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Estimating effects of monsoon flooding on household water access
Authors: Broyles Lauren M T , Pakhtigian Emily L , Mejia Alfonso 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
The importance of climate in water resources management is well recognized, but less is known about how climate affects water access at the household level. Understanding this is crucial for identifying vulnerable households, reducing health and well-being risks, and finding equitable solutions. Using difference-in-differences regression analyses and relying on temporal variation in interview timing from multiple, cross-sectional surveys, we examine the effects of monsoon riverine flooding on household water access among 34 000 households in Bangladesh in 2011 and 2014. We compare water access, a combined measure of both water source and time for collection, among households living in flood-affected and non-flood-affected districts before and after monsoon flooding events. We find that households in monsoon flood-affected districts surveyed after the flooding had between 2.27 and 4.42 times higher odds of experiencing low water access. Separating geographically, we find that while households in coastal districts have lower water access than those in non-coastal districts, monsoon flood exposure is a stronger predictor of low water access in non-coastal districts. Non-coastal districts were particularly burdened in 2014, when households affected by monsoon flooding had 4.71 times higher odds of low water access. We also find that household wealth is a consistent predictor of household water access. Overall, our results show that monsoon flooding is associated with a higher prevalence of low water access; socioeconomically vulnerable households are especially burdened.
Analyzing the evanescent field ratio of ridge waveguide based on different material platforms for sensing applications
Authors: Butt Muhammad Ali 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
In this study, a comprehensive numerical investigation focusing on a ridge waveguide composed of various material platforms is undertaken, including silicon-on-insulator (SOI), silicon nitride (SiN), and SU-8 polymer. In the realm of photonic sensing devices, the evanescent field assumes paramount significance in facilitating light-matter interactions. The primary objective of this study is to furnish a comparative analysis discerning the suitability of these material platforms for sensing applications. The findings reveal distinct characteristics among the different material platforms. SOI emerges as a standout contender, exhibiting an augmented evanescent field ratio that substantially enhances light-matter interaction. Following closely, SiN-based waveguides demonstrate commendable performance in this regard. Conversely, SU-8 polymer waveguides, characterized by larger dimensions, present limitations in evanescent field confinement, resulting in the lowest sensitivity among the materials investigated. Hence, the selection of the appropriate material platform and waveguide type emerges as a critical consideration in the design phase of photonic sensors. This decision significantly influences the sensor’s performance and efficacy in real-world applications.
Effects of boron on microstructure, wear and corrosion properties of external magnetic field assisted laser metal deposition coatings
Authors: Qi Kang , Jiang Long 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Coatings with different boron content were prepared by magnetic field-assisted Co-based laser metal deposition on 300 M ultra-high strength steel. The effects of boron content on the magnetic properties, mechanical properties, friction and wear properties, and corrosion resistance of the coating were investigated. The research results indicate that adding 6 wt% of boron to cobalt alloy in a 35 mT alternating magnetic field is beneficial for refining the microstructure, which can improve the mechanical properties of the coating. This research also discusses the effect of boron content on the wear and corrosion resistance of the coating. The results show that adding boron content enhances the magnetostrictive effect, and reduces the elastic modulus of the laser metal deposition coating while ensuring its hardness, thereby improving the wear and corrosion resistance of the laser metal deposition layer. The hardness of the coating can reach 1215 HV. The friction coefficient and corrosion current density of the coating are reduced by 26.9% and 60.2% respectively compared with the substrate. This work can help promote the application of laser metal deposition technology, reduce costs, and ensure performance.
Microstructure and mechanical property improvement of concurrent wire-powder feeding laser melting deposition Ti-6Al-4V via TiC addition
Authors: Wang Chenyang , Xing Fei , Liu Xiangyu , Bian Hongyou , Liu Weijun 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Wire-feed laser metal deposition (LMD-W) offers a high deposition rate and low cost, making it an effective solution for reducing costs and enhancing efficiency in manufacturing large-scale titanium aerospace components. Currently, the material used for LMD-W is typically a single alloy wire, which limits the flexibility and functionality of manufacturing composite materials. This work employed a novel concurrent wire-powder feeding laser metal deposition (LMD-WP) process to manufacture TiC/Ti-6Al-4V composite. In the LMD-WP method, Ti-6Al-4V wire was fed laterally, while TiC particles were delivered coaxially. Only 1.0 wt% TiC particles were added to prevent excessive TiC, which could cause stress concentration and increase crack sensitivity. The microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy and TiC/Ti-6Al-4V composite were investigated. The results indicate that with coaxial TiC particle addition, the α-Ti in TiC/Ti-6Al-4V is noticeably refined. Additionally, in situ TiC acts as heterogeneous nucleation sites, restricting α-Ti growth and reducing its aspect ratio. Furthermore, TiC particles weakened the α-Ti texture in the (0001) and (11–20) directions. Moreover, adding TiC particles significantly enhanced tensile strength, with the yield strength reaching 950 MPa and the ultimate tensile strength reaching 1048 MPa. Compared to Ti-6Al-4V alloy fabricated by LMD-W, this represents an increase of 11.25% and 10.72%, respectively. The improvement in tensile properties is principally ascribed to grain boundary strengthening, Orowan strengthening and dislocation density strengthening. This work introduces an innovative approach and abundant data for the additive manufacturing of TiC/Ti-6Al-4V composite with high efficiency and low cost.
Optimal and robust quantum state tomography of star-topology register
Authors: Liu Ran , Hou Yanjun , Wu Ze , Zhou Hui , Chen Jiahui , Li Zhaokai , Peng Xinhua 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
While quantum state tomography plays a vital role in the verification and benchmarking of quantum systems, it is an intractable task if the controllability of the quantum registers is constrained. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for optimal and robust quantum state tomography for systems with constrained controllability. Based on the specific symmetry, we decompose the Hilbert space to alleviate the complexity of tomography and design a compact strategy with the minimum number of measurements. To switch between these measurement settings, we adopted parameterized quantum circuits consisting of local operations and free evolution, which are easy to implement in most practical systems. Then the parameters of these circuits were optimized to improve the robustness against errors of measurements. We demonstrated the experimental feasibility of our method on a 4-spin star-topology register and numerically studied its ability to characterize large-scale systems on a 10-spin star-topology register, respectively. Our results can help future investigations of quantum systems with constrained ability of quantum control and measurement.
Impact of climate change on major floods flowing into the Georges River estuary, Australia
Authors: Zhu Wenjun , Wang Xiao Hua , Peirson William 
Published: August 2024

