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Reflecting on Place and the Local
Authors: Durrer Victoria , Gilmore Abigail , Jancovich Leila , Stevenson David 
Published: August 2023

AbstractEngaging with both place and ‘the local’ has become an important part of cultural policy rhetoric in many countries, from the resurgence of city-regional governance models to calls for new forms of ‘localism’ involving participatory governance approaches intended to engender more active citizenship and to help people feel more empowered regarding the decisions that affect them. Depending on their approach, national interventions can exacerbate existing socio-economic inequities between places and risk investing in infrastructure without due consideration to sustainability within locations or the movement of cultural workers and audiences across locations. This introduction makes the case that views of the ‘local’ have been limited in the fields of cultural policymaking and study. It summarises some of the ways both place and ‘the local’ have been conceptualised. It argues how conceptions of ‘the local’ in policy can vary significantly requiring an examination of the process of situating ‘the local’ as it occurs in policymaking as well as what happens in ‘the local’ as a result or even despite that positioning.
From Streets to Silos: Urban Art Forms in Local Rural Government and the Challenge of Regional Development
Authors: Potter Emily , Johanson Katya 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis chapter discusses the Wimmera-Mallee Silo Art Trail in Victoria, Australia, as a case study that highlights the advantages and pitfalls of creative placemaking in a local government-driven rural development through cultural programmes. The Silo Art Trail showcases the benefits to communities of collaboration between a rural local council with higher levels of government and private corporations, when it is led by locally-generated needs and insights. At the same time, despite the achievements of the Silo Art Trail, a lack of explicit cultural policy and the different priorities of differing policy agencies created tensions between competing interests. Reflecting on this case offers opportunities to consider the ongoing significance of local government to cultural and economic development and strategies to strengthen its capacity to achieve positive impact, especially in rural contexts.
The Goals of American Cultural Plans
Authors: Redaelli Eleonora 
Published: August 2023

AbstractEven though several American cities have released cultural plans and invested funding and energy in this process, very little empirical research has investigated the goals of actual plans and the literature remains quite normative. In this chapter, I examine five cultural plans published between 2011 and 2018 by cities across the country and I highlight the main themes emerging from these documents. Common goals are: (1) creating a healthy art ecosystem, (2) integrating the arts with the city, and (3) promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. This analysis emphasizes that cities in different parts of the country are developing dynamic cultural policies, bringing to the forefront the need for cultural policy studies to focus on local governments to better understand cultural policy in the United States. Future research could add to these findings, by examining the community engagement strategies applied and by studying how these cultural plans connect with the overall planning process of their cities.
Reclaiming Place: Cultural Initiatives in Cretan Villages as Enablers of Citizen Involvement, Local Development and Repopulation
Authors: Kolokytha Olga 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis chapter is based on Giortes Rokkas (Rokkas festivities), a cultural event organised by all the inhabitants of two small villages in Crete every summer since 2013. It highlights the meaning and importance of the rural in cultural policy topography discussing a model that 1. uses cultural policy and practice as means to reclaim and redefine association with place and encourage mobility towards depopulated, rural areas; 2. uses non-innate/exogenous culture to activate community mobilisation, reinforce inhabitants’ sense of place and create a distinctive local identity; and 3. showcases how cultural initiatives can emerge by non-experts and thrive despite a lack of systematic policy support.
The Public Administration of ‘place’: Labels and Meaning in Local Government Arts Development in the Irish Urban-Fringe
Authors: Durrer Victoria 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis chapter explores how multiple interpretations of local places are administratively constructed in cultural policymaking. It does so by examining how top down characterisations of place are operationalised and negotiated, through the practice of local arts administration—and to what end. The chapter draws on research in cultural policy, public administration and interpretations of place from Irish literature, and cultural and human geography to examine a place-specific local arts development programme, entitled Exit 15. The programme, which took place from 2016–2019, was targeted at a residential area, Ballyogan, a so-called ‘hard to reach’ locality 12 km outside the city centre of Dublin, Ireland in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County. Ethnographic study of the design and delivery of Exit 15 by that County Council arts office reveals that different classifications and categorisations of localities for the administration of public services facilitate senses of place that are employed, negotiated and re-imagined by arts officers. The single case study indicates that while systems change for a more place-sensitive strategy in cultural policymaking may be limited by public administration bureaucracy, meaning-making can be a critically reflexive practice where a change in the system may occur.
