cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sense of self, Sense of Place
Creators: name: Coulouma, Flore
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: The Irish TV series Love/Hate (RTE one, 2010-present) is set in Dublin, and its violent “gangland” plotline inspired Guardian reviewer Marc Lawson to call it the “Irish The Wire”, placing it firmly within an American tradition of television production. Like The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008), Love/Hate raises issues of place, space, and identity in a post-industrialised, globalised city. The series is rooted in the specific place of Dublin and part of a broader tradition concerned with urban narratives in the late capitalist era. Love/Hate focuses on a small group of characters and differs in that regard from its American counterpart: The Wire is an explicit portrait of Baltimore in which the proliferating characters constitute the social, economic and political landscape of the city. Love/Hate writer Stuart Carolan, on the other hand, cites his fascination with “gangland”, rather than an interest in the city, as his inspiration. Nevertheless, the series offers a striking portrait of Dublin, urban space and nature woven into its story of gang violence.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
The relationship between photometric and spectroscopic oscillation amplitudes from 3D stellar atmosphere simulations
Creators: name: Zhou, Yixiao
name: Nordlander, Thomas
name: Casagrande, Luca
name: Joyce, Meridith
name: Li, Yaguang
name: Amarsi, Anish M.
name: Reggiani, Henrique
name: Asplund, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a quantitative relationship between photometric and spectroscopic detections of solar-like oscillations using ab initio, three-dimensional (3D), hydrodynamical numerical simulations of stellar atmospheres. We present a theoretical derivation as proof of concept for our method. We perform realistic spectral line formation calculations to quantify the ratio between luminosity and radial velocity amplitude for two case studies: the Sun and the red giant $ε$ Tau. Luminosity amplitudes are computed based on the bolometric flux predicted by 3D simulations with granulation background modelled the same way as asteroseismic observations. Radial velocity amplitudes are determined from the wavelength shift of synthesized spectral lines with methods closely resembling those used in BiSON and SONG observations. Consequently, the theoretical luminosity to radial velocity amplitude ratios are directly comparable with corresponding observations. For the Sun, we predict theoretical ratios of 21.0 and 23.7 ppm/[m/s] from BiSON and SONG respectively, in good agreement with observations 19.1 and 21.6 ppm/[m/s]. For $ε$ Tau, we predict K2 and SONG ratios of 48.4 ppm/[m/s], again in good agreement with observations 42.2 ppm/[m/s], and much improved over the result from conventional empirical scaling relations which gives 23.2 ppm/[m/s]. This study thus opens the path towards a quantitative understanding of solar-like oscillations, via detailed modelling of 3D stellar atmospheres.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
"Ray Donovan": Irishness in American Popular Culture Today
Creators: name: Mikowski, Sylvie
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: Ray Donovan is a series created by Ann Biderman and co-produced with Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff, which started to be broadcast by Showtime in 2013, winning a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for Jon Voigt and several nominations in various competitions, including for its leading actor Liev Schreiber, and which has run for six seasons so far.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
Exact Gravitational Quasinormal Frequencies of Topological Black Holes
Creators: name: Birmingham, Danny
name: Mokhtari, Susan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the exact gravitational quasinormal frequencies for massless topological black holes in d-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. Using the gauge invariant formalism for gravitational perturbations derived by Kodama and Ishibashi, we show that in all cases the scalar, vector, and tensor modes can be reduced to a simple scalar field equation. This equation is exactly solvable in terms of hypergeometric functions, thus allowing an exact analytic determination of the gravitational quasinormal frequencies.
description: 14 pages, Latex; v2 additional references
Additional file 1 of Access to primary healthcare Services in Conflict-Affected Fragile States: a subnational descriptive analysis of educational and wealth disparities in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Nigeria
Creators: name: Ramadan, Marwa
name: Tappis, Hannah
name: Uribe, Manuela Villar
name: Brieger, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Cathodoluminescence imaging and spectroscopy on a single multiwall boron nitride nanotube
Creators: name: Jaffrennou, Périne
name: Donatini, Fabrice
name: Barjon, Julien
name: Lauret, Jean-Sébastien
name: Maguer, Aude
name: Attal-Trétout, Brigitte
name: Ducastelle, François
name: Loiseau, Annick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cathodoluminescence imaging and spectroscopy experiments on a single bamboo-like boron nitride nanotube are reported. Imaging experiments show that the luminescence is located all along the nanotube. Spectroscopy experiments point out the important role of dimensionality in this one dimensional object.
