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Politics of planning in China
Creators: name: Leung, Hok-Lin
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: City planning--China
subject: Land use--China
subject: Planners--China
subject: Land use--Planning

description: In China, there is no evidence of rampant corruption in the planning process, but neither are there any robust institutions and structures to prevent that from happening. Planning administration involves sorting out equally good but conflicting planning principles. In fact, strong political personalities often produce sensible solutions while breaking established procedures. The politics of land is made more complex by the fact that urban planning and land use planning are administered by two different, competing bureaucracies. China's experiment with a socialist market economy, and the tension between personality and process in its planning functions, continues to evolve. Because of its size, how China resolves this tension will have consequences for us all.
description: En Chine, malgré qu'il n'y a pas de signe évident de corruption de la démarche d'urbanisme, il n'y a pas non plus d'institutions et de structures solides pour parer à l'éventualité. En urbanisme, l'administration cherche à faire la part entre des principes tout aussi biens fondés les uns que les autres, mais souvent contradictoires. Des représentants politiques forts formulent souvent des solutions sensées alors même qu'ils vont à l'encontre des procédures établies. La politique d'utilisation des terres est d'autant plus compliquée que la planification et l'utilisation des terres relèvent de deux administrations distinctes et concurrentes. L'expérience de la Chine en ce qui a trait à une économie de marché socialiste, et la tension née du conflit entre les personnalités et les procédés en matière d'urbanisme, continuent d'évoluer. Vu l'enormité du territoire chinois, la façon dont la Chine choisira d'éliminer cette tension aura des conséquences pour tous.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5707/Article005.pdf?sequence=3
Diffeomorphism type of symplectic fillings of unit cotangent bundles
Creators: name: Geiges, Hansjörg
name: Kwon, Myeonggi
name: Zehmisch, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R17 (Primary), 32Q65, 53D35, 57R80 (Secondary)

description: We prove uniqueness, up to diffeomorphism, of symplectically aspherical fillings of certain unit cotangent bundles, including those of higher-dimensional tori.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Implicit Negativity, Discrete Emotions, and Behavioral Intentions: 3 - Disgust and Empathic Anger
Creators: name: Ungson, Nick
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study is a part of a series of studies in which we (MJG, NDU) are examining the extent to which implicit negativity as measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT) cannot distinguish between different "kinds" of negativity. ## Current Study and Hypotheses: Participants will (1) be randomly assigned to read one of two Arnold vignettes designed to activate disgust or empathic anger; (2) complete a single-target IAT (STIAT) to measure implicit negativity towards Arnold; (3) complete emotional response items for the targeted emotion, non-targeted emotion, as well as "control" negative emotion (e.g., "cold", "unfavorable", "bad"), and (4) complete behavioral intention items for the targeted emotion and non-targeted emotion.
Quantum Correlations in Metals that Grow in Time and Space
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, T. R.
name: Belitz, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the correlations of electrons with a fixed energy in metals have very anomalous time and space dependences. Due to soft modes that exist in any Fermi liquid, combined with the incomplete screening of the Coulomb interaction at finite frequencies, the correlations in 2-d systems grow with time as $t^2$. In the presence of disorder, the spatial correlations grow as the distance squared. Similar, but in general weaker, effects are present in 3-d systems and in the absence of quenched disorder. We propose ways to experimentally measure these anomalous correlations.
description: 5 pp, 1 fig
Densifying to upgrading: strategies for improving the social hosing built stock in Italy
Creators: name: Antonini, Ernesto
name: Gaspari, Jacopo
name: Olivieri, Giulia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The world economic crisis has further depressed the Italian production of social housing but it dramatically increased the demand of affordable rental dwellings. A refurbishment and retrofitting campaign of the social housing stock appears to be as a credible and effective strategy, able to be applied in the short term to bring this gap, at least partially. Some results of a research in progress on the topic are presented in this paper. The first one is a classification model of the main typology of retrofitting and densification of social housing projects, issued from an investigation on several European case-studies. On this base, the research established a set of design criteria, able to couple the improvement of energy, functionality and comfort performances with the increasing of the use intensity of the built stock. Finally, an application of this method on a pilot-case is described.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
The Great Depression and Its Impact on an Emerging Research Library: The University of North Carolina Library, 1929-1941
Creators: name: McGrath, Eileen
name: Jacobson, Linda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: In the years after World War I, the University of North Carolina (UNC) transformed itself from a respectable, but provincial, academic institution to a true research university, becoming in 1922 only the second university in the South to be admitted to the Association of American Universities.  The development of the library was part of that transformation, and the dedication of a new library building on October 19, 1929 can be seen as the symbolic high-water mark of a period of growth and maturation for the university. On that sunny Saturday in Chapel Hill, the university band led a group of dignitaries, alumni, and well-wishers into Memorial Hall for a program officially dedicating the new library. University president Harry Woodburn Chase presided. North Carolina governor O. Max Gardner presented the building to the university; John Sprunt Hill, chairman of the trustee building committee and a long-time library supporter, accepted it. Andrew Keogh, Yale University librarian and American Library Association president, delivered the dedication address.
