The forgotten war : Australian involvement in the South African conflict of 1899-1902

This thesis is an attempt to write a critical history of Australia's part in the South African War. There is no existing work of that nature. The "official" account edited by P.L. Murrayis invaluable for statistics, but otherwise it is a collection of brief reports from unit leaders on the war service of their commands. Several other books have a greater narrative quality but they confine themselves to the work of particular regiments, and all suffer from the fact that their authors were part of the eruption of imperialist sentiment that characterised the time. None attempts a survey of the home front. Difficulties encountered have resulted from the paucity of source material, and the fragmentation of the Australian contingents, which makes it difficult to follow their progress during the earlier phases of the war, and impossible to do so in the later, guerrilla phases of the conflict. It is hoped, however, that the thesis gives a coherent account of Australia's first war, from the first steps towards commitment to the work of the last soldiers in the field

Equity and Mediation: Affinities and Disjunctures

The authors and Professor Denis SK Ong were colleagues at the Bond University Law School. Given their different areas of interest they did not collaborate on intellectual and academic matters. It is, however, to the regret of the current authors that they never discussed the subject of this contribution, namely the relationship between mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution (DR), on one hand and equity and its principles, on the other. This is regrettable as Denis’s scholarship and erudition on the topic would have led to a fruitful discussion. This article is written in honour of Professor Ong and his innumerable achievements in many fields of academic life

The Study of Corporate M&As

Abstract According to the objective and inherent logical coherence of research subject, the thesis is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides the theoretical background for the thesis. The author reviews and analyzes the western motive theories of corporate M&As so as to clearly recognize them. The commemt and analysis lay a foundation for discussion of the related problem...学位：经济学博士院系专业：经济学院经济系_世界经济学号：B20010901

Training and recovery strategies to minimise performance decrement in multi-round competition performed within and on consecutive days: practice and perspectives of coaches, and practitioners

To contest for medals in the final of major sporting championships, athletes must progress through preliminary rounds of competition, potentially requiring repeated maximal performances separated by minutes to hours. With the difference between medalling and non-medalling performance often <1%, ensuring athletes optimise recovery between bouts of competition to attenuate declines, maintain, or enhance performance is imperative. However, little evidence exists examining the use of recovery and training strategies to attenuate declines or enhance performance in multi-round competitions. Importantly, as this information has not been detailed in the literature, how athletes train for multi-round competition, what recovery strategies they use, and why, remains unknown. Therefore, the aim of this project was to identify current practices and perspectives of high-performing coaches and practitioners when preparing athletes for multi-round competition that involves multiple performances within a day and/ or on consecutive days. Following institutional ethical approval, a survey was conducted with coaches and practitioners supporting athletes classified as ≥ tier 3 (McKay et al., 2022. IJSPP, 17, 317-331). Using an on-line platform (QualtricsXM, https://www.qualtrics.com/uk), participants were asked a series of questions regarding typical time-frames between rounds of competition, implementation of specific training and recovery strategies to enhance multi-round competition, sources of information, perceived efficacy, as well as gaps in knowledge. Respondents (n=36) were currently, or had previously, supported athletes competing at continental or global championships (97%), with the majority supporting athletes competing both within and on consecutive days (51%), within only (29%) or on consecutive days only (20%). Race/ event specific training (percent of respondents who utilise strategy/ percent of respondents who perceive the strategy to positively impact multi-round performance: 100%/100%), periodisation (97%/94%) and strength/ resistance or plyometric training (94%/92%) were the most commonly employed training strategies. Small-sided games (16%/20%), altitude (52%/64%) and heat (56%/72%) were the least commonly employed. Strategies focussing on nutrition (within day [WD]:100%/97%; consecutive days [CD]:100%/100%), fluid (WD:100%/97%; CD:97%/100%) and active recovery (WD:90%/86%; CD:94%/90%) were the most commonly employed recovery strategies. Electrostimulation (WD:8%/13%; CD:10%/13%), heat application (WD:8%/10%; CD:11%/10%) and contrast bath/ shower (WD:30%/21%; CD:38%/ 30%) were the least commonly employed. Some strategies (i.e. stretching, compression garments, foam rolling, massage) had greater rates of use than perceived efficacy, suggesting strategy implementation despite a lack of perceived impact. Respondents felt more information is required on how to implement training (97%) and recovery (89%) strategies effectively, including optimal dose, timing, and strategy combinations, as well as more sport-specific research to optimise approaches

Grid Interoperation with ARC Middleware for the CMS Experiment

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the general purpose experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CMS computing relies on different grid infrastructures to provide computational and storage resources. The major grid middleware stacks used for CMS computing are gLite, Open Science Grid (OSG) and ARC (Advanced Resource Connector). Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) hosts one of the Tier-2 centers for CMS computing. CMS Tier-2 centers operate software systems for data transfers (PhEDEx), Monte Carlo production (ProdAgent) and data analysis (CRAB). In order to provide the Tier-2 services for CMS, HIP uses tools and components from both ARC and gLite grid middleware stacks. Interoperation between grid systems is a challenging problem and HIP uses two different solutions to provide the needed services. The first solution is based on gLite-ARC grid level interoperability. This allows to use ARC resources in CMS without modifying the CMS application software. The second solution is based on developing specific ARC plugins in CMS software

Speeding up Madgraph5 aMC@NLO through CPU vectorization and GPU offloading: towards a first alpha release

The matrix element (ME) calculation in any Monte Carlo physics event generator is an ideal fit for implementing data parallelism with lockstep processing on GPUs and vector CPUs. For complex physics processes where the ME calculation is the computational bottleneck of event generation workflows, this can lead to large overall speedups by efficiently exploiting these hardware architectures, which are now largely underutilized in HEP. In this paper, we present the status of our work on the reengineering of the Madgraph5_aMC@NLO event generator at the time of the ACAT2022 conference. The progress achieved since our previous publication in the ICHEP2022 proceedings is discussed, for our implementations of the ME calculations in vectorized C++, in CUDA and in the SYCL framework, as well as in their integration into the existing MadEvent framework. The outlook towards a first alpha release of the software supporting QCD LO processes usable by the LHC experiments is also discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; submitted to ACAT 2022 proceedings in IO

Reversed radial SLE and the Brownian loop measure

The Brownian loop measure is a conformally invariant measure on loops in the plane that arises when studying the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE). When an SLE curve in a domain evolves from an interior point, it is natural to consider the loops that hit the curve and leave the domain, but their measure is infinite. We show that there is a related normalized quantity that is finite and invariant under M\"obius transformations of the plane. We estimate this quantity when the curve is small and the domain simply connected. We then use this estimate to prove a formula for the Radon-Nikodym derivative of reversed radial SLE with respect to whole-plane SLE.Comment: 44 page