Some aspects of the demography of Iridaea splendens
Creators: name: Dyck, Leonard James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A population of lridaea splendens at Brockton Point, Vancouver, British Columbia was examined. The persistent alternation between diploid dominance in winter and haploid dominance in summer (DeWreede and Green, 1990) at this site was produced by differential rates of increase and decrease in density of the alternate phases. Maximum density of both phases occurred in June and minimum density in February. Density increase began earlier in spring for gametophytes and proceeded at a higher rate than for tetrasporophytes resulting in gametophyte dominance in summer. The rate of decreasing density in fall was also higher for gametophytes resulting in equal densities of the alternate phases in November and tetrasporophyte dominance in winter. The reproductively mature stages were also temporally segregated, with cystocarpic plants predominating in summer and tetrasporangial plants in winter. The alternate reproductively mature stages appeared in the population at the same time (June). Increase in density of cystocarpic plants began immediately while increase in density of tetrasporangial plants began two months later. Survivorship of tagged blades of lridaea splendens was type II (Deevey, 1947) for three separate size classes (2 - 5 cm, 5 - 15 cm, 15+ cm) of both gametophytes and tetrasporophytes, indicating blades in all categories had an equal chance of death over time. Calculation of rates of addition of new blades to the population indicated that in fall tetrasporophytes produced new blades at a higher rate than gametophytes (the reverse of the situation in spring), thereby decreasing in density at a lesser rate.
Performance of Low-Quality Concrete as Recycled Aggregate
Creators: name: Chang, Hubert
name: Morgan, Ryan
name: Aziz, Umed
name: Herfellner, Simon
name: Ho, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Since cement production is one of the most expensive and CO2-productive processes in making concrete, our project seeks to minimize the consumption of new cement. Furthermore, we sought to recycle concrete on-site in accordance with the principle of embodied energy (the concept that a completed structure holds in it a certain amount of energy that was required to construct it, energy which is dispersed and lost if the building is demolished or severely modified). By using recycled materials for the largest bulk component of cement, we thus greatly reduce the input of energy in producing cast concrete. The usage of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) is not a new phenomenon, but it has not been studied in the context of low-cost disaster reconstruction efforts.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
S-LIME: Stabilized-LIME for Model Explanation
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhengze
name: Hooker, Giles
name: Wang, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An increasing number of machine learning models have been deployed in domains with high stakes such as finance and healthcare. Despite their superior performances, many models are black boxes in nature which are hard to explain. There are growing efforts for researchers to develop methods to interpret these black-box models. Post hoc explanations based on perturbations, such as LIME, are widely used approaches to interpret a machine learning model after it has been built. This class of methods has been shown to exhibit large instability, posing serious challenges to the effectiveness of the method itself and harming user trust. In this paper, we propose S-LIME, which utilizes a hypothesis testing framework based on central limit theorem for determining the number of perturbation points needed to guarantee stability of the resulting explanation. Experiments on both simulated and real world data sets are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
description: In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '21), August 14--18, 2021, Virtual Event, Singapore
Representing the Irish in the United States
Creators: name: Dochy, Amélie
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) was a Scottish painter whose pictures were mainly devoted to the representations of Ireland and the Irish, as can be seen with The Legacy also called Good News, which today is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. Nicol became popular in the United Kingdom in the 1850s: his artworks were sold and exhibited in Great Britain as well as in Ireland, and they were also shown in the United States or in France thanks to the international networks set up by British art dealers in the nineteenth century.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
Teenager in Love
Creators: name: Heron, Timothy
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: This article concentrates on punk rock – the music genre – rather than punk as a youth subculture, and argues that the style of punk rock that developed in Northern Ireland during the first wave of punk – from 1976 to the end of the decade – was partly influenced by pop music and particularly the aesthetics associated with the American myth of the teenager. The article thus focuses on music groups rather than on the practises of individuals.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
Disaggregated cost-benefit analysis incorporating ecosystem services and disservices: A case from SAI Sanctuary
Creators: name: Hounshell, Tyler
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Under private management and ownership, privately protected areas provide opportunities for in situ environmental conservation. These areas also provide ecosystem services and disservices for various stakeholders, but their impact on various stakeholders has not been comprehensively studied. To evaluate the economic impact of a privately protected area, a disaggregated cost-benefit analysis was conducted on SAI Sanctuary incorporating its ecosystem services and disservices on private, local, and global stakeholders over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020. SAI Sanctuary is a privately protected area located in southern Kodagu, a district in the Western Ghats forests of Karnataka, India. To valuate costs and benefits, interviews were conducted with private and local stakeholders. A literature review integrating other valuation techniques was performed as well. Discount rates of 0% and 6% were selected, and sensitivity analysis yielded various tradeoffs bore by each stakeholder group. Results indicate private stakeholders bear the greatest net costs, and local stakeholders gain the greatest net benefits largely due to pollination, a regulating service valued between $546,210 and $774,810 in the year 2020. Global stakeholders remained the least affected by SAI Sanctuary with net benefits ranging from $27,900 to $39,570 in 2020. Still, the results validate stakeholder predictions that SAI Sanctuary not only sequesters carbon dioxide, it provides a range of ecosystem services while harboring biodiversity and producing natural capital. The results also indicate that environmental conservation occasionally yields unintended tradeoffs with disproportionate costs and benefits. In sum, environmental conservation can have a multiplicity of outcomes, but measuring these outcomes and bringing privately protected areas into strategies for global conservation is vital.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Quantum oscillations of the magnetic torque in the nodal-line Dirac semimetal ZrSiS
Creators: name: Orbanić, F.