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Coastal flooding induced by storm surges and heavy rainfall is one of the most frequent climate-related natural hazards along the southeast Australian coast, home to more than 55% of the Australian population. Flooding in this densely populated region is a threat to public safety, coastal infrastructure, ecological systems and the economy. Although climate change is expected to cause an increase in major floods, few studies have quantified the potential changes in flood severity. This study quantifies the changes in flood peak discharge flowing to the Georges River estuary in Australia due to climate-change. An event-based hydrological model, Watershed Bounded Network Model (WBNM), was used to predict flood discharge. This hydrological model was forced by rainfall data obtained from the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory Regional Climate Modelling Project version 1.5 (NARCliM1.5) for both historical and the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) conditions. Model calibration for the floods of March 1978 and March 2022 achieved a general agreement between the predicted and observed hydrographs, with an overall average 14% error in the peak values, further demonstrating that the modelling approach is generally reliable in projections of flood severity. Using high resolution climate model projections, the present study observed an increase of 22% in the model ensemble average from historical conditions to the RCP8.5 scenario for the 20-year average recurrence interval (ARI) 24 h extreme rainfall. This heightened extreme rainfall consequently resulted in the changes in flood discharge with an average rise of 55%. This study provides specific assessment of climate-generated risks for densely-populated regions, especially those on Australian east coast. Global studies have suggested that extreme precipitation events will increase under climate change. This study supports and enhances these assertions by using high resolution downscaling to quantify the specific changes within a large catchment.
Data-driven sparse modeling of oscillations in plasma space propulsion
Authors: Bayón-Buján Borja , Merino Mario 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
An algorithm to obtain data-driven models of oscillatory phenomena in plasma space propulsion systems is presented, based on sparse regression (SINDy) and Pareto front analysis. The algorithm can incorporate physical constraints, use data bootstrapping for additional robustness, and fine-tuning to different metrics. Standard, weak and integral SINDy formulations are discussed and compared. The scheme is benchmarked for the case of breathing-mode oscillations in Hall effect thrusters, using particle-in-cell/fluid simulation data. Models of varying complexity are obtained for the average plasma properties, and shown to have a clear physical interpretability and agreement with existing 0D models in the literature. Lastly, the algorithm applied is also shown to enable the identification of physical subdomains with qualitatively different plasma dynamics, providing valuable information for more advanced modeling approaches.
Cultural Mismatch Between Early Childhood Teacher–Caregivers and Their Students
Authors: Davidson Kimberly 
Published: August 2024