Mergers and de-mergers: Implications for environmental planning and management in Montréal
Creators: name: Brown, David
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Regional planning--Québec (Province)--Montréal
subject: Environmental protection--Planning
subject: Montréal (Québec)--Politics and government

description: This article examines the effect of the recent forced municipal mergers on environmental planning and management in the Montréal region. Following an overview of the mergers, consideration is given to the need for a balance between top-down and bottom-up approaches to environmental planning, the relative advantages of the pre- and post-merged states and, finally, the prospects for the future. Two questions underlie the discussion: (1) Has the merger made it easier to apply an ecosystem approach to environmental planning and management? (2) To what extent is it possible for residents in the new city of Montréal to maintain a sense of belonging and stewardship with respect to their local environment?
description: Cet article se penche sur l'incidence des récents regroupements forcés de municipalités dans la région de Montréal, dans l'optique de la planification et de la gestion environnementale. Après un survol des amalgamations, il est question du besoin d'equilibrer les approches ascendantes et descendantes en planification environnementale, des avantages relatifs avant et après les amalgamations et, pour terminer, des perspectives d'avenir. Deux questions sous-tendent cet exposé : 1) L'amalgamation a-t-elle facilité l'application d'une approche axée sur les écosystèmes en ce qui a trait à la planification et à la gestion environnementale? 2) Dans quelle mesure les habitants de la nouvelle ville de Montréal peuvent-ils perpétuer leur sentiment d'appartenance et d'intendance à l'égard de l'environnement local?
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5708/Article004.pdf?sequence=3
Hodge structures and differential operators
Creators: name: Vlasenko, Masha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This text can be considered as a non-technical and arithmetically motivated introduction to the definition of the limiting mixed Hodge structure. We state several assertions in terms natural to the classical theory of ordinary differential operators and prove them using elementary arguments.
The role of the outdoor space in the containment of the energy consumption of the building
Creators: name: Lepore, Michele
name: Chella, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: In most of the contemporary urban spaces built in recent decades in Italy little attention is evident on the creation of environmental niches that are able to mitigate the microclimate. The following research aims to verify how the physical design of the outer space affects either the immaterial dimension of the space itself (livability, comfort), and the environmental performances of the surrounding buildings. The research supports the definition of the energetic-environmental requalification techniques to be used in the recovery phase of buildings. The analysis of the microclimatic features in the outdoor urban spaces, together with the implications in terms of comfort for those people who use them, opens new possibilities for the development of urban areas for what concerns both the new design and the requalification of the existing built-up area. Because of the complexity in terms of space-time variability of such parameters and of the wide set of activities in which people are committed, there have been so far very few attempts to understand the external comfort conditions, but mainly of how the external climatic effects could have an impact on the internal comfort conditions of the inhabited area.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Radial alignment of elliptical galaxies by the tidal force of a cluster of galaxies
Creators: name: Rong, Yu
name: Yi, Shu-Xu
name: Zhang, Shuang-Nan
name: Tu, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike the random radial orientation distribution of field elliptical galaxies, galaxies in a cluster are expected to point preferentially towards the center of the cluster, as a result of the cluster's tidal force on its member galaxies. In this work an analytic model is formulated to simulate this effect. The deformation time scale of a galaxy in a cluster is usually much shorter than the time scale of change of the tidal force; the dynamical process of the tidal interaction within the galaxy can thus be ignored. An equilibrium shape of a galaxy is then assumed to be the surface of equipotential, which is the sum of the self-gravitational potential of the galaxy and the tidal potential of the cluster at this location. We use a Monte-Carlo method to calculate the radial orientation distribution of these galaxies, by assuming the NFW mass profile of the cluster and the initial ellipticity of field galaxies. The radial angles show a single peak distribution centered at zero. The Monte-Carlo simulations also show that a shift of the reference center from the real cluster center weakens the anisotropy of the radial angle distribution. Therefore, the expected radial alignment cannot be revealed if the distribution of spatial position angle is used instead of that of radial angle. The observed radial orientations of elliptical galaxies in cluster Abell~2744 are consistent with the simulated distribution.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. MNRAS in press
The effects of name and severity of crime on trust
Creators: name: Pearl, Inbal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: הרשמה מראש למחקר הבודק את השפעת השם של האדם וכמה הוא נפוץ, וחומרת הפשע שכביכול ביצע על מידת האמון שייתנו בו, במסגרת קורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית
Open Access an der Universität verankern: Ein Praxisbericht aus dem Jahr 2017
Creators: name: Grimm, Steffi
name: Schobert, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: freier Zugang
subject: TU Berlin