name: Novak, M.
name: Glumac, Z.
name: McCollam, A.
name: Tang, L.
name: Kokanović, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of quantum oscillations (QO) in the magnetic torque of the nodal-line Dirac semimetal ZrSiS in the magnetic fields up to 35 T and the temperature range from 40 K down to 2 K, enabling high resolution mapping of the Fermi surface (FS) topology in the $k_z=π$ (Z-R-A) plane of the first Brillouin zone (FBZ). It is found that the oscillatory part of the measured magnetic torque signal consists of low frequency (LF) contributions (frequencies up to 1000 T) and high frequency (HF) contributions (several clusters of frequencies from 7-22 kT). Increased resolution and angle-resolved measurements allow us to show that the high oscillation frequencies originate from magnetic breakdown (MB) orbits involving clusters of individual $α$ hole and $β$ electron pockets from the diamond shaped FS in the Z-R-A plane. Analyzing the HF oscillations we have unequivocally shown that the QO frequency from the dog-bone shaped Fermi pocket ($β$ pocket) amounts $β=591(15)$ T. Our findings suggest that most of the frequencies in the LF part of QO can also be explained by MB orbits when intraband tunneling in the dog-bone shaped $β$ electron pocket is taken into account. Our results give a new understanding of the novel properties of the FS of the nodal-line Dirac semimetal ZrSiS and sister compounds.
Business and Society: Determinants and Experiences of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Zimbabwean Extractive Industries from 2000-2015
Creators: name: Mathende, Takudzwa Leonard
name: Nhapi, Tatenda Goodman
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Although a considerable Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) knowledge base exists in Zimbabwe, there have been no comprehensive studies on CSR determinants and community CSR in Zimbabwe since 2000. This article explores the dominant narratives in CSR literature that have contributed to continuous debates in related academia, businesses, and society. Zimbabwe is resource rich, but the majority of the population is still living in abject poverty. Some have questioned whether this is indicative of a Zimbabwean resource curse. Many Zimbabweans believe that the companies benefitting from these resources should finance social programs in the country (NewsDay, 2012). This belief is a result of fiscal challenges that the government of Zimbabwe is grappling with. The article concludes by recommending pathways for sustainable CSR implantation.
