagioni, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel chiral sensing platform that combines a one-dimensional photonic crystal design with a birefringent surface defect. The platform sustains simultaneous transverse electric and transverse magnetic surface modes, which are exploited to generate chiral surface waves. The present design provides homogeneous and superchiral fields of both handednesses over arbitrarily large areas in a wide spectral range, resulting in the enhancement of the circular dichroism signal by two orders of magnitude, thus paving the road toward the successful combination of surface-enhanced spectroscopies and electromagnetic superchirality.
description: Added references. Corrected typos. Included new design for broadband chiral surface waves
Filtering the mind and approximating the world: the free energy principle in sensory systems.
Creators: name: Paton, Bryan Kerry
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Free Energy Principle is a broad organising framework for biological life based on the assumption that organisms seek the continuation of their own existence in the face of environmental perturbations. Organisms are finite entities with indirect access to their environment and only direct access to the outputs of their sensory epithelia. Given such constraints, organisms can solve this dilemma by developing and maintaining a generative model of the causes of sensory states (hidden environmental states). This process is aimed at minimising the discrepancy, the free energy between predictions born from the model and incoming sensory data by means of a gradient descent process, generalised filtering. By either adjusting the parameters of this model, or its own sensory input through locomotion perception and action are realised. The very broadness of the Free Energy Principle predicts that neural mechanisms whilst constrained in terms of their general function are free to adopt many different specific forms. This thesis is concerned with how the Free Energy Principle might be realised in action and perception generally and in four specific cases. Under the banner of action, two behavioural rubber hand illusion studies examine how bodily perception can be easily fooled and manipulated and how this influences subsequent action. The first study focuses on the development of a new rubber hand illusion paradigm. The second study compares a sample of autistic spectrum disorder patients with healthy controls in changes in body perception in the context of action. Under the banner of perception, two electrophysiological studies, one based on the auditory mismatch negativity and the other on continuous flash suppression in vision are focused on how the Free Energy principle is applied in these cases. The stochastic mismatch negativity developed in the thesis matches the kind of problem that an organism must solve; determine the true or hidden states of the environment given otherwise noisy input. The continuous flash suppression study, emphasises the role of model competition in ambiguous perceptual situations. Both studies focus on electrophysiological correlates of free energy minimisation. The conclusion is that consideration of the Free Energy Principle and generalised filtering in particular provides a promising and comprehensive alternative to more traditional accounts of neural function that is ultimately applicable across a broad range of scientific disciplines.
The search for the origins of Paul's Depiction of Abraham in Galatians and Romans
Creators: name: Stacey, James
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The present thesis discusses the origins of Paul's view of Abraham in Galatians and Romans, asking the question, “what influences shaped Paul's view of Abraham?” This broader question is then broken down into two smaller ones. Firstly, was the Abraham of Galatians and/or Romans discernibly affected by the presentations of Abraham in the five Second Temple texts Jubilees; Apocalypse of Abraham; Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, Josephus' Antiquities, and various treatises of Philo of Alexandria? Secondly, was Paul's view a unique and isolated reading of Genesis, or was his personal understanding augmented from another direction? The majority of the study deals with the first question. The five texts discussed have often been grouped together as texts which speak with one voice about Abraham. They are seen as one tradition. This hypothesised tradition has then been applied to Paul, in an attempt to demonstrate how his view of Abraham was affected by it. Prominent scholarly contributions moving in this direction have been made by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, George Nickelsburg, and Edward Adams, amongst others. After evaluation, it is here concluded that Paul's Abraham was not discernibly affected by these five texts. In relation to the second question, Roy Harrisville (III) has proposed that Paul was a 'maverick' in disregarding prior views of Abraham. In particular, Harrisville rules out the possibility of any influence from other understandings of Abraham found in the New Testament, since Paul's were the first New Testament documents. Against this view, we note that the New Testament writings often preserve material older than themselves. We then explore the real possibility that Paul's Abraham was influenced by the teachings of such figures as John the Baptist, Jesus, or the Apostles.