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Young children begin to assign meaning to differences they notice in others based on the cultural socialization beliefs and practices of their families, caregivers, and teachers. As differences are explored, cultural learning takes place, making early childhood and elementary classrooms important environments for bridging cultural differences. Young children with diverse cultural heritages bring strong and unique ways of learning and growing to their learning contexts. This chapter highlights mechanisms through which cultural mismatch between teacher–caregivers and their students impacts development during the early childhood years. Review and discussion of extant literature shows elements of mismatch that impede children’s development of positive cultural identity. The saliency of culture in the lives of children must be taken into account in the work with young children around the world who are at critical periods of development.
Implementing Play-Based Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong
Authors: Chan Stephanie W Y , Rao Nirmala 
Published: August 2024

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The kindergarten education policy in Hong Kong advocates child-centeredness and play-based pedagogy. Meanwhile, Chinese values of diligence, conformity, and obedience are rooted in the community and manifested in early childhood education policy and practice. This chapter examines the interaction among early childhood education policy, Chinese culture, and classroom practices in the context of play-based pedagogy implementation in Hong Kong. First, the chapter discusses policy priorities by examining the evolution of the conceptualization of play across kindergarten education curriculum documents. Second, it explores the dialectic tensions between the expectations of the kindergarten curriculum among stakeholders, including educators and parents. Third, drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and questionnaire studies, it examines how play-based approaches are implemented in classrooms. The interplay of early childhood education policy and cultural forces in shaping the implementation of play-based approaches is discussed.
Addressing the Complexities of Culture in Teaching and Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand
Authors: Ritchie Jenny 
Published: August 2024

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This chapter offers an overview of the historical and current complexities of education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The historical legacy of colonization by Britain continues to underpin educational inequities for the Indigenous Māori. More recently, immigration policies have resulted in a situation of superdiversity, generating further complexities and tensions, including heightened instances of racism. Some recent educational initiatives which aim to address some of these inequities, particularly in relation to Māori, are outlined. The conclusion calls attention to the urgent need for education policies that prepare teachers to support children and families as the nation faces the onslaught of the climate crisis.
Cultural Relationships and Responsive Contexts for Learning
Authors: Berryman Mere , Eley Elizabeth 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
A historical legacy of assimilation, cultural erasure, and linguicide, predicated on beliefs and practices contained within the 14th-century Doctrine of Discovery, have been imposed through education policies, textbooks, and teaching practices in many colonized countries of the world, including Aotearoa New Zealand. Here, deficit beliefs of Māori, as for many other Indigenous peoples, continue to be reinforced through the ongoing failure to recognize the need to develop “ethical spaces” in the coming together of peoples from disparate worldviews. This chapter proposes that understanding culture, relationships, and responsive contexts for learning means first coming to deeply understand and disrupt historical events that have seen the ongoing, systematic belittlement and redefinition of Māori identities through formal state schooling. It contends that when cultural relationships are respected and prioritized, responsive pedagogy can also flourish.
Global Responses to Increasing Diversity in Schools
Authors: Holmes Robyn M , Kohm Kristen E 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThis chapter discusses both micro- and macro-level variables that connect to school responses and practices to educate children from diverse cultural heritages, including non-native, particularly newly arrived children. It discusses issues that many school systems around the world are now facing as they prepare to educate non-native, culturally diverse children to help them become successful adults. It includes teacher, administrator, and country-level perceptions and practices and explores teacher preparation with an emphasis upon cultural competency and culturally responsive teaching, school policies and practices, and the role of administrators and governments in shaping school policies and building cultural connections between home and school. The review includes diverse geographic regions—Japan, New Zealand, Australia, the European Union, the United States, and Nordic countries. Finally, the chapter presents interviews with present American teachers to highlight the approaches they are using to achieve multicultural inclusion in their classrooms.
The Architects of Dignity
Authors: Pham Kevin D 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization traces an intergenerational debate among six major political figures in Vietnam who had competing visions for how the Vietnamese should respond to French colonial domination (1858–1954). Each of them—Phan Bội Châu (1867–1940), Phan Chu Trinh (1872–1926), Nguyễn An Ninh (1900–1943), Phạm Quỳnh (1892–1945), Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969), and Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (1909–1997)—traveled abroad and returned to Vietnam with ideas for how the Vietnamese should generate power among themselves, how they should approach their cultural traditions given the influx of new ideas from the West, and how they should envision a future Vietnam. These thinkers engaged in cross-cultural political thinking, drawing on Indian, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German thinkers, and more, conducting what political theorists would today call an engaged form of “Comparative Political Theory.” Despite their differences, they sought to channel feelings of national shame and inadequacy for constructive, dignifying ends. In contrast to theorists who tend to view shame as a destructive form of false consciousness, these thinkers show how shame can be an emotional engine to generate power for anticolonialism and self-determination. And while dignity is typically understood in the West as something inherent in individuals, as a justification for rights, and as requiring recognition, these Vietnamese thinkers saw dignity as a property of nations, as rooted in the duties a nation’s people embrace, and as something to be asserted by the nation instead of being dependent on recognition by colonizers.
Introduction
Authors: Pham Kevin D 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This introductory chapter shows how the Vietnamese thinkers profiled in this study eventually realized that appealing to their colonial masters for recognition of Vietnamese dignity and rights was futile and that the Vietnamese had to construct their own dignity. This understanding of dignity has been undertheorized in the existing literature on dignity. Rather than demand that their colonizers recognize Vietnamese dignity, a more effective approach, they believed, was to shame their fellow Vietnamese into asserting national self-worth and self-respect. These thinkers’ political theorizing was informed by their experiences of traveling abroad where they gained insights from other cultures, allowing them to compare traditions to find the right ideas for them. This chapter also describes the structure of the present book.
Phan Chu Trinh’s Democratic Confucianism
Authors: Pham Kevin D 
Published: August 2024