description: Consilience, No 17 (2017): Issue Seventeen: 2017
Additional file 1 of Stakeholders perspectives of barriers and facilitators of childhood obesity prevention policies in Iran: A Delphi method study
Creators: name: Taghizadeh, Shahnaz
name: Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad
name: Khodayari-Zarnaq, Rahim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
From Tralee to Times Square
Creators: name: Kearney, Daithí
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: America has been a significant (market)place for Irish traditional music throughout the twentieth century to the present. From the early recordings of Michael Coleman and his contemporaries in the 1920s through the emergence of the Clancy Brothers in the 1960s to the leading roles of Michael Flatley and Jean Butler in the 1994 production Riverdance, musical developments on both sides of the Atlantic have been interlinked and two-directional.1 The Irish American audience continues to be an important market for touring Irish performers with significant Irish music festivals in America presenting many leading Irish music groups each year.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
Fuzzy Interval Matrices, Neutrosophic Interval Matrices and their Applications
Creators: name: Kandasamy, W. B. Vasantha
name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15-xx, 03Exx, 94-xx

description: The new concept of fuzzy interval matrices has been introduced in this book for the first time. The authors have not only introduced the notion of fuzzy interval matrices, interval neutrosophic matrices and fuzzy neutrosophic interval matrices but have also demonstrated some of its applications when the data under study is an unsupervised one and when several experts analyze the problem. Further, the authors have introduced in this book multiexpert models using these three new types of interval matrices. The new multi expert models dealt in this book are FCIMs, FRIMs, FCInMs, FRInMs, IBAMs, IBBAMs, nIBAMs, FAIMs, FAnIMS, etc. Illustrative examples are given so that the reader can follow these concepts easily. This book has three chapters. The first chapter is introductory in nature and makes the book a self-contained one. Chapter two introduces the concept of fuzzy interval matrices. Also the notion of fuzzy interval matrices, neutrosophic interval matrices and fuzzy neutrosophic interval matrices, can find applications to Markov chains and Leontief economic models. Chapter three gives the application of fuzzy interval matrices and neutrosophic interval matrices to real-world problems by constructing the models already mentioned. Further these models are mainly useful when the data is an unsupervised one and when one needs a multi-expert model. The new concept of fuzzy interval matrices and neutrosophic interval matrices will find their applications in engineering, medical, industrial, social and psychological problems. We have given a long list of references to help the interested reader.
description: 304 pages
The Effect of Potassium, Magnesium and Zinc on Yield and Yield Quality of the1st Ratoon Sugarcane in Korat Soil Series
Creators: name: Wipawan Thaymuang
name: Suchada Karuna
name: Siwarot Suwanno
name: Anut Hengcharoen
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2019
Subjects: first ratoon of sugarcane, potassium, magnesium, zinc

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 47, 4, 739-748
The Botswana Bushmen’s Fight for Water & Land Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Creators: name: Winters, Olivia Jane
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: The Botswana Bushmen live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the center of Botswana. The area is known to be one of the most rugged, arid landscapes on the face of the planet. In recent years, due to claims from the Botswana government that the Bushmen needed to ‘develop’, extreme efforts have been made to force the Bushmen from the reserve originally allotted to them in the 1960s.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Deuterated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Interstellar Medium: The C--D Band Strengths of Multi-Deuterated Species
Creators: name: Yang, X. J.
name: Li, Aigen
name: He, C. Y.
name: Glaser, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observationally, the interstellar gas-phase abundance of deuterium (D) is considerably depleted and the missing D atoms are often postulated to have been locked up into carbonaceous solids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. An accurate knowledge of the fractional amount of D (relative to H) tied up in carbon dust and PAHs has important cosmological implications since D originated exclusively from the Big Bang and the present-day D abundance, after accounting for the astration it has experienced during the Galactic evolution, provides essential clues to the primordial nucleosynthesis and the cosmological parameters. To quantitatively explore the extent to which PAHs could possibly accommodate the observed D depletion, we have previously quantum-chemically computed the infrared vibrational spectra of mono-deuterated PAHs and derived the mean intrinsic band strengths of the 3.3 $μ$m C--H stretch (A$_{3.3}$) and the 4.4 $μ$m C--D stretch (A$_{4.4}$). Here we extend our previous work to multi-deuterated PAH species of different deuterations, sizes and structures. We find that both the intrinsic band strengths A$_{3.3}$ and A$_{4.4}$ and their ratios A$_{4.4}$/A$_{3.3}$ not only show little variations among PAHs of different deuterations, sizes and structures, they are also closely similar to that of mono-deuterated PAHs. Therefore, a PAH deuteration level (i.e., the fraction of peripheral atoms attached to C atoms in the form of D) of ~2.4% previously estimated from the observed 4.4 $μ$m to 3.3 $μ$m band ratio based on the A$_{4.4}$/A$_{3.3}$ ratio of mono-deuterated PAHs is robust.
description: 36 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Hannah ARENDT et. al., «politics» e il nuovo socialismo. Per una critica radicale del marxismo
Creators: name: DOMENEGHETTI, ELIA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: storia della filosofia, filosofia politica, socialismo,

description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
Nine years after Fukushima, has citizen science come of age?
Creators: name: Van Oudheusden, Michiel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Science and Technology
Radiation monitoring
Governance
Radiological Protection
Citizen Science

description: In this presentation, I ask how nine years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster public authorities and scientific research communities respond to citizen-led, data-driven radiation monitoring practices, both in Japan and elsewhere. Using qualitative methods, I shed light on opportunities and challenges that emerge in developing possible fruitful collaboration pathways between citizen scientists, decision makers, and formally-trained scientists working in/on radiological protection.