(201120) Charles Murley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Comment on "X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5"
Creators: name: Bos, S.
name: Grenier, S.
name: Lorenzo, J. E.
name: Ravy, S.
name: Renevier, H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Appraisal of the internal transcribed spacer region as a phylogenetic marker for delineation of clinical Acinetobacter members of the Acb complex, and investigation of strain resistance to multiple antibiotics
Creators: name: Gifford, Bianca
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Background: The Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii (Acb) complex contains two of the most clinically important nosocomial pathogens. Their ability to readily acquire antibiotic resistance determinants has added to their virulence. Indeed this virulence has meant that reliable methods of species identification are increasingly crucial. In this thesis I have examined the feasibility of using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region to identify individual strains of Acb complex members. The presence of plasmids and their potential role in antibiotic resistance was also explored. Methods: Forty-one putative A. baumannii isolates tentatively identified from ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis data were used in this study. Their 16S-23S rrn ITS and 16S rRNA genes were sequenced and compared against all available ITS and 16SrRNA sequences from Acb strains. Antibiotic resistance profiles were determined for all strains. Plasmid screening was performed, with cloning and sequencing of selected plasmids. Results: Based on their ITS sequences, strains were assigned to species as follows: A.baumannii; 5 strains, A. nosocomialis; 31 strains. Three strains could not be placed as their ITS sequences were almost identical to the sequences of four different Acinetobacter species. The presence of indels (Maslunka, 2012) prevented confident identification of the final two strains using the ITS region. Two plasmids isolated from a multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter nosocomialis strain were sequenced and characterised. The plasmids, designated pRAY*-v3 and pAB49-v1, were6,078 bp and 2,200 bp in size, encoding five and two putative genes, respectively. Antibiotic resistance determinants were annotated for pRAY*-v3, explaining the hostorganism’s demonstrated resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics. Conclusion: These results suggest that the ITS cannot be used always to differentiate between individual Acinetobacter species within the Acb complex. Furthermore, the detection of pRAY*-v3 and pAB49-v1 plasmids from strains of A. baumannii examined across different decades and continents in A. nosocomialis, suggests they may be disseminated widely among other members of the Acb complex.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the School of Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Measurement of the mass of the top quark in decays with a J/psi meson in pp collisions at 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay channel t to (W to l nu) (b to J/psi + X to mu+ mu- + X) is presented. The analysis uses events selected from the proton-proton collisions recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns, with 666 t t-bar and single top quark candidate events containing a reconstructed J/psi candidate decaying into an oppositely-charged muon pair. The mass of the (J/psi + l) system, where l is an electron or a muon from W boson decay, is used to extract a top quark mass of 173.5 +/- 3.0 (stat) +/- 0.9 (syst) GeV.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-15-014/index.html
(201121) Thomas Murley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Nature, Bodies, and Land: Reframing Ownership and Property in Early Modern Spanish America
Creators: name: Bastias Saavedra, Manuel
name: Rodríguez Sanchéz, Alina
Publisher: name: Torino : Università di Torino
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: land
subject: history
subject: nature
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Rooted in medieval juridical thinking, early modern legal culture saw commu- nity’s law as the expression of an underlying order of things, something defined not by the willing agreement of the parts that constituted the community, but rather by nature and nurture. For the Iberian world, this belief was expressed in the idea of the ‘señorío natural’, which according to legal doctrine was a bond that linked subjects to the land where they were born and subjected them to a common jurisdiction (Hespanha, Uncommon Laws ). Communities and all kinds of corpo- rate bodies thus also had a natural origin, which points to an intertwinement, and not a contradiction, between nature and different kinds of collective bodies. These bodies—corporations, guilds, communities, families, and so on—were the basis for the assignment of rights, obligations, privileges, and duties, but also for the dis- tribution of access to land. This article seeks to reframe ownership and property within this framework as a way of rethinking the ways in which communities defined their relations to land.
