cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aotearoa New Zealand’s 21st ‐Century Wildfire Climate
Creators: name: Melia, N
name: Dean, S
name: Pearce, HG
name: Harrington, Luke
name: Frame, DJ
name: Strand, T
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
subject: Atmospheric Sciences

description: Wildfire is a highly variable natural phenomenon, yet despite this, climate change is already making wildfire conditions measurably worse around the world; however, detailed knowledge about Aotearoa New Zealand’s wildfire climate is currently limited. This study blends weather observations with regional climate model projections to assess Aotearoa New Zealand’s 21st-century wildfire climate. We find that in the 21st-century, the emergence of a new–more severe wildfire climate will occur. Detailed analysis of observed and simulated wildfire weather finds that ‘very-extreme’ wildfire weather conditions matching the levels observed in Australia’s 2019/20 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires are possible in regions formerly unaffected. While the extent of emergence is dependent on future emissions, the frequency of very-extreme conditions for the areas affected can occur at any time and is independent of projected 21st-century climate changes. Our findings have significant implications for many rural fire authorities, forest managers and investors, and climate mitigation and afforestation programmes.
Book review: Post-Marxism with substance: Beilharz circles Marx
Creators: name: el-Ojeili, Chamsy
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160806 Social Theory
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Circling Marx is both a window on to the forces and concerns that have shaped Thesis Eleven over four decades and an intellectual portrait of the singular post-Marxism of one of its leading thinkers. Beilharz emphasises the existence of multiple Marxes but leans towards a Marx who suggests an expanded materialism, a non-Bolshevik Marx, and a Marx of motion, rather than laws. Addressing Marxism and socialism more widely, Beilharz again underscores multiplicity, favouring those thinkers and currents that acknowledged complexity and limits, that staged something of a conversation between Marx and Weber, and that took distance from the teleology, vanguardism, and hubris that has marked parts of the Marxist tradition. Moving into more clearly post-Marxist territory, through important encounters with Heller and Feher, Bauman, Smith, and Castoriadis, Beilharz’s optic prioritises place, cultural traffic, and ambivalence, combining categories of ambitious scope with epistemological and normative circumspection, criticism with world affirmation.
A Defence of Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Compassion
Creators: name: ANDREW JOHN CANTWELL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This thesis examines the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s theory of compassion. According to Schopenhauer (1788-1860), compassion is a feeling of another's suffering, and a desire to alleviate this suffering. For him, this fellow-feeling is “the great mystery of ethics”, one that can only be fully explained metaphysically. But Schopenhauer’s metaphysical theory of compassion has been repeatedly objected to by numerous scholars; it has been described as “incoherent”, “inconsistent” and “nonsensical”. In my thesis I defend this theory by demonstrating why many criticisms of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of compassion are ultimately unfounded.
Setting the Renormalization Scale in pQCD: Comparisons of the Principle of Maximum Conformality with the Sequential Extended Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie Approach
Creators: name: Ma, Hong-Hao
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Ma, Yang
name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Mojaza, Matin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key problem in making precise perturbative QCD (pQCD) predictions is how to set the renormalization scale of the running coupling unambiguously at each finite order. The elimination of the uncertainty in setting the renormalization scale in pQCD will greatly increase the precision of collider tests of the Standard Model and the sensitivity to new phenomena. Renormalization group invariance requires that predictions for observables must also be independent on the choice of the renormalization scheme. The well-known Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie (BLM) approach cannot be easily extended beyond next-to-next-to-leading order of pQCD. Several suggestions have been proposed to extend the BLM approach to all-orders. In this paper we discuss two distinct methods. One is based on the "Principle of Maximum Conformality" (PMC), which provides a systematic all-orders method to eliminate the scale- and scheme- ambiguities of pQCD. The PMC extends the BLM procedure to all orders using renormalization group methods; as an outcome, it significantly improves the pQCD convergence by eliminating renormalon divergences. An alternative method is the "sequential extended BLM" (seBLM) approach, which has been primarily designed to improve the convergence of pQCD series. The seBLM, as originally proposed, introduces auxiliary fields and follows the pattern of the $β_0$-expansion to fix the renormalization scale. However, the seBLM requires a recomputation of pQCD amplitudes including the auxiliary fields; due to the limited availability of calculations using these auxiliary fields, the seBLM has only been applied to a few processes at low-orders......
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
The effect of screen time on child behaviour: an instrumental variables approach
Creators: name: Monk, Jaimie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Context: Children’s screen use is a ubiquitous part of modern family life. However, nearly all empirical evidence of its effect on children’s behaviour in the preschool years is associational – meaning that the effect of screen use on behaviour in this critical stage of development is relatively unknown. This paper examines the effect of screen use on two-year-old children’s behaviour using data from over H,III families in the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) study.
 Methods: This paper firstly explores associations between screen use and child behaviour using an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. Secondly, to account for missing data, a Heckman correction is employed to address study attrition following multiple imputation of data from item non-response. Finally, an instrumental variable (IV) approach is adopted to isolate causality using two variables on family screen use rules as instruments.
 Results: OLS results show a small association between higher levels of screen use and behaviour problems. However, a larger relationship is apparent when an IV approach is adopted.
 Conclusion: These results suggest that associational estimates of the relationship between children’s screen use and problem behaviour may underestimate the real effect. Therefore, the role of screen use in child behaviour problems may need increased consideration by policymakers.
Escenarios futuros de Gobernanza: Hoja de ruta metodológica para la construcción de escenarios prospectivos
Creators: name: Santamarina, Sofia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350705
subject: Innovation management