Circularity Assessment: Developing a Comprehensive Yardstick
Authors: Patil Rashmi Anoop , van Langen Sven Kevin , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe beginning of this millennium witnessed the emergence of the CE concept with an aim of sustainable development. It gradually gained traction from governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses, and researchers, and the implementation of various strategies towards a CE began. Currently, our economic system is in a transition phase from a linear to a circular one. In this phase, monitoring the progress towards circularity using an assessment framework is of paramount importance, given the critical impact such a transition in the economy may have on the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the society in the coming decades. This work provides an overview of circularity assessment and the four systemic levels of its implementation. The introductory chapter begins with a brief description of how a CE is essential in achieving a sustainable future and provides a glimpse of the current status of our economic system. Further, circularity assessment and the various phases involved in the process are introduced and elaborated. As a highlight of the chapter, we present for the first time, the key features of the upcoming standard from the ISO—the ISO 59020, that aims to establish a generic but optimum process for circularity assessments. Lastly, the chapter concludes with a brief note on the need for understanding the state-of-the-art circularity assessment approaches (as discussed in the following chapters).
Insights from ESG Evaluation for Circularity Assessment
Authors: van Langen Sven Kevin , Patil Rashmi Anoop , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractSustainability and circularity co-exist and both encompass environmental, social, and economic aspects. In the past few years, we have witnessed ESG reporting gaining traction and with it, a fast rise in the market for sustainable finance and development. Developed countries are coming up with regulations governing the ESG reporting standards and performance, which has been a voluntary action so far. Several ESG reporting standards have been developed across the globe, typically containing many metrics related to circularity in both environmental and social aspects. In this chapter, several such global standards are discussed and one national implementation by the Athens stock exchange is detailed. Later in this chapter, current and upcoming regulations regarding ESG reporting in developed countries are provided. The European Union is the most advanced body of regulation on this topic and is covered in more detail. Trends in the sustainable finance and bonds markets are also presented at the end of this chapter, a market that will finance projects and developments towards circularity and sustainability. The chapter concludes with a call to incorporate a clear circularity assessment within ESG reports. Standard definitions of practices considered circular and how to best measure them need to be further developed.
Circularity at Macro Level: The Urban and National Perspectives
Authors: Ghisellini Patrizia , van Langen Sven Kevin , Patil Rashmi Anoop , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe CE is mainly conceived as a response to multiple global environmental and social challenges, including climate change and resource scarcity. This chapter first presents an overview of what entails the adoption of CE in cities. Later, CE in other macro-level systems (such as nations and wider areas) and the necessity for circularity assessment during the transition towards CE are discussed. From a global perspective, cities play a crucial role in contributing to tackle the climate challenges given the high consumption of energy and materials. The discussion elaborates on assessment frameworks and indicators for monitoring and evaluating the progress towards the CE at the city and regional/national/supra-national (e.g. The EU)/global levels. Case studies of Rotterdam and Paris are provided to show how cities have designed their circular plans by analyzing their strategies, tools, and performance indicators. The monitoring framework implemented by the EU, to monitor the transition to CE in its member states is also analyzed. The chapter concludes by pointing out the importance of promoting preventive measures to enhance the circularity and broader assessment framework that captures the social dimension of the CE.
Circularity at Meso Level: A Sector Perspective
Authors: Ghisellini Patrizia , Patil Rashmi Anoop , van Langen Sven Kevin , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis chapter provides an overview of the application of CE at the meso level. The authors focus on EIPs, as the most representative cases at this level. The EIPs are unique examples showing how companies can cooperate in sharing resources such as water, energy, material, by-products, and services. Case studies of EIPs (IZ NÖ-Süd in Austria and Ulsan Mipo and Onsan Industrial Park) are presented, with their environmental, economic, and social performances tracked through existing evaluation frameworks. To provide a deeper perspective on the topic, the origins, evolution, and current performances of Kalundborg Symbiosis EIP in Denmark, the well-known longstanding case of EIP are briefly summarized. Moreover, the current monitoring framework developed by the Chinese government complements the analysis. So far, China has developed the largest EIP program worldwide. Overall, the EIPs case studies show that, besides the economic benefits, EIPs provide environmental and social benefits depending on their implementation and management. In such a way, the cases show how EIPs can contribute to diversifying the industrial context in a more sustainable way and more in harmony with the natural environment and the surrounding social community.