subject: Open-Access-Policy
subject: Open Access
subject: policy
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften

description: Anfang 2017 wurden die Open-Access-Beauftragte der TU Berlin und die Universitätsbibliothek vom Präsidium beauftragt, den Entwurf einer Open-Access-Policy in der Universität bekannt zu machen und einen Diskussionsprozess über Open Access zu initiieren. Was folgte, war ein Rundgang durch verschiedene Gremien der Universität. Die Veranstaltungen boten Gelegenheit, den Entwurf der Policy vorzustellen und den Argumenten für und gegen Open Access Raum zu geben. Der vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert diese Diskussionen und zeigt auf, welche Positionen im Umfeld von Open Access für Studierende, Doktorand/innen, PostDocs und Professor/innen der TU Berlin von Bedeutung sind. Ziel des Diskussionsprozesses ist die Verabschiedung einer Open-Access-Policy, welche die Interessen aller an der TU vertretenen Disziplinen berücksichtigt und Open Access als strategisches Ziel der Universität verankert.
description: At the beginning of 2017, the open access representative of TU Berlin and the university library were commissioned by the executive board to present the draft of an open access policy and to start discussions about it in different contexts of the university. In the following the draft was presented in various panels of the faculties which offered the opportunity to discuss pros and cons of open access with researchers, faculty staff and students. The following article documents these discussions at TU Berlin and illustrates the different positions and opinions regarding open access. The aim of the process is the adoption of an open access policy which takes into account the interests of all disciplines represented at the TU Berlin. At the same time, open access is supposed to be set as a strategic goal of the university.
Search paths for the actions of energy retrofit and new quality of housing
Creators: name: Milardi, Martino
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: HOPUS (Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability) is a research project conducted by the department DASTEC Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, with various community and local partners. The project aimed to implement and promote the use of design codes for building sustainable development in European cities and create a local support group for testing the codes. The objective to start this process was to establish a synergy between research centers, governments and enterprises, in order to understand and improve the relationships built with the new quality framework for social, urban, housing and energy. Objects of the experiments were some existing public residential buildings that are located in Reggio Calabria and built in different historical periods.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Shape-dependent exchange bias effect in magnetic nanoparticles with core-shell morphology
Creators: name: Dimitriadis, V.
name: Kechrakos, D.
name: Chubykalo-Fesenko, O.
name: Tsiantos, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low-temperature isothermal magnetic hysteresis of cubical and spherical nanoparticles with ferromagnetic (FM) core - antiferromagnetic (AF) shell morphology, in order to elucidate the sensitivity of the exchange bias effect to the shape of the particles and the structural imperfections at the core-shell interface. We model the magnetic structure using a classical Heisenberg Hamiltonian with uniaxial anisotropy and simulate the hysteresis loop using the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. For nanoparticles with geometrically sharp interfaces, we find that cubes exhibit higher coercivity and lower exchange bias field than spheres of the same size. With increasing interface roughness, the shape-dependence of the characteristic fields gradually decays and eventually, the distinction between cubical and spherical particles is lost for moderately rough interfaces. The sensitivity of the exchange bias field to the microstructural details of the interface is quantified by a scaling factor (b) relating the bias field to the net moment of the AF shell (Heb = bMAF + Ho). Cubical particles exhibit lower sensitivity to the dispersed values of the net interfacial moment.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Quenched Invariance Principle for a class of random conductance models with long-range jumps
Creators: name: Biskup, Marek
name: Chen, Xin
name: Kumagai, Takashi
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17, 39B62, 60K37, 60K35

description: We study random walks on $\mathbb Z^d$ (with $d\ge 2$) among stationary ergodic random conductances $\{C_{x,y}\colon x,y\in\mathbb Z^d\}$ that permit jumps of arbitrary length. Our focus is on the Quenched Invariance Principle (QIP) which we establish by a combination of corrector methods, functional inequalities and heat-kernel technology assuming that the $p$-th moment of $\sum_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}C_{0,x}|x|^2$ and $q$-th moment of $1/C_{0,x}$ for $x$ neighboring the origin are finite for some $p,q\ge1$ with $p^{-1}+q^{-1}<2/d$. In particular, a QIP thus holds for random walks on long-range percolation graphs with connectivity exponents larger than $2d$ in all $d\ge2$, provided all the nearest-neighbor edges are present. Although still limited by moment conditions, our method of proof is novel in that it avoids proving everywhere-sublinearity of the corrector. This is relevant because we show that, for long-range percolation with exponents between $d+2$ and $2d$, the corrector exists but fails to be sublinear everywhere. Similar examples are constructed also for nearest-neighbor, ergodic conductances in $d\ge3$ under the conditions complementary to those of the recent work of P. Bella and M. Schäffner. These examples elucidate the limitations of elliptic-regularity techniques that underlie much of the recent progress on these problems.