description: Para pensar el futuro y reflexionar sobre los escenarios posibles de gobernanza, a partir de la información disponible en el presente, desde Asuntos de Sur, elaboramos un manual metodológico para la construcción de escenarios prospectivos. Mediante un “proceso colectivo de construcción de futuro” esta metodología permite identificar tendencias y generar proposiciones frente a las incertidumbres, es decir, se evalúan posibles futuros alternativos para planificar la toma de decisiones y elaborar esquemas de decisión y posibles contingencias. De este modo, en nuestro producto final, cada escenario sintetiza una interacción específica de eventos o variables críticas y sus trayectorias en el tiempo para visualizar opciones futuras.A partir de esta herramienta metodológica, el objetivo es establecer un marco de referencia para impulsar modelos de gobernanza democrática ante los problemas enmarañados actuales y futuros en América Latina.
A roadmap to scientific software deployment: bio2Byte Tools as a use case
Creators: name: Gavalda-Garcia, Jose
name: Diaz, Adrian G.
name: Vranken, Wim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Software
Machine Learning
Software Deployment
Scientific Software
Biophysics
Proteins
Protein Biophysics
Predictions
REST-API
Python
Docker
Anaconda
PyPI
Google Colab
Biocontainers
Galaxy

description: Scientific software is all too often cumbersome to install and execute. The work described in a journal article is backed by code in a repository, with a set of instructions to install and execute. Often, after following these instructions, one is still unable to execute the software. Missing or incompatible dependencies, ineffective interfaces or lack of documentation are some of the reasons that frustrate users and may choose to not use some software altogether. We found our software tools exhibiting some of these pitfalls, so we started a journey towards more effective distribution of our bio2Byte Tools (b2BTools). We deployed them to a web server, which allowed their execution via web interface or REST-API. This approach carries some limitations, explained in board “web solution”. In this work, we present the deployment of our tools as a python package, which can be executed locally, and circumvents the limitations that our web solution has. Our experience is explained as a use case of how we believe scientific software should be published to increase its impact and integration in pipelines.
description: Presented in the conference "Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (4th edition)" during the second poster session on March 11th 2022
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‘The New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union: Trade Union Anti-racism Work, 1937-1980’
Creators: name: Locke, Cybele
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 220299 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In 1960, the Northern Drivers’ Union of New Zealand instituted its anti-racism policy. How this came about, and what it meant for union struggles in the following two decades, are the central concerns of this article. Effectively, the implementation of democratic organising principles within the Northern Drivers’ Union assisted the formation of anti-racism policy and practice. Union officials linked domestic racism with the experiences of black workers under apartheid in South Africa from 1960, which generated calls for a boycott of South Africa and local support for the Citizens’ Association for Racial Equality. Anti-apartheid sentiment in relation to South African rugby tours, which had galvanised unionists in the 1960s, became a source of division by the 1970s as attention turned to more “local” experiences of racism. In particular, this article considers how Māori rank and file, working together with Pākehā union officials such as communist Bill Andersen, extended trade union anti-racism work across the northern regions of the country, especially Auckland.
Singularity confinement and full-deautonomisation: a discrete integrability criterion
Creators: name: Grammaticos, Basil
name: Ramani, Alfred
name: Willox, Ralph
name: Mase, Takafumi
