High precision single qubit tuning via thermo-magnetic field control
Precise control of the resonant frequency of a spin qubit is of fundamental importance to quantum sensing protocols. We demonstrate a control technique on a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in...
View ArticleQuantum Bath Control with Nuclear Spin State Selectivity via Pulse-Adjusted...
Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a powerful method for controlling arbitrary open quantum systems. In quantum spin control, DD generally involves a sequence of timed spin flips (π rotations) arranged to...
View ArticleFPGA-based neural network accelerators for millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber...
With rapidly developing high-speed wireless communications, the 60 GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequency range has attracted extensive interests, and radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems have been widely...
View ArticleT2-limited sensing of static magnetic fields via fast rotation of quantum spins
Diamond-based quantum magnetometers are more sensitive to oscillating (ac) magnetic fields than static (dc) fields because the crystal impurity-induced ensemble dephasing time T2∗, the relevant sensing...
View ArticleHigh-efficiency techniques and micro-structural parameters to evaluate...
Researchers have put significant effort into developing various healing agents for micro-crack closure to achieve a more durable structure and various destructive and non-destructive test methods are...
View ArticleThe dimensions of mediatized policy-making in Australian Indigenous affairs
This article analyzes media-related policy-making practices in the bureaucratic realm of Indigenous affairs in Australia. It considers the implications of an increasingly media-oriented bureaucracy for...
View ArticleControllable Non-Markovianity for a Spin Qubit in Diamond
We present a flexible scheme to realize non-Markovian dynamics of an electronic spin qubit, using a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond where the inherent nitrogen spin serves as a regulator of the...
View ArticleIntelligent control of rehabilitation robot: Auto tuning PIDController with...
DC servomotors have been in use extensively for many applications vary from industrial to robotics to consumers. DC servomotors provide error feedback signal to its PID controller to minimize the...
View ArticleThought Without a Thinking Subject; or, Karl Popper as Film-Philosopher
The most interesting, and problematic, claim made by (some) film-philosophy, for me, is the proposition that film thinks. This claim is interesting because it asserts that film has something...
View ArticleA controller based on Optimal Type-2 Fuzzy Logic: Systematic design,...
A computationally-efficient systematic procedure to design an Optimal Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller (OT2FLC) is proposed. The main scheme is to optimize the gains of the controller using Particle Swarm...
View ArticleEmpathy with the Masses
John Grierson disliked the central heroic character, instead he used co-operative characters. I reflect on Griersons idea via the creation of a film using co-operative characters (Expect Delays (2018))...
View ArticleEffect of nano-silica addition into high volume fly ashhydrated lime blended...
This study investigates strength development, reactivity and environmental/economic benefits of blended High Volume Fly Ash (HVFA) concrete mixes utilizing 65% and 80% cement replacement utilizing a...
View ArticleThermal Stability and Oxidation of Group IV Terminated (100) Diamond Surfaces
High resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is used to explore the thermal stability of as-prepared and oxidized silicon and germanium-terminated (100) diamond surfaces which form two domain (3 ×...
View ArticleAutour dun Pacifique postcolonial, pluriel et plurilingue. Enquête auprès des...
Nation-building remains a key challenge across Melanesian societies, including Vanuatu. From the origins of the new nations of Melanesia following decolonization in the 1970s and 1980s, it was clear...
View ArticleDevelopment of Stable Boron Nitride Nanotube and Hexagonal Boron Nitride...
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) represent a relatively new class of materials that provides alternative electrical and thermal properties to the carbon analogue. The high chemical and thermal stability...
View ArticleTimor-leste votes: Parties and patronage
This article examines electoral politics in the tiny nation of Timor-Leste, one of Southeast Asia's most successful democracies. Focusing on the countrys July 2017 parliamentary elections, it asks why...
View ArticleAll-Pass Parametric Image Registration
Image registration is a required step in many practical applications that involve the acquisition of multiple related images. In this paper, we propose a methodology to deal with both the geometric and...
View ArticleRespects of Character
The uniform evidence legislation, unlike the common law, allows the accused to claim a good character in a 'particular respect' and, if that is done, limits the Crown to rebuttal evidence relating to...
View ArticleProbabilistic studies on mechanics-based shear capacity models for reinforced...
The efficiency of shear capacity models of reinforced concrete beams with stirrups depends on the assumed mechanism and in few cases depends also on critical shear crack angle prediction. In the...
View ArticleDevelopment of a silicon-diamond interface on (111) diamond
We report the preparation of a silicon terminated (111) diamond surface. Low energy electron diffraction and core level photoemission demonstrate that this surface is highly ordered and homogeneous and...
View ArticleOrigins of Diamond Surface Noise Probed by Correlating Single-Spin...
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond exhibits spin-dependent fluorescence and long spin coherence times under ambient conditions, enabling applications in quantum information processing and...
View ArticleConflict and Resilience in an Urban Squatter Settlement in Dili, East Timor
Since the end of the Indonesian occupation in 1999, East Timor's capital Dili has experienced a continuous rural-urban influx. This urban population growth has been concentrated in clusters of crowded...
View ArticleIn Search of White Elephants: The Political Economy of Resource Income...
A little more than a decade after independence, the small island state of East Timor is exhibiting the hallmarks of a neo-patrimonialist state. Since 2008, utilizing its considerable oil reserves, the...
View ArticleRobbing Peter to pay Paul: changing clientelist patterns in East Timors 2017...
This article examines the adverse impact of clientelist relations between political parties and campaign donors on parties relations with voters. Clientelism is generally conceptualized as a vertical,...