Improved Study of the Antiprotonic Helium Hyperfine Structure
Creators: name: Pask, T.
name: Barna, D.
name: Dax, A.
name: Hayano, R. S.
name: Hori, M.
name: Horváth, D.
name: Juhász, B.
name: Malbrunot, C.
name: Marton, J.
name: Ono, N.
name: Suzuki, K.
name: Zmeskal, J.
name: Widmann, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the initial results from a systematic study of the hyperfine (HF) structure of antiprotonic helium (n,l) = (37,~35) carried out at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. We performed a laser-microwave-laser resonance spectroscopy using a continuous wave (cw) pulse-amplified laser system and microwave cavity to measure the HF transition frequencies. Improvements in the spectral linewidth and stability of our laser system have increased the precision of these measurements by a factor of five and reduced the line width by a factor of three compared to our previous results. A comparison of the experimentally measured transition frequencies with three body QED calculations can be used to determine the antiproton spin magnetic moment, leading towards a test of CPT invariance.
description: 14 pages 9 figures
Watchmen on the Walls of Music Across the Atlantic
Creators: name: Commins, Adèle
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2020

description: Irish born composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) is a central figure in the British Musical Renaissance. Often considered only in the context of his work in England, with occasional references to his Irish birthplace, the reception of Stanford’s music in America provides fresh perspectives on the composer and his music.
description: Imaginaires, No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
Quantum Turing bifurcation: Transition from quantum amplitude death to quantum oscillation death
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Biswabibek
name: Khatun, Taniya
name: Banerjee, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important transition from a homogeneous steady state to an inhomogeneous steady state via the Turing bifurcation in coupled oscillators was reported in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 111}, 024103 (2013)]. However, the same in the quantum domain is yet to be observed. In this paper, we discover the quantum analogue of the Turing bifurcation in coupled quantum oscillators. We show that a homogeneous steady state is transformed into an inhomogeneous steady state through this bifurcation in coupled quantum van der Pol oscillators. We demonstrate our results by a direct simulation of the quantum master equation in the Lindblad form. We further support our observations through an analytical treatment of the noisy classical model. Our study explores the paradigmatic Turing bifurcation at the quantum-classical interface and opens up the door towards its broader understanding.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Comments are heartily welcome
Sustaining Investment in Innovation in Oil Rich Gulf Countries Amidst Falling Oil Prices
Creators: name: Al-Sabah, Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad
name: Palliam, Ralph
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Oil rich Gulf Countries have identified all forms of sustainability as key drivers of innovation. Therefore innovating for sustainability is critical for an economy’s political legitimacy, socio-economic reputation, and ecological performance. Sustaining investment in innovation requires an understanding of returns or payoffs accruing to an investment in innovation. Sustainable development is fraught with challenges particularly when an economy’s growth is linked to a single resource. Research and development together with productivity growth rates have become innovation indicators and continue to raise questions about their interpretation and implication. In resource-laden rich countries the challenge is further exacerbated by inflows accruing from benevolent government subsidies. This empirical study reviews the variables for policy formulation associated with innovation in the six resource-rich oil countries of the Gulf and considers its determinants. Negative relationships between resource abundance and poor economic performance have often been empirically established, providing support for the “resource curse” hypothesis. The culture of governance, norms, and values that pervade oil-rich countries become key determinants of their economic success. The primary purpose of this study is to determine the factors associated with sustainable innovation in the Gulf and to address the concerns related to the governance of resources that necessitate further innovation.