name: Satsuma, Junkichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new approach to singularity confinement which makes it an efficient and reliable discrete integrability detector. Our method is based on the full-deautonomisation procedure, which consists in analysing non-autonomous extensions of a given discrete system obtained by adding terms that are initially absent, but whose presence does not alter the singularity pattern. A justification for this approach is given through an algebro-geometric analysis. We also introduce the notions of early and late confinement. While the former is a confinement that may exist already for the autonomous system, the latter corresponds to a singularity pattern longer than that of the autonomous case. Late confinement will be shown to play an important role in the singularity analysis of systems with non-trivial gauge freedom, for which the existence of an undetected gauge in conjunction with a sketchy analysis, might lead to erroneous conclusions as to their integrability. An algebro-geometric analysis of the role of late confinement in this context is also offered. This novel type of singularity confinement analysis will be shown to allow for the exact calculation of the algebraic entropy of a given mapping.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures
Petrarch and the poetics of ascesis
Creators: name: Reicher, Nina Ella
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The writings of Francis Petrarch (1304-74) have been and continue to be variously interpreted and reinterpreted by scholars. Focusing on perhaps the two most discussed and debated of his works, the Secretum and the letter on the Ascent of Mont Ventoux, together with the thematically and chronologically linked De otio religioso and De vita solitaria (collectively designated here as the writer's 'monastic-ascetic oeuvre'), this dissertation offers a theorisation of the more or less peculiar problematic posed by Petrarch's writing. It is argued that while any literary text or texts by any author may conceivably be subject, at the discretion of creative readers, to a potentially indefinite range of interpretations, what is different about Petrarch's is that they seem to elicit such interpretive indeterminacy. It is demonstrated that, through their creatively divergent and dynamically unresolved engagement with a number of textual and existential/spiritual models, in which the main casualty is the exemplarity and didacticism implicit in those models, Petrarch's monastic-ascetic works maintain an ambiguous literary/aesthetic autonomy. Petrarch, it is contended, is ever the creative writer; his monastic-ascetic texts, ever literary works of art. Then, drawing on the theme of those texts in order to characterise their literary-ascetic "strategy," it is suggested that monastic asceticism, particularly the discourse of early Christian desert eremitism, bears resonance with them not just as a theme or subject but also in terms of their textual characteristics. Indeed, it is proposed that the dynamic of (eremitic) ascesis presents, as it were, a discursive paradigm; one embodied in Petrarch's monastic-ascetic oeuvre.
Construction of energy-momentum tensor of gravitation
Creators: name: Bamba, Kazuharu
name: Shimizu, Katsutaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the gravitational energy-momentum tensor in general relativity through the Noether theorem. In particular, we explicitly demonstrate that the constructed quantity can vary as a tensor under the general coordinate transformation. Furthermore, we verify that the energy-momentum conservation is satisfied because one of the two indices of the energy-momentum tensor should be in the local Lorentz frame. It is also shown that the gravitational energy and the matter one cancel out in certain space-times.
description: 13 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Time, Space, Confucianism and Careers: A Contextualized Review of Careers Research in China – Current Knowledge and Future Research Agenda
Creators: name: Yao, Christian
name: Duan, Zheng
name: Baruch, Y
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Career studies attract significant attention, but most of the theories and concepts were developed and tested in Western contexts. Based on a systematic review and analysis of 95 articles published in the field of careers that focus on China in the period between 1991 and 2017, this paper identifies emerging trends and outlines a profile of the current development of careers research in the Chinese context. Using a time and space analytical framework, the review evaluates the theoretical and empirical career lenses embedded in the unique Chinese cultural, institutional and organizational contexts and confirms that research on Chinese careers is significantly underdeveloped. Through a theoretical lens of Confucianism, we propose a need to consider context-specific factors, in particular time and space, when conducting Chinese careers research, and present implications for future research on careers in China.
Partizipatives Planen in Wettingen : Ringen um den Masterplan-Entwurf für die Zukunft der Landstrasse
Creators: name: Hagen Hodgson, Petra
Publisher: name: Verlag Werk
Year: 2013
Subjects: Wettingen
Partizipation
711: Raumplanung (Städtebau)