Polyakov's formulation of $2d$ bosonic string theory
Creators: name: Guillarmou, Colin
name: Rhodes, Rémi
name: Vargas, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28C20, 81S40, 58D30

description: Using probabilistic methods, we first define Liouville quantum field theory on Riemann surfaces of genus $\mathbf{g}\geq 2$ and show that it is a conformal field theory. We use the partition function of Liouville quantum field theory to give a mathematical sense to Polyakov's partition function of noncritical bosonic string theory \cite{Pol} (also called $2d$ bosonic string theory) and to Liouville quantum gravity. Then we show the convergence of Polyakov's partition function over the moduli space of Riemann surfaces in genus $\mathbf{g}\geq 2$ in the case of $D\leq 1$ boson. This is done by performing a careful analysis of the behaviour of the partition function at the boundary of moduli space. An essential feature of our approach is that it is probabilistic and non perturbative. The interest of our result is twofold. First, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first mathematical result about convergence of string theories. Second, our construction describes conjecturally the scaling limit of higher genus random planar maps weighted by Conformal Field Theories: we make precise conjectures about this statement at the end of the paper.
description: 62 pages; final version
Potentials and challenges of additive manufacturing using highly transparent silicone materials
Creators: name: Biermann, Tobias
name: Grabe, Tobias
name: Ley, Peer-Philip
name: Hüchting, Jasper
name: Lachmayer, Roland
Publisher: name: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angewandte Optik : Erlangen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optisches Design
subject: Fertigung optischer Systeme
subject: Optische Materialien
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: The research in additive manufacturing using highly transparent silicone for optical applications is still in its early stages. This contribution is aiming to investigate potentials and challenges in additive manufacturing using silicone and to identify a suitable manufacturing concept to fabricate highly transparent optical elements.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.11/2009
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Prüfungsordnung für den Masterstudiengang Elektro-technik und Informationstechnik der Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 14. Juli 2009
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Instituts für Mechanik der Fakultät Maschinenbau (07) der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 11, 2009
Environmental discourse on population growth: a comparative study of environmental groups in Western democracies
Creators: name: Walker, Matthew Peter Alistair
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Environmental organisations are a well-established part of the political landscape in many Western countries, providing important contributions to both public dialogue on, and potential policy responses to, the question of how to achieve more environmentally sustainable societies. While the issue of population growth formed a key priority for the environmental movement during its surge in the 1960s and 1970s, the topic of population has since become highly contentious and has received far less attention from environmental groups. This thesis attempts to account for this divergence by using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. First, existing survey data are used to explore socio-demographic variables in attitudes to immigration in Western countries. Second, documents produced by a sample of environmental groups from Australia, the United States, and Canada are used to analyse discourse on domestic and global population increase. It is concluded that discourse is shaped by the changing dynamics of population increase in the West (with net overseas migration having become the primary driver of growth) and by the tension between several influential environmental paradigms. In particular, social ecology has achieved significant influence on environmental discourse and challenged the beliefs and priorities of traditional conservationist environmentalism. This discourse has proven popular within the environmental movement as it is congruent with the identity of a ‘new class’ social-cultural status group that is disproportionately represented among environmental group member and leaders.
(201124) Anne Ford
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An observer's guide to the (Local Group) dwarf galaxies: predictions for their own dwarf satellite populations
Creators: name: Dooley, Gregory A.
name: Peter, Annika H. G.
name: Yang, Tianyi
name: Willman, Beth
name: Griffen, Brendan F.