View ArticleEffect of protic ionic liquid nanostructure on phospholipid vesicle formation
The formation of bilayer-based lyotropic liquid crystals and vesicle dispersions by phospholipids in a range of protic ionic liquids has been investigated by polarizing optical microscopy using...
View ArticleMicroscopic Imaging of the Stress Tensor in Diamond Using in Situ Quantum...
The precise measurement of mechanical stress at the nanoscale is of fundamental and technological importance. In principle, all six independent variables of the stress tensor, which describe the...
View ArticleSpin properties of dense near-surface ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers...
We present a study of the spin properties of dense layers of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond created by nitrogen ion implantation. The optically detected magnetic resonance...
View ArticleEvidence for Primal sp 2 Defects at the Diamond Surface: Candidates for...
Many advanced applications of diamond materials are now being limited by unknown surface defects, including in the fields of high power/frequency electronics and quantum computing and quantum sensing....
View ArticleG-factor and well width variations for the two-dimensional hole gas in...
Hydrogen-terminated diamond possesses a quasi two-dimensional, sub-surface hole accumulation layer with a strong and tunable spin-orbit coupling due to surface transfer doping. We report a...
View ArticleFluorescence and Physico-Chemical Properties of Hydrogenated Detonation...
Hydrogenated detonation nanodiamonds are of great interest for emerging applications in areas from biology and medicine to lubrication. Here, we compare the two main hydrogenation techniques-annealing...
View ArticleBending and shear performance of Australian Radiata pine cross-laminated timber
Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is increasingly being used in commercial and residential construction in Australia due to its inherent strength and sustainability credentials. Until recently,...
View ArticleThe inter-relationship of diversity principles for the enhanced participation...
Background The health and aged care workforce must understand and support the diverse needs of older people to enhance their care experience. We previously identified five principles of diversity...
View ArticleCommunity journalism in Australia: A media power perspective
This article provides clarity about the different types of journalism that come under Australias vibrant community media umbrella and conceptualizes their relationships to one another against the...
View ArticleNitrogen-Terminated Diamond Surface for Nanoscale NMR by Shallow...
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is the most promising candidate for quantum sensing because of its beneficial properties. For quantum-sensing applications, a shallow NV center is critical...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Acoustic Nebulization for Pulmonary Delivery of Antibiotic...
The increasing prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria has warranted the search for new antimicrobial agents as existing antibiotics lose their potency. Among these, bacteriophage therapy, as well...
View ArticleReconciling custom, citizenship and colonial legacies: Ni-Vanuatu tertiary...
Nation-building remains a key challenge in Vanuatu. From the origins of this new nation in 1980, it was clear that creating a unifying sense of national identity and political community from multiple...
View ArticleSatellite remote sensing of surface urban heat islands: Progress, challenges,...
The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually measured using satellite LST...
View ArticleApparent delocalization of the current density in metallic wires observed...
We report on a quantitative analysis of the magnetic field generated by a continuous current running in metallic microwires fabricated on an electrically insulating diamond substrate. A layer of...
View ArticleIrradiation-Induced Modification of the Superconducting Properties of...
Diamond, a wide band-gap semiconductor, can be engineered to exhibit superconductivity when doped heavily with boron. The phenomena has been demonstrated in samples grown by chemical vapor deposition...
View ArticleSpatial mapping of band bending in semiconductor devices using in situ...
Local variations in the charge distribution at semiconductor interfaces can lead to energy level band bending in the structures band diagram. Measuring this band bending is important in semiconductor...
View ArticleEffective and Efficient Community Search in Directed Graphs Across...
Communities in social networks are useful for many real applications, like product recommendation. This fact has driven the recent research interest in retrieving communities online. Although certain...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Truthfulness: The Impact of Judgment Scale and Assessor Bias
News content can sometimes be misleading and influence users decision making processes (e.g., voting decisions). Quantitatively assessing the truthfulness of content becomes key, but it is often...
View ArticleSound event classification and detection with weakly labeled data
The Sound Event Classification (SEC) task involves recognizing the set of active sound events in an audio recording. The Sound Event Detection (SED) task involves, in addition to SEC, detecting the...
View ArticleReal-Time Implementation of a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller to Control a DC...
This paper presents the design and real-time implementation of a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Proportional-Integral Controller (T2FLPIC) to control the position of a DC servomotor, which controls a robotic arm....
View ArticleScreening design with categorical factor: construction and evaluation
Screening designs are used widely by industrial experimentation. They are used to identify the most potential factors among a large number of factors. This thesis seeks to put into focus the...
View ArticleFactors affecting social media use by entrepreneurs and the impact of this...
Social media is believed to play an essential role in supporting entrepreneurial business and opportunity recognition. However, little is known about the factors that drive social media use and how...
View ArticleSpatial decision support system for coastal flood management in Victoria,...
Coastal climate impact can affect coastal areas in a variety of ways, such as flooding, storm surges, reduction in beach sands and increased beach erosion. While each of these can have major impacts on...
View ArticleModelling the impact of port-centric logistics cluster on inter-firm competition
Port-centric logistics clusters are considered as intermodal gateways of international trade, which connect national economies with global production networks. Globalization and the resultant...
View ArticleThe effect of government of Pakistan’s Common Facility Centre (CFC) program...
The small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is considered the backbone of a country's economic development process. SMEs in developing countries face the challenges of resource and capability...
View ArticleHydrodynamic lubrication of deep drawing
An isoviscous steady hydrodynamic lubrication model for a deep drawing process is developed. Equations to calculate lubricant film thickness, radial, and drawing stresses are presented. The die inlet...
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