description: 36 pages, subsumes salvageable parts of arXiv:1412.0175
Energy retrofit via Social Housing: a proposal from Solar Decathlon
Creators: name: Tonelli, Chiara
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: Solar Decathlon is an annual university challenge where nearly zeroenergy housing prototypes enter in international competition, through a series of ten tests. The contest aims for superior energy performance, high standards of interior comfort, architectural aesthetics, positive electrical balances, industrialisation, and contained costs and feasibility as a marketable proposal. Seven editions of the Solar Decathlon have been held, with a total of 140 competing proposals both realized and placed on the market, representing a notable pool of experimental research to be studied and evaluated for applications in social housing. After a consideration of the competition features, the article describes the prototype presented by City College of New York at Solar Decathlon 2011, Washington DC, as a proposal of an energy retrofit suitable for many urban buildings with flat roofs.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
NMA-CN 2021 data sets: fMRI (2021)
Creators: name: 't Hart, Bernard
name: Blohm, Gunnar
name: Batty, Ella
name: Ash, Arash
name: Wyble, Brad
name: Chavlis, Spiros
name: Peters, Megan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Neuroscience
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology

description: Here you can find the fMRI data sets made available for the NMA 2021 Computational Neuroscience summer school's group projects.
1-D MOF [Ag2(C10H10N3O3S)2(C4H8N)2]n: photocatalytic treatment, crystallographic evaluation, ADMET parameters, CT-DNA and anticancer activity
Creators: name: Socha, Bhavesh N.
name: Pandya, Sachin B.
name: Patel, Urmila H.
name: Patel, R. H.
name: Bhatt, Bhupesh S.
name: Bhakhar, Sanjay
name: Vekariya, Nikhil
name: Valand, Jignesh
name: Thakor, Parth
name: Thakkar, Anjali B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Newly synthesized dinuclear crystalline polymer, the silver complex of bidentate Sulfamethoxazole (Ag-SMX) in the presence of secondary ligand pyrrolidine has been characterized by elemental, spectral (1H-NMR spectra, FT-IR spectra, UV–Vis spectra.), powder XRD, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (single-crystal) analysis. The synthesis molecular structure of the dinuclear [Ag2(C10H10N3O3S)2(C4H8N)2]n complex reveals a one-dimensional polymeric chain with seesaw geometry (τ4 = 0.71): two silvers interlink each other by argentophilic interaction with Ag1…Ag2 separation distance of 3.0047(6) Å. The Hirshfeld surfaces (HS) and 2D fingerprint plots were used to examine the interconnects in the crystal packing. Molecule properties including MEP, MPA, HOMO-LUMO energy, and global reactivity descriptor parameters were computed to understand the molecule’s stability. From ADMET parameters, human Intestinal Absorbance data revealed that the compound has the potential to be well absorbed, and also Ag-smx complex cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The capacity of the silver complex to interact with CtDNA was investigated using absorption spectroscopy and viscosity tests. The interaction between CT-DNA reveals that the Ag-SMX complex exhibits the strongest binding affinity among all known sulfonamide derivatives and their metal complexes. The silver complex has higher inhibitory action than the free SMX ligand, according to data from a panel of gram (+ve) and gram (-ve) organisms’ minimum inhibitory concentrations. In vitro cytotoxicity investigation revealed that the IC50 value for Ag-SMX is 57.12 g/mL and for SMX is 100.90 g/mL against human lung cancer cell line (A549). This study revealed that, when compared to SMX free-ligand, Ag-SMX is the most effective in terms of cytotoxicity toward the human lung cancer cell line (A549 cell line). In under 120 min, the synthesized Ag-smx complex showed exceptional photo-degradation characteristics against methylene blue (MB) (10 ppm) in visible light radiation. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
On self-correspondences on curves
Creators: name: Bellaïche, Joël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14Hxx (Primary), 37-XX (Secondary)

description: We study the algebraic dynamics of self-correspondences on a curve. A self-correspondence on a (proper and smooth) curve $C$ over an algebraically closed field is the data of another curve $D$ and two non-constant separable morphisms $π_1$ and $π_2$ from $D$ to $C$. A subset $S$ of $C$ is complete if $π_1^{-1}(S)=π_2^{-1}(S)$. We show that self-correspondences are divided into two classes: those that have only finitely many finite complete sets, and those for which $C$ is a union of finite complete sets. The latter ones are called finitary and have a trivial dynamics. For a non-finitary self-correspondence in characteristic zero, we give a sharp bound for the number of étale finite complete sets.