name: Frebel, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent surge in the discovery of new ultrafaint dwarf satellites of the Milky Way has inspired the idea of searching for faint satellites, $10^3\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}} < M_* < 10^6\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$, around less massive field galaxies in the Local Group. Such satellites would be subject to weaker environmental influences than Milky Way satellites, and could lead to new insights on low mass galaxy formation. In this paper, we predict the number of luminous satellites expected around field dwarf galaxies by applying several abundance matching models and a reionization model to the dark-matter only \textit{Caterpillar} simulation suite. For three of the four abundance matching models used, we find a $>99\%$ chance that at least one satellite with stellar mass $M_*> 10^5\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ exists around the combined five Local Group field dwarf galaxies with the largest stellar mass. When considering satellites with $M_*> 10^4\, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$, we predict a combined $5-25$ satellites for the five largest field dwarfs, and $10-50$ for the whole Local Group field dwarf population. Because of the relatively small number of predicted dwarfs, and their extended spatial distribution, a large fraction each Local Group dwarf's virial volume will need to be surveyed to guarantee discoveries. We compute the predicted number of satellites in a given field of view of specific Local Group galaxies, as a function of minimum satellite luminosity, and explicitly obtain such values for the Solitary Local dwarfs survey. Uncertainties in abundance matching and reionization models are large, implying that comprehensive searches could lead to refinements of both models.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 21 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.12/2009
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Prüfungsordnung für die Bachelor-Studiengänge Bachelor of Science im Maschinenbau, Bachelor of Science in der Logistik, Bachelor of Science im Wirtschaftsingenieurwe-sen, der Fakultät Maschinenbau der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 25. August 2009
description: Prüfungsordnung für die Master-Studiengänge Bachelor of Science im Maschinenbau, Bachelor of Science in der Logistik, Bachelor of Science im Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, der Fakultät Maschinenbau der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 25. August 2009
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 12, 2009
Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) for the surface Navier-Stokes equation
Creators: name: Nitschke, Ingo
name: Reuther, Sebastian
name: Voigt, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The discretization is described in detail and related to finite difference schemes on staggered grids in flat space for which we demonstrate second order convergence. We compare computational results with a vorticity-stream function approach for surfaces with genus 0 and demonstrate the interplay between topology, geometry and flow properties. Our discretization also allows to handle harmonic vector fields, which we demonstrate on a torus.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Answering spatial queries on moving objects with reduced communication
Creators: name: McCarthy, Mitzi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

Existing studies on answering spatial queries on moving objects fall into two main categories: those focused on reducing the computation time; and/or those focused on reducing the communication costs. This thesis is focused on reducing communication costs while reducing computation time to acceptable levels. One subgroup of work on reducing communication costs uses safe regions. Communication cost is reduced by not requiring the moving objects to report their locations while they stay within their rectangular safe regions, unless explicitly requested by the server. We extend the existing studies that use safe regions for answering continuous spatial queries on moving objects in three ways. First, we allow queries to move instead of being stationary. Second, we handle queries of different degrees of continuity to cover the entire spectrum between snapshot and continuous queries. Finally, we extend the traditional range and k-nearest neighbor queries to make them more useful. We extend the traditional range query to allow an aggregation predicate to be applied to the returned objects. We exploit this property to reduce the communication costs. We propose a probabilistic k nearest neighbor query that effectively trades-off communication costs against query result accuracy. We propose a system that has two main components. The first is the query evaluation component, which answers queries based on the current set of safe regions. The second is the safe region assignment component. The main challenge during query evaluation is to answer the current set of queries using the least number of object location exposures. We devise both information gain and fast heuristic approaches to solve this problem. We propose a reactive approach to safe region assignment, which assigns larger safe regions to objects that move more and are queried less often. Experimental results show that our approach greatly reduces the communication costs when compared to existing solutions and naive solutions.