Circularity at Nano Level: A Product/Service Perspective
Authors: Patil Rashmi Anoop , van Langen Sven Kevin , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractImplementation of the CE principles at the grass-root level requires closing the loop of products’ life cycles, one that warrants extensive rework at every stage of the life cycle from design to end-of-life. Therefore, the circularity assessment of products/services for their entire life cycle becomes critical. In this work, we present the circularity assessment of products/services (considered as the nano level in the economic hierarchy) unlike the prior art and provide a comprehensive metric required for this assessment. The chapter begins with a brief explanation of the need for such an evaluation. Then, continues with a discussion on the state-of-the-art assessment of a product along with a list of various indicators that have been implemented in the circularity measurements at the nano level. This theoretical background is complemented with real-world case studies of Levi’s jeans and surgical face masks for a better understanding of the concept. Then, the concept of materials utilization efficiency, a key factor in conceiving and designing circular products/services, is presented as a logical conclusion to the chapter.
Consumer-Centric Circularity: Conscious Changes in Lifestyle Towards a New Normal
Authors: van Langen Sven Kevin , Ghisellini Patrizia , Patil Rashmi Anoop , Ramakrishna Seeram 
Published: August 2023

AbstractIn the final chapter, we take a closer look at the role that consumers play in the transition to the CE. Ultimately, consumers must be willing to buy sustainable circular products over those products that have a single lifecycle. The CE can receive great impulses even from a single person or a small group of people as we have shown in the repair café and iFixit case studies. This can cause a ripple effect that can quickly reach millions of people all over the world. It is up to governments to spread awareness amongst their citizens, so they become responsible consumers, and play a role as one of the largest consumers in their own economy as well. We look at the city of Rotterdam for a collection of cases, specifically looking at several consumer initiatives and how the city has been improving its own consumption since governments are big consumers themselves. We end the chapter, and the book, by looking at the circularity gap and revisiting what has been discussed in this book regarding closing this gap.
Heavy neutral leptons — Advancing into the PeV domain
Authors: Urquía-Calderón Kevin A. , Timiryasov Inar , Ruchayskiy Oleg 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles able to explain neutrino oscillations and provide a mechanism for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Quantum corrections due to such particles give rise to flavor violating processes in the charged lepton sector. Based on the fact that these corrections grow with HNL masses, we improve existing constraints by orders of magnitude in mass and mixing angle. This allows us to probe part of the parameter space of leptogenesis with multi-TeV HNLs. We also show that one will be able to infer HNL parameters in a significant portion of the parameter space for TeV-PeV masses if charged lepton flavor violating signals are detected.
Lattice calculation of the intrinsic soft function and the Collins-Soper kernel
Authors:   The Lattice Parton Collaboration (LPC), Chu Min-Huan , He Jin-Chen , Hua Jun , Liang Jian , Ji Xiangdong , Schäfer Andreas , Shu Hai-Tao , Su Yushan , Walter Lisa , Wang Wei , Wang Ji-Hao , Yang Yi-Bo , Zeng Jun , Zhang Qi-An 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
We calculate the soft function using lattice QCD in the framework of large momentum effective theory incorporating the one-loop perturbative contributions. The soft function is a crucial ingredient in the lattice determination of light cone objects using transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) factorization. It consists of a rapidity-independent part called intrinsic soft function and a rapidity-dependent part called Collins-Soper kernel. We have adopted appropriate normalization when constructing the pseudoscalar meson form factor that is needed in the determination of the intrinsic part and applied Fierz rearrangement to suppress the higher-twist effects. In the calculation of CS kernel we consider a CLS ensemble other than the MILC ensemble used in a previous study. We have also compared the applicability of determining the CS kernel using quasi TMDWFs and quasi TMDPDFs. As an example, the determined soft function is used to obtain the physical TMD wave functions (WFs) of pion and unpolarized iso-vector TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs) of proton.
On the rate of convergence in homogenization of time-fractional Hamilton–Jacobi equations
Authors: Mitake Hiroyoshi , Sato Shoichi 
Published: August 2023

AbstractHere, we consider periodic homogenization for time-fractional Hamilton–Jacobi equations. By using the perturbed test function method, we establish the convergence, and give estimates on a rate of convergence. A main difficulty is the incompatibility between the function used in the doubling variable method, and the non-locality of the Caputo derivative. Our approach is to provide a lemma to prove the rate of convergence without the doubling variable method with respect to the time variable, which is a key ingredient.