description: Consilience, No 17 (2017): Issue Seventeen: 2017
Additional file 2 of Stakeholders perspectives of barriers and facilitators of childhood obesity prevention policies in Iran: A Delphi method study
Creators: name: Taghizadeh, Shahnaz
name: Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad
name: Khodayari-Zarnaq, Rahim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Doing Better Than Divestment
Creators: name: Evans, Will
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: In the next several years we will see an increasing number of divestment campaigns spring up among student bodies nationwide. Given this trend, I believe it would be helpful to those interested in divestment at U.Va and other institutions to first examine the discussion that has followed the campaign so far. What is divestment? Is it well argued? Does it make economic sense? Should we divest? If so, what steps should we take? Frequent campaign failures indicate that the divestment argument needs some reworking. The ultimate objectives of this paper are 1) a new argument that elucidates more compelling incentives for U.Va to take action against fossil fuels and 2) a financially responsible reinvestment strategy that reflects the greater values of our university.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Pastoralist Perception on Rangeland Management and Degradation in Guji Zone of South Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abate, Teshome
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: The study was conducted to explore range management practice, pastoralists’ views on degradation and its impact on local livelihood in south Ethiopia. The data was gathered from three pastoral and agro-pastoral districts of Guji zone using structure questionnaires, key informants and direct observation. The study shows the use of enclosure and herd mobility in basic traditional practice as well as the effectiveness of community indigenous knowledge is in assessing and monitoring rangeland degradation. Communities used numerous indicators to explain local level degradation, finding drought to be a primary cause in the decline in household livestock assets, expansion of aridity, and rising threat to food security. The study shows an alarming increase in degradation and the urgency of measures to halt this trend.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
The Need for a New, Clear Option: An In-Depth Analysis of Nuclear Energy
Creators: name: Davis, Zachary Evan
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: The goal of the research presented here will be to provide a comprehensive view of the nuclear industry today. Upon analyzing data from the last 40 years, a pattern of irresponsible, financially untenable policymaking begins to emerge, highlighting the growing disconnect between the general populace, which is most vulnerable to the benefits and pitfalls of the nuclear industry, and the elected officials who make the final decision in many countries regarding nuclear adoption. The primary context of this article will be concerned with analyzing opposing views of how nuclear power normally stands to benefit mankind versus the impacts of a worst case nuclear disaster, as occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. The author provides a brief, general overview of the theory behind nuclear power and its impacts before moving on to the benefits and drawbacks faced by adoptive communities. Next, an analysis of the financial viability of the nuclear industry will be offered, as well as a brief introduction of several means of generating electricity, and their general benefits and drawbacks. The author then offers an opinion on which of these options would offer the best alternative to nuclear power in both the short and long term. Finally, government patterns of dealing with nuclear power will be examined; it very quickly becomes evident that even in the most transparent societies, nuclear adoption encourages dishonesty from policy makers. In closing, the author will leave the reader with a troubling question: “Do we really have a say in our own future?”
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Laura FENELLI, Dall’eremo alla stalla. Storia di sant’Antonio Abate e del suo culto
Creators: name: TELLOLI, SARA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: Storia della filosofia, filosofia medievale, iconografia

description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
MIMAC : A Micro-TPC Matrix of Chambers for direct detection of Wimps
Creators: name: Santos, D.
name: Guillaudin, O.
name: Lamy, Th.
name: Mayet, F.
name: Moulin, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The project of a micro-TPC matrix of chambers of He3 and CF4 for direct detection of non-baryonic dark matter is outlined. The privileged properties of He3 are highlighted. The double detection (ionization - projection of tracks) will assure the electron-recoil discrimination. The complementarity of MIMAC for supersymmetric dark matter search with respect to other experiments is illustrated.The modular character of the detector allows to have different gases to get A-dependence. The pressure degreee of freedom gives the possibility to work at high and low pressures. The low pressure regime gives the possibility to get the directionality of the tracks. The first measurements of ionization at very few keVs for He3 in CF4 gas are described.
description: to be published in the Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Large TPCs for Low Energy Rare Event Detection, 11 - 12 December 2006, Paris
ALLE RADICI DELLA DIFFERENZA. GABRIEL TARDE, ESSENTIEL POUR LES BASES DU SYSTÈME (1873-79)
Creators: name: DOMENICALI, FILIPPO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: Storia della fHistory of Philosophy; Contemporary Philosophy; Sociology; Gabriel Tarde, History of Science

description: NOTE DI GABRIEL TARDE, ESSENTIEL POUR LES BASES DU SYSTÈME (1873-79)
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks III. Simulations with Radiative Cooling and Realistic Opacities
Creators: name: Boley, A. C.
name: Mejia, A. C.
name: Durisen, R. H.
name: Cai, K.
name: Pickett, M. K.
name: D'Alessio, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a fully three-dimensional radiative hydrodymanics simulation with realistic opacities for a gravitationally unstable 0.07 Msun disk around a 0.5 Msun star. We address the following aspects of disk evolution: the strength of gravitational instabilities under realistic cooling, mass transport in the disk that arises from GIs, comparisons between the gravitational and Reynolds stresses measured in the disk and those expected in an alpha-disk, and comparisons between the SED derived for the disk and SEDs derived from observationally determined parameters. The mass transport in this disk is dominated by global modes, and the cooling times are too long to permit fragmentation for all radii. Moreover, our results suggest a plausible explanation for the FU Ori outburst phenomenon.