(201118) Joseph Mardall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bayesian Learning of Dynamic Multilayer Networks
Creators: name: Durante, Daniele
name: Mukherjee, Nabanita
name: Steorts, Rebecca C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A plethora of networks is being collected in a growing number of fields, including disease transmission, international relations, social interactions, and others. As data streams continue to grow, the complexity associated with these highly multidimensional connectivity data presents novel challenges. In this paper, we focus on the time-varying interconnections among a set of actors in multiple contexts, called layers. Current literature lacks flexible statistical models for dynamic multilayer networks, which can enhance quality in inference and prediction by efficiently borrowing information within each network, across time, and between layers. Motivated by this gap, we develop a Bayesian nonparametric model leveraging latent space representations. Our formulation characterizes the edge probabilities as a function of shared and layer-specific actors positions in a latent space, with these positions changing in time via Gaussian processes. This representation facilitates dimensionality reduction and incorporates different sources of information in the observed data. In addition, we obtain tractable procedures for posterior computation, inference, and prediction. We provide theoretical results on the flexibility of our model. Our methods are tested on simulations and infection studies monitoring dynamic face-to-face contacts among individuals in multiple days, where we perform better than current methods in inference and prediction.
Practising ethics of the self: young people’s negotiation of love/sex relationships and new media environments
Creators: name: Meenagh, Joni
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Over the past two decades, the rapid development and diversification of new media technologies, such as mobile phones, personal computers, and the internet, have fundamentally changed social interactions. While there has been social concern over how young people use new media technologies within their love/sex relationships, social research has only recently begun to explore this trend. This research aimed to investigate how the Foucauldian philosophy of ‘ethics of the self’ can be applied to the lived realities of young people’s negotiation of their love/sex relationships within new media environments. Through the perceptions, stories, and experiences of forty young people (aged 18-25) with diverse sexual and relationship experience, the use of new media technologies to negotiate initiating, being in, and ending their romantic and sexual relationships were explored. Additionally, the ways in which these young people accommodated and resisted dominant discourses of gender and sexuality as they constructed themselves as sexual subjects were considered. Data were collected in two phases: an online discussion board with twenty-eight young people (15 women, 13 men) from across Australia and individual in-person interviews with twelve young people (6 women, 6 men) living in Melbourne, Australia. Developmental vignettes were used in both phases of data collection to facilitate the exploration of young people’s negotiation of a sexual encounter. By considering young people’s experiences through the lens of Foucauldian ethics of the self, this research sheds light on the complex ways young people construct themselves as subjects of discourse – sometimes conforming to and sometimes resisting the ‘truth claims’ of the discourses they are subject to. As new media technologies are constantly shifting, this research focuses on the strategic ways in which young people use new media technologies – as opposed to the specific technology they used – and provides a snapshot of a particular moment in time.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201116) Catherine [Cunningham]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Computing the monodromy and pole order filtration on Milnor fiber cohomology of plane curves
Creators: name: Dimca, Alexandru
name: Sticlaru, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe an algorithm computing the monodromy and the pole order filtration on the Milnor fiber cohomology of any reduced projective plane curve $C$. The relation to the zero set of Bernstein-Sato polynomial of the defining homogeneous polynomial for $C$ is also discussed. When $C$ has some non weighted homogeneous singularities, then we have to assume that a conjecture holds in order to get some of our results. In all the examples computed so far this conjecture holds.
description: v5: minor changes, some references updated
A NAVIGATION AND AUTOMATIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM FOR MARINE VEHICLES
Creators: name: Miller, Keith McGowan
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1990

description: Collisions and groundings at sea still occur, and can result in financial loss, loss of life, and damage to the environment. Due to the size and capacity of moden vessels, damage can be extensive. Statistics indicate that the primary cause of accidents at sea is human error, which is often attributed to misinterpretation of the information presented to the mariner. Until recently, data collected from sensors about the vessel were displayed on the bridge individually, leaving the mariner to assimilate the material, make decisions and alter the vessels controls as appropriate. With the advent of the microprocessor a small amount of integration has taken place, but not to the extent that it has in other industries, for example the aerospace industry. This thesis presents a practical method of integrating all the navigation sensors. Through the use of Kalman filtering, an estimate of the state of the vessel is obtained using all the data available. Previous research in this field has not been implemented due to the complexity of the ship modelling process required, this is overcome by incorporating a system identification proceedure into the filter. The system further reduces the demands on the mariner by applying optimal control theory to guide the vessel on a predetermined track. Hazards such as other vessels are not incorporated into this work but they are specified in further research. Further development work is also required to reduce computation time.