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This chapter focuses on Vietnam’s first democrat, Phan Chu Trinh (1872–1926). The lack of genuine Confucian morality in Vietnam, he argued, was the reason that the Vietnamese were sick and vulnerable to foreign conquest. The solution was for the Vietnamese to adopt European liberalism and the form of government that he thought came from liberalism (democracy) to revive Confucianism in Vietnam. His claim was puzzling, considering that contemporary political theorists agree that liberalism and Confucianism are opposed. Trinh ignored liberalism’s individualism while celebrating other aspects of liberalism and Western civilization. His interpretation of Western ideas, though naive, is a creative one that offers us a lesson: it may be useful to view foreign ideas as foreign, to interpret them generously, and to import the creative distortion to revive our own cherished, yet faltering, traditions.
Phạm Quỳnh’s Cultural Resistance
Authors: Pham Kevin D 
Published: August 2024

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This chapter provides a new interpretation of the infamous Phạm Quỳnh (1892–1945). Historians and nationalists often typecast Quỳnh as an “arch-collaborator” with the French colonial regime, but closer attention to his writings reveals how he uses his colonial privilege as editor of a French-commissioned journal, Nam Phong (The Southern Wind), to resist colonial discourse. His writings seek to conserve, develop, and assert the Vietnamese national language and culture. For Quỳnh, Vietnam’s Confucian tradition embodied “Eastern wisdom” which the Vietnamese should revive to resist the domination of the “Western ideal” of “power,” while also adapting the ‘best’ ideas from the West. For him, this synthesis of East and West could provide a basis for Vietnamese national dignity. Ultimately, Quỳnh is today best understood not as a collaborator or a resistor but as an architect of a modern Vietnamese national identity.
Phan Bội Châu’s Nationalist Groundwork
Authors: Pham Kevin D 
Published: August 2024

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This chapter surveys early Vietnamese reactions to French colonialism through the lens of Phan Bội Châu (1867–1940), Vietnam’s first modern nationalist. His writings seek to persuade his compatriots to see themselves as citizens of a country rather than mere subjects of a ruler, thus shifting Vietnamese political thought from royalism to notions of popular sovereignty. His writings about French cruelty were aimed at inducing indignation in his readers so that they could channel these feelings into national consciousness and political action. Châu also sought to induce pleasure and joy by writing utopian descriptions of what Vietnam could be in the future to motivate his readers to fulfill their national duty of improving their nation. Among his other contributions, he helped to inspire the Tonkin Free School. Châu’s fledgling resistance against colonialism provided a nationalist framework that the rest of the thinkers covered in this book would work from and develop in new directions.