description: 45 pages, 17 figures; submitted to ApJ
Diabetic diet management : a native Indian perspective
Creators: name: Fuller, Caroline Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Maturity-onset diabetes has become a growing health problem among Canadian Native Indians. Although there is a growing body of literature examining the etiology and cultural meanings of diabetes in this population, there is little knowledge of the Native perspective of diabetic diet management among groups in Western Canada. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the problems perceived by Native Indians in managing a diabetic diet. Kleinman's conceptual framework guided the formulation of the research question and methodololgy. In order to elicit and understand the experience of diabetic diet management from the perspective of the Native Indian, the qualitative research method of phenomenology was employed. Data were collected through the use of unstructured tape-recorded interviews that allowed the subjects to describe the phenomenon in their own words according to their own reality. The sample consisted of three men and three women all living on reserve from three Coast Salish bands in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Four of the subjects were interviewed twice, the other two were seen three times for a total of fourteen in-depth interviews. Data were collected and analyzed simultaneously over a period of seven months. After being transcribed verbatim, interview data were examined for common themes that emerged and the raw data were coded accordingly. As themes surfaced during the analysis, they were clarified, validated, and/or discounted during subsequent meetings with the informants. In this process, the nature of diabetic diet management was elucidated. The problems experienced by the informants were embedded in the larger phenomenon of diabetes management. How the illness was understood and dealt with in the context of daily living shaped the experience of diet management and the nature of the problems that surfaced. Two central interrelated concepts emerged from the data that explained how the subjects lived with their diets on a daily basis. The first concept entailed the evolving personal understanding of diabetes as it was shaped by the subjective experience of symptoms and the anecdotal stories of the numerous relatives with the same illness. The second concept emerged from the interwoven social environment in which the subjects lived out their daily lives. This was discovered to be both a source of difficulty and a source of strength for the individuals of the study. A variety of implications for nursing surfaced from the findings. For nursing practice, diabetic education and program development need to be planned and implemented in collaboration with Native leaders and clients. Educators must examine how nursing curricula can focus on the client's perspective of the illness experience to better enhance communication and health care delivery. There also remain many unanswered questions regarding the diabetic experience in this cultural group and how it is tied to the social network of such communities.
The Convoluted Nature of the African Ivory Trade: Possible Solutions for Curbing the Destructive Nature of Poaching and Promoting Elephant Conservation
Creators: name: Williams, Jonah M.
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: The current nature of ivory and elephant conservation within Africa is extremely ambiguous and filled with much uncertainty. The purpose of this work is to objectively investigate the sources for this convoluted complexion, which stem from a wide variety of issues including (but not limited to) geopolitics, imperialism, governmental legitimacy, foreign policies, and present-day western influences. In addition, this work also considers certain ecological ramifications of the current illicit African ivory trade, and sheds light on not only the problems relating to direct poaching, but also extraneous pressures, both internal and external, which are causing a high demand for ivory. Through such analyses, this paper investigates possible solutions to lower poaching and stimulate conservation of the African Elephant, as well as relieve African nations of post-imperialistic stress, granting them increased autonomy on the matter.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Tests of QCD Factorisation in the Diffractive Production of Dijets in Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Photoproduction at HERA
Creators: name: H1 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements are presented of differential dijet cross sections in diffractive photoproduction (Q^2<0.01 GeV^2) and deep-inelastic scattering processes (DIS, 4 e X Y, in which the system X, containing at least two jets, is separated from a leading low-mass proton remnant system Y by a large rapidity gap. The dijet cross sections are compared with NLO QCD predictions based on diffractive parton densities previously obtained from a QCD analysis of inclusive diffractive DIS cross sections by H1. In DIS, the dijet data are well described, supporting the validity of QCD factorisation. The diffractive DIS dijet data are more sensitive to the diffractive gluon density at high fractional parton momentum than the measurements of inclusive diffractive DIS. In photoproduction, the predicted dijet cross section has to be multiplied by a factor of approximately 0.5 for both direct and resolved photon interactions to describe the measurements. The ratio of measured dijet cross section to NLO prediction in photoproduction is a factor 0.5+-0.1 smaller than the same ratio in DIS. This suppression is the first clear observation of QCD hard scattering factorisation breaking at HERA. The measurements are also compared to the two soft colour neutralisation models SCI and GAL. The SCI model describes diffractive dijet production in DIS but not in photoproduction. The GAL model fails in both kinematic regions.
description: 35 pages, 12 figures
DALLA BIBBIA ALL’ONEST’UOMO: QUALE MODELLO PER LE DONNE IN VOLTAIRE?