description: Wettingen will seine 2,5 Kilometer lange Hauptachse, die Landstrasse aufwerten, den Verkehr beruhigen, die Bebauung verdichten und öffentliche Freiräume stärken. Ein Mitwirkungsverfahren sichert die Partizipation aller Interessengruppen am Masterplan.
Measuring Spectral Inconsistency of Multispectral Images for Detection and Segmentation of Retinal Degenerative Changes
Creators: name: Jiao, Wanzhen
name: Duan, Peiyong
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Lian, Jian
name: Ren, Yanju
name: Zheng, Yuanjie
name: Zhao, Bojun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Multispectral imaging (MSI) creates a series of en-face fundus spectral sections by leveraging an extensive range of discrete monochromatic light sources and allows for an examination of the retina's early morphologic changes that are not generally visible with traditional fundus imaging modalities. An Ophthalmologist's interpretation of MSI images is commonly conducted by qualitatively analyzing the spectral consistency between degenerated areas and normal ones, which characterizes the image variation across different spectra. Unfortunately, an ophthalmologist's interpretation is practically difficult considering the fact that human perception is limited to the RGB color space, while an MSI sequence contains typically more than ten spectra. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the spectral inconsistency of MSI images without supervision, which yields quantitative information indicating the pathological property of the tissue. Specifically, we define mathematically the spectral consistency as an existence of a pixel-specific latent feature vector and a spectrum-specific projection matrix, which can be used to reconstruct the representative features of pixels. The spectral inconsistency is then measured using the number of latent feature vectors required to reconstruct the representative features in practice. Experimental results from 54 MSI sequences show that our spectral inconsistency measurement is potentially invaluable for MSI-based ocular disease diagnosis.
From the protected zone to the unknown: Trajectories of Second Generation Shan Youth in Thai public schools and their strategies to overcome liminal legality
Creators: name: Cheva-Isarakul, Janepicha
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: This article explores the everyday experiences of second generation Shan youth at Thai public schools in urban Chiang Mai and their life trajectories after completing middle school (grade 9). Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork, it is argued that school is more than a space of differentiation as often portrayed by the literature; it is also space for normalization, protection, inclusion and opportunities. This article also discusses how Shan youths in Chiang Mai put into use the various modes of citizenship they have learned in school to navigate their life outside this “protected zone”.By building an understanding of the dayto-day experiences of inclusions and exclusions of second generation Shan migrants, this article hopes to contribute to broadening discussions on migrant citizenship beyond the legal/illegal dichotomy and generate future dialogue on investigating the mechanisms that produce and sustain illegality.
The nexus of drought and power dynamics in water governance: The case of UMngeni catchment area
Creators: name: HLENGIWE DUBE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The thesis is about power dynamics in water governance issues in drought situations in the area of Umgeni which is situated in KwaZulu-Natal.When water is scarce in a community, various groups of people strive to influence its distribution to their own advantage. Power thus becomes an important factor, in that it can be used to control decisions on water governance. In conducting the study, data was gathered through primary data collecting methods that included: stakeholder analysis, the observation method, face-to-face in-depth interviews and focus groups. Secondary data was collected through an extensive review of existing published and unpublished literature on the subject. The study established that power dynamics based on race, economic status, technical knowledge and political status prevented previously disadvantaged individuals from participating in water governance issues.
CircuitStart: A Slow Start For Multi-Hop Anonymity Systems
Creators: name: Döpmann, Christoph
name: Tschorsch, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: Tor
subject: multi-hop communication
subject: slow start algorithm