description: 34 pages, submitted
Finite-element simulations of hysteretic ac losses in a magnetically coated superconducting tubular wire subject to an oscillating transverse magnetic field
Creators: name: Genenko, Y. A.
name: Rauh, H.
name: Kurdi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of hysteretic ac losses in a tubular superconductor/paramagnet heterostructure subject to an oscillating transverse magnetic field are performed within the quasistatic approach, calling upon the COMSOL finite-element software package and exploiting magnetostatic-electrostatic analogues. It is shown that one-sided magnetic shielding of a thin, type-II superconducting tube by a coaxial paramagnetic support results in a slight increase of hysteretic ac losses as compared to those for a vacuum environment, when the support is placed inside; a spectacular shielding effect with a possible reduction of hysteretic ac losses by orders of magnitude, however, ensues, depending on the magnetic permeability and the amplitude of the applied magnetic field, when the support is placed outside.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Municipal tax incentives in Victoria, British Columbia - a case study
Creators: name: Barber, Steve
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Tax incentives--British Columbia--Victoria
subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--British Columbia--Victoria
subject: Central business districts--British Columbia--Victoria
subject: City planning--British Columbia--Victoria
subject: Urban renewal--British Columbia--Victoria
subject: Urban renewal--Finance

description: Tax incentive programs to stimulate the rehabilitation of historic buildings have been used successfully in the United States for years. Similar programs in Canada are beginning to demonstrate the same benefits in revitalizing communities, preserving heritage buildings and combating urban sprawl. In 1998, the City of Victoria became the first municipality in British Columbia to use a new heritage planning tool: property tax incentives introduced by the provincial government in 1994. The City introduced a program that provides property tax exemptions for up to 10 years to developers who convert vacant or underused upper storeys of downtown heritage buildings to residential use. Thus, the City has created 98 new residential units downtown and stimulated $32 million worth of private investment in the substantial rehabilitation of 10 heritage buildings.
description: Aux États-Unis, les programmes d'incitations fiscales destinés à stimuler la réfection des bâtiments historiques portent fruit depuis des années. Au Canada, des programmes semblables commencent à rapporter les mêmes bienfaits sous forme de renouvellement des collectivités, de préservation des bâtiments historiques et de frein à l'expansion tentaculaire des villes. En 1998, la ville de Victoria est devenue la première municipalité de la Colombie-Britannique à adopter un nouvel outil de planification des ressources patrimoniales : des mesures d'incitation associées aux taxes foncières adoptées par le gouvernement provincial en 1994. En effet, la ville a lancé un programme d'exemption de taxes foncières pendant un maximum de 10 ans pour les promoteurs qui aménagent des logements dans les étages supérieurs vacants ou sous-exploités des bâtiments historiques du centre-ville. La ville a ainsi créé 98 nouveaux logements résidentiels dans le centre-ville et attiré des investissements privés de l'ordre de 32 millions de dollars, argent qui a été affecté à la réfection poussée de 10 édifices patrimoniaux.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5660/Article003.pdf?sequence=3
Experimentation on Social housing between energy environmental efficiency and low cost
Creators: name: Herzog, Thomas
name: Battisti, Alessandra
name: Tucci, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: Two main theoretical points are underlying the experimentations carried out in the attempt to improve and foster the technological evolution of Social housing; on one hand the search for energy and bioclimatic efficiency, on the other hand the respect of economical feasibility matters in relation to the low construction cost required by such works. The chance to experiment such an approach, in the attempt to reach further than the mere respect of norm requirements, is represented by the experimentations in the Roman area discussed in the present paper: one has already been carried out and is currently undergoing supervision; the other one is currently being developed.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Selling places: Heritage tourism and marketing your town
Creators: name: Tunbridge, John
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Heritage tourism--Canada
subject: Place marketing--Canada
subject: Tourism and city planning--Canada

description: Heritage tourism is no longer a simple way to sell your town. This article discusses problems of saturation by a standardizing product, with the consequent need to identify a distinctive angle. The dissonant reality and future uncertainty of heritage point to its judicious use in order to lever a wider economic base.