Parallel algorithms for the enumeration of combinatorial objects
Creators: name: Phan, Hien H. T.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The enumeration of combinatorial objects (ECO) plays an important role in combinatorial algorithms. Many scientific applications have used the results from typical servants of ECO, such as maximal clique enumeration, hexagonal system enumeration and the enumeration of orthogonal arrays. The major characteristic of ECO is the huge effort needed to complete the concerned computation. Therefore, parallel approaches for solving ECO could significantly reduce the execution time and generate new results using high performance computing systems. Unfortunately, efficient parallel approaches for ECO are still missing. Researchers in this field usually concentrate on variants of isomorphism techniques for different kinds of combinatorial objects and for parallel computing, they usually use a special batch tool called auto-son [3] to distribute computing across clusters of networks. However, autoson does not provide a parallel environment that allows processes to communicate, such as the Message Passing Interface (MPI) [4], rather it only executes them and waits for them to finish. As a result, little work has been done to discover parallel approaches for ECO. This thesis investigates a number of parallel computing approaches for exhaustive computational search techniques for the construction of combinatorial designs, in particular orthogonal arrays and Latin squares. Several proposed parallel approaches have been designed, implemented and tested for the enumeration of combinatorial objects in general, and for the enumeration of orthogonal arrays and the enumeration of Latin squares, in particular. This thesis: i) proposes a new parallel approach for the enumeration of combinatorial objects based on the OrderlyGeneration method; ii) develops an efficient parallel approach for the enumeration of orthogonal arrays; iii) clarifies the equivalent relationship between a Latin square and its orthogonal representatives in both aspects, theory and experimentation, and iv) proposes a GPU solution for the isomorphism rejection problem where significant findings related to the benefits and challenges of applying GPU computing to the isomorphism rejection problem was made.
title: Effectiveness of back-track mediation in resolving protracted intractable conflicts
title: the case of Turkish-Kurdish peace process in Oslo
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Deniz, Mehmet
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: Eruption of Kurdish question in Turkey dates back to the early years of the Republic, and since then, this problem has constituted as one of the most chronic and entangled issues of the Turkish political life. Regional dimensions of Kurdish question made this conflict much more complicated and hard-to-resolve. Cross-border facilities in the south (Syrian border), south-east (Iraqi border) and east (Iranian border) of Turkey have greatly been benefitted by the Kurdish insurgent groups. It is the Partiye Karkeren Kurdistane / Kurdistan Worker`s Party (Kurdish terrorist organisation founded by Abdullah Ocalan in the late 1970s, and henceforth, the PKK) that benefitted these regional blessings in terms of operations, logistics and recruitment in its insurgency against Turkey. So, thanks to the regional convenience, the PKK was able to survive and sustained its fight. Long-standing nature of the conflict kept snowballing by creating new issues till the early 2000s, each of which contributed to the conflict`s transforming into an intractable one. The Turkish and Kurdish conflict can be considered as one of the most violent and destructive conflicts of the last four decades. The conflict cost 40.000 people`s lives. However, the deadliest period of the conflict was experienced in the early 1990s between the state and the PKK. Turkish state started to change its policy in the early 1990s thanks to the initiatives of Ozal, former PM and President. Since then, the parties tried to settle the issue through launching peace initiatives. All of these former peace initiatives were embarked on thanks to a third-party / a mediator, and they were all launched via back-track diplomacy within the pillars of mediation. In the late 2008, the parties came together once again via back-track diplomacy in Oslo under the supervision of a third party. The parties were successful in closing the gap between themselves and the peace process was moving on despite some interruptions. However, it ended due to the adverse effects of the Syrian Civil War that broke out in the early 2011. Main objective of this thesis is to analyse how the back-track enterprise of mediation was instrumental in Turkish and Kurdish negotiation process in Oslo. Even though the Oslo Peace Process was not concluded with an agreement, this thesis still argues that it was a success, albeit limited.