description: In order to improve the performance of anonymity networks like Tor, custom transport protocols have been proposed to efficiently deal with the multi-hop nature of such overlay networks. In this work, we tackle the issue of quickly, but safely, ramping up the congestion window during the initial phase of a circuit's lifetime. We propose a tailored startup mechanism called CircuitStart that transfers the idea of a traditional slow start to the multi-hop scenario by effectively compensating potential overshooting, improving performance compared to existing approaches.
Socioeconomic differentials in life satisfaction in Australia
Creators: name: ANDREW GREGORY RUSH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis focuses on the relationship between life satisfaction and a range of social, health, economic and demographic indicators. The data used in this study was collected from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Results showed variables such as job satisfaction, marital status, as well as indicators of health and communication participation, to be associated with higher satisfaction rates. By contrast, education, income, and number of children were unrelated to life satisfaction. I conclude that future research should examine in more detail how and why these variables impact on levels of life satisfaction.
title: re:search : das Forschungsmagazin, Ausgabe 5, Januar 2023
title: Resilienz : resilience
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Hochschule Reutlingen
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Erst die Corona-Pandemie, dann der Krieg in der Ukraine und die Energiekrise. Es scheint als rutschten wir von einer Katastrophe in die andere ohne zu wissen was als Nächstes kommt. Wir müssen uns der Frage stellen, wie wir solchen Krisen zukünftig begegnen können. Auch die Forscherinnen und Forscher an der Hochschule Reutlingen leisten einen Beitrag dazu, unsere Gesellschaft widerstandsfähiger und robuster zu machen – sei es durch pfiffige Lösungen für die Energiekrise, durch kompetente Beratung zu Ressourceneffizienz und Lieferketten oder durch aktuelle Forschungsansätze zu resilienten IT-Strukturen und einer resilienten Wirtschaft.
Levy flights in a box
Creators: name: Iomin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a quantum Lévy process in a box leads to a problem involving topological constraints in space, and its treatment in the framework of the path integral formalism with the Lévy measure is suggested. The eigenvalue problem for the infinite potential well is properly defined and solved. An analytical expression for the evolution operator is obtained in the path integral presentation, and the path integral takes the correct limit of the local quantum mechanics with topological constraints. An example of the Lévy process in oscillating walls is also considered in the adiabatic approximation.
The impact of gender on the evaluation of vertical line extensions of luxury brands
Creators: name: Boisvert, Jean
name: Ashill, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: No description supplied
Messenger RNAs localized to distal projections of human stem cell derived neurons
Creators: name: Bigler, Rebecca L.
name: Kamande, Joyce W.
name: Taylor, Anne Marion
name: Dumitru, Raluca
name: Niedringhaus, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The identification of mRNAs in distal projections of model organisms has led to the discovery of multiple proteins that are locally synthesized for functional roles such as axon guidance, injury signaling and regeneration. The extent to which local protein synthesis is conserved in human neurons is unknown. Here we used compartmentalized microfluidic chambers to characterize the transcriptome of distal projections of human embryonic stem cells differentiated using a protocol which enriched for glutamatergic neurons (hESC-neurons). Using gene expression analysis, we identified mRNAs proportionally enriched in these projections, representing a functionally unique local transcriptome as compared to the human neuronal transcriptome inclusive of somata. Further, we found that the most abundant mRNAs within these hESC-neuron projections were functionally similar to the axonal transcriptome of rat cortical neurons. We confirmed the presence of two well characterized axonal mRNAs in model organisms, β-actin and GAP43, within hESC-neuron projections using multiplexed single molecule RNA-FISH. Additionally, we report the novel finding that oxytocin mRNA localized to these human projections and confirmed its localization using RNA-FISH. This new evaluation of mRNA within human projections provides an important resource for studying local mRNA translation and has the potential to reveal both conserved and unique translation dependent mechanisms.
Deep South National Science Challenge Engagement Strategy 2015-2019
Creators: name: Salmon, Rhian A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: climate change communication; public engagement with science; science funding strategy; science engagement funding, engagement evaluation

description: The goal of the Engagement Programme for the Deep South Challenge (DSC) is to "contribute to improving New Zealanders’ ability and capacity to make decisions informed by DSC-related research". This document outlines the strategy to deliver on that. It includes 6 objectives and four funding workstreams. The objectives are:

1. Ensuring that DSC research responds to the needs of New Zealanders;

2. Strengthening channels with key audiences and sectors with regard to DSC-related climate change research to build sector-specific interest in, and capacity to understand and use, this information to enable more informed decision-making;