description: Le tourisme patrimonial n'est plus désormais simplement un moyen de « vendre » une ville. Cet article aborde les problèmes de saturation dûs à la normalisation du produit et le besoin conséquent de trouver un « angle » distinctif. La réalité dissonnante et l'incertitude future du patrimoine sont indicatifs de son emploi judicieux comme moyen de diversification économique.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5661/Article002.pdf?sequence=3
Energy-saving Resource Allocation by Exploiting the Context Information
Creators: name: Yao, Chuting
name: Yang, Chenyang
name: Xiong, Zixiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Improving energy efficiency of wireless systems by exploiting the context information has received attention recently as the smart phone market keeps expanding. In this paper, we devise energy-saving resource allocation policy for multiple base stations serving non-real-time traffic by exploiting three levels of context information, where the background traffic is assumed to occupy partial resources. Based on the solution from a total energy minimization problem with perfect future information,a context-aware BS sleeping, scheduling and power allocation policy is proposed by estimating the required future information with three levels of context information. Simulation results show that our policy provides significant gains over those without exploiting any context information. Moreover, it is seen that different levels of context information play different roles in saving energy and reducing outage in transmission.
description: To be presented at IEEE PIMRC 2015, Hong Kong. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61120106002 and National Basic Research Program of China under Grant 2012CB316003
Decay estimates for the massless Vlasov equation on Schwarzschild spacetimes
Creators: name: Bigorgne, Léo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider solutions to the massless Vlasov equation on the domain of outer communications of the Schwarschild black hole. By adapting the r^p-weighted energy method of Dafermos and Rodnianski, used extensively in order to study wave equations, we prove arbitrary decay for a non-degenerate energy flux of the Vlasov field f through a well-chosen foliation. An essential step of this methodology consists in proving a non-degenerate integrated local energy decay. For this, we take in particular advantage of the red-shift effect near the event horizon. The trapping at the photon sphere requires however to lose an epsilon of integrability in the velocity variable. Pointwise decay estimates on the velocity average of f are then obtained by functional inequalities, adapted to the study of Vlasov fields, which allow us to deal with the lack of conservation law for the radial derivative.
Why bother with heritage anyway?
Creators: name: Denhez, Marc
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Canada
subject: City planning--Canada
subject: Historic buildings--Remodeling for other use--Canada

description: "Heritage" is not about freezing a handful of buildings, but about a particular kind of development with wider repercussions. Heritage initiatives began not only (or primarily) to idolize a few elite properties, but to demonstrate that even the oldest buildings and neighbourhoods could be given new life. The tactic worked. Projects involving designated heritage buildings spawned imitators and a multibillion-dollar building rehabilitation industry. This "demonstration effect" continues, although the legislative apparatus sometimes leads people to misconstrue the process as a freeze, rather than the opposite (encouragement of investment in a specific style). The largest obstacle is a shortage of technical and managerial skills, which increases costs. Solve that problem, says industry, and the rehabilitation wave could become a tsunami.
description: Le patrimoine ne se résume pas au contrôle de quelques bâtiments, mais plutôt à un type de mise en valeur dont les répercussions sont plus vastes. Les projets à caractère patrimonial ont été amorcés non seulement (ou uniquement) pour bonifier quelques propriétés choisies, mais aussi pour montrer que même les plus vieux édifices et quartiers pouvaient être revitalisés. La stratégie a porté fruit Les projets visant des bâtiments patrimoniaux désignés en ont engendré d'autres, donnant lieu à une industrie consacrée à la réfection immobilière qui vaut des milliards de dollars. Cet « effet de démonstration » se poursuit, même si les rouages légaux portent parfois les gens à penser - à tort - que la démarche consiste en un gel plutôt que l'inverse (un encouragement à un investissement d'un type précis). Le manque de compétences techniques et en gestion - qui augmente les coûts - est le principal obstacle. Selon l'industrie, si l'on parvenait à régler ce problème, la vague de la réfection virerait au tsunami.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5662/Article001.pdf?sequence=3
title: Ethnographic film and video on hybrid television: Learning from the content, style, and distribution of popular ethnographic documentaries.