Creators: name: GURRADO, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: History of Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Voltaire, Gender Studies

description: Voltaire shows the ideal behaviour of men in the Catéchisme de l’honnête homme and develops a model king. Such model seems not to work for women, if one considers Voltaire’s attitude towards the behaviour of biblical female characters. Their sexual incontinence yet corresponds to the intolerance exerted by the male characters: Voltaire’s judgment is, if negative, egalitarian. In Femmes, soyez soumises à vos maris his judgement is egalitarian in positive, praising Catherine II for the same reasons as the kings. If a good king can be a role model, the tzarin shows that a woman can be a honest man.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
Green Talk: Comparing the Discourse on Climate Change and Sustainable Development between Environmental NGOs and the State in Vietnam and Bolivia
Creators: name: Schipani, Samantha
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2019

description: Environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) and national governments are key players in the political sphere surrounding issues of climate change and sustainable development. The relationships between the discourse on “climate change” and “sustainable development” and ENGOs and the state in both Vietnam and Bolivia provides a critical look into the ways in which these issues are approached in two highly-vulnerable countries with different political regimes. Live & Learn, the Centre for Marinelife and Conservation, and PanNature were interviewed as ENGO case studies in Vietnam; and Grupo de Trabajo de Cambio Climático y Justicia and Proinpa were interviewed as ENGO case studies in Bolivia. Comparing the discourse from the ENGO interviews and websites depicting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s Law on the Protection of the Environment and Bolivia’s 2009 Political Constitution of the State elucidates the gaps left by state policies with regards to the needs of civil society in the context of climate change and sustainable development. The analysis also demonstrates the ways in which different regimes shape the culture of ENGOs and how this impacts climate change and sustainable development initiatives and action.
description: Consilience, No 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015
Nuclear energy density functionals grounded in ab initio calculations
Creators: name: Marino, F.
name: Barbieri, C.
name: Colò, G.
name: Lovato, A.
name: Pederiva, F.
name: Roca-Maza, X.
name: Vigezzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the construction of a nuclear Energy Density Functional (EDF) from ab initio calculations, and we advocate the need of a methodical approach that is free from ad hoc assumptions. The equations of state (EoS) of symmetric nuclear and pure neutron matter are computed using the chiral NNLO$_{\rm sat}$ and the phenomenological AV4$^\prime$+UIX$_{c}$ Hamiltonians as inputs in the Self-consistent Green's Function (SCGF) and Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) methods, respectively. We propose a convenient parametrization of the EoS as a function of the Fermi momentum and fit it on the SCGF and AFDMC calculations. We apply the ab initio-based EDF to carry out an analysis of the binding energies and charge radii of different nuclei in the local density approximation. The NNLO$_{\rm sat}$-based EDF produces encouraging results, whereas the AV4$^\prime$+UIX$_{c}$-based one is farther from experiment. Possible explanations of these different behaviors are suggested, and the importance of gradient and spin-orbit terms is analyzed. Our work paves the way for a practical and systematic way to merge ab initio nuclear theory and DFT, while at the same time it sheds light on some of the critical aspects of this procedure.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
LA DIROMPENTE INATTUALITÀ DI BLOCH. VENT’ANNI DI STUDI CRITICI IN ITALIA SU IL PRINCIPIO SPERANZA
Creators: name: ALESSANDRINI, NICOLA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2013
Subjects: History of Philosophy, Contemporary Thought, History of Culture; Bloch; Italian Studies

description: The theme of this essay is the present situation of the Blochian studies in Italy from ’94 to today. In fact 1994 is an important watershed for the Italian criticism about Bloch: the titanic project to translate The Principle of Hope is finally implemented. In this book is located all the cultural heritage on which Bloch has built his philosophy: from the literary to the musical area, from pictorial to philosophical and much more. New items to dilate the philosophy of hope in new directions, finding declinations that have been neglected by the previous national and international critics.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume I, numero 2, 2013
Factors affecting adoption supplementary irrigation technology in sugarcane farming in Khon Kaen Province
Creators: name: Wanchalerm Janpa
name: Satit Aditto
name: Patcharee Suriya
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2019
Subjects: adoption technology, supplementary irrigation in sugarcane cultivation

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 47, 4, 749-760