Rapid DNA extraction and colorimetric amplicon visualisation speed up LAMP-based detection of soybean allergen in foods
Authors: Schäfer Laura , Allgöwer Stefanie , Holzhauser Thomas 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDetection of allergens in foods, including soybean, is relevant for food labelling requirements. Moreover, allergen-specific methods may allow standardisation of allergens in food matrices for use in food challenges as allergy diagnostic approaches. Rapid methods are preferred for screening and along the manufacturing line. Previously, we demonstrated sensitive and specific detection of soybean DNA by combining loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and lateral flow device (LFD)-like visualisation. However, lengthy DNA extraction and potential contamination of subsequent by previous LAMP reactions from unclosed LFD may impact its use as a rapid and robust method. Here, we developed a rapid protocol for DNA extraction. Moreover, we identified phenol red for distinct visualisation of positive reactions in permanently closed reaction tubes. The optimised method was validated using complex foods (boiled sausage, instant soup, and chocolate) with known amounts of soybean. Further, its applicability was shown in 12 processed retail foods. Results were verified by orthogonal qPCR. The enhanced LAMP method allowed detection at or below 10 mg soybean per kg processed food. The method provides rapid and easy-to-use screening without the need for detection equipment. Hence, it may serve to verify the presence of soybean ingredients and support a risk-based precautionary labelling of non-ingredient soybean in compound foods. Also, as determination of clinical reaction thresholds before and after allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is both inclusion and exclusion criterion for clinical trials and success parameter of AIT, the method may allow verification of calculable soybean content in provocation meals and thus a standardised administration for threshold determination before and after AIT.
Ocular microtremor: a structured review
Authors: Graham Lisa , Das Julia , Vitorio Rodrigo , McDonald Claire , Walker Richard , Godfrey Alan , Morris Rosie , Stuart Samuel 
Published: August 2023

AbstractOcular microtremor (OMT) is the smallest of three involuntary fixational micro eye movements, which has led to it being under researched in comparison. The link between OMT and brain function generates a strong rationale for further study as there is potential for its use as a biomarker in populations with neurological injury and disease. This structured review focused on populations previously studied, instrumentation used for measurement, commonly reported OMT outcomes, and recommendations concerning protocol design and future studies. Current methods of quantifying OMT will be reviewed to analyze their efficacy and efficiency and guide potential development and understanding of novel techniques. Electronic databases were systematically searched and compared with predetermined inclusion criteria. 216 articles were identified in the search and screened by two reviewers. 16 articles were included for review. Findings showed that piezoelectric probe is the most common method of measuring OMT, with fewer studies involving non-invasive approaches, such as contact lenses and laser imaging. OMT frequency was seen to be reduced during general anesthesia at loss of consciousness and in neurologically impaired participants when compared to healthy adults. We identified the need for a non-invasive technique for measuring OMT and highlight its potential in clinical applications as an objective biomarker for neurological assessments. We highlight the need for further research on the clinical validation of OMT to establish its potential to identify or predict a meaningful clinical or functional state, specifically, regarding accuracy, precision, and reliability of OMT.
Fractional rheology-informed neural networks for data-driven identification of viscoelastic constitutive models
Authors: Dabiri Donya , Saadat Milad , Mangal Deepak , Jamali Safa 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDeveloping constitutive models that can describe a complex fluid’s response to an applied stimulus has been one of the critical pursuits of rheologists. The complexity of the models typically goes hand-in-hand with that of the observed behaviors and can quickly become prohibitive depending on the choice of materials and/or flow protocols. Therefore, reducing the number of fitting parameters by seeking compact representations of those constitutive models can obviate extra experimentation to confine the parameter space. To this end, fractional derivatives in which the differential response of matter accepts non-integer orders have shown promise. Here, we develop neural networks that are informed by a series of different fractional constitutive models. These fractional rheology-informed neural networks (RhINNs) are then used to recover the relevant parameters (fractional derivative orders) of three fractional viscoelastic constitutive models, i.e., fractional Maxwell, Kelvin-Voigt, and Zener models. We find that for all three studied models, RhINNs recover the observed behavior accurately, although in some cases, the fractional derivative order is recovered with significant deviations from what is known as ground truth. This suggests that extra fractional elements are redundant when the material response is relatively simple. Therefore, choosing a fractional constitutive model for a given material response is contingent upon the response complexity, as fractional elements embody a wide range of transient material behaviors.