3. Establishing broad public communication and two-way engagement about DSC- related climate change research to increase New Zealanders’ awareness of, and ability to access and use, DSC research outcomes such that they inform climate related decisions;

4. Maintaining communication of DSC progress (to the public, key stakeholders, and funders, DSC researchers and committees);

5. Building capability for engagement about climate change among experts and intermediaries (especially related to modelling, impacts and implications, and adaptation), and contributing expertise to engagement led by external partners, to ensure effective communication and dialogue through and beyond the duration of the DSC;

6. Evaluating the DSC engagement programme to ensure that the programme delivers on its goal and contributing to academic literature through research on factors enhancing the effectiveness of climate-change engagement.
WorldFAIR Project (D6.1) Cross-national Social Sciences survey FAIR implementation case studies
Creators: name: McEachern, Steven
name: Orten, Hilde
name: Thome Petersen, Hanna
name: Perry, Ryan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: research data
WorldFAIR
social sciences
FAIR data
CODATA

description: Cross-national Social Sciences survey FAIR implementation case studies report. Project Deliverable D6.1 for EC WIDERA-funded project "WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice". This report provides an overview of the data harmonisation practices of comparative (cross-national) social surveys, through case studies of: (1) the European Social Survey (ESS) and (2) a satellite study, the Australian Social Survey International – European Social Survey (AUSSI-ESS). To do this, we compare and contrast the practices between the Australian Data Archive and Sikt.no, the organisations responsible for the data management of ESS and AUSSI-ESS. The case studies consider the current data management and harmonisation practices of study partners in the ESS, including an analysis of the current practices with FAIR data standards, particularly leveraging FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) and FAIR Enabling Resources (FERs). The comparative analysis of the two case studies considers key similarities and differences in the management of the two data collections. Core differences in the use of standards and accessible, persistent registry services are highlighted, as these impact on the potential for shared, integrated reuse of services and content between the two partner organisations. The report concludes with a set of recommended practices for improved management and automation of ESS data going forward—setting the stage for Phase 2 of WorldFAIR Work Package 6—and outlines the proposed means for implementing this management in the two partner organisations. These recommendations focus on three areas of shared interest: Aligning standards Establishing common tools Establishing and using registries in order to advance implementation of the FAIR principles, and to improve interoperability and reusability of digital data in social sciences research. Visit WorldFAIR online at http://worldfair-project.eu. WorldFAIR is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393.
Architektur für die neue ökonomische Ordnung : Zaha Hadid Architects - Zentralgebäude BMW Leipzig, 2002-2005
Creators: name: Hagen Hodgson, Petra
Publisher: name: Verlag Werk
Year: 2005
Subjects: 338.927: Umweltökonomie und nachhaltige Entwicklung
720: Architektur