Creators: name: Vannini, Phillip
Publisher: name: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ethnology
Documentary-style films

description: The definitive version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241614538665
description: Academic ethnographers have been utilizing film, and more recently video, for a variety of research purposes including the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data. But ethnographic film and video are not the exclusive domain of university-based ethnographers or professionally-trained ethnographic researchers. More and more ethnographic films and video documentaries are nowadays produced by filmmakers who aren’t necessarily interested in utilizing their work to advance anthropological, sociological, or other disciplines’ theoretical or substantive agendas. Interestingly, these documentaries often garner wider distribution and larger audiences than ethnographic films and videos made by academics, leading us to question the identity of ethnographic documentary and the potential of this genre to both advance ethnological knowledge and the socio-cultural imagination. In this paper I examine this phenomenon focusing on non-academic wide-distribution ethnographic documentaries available on cable and satellite TV, Netflix, and iTunes, reflecting on their content, style, distribution strategies, and their status as social scientific ethnographic representations.
A new period of activity in the core of NGC660
Creators: name: Argo, Megan
name: van Bemmel, Ilse
name: Connolly, Sam
name: Beswick, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The core of the nearby galaxy NGC660 has recently undergone a spectacular radio outburst; using a combination of archival radio and Chandra X-ray data, together with new observations, the nature of this event is investigated. Radio observations made using e-MERLIN in mid-2013 show a new compact and extremely bright continuum source at the centre of the galaxy. High angular resolution observations carried out with the European VLBI Network show an obvious jet-like feature to the north east and evidence of a weak extension to the west, possibly a counter-jet. We also examine high angular resolution HI spectra of these new sources, and the radio spectral energy distribution using the new wide-band capabilities of e-MERLIN. We compare the properties of the new object with possible explanations, concluding that we are seeing a period of new AGN activity in the core of this polar ring galaxy.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Low and slow: Notes on the production and distribution of a mobile video ethnography
Creators: name: Vannini, Phillip
Publisher: name: Mobilities
Year: 2017
Subjects: Seaplanes
Ethnology
Aviation

description: The definitive version of record is available at https://doi-org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1278969
description: The present article is a brief reflection accompanying Low and Slow: a 26 min ethnographic video documenting the occupation of commercial floatplane pilots, with a particular focus on their skills, technologies, sense of place and knowledge of weather. The video was independently produced, directed and edited by the author of this article. To date the video is slated to air in the fall of 2016 on the Canadian TV channel Knowledge Network. The paper offers a reflection on the video’s objectives, its production and distribution in order to encourage others to practice video-based mobile methods, to edit their audiovisual work, and to disseminate it more widely than video-based research has been disseminated so far. To this effect, the article offers reflections on the fruitful intersection between mobile methods and ethnographic video, on precisely how Low and Slow was produced and distributed, and on why mobility students and scholars should view the use of video documentation as an important methodological research tool.
A micromechanics-informed phase field model for brittle fracture accounting for the unilateral constraint
Creators: name: Liu, Yangyuanchen
name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Ziaei-Rad, Vahid
name: Shen, Yongxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65N30

description: We propose a new direction-dependent model for the unilateral constraint involved in the phase field approach to fracture and also in the continuous damage mechanics models. The construction of this phase field model is informed by micromechanical modeling through the homogenization theory, where the representative volume element (RVE) has a planar crack in the center. The proposed model is made closely match the response of the RVE, including the frictionless self-contact condition. This homogenization approach allows to identify a direction-dependent phase field model with the tension-compression split obtained from cracked microstructures. One important feature of the proposed model is that unlike most other models, the material degradation is consistently determined without artificial assumptions or ad hoc parameters with no physical interpretation, thus, a more realistic modeling is resulted. With standard tests such as uniaxial loadings, three-point bending, simple shear, and through-crack tests, the proposed model predicts reasonable crack paths. Moreover, with the RVE response as a benchmark, the proposed model gives rise to an accurate stress-strain curve under shear loads, more accurate than most existing models.