description: Ein Industriebau ohne Raumhierarchien und ohne eindeutig festgelegte, ablesbare Funktionen, entwickelt aus Kommunikations-Diagrammen. Manager und Arbeiter vereint, und über allem: die fetischisierten Produkte. Eine post-fordistische Automobilfabrik des 21. Jahrhunderts.
The Diffusion of Phytotechnological Floating Treatment Wetland Technology in Integrated Watershed Management in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa
Creators: name: YOLANDI SCHOEMAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: 120302 Design Innovation
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The biggest threat to the sustainable supply of water in South Africa is not the lack of water storage facilities, but the contamination of available water resources through pollution. The development of new technologies that address problems with anthropogenic origins will therefore play a major role in securing a sustainable future and addressing problems regarding water supply, such as water quality and security. These technologies, also termed eco-innovations or green infrastructure, diffuse slowly into society. Understanding this process of the diffusion of green infrastructure, and particularly of floating treatment wetlands, is crucial, as it is usually slow and its path unclear.
Clinical, Psychological and Neuropsychological Profiling Indicators of Patients Diagnosed with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures
Creators: name: SKYE HANEKOM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: PNES patients demonstrated higher overall levels of cognitive functioning, and impairments in visual memory and fluid intelligence capacities. Epilepsy patients manifested impairments in long term verbal working memory, particularly in relation to heterogeneous material. PNES patients had a wider scope and intensity of traumatic experiences, while patients with epilepsy reported a higher collective identity. The proximity of the clinical, neuropsychological and psychological profiles of the two patient groups could be suggestive of a cross-over movement between the impairments in PNES and epilepsy. These findings present challenges for diagnosis and add to the complexity of identifying reliable and valid diagnostic tools.
Predictive AI systems for maternal and infant health
Creators: name: N, Mahesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Maternal and infant health remains a cornerstone of public health efforts, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where access to timely and high-quality care is often limited. Despite significant advancements in healthcare systems, preventable complications during pregnancy and infancy continue to result in high morbidity and mortality rates. Predictive Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly emerging as transformative tools in this domain, enabling early identification of at-risk pregnancies, preterm births, neonatal conditions, and postpartum complications. By harnessing large datasets from electronic health records (EHRs), wearable devices, imaging systems, and genomic information, AI can uncover subtle patterns that precede health deterioration. This paper explores how predictive AI models enhance maternal and infant health outcomes through early detection, remote monitoring, risk stratification, and personalized interventions. It also discusses the ethical, technological, and infrastructural considerations involved in deploying AI in maternal-child healthcare and outlines the potential for equitable, scalable, and life-saving applications of predictive technologies across diverse populations.
A Non-Equilibrium Kinetic Theory for Trapped Binary Condensates
Creators: name: Edmonds, M. J.
name: Lee, K. L.
name: Proukakis, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a non-equilibrium finite-temperature kinetic theory for a binary mixture of two interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensates and use it to explore the degree of hydrodynamicity attainable in realistic experimental geometries. Based on the standard separation of timescale argument of kinetic theory, the dynamics of the condensates of the multi-component system are shown to be described by dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equations, self-consistently coupled to corresponding Quantum Boltzmann equations for the non-condensate atoms: on top of the usual mean field contributions, our scheme identifies a total of eight distinct collisional processes, whose dynamical interplay is expected to be responsible for the systems equilibration. In order to provide their first characterization, we perform a detailed numerical analysis of the role of trap frequency and geometry on collisional rates for experimentally accessible mixtures of $^{87}$Rb-$^{41}$K and $^{87}$Rb-$^{85}$Rb, discussing the extent to which the system may approach the hydrodynamic regime with regard to some of those processes, as a guide for future experimental investigations of ultracold Bose gas mixtures.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures
Methylation specific targeting of a chromatin remodeling complex from sponges to humans
Creators: name: Gomez, Fernando
name: Pohlmann, Deborah
name: Hall, Chelsea
name: Sperlazza, M. Jeannette
name: Walavalkar, Ninad M.
name: Kornegay, Benjamin
name: Williams, David C.
name: Mark, Leslie
name: Hill, April L.
name: Bilinovich, Stephanie
name: Siraliev-Perez, Edhriz
name: Prokop, Jeremy W.
name: Cramer, Jason M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: DNA cytosine methylation and methyl-cytosine binding domain (MBD) containing proteins are found throughout all vertebrate species studied to date. However, both the presence of DNA methylation and pattern of methylation varies among invertebrate species. Invertebrates generally have only a single MBD protein, MBD2/3, that does not always contain appropriate residues for selectively binding methylated DNA. Therefore, we sought to determine whether sponges, one of the most ancient extant metazoan lineages, possess an MBD2/3 capable of recognizing methylated DNA and recruiting the associated nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex. We find that Ephydatia muelleri has genes for each of the NuRD core components including an EmMBD2/3 that selectively binds methylated DNA. NMR analyses reveal a remarkably conserved binding mode, showing almost identical chemical shift changes between binding to methylated and unmethylated CpG dinucleotides. In addition, we find that EmMBD2/3 and EmGATAD2A/B proteins form a coiled-coil interaction known to be critical for the formation of NuRD. Finally, we show that knockdown of EmMBD2/3 expression disrupts normal cellular architecture and development of E. muelleri. These data support a model in which the MBD2/3 methylation-dependent functional role emerged with the earliest multicellular organisms and has been maintained to varying degrees across animal evolution.