Discrete-time Queueing Model of Age of Information with Multiple Information Sources
Creators: name: Akar, Nail
name: Dogan, Ozancan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information freshness in IoT-based status update systems has recently been studied through the Age of Information (AoI) and Peak AoI (PAoI) performance metrics. In this paper, we study a discrete-time server arising in multi-source IoT systems which accepts incoming information packets from multiple information sources so as to be forwarded to a remote monitor for status update purposes. Under the assumption of Bernoulli information packet arrivals and a common geometric service time distribution across all the sources, we numerically obtain the exact per-source distributions of AoI and PAoI in matrix-geometric form for three different queueing disciplines: i) Non-Preemptive Bufferless (NPB) ii) Preemptive Bufferless (PB) iii) Non-Preemptive Single Buffer with Replacement (NPSBR). The proposed numerical algorithm employs the theory of Discrete-Time Markov Chains (DTMC) of Quasi-Birth-Death (QBD) type and is matrix analytical, i.e, the algorithm is based on numerically stable and efficient vector-matrix operations.Numerical examples are provided to validate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed queueing model. We also present a numerical example on the optimum choice of the Bernoulli parameters in a practical IoT system with two sources with diverse AoI requirements.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
What remains to be discovered: A global assessment of tree inventory completeness
Creators: name: Chanachai, Jariya
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Aim: Recent unprecedented efforts to digitise and mobilise biodiversity data have resulted in the generation of “biodiversity big data”, enabling ecological research at scales previously not possible. Here, we evaluated the completeness of digitised tree records globally, and identified where future surveys should focus to maximise regional inventories. Location: Global. Methods: We analysed spatial patterns in tree records from the Global Biodiversity and Information Facility and assessed global tree inventory completeness at a 100 km resolution and the ecoregional scale. We also identified priority areas for future exploration by examining the spatial covariation of completeness and natural habitat and forest conditions. Results: Spatial patterns of sampling effort and tree inventory completeness are unevenly distributed around the world, with most well-known sites being concentrated in the Global North, whereas large areas in species-rich tropical regions remain poorly documented. Moreover, many sites with low inventory completeness coincided with areas of rapid natural habitat loss and low forest integrity. Main Conclusions: Digitised biodiversity data has great potential to help address ecology questions and inform conservation actions if their biases and uncertainties are understood. Here we illustrated how such data can be used to improve existing knowledge and identify priority areas for future surveys.
title: Non-representational ethnography: New ways of animating lifeworlds
Creators: name: Vannini, Phillip
Publisher: name: cultural geographies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ethnology
Qualitative research
Writing

description: The definitive version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474014555657.
description: Over the last decade and a half, socio-cultural geographies have witnessed a genuine explosion of interest in the ethnographic tradition. Such interest is due in part to the increasing acceptance of non-representational ideas across the field and the way these ideas have constructively informed the long-standing debate on the analytics, esthetics, and politics of ethnographic representation. Non-representational theoretical ideas have influenced the way ethnographers tackle important methodological and conceptual undercurrents in their work, such as vitality, performativity, corporeality, sensuality, and mobility. This article aims to capture a few of the characteristics of this constantly evolving non-representational ethnographic style. Non-representational ethnography seeks to cultivate an affinity for the analysis of events, practices, assemblages, structures of feeling, and the backgrounds of everyday life against which relations unfold in their myriad potentials. Non-representational ethnography emphasizes the fleeting, viscous, lively, embodied, material, more-than-human, precognitive, non-discursive dimensions of spatially and temporally complex lifeworlds.
Hour-glass magnetic excitations induced by nanoscopic phase separation in cobalt oxides La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CoO$_4$
Creators: name: Drees, Y.
name: Li, Z. W.
name: Ricci, A.
name: Rotter, M.
name: Schmidt, W.
name: Lamago, D.
name: Sobolev, O.
name: Rütt, U.
name: Gutowski, O.
name: Sprung, M.
name: Piovano, A.
name: Castellan, J. P.
name: Komarek, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic excitations in the cuprate superconductors might be essential for an understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. In these cuprate superconductors the magnetic excitation spectrum resembles an hour-glass and certain resonant magnetic excitations within are believed to be connected to the pairing mechanism which is corroborated by the observation of a universal linear scaling of superconducting gap and magnetic resonance energy. So far, charge stripes are widely believed to be involved in the physics of hour-glass spectra. Here we study an isostructural cobaltate that also exhibits an hour-glass magnetic spectrum. Instead of the expected charge stripe order we observe nano phase separation and unravel a microscopically split origin of hour-glass spectra on the nano scale pointing to a connection between the magnetic resonance peak and the spin gap originating in islands of the antiferromagnetic parent insulator. Our findings open new ways to theories of magnetic excitations and superconductivity in cuprate superconductors.
description: Nature Communications 5, 5731 (2014)