The Foundation of Political Life: Kant, Arendt, and Schelling, and the Ineliminability of Conflict
Creators: name: Cain, Alex
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: One of the most persistent questions in the history of the thinking out of the sphere of political life pertains to the relation between the spectator and the actor in this sphere. This thesis asks: How is the relation between the actor, who participates in the political event from the particularity of their own unique position, and the spectator, who views and judges a political event distantly, universally, and disinterestedly, to be thought out?
Warped-AdS3 black holes with scalar halo
Creators: name: Giribet, Gaston
name: Tsoukalas, Minas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a stretched (aka Warped) Anti-de Sitter black hole in 3 dimensions supported by a real scalar field configuration. The latter is regular everywhere outside and on the horizon. No hair theorems in 3 dimensions demand the matter to be coupled to the curvature in a non-minimal way; however, this coupling can still be of the Horndeski type, i.e. yielding second order field equations similar to those appearing in the context of Galileon theories. These Warped-Anti-de Sitter black holes exhibit interesting thermodynamical properties, such as finite Hawking temperature and entropy. We compute the black hole entropy in the gravity theory and speculate with the possibility of this to admit a microscopic description in terms of a dual (Warped) Conformal Field Theory. We also discuss the inner and outer black hole mechanics.
description: v2, 7 pages, minor corrections, version accepted to PRD
Relaxation of the chiral imbalance and the generation of magnetic fields in magnetars
Creators: name: Dvornikov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model for the generation of magnetic fields in a neutron star, based on the magnetic field instability caused by the electroweak interaction between electrons and nucleons, is developed. Using the methods of the quantum field theory, the helicity flip rate of electrons in their scattering off protons in dense matter of a neutron star is calculated. The influence of the electroweak interaction between electrons and background nucleons on the process of the helicity flip is studied. The kinetic equation for the evolution of the chital imbalance is derived. The obtained results are applied for the description of the magnetic fields evolution in magnetars.
description: 20 pages in pdflatex, 5 pdf figures; minimal changes, matches published version
Numerical relativity simulations of neutron star merger remnants using conservative mesh refinement
Creators: name: Dietrich, Tim
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
name: Ujevic, Maximiliano
name: Bruegmann, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study equal and unequal-mass neutron star mergers by means of new numerical relativity simulations in which the general relativistic hydrodynamics solver employs an algorithm that guarantees mass conservation across the refinement levels of the computational mesh. We consider eight binary configurations with total mass $M=2.7\,M_\odot$, mass-ratios $q=1$ and $q=1.16$, and four different equation of states (EOSs), and one configuration with a stiff EOS, $M=2.5M_\odot$ and $q=1.5$. We focus on the post-merger dynamics and study the merger remnant, dynamical ejecta and the postmerger gravitational wave spectrum. Although most of the merger remnants form a hypermassive neutron star collapsing to a black hole+disk system on dynamical timescales, stiff EOSs can eventually produce a stable massive neutron star. Ejecta are mostly emitted around the orbital plane; favored by large mass ratios and softer EOS. The postmerger wave spectrum is mainly characterized by non-axisymmetric oscillations of the remnant. The stiff EOS configuration consisting of a $1.5M_\odot$ and a $1.0M_\odot$ neutron star shows a rather peculiar dynamics. During merger the companion star is very deformed; about~$\sim0.03M_\odot$ of rest-mass becomes unbound from the tidal tail due torque; and the merger remnant forms stable neutron star surrounded by a massive accretion disk $\sim0.3M_\odot$. Similar configurations might be particularly interesting for electromagnetic counterparts. Comparing results obtained with and without the conservative mesh refinement algorithm, we find that post-merger simulations can be affected by systematic errors if mass conservation is not enforced in the mesh refinement strategy. However, mass conservation also depends on grid details and on the artificial atmosphere setup. [abridged]
description: 26 pages, 18 figures
Requirements, Specifications & Software Development Plan for Atmospheric Services
Creators: name: Vitorino, Ricardo
name: Cardoso, Francisco
name: Karantzalos, Konstantinos
name: Rapsomanikis, Spyridon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EOSC
Services
Cloud Computing
Atmospheric Research

description: The objective of Deliverable D3.1 is to report on requirements, specifications and software development plan
 of the Atmospheric Research Services. The present document describes the different end-user communities
 working within the Atmospheric theme and their research needs, the datasets and products used and needed
 by these communities, as well as the current status of employed software and services. Then it describes a
 mapping of requirements to the technical specifications and finally, the foreseen software development plan.